1955: Dietrich Rotthaus (born September 13, 1872; † January 12, 1961), community leader
sons and daughters of the town
To 1900
Johann Caspar Lecke (born March 14, 1694; † January 21, 1785 in Iserlohn) - entrepreneur, historian and Lord Mayor of Iserlohn
Johann Stephan Pütter (born June 25, 1725; † August 12, 1807 in Göttingen) - Reich publicist and constitutional law teacher
Friedrich Moritz von Brabeck (born January 27, 1742 at Gut Letmathe; † January 8, 1814 at Söder Castle near Holle) - Canon of Hildesheim and Paderborn, art connoisseur and art collector; Founder of the Chalkographische Gesellschaft zu Dessau
Johann Karl von der Becke (born May 27, 1756; † August 21, 1830 in Gotha) - lawyer and minister in Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.
Johann Wilhelm Tolberg (born October 24, 1762, † September 17, 1831 in Schönebeck) - physician, pioneer in the field of brine treatment
Detmar Basse (born April 6, 1764; † June 19, 1836 in Mannheim) - entrepreneur, diplomat, pioneer and art collector.
Hermann Diedrich Piepenstock (born August 6, 1782; † September 4, 1843 in Iserlohn) - entrepreneur and industrial pioneer
Theodor Müllensiefen (born September 9, 1802, † May 26, 1879 in Theodorshof near Rheinfelden, Switzerland) - industrial pioneer and Prussian politician
Friedrich Hundt (born May 4, 1807; † July 4, 1887 in Münster) - photographer
Alexander Löbbecke (born August 17, 1812, † December 23, 1867 in Iserlohn) - officer and entrepreneur in Iserlohn
Heinrich Schlieper (born December 18, 1826 - † April 8, 1905 in Iserlohn) - industrialist and politician
Wilhelm Storck (born July 5, 1829 - † July 16, 1905 in Münster) - Germanist
Maximilian Nohl (born September 11, 1830 - † June 9, 1863 in Cologne) - master builder and architect
Ludwig Nohl (born December 5, 1831; † December 15, 1885 in Heidelberg) - musicologist, private lecturer
August Overweg (born June 10, 1836; † March 2, 1909 in Letmathe, today the city of Iserlohn) - civil servant and politician (first governor of Westphalia), son of Carl Overweg
Hugo Schultz (born November 6, 1838 - † June 16, 1904 in Wildbad) - personality in the Ruhr mining industry and a national liberal politician
Gustav Börstinghaus (born November 20, 1854, † March 1, 1929 in Düren) - architect
Julius Bräucker (born March 7, 1872, † March 5, 1942 in Iserlohn) - social democratic politician
Friedrich Soennecken (born September 20, 1848 in Dröschede; † July 2, 1919 in Bonn) - businessman, entrepreneur, inventor and graphic artist
Mathilde Berensmann (born February 21, 1851 - † February 18, 1926 in Dresden) - writer
Richard Fleitmann (born April 30, 1860; † February 15, 1923 in Dortmund) - industrial and national liberal politician
August Erdmann (born January 22, 1862 - † October 8, 1938 in Cologne) - social democratic politician and author
Alexander Pfänder (born February 7, 1870; † March 18, 1941 in Munich) - philosopher
Erhard Deutelmoser (born June 22, 1873; † September 1, 1956 in Lenggries) - officer, head of the war press office, head of the press department in the Foreign Office and press chief of the Reich Chancellor
Wilhelm Gallhof (* 1878, † 1918, killed in World War I) - Impressionist painter, mainly of female nudes
Hans Kruse (born April 22, 1882; † September 27, 1941 in Vienna) - teacher and local researcher, director of the Siegerland Museum
Siegfried Keßler (born June 17, 1883; † 1943 in Auschwitz concentration camp) - educator
Fritz Kühn (born October 11, 1883; † August 3, 1968 in Iserlohn) - educator and author
Wilhelm Lindner (born October 11, 1884 - † September 10, 1956 in Herford) - politician (CDU), member of the Reichstag
Caspar Hermann Münch (born March 20, 1885 - † March 17, 1951 in Bad Homburg) - after the Second World War, the first general director of the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg
Robert Ittermann (born April 1, 1886 - † July 15, 1970 in Völlinghausen) - sculptor and draftsman
Otto Lins-Morstadt (born May 28, 1889, † September 15, 1962 in Asunción, Paraguay) - director and actor
Karl Rasche (born August 23, 1892; † September 13, 1951 near Basel) - SS honorary leader in the rank of SS Obersturmbannführer as well as member of the board and spokesman for Dresdner Bank
Willy Kölker (born April 9, 1893; † July 10, 1980 in Iserlohn) - fighter pilot of the First World War and National Socialist politician
Theodor Ellbracht (born April 16, 1893, † September 6, 1958 in Iserlohn) - educator and writer
Aloys Rüberg (born March 2, 1894 - † January 30, 1971 in Iserlohn) - Syndic of craftsmen's associations, civil servant and politician of the Center Party
Hein Diehl (born February 23, 1896 - † June 18, 1964 in Iserlohn) - politician (NSDAP)
Werner Lürmann (born August 18, 1897; † November 30, 1958 in Iserlohn) - poet
Walter Ewig (born December 19, 1897 in Dröschede, † August 1, 1984 in Iserlohn) - local history researcher in the Iserlohn district
Fritz Rustemeyer (born October 14, 1898 in Obergrüne; † November 3, 1965 in Iserlohn) - DGB trade unionist, ten years mayor or mayor of the city of Iserlohn
1901 to 1950
Wilhelm Grenzmann (born July 24, 1902, † August 30, 1967 in Siegburg) - German and literary scholar
August Schläfer (born August 4, 1902 in Bremke; † March 8, 1967 in Karl-Marx-Stadt) - founding rector of the Karl-Marx-Stadt University of Mechanical Engineering, professor
Curt Rechel (born December 1, 1902, † August 10, 1973 in Farchant / Upper Bavaria) - naval officer and knight's cross bearer in World War II
Wilhelm Wessel (born May 29, 1904 - † June 3, 1971 in Iserlohn) - painter
Alfons Lütkoff (born October 17, 1905, † January 16, 1987 in Kotzenbüll) - painter
Wilhelm Muhrmann (born November 23, 1906; † March 27, 1986 in Iserlohn) - writer
Karl Tüttelmann (* July 2, 1911, † 1988 on Föhr) - painter and sculptor
Otto Lüderitz (born March 2, 1920 - † November 30, 2015) - immunologist
Rudolf Amthauer (born December 19, 1920, † September 30, 1989 in Frankfurt am Main) - psychologist
Lieselotte Holzmeister (born February 8, 1921 - † June 29, 1994 in Salzburg) - publisher and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
Hans K. Wehren (born February 18, 1921 - † April 17, 1988 in Iserlohn) - writer
Heinz Neuhaus (born April 14, 1926 - April 6, 1998 in Dortmund) - boxer
Ernst Dossmann (born April 28, 1926) - architect, local historian, writer and painter
Jochen F. Kirchhoff (born April 21, 1927 - December 18, 2019) - entrepreneur
Gerd Roellecke (born July 13, 1927; † October 30, 2011 in Karlsruhe) - legal scholar and legal philosopher
Reinhard Paul Becker (born August 11, 1928 - † June 15, 2006 in Rye, New York) - writer, translator, Germanist and university lecturer
Johann Georg Florschütz (born May 7, 1779 in Coburg; † June 26, 1849); Superintendent in Iserlohn from 1817 to 1849
Ferdinand Möllmann (born January 2, 1791 in Lüttringhausen, † November 20, 1854 in Iserlohn) was a German wholesaler and early industrialist.
Moritz Thieme (born May 8, 1799 in Löbau ; † July 20, 1849 in Iserlohn) was a German bookseller, storyteller and author of books for children and young people.
Karl Schuchart (born December 8, 1806 in Heiligenstadt, † October 10, 1869 in Iserlohn) was a member of the preliminary parliament in 1848 and played a central role during the Iserlohn uprising in 1849
Albert Florschütz (* July 30, 1819; † 1903) was a long-time pastor at the Protestant uppermost municipality, author and member of parliament.
Carl Overweg (born November 28, 1805 in Unna ; † May 27, 1876 in Letmathe , today the city of Iserlohn) was a German politician and industrialist.
Ludwig Josephson (born January 28, 1809 in Unna, † January 22, 1877 in Barth / Pomerania ) Evangelical Lutheran pastor, editor and writer as well as chronicler of the city of Iserlohn.
Emil Münsterberg (born July 13, 1855 in Danzig ; † January 25, 1911 in Berlin ) was Mayor of Iserlohn from 1889–1892 and an important researcher on poverty.
Alwin Dossmann (born April 1, 1894 in Wiesenburg ; † May 18, 1978 in Iserlohn) was a German architect, writer and painter.
Walter Bosse (born November 13, 1904 in Vienna ; † December 13, 1979 in Iserlohn) was a German ceramic artist and designer.
Irmgart Wessel-Zumloh (born August 3, 1907 in Förde-Grevenbrück, † May 30, 1980 in Iserlohn) was a painter and graphic artist.
Wilhelm Iwanski (born August 25, 1911 in Wanne-Eickel , † February 1, 1985 in Letmathe) was a German writer.
Harry Boldt (born February 23, 1930 in Insterburg) is a former German dressage rider and national dressage trainer.
Wilhelm Bleicher (born March 5, 1940 in Hohenlimburg ; † January 18, 2016 in Iserlohn) was a grammar school teacher, historian and Westphalian regional historian.
Dietrich Walther (born February 6, 1942 in Stettin ; † November 12, 2016) was an entrepreneur and founder of the private BiTS University of Applied Sciences .
Arnd Stein (* 1946) is a psychologist, psychotherapist and author.
Mike York (* 1978) is an American ice hockey player who played for the Iserlohn Roosters in the 2004/05 season and from 2011 to 2016.
Michael Wolf (* 1981) is an ice hockey player who played for the Iserlohn Roosters from 2005 to 2014 and is their record scorer in the DEL with 230 goals .
Paul Ziemiak (* 1985 in Stettin ) is a CDU politician (2014-2018 Federal Chairman of the Junge Union , since 2018 Secretary General of the CDU)
Hermann Holtmeier, Manfred Reinertz: Telling Iserlohn street names . In: Iserlohner Museen e. V. (Ed.): Contributions to local history for Iserlohn and the Brandenburg area . tape19 . Iserlohn 2009, ISBN 978-3-89053-121-2 .
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