List of personalities of the city of Aachen
The following list contains people who were born in Aachen as well as those who temporarily lived and worked there, listed chronologically according to the year of birth. The list does not claim to be complete.
Personalities born in Aachen
13th to 17th centuries
- Gerhard Chorus (around 1285 - 1367), mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
- Gerhard von Wylre (14th century - 1440), mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
- Wilhelm von Wylre (15th century - 1508), mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
- Hans von Reutlingen (around 1465 - after 1547), most important goldsmith in Aachen
- Matthias Kremer (1465–1557), Catholic theologian, professor and counter-reformer
- Johann von Hochkirchen (1482–1554), mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
- Wolter von Wylre (around 1487 - 1529), mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
- Johann von Lontzen (around 1497 - around 1591), mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
- Hans von Aachen (around 1500 - 1542/45), gunner and the first German and first two-time circumnavigator
- Matthias Peltzer (1508 - around 1591), mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
- Theobald Craschel (around 1511 - 1587), auxiliary bishop in Cologne
- Heinrich Fabricius (around 1520 - 1595), Counter-Reformation writer and auxiliary bishop in Speyer
- Albrecht I. Schrick (1532–1598), lay judge and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
- Bonifacius Colyn (1533–1608), aldermen and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
- Johan Radermacher the Elder (1538–1617), merchant and humanist, author of the first Dutch grammar
- Wilhelm von Wylre (1539–1601), mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
- Balthasar Fiebus the Elder (16th century – 1665), mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
- Peter de Spina II (1563–1622), doctor and professor of medicine
- Egidius Bleyenheuft (1566–1622), mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
- Apollonia Radermecher (1571–1626), founder of the Elizabethine Order
- Johann Nopp (? –1642), lawyer, local politician and chronicler of the history of the city of Aachen
- Albrecht II. Schrick (1573–1640), lay judge and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
- Dietrich Speckhewer (around 1578 - 1666), aldermen and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
- Johann von den Birghden (1582–1645), postmaster
- Johannes Smetius (1590–1651), pioneer of provincial Roman archeology
- Peter de Spina III. (1592–1655), doctor and professor
- Caspar von Schwartzenberg (late 16th or early 17th century – 1661)
- Melchior von Schwartzenberg (1613–1664), mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
- Nikolaus Fiebus (1622–1672), mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
- Gerlach Maw (1622–1681), mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
- Hilger Burghoff (1623–1666), Cistercian
- Mathias Maw (1642–1709), mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
- Tilman Schroeder (1645–1706), mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
- Balthasar Fiebus the Younger (1646–1714 / 1715). Mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
- Johann Albrecht Schrick (1646–1702), mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
- Peter Dahmen (1647–1736), mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
- Peter Ludwig Bodden (1648–17th or 18th century), mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
- Johann Wilhelm von Fürth (1648–1698), mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
- Johann Josef Brammertz (1668–1729), organ builder
- Jakob Niclas (1678–1755), mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
- Zacharias Kreinsz, original founder (1688) of the "Grünes Haus" bakery, later "Zur Sonne", from which the traditional company " Lambertz (-Printen)" emerged in 1860
- Franz von Fürth (1695–1773), mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
18th century
- Johann Joseph Couven (1701–1763), architect and builder
- Maria Isabella d'Harskamp (1724-1805), philanthropist
- Johann Arnold von Clermont (1728–1795), cloth manufacturer, industrialist and builder
- Karl Franz Meyer (1728–1795), historian, notary and procurator as well as head of the Aachen City Archives
- Wilhelm Friedrich Cappel (1734–1800), physician
- Jakob Couven (1735–1812), Aachen master builder
- Ferdinand Franz Maria Bouget (1741–1818), royal and imperial major general
- Johann Wilhelm Gottfried von Lommessem (1743–1810), Maire
- Johann Gerhard Schervier (1743–1826), entrepreneur and politician
- Franz Carl Nellessen (1752–1819), cloth manufacturer and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
- Beda Savels (1755–1828), Abbot of the Abbey of Werden
- Karl Franz Leonhard Meyer (1763–1821), historian, private scholar and head of the Aachen City Archives
- Gerhard Reumont (1765–1828), physician and spa doctor
- Cornelius von Guaita (1766–1821), needle manufacturer and mayor of Aachen
- Peter Josef Franz Dautzenberg (1769–1828), journalist and newspaper publisher and founder of the Aachen City Library
- Johann Gotthard Reinhold (1771–1838), Dutch diplomat
- Karl Rudolf von Strauch (1771–1844), District Administrator of the Aachen District
- Franz Scholl (1772–1838), Austrian officer and engineer
- Joseph Aloys Felix Freiherr von Brewer, called von Fürth (1774–1844), administrative officer and district administrator in the Geilenkirchen district
- Aegidius Johann Peter Joseph Scheuren (1774–1844), painter and lithographer
- Gerhard von Lommessem (1780–1824), administrative officer and district administrator in the Düren district
- Leonhard Aloys Joseph Nellessen (1783-1859), Roman Catholic priest and ultramontanist
- Johann Heinrich Schervier (1784–1845), businessman, entrepreneur and politician
- Johann Peter Joseph Monheim (1786–1855), pharmacist, chemist and politician
- Andreas Hansen (1788–1855), master builder of classicism
- Alfred von Croÿ (1789–1861), Spanish grandee and German landlord, entrepreneur and politician
- Joseph van Gülpen (1793–1850), cloth manufacturer and President of the Chamber of Commerce for the cities of Aachen and Burtscheid
- Johann Peter Götting (1795–1855), history painter and sculptor of the Romantic period
- Johann Franz Ahn (1796–1865), teacher
- Konrad Gustav Pastor (1796–1890), industrialist
- Carl von Nellessen (1799–1871), cloth manufacturer and politician
- Karl von Kolb (1800–1868), merchant, banker and Württemberg consul in Rome
- Clemens August Alertz (1800–1866), physician
- Heinrich Hahn (1800–1882), founder of the Franziskus-Xaverius-Verein
19th century
1801 to 1820
- Heinrich Franz Carl Billotte (1801-1892), portrait painter
- Caspar Thywissen (1801–1879), industrialist and entrepreneur
- Arnold Edmund Pelzer (1801–1874), politician and Lord Mayor of Aachen
- Ludwig Schleiden (1802–1862), portrait, history and landscape painter
- Johann Werner Lambertz (1802–1866), Erkelenz / Aachen, developer of the herb print and factory production, father of Henry Lambertz
- Joseph Müller (1802–1872), philologist, natural scientist and dialect poet
- Delphine Gay (1804–1855), French poet
- Adam Eberle (1804–1832), history painter and lithographer of the Romantic period
- Cornelius Peter Bock (1804–1870), archaeologist, art historian and university professor
- Friedrich Thyssen (1804–1877), entrepreneur and local politician
- Johannes Theodor Laurent (1804–1884), Vicar Apostolic of Luxembourg
- Ludwig Kolb (1806–1875), Counselor in Rottenburg am Neckar and vedutist
- Albert von Thimus (1806–1878), appeals judge and politician
- Friedrich Haagen (1806–1879), philologist and historian
- Friedrich Thomas (1806–1879), painter
- Friedrich Karl Moes (1808–1863), entrepreneur
- Josef Laurent (1808–1867), archivist and librarian at the Aachen City Library
- Peter Kaatzer (1808–1870), bookseller and publisher
- Carl Ludwig Scheins (1808–1879), landscape painter
- Alfred von Reumont (1808–1887), statesman and historian
- Aloys Hubert Michael Venth (1809–1868), history, portrait and landscape painter
- Johann Contzen (1809–1875), administrative officer and Lord Mayor of Aachen
- Henri Victor Regnault (1810–1878), French physicist and chemist
- Arnold Deutz (1810–1884), manufacturer and politician
- Arnold Foerster (1810–1884), botanist and entomologist
- Caspar Scheuren (1810–1887), painter and illustrator
- Laurenz Lersch (1811–1849), classical philologist
- Emmerich Stürtz (1811–1898), politician
- Heinrich Xaver Sieger (1811–1901), manufacturer, entrepreneur and owner of the Kurkölnische Landesburg Zülpich
- Aloys Göddertz (1812–1872), businessman, publicist and politician
- Heinrich Stürtz (around 1812 - 1863), Prussian public prosecutor and district administrator for the Aachen district
- August von Fürth (1812–1846), legal historian
- Peter Ludwig Kühnen (1812–1877), romantic landscape painter
- Eugen Theodor Thissen (1813–1877), Catholic clergyman and politician
- Viktor Monheim (1813–1897), pharmacist, chemist and botanist
- Martin Joseph Savelsberg (1814–1879), theologian, philologist and senior teacher at the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium
- Clara Fey (1815–1894), religious sister and founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Poor Child Jesus
- Josephine Koch (1815–1899), founder of the Catholic order
- Carl Borromäus Cünzer (1816–1872), writer
- Gerhard Rehm (1816–1892), entrepreneur, speculator and founder
- Bernhard Maximilian Lersch (1817–1902), doctor and natural scientist
- Theodor Maassen (1817–1886), history and genre painter of the Düsseldorf School
- Alexander Reumont (1817–1887), Aachen spa doctor
- Joseph Lingens (1818–1902), politician
- Franziska Schervier (1819–1876), founder of the Poor Sisters of St. Francis
- Clemens Bewer (1820–1884), romantic history and portrait painter
1821 to 1840
- Philipp Heinrich Cockerill (1821–1903), industrialist and patron
- Joseph Hubert Reinkens (1821-1896), Roman Catholic theologian
- Martin Vogeno (1821–1888), goldsmith and restorer
- Otto Rethel (1822–1892), history, genre and portrait painter
- Joseph La Ruelle (1822–1900), lithographer and newspaper publisher
- Franz Bock (1823–1899), canon and art historian
- Friedrich Albert Cremer (1824–1891), architect and builder
- Carl Gerard Dubusc (1825–1903), Prussian state procurator and mayor of the city of Aachen
- Hermann Sternberg (1825–1885), civil engineer
- Robert Ferdinand Cremer (1826–1882), architect and builder
- Adolph von Hansemann (1826–1903), entrepreneur and banker
- Gottfried Meulenbergh (1826–1875), lawyer and politician
- Severin Heusch (1827–1873), entrepreneur and founder of the oldest scratching factory in Germany
- Ludwig Friedrich Seyffardt (1827–1901), textile entrepreneur and politician
- Wilhelm Hauchecorne (1828–1900), geologist
- Robert Oskar Julius von Görschen (1829–1914), business lawyer
- Joseph Jansen (1829–1905), landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School
- Carl Gustav Talbot (1829–1899), wagon manufacturer
- Julius Meyer (1830–1893), art historian and director of the Gemäldegalerie Berlin
- Auguste von Sartorius (1830–1895), Superior General of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
- Michael Hubert Schmitz (1830–1898), painter, draftsman and graphic artist
- Adolph Sutro (1830–1898), Mayor of San Francisco
- Laurenz Heinrich Hetjens (1830–1906), art collector and techn. Director of the first Aachen gas works
- Leonard Monheim (1830–1913), grocer and founder of " Leonard Monheim AG "
- Peter Bücken (1830–1915), painter
- Marie Louise Dustmann-Meyer (1831–1899), opera singer and vocal teacher
- Richard Brend'amour (1831–1915), pioneer of modern woodcut technology
- Adam Bock (1832–1912), politician and member of the Reichstag
- Karl de Nys (1833–1907), Prussian politician
- Henry Joseph Napoléon Lambertz (1834–1898), founder of the Aachen Printenfabrik Henry Lambertz
- Franz Reiff (1835–1902), portrait and history painter
- Albert Baur (1835–1906), painter
- Heinrich Böckeler (1836–1899), priest and church music director, founder of the church music school “Gregoriushaus”, which later became the Catholic University for Church Music St. Gregorius
- Carl Billotte (1836-1917), photographer
- Leo Funck (1836–1923), engineer and inventor
- Alphonse Joseph Charles Dubois (1839–1921), zoologist, ornithologist and animal illustrator
- Louis Brassin (1840–1884), Belgian pianist, composer and music teacher
- Hugo Loersch (1840–1907), legal historian and preservationist
- William Suermondt (1840-1930), industrialist
- August Witte (1840–1883), goldsmith and restorer
1841 to 1860
- Stephan Beissel (1841–1915), Jesuit and art historian
- Robert Hasenclever (1841–1902), industrialist
- Wilhelm Pohl (1841–1908), sculptor
- Alexander Classen (1843–1934), chemist and founder of analytical electrolysis
- Lennet Kann (1844–1916), Aachen city original
- Peter Klausener (1844–1904), administrative officer in the Rhine Province
- Hermann August Philips (1844–1927), genre and portrait painter
- Robert Suermondt (1844–1919), private banker and entrepreneur
- Matthias Schollen (1846–1915), chancellery and dialect poet
- Georg Oeder (1846–1931), landscape painter
- Henry Suermondt (1846–1930), entrepreneur and gentleman rider
- Rudolf Lochner the Elder (1847–1918), cloth manufacturer
- Robert Wetzlar (1847–1912), entrepreneur and founder
- Gustav Angelo Venth (1848–1903), sculptor and trade school teacher
- Johann Pütz (1851–1945), Catholic clergyman and member of the German Reichstag
- Joseph Laurent (1853–1923), architect, city builder
- Marita Loersch (1853–1915), co-founder of the social service of Catholic women
- Georg Frentzen (1854–1923), architect and university professor
- Ludwig von Pastor (1854–1928), historian and Austrian diplomat
- Ludwig von Renvers (1855–1936), Prussian civil servant
- Bernhard Salomon (1855–1942), General Director at EAG in Frankfurt
- Gustav Wittfeld (1855–1923), engineer
- Rudolf Püngeler (1857–1927), Prussian district judge
- Joseph Klinkenberg (1857–1917), art historian
- Franz Freiherr von Coels von der Brügghen (1858–1945), Prussian civil servant
- Hermann Siegfried Rehm (1859–?), Journalist and writer
- Josef Nacken (1860–1922), politician
- Josef Schmitz (1860–1936), architect
1861 to 1880
- Carl Esser (1861–1929), sculptor
- Heinrich van Kann (1861–1941), architect and Prussian construction clerk
- Georg Wickop (1861–1914), architect, construction clerk and university professor
- Max von Sandt (1861–1918), administrative lawyer and most recently district president
- Joseph Hansen (1863–1943), historian and archivist
- Karl von Eichendorff (1863–1934), Prussian lieutenant colonel, grandson of Joseph von Eichendorff
- Georg Macco (1863–1933), landscape painter and illustrator
- Lambert Piedboeuf (1863–1950), sculptor
- Alfred von Reumont (1863–1942), district administrator in the Erkelenz district
- Joseph Buchkremer (1864–1949), architect, draftsman, painter and Aachen cathedral master builder
- Robert von Görschen (1864–1936), administrative lawyer and vice president of the government in Aachen
- Arthur Kampf (1864–1950), history painter and university professor
- Hermann Friedrich Macco (1864–1946), historian and genealogist
- Albert Schiffers (1864–1940), freight forwarder and president of the Aachen Chamber of Commerce
- Carl Sieben (1864–1927), architect and civil engineer
- Otto Suermondt (1864–1941), gentlemen's rider in German horse racing
- Georg Talbot (1864–1948), railway engineer
- Wilhelm Albert Beckmann (1865–1924), politician
- Eduard Friedrich Hugo Heusch (1865–1937), engineer and entrepreneur
- Arthur Eichengrün (1867–1949), chemist
- Franz Gielen (1867–1947), Lord Mayor of several cities in the Rhineland
- Willy Pastor (1867–1933), art historian, art and culture critic and writer
- Joseph Greving (1868–1919), Catholic theologian, church historian and university professor
- Albert Heusch (1868–1944), scratch manufacturer and center politician
- Joseph Hammels (1868–1944), auxiliary bishop in Cologne
- Franz Jörissen (1868–1932), politician
- Max Lochner (1868–1949), hippologist and inventor
- Fritz Neuman (1868–1935), engineer and entrepreneur
- Joseph Oppenhoff (1868–1958), President of the Regional Court in Aachen
- Josef Sinn (1868–1929), businessman and politician
- Bernhard Witte (1868–1947), goldsmith and restorer
- Peter Fassbands (1869–1920), German-Swiss composer
- Curt Theodor Fischer (1869–1948), classical philologist and high school teacher
- Hermann Jansen (1869–1945), architect and urban planner
- Peter Polis (1869–1929), meteorologist
- Leo Blech (1871–1958), composer and conductor
- Joseph Feinhals (1871–1953), trade unionist
- Friedrich Pützer (1871–1922), architect, Protestant church builder and university professor
- Albert Schneiders (1871–1922), architect
- Alfred Brüggemann (1873–1944), conductor, music journalist, translator and composer
- Heinrich Dubbel (1873–1947), professor of mechanical engineering
- Carl von Halfern (1873–1937), government official and politician
- Gottfried Hinze (1873–1953), 1st chairman of the German Football Association
- Franz Linden (1873–1923), sculptor
- Max Mehler (1874–1952), manufacturer
- Heinrich Hubert Houben (1875–1935), literary scholar and journalist
- Jacob Koerfer (1875–1930), architect
- Paul Ernst Levy (1875–1956), chemist and metallurgist
- Theodor Nüttgens (1875–1956), history and church painter from the Düsseldorf School
- Maria Schmitz (1875–1962), politician
- August Heinrich Sieberg (1875–1945), geophysicist
- Josse Goossens (1876–1929), painter
- Fritz Brüggemann (1876–1945), literary historian and Germanist
- Auguste Pelzer (1876–1958), Catholic clergyman and librarian at the Vatican Library
- Theodor Hürth (1877–1944), Catholic clergyman
- Eduard Spoelgen (1877–1975), Lord Mayor of Bonn
- Oskar Stübben (1877–1943), administrative lawyer, banker and insurance director
- Hermann Consten (1878–1957), Mongolian researcher
- Paul Diepgen (1878–1966), gynecologist and medical historian
- Hermine Goossens (1878–1968), sculptor and ceramicist
- Wilhelm Havers (1879–1961), linguist
- Guido Joseph Kern (1878–1953), art historian, painter and graphic artist
- Erich Lochner (1879–1947), automobile racing driver, sports pilot and aircraft designer
- Leo Löwenstein (1879–1956), physicist and chemist
- Franz Hürth (1880–1963), Catholic clergyman, Jesuit and moral theologian
- Felix Knubben (1880–1934), church musician and composer
- Josef Pirlet (1880–1961), civil engineer
1881 to 1900
- Paul Dechamps (1881–1966), textile manufacturer and local politician
- Paul Röntgen (1881–1965), university professor and rector of RWTH Aachen University
- Karl Schmitz (1881–1955), politician
- Wilhelm Worringer (1881–1965), art historian
- Erich Zurhelle (1881–1952), gynecologist and medical director at the Luisenhospital
- Paul Henrichs (1882–1962), industrial manager
- Walther Lingens (1882–1940), police chief
- Heinrich von Kaufmann-Asser (1882–1954), ministerial official
- Hugo Werner-Kahle (1882–1961), actor
- Karl Quasebart (1882–1949), entrepreneur and military manager
- Rudolf Lochner (1883–1939), entrepreneur and builder
- Karl Riedel (1883–1949), lawyer and politician
- Edwin Suermondt (1883–1923), lawyer, art historian and art collector
- Arthur Brocke (1884–1933), civil engineer
- Hanns Bolz (1885–1918), painter, sculptor and illustrator
- Emil Fahrenkamp (1885–1966), architect, university professor and head of the Düsseldorf Art Academy
- Elsbeth Gropp (1885–1974), photographer
- Will Hermanns (1885–1958), dialect poet
- Heinz Heinrichs (1886–1957), landscape painter
- Andreas Knack (1886–1956), doctor and from 1919 to 1933 member of the Hamburg Parliament / SPD parliamentary group
- Friedrich Pauwels (1885–1980), doctor, orthopedic surgeon and biomechanic
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), architect
- Heinrich Linzen (1886–1942), landscape and animal painter
- Peter Foerster (1887–1948), painter and draftsman
- Adam Kuckhoff (1887–1943), writer and resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Ewald Mataré (1887–1965), sculptor, graphic artist and painter
- Albert Servais (1887–1974), politician
- Peter Hensen (1888–1958), politician
- Curt Hoff (1888–1950), politician
- Hans Kappertz (1888–1954), politician
- Otto Eugen Mayer (1888–1981), curator of Aachen city archeology
- Anton Pomp (1888–1953), metallurgist and professor
- Jupp Wiertz (1888–1939), commercial artist and poster artist
- Erwin Classen (1889–1944), district administrator of the Heinsberg district and the Aachen district
- Lili Frankenstein (1889–1942), German archaeologist and high school teacher
- Carl-Ludwig Siemons (1889–1969), politician
- Maura Böckeler (1890–1971), Benedictine, writer and researcher
- Walter Grotrian (1890–1954), astronomer and astrophysicist
- Walter Hasenclever (1890–1940), writer
- Felix Kuetgens (1890–1976), museum director
- Hermann Salmang (1890–1961), chemist and metallurgist
- Edgar Theisen (1890–1968), officer, later priest
- Folkert Wilken (1890–1981), economist and anthroposophist
- Hans Freiherr von Funck (1891–1979), officer
- Wilhelm Leopold Janssen (1891–1945), lawyer, 1928 District Administrator of the Aachen district
- Philipp Keller (1891–1973), doctor and writer
- Hermann Sträter (1891–1956), administrative officer and district administrator
- Theodor Beaucamp (1892–1944), administrative officer and district administrator
- Anna Braun-Sittarz , (1892–1945), politician, resistance fighter and union founder
- Luise Mössinger-Schiffgens (1892–1954), politician and women's rights activist
- Ludwig Strauss (1892–1953), writer and literary scholar
- Peter Salm (1892–1981), architect and preservationist
- Philipp Zoch (1892–1949), General
- Hans Gutermuth (1893–1917), one of the first glider pioneers
- Wilhelm Hollbach (1893–1962), Mayor of the City of Frankfurt am Main
- Martha Maas (1893–1970), photographer
- Kurt Pfeiffer (1893–1987), textile merchant, co-founder of the CDU Aachen, city treasurer and co-initiator of the Charlemagne Prize
- Hermann Stickelmann (1893–1949), participant in the November Revolution in Frankfurt am Main
- Etkar André (1894–1936), politician
- Alfred Gottschalk (1894–1973), biochemist
- Karl Heusch (1894–1986), urologist
- Peter Mennicken (1894–1960), philosopher and professor
- Heinrich Maria Davringhausen (1894–1970), painter
- Franz Mühlenberg (1894–1976), politician
- Gustav Classens (1894–1977), conductor
- Hermann von Mangoldt (1895–1953), political scientist and politician
- Otto Bongartz (1895–1970), architect
- Julius Erasmus (1895–1971), "Gravedigger of Vossenack "
- Hans Croon (1896–1977), textile manufacturer and President of the Aachen Chamber of Commerce
- Wilhelm Reinking (1896–1985), set designer, theater director and writer
- Ludwig Schmid-Wildy (1896–1982), Bavarian folk actor, director, author and inventor
- Heinrich Strang (1896–?), Politician
- Richard Talbot (1896–1987), entrepreneur and President of the Aachen Chamber of Commerce
- Paul Joseph Cremers (1897–1941), journalist and writer
- Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender (1897–1978), opera singer
- Henry Ehlers (1897–1988), graphic artist
- Luise Jörissen (1897–1987), economics, founder and director of Catholic social schools
- Kurt Wüsthoff (1897–1926), fighter pilot
- Fritz Kranz (1897–1984), actor, theater director and theater manager
- Hubert Giesen (1898–1980), pianist
- Fred Henrich (1898–1984), politician
- Hans Scherpner (1898–1959), welfare scientist
- Joseph Ludwig Buchkremer (1899–1986), auxiliary bishop
- Walter Hulverscheidt (1899–1989), forester and author
- Marie EP König (1899–1988), prehistorian, cave researcher and coin researcher
- Nikolaus Schiergens (1899–1961), Hessian politician
- Edith Frank-Holländer (1900–1945), victim of National Socialism, mother of Margot and Anne Frank
- Walter Maas (1900–1981), writer
- Hermann Overbeck (1900–1982), geographer, university professor
- Felix Seulen (1900–1958), District Administrator and District Director
- Paul Weyres (1900–1984), motorcycle racer
20th century
1901 to 1910
- Otto Bachmann (1901–1977), politician
- Matthias Moll (1901–1958), politician
- Heinrich Nietmann (1901–1961), politician
- Arno Schiffers (1901–1964), painter, graphic artist and architect
- Robert Ritter (1901–1951), National Socialist racial theorist
- Heinrich Schiffers (1901–1982), geographer and Africa explorer
- Josef von Fisenne (1902–1987), Senator
- Franz Oppenhoff (1902–1945), lawyer and Lord Mayor of Aachen
- Oswald Schiffers (1902–1976), graphic and poster artist
- Edmund Sinn (1902–1978), lawyer, entrepreneur and politician
- Eugen Zander (1902–1971), communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Josef Beaujean (1903–1945), musicologist
- Heinz Borchers (1903–1993), metallurgist and university professor
- Leonhard Drach (1903–1996), lawyer and war criminal
- Erich Fechner (1903–1991), legal scholar and sociologist
- Gerd Heusch (1903–1984), lawyer and president of Alemannia Aachen
- Hans Königs (1903–1988), architect and city curator
- Matthias Buchholz (1903–1991), religious, missionary and prefect of Shiqian
- Carl Klinkhammer (1903–1997), Catholic priest
- Hans Nockemann (1903–1941), lawyer and SS officer
- Paul Egon Schiffers (1903–1987), sculptor, medalist and draftsman
- Charlotte Temming (1903–1984), writer
- Hermann Jansen (1904–1969), theologian, vicar general of the Archbishop of Cologne
- Karl Nobel (1904–1982), Lower Saxony politician
- Richard Scheringer (1904–1986), officer in the German Reichswehr
- Otto Spülbeck (1904–1970), bishop of the Catholic diocese of Meissen
- Michael Alt (1905–1973), music teacher
- Peter Kreuder (1905–1981), composer
- Walter Oppenhoff (1905–2001), lawyer
- Richard Perlia (1905–2012), test pilot, editor and photographer
- Carl Schneiders (1905–1975), painter and university professor
- Kurt Apitz (1906–1945), pathologist and university professor
- Hermann Heusch (1906–1981), local politician
- Berthe Ostyn (1906–?), Actress
- Elisabeth Pitz-Savelsberg (1906–1996), politician
- Pierre Boffin (1907–1992), painter
- Jo Hanns Küpper (1907–1986), graphic artist
- Johannes Zahn (1907–2000), bank manager
- Karl Eduard Rothschuh (1908–1984), physiologist and medical historian
- Helmuth Gericke (1909–2007), mathematician and mathematician historian
- Viktor Hoven (1909–1968), politician
- Rudolf Junge (1909–?), Ambassador
- Josef Schmithüsen (1909–1984), geographer
- Alo Koll (1910–1984), composer, orchestra conductor and lecturer
- Ludwig Pielen (1910–1998), crop scientist
- Erich Stephany (1910–1990), Catholic prelate and cathedral chapter as well as art historian
- Albert Vossen (1910–1971), jazz accordionist, band leader and composer
1911 to 1920
- Frans Haacken (1911–1979), graphic artist, painter and animator
- Friedrich Hendrix (1911–1941), track and field athlete
- Heinrich Köttgen (1911–?), Senior pastor in Düren
- Karl Pütz (1911–1945), lawyer, police officer and SS leader
- Walter Benner (1912–2005), glass painter
- Matthias Büchel (1912–1999), singer and conductor
- Franz Delheid (1912–1986), local politician
- Bert Heller (1912–1970), painter
- Maria Katzgrau (1912–1998), painter, graphic artist and glass designer
- Karl Kreutzberg (1912–1977), handball player
- Heinrich Lausberg (1912–1992), Romance writer and rhetorician
- Herbert Mataré (1912–2011), physicist
- Josef Brinkhues (1913–1995), bishop of the Old Catholic Church in Germany
- Helmut A. Crous (1913–1993), journalist, archivist and art collector and sponsor of the Aachen Carnival
- Helmut Krebs (1913–2007), opera and oratorio tenor
- Hermann Krings (1913-2004), philosopher
- Eric Reissner (1913–1996), American engineer
- Karl Otto Götz (1914–2017), Informel painter and poet
- Heinz Karst (1914–2002), officer
- Til Kiwe (1915–1995), actor
- Paul Siebertz (1915–1997), academic painter
- Hugo Cadenbach (1916–2000), private banker and diplomat
- Waldemar Croon (1916–2013), textile entrepreneur
- Fredy Hirsch (1916–1944), prisoner in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination and concentration camp
- Hans Heinrich Adam (1919–2007), painter
- Jost Pfeiffer (1920–2010), local politician and honorary citizen of the city of Aachen
- Karl Pirlet (1920–2010), medical specialist and university professor
- Eleonore Trefftz (1920–2017), physicist and mathematician
1921 to 1930
- Maria Schwarz , b. Lang (1921–2018), architect and university professor
- Gerty Blacher-Herzog (1922-2014), pianist
- Claus Helmut Drese (1922–2011), opera and theater director, director and author
- Sven Effert (1922–2000), cardiologist and university professor
- Eric Vaessen (1922–2009), actor and voice actor
- Hans Wertz (1922–2012), economist and politician
- Helmut Creutz (1923–2017), business analyst and publicist
- Hermann Josef Nellessen (1923–2004), conductor and composer
- Hans Stercken (1923–1999), journalist and politician
- Heinrich Fuchs (1924–1990), politician
- Michael Horbach (1924–1986), journalist and writer
- Peter Lacroix (1924-2010), artist
- Rudolf Pohl (* 1924), prelate and church musician as well as cathedral music director
- Josef Schümmer (1924–1978), politician
- Renate Steiner (1924–1991), Hessian politician
- Bruno Dechamps (1925–1992), journalist, publisher of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
- Leo Hugot (1925–1982), architect, cathedral builder, city curator and building historian
- Max Imdahl (1925–1988), art historian
- Lothar Kampmann (1925–1993), painter and sculptor
- Waltraut Kruse (1925–2019), psychotherapist and former mayor
- Curt Cremer (1926–2016), conductor and Kapellmeister
- Ernst Günther Grimme (1926–2003), art historian and Aachen museum director
- Wilhelm Kuchen (1926–2008), chemist
- Otto Graf Lambsdorff (1926–2009), politician
- Gerta Nadenau (1926–2019), swimming trainer
- Heribert Bickel (1927–2010), lawyer and politician
- Helmut Höfling (1927–2015), writer
- Hanns Heidemanns (1927–2012), pharmacist and author
- Irene Ludwig (1927–2010), art historian, art collector and art patron
- Udo Maria Nix (1927–2000), Dominican priest, philologist and educator
- Brigitte Gilles (1928–2003), psychologist and first women's representative at RWTH Aachen University
- Wolfgang Sundermeyer (* 1928), emeritus for inorganic chemistry in Heidelberg
- Inge Latz (1929–1994), composer, songwriter, cabaret artist and music healer
- Karl Heinz Mommertz (1929–2016), metallurgical engineer and university professor
- Dorothea Zech (1929–2017), textile designer
- Erika Dienstl (* 1930), President of the German Fencing Association
- Heinz Malangré (1930–2017), manager and publisher
- Paul Mommertz (* 1930), writer
- Hans Siemons (1930-2006), journalist
- Clemens Zintzen (* 1930), classical philologist
1931 to 1940
- Helmut Clahsen (1931–2015), writer and contemporary witness of the Holocaust
- Alfred Dickersbach (* 1931), lawyer, administrative lawyer and federal judge
- Otto Eschweiler (* 1931), General Manager of the Aachen Chamber of Industry and Commerce and Dutch Honorary Consul
- Topsy Küppers (* 1931), Austrian actress, singer, soubrette, theater director and book author
- Franz Stettner (1931–2012), politician
- Herbert Falken (* 1932), painter
- Hans Geulen (1932–2017), Germanist
- Otto H. Poensgen (1932–1982), economist
- Ludwig Falkenstein (1933–2015), historian and diplomat
- Dieter Woll (1933–2012), Romanist, Hispanic and Lusitanist
- Erwin Gatz (1933–2011), theologian, church historian and rector
- Hans Meyer (* 1933), lawyer and university professor
- Horst H. Baumann (1934–2019), artist, designer and photographer
- Josef van Ess (* 1934), Islamic scholar
- Jörg A. Henle (1934–2019), industrialist and patron of culture
- Kurt Malangré (1934–2018), politician and honorary citizen of Aachen
- Walter Steffens (* 1934), composer
- Fritz Wagner (1934–2011), Middle Latin and classical philologist
- Peter Hartmann (* 1935), diplomat and State Secretary
- Peter-Michael Koenig (1935–2007), politician
- Marlene Stenten (1935–2019), writer
- Carlhanns Damm (1936–2017), industry manager and entrepreneur
- Artur Greive (1936–2009), Romance scholar, Romanist and linguist
- Bruno Lerho (1936–2020), Aachen local historian
- Eduard Beaucamp (* 1937), art critic and publicist
- Walter Eversheim (* 1937), university professor for production systematics
- Heinz J. Kersting (1937–2005), Roman Catholic theologian, social scientist and university professor
- Paul Theissen (* 1937), pianist, conductor and choir director
- Hans Josef Tymister (1937–2017), school teacher
- Heide Berndt (1938–2003), urban sociologist and social medicine specialist
- Arno Gego (* 1938), mechanical engineer and professor emeritus as well as equestrian sports official and course designer
- Arno Jansen (* 1938), photographer, artistic photographer and university lecturer
- Mariella Lenzen (* 1938), former nun and bestselling author
- Eva Poll (* 1938), gallery owner and curator
- Erika Richter (1938–2020), dramaturge
- Johannes Schepp (* 1938), sculptor and painter
- Ulla Graf-Nobis (1939–2016), classical pianist and university professor
- Klaus Laepple (* 1939), entrepreneur
- Ingrid Soehring (* 1939), politician
- Rita Wennmacher (* 1939), journalist and writer
- Katharina Comoth (* 1940), philosopher
- Gerd Heinz (* 1940), actor and director
- Wolf Kahlen (* 1940), video pioneer as well as performance, object and media artist
- Karl Lennartz (1940–2014), sports historian and sports scientist
- Heinz Schmitz (1940–1992), architect and urban planner
1941 to 1950
- Klaus Bußmann (1941–2019), art historian and curator
- Dagmar Hirtz (* 1941), film director and film editor
- Johannes Thomas (* 1941), Romance scholar and professor
- Adolf Retz (* 1942), politician
- Wolfgang Trees (1942–2009), journalist and editor
- Josef Esser (1943–2010), political scientist
- Karl-Siegbert Rehberg (* 1943), sociologist
- Manfred Schell (* 1943), trade unionist and politician
- Fritz ter Wey (* 1943), university teacher for choir conducting and choir education
- Rainer Kloubert (* 1944), writer and sinologist
- Dieter Bischoff (* 1946), defense lawyer and entrepreneur
- Heiner Monheim (* 1946), transport scientist, geographer and professor
- Hans-Martin Schlebusch (* 1946), politician
- Peter Wels (* 1946), architect and architectural draftsman
- Georg Clemens Dick (* 1947), journalist and diplomat
- Helmut Etschenberg (* 1947), local politician
- Franz Josef Görtz (1947–2017), journalist, editor and author
- Achim Großmann (* 1947), politician
- Raymund Havenith (1947–1993), pianist and university professor
- Rolf-Peter Hoenen (* 1947), lawyer
- Jürgen Linden (* 1947), politician
- Dirk Reinartz (1947–2004), photographer
- Hans Alt-Küpers (* 1948), teacher and politician
- Gerda Breuer (* 1948), professor and historian
- Manfred H. Freude (* 1948), poet and writer
- Ursula Klinger (1948–2006), water diver
- Peter Michael Lynen (* 1948), lawyer and art lawyer
- Rolf Einmahl (* 1949), politician
- Thomas Jordan (* 1949), athlete
- Halima Krausen (* 1949), Muslim theologian
- Paul Lovens (* 1949), drummer
- Wilfried Schaus-Sahm (* 1949), festival director, painter, graphic artist, photographer and poet
- Walter Schlebusch (* 1949), manager
- Ulla Schmidt (* 1949), politician
- Hermann Bühlbecker (* 1950), Managing Director of the Lambertz Group
- Jens Graul (1950–2018), city councilor and author
- Paul Elmar Jöris (* 1950), state political correspondent at WDR Funkhaus Düsseldorf
- Peter Karhausen (* 1950), organ builder
- Franz Josef Radermacher (* 1950), professor of computer science
- Günter Rosenke (* 1950), politician
- Bernhard Schlag (* 1950), psychologist
1951 to 1960
- Udo Dahmen (* 1951), drummer, managing director of the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg and music lecturer
- Christiane Dénes (* 1951), flutist, writer and visual artist
- Klaus Gallwe (* 1951), boxer, German heavyweight champion 1984
- Udo Kuckartz (* 1951), educational scientist
- Michael Baurmann (* 1952), sociologist
- Arno Behr (* 1952), chemist
- Claudia Bickmann (1952–2017), philosopher
- Ingrid Cuenca (* 1952), caster for film and TV productions
- Renate Hendricks (* 1952), politician
- Ernst Schmachtenberg (* 1952), Professor of Plastics Technology and Rector of RWTH Aachen University
- Léo Apotheker (* 1953), manager
- Archi W. Bechlenberg (* 1953), building and art historian, journalist and book author
- Günther Beckers (* 1953), artist
- Gabriele Clemens (* 1953), historian of European history
- Matthias Frings (* 1953), journalist, television presenter and writer
- Albert Gier (* 1953), Romance writer and librettologist
- Maria Holl (* 1953), alternative practitioner and author
- Johannes Nollé (* 1953), ancient historian, epigraphist and numismatist
- Norbert Radermacher (* 1953), visual artist
- Karl Schultheis (* 1953), politician
- Jürgen Seeher (* 1953), prehistoric
- Ulrike Brandenburg (1954–2010), doctor and sexologist
- Heribert Leuchter (* 1954), jazz musician
- Rosemarie Lichte (* 1954), author
- Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen (* 1954), General Secretary of the Kulturstiftung der Länder
- Herbert Salber (* 1954), diplomat and ambassador
- Wilhelm Schäffer (* 1954), political official
- Jürgen Sturm (* 1954), guitarist, composer and band leader
- Thomas Charpey (* 1955), translator
- Karl Del'Haye (* 1955), football player
- Walter von den Driesch (* 1955), diplomat
- Herbert Görtz (* 1955), conductor and director of the Aachen department at the Cologne University of Music
- Achim Haag (* 1955), mayor
- Andreas Kruse (* 1955), Gerontology and Demography
- Franz-Josef Neumann (* 1955), cardiologist
- Robert Schroeder (* 1955), musician and composer
- Michael Stückradt (* 1955), political official
- Gottfried Vossen (* 1955), computer scientist
- Joachim Burghartz (* 1956), electrical engineer
- Theo Jülich (1956–2018), art historian and museum director
- Karl-Heinz Kogel (* 1956), biologist
- Reimar Lenz (* 1956), information technician
- Frieder Löhrer (* 1956), engineer and industrial manager
- Michael Reudenbach (* 1956), composer and continuo player
- Dagmar Röhrlich (* 1956), science journalist
- Ralph Held (* 1957), basketball official and trainer
- Norbert Kraus (* 1957), visual artist
- Walter Kütz (* 1957), sculptor
- Felizitas Leitner (* 1957), doctor and author
- Michael Pappert (* 1957), basketball player
- Reinhold Wynands (* 1957), Skat world champion
- Michael Müller (1958–2014), publisher
- Walter Ameling (* 1958), ancient historian
- Stefan Maul (* 1958), ancient orientalist and recipient of the Leibniz Prize
- Irene Rothweiler (* 1958), artist, glass painter
- Lukas Menkhoff (* 1958), economist
- Anselm Hartmann (* 1959), pianist and university professor
- Cluse Krings (* 1959), author, theater man and journalist
- Frank-Lothar Kroll (* 1959), historian
- Angela Maas (* 1959), journalist and television presenter
- Helmut Maintz (* 1959), civil engineer and Aachen cathedral master builder
- Albrecht Maurer (* 1959), violinist and composer
- Rolf Schmachtenberg (* 1959), State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs
- Gert Scobel (* 1959), journalist, television presenter, author and philosopher
- Thomas Springel (* 1959), handball player
- Sabine Wils (* 1959), politician
- Christopher Zimmer (* 1959), fantasy author
- Thomas Maria Blisniewski (* 1960), art historian, cultural scientist and author
- Michael Chauvistré (* 1960), director and film producer
- Andreas Ernst (* 1960), psychologist and environmental scientist
- Christian Geyer (* 1960), journalist and editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
- Josef Gülpers (* 1960), art historian, musician, art collector and writer
- Georg Maas (* 1960), screenwriter and director
- Gisela Steinhauer (* 1960), presenter and freelance journalist
- Sigrid Zeevaert (* 1960), children's book author
1961 to 1970
- Thomas Corsten (* 1961), epigraphist and ancient historian
- Michael Hollmann (* 1961), historian and archivist
- Achim John (* 1961), boxer
- Peter Kiefer (* 1961), composer and sound artist
- Armin Laschet (* 1961), politician, Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Josef Nehl (* 1961), soccer player, entrepreneur
- Robert Oltay (* 1961), Austrian graphic artist and painter
- Martina Pohl (* 1961), chemist
- Martin Ebbertz (* 1962), writer and screenwriter
- Bernhard Emunds (* 1962), Roman Catholic theologian
- Claudia Felser (* 1962), chemist, materials scientist and university lecturer
- Achim Kaufmann (* 1962), jazz pianist
- Renate Loll (* 1962), theoretical physicist
- Alfred Neuwald (* 1962), comic book artist and illustrator
- Bernhard Katzy (1962–2015), business graduate, engineer and university professor
- Stephan Reimertz (* 1962), art historian and novelist
- Dieter Schleip (* 1962), musician and composer
- Karl-Josef Wasserhövel (* 1962), politician
- André Winkhold (* 1962), football player
- Boris von Brauchitsch (* 1963), photographer, curator and writer
- Sabina Classen (* 1963), thrash metal singer
- Manfred Mahsberg (* 1963), painter
- Norbert Müller (* 1963), writer
- Andreas Voss (* 1963), author
- Birgit Drießen-Hölscher (1964–2004), chemist
- Guido Eckert (* 1964), journalist and writer
- Cordula Kablitz-Post (* 1964), director, author and film producer
- Vera Klee (* 1964), writer
- Michaela Krützen (* 1964), media scientist
- Jörg Lau (* 1964), journalist and publicist
- Dirk Meissner (* 1964), painter, cartoonist, and caricaturist
- Ralf Metzenmacher (1964–2020), painter and designer
- Achim Mohné (* 1964), artist
- Uwe Ostendorff (* 1964), social worker
- Michael Reisch (* 1964), visual artist and photographer
- Ulrich Schröder (* 1964), comic artist
- Sabine Verheyen (* 1964), politician
- Astrid Vollenbruch (* 1964), author
- Dirk Bieresborn (* 1965), lawyer and judge at the Federal Social Court
- Michael Hammers (* 1965), artist and designer
- Susanne Janssen (* 1965), picture book illustrator
- Dietmar Johnen (* 1965), politician
- Thomas Kemmerich (* 1965), politician, Prime Minister of Thuringia
- Lothar Koenigs (* 1965), conductor
- Martin Scheringer (* 1965), chemist and specialist book author
- Michael Hoppe (* 1966), church musician, Aachen cathedral organist since 2013
- Andreas Platthaus (* 1966), journalist and author
- Harald Schröder (* 1966), graphic artist, comic artist, animation filmmaker, storyboarder, illustrator, designer and art director
- Martin Jörß (* 1967), Hamburg politician
- Karl Robert Kranemann (* 1967), lawyer and circumnavigator
- Thomas Schauerte (* 1967), art historian
- Frank Sommer (* 1967), Professor of Men's Health
- Stefan Weber (* 1967), Islamic scholar
- Pat Appleton (* 1968), jazz and soul singer
- Ildikó von Kürthy (* 1968), writer and journalist
- Andreas Petrik (* 1968), political and social scientist
- Dirk Reisser (* 1968), dancer, dance sport trainer and choreographer
- Georg Schuppener (* 1968), linguist
- Stephan Kaußen (* 1969), freelance journalist, university lecturer and moderator
- Sascha Maassen (* 1969), racing car driver
- Jörg Vincent Malotki (* 1969), actor
- Aiman Mazyek (* 1969), Chairman of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany
- Dorothee Oberlinger (* 1969), recorder player
- Leander Scholz (* 1969), cultural scientist and writer
- Melanie Steffens (* 1969), psychologist
- Nika Bertram (* 1970), writer
- Martin Blechschmidt (* 1970), national coach of the German national team in men's sitting volleyball
- Ilka Endres (* 1970), photo model and Miss Germany 1995
- Oliver Gaspirtz (* 1970), cartoonist and author
- Oliver Held (* 1970), film editor, filmmaker and artist
- Leonhard Koppelmann (* 1970), radio play director
- Nicole Malangré (* 1970), musical singer
- Birgit Mock (* 1970), managing director of the Hildegardis Association
- Mark Mückenheim (* 1970), architect and university professor
- Tim Raschke (* 1970), trombonist and composer
1971 to 1980
- Michael Hilgers (* 1971), author
- Claudia Hürtgen (* 1971), racing car driver
- Dirk Lehmann (* 1971), soccer player
- Marcel Philipp (* 1971), CDU politician and Lord Mayor of Aachen
- Klaus Michael Indlekofer (* 1971), physicist
- Eckhard Sauren (* 1971), entrepreneur
- Armin Boehm (* 1972), painter
- Stefan Frädrich (* 1972), doctor, business economist, bestselling author and lecturer
- Harald Jers (* 1972), choir director and university teacher
- Jutta Kaiser (* 1972), canoeist
- Thomas Koch (* 1972), chess player
- Manuel Rösler (* 1972), composer and musician
- Frank Schmitz (* 1972), art historian and architectural historian
- Lioba Werth (* 1972), psychologist
- Rita Winkelmann (* 1972), actress
- Daniel Aminati (* 1973), television presenter, singer and actor
- Jan Krüger (* 1973), film director
- Silke Andrea Schuemmer (* 1973), writer, art historian and freelance journalist
- Jens Dautzenberg (* 1974), athlete
- Birgit Erwin (* 1974), writer
- Christian Hagemann (* 1974), Belgian handball player
- David Koenig (* 1974), photo artist
- Lothar Willms (* 1974), classical philologist
- Jürgen Radel (* 1975), Professor of Business Administration
- Tina Richter-Vietor (1975–2007), eventing rider
- Kool Savas (born 1975), rapper
- Kai Savelsberg (* 1975), painter and stage painter
- Riccardo Bavaj (* 1976), historian
- Jan Eschke (* 1976), jazz musician
- Torben Klein (* 1976), singer, bassist and composer
- Fabian Schläper (* 1976), song cabaret artist and lyricist
- Björn Jansen (* 1977), local politician, mayor of the city of Aachen
- Philipp Maintz (* 1977), composer
- Frank Wallitzek (* 1977), radio presenter
- Laurens Walter (* 1977), actor
- Stephanie Binding (* 1978), sculptor and painter
- Heiko Andreas von der Gracht (* 1978), futurologist
- Fabian Thylmann (* 1978), entrepreneur
- Claudia Niessen (* 1979), architect and Belgian politician
- Anno Schreier (* 1979), composer
- Marc Eberle (* 1980), soccer player
- David Garrett (* 1980), German-American violinist
- Tim Grüttemeier (* 1980), politician and full-time mayor of the city of Stolberg in the Rhineland, city council
- Christian Mohr (* 1980), football player
- Sebastian Sturm (* 1980), reggae musician
From 1981
- Christine Becker (* 1981), windsurfer
- Jonas Burgwinkel (* 1981), jazz musician
- Elisabeth Hoppe (* 1981), actress
- Uğur Inceman (born 1981), football player
- Mirko Uhlig (* 1981), musician
- David Breuer (* 1982), handball player
- Matthias Flohr (* 1982), handball player
- Cathrin Lange (* 1982), opera singer
- Peter M. Quadflieg (* 1982), German-Belgian historian
- Friederike Trudzinski (* 1982), author and dramaturge
- René Schild (* 1983), racing cyclist
- Michael Schweizer (* 1983), racing cyclist
- Sarah Bauerett (* 1984), actress
- Sarah Bosetti (* 1984), author, satirist, stage writer and presenter
- Astrid Séville (* 1984), political scientist
- Kristina Ziemons (* 1984), duathlete and triathlete as well as multiple German champion
- Katrin Heß (* 1985), actress
- Julia Kuhn (* 1985), racing car driver
- Nicole Schuster (* 1985), author
- Ilka Semmler (* 1985), beach volleyball player
- Lisa Thomsen (* 1985), volleyball player
- Sebastian Bayer (* 1986), long jumper
- Sabrina Bemmelen (* 1986), soccer player
- Kim Zarah Langner (* 1986), actress
- Christoph Schweizer (* 1986), cyclist
- Thomas Weinberg (* 1987), show jumper
- Tobias Wendl (* 1987), luge rider
- Julien Bam (* 1988), web video producer
- Christian Held (* 1988), basketball coach
- Tim Krumpen (* 1988), soccer goalkeeper
- Lucas Leidinger (* 1988), jazz pianist
- Henning Quade (* 1988), handball player
- Florian Braun (* 1989), politician and Member of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Tilo Weber (* 1990), jazz and improvisation musician
- Rebecca Mir (* 1991), model
- Tobias Haitz (* 1992), soccer player
- CrispyRob , b. Robert Brosowski (* 1993), YouTuber, web video producer and cookbook author
- Rafael García Doblas (* 1993), German-Spanish soccer player
- Kai-David Bösing (* 1994), soccer player
- Joshua Huppertz (* 1994), racing cyclist
- Katharina Müller (* 1994), basketball player
- Marcel Simon (* 1994), football player
- Tobias Mohr (* 1995), soccer player
- Marc Brašnić (* 1996), football player
- Eva Janssens (* 1996), badminton player
- Simon Oslender (* 1998), organist
- Kai Havertz (* 1999), soccer player
People related to Aachen
8th to 18th centuries
- Charlemagne (747 / 48–814), King of the Franconian Empire and Roman Emperor
- Benedict von Aniane (before 750-821), founder of the monastery and reform abbot of the Catholic Benedictine order
- François Blondel (1613–1703), spa doctor, introduced the drinking cure in Aachen
- Joseph Moretti († 1793), architect and baroque master builder of the 18th century
- Marc-Antoine Berdolet (1740–1809), Catholic priest, first bishop of Aachen
- Martin Leydel (1747–1817), departmental builder of the Rur department and Aachen city builder
- Jakob Friedrich Kolb (1748–1813), textile entrepreneur and first mayor of the city of Aachen
- Andreas Monheim (1750–1804), pharmacist, 1797–1798 mayor
- Mathias Solders (1750–1826), doctor, mayor 1820–1826
- Alexandre de Lameth (1760–1829), French politician, prefect of the Rur department in Aachen (1806–1809)
- Jean Charles François de Ladoucette (1772–1848), last French prefect of the Rur department in Aachen (1809–1814)
- Christian Quix (1773–1844), local history researcher and Aachen city librarian
- Wilhelm Daniels (1778–1845), Deputy Mayor and President of the Chamber of Commerce
- Michael Wecklein (1778–1849), Roman Catholic theologian and clergyman, Canon in Aachen
- Johann Baptist Joseph Bastiné (1783–1844), Flemish-German painter, founder of the Aachen drawing school
- Adam Franz Friedrich Leydel (1783–1838), architect and master builder of classicism, city architect in Aachen
- Friedrich Joseph von Coels (1784–1856), Prussian district administrator and police director of Aachen
- Josef Guisez (1784–1848), police director and district administrator of the Aachen district
- Johann Peter Cremer (1785–1863), architect and master builder of classicism and later neo-Gothic
- Edmund Emundts (1792–1871), Lord Mayor of Aachen and President of the Aachen Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- Johann Arnold Bischoff (1796–1871), cloth manufacturer and president of the commercial court
- Wilhelm Smets (1796–1848), writer and canon at the Aachen Minster
- Heinrich von Dechen (1800–1889), professor of mining studies, honorary citizen of the city of Aachen because of the preservation of the city's thermal springs
19th century
- Carl Schmid (* around 1805; † after 1850), portrait painter
- Friedrich Joseph Ark (1807–1878), Aachen city architect
- Arnold Theodor Wilhelm Albert Simons (1813–1863), architect, railway director of the Royal Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrorter Eisenbahn and brother-in-law of Karl Marx
- Hermann Ariovist von Fürth (1815–1888), lawyer and member of the German Reichstag
- Hermann Hirsch (1815–1900), police director and district administrator of the Aachen district
- Georg Hasenclever (1817–1904), district administrator of the Aachen district
- Barthold Suermondt (1818–1887), first great donor of today's Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in Aachen
- Carl Rhoen (1822–1899), surveyor, building contractor and publicist
- Jacob Wothly (1823–1873) photography pioneer and inventor
- Friedrich Heinzerling (1824–1906), master bridge builder, professor of building sciences and rector of RWTH Aachen University
- Ludwig von Weise (1828–1915), Lord Mayor from 1875 to 1883
- Wilhelm Leopold Janssen (1830–1900), politician
- Heinrich Milz (1830–1909), high school professor, philologist and principal
- Georg Stahlhuth (1830–1913), organ builder
- Heinrich Böckeler (1836–1899), Roman Catholic priest, founder and first director of the St. Gregorius House church music school in Aachen
- Alfons Bellesheim (1839–1912), church historian and provost at Aachen Cathedral
- Franz Ewerbeck (1839–1889), architect and professor at the Royal Rhenish-Westphalian Polytechnic School in Aachen
- Julian von Hartmann (1842–1916), District President from 1892 to 1907
- Karl Henrici (1842–1927), architect, urban planner and university professor
- Otto Intze (1843–1904), civil engineer and rector of RWTH Aachen
- Moritz Honigmann (1844–1918), chemist, inventor and entrepreneur
- Josef Stübben (1845–1936), master builder and town planner, Aachen town builder
- Wilhelm Borchers (1856–1925), metallurgist and rector of RWTH Aachen University
- Karl von Pastor (1857–1919), district administrator of the Aachen district
- Otto von Pelser-Berensberg (1857–1935), German-Dutch mining entrepreneur, Honorary Consul of the Netherlands and Consul General of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in Aachen
- Karl Krauss (1859–1906), sculptor of historicism and university professor.
- August von Brandis (1859–1947), impressionist painter and dean of RWTH Aachen University
- Wilhelm Farwick (1863–1941), Lord Mayor of Aachen and member of the constituent national assembly in Weimar
- Carl Sieben (1864–1927), civil engineer, architect and university professor
- Franz Rudolf Bornewasser (1866–1951), Roman Catholic bishop, director of the St. Gregorius House church music school in Aachen
- Karl Josef Gollrad (1866–1940), painter, teacher at the Aachen School of Applied Arts and the Aachen City School of Painting and Drawing
- Nanny Lambrecht (1868–1942), writer
- Adolf Wallichs (1869–1959), university professor for machine tools and industrial engineering and rector of RWTH Aachen University
- Hans Anetsberger (1870–1942), professor at the Aachen School of Applied Arts
- Arnold Königs (1871–1960), architect and building contractor
- Gustav Schimpff (1871–1919), railway civil engineer and university professor at RWTH Aachen University
- Hermann Krahforst (1872–1943), painter
- Hermann Pütz (1878–1928), administrative officer and district administrator of the Aachen district
- Albert Huyskens (1879–1956), director of the city archive and the city library, professor of German and Rhenish history at RWTH Aachen University
- Nikolaus Jansen (1880–1965), Roman Catholic prelate, politician (center), Aachen cathedral capitular and Nazi opponent
- Helene Weber (1881–1962), politician (center, later CDU), head of the Aachen Social Women's School
- Jürgen Freiherr von Funck (1882–1963), administrative officer and district administrator of the Aachen district
- Josef Ponten (1883–1940), writer
- Alfred Buntru (1887–1974), professor of hydraulic engineering and deputy lecturer leader
- Johann Ernst (1888–1969), trade unionist and politician (center, later CDU), state minister and district administrator of the Aachen district
- Quirin Jansen (1888–1953), Lord Mayor of Aachen (1933–1944) and NSDAP functionary
- Maria Lipp (1892–1966), chemist, first doctoral candidate, professor and full professor at RWTH Aachen
- Hans Westhoff (1893–1961), administrative officer and, in 1944, district administrator of the Aachen district
- Mathias Wilms (1893–1978), social democratic politician and trade unionist, member of the appointee state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Wienand Ungermann (1895–1969), first district administrator in the Aachen district after the Second World War
- Ilse Essers (1898–1994), engineer and writer
- Hans Globke (1898–1973), lawyer and author of the Nuremberg Laws; Deputy Police President in Aachen
- Hermann Heerdt (1900–1959), Prussian administrative officer and district administrator of the Aachen district
20th century
- Fritz Schwerdt (1901–1970), church goldsmith
- Rudolf Steinbach (1903–1966), architect and professor for building design at RWTH Aachen
- Willy Weyres (1903–1989), Cologne cathedral builder and professor for building history and monument preservation at RWTH Aachen University
- Doris Schachner (1904–1988), first German female professor for mineralogy and honorary senator at RWTH Aachen University
- Walther Kuhla (1907 - after 1944), administrative officer and 1944 District Administrator of the Aachen district
- Hubert Werden (1908–2005), artist and art teacher
- Hans Ernst Schneider alias Hans Schwerte (1909 / 10–1999), SS-Hauptsturmführer and literary scholar
- Karl Friedrich Kohlenberg (1915–2002), writer
- Erich Schild (1917–1998), architect and professor at RWTH Aachen University specializing in building construction, building physics and building damage issues
- Edmund Tersluisen (1918–2006), lawyer, local politician (CDU) and district administrator of the Aachen district
- Berta Kals (1923–2016), artist, especially of Christmas cribs
- Hannes Messemer (1924–1991), actor and radio play speaker
- Egidius Braun (* 1925), President of the German Football Association
- Albrecht Mann (1925–2003), professor of building history at RWTH Aachen
- Walter Ameling (1926–2010), professor for general electrical engineering and data processing systems at RWTH Aachen University
- Hubert Löneke (1926–2011), sculptor
- Günter Urban (1926–2017), Professor of Building History and Monument Preservation at RWTH Aachen University
- Ingeborg Schild (* 1927), Professor of Building History and Monument Preservation at RWTH Aachen University
- Wolfgang Trommer (1927–2018), conductor, general music director at the Stadttheater Aachen 1962–74
- Erwin Patzke (1929–2018), botanist
- Ludwig von Bogdandy (1930–1996), metallurgist and industrial manager, professor at RWTH Aachen University
- Theo Buck (1930–2019), Germanist, professor at RWTH Aachen University
- Heiner Berger (1933–2015), City Director and politician
- Heinz-Gregor Johnen (1933–2012), entrepreneur and long-time director of Zentis GmbH & Co. KG in Aachen
- Joachim Bandau (* 1936), sculptor, painter, graphic artist and university professor
- Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie (1936–2019), President of Indonesia, honorary citizen of RWTH Aachen University
- Helmut Schanze (* 1939), Germanist and media scientist
- Hans Hermann Henrix (* 1941), director of the academy
- Horst Indlekofer (* 1941), university professor at RWTH Aachen University
- Klaus Quirini (* 1941), disc jockey
- Reinhard Dauber (* 1942), architect, art historian and professor at RWTH Aachen University
- Frieder Döring (* 1942), doctor and writer
- Burkhard Rauhut (* 1942), Professor of Statistics and Business Mathematics and Rector at RWTH Aachen University
- Radu Malfatti (* 1943), Austrian trombonist
- Axel Kutsch (* 1945) writer and editor
- Klaus Paier (1945–2009), graffiti artist, known as a wall painter from Aachen
- Wilhelm Schürmann (* 1946), photographer, professor of photography and art collector
- Wolf Steinsieck (* 1946), Romance Studies, university professor at RWTH Aachen University and Honorary Consul of the French Republic in Aachen
- Ulrich Daldrup (* 1947), scientist and mayor
- Janet Brooks Gerloff (1947–2008), modern painter
- Hermann Zwi Szajer (* 1948), artist
- Jürgen von der Lippe (* 1948), television presenter, entertainer, actor and comedian
- Walter Brusius (* 1950), painter
- Gerhard Michael Artmann (* 1951), university professor and writer
- Eric Peters (* 1952), painter
- Peter Schoenen (1952–2014), teacher, writer and non-fiction author
- Brigitte Capune-Kitka (* 1953), politician, stewardess, teacher
- Reiner Priggen (* 1953), politician
- Edith Suchodrew (* 1953), artist and reciter
- Marcus Baumann (* 1955), Professor of Biotechnology and Rector of the FH Aachen
- Thomas Griese (* 1956), lawyer and politician
- Reinhard Kiefer (* 1956), writer and literary scholar
- Ton de Ridder (* 1956), dressage instructor
- Jürgen Nendza (* 1957), writer
- Petra Welteroth (* 1959), theater actress and jazz singer
- Manfred Leuchter (* 1960), composer, producer and accordion player
- Norbert Pohlmann (* 1960), professor of computer science and entrepreneur
- Rolf Schnier (* 1960), World Skat Champion
- Klára Hůrková (* 1962), Czech-German writer
- Erwin Lammenett (* 1964), economist and author
- Werner Pfeil (* 1966), Member of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia and President of the Aachen Carnival Association
- Marcus Dahm (* 1977), composer, church musician and musicologist
- Christoph Wenzel (* 1979), writer and editor
- MoTrip (* 1988), rapper
- Jana Franziska Poll (* 1988), volleyball player