List of personalities of the city of Jena
This list contains personalities born in Jena as well as those who had their sphere of activity in Jena without having been born there. The first section is sorted chronologically according to the year of birth and death and also alphabetically according to the year of birth of the living. The second section is sorted alphabetically. The list does not claim to be complete.
Personalities born in Jena
By 1700
- 1365–1436: Jakob Rodewitz , legal scholar
- 1537–1611: Jacob Flach , mathematician, physician and botanist
- 1548–1628: Johannes Zölner , rhetorician
- 1554–1611: Georg Limnäus , mathematician, astronomer and librarian
- 1559–1625: Johann Friedrich Schröter , medic
- 1590–1642: Johann Matthäus Meyfart , rector, professor of theology, pastor, poet ( Jerusalem, you high-rise city )
- 1592–1638: Zacharias Brendel the Younger , medic and chemist
- 1592–1665: Johannes Limnäus , constitutional lawyer and imperial journalist
- 1593–1656: Theophilus Neuberger , reformed clergyman and theologian
- 1598–1640: Ortolph Fomann the Younger , historian and legal scholar
- 1615–1655: Johannes Tobias Major , Lutheran theologian
- 1619–1671: Johann Theodor Schenck , physician and botanist
- 1621–1668: Johann Ernst Gerhard the Elder , Lutheran theologian
- 1621–1676: Ernst Friedrich Schröter , legal scholar
- 1634–1698: Adrian Beier the Younger , lawyer and professor of law
- 1649–1716: Günther Christoph Schelhammer , physician and professor
- 1649–1727: Johann Philipp Slevogt , lawyer and law professor
- 1650–1716: Johann Jakob Müller , moral philosopher
- 1653–1726: Johann Adrian Slevogt , medic
- 1659–1731: Johann Christian Schröter , legal scholar
- 1667–1743: Johann Friedrich Hertel , legal scholar
- 1669–1703: Charlotte Marie von Sachsen-Jena , Princess of Sachsen-Jena and Duchess of Sachsen-Weimar
- 1674–1717: Friedrich Erhard Niedt , lawyer, music theorist and composer
- 1675–1690: Johann Wilhelm , Duke of Saxony-Jena
- 1675–1747: Johann Adolph Wedel , physician
- 1675–1729: Johann Wilhelm Baier , physicist
- 1677–1735: Johann Jakob Baier , physician and geologist
- 1687–1748: Friedemann Andreas Zülich , Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1695–1762: Johann Ernst von Flörcke , lawyer
- 1696–1775: Johann Gregorius Höroldt , porcelain painter
- 1698–1726: Johannetta Antoinetta Juliana of Saxony-Eisenach , Princess of Saxony-Eisenach
1701 to 1800
- 1704–1763: Paul Wilhelm Schmid , legal scholar
- 1707–1758: Johann Christian Stock , medic
- 1716–1795: Carl Adolph von Braun , lawyer, councilor, university professor and manor owner
- 1722–1799: Johann Friedrich von Braun , soldier, non-fiction author and manor owner
- 1722–1758: Basil Christian Bernhard Wiedeburg , mathematician
- 1725–1778: Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch , theologian and geologist
- 1725–1784: Achatius Ludwig Karl Schmid , legal scholar and state official of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach
- 1726–1784: Christian Wilhelm Franz Walch , church historian and professor of theology
- 1727–1750: Adolph Friedrich Hamberger , physician
- 1727–1804: Christian Just Wiedeburg , lawyer and government official
- 1733–1789: Johann Ernst Basilius Wiedeburg , chamber councilor, physicist, astronomer and professor
- 1734–1799: Karl Friedrich Walch , legal scholar
- 1735–1787: Johann Karl August Musäus , writer and fairy tale collector
- 1744–1798: Johann Wilhelm Schmid , Protestant theologian
- 1751–1813: Georg Adolf Suckow , professor of physics, chemistry, mineralogy and mining science
- 1753–1806: Heinrich Julius Alexander von Kalb , major in French service
- 1755–1820: Anton Wilhelm Friedrich Koch , entrepreneur and founder of what later became the Koch bank in Jena
- 1761–1802: August Batsch , botanist
- 1770–1848: Wilhelm Karl Friedrich Suckow , medic
- 1771–1830: Jakob Wilhelm Roux , painter and draftsman
- 1772–1839: Julius Heinrich Gottlieb Schlegel , physician
- 1776–1853: Karl Wilhelm Walch , legal scholar
- 1781–1854: Karl Friedrich Eichhorn , lawyer and university lecturer
- 1785–1858: Sylvie von Ziegesar , confidante of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 1786–1866: Louise Seidler , painter
- 1789–1860: August Arnold , philosopher of history and political scientist
- 1790–1818: Christian Ludwig Wilhelm Stark , Protestant theologian
- 1790–1862: Johann Moritz David Herold , zoologist
- 1791–1863: Ludwig von Döderlein , classical philologist
- 1793–1869: Karl Wilhelm Göttling , philologist
- 1796–1879: Immanuel Hermann von Fichte , theologian and philosopher
- 1769–1865: Eduard Adolf Jacobi , Protestant pastor, ministerial advisor and teacher
- 1776–1853: Karl Wilhelm Walch legal scholar
- 1793–1855: Ernst Christian Gottlieb Jens Reinhold , philosopher
- 1796–1841: Ernst von Schiller , district judge and son of Friedrich Schiller
- 1798–1851: Joseph Anselm Feuerbach , classical philologist and classical archaeologist
- 1799–1836: Heinrich Schmid , philosopher
- 1800–1834: Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach , mathematician
1801 to 1850
- 1802–1871: Friedrich Bernhard Vermehren , lawyer
- 1804–1861: Robert Friedrich Froriep , anatomist
- 1804–1872: Emilie von Gleichen-Rußwurm , youngest daughter of Friedrich and Charlotte Schiller
- 1805–1849: August Seebeck , physicist
- 1805–1884: Moritz Seebeck , educator, Privy Councilor of State, consistorial councilor and curator
- 1806–1881: Heinrich Aemilius August Danz , legal scholar
- 1807–1891: Carl Ludwig Wilibald Grimm , theologian
- 1810–1880: Johann Heinrich Gottlieb Luden , legal scholar
- 1813–1873: Max von Eelking , officer, historian and painter
- 1813–1874: Carl Schenk , photographer
- 1814–1874: Ludwig Karl Wilhelm von Gablenz , Austrian general
- 1814–1902: Hermann Koch , banker
- 1818–1884: Johann Christian Karl Trebitz , poet and pastor
- 1818–1889: Hugo Friedrich Fries , lawyer, politician and member of the Reichstag
- 1824–1888: Hermann von Schulze-Gävernitz , constitutional law teacher
- 1824–1879: Karl Bernhard Stark , classical archaeologist
- 1826–1895: Friedemann Adolph Goebel , geologist
- 1829–1893: Moritz Vermehren , classical philologist
- 1831–1922: Gustav Compter , geologist and educator
- 1832–1896: Friedrich Helbig , lawyer and writer
- 1834–1860: Victor von Hase , lawyer
- 1836–1905: Karl Timler , architect
- 1836–1923: Karl Theodor von Gohren , German-Austrian agricultural chemist
- 1837–1917: Bernhard Schmidt , classical philologist
- 1841–1910: Ernst Martin , German and Romanist
- 1845–1932: Otto Apelt , classical philologist, translator and high school teacher
- 1846–1921: Georg Oskar Immanuel von Hase , publisher and bookseller
- 1849–1918: Georg Bötticher , writer, father of Joachim Ringelnatz
- 1850–1924: Wilhelm Roux , anatomist and embryologist
1851 to 1900
- 1851–1902: Felix Hettner , archaeologist
- 1853–1913: Erich Schmidt , literary scholar, discoverer of Goethe's Urfaust
- 1854–1914: Georg Hettner , mathematician
- 1855–1932: Hugo Hartung , architect and architectural historian
- 1858–1916: Georg Leubuscher , physician and social reformer
- 1862–1941: Ernst Böhme , Protestant pastor for peace
- 1862–1927: Eduard Brückner , geographer and climatologist
- 1864–1952: Bernhard Vopelius , publisher
- 1865–1943: Hans Gruner , Africa explorer and colonial official in Togo
- 1868–1939: Walter Haeckel , painter, son of Ernst Haeckel
- 1868–1932: Johannes Gottfried Hallier , botanist
- 1871–1934: Julius Strasburger , internist
- 1872–1945: Grete Unrein , politician
- 1872–1955: Leonhard Schultze , zoologist and anthropologist
- 1873–1934: Friedrich Lipsius , professor of philosophy
- 1875–1943: Hans Starcke , artist and poet
- 1875–1957: Richard Delbrueck , classical archaeologist
- 1875–1958: Otto Müller-Jena , architect
- 1881–1930: Hans Kniep , botanist
- 1882–1939: Friedrich Wilhelm , Germanist
- 1882–1959: Kurt Fischer , singer (baritone)
- 1883–1945: Curt Unckel , ethnologist
- 1884–1950: Arnold Eucken , physical chemist
- 1884–1953: Hugo Schmeisser , designer of automatic handguns
- 1884–1967: Gottfried Kuhnt , politician
- 1886–1982, Herbert Koch , pedagogue, Romance studies and local historian
- 1886–1960, Willy Krauss , soccer player, national player
- 1887–1971: Wilhelm Koch , fisheries scientist
- 1888–1947: Emma Heintz , politician and founder of the Jenaer Wohlfahrt
- 1888–1961: Charlotte Leubuscher , social and economic scientist
- 1890–1970: Hans Schlag , architect
- 1891–1950: Walter Eucken , economist and important exponent of ordoliberalism
- 1891–1968: Helene Holzman née Czapski, painter and author
- 1893–1981: Cuno Meyer , politician (NSDAP)
- 1894–1936: Rahel Sanzara , dancer, actress and writer
- 1894–1988: Elisabeth Flitner , national economist and social scientist
- 1897–1959: Kurt Held , writer
- 1899–1945: Rainer Schlösser , poet and author
- 1899–1970: Hanns Hoffmann-Lederer , commercial artist and art school teacher
- 1900–1986: Horst Averbeck , mining entrepreneur, businessman and inventor
- 1900–1990: Fritz Huhn , track and field athlete and high jump coach
1901 to 1977
- 1901–1999: Hermann Schultze-von Lasaulx , lawyer and legal historian
- 1903–1994: Erich Schwinge , lawyer
- 1904 - after 1984: Willy Pabst , party functionary (KPD / SED), persecuted by the Nazi regime and state politician
- 1905–1992: Rudolf Klupsch , athlete
- 1905–1961: Erich Kops , party functionary (SPD / KPD / SED), Spain fighter, former prisoner in Sachsenhausen concentration camp and GDR ambassador to Hungary
- 1905–1990: Carl Schott , geographer
- 1907–1975: Karl Paul Hensel , economist
- 1907–1944: Magnus Poser , communist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
- 1908–1998: Georg Spillner , dentist and clown (Clown NUK)
- 1909–1986: Ursmar Engelmann OSB , Benedictine; Archabbot of the Archabbey of Beuron (1970–1980)
- 1909–1997: Edgar Lehmann , art historian
- 1910–1989: Heinz Werner , soccer player and coach
- 1910–2005: Grete Herber , table tennis player
- 1910–2005: Walter Howard , sculptor
- 1911–1957: Ludwig Kratz , chemist
- 1911–2004: Bernhard zur Lippe-Biesterfeld , Prince of the Netherlands
- 1911–2005: Erich Kästner , designer of film cameras
- 1912–1968: Heinz Kerneck , journalist and broadcast director
- 1913–1997: Wolfgang Stock , sculptor, wood carver, painter and draftsman
- 1914–2002: Peter Volkelt , art historian
- 1914–2003: Konrad Buchwald , botanist, nature conservationist and regional planner
- 1916–2010: Thomas Dexel , teacher
- 1917–1962: Peter Strasser , Austrian politician
- 1917–2003: Otto G possibly , SS-Sturmbannführer and personal adjutant to Adolf Hitler
- 1918–2013: Renata Freiin von Ungern-Sternberg , kindergarten teacher, youth leader and government director
- 1919–2009: Helmut Patzer , pediatrician
- 1919–2007: Irma Pöckler , senior adviser , holder of the BVK
- 1920–2005: Elisabeth Goebel , actress
- 1920–2008: Hermann Nacke , athlete
- 1920–2009: Margarete Taudte , film and theater actress
- 1921–2017: Konrad Seige , internist and university professor
- 1922–2016: Andreas Flitner , Professor of Education
- 1928–2008: Peter Klemm , lawyer and State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance
- 1928–2018: Rosemarie Schuder , writer
- 1928–2015: Udo Taubeneck , microbiologist
- 1930–2015: Klaus-Peter Hertzsch , theologian, university professor, poet and author
- 1930–2015: Wolfgang Dieter Kramer , politician and member of the Hamburg Parliament
- 1930–2001: Franz Peter Schilling , Apolda's last master bell founder
- 1931–2006: Alexander von Bentheim , journalist
- 1931–2017: Wolfgang Glaser , electrical engineer and communications engineer
- 1931–2017: Horst Köditz , pediatrician
- 1932–2012: Gert Frischmuth , choir director and music teacher
- 1932–2020: Reimar Müller , classical philologist
- 1932–2017: Hans Joachim Spangenberg , chemist
- 1933–1998: Volkmar Schmidt , classical philologist
- 1933–2007: Peter Schlechtriem , legal scholar
- 1934–2007: Peter Ackermann , artist
- 1934–2015: Wolfgang Schenk , Protestant theologian and university professor
- 1935–2011: Heiko R. Blum , film critic and author
- 1935–2019: Hans-Herbert Brintzinger , chemist
- 1935–2007: Andreas Heldrich , Rector of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1994 to 2002
- 1938–2015: Peter Diederich , politician (DBD)
- 1939–1989: Annemirl Bauer , painter and graphic artist
- 1939–2001: Wolfgang Fuchs , escape helper at the inner-German border
- 1939–2010: Peter Seyffarth , engineer
- 1940–1992: Lutz Stavenhagen , politician
- 1940–2006: Tilo Medek , composer and music publisher
- 1942–2006: Klaus Renft , musician (including Klaus Renft Combo )
- 1943–2007: Erika John , painter, graphic artist and sculptor
- 1946–2006: Gino Hahnemann , writer, architect and artist
- 1947–2020: Sabine Deitmer , writer
- 1950–2019: Robert F. Singer , materials scientist
- 1953–2017: Peter Rösch , GDR civil rights activist, precision mechanic and restorer
- 1966–2008: Igor Flach , musician
- 1975–2005: Norman Lausch , paraglider pilot
- 1977–2009: Robert Enke , soccer goalkeeper
Living personalities
- 1922: John B. Goodenough , American physicist and materials scientist
- 1927: Götz Hueck , lawyer
- 1931: Helmut Sieger , seaman, sea sportsman, naval officer and doctorate in education (Dr. paed.)
- 1932: Margarete Schilling , author and expert on bells and carillons
- 1932: Ulli Wittich-Großkurth , ceramist and artisan
- 1934: Martin Fontius , literary scholar
- 1937: Manfred Löwisch , legal scholar
- 1937: Geert Müller-Gerbes , German journalist and television presenter
- 1937: Hans-Peter Schneider , judge, university professor and political advisor
- 1939: Günther Hönn , legal scholar
- 1939: Gerda Lepke , painter and graphic artist
- 1939: Peter Röhlinger , politician
- 1939: Jürgen Wolfrum , physicist
- 1940: Dieter Lange , football player
- 1940: Bernd Stumpf , football referee
- 1941: Klaus-Peter Johne , ancient historian
- 1941: Karl-Ludwig Kratz , nuclear chemist and astrophysicist
- 1941: Jochen Martens , zoologist
- 1941: Bernd Riege , politician
- 1941: Heidi Stroh , actress
- 1942: Klaus Adam , basketball player
- 1943: Barbara Göbel , swimmer, Olympic third in Rome 1960
- 1943: Klaus Haupt , politician
- 1943: Dieter Scheitler , football player
- 1944: Hans-Ulrich Köhler , politician
- 1944: Jens Volker Kratz , chemist
- 1944: Horst Montag , Member of the State Parliament (DVU)
- 1944: Volker Schumpelick , medic
- 1945: Ulrich Gumpert , German jazz musician and composer
- 1945: Heikedine Körting , radio play producer
- 1945: Bernd Jürgen Warneken , folklorist
- 1946: Volker Blumentritt , politician
- 1946: Dagobert Kohlmeyer , journalist, translator and photographer
- 1947: Georg Herold , sculptor
- 1947: Rüdiger Lux , theologian
- 1947: Elisabeth Wackernagel , politician
- 1948: Wolfgang Templin , civil rights activist and publicist
- 1948: Karl-Heinz Vanheiden , evangelical author, preacher and Bible translator
- 1949: Rüdiger Schubert , politician
- 1950: Bärbel Struppert , athlete
- 1950: Gerd Struppert , soccer player and coach
- 1951: Wolfgang Fiedler , politician (CDU)
- 1951: Martin Seifert , actor and speaker
- 1952: Jens Goebel , politician (DSU / CDU)
- 1952: Lutz Rathenow , poet and prose author
- 1952: Frank Rub , painter and civil rights activist
- 1953: Rolf Beilschmidt , athlete, 1977 GDR athlete of the year
- 1953: Roland Jahn , journalist and civil rights activist
- 1954: Werner Büttner , painter
- 1954: Gudrun Lukin , politician (Die Linke)
- 1954: Barbara Syrbe , politician (Die Linke)
- 1955: Beate Hübner , politician (CDU)
- 1955: Mario Keßler , historian and university professor
- 1955: Siegfried Reiprich , civil rights activist
- 1955: Roland Weissbarth , Marketing Manager
- 1956: Thomas Henning , astronomer and astrophysicist
- 1956: Renée Reichenbach , artist and ceramist
- 1957: Ingrid Auerswald , track and field athlete and Olympic champion
- 1957: Christine Ursula Klaus , veterinarian and politician (SPD)
- 1957: Andreas Krause , soccer player
- 1957: Annette Schultz , volleyball player
- 1958: Andreas Enkelmann , politician (SPD)
- 1958: Frank-Joachim Grossmann , graphic designer and artist
- 1958: Lutz Haueisen , racing cyclist
- 1958: Reinhard Meinel , academic
- 1958: Verena Späthe , politician (SPD)
- 1959: Hans-Dieter Karras , composer, concert organist and church musician
- 1959: Frank Mantek , weightlifter
- 1960: Bruno Griesel , artist
- 1960: Katrin Rohnstock , literary and linguist, journalist and author
- 1960: Andreas Schröder , freestyle wrestler
- 1961: Bernhard Maaz , art scholar
- 1962: Kerstin Feltz , cellist
- 1963: Antje Babendererde , writer
- 1963: Jaqueline Berndt , Japanologist, art scholar and translator
- 1963: Sabine Günther , athlete
- 1964: Gisela Eichardt , sculptor
- 1964: Alexander Kerbst , musical performer and actor
- 1965: Christian Dietrich , pastor, state representative of the Free State of Thuringia
- 1965: Susanne Schädlich , writer, translator and journalist
- 1966: Uwe Kellner , rower
- 1966: Thomas Oberender , author and dramaturge
- 1966: Cornelia Sirch , swimmer
- 1966: Matthias Steinbach , historian
- 1967: Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm , biathlete
- 1967: Gerhard Jäger , linguist
- 1967: Petra Kleinert , actress
- 1967: Beate Koch , athlete
- 1967: Sibylle Mania , photographer and draftsman
- 1968: Daniel Anderson , film, theater and television director and screenwriter
- 1968: Marcus Horn , drummer and music teacher
- 1969: Sahra Wagenknecht , politician (Die Linke) and publicist
- 1969: Ingo Walther , soccer player
- 1970: Viktor Kalinke , writer, translator and publisher
- 1970: Carsten Klee , soccer player
- 1972: Pierre Geisensetter , presenter and actor
- 1972: Stefan Groß , philosopher, journalist, publicist and editor
- 1972: Alexander Löbe , soccer player
- 1973: Ronald Maul , football player
- 1973: Bernd Schneider , soccer player
- 1973: Ron Winkler , writer
- 1974: André Gumprecht , football player
- 1974: Friederike Meinel , mezzo-soprano and opera singer
- 1975: André Kapke , neo-Nazi
- 1975: Ronny Weiland , singer
- 1975: Ralf Wohlleben , neo-Nazi
- 1975: Beate Zschäpe , right-wing extremist
- 1976: Peter Kühn , chess player
- 1977: Ulrike Urbansky , athlete
- 1977: Mario Voigt , politician (CDU)
- 1980: Tino Berbig , soccer goalkeeper
- 1981: Henry Lukács , Chief Sergeant in the Bundeswehr
- 1981: Karoline Schuch , actress
- 1982: Guido Grünheid , basketball player
- 1982: Steffen Justus , 2010 triathlon runner-up on the Olympic distance
- 1982: Franziska Kruse , actress
- 1982: Kristian Nicht , soccer goalkeeper
- 1983: Franz Dinda , cinema and television actor
- 1983: Joachim Schwabe , soccer player
- 1984: Luise Keller , racing cyclist
- 1984: Diana Riesler , duathlete and triathlete
- 1984: Raúl Semmler , actor
- 1985: Johannes Lange , writer
- 1985: Ralf Schmidt , soccer player
- 1985: Albrecht Schuch , actor
- 1987: Martin Dwars , soccer goalkeeper
- 1987: Tim Wuttke , soccer player
- 1990: René Eckardt , soccer player
- 1991: Luisa Liebtrau , actress
- 1992: Yves Brinkmann , soccer player
Personalities who have worked on site
- Ernst Abbe , born January 23, 1840 in Eisenach; † January 14, 1905 in Jena, astronomer, mathematician, physicist, optician, entrepreneur and social reformer
- Rosemarie Albrecht , born March 19, 1915 in Kobe, Japan; † 7 January 2008 Jena, ear, nose and throat doctor at the Department of Otolaryngology at Jena, on the list of most wanted Nazi war criminals of the Simon Wiesenthal Center was
- Felix Auerbach , born November 12, 1856 in Breslau; † February 26, 1933 in Jena, physicist, professor and patron of the arts
- Bernhard Averbeck , born July 2, 1874 in Bremen; † October 17, 1930 in Jena-Göschwitz, cement manufacturer, President of the German Cement Association (DZB)
- Johann Nikolaus Bach , October 10, 1669 in Eisenach; † November 4, 1753 in Jena, organist and composer (Jenaer Bachstrasse is named after him and not after his cousin Johann Sebastian Bach )
- Hans Berger , born May 21, 1873 in Neuses near Coburg; † June 1, 1941 in Jena, discoverer of the electroencephalogram (EEG)
- Wolfgang Biermann , born November 29, 1927 in Leipzig; † July 18, 2001 in Völklingen, member of the central committee of the SED, general director of the "Carl Zeiss" combine
- Otto Binswanger , born October 14, 1852 in Scherzingen; † July 15, 1929 in Kreuzlingen, Swiss psychiatrist and neurologist
- Hans Boegehold , born July 28, 1876 in Niederstüter; † May 14, 1965 in Jena, mathematician
- Alfred Brehm , born February 2, 1829 in Unterrenthendorf; † November 11, 1884 in Renthendorf, zoologist and writer
- Georg Buschner , born December 26, 1925 in Gera; † February 12, 2007 in Jena, GDR national football player and national coach from 1970 to 1981
- Gottfried Cundisius , born September 11, 1599 in Radeberg; † July 25, 1651 in Jena, Lutheran theologian
- Siegfried Czapski , born May 28, 1861 in Koźmin, Province of Posen; † June 29, 1907 in Jena, physicist
- Eugen Diederichs , born June 22, 1867 in Löbitz; † September 10, 1930 in Jena, publisher
- Matthias Domaschk , born June 12, 1957 in Görlitz; † April 12, 1981 in Gera, GDR civil rights activist
- Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner , born December 13, 1780 in Hof; † March 24, 1849 in Jena, chemist
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte , born May 19, 1762 in Rammenau near Bischofswerda; † January 27, 1814 in Berlin, philosopher
- Gustav Fischer , born December 23, 1845 in Altona; † July 22, 1910 in Jena, bookseller and publisher
- Samuel Fischer , born November 25, 1547 in Sankt Joachimsthal; † June 22nd, 1600 in Jena, pastor, superintendent and professor
- Gottlob Frege , born November 8, 1848 in Wismar; † July 26, 1925 in Bad Kleinen, mathematician, logician and philosopher
- Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann , born September 14, 1765 in Züllichau; † June 12, 1837 in Jena, publisher
- Jürgen Fuchs , born December 19, 1950 in Reichenbach in Vogtland; † May 9, 1999 in Berlin, writer, psychologist and GDR civil rights activist
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , born August 28, 1749 in Frankfurt am Main; † March 22, 1832 in Weimar, poet, natural scientist, art theorist and statesman
- Johann Jakob Griesbach , born January 4, 1745 in Butzbach; † March 12, 1812 in Jena, professor for the New Testament in Jena
- Georg Grosch , born June 10, 1895 in Graefenthal; † February 25, 1987 in Jena, music educator, composer
- Uwe Grüning , born January 16, 1942 in Pabianice near Łódź, Poland, writer and politician (CDU), former MdL Saxony, media councilor
- Johann Christian Günther , born April 8, 1695 in Striegau; † March 15, 1723 in Jena, poet
- Ernst Haeckel , born February 16, 1834 in Potsdam; † August 9, 1919 in Jena, biologist and philosopher
- Hartmut Haupt , born February 20, 1932 in Bonn; † May 20, 2019 in Jena, organist, organ expert and non-fiction author
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , born August 27, 1770 in Stuttgart; † November 14, 1831 in Berlin, philosopher, taught from 1801 to 1807 at the University of Jena and wrote his " Phenomenology of Mind " there
- Emma Heintz , * 1889; † October 2, 1947, founder of welfare in Jena
- Johann Friedrich Herbart , born May 4, 1776 in Oldenburg (Oldenburg); † August 14, 1841 in Göttingen, philosopher, psychologist, educator (" Herbartianer ")
- Richard Hodgson , born September 24, 1855 in Melbourne; † December 20, 1905 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Australian parapsychologist
- Friedrich Hölderlin , * 1770 in Lauffen am Neckar; † 1843 in Tübingen, poet, studied theology in Jena
- Ricarda Huch , born July 18, 1864 in Braunschweig; † November 17, 1947 in Schönberg im Taunus, now part of Kronberg, writer
- Gerhard Hund , born February 4, 1932 in Leipzig, mathematician and computer scientist, lived in Jena from 1946 to 1951.
- Yusuf Ibrahim , born May 27, 1877 in Cairo; † February 3, 1953 in Jena, important pediatrician, head of the children's hospital "Jussuf Ibrahim"; after his passive attitude towards euthanasia "life not worth living" became known during the Nazi era, his name was deleted from the appearance of the city in 2000 (street, kindergarten, clinic)
- Stefan Kaufmann , * 1953 in Frankfurt am Main, President of the Thuringian Constitutional Court and the Thuringian Higher Regional Court, initiator of the Association for the Promotion of the Historical Library of the Higher Regional Court, honorary doctorate from Jena University
- Dietrich Georg von Kieser , born August 24, 1779 in Harburg / Elbe; † October 11, 1862 in Jena, professor at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena , physician and psychiatrist
- Karl Ludwig von Knebel , born November 30, 1744 at Wallerstein Castle near Nördlingen; † February 23, 1834 in Jena, Goethe's "Urfreund"
- Klaus Kübel , born Feb. 11, 1941; † December 1, 2008 in Jena, until 2007 Chancellor of the Friedrich Schiller University
- Erich Kuithan , born October 24, 1875 in Bielefeld; † December 30, 1917 in Jena, expressionist painter (paintings in FSU and Volkshaus, street)
- Johann Georg Lenz , born April 2, 1748 in Schleusingen; † February 28, 1832 in Jena, mineralogist, mountain burr and professor of mineralogy at the University of Jena, founder of the "Mineralogical Society" in Jena
- Curt Letsche , born October 12, 1912 in Zurich, † February 17, 2010 in Jena, writer, lived and worked in Jena from 1971 until his death
- Johann Jakob Lungershausen , born October 25 [1] 1665 in Dorndorf; † 1729 in Mühlhausen / Thuringia, was a preacher and consistorial councilor in Jena as well as a professor at the university
- Sophie Mereau , born March 27, 1770 in Altenburg; † October 31, 1806 in Heidelberg; Born in Schubart, remarried Brentano, writer, wife of Clemens Brentano
- Heinrich Metzmacher * August 18, 1898; † March 30, 1992, architect, headed the structural development of the Zeiss works from 1934 to 1969
- Esther Morales-Cañadas , born February 25, 1951 in Seville; Spanish harpsichord virtuoso and musicologist
- Novalis , born May 2, 1772 on the family estate Oberwiederstedt; † March 25, 1801 in Weißenfels, poet
- Peter Petersen , born June 26, 1884 in Großenwiehe near Flensburg; † March 21, 1952 in Jena, was a reform pedagogue at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
- Julius Pierstorff , born March 9, 1851 in Lübeck, † January 16, 1926 in Jena, national economist
- Erich Preiser , born August 29, 1900 in Gera; † August 16, 1967 in Munich, was Professor of Economics at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena
- Godhard Prüssing , born July 25, 1828 in Bad Segeberg; † October 9, 1903 in Jena, cement manufacturer
- Max Reger , born March 19, 1873 in Brand (Upper Palatinate); † May 11, 1916 in Leipzig, composer, organist, pianist and conductor
- Adolf Reichwein , born October 3, 1898 in Bad Ems; † October 20, 1944 in Berlin (executed) resistance fighter and reform pedagogue , 1st director of the adult education center, workers' training home
- Wilhelm Rein , born August 10, 1847 in Eisenach; † February 19, 1929 in Jena, teacher
- Nikolaus von Reusner , born February 2, 1545 in Löwenberg, Silesia; † April 12, 1602 in Jena, legal scholar
- Eduard Rosenthal , born September 6, 1853 in Würzburg; † June 25, 1926 in Jena; Lawyer, university professor and politician ( NLP , DDP ); Draft constitution for Thuringia
- Johann Baptist Schad , born November 30, 1758 in Mürsbach; † January 13, 1834 in Jena; Order name: Roman, Benedictine in the Benedictine monastery Banz , convert and professor in Kharkiv
- Gertrud Schäfer , born July 24, 1897 in Roda; † June 26, 1987 in Jena, one of the first female pastors
- Stephan Schambach , born August 1, 1970 in Erfurt, entrepreneur and pioneer of e-commerce
- Caroline Schelling , born September 2, 1763 in Göttingen; † September 7, 1809 in Maulbronn; born Michaelis, used Böhmer, Gesch. Schlegel, married. Schelling, writer
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling , born January 27, 1775 in Leonberg; † August 20, 1854 in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland, philosopher
- Friedrich Schiller , born November 10, 1759 in Marbach am Neckar; † May 9, 1805 in Weimar, poet and writer
- Hans Schlag , * 1890; † 1970, architect (together with Johannes Schreiter in the architecture office "Schreiter und Schlag": Planetarium , Optical Museum , St. Michael Church )
- August Wilhelm Schlegel , born September 8, 1767 in Hanover; † May 12, 1845 in Bonn, philosopher, linguist
- Dorothea Schlegel , born October 24, 1764 in Berlin; † August 3, 1839 in Frankfurt am Main; born Brendel Mendelssohn, writer
- Friedrich Schlegel , born March 10, 1772 in Hanover; † January 11, 1829 in Dresden, cultural philosopher, critic, literary historian and translator
- August Schleicher , born February 19, 1821 in Meiningen; † December 6, 1868 in Jena, linguist
- Matthias Jacob Schleiden , born April 5, 1804 in Hamburg; † June 23, 1881 in Frankfurt am Main, botanist
- Johanna Schopenhauer , born July 9, 1766 in Danzig; † April 16, 1838 in Jena, writer, mother of the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer
- Otto Schott , born December 17, 1851 in Witten an der Ruhr; † August 27, 1935 in Jena, chemist and glass technician
- Johannes Schreiter , * 1872; † 1957, architect (together with Hans Schlag in the architecture office "Schreiter und Schlag": Planetarium , Optical Museum , St. Michael Church )
- Bernhard Sigmund von Schultze-Jena , born December 29, 1827 in Freiburg im Breisgau; † April 17, 1919 in Jena, doctor, reformer of obstetrics and founder of modern gynecology
- Ferdinand Selle , born June 28, 1862 in Kunzendorf (Upper Silesia); † February 9, 1915 in Winzerla near Jena, porcelain manufacturer (Burgau)
- Lothar Späth , born November 16, 1937 in Sigmaringen † March 18 in Stuttgart, former Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg, later head of Jenoptik , redesigner of Jena after the fall of the Wall
- Karl Volkmar Stoy , born January 22, 1815 in Pegau; † January 23, 1885 in Jena, teacher and one of the most important exponents of Herbartianism
- Lulu von Strauss and Torney , born September 20, 1873 in Bückeburg, Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe, today Lower Saxony; † June 19, 1956 in Jena, writer
- Ludwig Tieck , born May 31, 1773 in Berlin; † April 28, 1853 in Berlin, poet, writer, editor and translator
- Johannes Trüper , born February 2, 1855; † 1921 in Jena, educator, discoverer of curative education , rural education home on the Sophienhöhe in Jena
- Johann Bernhard Vermehren , born June 6, 1777 in Lübeck; † November 29, 1803 in Jena; Romantic, private lecturer in philosophy at the university
- Lukas Weischner , * 1550/55 in Erfurt; † 1609 in Jena; also: Lucas Weyschner or Weschener, bookbinder and librarian
- Caroline von Wolzog , born February 3, 1763 in Rudolstadt; † January 11, 1847 in Jena; born von Lengefeld, writer, sister-in-law of Friedrich Schiller
- Carl Zeiss , born September 11, 1816 in Weimar; † December 3, 1888 in Jena, mechanic and entrepreneur
- Lothar Zitzmann , born February 14, 1924 in Kahla; † January 19, 1977 in Halle (Saale), painter; was u. a. worked at the University of Jena from 1948 to 1951