List of personalities of the city of Kassel
This list contains persons born in Kassel (officially Cassel until 1926 ) as well as those who had their sphere of activity in Kassel without being born there. Both sections are sorted chronologically according to the year of birth. The list does not claim to be complete.
Personalities born in Kassel
By 1700
- Valerius Cordus (1515–1544), botanist, doctor, pharmacologist and naturalist
- Hans Wilhelm Kirchhof (1525–1605), poet
- Anna (1529–1591), Princess of Hesse and Countess Palatine of Zweibrücken
- Wilhelm IV. (1532–1592), Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
- Barbara (1536–1597), Princess of Hesse, Countess of Württemberg-Mömpelgard and Countess of Waldeck
- Ludwig IV (1537–1604), Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg
- Elisabeth (1539–1582), Princess of Hesse and Electress of the Palatinate
- Christine (1543–1604), Princess of Hesse and Duchess of Holstein-Gottorf
- Georg I (1547–1596), Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
- Philipp Wilhelm von Cornberg (1553–1616), progenitor of the barons of Cornberg
- Anna Maria (1567–1626), Princess of Hesse-Kassel and Countess of Nassau-Saarbrücken
- Hedwig (1569–1644), Princess of Hesse-Kassel and Princess of Schaumburg
- Moritz (1572–1632), regent of Hessen-Kassel
- Christine (1578–1658), Princess of Hesse-Kassel and Duchess of Saxony-Eisenach
- Otto (1594–1617), Hereditary Prince of Hesse-Kassel and administrator of Hersfeld
- Elisabeth (1596–1625), Duchess of Mecklenburg
- Johann Wilhelm Dilich (1600–1657), engineer and city architect
- Wilhelm V (1602–1637), Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
- Agnes (1606–1650), Princess of Hessen-Kassel and Princess of Anhalt-Dessau
- Hermann IV. (1607–1658), Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg
- Regner Badenhausen (1610–1686), lawyer and chancellor of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel
- Magdalene (1611–1671), princess of Hessen-Kassel and former countess of Salm-Reifferscheid
- Sophie (1615–1670), Countess of Schaumburg-Lippe
- Friedrich (1617–1655), Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege
- Sebastian Curtius (1620–1684), reformed clergyman, theologian and university professor
- Ernst I (1623–1693), Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels and Hesse-Rheinfels-Rotenburg
- Charlotte von Hessen-Kassel (1627–1686), Electress of the Palatinate
- William VI. (1629–1663), Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
- Johann Balthasar von Hoffmann (1639–1705), lawyer and Drost of Count zur Lippe-Brake
- Heinrich Majus (1632–1696), medic and physicist
- Andreas Cleyer (1634–1697), businessman, botanist, medic and Japan researcher
- Hermann Zoll (1643–1725), lawyer
- Wilhelm I (1648–1725), Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg
- Charlotte Amalie (1650–1714), Princess of Hesse-Kassel and Queen of Denmark
- Wilhelm VII (1651–1670), Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
- Philipp (1655–1721), Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal
- Johann Jakob Chuno (1661–1715), royal councilor and archivist
- Elisabeth Henriette of Hessen-Kassel (1661–1683), Electoral Princess of Brandenburg
- Christoph Ludwig Motz (1665–1742), Hessian-Bremen colonel
- Charlotte (1672–1738), Princess of Hessen-Homburg and Duchess of Saxe-Weimar
- Hedwig Luise (1675–1760), Princess of Hessen-Homburg and Countess von Schlieben
- Friedrich (1676–1751), Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel and King of Sweden
- Sophie Charlotte (1678–1749), Duchess of Mecklenburg
- Wilhelm VIII (1682–1760), Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
- Philippine Elisabeth Cäsar (1686–1744), wife of Duke Anton Ulrich von Sachsen-Meiningen
- Johann Philipp Heinius (1688–1775), philosopher
- Marie Luise (1688–1765), Princess of Nassau-Dietz and Princess of Orange
- Hesse Goldschmidt (1689 / 90–1733), merchant
- Georg (1691–1755), Prince of Hesse-Kassel and General
- Charles du Ry (1692–1757), court architect
18th century
1701 to 1750
- Regnerus Engelhard (1717–1777), civil servant, author and topographer
- Bernhard Hupfeld (1717–1796), composer and conductor
- Friedrich II. (1720–1785), Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
- Karl Franz Lubert Haas (1722–1789), historian, theologian, philosopher and church historian
- Friedrich Christoph Schmincke (1724–1795), librarian and historian
- Johann Friedrich Klöffler (1725–1790), composer
- Wilhelmine (1726–1808), Princess of Hesse-Kassel and Prussia
- Simon Louis du Ry (1726–1799), head builder and architect
- Johann Balthasar Hundeshagen (1734–1800), lawyer and historian
- Carl Ludwig Richter (1737–1802), 1779 to 1802 rector at the Lyceum Fridericianum
- Georg Wilhelm Stein (1737–1803), obstetrician
- Johann Jakob von Pistor (1739–1814), Russian lieutenant general
- Johann Peter Bucher (1740–1820), legal scholar
- Heinrich Goddaeus (1742–1819), judge
- Wilhelm I (1743–1821), Count of Hanau and Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
- Johann von Ewald (1744–1813), officer and military expert
- Karl (1744–1836), Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
- Conrad Moench (1744–1805), pharmacist, chemist and full professor
- Friedrich III. (1747–1837), Prince of Hesse-Kassel
- Elisabeth Mara (1749–1833), opera singer
- Johanna Elisabeth von Schmerfeld (1749–1803), landscape painter
1751 to 1800
- Johann Philipp Engelhard (1753-1818), lawyer
- David August von Apell (1754–1832), composer, writer, theater director and councilor
- Heinrich Christoph Jussow (1754–1825), architect and garden designer
- Ludwig von Wildungen (1754–1822), forester, author and poet hunting
- Ernst Wilhelm Cuhn (1756–1809), German librarian and historian
- Amalie Tischbein (1757–1839), miniature painter
- Johann Konrad Schiede (around 1760 - 1826), pastor, late enlightener and author
- Johann Ludwig Völkel (1762–1829), classical philologist and archaeologist
- Nathanael Caesar (1763–1836), long-time rector of the Lyceum Fridericianum, today's Friedrichsgymnasium
- Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Robert (1763–1843), painter and university professor
- Johann Christian Ruhl (1764–1842), sculptor, illustrator and architect
- Carl Daub (1765–1836), Protestant theologian
- Georg Friedrich Sartorius (1765–1828), historian and professor
- Johann Erdmann Hummel (1769–1852), painter
- Arnoldine Wolf (1769–1820), poet
- Nina d'Aubigny von Engelbrunner (1770–1847), writer and singer
- Heinrich von Porbeck (1771–1809), major general and military writer
- Johann Christoph Ullmann (1771–1821), professor and mineralogist
- Christian Ludwig Runde (1773–1849), lawyer and president of the Oldenburg Higher Appeal Court
- Georg Wilhelm Stein (1773–1870), obstetrician and pediatrician
- Friedrich von Motz (1775–1830), statesman
- Philippine von Reden (1775–1841), daughter of Adolph Freiherr Knigge
- Carl Ludwig August von Benning (1776–1829), officer
- Friedrich Krafft (1777-1857), politician
- Johann Bernhard Logier (1777–1846), musician, composer and music teacher
- Friedrich Wilhelm August Murhard (1778–1853), mathematician, legal scholar, writer and librarian
- Johann Martin von Rohden (1778–1868), landscape painter
- Heinrich Karl Friedrich Levin von Wintzingerode (1778–1856), Minister of State
- Carl Rivalier von Meysenbug (1779–1847), father of Malwida von Meysenbug
- August von der Embde (1780–1862), painter
- Carl Anton Henschel (1780–1861), Oberbergrat
- Karoline Engelhard (1781–1855), writer
- Johann Karl Adam Murhard (1781–1863), economist, legal scholar, archivist and writer
- Christoph Rommel (1781–1859), historian and philologist
- Friedrich Tiedemann (1781–1861), anatomist and physiologist
- Johann Werner Henschel (1782–1850), sculptor
- Justus Heinrichzusch (1783–1850), painter and draftsman
- Wilhelm Sattler (1784–1859), manufacturer
- Wilhelm Gotthelf Engelhard (1785–1848), lawyer
- Julius von Haynau (1786-1853), Austrian general
- Paul Wigand (1786–1866), lawyer and legal historian
- Karl von Canitz and Dallwitz (1787–1850), Prussian lieutenant general and statesman
- Justus Krauskopf (1787–1869), portrait and landscape painter, lithographer and drawing teacher
- Ludwig Schwarzenberg (1787–1857), lawyer and politician
- Karl August Avenarius (1788 - after 1831), painter and draftsman
- Johann Conrad Bromeis (1788–1855), architect
- Daniel Engelhard (1788–1856), architect and master builder
- Karl Michael Eggena (1789–1840), politician and lawyer
- Hermann Pinhas (1794 / 95–1844), engraver
- Karl Friedrich Weber (1794–1861), 1836–1852 rector at the Lyceum Fridericianum, today's Friedrichsgymnasium
- Ludwig Sigismund Ruhl (1794–1887), painter, graphic artist, academy professor and museum director
- Johann Hermann Koch (1795–1862), politician and minister in the Electorate of Hesse
- Karl Waitz von Eschen (1795–1873), manor owner, member of the Prussian manor house
- Julius Eugen Ruhl (1796–1871), chief builder of the Hesse court and chief building director
- Josef Spitzeder (1796–1832), stage actor and opera singer (bass)
- Jeremias David Alexander Fiorino (1797–1847), miniature painter
- Otto Philipp Braun (1798–1869), Minister of War and Grand Marshal
- Emil Rabe von Pappenheim (1798–1849), Hessian Minister-Resident in Paris
- Christian Julius Wilhelm Schiede (1798–1836), doctor, botanist and author
- Wilhelm von Urff (1799–1855), major general, member of the Hessian Estates Assembly
- Karoline Christine Böhler (1800–1860), singer, actress and pianist
- Adolph Cnyrim (1800–1876), civil servant and politician
- Amalie Hassenpflug (1800–1871), writer, friend of the Brothers Grimm and Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
19th century
1801 to 1825
- Rudolf von Buttlar (1802–1875), forester, inventor and politician
- Werner Friedrich Julius Stephan von Spiegel (1802–1877), manor owner and canon
- Franz Ferdinand Benary (1805–1880), orientalist and exegete
- Ludwig Georg Karl Pfeiffer (1805–1877), doctor, botanist and malacologist
- Friedrich von Urff (1805–1873), lawyer and district administrator, member of the Hessian Estates Assembly
- Friedrich Nebelthau (1806–1875), lawyer, civil servant and politician
- Georg Landau (1807–1865), archivist and historian
- Franziska Cornet (1808–1870), opera singer
- Ferdinand von Meyerfeld (1808–1882), Minister of War of the Electorate of Hesse
- Wilhelm von Breithaupt (1809–1889), officer
- Alfred Otto Rabe von Pappenheim (1808–1851), officer and landowner, member of the Hessian Estates Assembly
- Johann Heinrich Jacob Müller (1809–1875), mathematician and physicist
- Ludewig Johann von Slicher (1809–1896), Royal Major General of Hanover
- Karl Gustav von Goßler (1810–1885), Chancellor and President of the Higher Regional Court
- Albrecht Rosengarten (1810–1893), architect
- Ludwig Schuncke (1810–1834), pianist and composer
- Constantin Guise (1811–1858), watercolorist, theater and decoration painter and lithographer
- Justus Karl Haßkarl (1811–1894), traveler and naturalist
- Heinrich Lingemann (1811 - after 1866), architect
- Andreas Müller (1811–1890), church and history painter
- Gottlob Engelhard (1812–1876), architect and construction officer
- Caroline Klauhold , b. von der Embde (1812–1867), portrait, genre and landscape painter
- Eduard Ihlée (1812–1885), history painter
- Andreas Achenbach (1815–1910), landscape painter
- Karl von Bauer (1816–1896), Prussian major general, commandant of Strasbourg
- Carl Julius Caesar (1816–1886), classical philologist
- Emilie von der Embde (1816–1904), portrait, genre, landscape and flower painter
- Malwida von Meysenbug (1816–1903), writer
- Paul Julius Reuter (1816–1899), entrepreneur
- Louise of Hesse (1817–1898), Queen of Denmark
- Ludwig Moeli (1817–1894), Reich judge
- Philipp Schwarzenberg (1817–1885), entrepreneur
- Charles Christian Nahl (1818–1878), German-American painter
- Carl Sylvius Völkner (around 1819–1865), missionary in New Zealand
- Ernst Benary (1819–1893), horticultural entrepreneur
- Louis Adam Gans (1819–?), Businessman, textile manufacturer in St. Gallen and later cotton manufacturer in Urspring
- Gustav Kaupert (1819–1897), sculptor
- Gottlieb Theodor Kellner (1819–1898), lawyer, journalist and revolutionary (1848/49); emigrated to the USA
- Georg Koch (1819–1899), painter; from 1880 to 1899 professor at the art academy
- Frederick August Wenderoth (1819–1884), photographer, painter, lithographer and engraver
- Johann Conrad Bromeis (1820–1862), chemist
- Ludwig des Coudres (1820–1878), history and portrait painter and teacher
- Adolf Ebert (1820–1890), literary historian and Romanist
- Richard Harnier (1820–1885), member of the Reichstag
- Heinrich Heppe (1820–1879), Protestant theologian
- Adam Pfaff (1820–1886), historian and publicist
- Viktor von Meibom (1821-1892), legal scholar
- Salomon Hermann Mosenthal (1821–1877), playwright and librettist
- Wilhelm Seelig (1821–1906), political scientist and politician
- Heinrich Fick (1822–1895), lawyer and university professor
- Franz Lotz (1822–1906), councilor and member of the German Reichstag
- Heinrich Gerhardt (1823–1915), sculptor
- Karl Lyncker (1823–1855), writer
- Otto Braun (1824–1900), journalist
- Karl Hassenpflug (1824–1890), sculptor
- Louis von Hesberg (1824–1909), Prussian general
- Louis Katzenstein (1824–1907), painter
- George André Lenoir (1825–1909), chemist and physicist
- Wilhelm Mangold (1825–1890), Protestant theologian
1826 to 1850
- Jean Joseph Bott (1826–1895), violinist and composer
- Karl Grimm (1826–1893), lawyer and member of the Reichstag
- Emil Heinrich Otto Müller (1826–1914), classical philologist and educator
- Carl Friedrich Claus (1827–1900), chemist
- Max Büdinger (1828–1902), historian
- Herman Grimm (1828–1901), art historian and publicist
- Hermann Weigel (1828–1887), lawyer and member of the Reichstag
- August von Wille (1828–1887), landscape and genre painter
- Adolf Fick (1829–1901), physiologist
- Wilhelm Lotz (1829–1879), architect and art historian
- Heinrich Köhler (1830–1903), architect and university professor
- Gideon Vogt (1830–1904), philologist and educator, 1870–1893 director of the Friedrichsgymnasium
- Carl Ochsenius (1830–1906), geologist
- Hermann Schwarzenberg (1830–1897), administrative lawyer and district president
- Franz Georg Philipp Buchenau (1831–1906), botanist and educator
- Georg Gerland (1833–1919), geographer and geophysicist
- Hugo Wilhelm Arthur Nahl (1833–1889), painter, illustrator and graphic artist
- Gottlob Theuerkauf (1833–1911), painter and lithographer
- Heinrich Wiethase (1833–1893), architect
- Hermann Aubel (1834 - probably after 1892), German painter
- Carl Claus (1835–1899), professor of zoology
- Friedrich Dettmer (1835–1880), actor
- Justus Ulrich (1835–1900), brewery owner and member of the German Reichstag
- Wilhelm Friedrich von Starck (1835–1913), Minister of State in Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Wilhelm von Hanau-Hořovice (1836–1902), Prince of Hanau
- Adolf von Heppe (1836–1899), civil servant and politician
- George Engel (1836-1887), German anarchist
- Hermann von Pfister-Schwaighusen (1836–1916), Germanist
- Ernst Achtung (1837–1874), businessman
- Friedrich Biermann (1837–1904), entrepreneur
- Oscar Henschel (1837–1894), entrepreneur, chairman of the Cassel Chamber of Commerce and member of parliament
- Gustav Bickell (1838–1906), orientalist
- Adolf Karl Ludwig Claus (1838–1900), chemist
- Ernst Gerland (physicist) (1838–1910), physics historian
- Wilhelm von Specht (1838–1910), major general
- Wilhelm Körner (1839–1925), chemist
- Ludwig Mond (1839–1909), chemist
- Franz Treller (1839–1908), actor, director and writer
- Carl Friedrich Gustav Vogt (1839–1886), natural scientist and educator
- Moritz Alsberg (1840–1920) doctor and anthropologist
- Karl von Hanau-Hořovice (1840–1905), son of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I of Hesse-Kassel
- Wilhelm Breithaupt (1841–1931), engineer and inventor
- Wilhelm Pfannkuch (1841–1923), politician and trade unionist
- Hugo Schneider (1841–1925), painter and architect
- Jakob Stilling (1842–1915), ophthalmologist
- Fritz Luckhardt (1843-1894), Austrian photographer
- Siegfried S. Goldschmidt (1844–1884), Indologist and university professor
- Carl Pfeiffer (1844–1912), banker
- Carl Schäfer (1844–1908), architect and university professor
- Carl Friedrich Echtermeier (1845–1910), sculptor
- Sophie Junghans (1845–1907), writer
- Christoph Hehl (1847–1911), architect and university professor
- Karl screw (1847–1917), Reich judge
- Ida Janson (1847–1923), educator and headmistress
- Ernst von Meyer (1847–1916), chemist and chemical historian
- Auguste Förster (1848–1926), educator and women's rights activist
- Jean Berlit (1848–1937), pool entrepreneur
- August Lingemann (1848 - after 1895), architect
- Wilhelm Ruhl (1848–1926), engineer and inventor
- Karl Brandau (1849–1917), railway civil engineer
- Carl Moeli (1849–1919), psychiatrist and neurologist
- Carl Nordmann (1849–1922), architect
- Ernst August Roßteuscher (1849–1914), architect and construction clerk
- Josias von Heeringen (1850–1926), officer, minister of war and association functionary
- Gustav Hüpeden (1850–1937), high school professor and member of the German Reichstag
1851 to 1875
- Adalbert Bezzenberger (1851–1922), philologist, archaeologist and university professor
- Carl Jatho (1851–1913), Protestant pastor
- Konrad Keßler (1851–1905), orientalist, Semitist and university professor
- Helene Weichardt (1851–1880), writer
- Carl Fromme (1852–1945), physicist and mathematician
- Heinrich Stilling (1853–1911), pathologist and university professor
- Max Rothfels (1854–1935), lawyer and notary
- Carl Schönemann (1854–1920), ophthalmologist
- Friedrich Oetker (1854–1937), legal scholar
- August von Heeringen (1855–1927), naval officer
- Walter von Specht (1855–1923), Chamberlain and Major General
- Adolf Lins (1856–1927), painter
- Ferdinand Orth (1856–1922), ancient historian and teacher
- Hugo Warlich (1856–1922), conductor
- Georg Kegel (1857–1912), architect
- Albert Lotz (1858–1926), civil servant, member of parliament and university professor
- Johanna Wäscher , b. Range (1858–1935), women's rights activist, city councilor
- Emil Zimmermann (1858–1898), painter
- Heinrich Hoffmann (1859–1933), painter
- Christian Scherer (1859–1935), art historian
- Heinrich Berger (1860–1927), civil engineer
- Adolf Fennel (1860–1953), industrialist for surveying instruments
- Adolf Wild von Hohenborn (1860–1925), Prussian general and minister of war
- Theodor Schröder (1860–1951), administrative lawyer and politician
- Johann Lewalter (1862–1935), collector of folk songs and local writer
- Florens Christian Rang (1864–1924), Protestant theologian, politician and writer
- Gustav Eskuche (1865–1917), educator, high school director, writer and folk song collector
- Heinrich Giebel (1865–1951), painter
- Adolf Kürle (1865–1912), sculptor and painter
- Hermann Metz (1865–1945), painter and draftsman
- Philipp Scheidemann (1865–1939), politician and publicist
- Friedrich Boedicker (1866–1944), naval officer
- Otto Gleim (1866–1929), governor of Cameroon
- Johannes Werthauer (1866–1938), lawyer and criminal law reformer
- Otto Rubensohn (1867–1964), classical archaeologist
- Richard Reinhard Emil Schorr (1867–1951), astronomer
- Karl von Starck (1867–1937), administrative lawyer and politician
- Sara Nussbaum (1868–1956), Holocaust survivor and honorary citizen of the city
- Constantin Rembe (1868–1958), major general and politician
- Philipp Losch (1869–1953), historian, journalist and librarian
- Arnold Latwesen (1870–1951), writer
- Ernst Neumann-Neander (1871–1954), painter and inventor
- Hans Meyer-Kassel (1872–1952), German-American painter
- Felix Blumenfeld (1873–1942), pediatrician and Nazi victim
- Maximilian Klein von Diepold (1873–1949), painter of the Düsseldorf School
- Hans Neumann (1873–1957), graphic artist
- Friedrich von Oppeln-Bronikowski (1873–1936), writer, translator, editor and cultural historian
- Carl Horn (1874–1945), painter
- Karl Ludwig Pfeiffer (1874–1952), malacologist and banker
- August Bode (1875–1960), industrialist
- Amalie Wündisch (1875–1956), women's rights activist, social worker and local politician
1876 to 1900
- Georg Potente (1876–1945), gardener
- Philipp Daltrop (1876–1957), lawyer
- Paul Scheffer (1877–1916), painter
- Julius Jordan (1877–1945), archaeologist and building researcher
- Wilhelm Pinder (1878–1947), art historian
- Ernst Engel (1879–1967), graphic artist
- Minna Bernst (1880–1965), women's rights activist and city councilor
- Cornelius Gellert (1881–1944), politician
- Kurt von Kleefeld (1881–1934), managing director of the Hansabund
- Georg Kleine (1881–1944), naval officer
- Otto Lang-Wollin (1881–1958), painter
- Hans von Goldacker (1882–1957), businessman, manor owner and politician
- Arthur Ulrich (1882–1958), lawyer
- Otto Weinreich (1882–1947), pianist
- Christian Wittrock (1882–1967), politician
- Margret Heinemann (1883–1968), classical archaeologist and high school teacher
- Georg August Koch (1883–1963), actor
- Richard Meyer (1883-1956), diplomat
- Gustav Hensel (1884–1933), football player
- David Katz (1884–1953), experimental psychologist
- Wilhelm Bachmann (1885–1933), chemist
- Karl Sömmer (1885–1974), Kassel dialect poet
- Hugo Swart (1885–1952), lawyer, administrator and politician
- Otto Hormel (1886–1971), Admiral in the Navy
- Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929), German-Jewish historian and philosopher
- Wilhelm Ide (1887–1963), storyteller, comedian and travel guide writer
- Kurt Magnus (1887–1962), radio pioneer and administrative lawyer
- Max Becker (1888–1960), politician
- Wilhelm Knothe (1888–1952), politician
- Heinrich Meyer-Bürdorf (1888–1971), artillery general in World War II
- Ludwig Mühlhausen (1888–1956), Celtologist and university professor
- Georg von Sodenstern (1889–1955), officer
- Frieda H. Sichel (1889–1976), national economist, social worker
- Artur Mahraun (1890–1950), activist and writer
- Eduard Trabert (1890–1969), trade unionist and politician
- Adelheid von Sachsen-Meiningen (1891–1971), Princess of Sachsen-Meiningen and Prussia
- Rudolf Genschel (1891–1972), biologist
- Hans Gummel (1891–1962), prehistoric
- Kurt Kersten (1891–1962), historian, writer, publicist and journalist
- Hans Rothfels (1891–1976), German-American historian
- Friedrich Wilhelm Eckhardt (1892–1961), engineer
- Götz Kilian (1892–1940), communist, victim of the Köpenick Blood Week
- Fritz Lengemann (1892–1934), politician
- Ernst Metz (1892–1973), painter and graphic artist
- Friedrich Quanz (1892–1968), politician
- Georg von Sachsen-Meiningen (1892–1946), head of the House of Sachsen-Meiningen
- Anna Zinke (1892–1958), politician
- Wilhelm Schott (1893–1990), painter
- Rolf Wuthmann (1893–1977), officer
- Heinrich Reinhardt (1894–1959), politician and SA leader
- Heinrich Schneider (1894–1964), teacher and regional training manager
- Dela E. Gotthelft (1895–?), Opera, concert and oratorio singer
- Kurt Katzenstein (1895–1984) - since 1944 Kurt Kaye, pilot, engineer, entrepreneur
- Wilhelm Struve (1895–1971), SA leader
- Werner von Fichte (1896–1955), SA leader, police chief and writer
- Georg Korth (1896–1985), ambassador
- Herbert Lewandowski (1896–1996), writer and pioneer of sexology
- Elisabeth Selbert (1896–1986), politician and lawyer
- Walther Seidler (1897–1951), farmer, NSDAP politician and SA leader
- Bernard Etté (1898–1973), conductor and violinist
- Konrad Gorges (1898–1968), politician
- Helmut Hasse (1898–1979), mathematician
- Manfred Hausmann (1898–1986), writer and journalist
- Konrad Kaletsch (1898–1978), entrepreneur
- Heinrich Ohlwein (1898–1969), painter
- Karl Pfannkuch (1898–1965), editor
- Willi Wittrock (1898–1966), lawyer, administrative officer and politician
- Hedwig Jochmus (1899–1993), politician
- Ernst Röttger (1899–1967), painter
- Arnold Bode (1900–1977), painter, draftsman, spatial artist, curator, university professor and art teacher
- Ernst J. Martin (1900–1967), dendrologist, author, conservationist and dentist
- Harro Siegel (1900–1985), puppeteer
- Horst Freiherr Treusch von Buttlar-Brandenfels (1900–1990), officer
20th century
1901 to 1910
- Henry Ormond (1901–1973), lawyer
- Elisabeth Siegel (1901–2002), professor for education and social education
- Heinrich Bergmann (1902–1980), policeman and SS leader who was employed by the commander of the security police and the SD in Estonia
- Karl Boekholt (1902–1983), crop scientist and plant breeder
- Friedrich Fechner (1902–1964), lawyer
- Herbert Hausmann (1902–1980), economist and politician
- Carl Mertens (1902–1932), officer, journalist and pacifist
- Ludwig Roselius (1902–1977), composer, music critic and conductor
- Georg Strickrodt (1902–1989), politician
- Paul Bode (1903–1978), architect
- Carl Döbel (1903–1959), draftsman and painter
- Hildegard Jacoby (1903–1944), welfare worker of Jewish origin, employee of the Confessing Church and resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Günther Joel (1903–1978), lawyer and National Socialist
- Harald Keller (1903–1989), art historian and university professor
- Meta Muscat (1903–1978), painter
- Walter Groß (1904–1945), politician
- Karl Lasch (1904–1942), economist and lawyer
- Kurt Lion (1904–1980), German-American physicist
- Eugen Bodart (1905–1981), composer and conductor
- Fritz Dettner (1905–1937), politician (KPD)
- Heinz Hungerland (1905–1987), physician
- Leni Junker (1905–1997), sprinter
- Ferdinand Frantz (1906–1959), opera singer
- Kurt Reuber (1906–1944), doctor, Protestant pastor and visual artist
- Walter Schinzer (1906–1991), youth group functionary and writer
- Ernst Freudenthal (1907–1992), merchant, emigrant
- Georg Gliemeroth (1907–1982), crop scientist
- Heinz Friedrich Hartig (1907–1969), composer and music teacher
- Hans-Gerrit von Stockhausen (1907–1943), naval officer
- Eberhard Taubert (1907–1976), lawyer
- Max Danz (1908-2000), doctor
- August-Martin Euler (1908–1966), politician
- Hans Heinrich Gerth (1908–1978), American sociologist
- Ernst Gotthardt (1908–1976), geodesist, photogrammeter and university professor
- Heinrich Plett (1908–1963), manager
- Rudolf Weber-Lortsch (1908–1976), administrative lawyer
- Hans-Joachim Becker (1909–?), Office manager of the NS killing center in Hartheim
- Werner Jorns (1909–1990), archaeologist
- Ernst Melis (1909–2007), resistance fighter in the Résistance
- Franz Nüßlein (1909–2003), lawyer
- Ludwig Ramdohr (1909–1947), criminal investigator
- Karl Branner (1910–1997), politician
- Theodor Haltorth (1910–1981), zoologist
1911 to 1920
- Karl Bachmann (1911–1997), politician
- Johann Diedrich Noltenius (1911–1979), politician, senator and bank director
- Karl Clobes (1912–1996), painter
- Erich Jordan (1912–1997), politician
- Tilo von Berlepsch (1913–1991), actor
- Werner Jacobs (1913–2007), Roman Catholic clergyman and theologian
- Leo Mildenberg (1913–2001), numismatist, coin dealer and antique collector
- Bernhard Sacrificemann (1913–1995), Roman Catholic clergyman and local researcher
- Paul Werner (1913–2003), General Director of Bayern Insurance
- Helmut E. Ehrhardt (1914–1997), psychiatrist, forensic specialist and university professor
- Annely Juda (1914–2006), gallery owner
- Karl-Heinz Otto (1915–1989), prehistoric
- Hanns-Christoph Becker von Sothen (1916–1980), Ambassador to Paraguay
- Hans Schönberger (1916–2005), prehistorian and archaeologist
- Günter Lanczkowski (1917–1993), religious scholar and ancient American scholar
- Karl Wittrock (1917–2000), lawyer and politician
- Ferdinand Schmidt (1918–1980), doctor and politician
- Peter Berglar (1919–1989), doctor and historian
- Karl-Heinz Leise (1919–2004), physicist, Vice President of the Federal Patent Court
- Albert Weber (1919–2008), politician
- Richard Wurbs (1920–2018), politician
1921 to 1930
- Herbert Bräuning (1921–2014), translator and journalist
- Franz Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord (1921–2011), Protestant theologian
- Wilhelm von der Emde (1922–2020), German-Austrian hydraulic engineer
- Erwin Heerich (1922–2004), artist
- Addi Hellwig (1922–1996), businessman and producer of folk music
- Horst Joachim Rheindorf (1922–2018), physician and medical professional politician
- Albert Vietor (1922-1984), manager
- Günter Wetzel (1922–2018), politician
- Albrecht Dihle (1923–2020), classical philologist
- Lothar Haase (1923–2013), economist and politician
- Johannes Jourdan (1923–2020), Protestant theologian and writer
- Ellen Lauterbach (1923–2011), politician
- Karl-Heinz Metzner (1923–1994), football player
- Wilhelm Bachmann (1924–1987), politician
- Wolf J. Bell (1924-2014), journalist
- Jürgen Girgensohn (1924–2007), politician
- Karl-Heinz Koch (1924–2007), lawyer, notary and politician
- Arno Stern (* 1924), educator and researcher
- Ekkehard Stuhldreher (* 1924), politician
- Wolf von Zworowsky (1924–2015), politician
- Rudolf Bernhardt (* 1925), international lawyer and President of the European Court of Human Rights
- Yargo De Lucca (1925–2008), Canadian painter, printmaker and sculptor
- Norbert Pfennig (1925-2008), microbiologist
- Joachim Rottmann (1925–2014), lawyer
- Hartmut Sierig (1925–1968), theater scholar and theologian
- Jochen Thomas (1925–1995), actor and director
- Ilse Werder (* 1925), editor and non-fiction author
- Richard Baier (* 1926), journalist and broadcaster
- Christa Slezak-Schindler (* 1926), linguist
- Hannelore Erhart (1927–2013), Protestant theologian and university professor
- Gerhard Jahn (1927–1998), politician
- Rüdiger Lichti (1927–2002), actor
- William W. Hallo (1928–2015), American ancient orientalist
- Werner Hunstein (1928–2012), physician
- Max Weinberg (1928–2018), German-Israeli artist
- Jochen Desel (* 1929), Protestant theologian and church historian
- Benyamin Maoz (1929–2014), Israeli psychiatrist and psychotherapist
- Gerhard Schröder (1929–2015), chemist
- Ernst Schulin (1929–2017), historian
- Gerhard Sprenger (1929–1997), politician
- Anneliese Augustin (* 1930), politician
- Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (1930–2019), constitutional and administrative lawyer and legal philosopher
- Ludwig Finscher (1930–2020), music historian
- Jost Hermand (* 1930), university professor
- Jochen Schumann (1930–2018), economist
- Günter Siebert (1930–2017), football player and official
- Gerhard Wenderoth (1930–2002), politician
1931 to 1940
- Holger Börner (1931-2006), politician (SPD)
- Wolfgang Pehnt (* 1931), architectural historian and critic
- Reinhard Slenczka (* 1931), theologian
- Mechthild Schröder (1932–2010), doctor and Baptist deaconess
- Hans-Joachim Weimann (1932–2012), forest scientist
- Joe Hembus (1933–1985), film critic, film historian, screenwriter and film actor
- Alfred Nemeczek (1933–2016), author, art historian and art journalist
- Dietmar Rothermund (1933–2020), Indologist and university professor
- Burghard Vilmar (* 1933), lawyer and politician (SPD)
- Wilfried Böhm (* 1934), graduate economist and politician (CDU)
- Wolfgang Deurer (* 1934), architect, monument conservator and cathedral builder
- Walther Hadding (* 1934), civil law scholar
- Hans-Peter Lehmann (* 1934), director and general manager
- Valentine Rothe (* 1934), painter and history teacher
- Ingeburg Schäfer (* 1934), politician (SPD)
- Rolf Wenzel (1934–2018), officer and association functionary
- Gerhard Sauter (* 1935), theologian
- Karl Garff (* 1936), dialect cabaret artist
- Manfred Hansmann (1936–2009), gynecologist
- Walter Janssen (1936–2001), prehistoric and medieval archaeologist
- Wolfgang Leinemann (1936–2016), lawyer, judge at the Federal Labor Court
- Holger Obermann (* 1936), soccer player and television reporter
- Arno Waldschmidt (1936–2017), draftsman and graphic artist
- Dieter Grimm (* 1937), legal scholar
- Ulrich Hadding (1937–2018), physician and microbiologist
- Martin Kurbjuhn (* 1937), writer
- Elisabeth Lenk (* 1937), literary scholar and sociologist
- Jürgen Sawade (1937–2015), architect
- Uwe Uffelmann (1937–2008), historian and history educator
- Lisa Vollmer (* 1937), politician (SPD)
- Friedrich Karl Barth (* 1938), pastor
- Hartmut Böhm (* 1938), object artist
- Jürgen Gerlach (* 1938), politician
- Jochen Lengemann (* 1938), lawyer and politician (CDU)
- Michael Stürmer (* 1938), historian
- Reiner Bastine (* 1939), psychologist, psychotherapist and mediator as well as professor
- Hartmut Bauer (1939-2018), opera singer (bass)
- Mechthild Curtius (* 1939), writer and literary scholar
- Klaus Eichmann (* 1939), physician and immunologist
- Klaus Gerbig (1939–1992), hurdler
- Helga Kämpf-Jansen (1939–2011), teacher, artist and university professor
- Pit Morell (* 1939), painter and storyteller
- Klaus Sames (* 1939), gerontologist, anatomist and university professor
- Albert Schindehütte (* 1939) illustrator, graphic artist and draftsman
- Jürgen Bähr (1940-2014), geographer
- Hans Manfred Bock (* 1940), political scientist and comparativeist
- Carin Braun (1940–1986), theater and film actress and director
- Gernulf Garbe (* 1940), sports doctor, orthopedist and chirotherapist
- Otto Kretschmer (1940-2004), politician (SPD)
- Helmut Martin (1940–1999), sinologist
- Edgar Meister (* 1940), politician (SPD)
- Gerhard Schmidt (* 1940), politician (SPD)
- Alice Schorbach (* 1940), artist
1941 to 1950
- Wolfgang Berger (* 1941), philosopher and economist
- Gerhard Berz (* 1941), geoscientist
- Hans Eichel (* 1941), politician
- Thorwald Proll (* 1941), writer
- Mathias Schröder (* 1941), writer and general practitioner
- Manfred Wilke (* 1941), sociologist and contemporary historian
- Rolf Gerner (* 1941), painter, draftsman and graphic artist
- Hartwig Free Life (* 1942), physicist
- Holmar Knörzer (* 1942), journalist and author
- Björn Lemmer (* 1942), pharmacologist
- Christoph von der Malsburg (* 1942), physicist, neurobiologist and university professor
- Norbert Trelle (* 1942), Catholic clergyman, former bishop of Hildesheim
- Jürgen Vietor (* 1942), copilot during the hijacking of the Landshut aircraft
- Ludwig Georg Braun (* 1943), honorary president of the DIHK
- Stefan Hartmann (1943–2016), historian and archivist
- Eike Hennig (* 1943), political scientist and sociologist
- Wolfgang Mütze (* 1943), lawyer
- Volker G. Heinz (* 1943), lawyer and notary; Escape helper in Berlin
- Angelika Hartmann (* 1944), Islamic scholar and university lecturer
- Hedda Herwig (1944–2015), political scientist and political philosopher
- Wulf Noll (* 1944), writer and essayist
- Wolfgang Wischmeyer (* 1944), Protestant theologian and professor
- Ingrid L. Ernst (* 1945), theater director, lecturer, dramaturge and author
- Elisabeth Feldbusch (1946–2020), linguist and Germanist
- Bernd Pfaffenbach (* 1946), administrative officer
- Walter Siebert (* 1946), politician
- Winfried Aufenanger (* 1947), association trainer for the DLV marathon runners
- Holger Brück (* 1947), soccer player and coach
- Bernd F. Lunkewitz (* 1947), real estate investor and publisher
- Astrid Proll (* 1947), co-founder of the Red Army faction
- Barbara Scheuch-Vötterle (* 1947), music publisher
- Werner Bätzing (* 1949), professor of cultural geography
- Gisela Getty (* 1949), photographer and author
- Wolfgang Mock (* 1949), journalist and writer
- Walter Passian (1949–2017), writer and playwright
- Martin Schindehütte (* 1949), Protestant theologian and pastor
- Felix Semmelroth (* 1949), Head of Culture for the City of Frankfurt am Main
- Jutta Winkelmann (1949–2017), director and author
- Volker Einrauch (* 1950), screenwriter, film director and film producer
- Andreas Griewank (* 1950), mathematician
- Harald Kimpel (* 1950), art historian
1951 to 1960
- Wau Holland (1951-2001), journalist and computer activist
- Norbert Rehrmann (1951–2010), professor for Hispanic cultural studies
- Carola Sachse (* 1951), historian
- Hans-Joachim Schalles (1951–2015), classical archaeologist and museum educator
- Karlheinz Viereck (* 1951), Lieutenant General in the Air Force of the German Armed Forces
- Hans Otfried Dittmer (1952–2018), writer and publisher
- Bernd Koberstein (* 1952), clergyman
- Hubert Lenz (* 1952), philosopher and theologian
- Gernot Schwaiger (* 1952), visual artist, lithographer, draftsman and sculptor
- Jürgen Stephan (* 1952), athletics trainer
- Thomas Wollny (* 1952), major general in the German Air Force
- Michael Kellner (* 1953), German publisher and translator
- Michael Friedrich Vogt (* 1953), journalist and author
- Stefan Wolfschütz (* 1953), author and theologian
- Brigitte Zypries (* 1953), politician
- Johann-Dietrich Wörner (* 1954), civil engineer and CEO of DLR
- Wolfgang Decker (* 1955), politician
- Thomas Gerwin (* 1955), composer, sound artist and musicologist
- Ulrike Hessler (1955–2012), author, journalist and artistic director of the Dresden Semperoper
- Manfred Kleimann (* 1955), journalist, inventor of the magazine Current Software Market
- Rudolf Küster (1955–2012), weightlifter and strength athlete
- Karin Mathes (* 1955), politician
- Wolrad Rommel (* 1955), legal scholar
- Ralf Salzmann (* 1955), long-distance runner
- Jörg-Uwe Hahn (* 1956), politician
- Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt (* 1956), television producer, journalist and manager
- Peer Schröder (1956–2019), poet
- Beate Schücking (* 1956), doctor and university professor
- Horst Seidenfaden (* 1956), journalist and writer
- Christian Somogyi (* 1956), Mayor of Stadtallendorf
- Christoph Eichhorn (* 1957), actor and director
- Dietlind Grabe-Bolz (* 1957), musician, educator and politician
- Franziska Grasshoff (1957–1999), actress
- Ulrike Haage (* 1957), pianist, sound artist, composer and radio play author
- Stefan Hunstein (* 1957), actor and photo artist
- Holger Poppenhäger (* 1957), lawyer and politician
- Harald Schumann (* 1957), author, journalist and graduate engineer
- Margit Hellwig-Bötte (* 1958), diplomat
- Raymond Ley (* 1958), author, film and television director
- Michael Pietsch (* 1958), physician and politician
- Frank Sauter (* 1958), politician
- Antje Siebrecht (1958–2013), visual artist
- Heinrich Werner (1958–2007), physician
- Heike Wiehle-Timm (* 1958), dramaturge and film producer
- Sonja Deuter (* 1959), politician
- Matthias Morgenstern (* 1959), Professor of Jewish Studies and Religious Studies
- Kai J. Sasse (1959–2012), writer
- Christof Wöll (* 1959), physicist and physical chemist
- Claudia Jakobshagen (* 1960), actress and speaker
- Rainer Lippe (* 1960), ice hockey official and entrepreneur
- Matthias Schubert (* 1960), jazz musician
1961 to 1970
- Wolfgang David (* 1961), prehistoric
- Gerdum Enders (* 1961), design manager and university professor
- Ulrike Folkerts (* 1961), actress
- Matthias Heine (* 1961), journalist and author
- Anja Lechner (* 1961), cellist
- Torsten Müller (* 1961), agricultural scientist
- Jan Stressenreuter (1961–2018), writer
- Jamal Tuschick (* 1961), writer, literary critic, journalist and publicist
- Andreas-Peter Weber (* 1961), head of radio program
- Bernd Wedemeyer-Kolwe (* 1961; born Bernd Wedemeyer ), sports scientist and folklorist
- Martina Werner (* 1961), politician (SPD), MEP
- Achim Kleinlein (* 1962), tenor, oratorio and opera singer
- Eva Kühne-Hörmann (* 1962), politician
- Karin Müller (* 1962), politician
- Thomas Noll (* 1962), art historian
- Manfred Sapper (* 1962), political scientist and editor-in-chief
- Christina Schindler (* 1962), film director, screenwriter and film producer
- Oliver Stokowski (* 1962), actor
- Bernd Sturmfels (* 1962), mathematician
- Gerhard Wagner , legal scholar
- Frank Williges (* 1962), politician
- Jose Alvarez-Brill (* 1963), musician, composer and producer
- Mo Asumang (* 1963), actress, singer, television presenter, director and voice actress
- Sabine Kacunko (* 1963), artist
- Thomas Kiesewetter (* 1963), sculptor and painter
- Dirk Ofner (1963–2008), Austrian writer
- Thomas Fuchs (* 1964), author and journalist
- Andreas Käckell (* 1964), sports journalist
- Stefan Schreiter (* 1964), entrepreneur
- Birgitt Austermühl (* 1965), soccer player
- Cyrill Berndt (* 1965), actor and comedian
- Beate Lakotta (* 1965), journalist and book author
- Rüdiger Schäfer (* 1965), entrepreneur and author
- Claudia Schick (* 1965), TV presenter
- Tim Staffel (* 1965), writer and theater director
- Andreas Hieke (* 1966), television journalist
- Tizian Jost (* 1966), jazz musician
- Hans Henning Paar (* 1966), dancer and choreographer
- Martin Strege (* 1966), athlete
- Mark Weinmeister (* 1967), politician
- Sandra Dahlke (* 1968), historian
- Chris Hülsbeck (* 1968), musician
- Elmar Kühling (* 1968), theater, television and film actor
- Reinhard Staupe (* 1968), game designer
- Johannes Tolle (* 1968), conductor and entrepreneur
- Erdmute Prautzsch (* 1969), artist
- Thomas Pfannkuch (* 1970), soccer player and coach
1971 to 1980
- Matthias Berninger (* 1971), politician
- Mirko Dickhaut (* 1971), soccer player and coach
- Steffen Hallaschka (* 1971), radio and television presenter
- Fabian Krüger (* 1971), theater and film actor
- Carsten Lakies (* 1971), soccer player
- Michael Mason (* 1971), football player
- Danja Müsch (* 1971), volleyball and beach volleyball player
- André Schubert (* 1971), football coach
- Simon Zimbardo (* 1971), drummer and music teacher
- Malte Herwig (* 1972), journalist, writer and literary critic
- Karsten Wendland (* 1972), computer scientist and professor
- Andreas Büttner (* 1973), politician
- Oliver Gerke (* 1973), artist
- Mario Kotaska (* 1973), cook
- Sascha Mersch (* 1973), pianist, singer and composer
- Sandra Richter (* 1973), literary and political scientist
- Markus Berger (* 1974), book author
- Stella Luncke (* 1974), journalist, author and radio play director
- Norman Cöster (* 1975), author, actor and director
- Maxim Mehmet (* 1975), actor
- Yvonne Ransbach (* 1975), TV presenter
- Florian Rentsch (* 1975), politician
- Björn Sänger (* 1975), politician
- Daniel Drechsel-Grau (* 1976), director
- Stephan Emig (* 1976), drummer
- Christopher Posch (* 1976), lawyer and television actor
- Olaf Saumer (* 1976), film director, screenwriter and producer
- Christian Weidner (* 1976), jazz saxophonist and composer
- Ira Atari (* 1977), musician
- Thorsten Bauer (* 1977), soccer player
- Jan Decker (* 1977), writer
- Ömer Erdoğan (* 1977), football player
- Daniel Falb (* 1977), writer
- Andrea Harder (* 1977), basketball player
- Robot Koch (* 1977), music producer
- Özcan Çetinkaya (* 1978), Turkish boxer
- Moritz Führmann (* 1978), actor
- Boris Klabunde (* 1978), guitarist, singer and songwriter
- Benjamin P. Lange (* 1978), psychologist and media expert
- Mehmet Göker (* 1979), entrepreneur, founder of MEG AG
- Anna Hoffmann (* 1980), visual artist
- Martina Müller (* 1980), soccer player
- Manuela Strube (* 1980), politician
From 1981
- Sandra Hochhuth (* 1981), television presenter and journalist
- Friederike Lohrer (* 1982), actress and voice actress
- Johann Rappenglück (* 1982), cook
- Jana Volkmann (* 1983), author
- Lasse Becker (* 1983), politician (FDP)
- Annika Mehlhorn (* 1983), swimmer
- Meryem Uzerli (* 1983), Turkish-German actress
- Manuel Klinge (* 1984), ice hockey player
- Katharina Küpper (* 1985), actress
- Halit Yozgat (1985-2006), last victim of the NSU series of murders
- Martin Stahlberg (* 1985), soccer player
- Sebastian Zinke (* 1985), soccer player
- Nejmeddin Daghfous (* 1986), football player
- Özer Hurmacı (* 1986), German-Turkish soccer player
- Alexander Heinrich (* 1987), ice hockey player
- Rebekka Knoll (* 1988), writer
- Pamela Dutkiewicz (* 1991), track and field athlete
- Philipp Dausch (* 1992), musician ( Milky Chance )
- Laura Hottenrott (* 1992), long-distance runner
- Tim Knipping (* 1992), soccer player
- Lea (* 1992), musician
- Yunus Malli (* 1992), soccer player
- Clemens Rehbein (* 1992), musician ( Milky Chance )
- Carolin Simon (* 1992), soccer player
- Marvin Friedrich (* 1995), soccer player
- Marc Stendera (* 1995), soccer player
- Noah Aghas (* 1996), basketball player
- Dennis Wagner (* 1997), chess player
People who worked in Kassel
People who worked in Kassel at least temporarily but were not born there:
To 1900
- Jost Bürgi , born February 28, 1558 in Toggenburg; † January 31, 1632 in Kassel, astronomer
- Heinrich Schütz , born October 8, 1585 in Köstritz; † November 6, 1672 in Dresden, composer
- Theophilus Neuberger , born May 5, 1593 in Jena; † January 9, 1656 in Kassel, reformed theologian and clergyman, long-time court preacher and superintendent of Kassel
- Paul du Ry , * 1640 in Paris; † 1714 in Kassel, builder and engineer
- Nikolaus Wilhelm Goddaeus , born March 21, 1646 in Marburg; † April 2, 1719 in Kassel, 1695–1719 Chancellor of the landgrave government of Hesse-Kassel
- Philipp Otto Vietor , born March 24, 1646 in Rinteln; † January 1, 1718 in Kassel, reformed theologian and superintendent
- Denis Papin , born August 22, 1647 in Blois; † 1712 (?), Physicist
- Johann Tennhardt , born June 2, 1661 in Dobergast; † 1720 in Kassel, inspired visionary
- Leonhard Heinrich Ludwig Georg von Canngießer , born May 22, 1716 in Wetzlar; † May 29, 1772 in Kassel, President of the Higher Appeal Court, head of the Oberpostdirektion
- Johann Rudolph Anton Piderit , born August 18, 1720 in Pyrmont; † August 2, 1791 in Kassel, Protestant theologian, clergyman and university professor at the Collegium Carlinum
- Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder , born October 3, 1722 in Haina; † August 22, 1789 in Kassel, painter (called "the Kasseler")
- Johann Heinrich Müntz , * 1727 in Mülhausen in Alsace, † 1798 in Kassel, garden architect
- Johann Wilhelm Christian Gustav Casparson , born September 7, 1729 in Gießen, † September 3, 1802 in Kassel, writer, historian and university professor in Kassel, member of the founding board of directors of the Friedrichsgymnasium and Hessian council
- Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Younger , born November 28, 1742 in Haina; † December 22, 1808 in Kassel, painter and engraver
- Ludwig Daniel Heyd , born February 7, 1743 in Hellingen; † 1801 in Kassel, court sculptor
- Wilhelm Böttner , born February 24, 1752 in Ziegenhain; † November 24, 1805 in Kassel, painter and director of the Kassel Art Academy
- Philipp Jacob Piderit * August 20, 1753 in Marburg, † May 2, 1817 in Kassel, personal physician to Elector Wilhelm I of Hessen-Kassel
- Johann Georg Adam Forster , born November 27, 1754 in Nassenhuben near Danzig; † January 10, 1794 in Paris, naturalist
- Dorothea Viehmann , born November 8, 1755 in Kirchbauna; † November 17, 1815 in Kassel, market woman and storyteller
- Hans Adolph Friedrich von Eschstruth , born January 28, 1756 in Homberg (Efze); † April 30, 1792 in Kassel, court judge, music writer and composer
- Franz Karl Schleicher , born February 5, 1756 in Rinteln; † January 23, 1815 in Kassel, war scientist and geodesist, military teacher, surveyor inspector and academician in Kassel
- Philippine Engelhard , born October 21, 1756 in Nuremberg; † September 28, 1831 in Blankenburg, poet
- Georg Christian Carl Henschel , born April 24, 1759 in Giessen; † June 2, 1835 in Kassel, founder of the Henschel works
- Salomon Friedrich Merkel , born February 13, 1760 in Schmalkalden; † February 21, 1823 in Kassel, notary and defense lawyer
- Christian Friedrich von Cochenhausen , born December 17, 1769 in Eschwege; † March 8, 1839 in Kassel, Minister of War and Lieutenant General under Elector Wilhelm II.
- Joseph Antoine Morio , born January 16, 1771 in Chantelle; † December 25, 1811 in Kassel, General, Count and Minister of War of the Kingdom of Westphalia; was murdered in Kassel
- Wilhelmine Halberstadt , born January 24, 1776 in Korbach; † March 11, 1841 in Kassel, teacher and writer
- Elard Johannes Kulenkamp , born November 30, 1777 in Witzenhausen; † June 15, 1851 in Kassel, judge at the Higher Appeal Court in Kassel
- Louis Spohr , born April 5, 1784 in Braunschweig; † October 22, 1859 in Kassel, composer
- Jérôme Bonaparte , born November 15, 1784 in Ajaccio; † June 24, 1860 in the Château de Vilgénis, Massy; ruled his kingdom of Westphalia between 1807 and 1813 from Kassel and founded the first parliament on German soil here
- Jacob Grimm , born January 4, 1785 in Hanau; † September 20, 1863 in Berlin, literary scholar
- Wilhelm Grimm , born February 24, 1786 in Hanau; † December 16, 1859 in Berlin, literary scholar
- Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring , born January 28, 1755 in Thorn; † March 2, 1830 in Frankfurt am Main, doctor, anatomist, anthropologist, paleontologist and inventor
- Ludwig Grimm , born March 14, 1790 in Hanau; † April 4, 1863 in Kassel, painter and engraver
- Karl Carvacchi , born August 23, 1791 in Braunsberg; † May 10, 1869 in Kassel, administrative officer, historian, entrepreneur and member of the Schönfelder Kreis
- Karl Schomburg , born October 11, 1791 in Grebenstein; † July 4, 1841 in Mihla, Mayor of Kassel
- Maximilian von Ditfurth , born May 10, 1806 in Munich; † August 8, 1861 in Marburg, Elector of Hesse officer and military historian, member of the Electorate of Hesse assembly of estates; first honorary citizen of the city of Kassel
- Ernst Koch , born June 3, 1807 in Singlis near Borken (Hesse); † November 24, 1858 in Luxembourg, writer
- Sigmund Aschrott , born June 14, 1826 in Hochheim am Main; † May 5, 1915 in Berlin, industrialist, developed the Kassel Vorderen West
- Philipp Bickel , born September 29, 1829 in Weinheim; † November 9, 1914 in Kassel, writer, Baptist theologian and publicist
- Marie Calm * April 3, 1832 in Bad Arolsen; † February 22, 1887 in Kassel, writer, pedagogue and women's rights activist
- Ludwig Mohr , born February 10, 1833 in Homberg an der Efze; † July 13, 1900 in Wehlheiden, writer and historian
- Karl Begas , born November 23, 1845 in Berlin; † February 21, 1916 Köthen, sculptor and professor at the Kassel Art Academy
- Hermann Schelenz , born April 9, 1848 in Kempen, Province of Posen; † September 28, 1922 in Kassel, pharmacist, industrialist and pharmaceutical historian
- Heinrich Salzmann , born February 3, 1851 in Spangenberg; † November 3, 1915 in Kassel, factory owner, founder of Salzmann & Comp. and builder of the garden city of Salzmannshausen
- Julie von Kästner , born September 26, 1852 in Riga; † February 13, 1937 in Kassel, educator, women's rights activist and in 1919 one of the first six women elected to the city council of Kassel
- Elisabeth Ganslandt , b. Hasse, born May 21, 1856 in Weißenfels; † December 9, 1945 in Einbeck, women's rights activist and in 1919 one of the first six women elected to the city council of Kassel
- Max Lieberg , born July 22, 1856 in Wolfhagen; † August 10, 1912 in Kassel, painter
- Wilhelm II. , Born January 27, 1859 in Berlin; † June 4, 1941 in Doorn, Netherlands, last German Emperor; attended the Kassel high school from 1874 to 1877 and spent the summer months from 1891 to 1918 in his residence at Wilhelmshöhe Palace
- Gustav Mahler , born July 7, 1860 in Kalischt, Bohemia; † May 18, 1911 in Vienna, composer and conductor; as Kapellmeister in Kassel from 1883 to 1885
- Wilhelm Speck , born July 7, 1861 in Großalmerode; † March 31, 1925 in Bad Wilhelmshöhe, pastor, poet and writer
- Johanna Vogt , born June 16, 1862 in Elberfeld; † March 12, 1944 in Berlin, suffragette and from 1919 the first woman on the city council of Kassel
- Albert Wilhelm Heinrich of Prussia , born August 14, 1862 in Berlin; † April 20, 1929 in Hemmelmark; Attendance at the Kassel high school
- Elisabeth Consbruch , born January 7, 1863 in Altenkirchen (Westerwald); † May 20, 1938 in Kassel, teacher and women's rights activist and in 1919 one of the first six women elected to the city council of Kassel.
- Rudolf Schwander , born December 23, 1868 in Colmar, Alsace; † December 25, 1950 in Oberursel, Taunus, social reformer and politician
- Karl Heldmann , born September 19, 1869 in Viermünden; † March 12, 1943 in Kassel, historian and pacifist
- Albert Wiegel , born December 7, 1869 in Ziegenhagen; † October 22, 1943 in Kassel, glass artist
- Paul Heidelbach , born February 28, 1870 in Düsseldorf; † February 13, 1954 in Kassel, writer, city archivist and librarian, well-known Kassel dialect poet
- Richard Hauschildt , born November 12, 1876 in Hamburg; † December 6, 1934 in Kassel, politician
- August Fricke (politician) , born November 7, 1880 in Segeste; † July 29, 1965, politician and educator
- Hermann Schaff , born December 2, 1883 in Langenstein; † June 2, 1959; Co-founder of the CJZ-Kassel
- Siegmund Weltlinger , born March 29, 1886 in Hamburg; † May 18, 1974 in Berlin, politician, grew up in Kassel
- Karl Weinrich , born December 2, 1887 in Molmeck; † July 22, 1973 in Hausen (Hesse), from 1928 to 1943 NSDAP Gauleiter of Kurhessen
- Roland Freisler * October 30, 1893 in Celle; † February 3, 1945 in Berlin, lawyer and later President of the “People's Court”; opened a law firm in Kassel in 1924, where he was also a city councilor
- Ludwig Schneider , born December 20, 1893 in Obermöllrich; † February 26, 1977 in Kassel, politician, judge and lawyer
- Gerhard Fieseler , born April 15, 1896 in Glesch; † September 1, 1987 in Kassel, founder of the Gerhard Fieseler works, aircraft designer and fighter pilot
- Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau , also FW Murnau, * December 28, 1888 as Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe in Bielefeld; † March 11, 1931 in Santa Barbara, California, film director; School time in Kassel
From 1901
- Rudolf Caracciola , born January 30, 1901 in Remagen; † September 28, 1959 in Kassel, automobile racing driver; Participant in the Kassel Mountain Prize in the 1920s
- Richard Roosen , born October 13, 1901 in Hamburg; † March 2, 1980 in Kassel, mechanical engineer and director at the Henschel works in Kassel
- Karl Vötterle , born April 12, 1903 in Augsburg; † October 29, 1975 in Kassel, founder of the Kassler Bärenreiter publishing house
- Karl Gerland , born July 14, 1905 in Gottsbüren; † 1945 on the Eastern Front, NSDAP Gauleiter of Kurhessen
- Samuel Beckett , born April 13, 1906 in Dublin; † December 22, 1989 in Paris, Nobel Prize for Literature; numerous extended stays with the family of his cousin from 1928 to 1932, in the novel he Dream of Fair to Middling Women processed
- Adam von Trott zu Solz , born August 9, 1909 in Potsdam; † August 26, 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee, diplomat and resistance fighter in the Third Reich
- Lauritz Lauritzen , born January 20, 1910 in Plön; † June 5, 1980 in Bad Honnef, Mayor of Kassel (1954–1963)
- Hedwig Grimm , born February 20, 1910 in Frankfurt am Main; † September 8, 2003 in Kassel, rose expert
- Wernt Grimm , * 1912; † March 8, 2000 in Kassel, rose expert
- Otto Heinrich Kühner , born March 10, 1921 in Nimburg, † October 18, 1996 in Kassel, German writer
- Christine Brückner , born December 10, 1921 in Schmillinghausen near Arolsen, † December 21, 1996 in Kassel, writer, lived with her husband Otto Heinrich Kühner in Kassel.
- Lucius Burckhardt , born March 12, 1925 in Davos; † August 26, 2003 in Basel, founder of promenadology
- Karl Oskar Blase , born March 24, 1925 in Cologne; † December 27, 2016 in Kassel, graphic designer and professor at the Kassel Art Academy
- Hans Georg Hillmann , born October 25, 1925 in Nieder-Mois, Silesia; † May 4, 2014 in Frankfurt am Main, graphic designer and professor at the Kassel Art Academy
- Wolfgang Zucht , born January 30, 1929 in Berlin; † September 17, 2015 in Kassel, publisher and publicist; together with his wife Helga Weber (* 1935), who was born in Kassel, founder and operator of the anarcho-pacifist publishing house Weber & Zucht based in Kassel
- Josef Klik , born January 30, 1935 in Kottiken; † April 8, 2020 in Petersberg, athlete and multiple German champion
- Hans Haacke , born August 12, 1936 in Cologne, artist; studied and worked in Kassel from 1956 to 1960
- Jörg Schönbohm , born September 2, 1937 in Neu-Golm; † February 7, 2019 in Kleinmachnow, politicians and military; lived in Kassel as a child and teenager
- Rolf Schwendter , born August 13, 1939 in Vienna; † July 21, 2013 in Kassel, writer and social scientist, professor at the University of Kassel
- Otto Sander , born June 30, 1941 in Hanover; † September 12, 2013 in Berlin, actor; Grew up in Kassel and completed general university entrance qualification
- Hannes Wader , born June 23, 1942 in Bethel near Bielefeld, songwriter and singer; has lived in Kassel since 2008
- Antje Vollmer , born May 31, 1943 in Lübbecke, Vice-President of the German Bundestag (1994-2005)
- Gerd Loßdörfer , born October 7, 1943 in Nordhausen, athlete
- Horst Ebert , born October 10, 1943 in Schrecksbach, † October 12, 2014 in Kassel, musician (The Petards)
- Michael Buthe , born August 1, 1944 in Sonthofen, † November 15, 1994 in Bad Godesberg, painter and sculptor; studied in Kassel
- Horst Hoheisel , born December 6, 1944 in Posen, artist, lives in Kassel
- Adolf Winkelmann , born April 10, 1946 in Hallenberg, director and founder of the Kassel film collective
- Urs Lüthi , born September 10, 1947 in Kriens, Switzerland, artist and professor at the Kassel Art Academy
- Kazuo Katase , * 1947 in Shizuoka, artist; has lived in Kassel since 1975
- Bernd Wippich , born January 13, 1950 in Hof (Saale), † March 31, 2004 in Klagenfurt, musician (Randy Pie, The Petards)
- Martin Kippenberger , born February 25, 1953 in Dortmund; † March 7, 1997 in Vienna, artist and lecturer at the Kassel Art School
- Kornelia Scholz , * 1953 in Eberstadt; † May 2, 1991 in Regensburg, musician (yes)
- Hans Dieter Tylle , born March 24, 1954 in Bayreuth, artist; lives and works u. a. in Kassel
- Bernhard Lauer , * 1954 in Britten, Museum Director Brothers Grimm Museum Kassel
- Jürgen O. Olbrich , born November 25, 1955 in Bielefeld, artist
- Andreas Jürgens , born November 14, 1956 in Salzgitter, green politician and member of the Hessian state parliament
- Stephan Balkenhol , born February 10, 1957 in Fritzlar, wood sculptor; Grew up in Kassel, graduated from Friedrichsgymnasium
- Murat Günak , born August 9, 1957 in Istanbul, head of the Volkswagen design department from 2004 to January 2007; studied in Kassel
- Barbara Rudnik , born July 27, 1958 in Wehbach; † May 23, 2009 in Wolfratshausen, actress; grew up in Kassel
- Matthias Altenburg , born December 14, 1958 in Fulda, writer (under the name Jan Seghers author of detective novels); went to school in Kassel
- Hamid Baroudi , born February 20, 1960 in Tiaret, Algeria, musician
- Dieter Hecking , born September 12, 1964 in Castrop-Rauxel, soccer player and trainer; played in Kassel from 1985 to 1990
- Markus "Zimbl" Zimmer , born October 7, 1964 in Eschwege; † June 18, 2006 in Kassel, musician (The Bates)
- Hartmut El Kurdi , born October 15, 1964 in Amman, writer and theater maker; grew up in Kassel
- Lothar Sippel , born May 9, 1965 in Göttingen, soccer player and coach, played in Kassel from 1985 to 1989
- Christina Lux , born May 26, 1965 in Karlsruhe, musician
- Thomas Stellmach , born July 21, 1965 in Straubing, Oscar winner
- Brezel Göring , * 1967 in Wolfhagen, musician (Stereo Total); lived in Kassel from 1985 to 1988
- Jens Kloppmann , * 1969 in Witten, artist; studied in Kassel
- Anant Kumar , born September 28, 1969 in Katihar / Bihar, German writer of Indian origin; lives in Kassel
- Michael Spörke * July 14, 1972 in Eisenach, political scientist, writer and disability politician
- Aljoscha Stadelmann * 1974 in Wuppertal, actor; Abitur in Kassel, 1999 to 2001 engagement at the state theater in Kassel
- Katharina Wackernagel , born October 15, 1978 in Freiburg im Breisgau, actress; spent her school days in Kassel from 1983 to 1996
- Lucy Redler , born August 17, 1979 in Hann. Münden, politician (SAV); grew up in Kassel
- Nicole Maisch , born April 20, 1981 in Hanau, green politician and member of the German Bundestag
- Carl Jakob Haupt , born December 18, 1984 in Hofgeismar, † April 19, 2019 in Bad Saarow; Blogger; grew up and student in Kassel