List of personalities of the city of Siegen

This list of personalities contains people who have a special relationship with the city of Siegen in North Rhine-Westphalia . These include those made honorary citizens, as well as famous people who were born in Siegen or have a significant connection to Siegen.

Honorary citizen

The city of Siegen and its incorporated districts (in brackets) have granted the following people honorary citizenship:

1887: Heinrich von Achenbach (1829–1899), Upper President of the Province of Brandenburg
1891: Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), Reich Chancellor
1933: Paul von Hindenburg (1847–1934), Field Marshal General and President
1933: Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), Führer and Reich Chancellor ¹ (disallowed)
1951: Eduard Schneider-Davids (1896–1970), (Eiserfeld), building officer and local writer
1953: Alfred Fissmer (1878–1966), retired Lord Mayor D.
1957: Carl-Wilhelm Dresler (1877–1971) (Eiserfeld), mining assessor and entrepreneur
1961: Wilhelm Meißner (1891–1962) (Niederschelden), mayor 1946–1952
1961: Albert Schneider (Niederschelden), entrepreneur
1970: Karl Barich (1901–1995) (Hüttental), Chairman of the Board of Steelworks South Westphalia
1970: Josef Höfer (1896–1976) (Hüttental), Catholic prelate
1970: Otto Krasa (1890–1972) (Eiserfeld), teacher and local researcher
1972: Heinrich Adolf Müller (1882–1973) (Eiserfeld), mayor
2002: Barbara Lambrecht-Schadeberg , patron of culture and art

¹In the opinion of the City Council of Siegen, the honorary citizenship granted to Adolf Hitler by British military law expired after the Second World War. Due to repeated political discussions, it was also posthumously revoked after a citizen's application by resolution of the city council on August 29, 2007. Since the 1980s, several attempts by citizens to posthumously withdraw honorary citizenship had been rejected in the city council.

sons and daughters of the town

(The following personalities were born in Siegen. The list is made chronologically according to year of birth. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity in Siegen is irrelevant)

Until 1800

Nikolaus von Siegen (before 1450 - 1495), Benedictine, historian
Josef Horlenius (around 1460 - 1521), humanist and poet
Heinrich Schickhardt the Elder (1464 - 23 August 1540), picture carver and cabinet maker
Henry III. von Nassau (1483–1538), Count of Nassau and Lord of Breda
Tilemann Stella (1525–1589), Renaissance scholar and librarian, mathematician, geometer, cartographer and astronomer
Henrich Schickhartt (around 1540 - after 1606), court master of the Keppel monastery near Siegen
Jacob Schickhart the Elder (around 1565 - 1637 at the latest), Siegen lawyer in the service of the Nassau counts
Christine von Diez (1571–1637 / 38), youngest daughter of Princess Anna of Saxony
Philip Rubens (1574–1611), archaeologist, philologist and the older brother of Peter Paul Rubens
Martin Neurath (1575–1637), professor of philosophy in Herborn, councilor and bailiff in Siegen and Diez
Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), baroque painter
Martin Schickhard the Elder (1579–1636), German law professor in Herborn and Deventer
Philipp Christoph Schickhard (around 1580 - before 1672), court master of the Keppel monastery, councilor and mayor of Siegen
Jacob Schickhart (1584–1664), land clerk and representative of the Dutch province of Drente
Hermann Ravensberger (1586–1625), Protestant theologian, university professor a. a. in Herborn and Steinfurt, died in Groningen
Martin Schickhard (after 1590 - before 1657), bailiff in Beilstein, lawyer in Frankfurt am Main, Nassau witch commissioner in Freudenberg
Agidius Schickhard (1601/02 - after 1650), lawyer in Speyer, professor of ethics and law and rector of the high school in Herborn
Johann Heinrich Bisterfeld (1605–1655), philosopher, polyhistor
Johann Heinrich Lorsbach (1620–1697), Stadtschöppe and Mayor of Siegen
Daniel Flender (1665–1723), Jesuit and theologian
Friedrich Flender von der Hardt (1674–1707), Siegerland freedom fighter, executed by Wilhelm Hyacinth von Nassau-Siegen (1666–1743) in Siegen
Georg Wilhelm Henning (1676–1750), German-Russian engineer, designer, officer and organizer; Baptized in Siegen in 1676
Johann Matthias Florin (1680–1751), professor at the High School in Herborn
Franz Hunolt (1691–1746), Jesuit, theologian
Johann Hermann Grimm (1704–1782), pastor in Siegen
Johann Georg Achenbach (1706–1776), Mayor of Siegen
Johann Heinrich Lorsbach (1712–1794), Princely Orange-Nassau Privy Councilor of Justice and Director of the Justice Chancellery in Dillenburg and chief judge in Orange-Nassau
Adolf Albert Dresler (1713–1787), manufacturer
Johann Franz Coing (1725–1792), Protestant theologian, philosopher, librarian
Ludwig Carl Franz Leopold zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein (1731–1799), ruling imperial prince and art patron
Heinrich Adolph Grimm (1747-1813), orientalist
Matthias Langer (1765–1833), manufacturer and author
Adolph Albert Dresler (1781–1846), manufacturer and politician
Heinrich Fölzer (1782–1861), entrepreneur
Wilhelm Adolf Diesterweg (1782–1835), mathematician
Franz Joseph Musset (1786–1859), President of the Higher Appeal Court in Wiesbaden
Johann Heinrich Weisgerber (1787–1868), father of Pietism in Siegerland
Adolph Diesterweg (1790–1866), important pedagogue and pioneer of reform pedagogy
Leonhard Gläser (1797–1875), industrialist and philanthropist

1801 to 1850

Jakob Hermann Daub (1805–1847), theologian, writer and general superintendent in Münster
Jacob Holzklau (1806–1866), leather manufacturer and politician
Wilhelm Oechelhäuser (1820–1902), industrialist, politician and founder of the German Shakespeare Society
Jakob Scheiner (1820–1911), painter
Adolf Kreutz (1822–1895), entrepreneur
Heinrich Ludwig Buff (1828–1872), chemist
Friedrich Stolz (1829–1897), trades at the Reinhold Forster Erbstollen
Ferdinand Ernst Wilhelm Karl Frh. Von Dörnberg (1833–1902), Lieutenant General
Heinrich Adolf Dresler (1835–1929), entrepreneur, politician
Louis Ernst (1839–1900), member of the German Reichstag
Joseph Anton Friedrich August Freiherr von Hövel (1842–1917), politician, district administrator in Essen and district president in Koblenz
Friedrich Johann Reusch (1843–1906), sculptor
Carl Schnabel (1843–1914), mining scientist
Heinrich Ludwig Boerner (1846–1916), educator
Jacob Heinzerling (1846–1941), local and dialect researcher
Heinrich Wilhelm Dresler (1849–1929), industrialist
Aloys Carl Pietz (1849–1881), Mayor of Steele
Heinrich Haas (1850–1929), industrialist

1851 to 1900

Wilhelm Scheiner (1852–1922), painter
Heinrich Carl Friedrich Kreutz (1854–1907), astronomer and editor of the "Astronomische Nachrichten"
Rudolf Weber (1856–1932), entrepreneur
Karl Hartmann (1857–1910), teacher and native and dialect poet
Adolf (Johann Heinrich) Schenck (1857–1936), geographer and naturalist
Johann Heinrich (Rudolf) Schenk (1860–1927), botanist
Wilhelm Stolz (1860–1954), owner of the " Alter Hammer " rolling mill
Max (Ludwig Paul) Blanckenhorn (1861–1947), geologist
Fritz Schenck (1862–1916), physiologist
Karl von Dörnberg (1863–1929), district administrator, secret councilor and member of the state parliament
Karl Kippenberger (1868–1937), pharmacist and chemist
Eduard Schneider-Davids (1869–1970), building officer and author
Heinrich Krauße (1871–1934), Reich judge
Martin (Adolf Friedrich) Schenck (1876–1960), physiologist and chemist
Hermann Reuter (1880–1970), linguist and librarian
Luise Beccard-Blensdorf (1881–1956), local poet
Ewald Sauer (1881–1957), politician
Walter Delius (1884–1945), civil servant, politician
Otto Luyken (1884–1953), gardener
Hermann Klingspor (1885–1969), entrepreneur and politician
Bernhard Salzmann (1886–1959), 1945–1954 Governor of the Westphalia Provincial Association, 1953–1954 first director of the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association
Fritz Fries (1887–1967), social democratic politician, member of the Prussian state parliament, district president in Arnsberg
Karl Loewenstein (1887 – after 1945), banker and survivor of the Holocaust
Eugen Kirch (1888–1973), pathologist
Fritz Busch (1890–1951), conductor, director of the Württ. State Theater, general music director of the German State Opera
Albrecht Kippenberger (1890–1980), art historian
Adolf Busch (1891–1952), composer, violinist
Erich Fliegner (1891–1971), teacher, choirmaster
Johannes Goebel (1891–1952), chemist
Otto Schwarz (1891–1964), local politician and Lord Mayor of Siegen
Hans-Heinrich Wurmbach (1891–1965), German naval officer, most recently admiral in World War II
Walter Krämer (1892–1941), locksmith, member of the KPD in the Prussian state parliament, imprisoned in 1933, prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp (“Doctor of Buchenwald”), Righteous Among the Nations
Willi Busch (1893–1951), actor
Adolf Haas (1893–1945), SS-Obersturmbannführer and the first camp commandant of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Heinrich Otto (1893–1983), District Administrator and Member of Parliament
Walther Becker (1894–1973), diplomat
Paul Giesler (1895–1945), NSDAP Gauleiter of Upper Bavaria and Prime Minister of Bavaria 1942–1945
Fritz Spruth (1895–1991), mine director and author
Michael Keller (1896–1961), Bishop of Münster 1947–1961
Heinrich Gontermann (1896–1917), fighter pilot in the First World War and knight of the Pour le Mérite order
Friedrich Middelhauve (1896–1966), politician ( FDP ), Member of the Bundestag , Member of the Bundestag ( North Rhine-Westphalia ), NRW State Minister for Economics and Transport, FDP State Chairman, founder of the Westdeutscher Verlag in Opladen. 2004 absorbed by VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Hermann Busch (1897–1975), cellist
Hermann Giesler (1898–1987), architect
Hermann Kuhmichel (1898–1965), artist
Hedwig Finger (1899–1974), politician and MdL

1901 to 1950

Heinrich Busch (1900–1929), pianist and composer
Walter Seelbach (1900–1970), politician and member of the state parliament
Erich Schneider (1900–1970), professor and economic theorist
Walter Döpp (1901–1963), botanist
Walter Heringlake (1901–1969), politician
Paul Spruth (1902–1971), teacher and Westphalian local poet
Charlotte Petersen (1904-1994), journalist
Fritz Peus (1904–1978), entomologist
Bernhard Weiß (1904–1973), manufacturer
Erich Hüttenhain (1905–1990), cryptologist
Lothar Irle (1905–1974), Siegerland local history researcher and writer
Hans-August Vowinckel (1906–1941), writer
Walter Thomas (1908–1970), writer, dramaturge, director of the Vienna State Opera
Ernst Achenbach (1909–1991), politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Friedrich Hartmann (1912–2000), painter
Ruth Dirx (1913–1994), author and educator
Edith Langner (1913–1986), politician and member of the state parliament, member of the City Council of Siegen 1952–1971
Hermann Manskopf (1913–1985), painter, art teacher and initiator of the excavation of the Ginsberg ruins ( Ginsburg )
Werner Böhmer (1915–2014), judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
Heinz Herrmann (1915–1996), track and field athlete
Hermann Flender (1918–2004), diplomat and ambassador in Addis Abbeba, Rwanda and Laos
Karl Ludwig Radenbach (also Charles Louis Radenbach) (1918–1986), pulmonologist
Hans Reinhardt (1920–1998), SPD politician, member of the state parliament and mayor of the city of Siegen
Hans-Georg Vitt (1923–1981), SPD state and local politician (MdL), mayor of Weidenau and Hüttental
EO Fuhrmann (1924–1986), actor
Wolfgang Kreutter (1924–1989), Wittgenstein sculptor with Siegen roots.
Fritz Raab (1925–2010), writer and radio editor , creator of the Taró comic series

Günter Büschges (1926–2017), sociologist and professor emeritus for sociology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Helmut Winter (1926–1983), organist and organologist

Manfred Otto (1927–2013), Baptist clergyman

Herbert Schäfer (1927–1991), national soccer player, later soccer coach

Walter Schneider (1927–2010), motorcycle racing driver

Gerhard Daub (1928–1993), politician

Friedemann Keßler (1928–1985), local politician and mayor of Siegen

Heinrich Vormweg (1928–2004), literary critic and radio author

Franz Klein (1929–2004), tax law scholar

Fritz Zimmermann (1929–2015), football player

Ulrich Heifer (1930–2018), university professor and forensic doctor
Günther Saßmannshausen (1930–2010), geologist and manager
Bernd Becher (1931–2007), photographer
Alfred Bellebaum (* 1931), sociologist
Charlotte Böhmer , married. Schmidt (* 1933), athlete
Karl Wilhelm Kirchhöfer (* 1933), SPD politician and mayor of the city of Siegen
Karl Kaiser (* 1934), political scientist
Gustav-Adolf Haas (1935–2013), politician and member of the state parliament
Friedrich Steinseifer (1935–2004), major general in the Bundeswehr
Klaus Müller (* 1936), Professor of History
Otfried Hofius (* 1937), Professor of Protestant Theology in Tübingen
Friedhelm Koch (* 1937), Brigadier General of the German Air Force
Walter Link (1937–2010), politician, member of the German Bundestag
Hannjost Lixfeld (1937–1998), folklorist and narrative researcher
Wolfgang Lück (1938–2020), economist and auditor
Hans Peter Althaus (* 1939), linguist
Loke Mernizka (* 1939), politician and member of the state parliament
Eckhard Schleifenbaum (1939–1981), entrepreneur and politician
Siegfried Schauzu (* 1939), motorcycle racer
Horst Schmidt-Böcking (* 1939), physicist
Ulf Stötzel (* 1939), Mayor of the city of Siegen 1999–2007
Heinfried Birlenbach (* 1940), track and field athlete and Olympic participant
Joachim Frank (* 1940), Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2017
Karin Tietze-Ludwig (* 1941), journalist and television announcer, until 2001 “Lottofee” on ARD
Hans Peter Mebold (1942–2001), organ builder
Wolfgang Marx (* 1943), psychologist
Rolf Stommelen (1943–1983), Formula 1 racing driver
Werner Stump (* 1943), district administrator of the Rhein-Erft district
Gerd Neuser (* 1945), football coach
Heinz Bonn (1947–1991), football player
Josef Clemens (* 1947), Curia Bishop and Secretary of the Pontifical Lay Council
Bernd Enders (* 1947), professor of systematic musicology
Dieter H. Stündel (* 1947), translator, journalist and local researcher
Detlev Arens (* 1948), freelance author and journalist
Hans Bode (1947–2008), engineering scientist
Ulrich Büdenbender (* 1948), lawyer
Karl-Friedrich Fischbach (* 1948), Professor of Biology
Fritz B. Simon (* 1948), psychiatrist
Bodo Meier (* 1949), painter and educator
Ulrich Langenbach (* 1950), artist
Klaus Scheer (* 1950), soccer player and coach

From 1951

Wolfgang H. Koch (* 1951), dentist
Wolfgang Neuser (* 1951), Rector of the YMCA University in Kassel, former General Secretary of the YMCA Association in Germany
Helga Rock (* 1951), politician, former member of the Bundestag
Helge Achenbach (* 1952), art advisor
Christoph Bode (* 1952), English and American studies
Reinhard Goebel (* 1952), baroque violinist
Detlef Wetzel (* 1952), trade unionist
Horst Afflerbach (* 1953), theologian
Martin Keßler (* 1953), filmmaker and television journalist
Rüdiger von Fritsch (* 1953), diplomat
Ulrich Bender (* 1954), artist
Frank Fürbeth (* 1954), philologist and university professor
Günter Helmes (* 1954), literary and media scholar, university professor
Walter Rosenthal (* 1954), doctor and professor
Gerhard Wagner (* 1954), non-fiction author
Horst Weller (* 1954), chemist
Hans-Hermann Hertle (* 1955), historian and publicist for contemporary history
Helga Schwarz-Schumann (* 1955), trade unionist and politician
Thomas Klein (* 1957), philologist and university professor
Annegret Kober (* 1957), swimmer
Bernward Koch (* 1957), musician
Dirk Metz (* 1957), State Secretary and Spokesman for the Hessian State Government
Stefan Born (1958–2015), football player
Uwe Helmes (* 1958), soccer player and soccer coach, father of Patrick Helmes
Burkhard Jung (* 1958), Lord Mayor of Leipzig
Jörn-Uwe Lommel (* 1958), handball player and trainer
Dieter Falk (* 1959), music producer, keyboard player, arranger and composer
Falk Heinrichs (* 1960), politician (SPD), 2012–2017 MdL North Rhine-Westphalia
Markus Hering (* 1960), actor and ensemble member at the Vienna Burgtheater
Volkmar Klein (* 1960), politician (Member of the Bundestag)
Andreas Knie (* 1960), social scientist
Matthias Kringe (* 1961), author and cartoonist " Dilldappen "
Peter Autschbach (* 1961), guitarist
Christian Frevel (* 1962), Roman Catholic theologian
Thomas Kohl (* 1962), fetal surgeon and university professor
Johannes Remmel (* 1962), politician
Anna Adam (* 1963), painter, set designer, qualified pedagogue and exhibition designer
Matthias Kitter (* 1963), television and theater director
Kerstin Müller (* 1963), politician
Frank Heinrich (* 1964), theologian and politician (Member of the Bundestag)
Maike Kohl-Richter (* 1964), economist, wife of former Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl
Torgen Schneider (* 1964), journalist and television presenter
Henning Zoz (* 1964), nanotechnologist and entrepreneur
Rolf Buch (* 1965), entrepreneur
Dirk Schweisfurth (* 1965), track and field athlete and Olympic participant
Tobias Gossmann (* 1965), conductor
Thomas Meurer (1966–2010), theologian and author
Mark-Stefan Tietze (* 1966), satirist and author
Arne Birkenstock (* 1967), author and director
Navid Kermani (* 1967), Islamic scholar and writer
Thoralf Klein (* 1967), historian and university professor
Petra Lobinger (* 1967), track and field athlete
Karsten Schul (* 1967), basketball player and trainer
Karin Wehn (* 1967), media scientist, curator and journalist
Hansjörg Weißbrich (* 1967), film editor
Jens Wöhrmann (* 1967), tennis player
Mehmet Daimagüler (* 1968), lawyer, columnist and book author
Stephan Joachim Kramer (* 1968), civil servant, President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Thuringia
Peter Stein (* 1968), Member of the Bundestag, urban planner and member of the Bundestag
Jochen Bohn (* 1969), philosopher
Jürgen Hövelmann (* 1969), writer
Gereon Klug (* 1969), writer, music critic, songwriter
Sandra Weeser (* 1969), politician (Member of the Bundestag)
Uwe Klein (* 1970), soccer player and coach
Crauss (* 1971), writer
Monika Meyer (* 1972), soccer player
Anna Kebschull (* 1973), politician
Milan Pešl (* 1974), actor
Marcus Brühl (1975–2015), poet and prose author
Markus Podzimek (* 1975), master confectioner
Katja Dörner (* 1976), politician
Anja Frisch (* 1976), writer
Cagatay Kilic (* 1976), Turkish Minister for Youth and Sport
Susanne Menzel-Riedl (* 1976), biology didactic
Tomislav Mužek (* 1976), opera singer, tenor
Thilo Schmidt (* 1976), journalist and radio author
Florian Schnorrenberg (* 1977), football coach
Juliane Sprenger (* 1977), track and field athlete and Olympic participant
Kerstin Szymkowiak (* 1977), skeleton skier and Olympic participant
Nadja Becker (* 1978), actress
Anna Angelina Wolfers (* 1978), actress
Sascha Bäcker (* 1979), soccer player
Martin Willmann (* 1979), soccer player
Sabrina Mockenhaupt (* 1980), track and field athlete and Olympic participant
Christina Zerbe (* 1980), soccer player
Nico Deppisch (* 1981), bassist
Jessica Göbel (* 1981), table tennis player
Alexandra Scheld (* 1981), table tennis player
Florian Kohfeldt (* 1982), soccer player and coach
Florian Kringe (* 1982), soccer player
Sebastian Kolb (* 1983), actor
Moritz Volz (* 1983), soccer player
Christian Dünnes (* 1984), national volleyball player
Sören Anders (* 1985), cook
Maike Seuren (* 1986), soccer player
Katharina Heinz (* 1987), skeleton pilot
Simon Herold (* 1987), handball goalkeeper
Steffen Mengel (* 1988), table tennis player
Lara Hoffmann (* 1991), track and field athlete, European team champion
Christian Nüchtern (* 1992), figure skater
Selim Gündüz (* 1994), soccer player
Jacqueline Lölling (* 1995), skeleton pilot, silver medal in Pyeongyang 2018
Luca Waldschmidt (* 1996), soccer player

Personalities who have worked on site

(The following personalities are or were in some way connected to Siegen. The listing is done chronologically according to year of birth.)

Until 1800

Heinrich Taube von Selbach († 1364), writer and Kapellan von Sankt Willibald in Eichstätt. He wrote a history of the emperor and the pope, which was translated and published by Georg Grandaur in 1883 .
Erasmus Sarcerius (1501–1559), rector of the Latin school, theologian and reformer
Wilhelm Knüttel (1510–1566), Count's Councilor, Magister
Johannes Piscator (1546–1625), theologian, rector of the Siegen Grafenschule and professor at the high school .
Johannes Althusius (1563–1638), constitutional lawyer and Calvinist political theorist
Erich Philipp Ploennies (1672–1751), mathematician, builder and cartographer
Johann Moritz (1604–1679), Prince of Nassau-Siegen, Dutch. Field Marshal, statesman
Carl Ludwig Heusler (1790–1851), Oberbergrat, co-entrepreneur of the Aurora Hut, director of the Siegener Bergschule 1830 to 1851
Peter Brüninghaus (1794–1865), early industrialist entrepreneur, landowner

1801 to 1900

Emma Goslar (1848–1923), local poet and lecturer
Gustav Eskuche (1865–1917), educator, writer and folk song collector. 1897–1900 teacher at the secondary school in Siegen (today: grammar school at Löhrtor)
Friedrich Flick (1883–1972), (young) entrepreneur in the Charlottenhütte Niederschelden (from 1912)
Ernst Weißelberg (1883–1972), local politician and Lord Mayor
Otto Krasa (1890–1972), teacher and prehistoric, honorary citizen of the city of Eiserfeld
Karl-Adolf Hollidt (1891–1985), officer and colonel general in the Wehrmacht
Therese Giehse (1898–1975), actress. For the theater season 1920/21 he got an engagement at the city theater in Siegen.
Walter Wilhelm August Thiemann (1898–1983), Protestant theologian
Lotte Friese-Korn (1899–1963), politician and member of the Bundestag

From 1901

Wilhelm Hesse (1901–1968), Lord Mayor of the City of Braunschweig (1933–1945)
Ernst Bach (1902–1965), Lord Mayor of Siegen from 1948 to 1956, Federal Treasurer of the CDU
Wilhelm Güthling (1906–1971), Siegen city archivist, author
Artur Woll (1923–2020), founding rector of the University of Siegen
Hans-Georg Vitt (1923–1981), SPD state and local politician (MDL), mayor of Weidenau and Hüttental
Waltraud Steinhauer (1925–2002), trade unionist and politician (Member of the Bundestag)
Hilde Fiedler (1919–2011), mayor from 1989 to 1994
Walter Helsper (1927–1992), painter and draftsman
Helmut Kreuzer (1927-2004), literary and media scholar (taught in Siegen 1972-1992)
Helge Pross (1927–1984), sociologist (taught in Siegen 1976–1983)
Botho Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (1927–2008), politician
Karl Riha (* 1935), literary scholar (taught in Siegen, 1975-2000)
Manfred Zabel (* 1938), theologian and student pastor
Gudrun Reinhardt (* 1939), politician and member of the state parliament
Rudolf Schwarte (* 1939), professor of communications engineering, head of the Institute for Communications Processing (INV) at the University of Siegen
Rainer Geißler (* 1939), sociologist, taught in Siegen
Joachim Frank (* 1940), German-American biophysicist, received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017 with Jacques Dubochet and Richard Henderson
Günter Schmidt (1940–2018), physician, author and editor
Gerd vom Bruch (* 1941), soccer player and coach, player and coach a. a. at a Siegen club
Dieter Bogatzki (1942–2000), track and field athlete, Olympic gold medalist over 800 meters in Tokyo in 1964 , co-world record holder of the 4 x 800 meter DLV relay in 1966
Albert H. Walenta (* 1943), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 1986, Rector of the University of Siegen 1997–2002
Ralf Schnell (* 1943), Rector of the University of Siegen 2006–2009
Gerhard Schröder (* 1944), Federal Chancellor from 1998 to 2005, Lower Saxony Prime Minister from 1990 to 1998
Theodora Hantos (* 1945), Rector of the University of Siegen 2002–2006
Trutz von Trotha (1946–2013), sociologist, taught in Siegen
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (* 1948), German-American literary scholar, taught in Siegen
Paul Breuer (* 1950), politician and district administrator of the Siegen-Wittgenstein district from 2003 to 2014, lives in Siegen
Holger Burckhart (* 1956), Rector of the University of Siegen since 2009
Axel A. Weber (* 1957), President of the Deutsche Bundesbank , did his doctorate in Siegen
Frank Schirrmacher (1959–2014), co-editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , did his doctorate in Siegen
Andreas Pinkwart (* 1960), politician (Member of the Bundestag and Minister) and economist, professor at the University of Siegen from 1998 to 2002
Norbert Dickel (* 1961), soccer player, then stadium announcer and head of event management at Borussia Dortmund
Annette Kurschus (* 1963), Protestant theologian and President of the State Church of Westphalia
Birgit Weyel (* 1964) Protestant theologian
Thomas Hecken (* 1964), German literary and cultural scientist , teaches in Siegen
Marcel Beyer (* 1965), writer, studied in Siegen
Dieter Schönecker (* 1965), philosopher
Mark-Stefan Tietze (* 1966), satirist
Jens Kamieth (* 1969), politician (MdL)
Miriam Pielhau (1975-2016), moderator a. a. Radio Siegen , 1 Live , ProSieben
Annemarie Carpendale (* 1977), presenter at ProSieben
Rosalie Wolff (* 1979), actress and entrepreneur