List of personalities of the city of Wiesbaden

This list contains personalities born in Wiesbaden as well as those who had their sphere of activity in Wiesbaden without having been born there. Both sections are sorted chronologically according to the year of birth. The list does not claim to be complete.

Personalities born in Wiesbaden

Until 1800

Johann Heinrich Tonsor (1595–1649), philosopher and Lutheran theologian
Elisabeth Hoffmann (≈1607–1676), landlady of the Gasthaus zum Bock in Wiesbaden, victim of the witch hunts in Idstein
Barbara Christine von Bernhold (1690–1756), from 1742 imperial countess, mistress and confidante of Landgrave Karl von Hessen-Kassel and grand court master of Karl's son and successor Wilhelm VIII.
Gottfried Anton Schenck (1699–1779), Protestant pastor, chronicler and poet
Johann Daniel Bager (1734–1815), artist
Johann Christian Reinhard Luja (1767–1847), Protestant pastor and local history researcher
Friedrich August Lehr (1771–1831), spa doctor and privy councilor
Ludwig Heydenreich (1773–1858), Protestant theologian, Bishop of Nassau
August von Kruse (1779–1848), general and military and agricultural reformer
Ernst Lotichius (1787–1876), artist
Johann Erhard Prieger (1792–1863), doctor
Wilhelm Zais (1798–1861), doctor, hotelier and member of the state parliament

19th century

1801 to 1850

Abraham Tendlau (1802–1878), Jewish folklorist
Theodor Goetz (1806–1885), architect and construction clerk
Heinrich Fischer (1812–1883), Mayor of Wiesbaden
Clemens August Kiel (1813–1871), composer, violinist and conductor
Alexander Fach (1815–1883), civil engineer and architect
Karl Hoffmann (1816–1872), artist
August de Laspée (1816–1901), artist
Christian Wilhelm Kreidel (1817–1890), publisher and bookseller
Karl Lotichius (1819–1892), banker and politician
Adolph Bermbach (1821–1875), politician
Franziska Rummel (1821 - unknown), daughter of Christian Rummel ; Soprano, prima donna of the Wiesbaden Opera
Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl (1823–1897), journalist, novelist and cultural historian
Daniel Raht (1823–1900), lawyer and politician
Friedrich Albert Cremer (1824–1891), architect and builder
Wilhelm Bogler (1825–1906), architect
Friedrich Schenck (1827–1900), politician and cooperative functionary
Adolf Wahrmund (1827–1913), orientalist and writer
Alexander Pagenstecher (1828–1879), ophthalmologist and founder of the ophthalmic institute
Christian Schlichter (1828–1883), mayor of Wiesbaden
Adolf Glaser (1829–1915), writer, journalist and editor
Ludwig Knaus (1829–1910), painter
Alexander von Peez (1829–1912), German-Austrian politician and industrialist
Adolf Seel (1829–1907), painter
Anton Dieffenbach (1831–1914), landscape painter
Friedrich Baumann (1832–1906), balneologist
Nikolaus Wilhelm zu Nassau (1832–1905), major general
Wilhelm Dilthey (1833–1911), philosopher, psychologist and educator
Theodor Hergenhahn (1833–1893), legal scholar
Sophia von Nassau (1836–1913), daughter of Duke Wilhelm I of Nassau
Arnold Pagenstecher (1837–1913), doctor and entomologist
Ernst Zais (1837–1903), privateer, researcher and patron; left its extensive collection of fabrics and more famous stoneware to the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Cologne; his name is associated with the "Westerwald stoneware"
Karl Keil (1838–1889), sculptor and architect
Adolf Lehr (1839–1901), managing director of the Pan-German Association and member of the German Reichstag
Adolf Richter (1839–1914), chemist and industrialist
Christian August Vogler (1841–1925), professor
Kuno zu Rantzau (1843–1917), diplomat
Hermann Pagenstecher (1844–1932), ophthalmologist and director of the ophthalmic institute
Ernst Perabo (1845–1920), American composer and pianist
Heinrich Voigt (1845–1906), organ builder
Emil Pfeiffer (1846–1921), internist and pediatrician
Friedrich Cramer (1847-1903), surgeon
Heinrich Fresenius (1847–1920), chemist
Karl Brugmann (1849–1919), Indo-Europeanist and linguist

1851 to 1875

Julius Buths (1851–1920), pianist, composer and conductor
Louis Schellenberg (1852–1920), publisher
Carl Coven Schirm (1852–1928), landscape painter
Meinhard Hoffmann (1853–1936), industrial chemist
Fritz Ritzel (1854–1935), writer
August Isbert (1856–1950), Prussian general
Ferdinand Rudio (1856–1929), mathematician
Karl Heun (1859–1929), mathematician
Louis Wintermeyer (1859–1901), farmer and politician
Heinrich von Nauendorf (1860–1905), officer in the imperial army
Karl Herxheimer (1861–1942), physician
Adolf Lex (1862 - after 1936), local politician
Wilhelm Sartorius (1863–1942), District Administrator
August Conrady (1864–1925), sinologist
Hilda von Nassau (1864–1952), Grand Duchess of Baden
Otfried Nippold (1864–1938), German-Swiss lawyer and peace fighter
Otto von Bothmer (1865–1918), Fideikomiss owner and member of the German Reichstag
Heinrich Rubens (1865–1922), physicist
Emil Mangold (1867–1945), Lord Mayor of Saarbrücken
Eberhard von Bodenhausen (1868–1918), art historian and entrepreneur
Friedrich Knoll (1869–1951), District Administrator
Fritz Philippi (1869–1933), pastor and writer
Albert Werminghoff (1869–1923), historian
Richard Wünsch (1869–1915), classical philologist and religious scholar
Julius Bretz (1870–1953), landscape painter and lithographer
Wilhelm Weygandt (1870–1939), psychiatrist
Ottilie Gerhäuser-Saint-Georges (1871–1955), actress
Franz Bossong (1872–1914), bookseller, publisher, editor, author and dialect poet
Gotthold Herxheimer (1872–1936), director of the Wiesbaden pathological-anatomical institute
Otto Krebs (1873–1941), manufacturer and art collector
August Müller (1873–1946), economist, publicist and politician
Pavlo Skoropadskyj (1873–1945), general, landowner and Ukrainian politician
Ludwig Hohlwein (1874–1949), poster artist, graphic artist, architect and painter
Max Pagenstecher (1874–1957), legal scholar
Christian Scholz (1874–1931), politician
Ernst Scholz (1874–1932), lawyer and politician
Heinrich Schwabe (1874–1924), German architect and sculptor
Berthold Wolf (1874–1946), publishing director and journalist
Jeanette Bethge (1875–1943), actress
Adolf Bickel (1875–1946), doctor and physiologist
Hans Grimm (1875–1959), writer and publicist

1876 to 1900

Paul Albert (1876–1903), racing cyclist
Ernst Bickel (1876–1961), classical philologist
Paul Gast (1876–1941), professor of geodesy and rector
Eduard Brenner (1877–1915), historian and museum director
Mathilde Ludendorff (1877–1966), teacher, doctor and writer
Ernst Toepfer (1877–1955), painter
Ludwig Beck (1880–1944), army officer
Arno Kriegsheim (1880–?), Officer
Friedrich Zollinger (1880–1945), architect, construction clerk and town planner
Alfons Paquet (1881–1944), poet, journalist and writer
Louis Seel (1881–1958), painter
Julius Baum (1882–1959), art historian and university professor
Rudolf Bingel (1882–1945), CEO of Siemens-Schuckertwerke
Melanie Michaelis (1882–1969), violinist
Gustav Schellenberg (1882–1963), botanist and newspaper publisher
Hermann Wenzel (1882–1954), industrialist
Felix Pfitzner (1883–1945), film producer and functionary in the film industry
Rudolf Essek (1885–1941), film and theater actor
Erwin Freundlich (1885–1964), astrophysicist
Alexander Riistow (1885–1963), sociologist and economist
Jonas Schmidt (1885–1958), agricultural scientist, animal breeder and feeding expert
Fritz Brüderlein (1886–1945), resistance fighter
Fritz Catta (1886–1968), architect and politician
Emil Heinrich Meyer (1886–1945), manager and honorary professor at the Handelshochschule Berlin
Jacob Ludwig Mollath (1886–1966), businessman and politician
Carl Ludwig Doerr (1887–1954), politician and SA leader
Wladimir Eliasberg (1887–1969), psychiatrist and psychotherapist
Ernst Lautz (1887–1979), lawyer
Alfons Sack (1887–1944), lawyer and lawyer at the People's Court
Eduard Bornträger (1888–1958), actor
Oskar Hagen (1888–1957), art historian
Friedrich Martin (1888–1931), organist, music teacher and composer
Jakob Ferdinand Reuter (1888–1940), member of the Hessian state parliament
Toni Sender (1888–1964), politician and writer
Hans-Gustav Felber (1889–1962), officer
Fritz Fuß (1889–1945), architect
Walther Gerlach (1889–1979), physicist
Ludwig Kaiser (1889–1978), lawyer, pianist and resistance fighter against National Socialism
Günther Lütjens (1889–1941), naval officer
Fritz Hans Rehbold (1889–?), Pianist and piano teacher
Wilhelm Bauer (1890–1965), politician
Rudolf von Scholtz (1890–1956), philologist
Werner Gerlach (1891–1963), pathologist, National Socialist, SS officer and diplomat
Franz Kaiser (1891–1962), astronomer
Lina Carstens (1892–1978), film and theater actress
Wilhelm Heise (1892–1965), artist
Helmuth Plessner (1892–1985), philosopher and sociologist
Willy Rosenstein (1892–1949), German pilot, fighter pilot and racing car driver
Else Sparwasser (1892–1953), writer
Wilhelm Unverzagt (1892–1971), prehistoric
Hans H. Zerlett (1892–1949), screenwriter and director
Arthur Bahl (1893–1966), police general
Sophie Cossaeus (1893–1965), actress
Johann Wilhelm Lehr (1893–1971), architect
Konrad Lied (1893–1957), politician
Richard Graf Matuschka-Greiffenclau (1893–1975), politician
Heinrich Eufinger (1894–1988), gynecologist and SS doctor
Karl Kaltwasser (1894–1979), author
Hans von Kessel (1894–1973), journalist and political activist
Wilhelm Rudolf Mann (1894–1992), manager
Reinhold Merten (1894–1943), conductor
Ernst Friedlaender (1895–1973), publicist
Gustav von Wangenheim (1895–1975), actor, director and screenwriter
Hans Fleischer (1896–1981), composer
August Wilhelm Fresenius (1896–1971), Protestant theologian
Erich Glette (1896–1980), painter
Wilhelm Krichbaum (1896–1957), secret agent
Wilhelm Avieny (1897–1983), banker, industrial manager and NSDAP functionary
Moritz Cramer (1897–1952), National Socialist politician
Herbert Kiper (1897–1978), actor, singer and playwright
Bernhard Ruberg (1897–1945), politician and SS leader
Walter Zerlett-Olfenius (1897–1975), screenwriter
Heinrich Birk (1898–1973), vine grower and expert in viticulture
Theodor Habicht (1898–1944), Lord Mayor of Wittenberg and Koblenz
Julia Kerr (1898–1965), composer
Wilhelm Burandt (1898–1984), District President in Düsseldorf
Herbert Baldus (1899–1970), ethnologist
Lia Eibenschütz (1899–1985), actress
Werner Wemheuer (1899–1977), composer and conductor at the State Theater
Anneliese Reppel (1899–1967), German actress
Wilhelm Georg Schmidt (1900–1938), Nazi functionary

20th century

1901 to 1910

Georg Dengel (1901–1987), film pioneer
Aloysius Paul Grafenberger (1901–1966), pastor
Hans Lehr (1901–1965), writer
Herbert Morgen (1901–1996), sociologist, spatial and settlement planner
Hans Schleif (1902–1945), architect, building researcher, archaeologist and SS member
Wilhelm Stuckart (1902–1953), administrative lawyer, politician (NSDAP) and SS-Obergruppenführer
Friedrich August Wahl (1902–1985), gynecologist
Georg Buch (1903–1995), politician
Georg Honigmann (1903–1984), journalist
Paul Krüger (1903–1990), trade union official and politician
Karl Johann Pauly (1904–1970), politician
Bernhard Dohm (1905–1986), politician
Hubert Krier (1905–1994), banker and diplomat
August Momberger (1905–1969), automobile racing driver and engineer
Günther Bartels (1906–1983), motorcycle racing driver
Ruth Boehringer , b. Dyckerhoff (1906–2007), entrepreneur
Liselott Diem (1906–1992), sports teacher
Sally Grosshut (1906–1969), lawyer and writer
Hans Harms (1906–1975), economic manager
Wilhelm Kempf (1906–1982), Roman Catholic Bishop of Limburg
Ado Riegler (1906–1988), actor
Adolf Schön (1906–1987), racing cyclist
Fritz Moeglich (1907–?), Writer and translator
Dolf Sternberger (1907–1989), political scientist and journalist
Wilhelm Wengler (1907–1995), lawyer and professor
Emmy Burg (1908–1982), film and theater actress
Friedrich Kempf (1908–2002), Roman Catholic priest and historian
Karl Korn (1908–1991), journalist, writer and humanities scholar
Hans Merten (1908–1967), politician
Walther Kampe (1909–1998), auxiliary bishop in Limburg
Alfons Kirchgässner , Roman Catholic priest and writer
Bruno Melmer (1909–1982), SS functionary
Hans-Joachim Rauch (1909–1997), psychiatrist, neurologist and university professor who was involved in Nazi euthanasia research
Walter Schmidt (1910–1970), SS-Untersturmführer and senior physician

1911 to 1920

Walter Hofmann (1912–1995), geodesist and university professor
Kurt Köster (1912–1986), librarian and historian
Fee von Reichlin (1912–2002), actress, operetta singer and voice actress
Hans Knöll (1913–1978), doctor and microbiologist
Ernst Pagenstecher (1913–1984), agricultural scientist
Ernst Ferber (1914–1998), General
Wolfgang von Scharfenberg (1914–2005), farmer and sheep farmer
Ernst Schomer (1915–2005), film architect, architect, painter and art teacher
Ueli Prager (1916–2011), Swiss entrepreneur and founder of Mövenpick
Anna Teluren (1916–2018), actress and theater director
Edwin Zerbe (1916–1992), lawyer and politician
Werner Krämer (1917–2007), archaeologist
Gerhard Mohnike (1918–1966), doctor and scientist
Kurt Seifert (1919–2001), table tennis player
Grete Wurm (1919–2002), actress
Kurt Leimer (1920–1974), pianist, composer and piano teacher

1921 to 1930

Kurt Becker-Marx (1921–2004), lawyer, university professor and politician
Carolus Horn (1921–1992), commercial artist and copywriter
Simone Signoret (1921–1985), French actress and writer
Günther Erkel (1924–1993), legal scholar and State Secretary
Hans Milch (1924–1987), Catholic pastor
Rolf von Sydow (1924–2019), director and author
Wolfgang Klötzer (1925–2015), historian and archivist
Christopher Audland (1926-2019), British diplomat
Dorothea Decker (* 1926), painter
Alfred Koerppen (* 1926), composer
Günther Massenkeil (1926–2014), musicologist
Si Mustapha-Müller , b. Winfried Müller (1926–1993), founder and head of the repatriation service for foreign legionnaires in the Algerian war
Dieter Schaad (* 1926), actor
Rudi Arndt (1927–2004), politician
Friedrich Beck (1927–2008), physicist
Klaus Heger (1927–1993), Romance studies and linguist
Wolfgang Hofmann (* 1927), actor and radio play speaker
Friedrich Krell (* 1928), choir teacher and choir director
Paul Kuhn (1928–2013), pianist, band leader and singer
Reinhard Oehme (1928-2010), German-American physicist
Jürgen Corleis (1929–2011), German-Australian journalist and author
Alfons Lappas (* 1929), financial expert at the DGB and head of the BGAG
Jo Miard (1929–1982), sculptor
Gerda Panofsky-Soergel (* 1929), art historian
Albert Pfuhl (1929–2005), politician
Franz Reitz (1929–2011), racing cyclist
Ursula Dyckerhoff (1930–2004), ethnologist and ancient American scholar
Herbert Eisenberger (* 1930), classical philologist
Charlotte Posenenske (1930–1985), painter and sculptor

1931 to 1940

Karl-Walter Fritz (* 1931), politician
Hannes Sautter (1931–2012), General Staff Doctor in the Bundeswehr
Georg Schlöndorff (1931–2011), specialist in ear, nose and throat medicine
Erivan Haub (1932–2018), owner of the Tengelmann Group
Thomasöffelholz (1932–2018), journalist
Dieter Rams (* 1932), industrial designer
Daweli Reinhardt (1932–2016), jazz guitarist
Helmut F. Albrecht (* 1933), cabaret artist, author and copywriter
Rido Busse (* 1934), designer
Dietrich Harth (* 1934), university professor, literary and cultural scientist
Esther-Maria Mikfeld (1934–2005), politician
Karl-Heinz Graf von Rothenburg (1934–2019), classical philologist
Udo Sautter (1934–2019), historian and university professor
Peter-Andreas Mothes (1935–2008), painter
Friedrich Pfeiffer (* 1935), engineer
Diethardt von Preuschen (1935–2016), Saarland representative at the federal government
Ingeborg Schöner (* 1935), actress
Josef Bücheler (* 1936), artist
Horst Konzen (* 1936), legal scholar
Hans Zender (1936–2019), conductor and composer
Norbert Becker (1937–2012), agricultural scientist
Dieter Heckelmann (1937–2012), lawyer, university professor and politician
Wolfgang Jehn (1937–2017), composer
Julia Marianne Kirchner (* 1937), Romance writer and literary translator
Ingeborg Maus (* 1937), professor for political theory and the history of ideas
Christa Reich (* 1937), church musician, Protestant theologian and university teacher
Jürgen Rochlitz (1937–2019), politician and scientist
Dieter Rübsaamen (* 1937), painter and graphic artist
Frank Brabant (* 1938), art collector and patron
Kathrin Ackermann (* 1938), actress and voice actress
Karin Dor (1938-2017), actress
Franz-Hermann Kappes (1938–1992), politician
Sonja Kurowsky (1938–2017), TV announcer
Hans Dieter Schreeb (* 1938), author of novels, television plays and plays
Wolfgang Deichsel (1939–2011), author and theater maker
Hildebrand Diehl (* 1939), Lord Mayor of Wiesbaden
Christoph Haehling von Lanzenauer (* 1939), professor of business administration
Dieter Hoff (* 1939), media manager
Horst Klee (* 1939), politician
Eva Ludwig (* 1939), politician
Rolf Römer (* 1939), jazz musician
Volker Schlöndorff (* 1939), film director, screenwriter and film producer
Wolfgang Schüler (* 1939), educator and philosopher
Jürgen Labenski (1940–2007), film scholar and critic

1941 to 1950

Isa von Hardenberg (* 1941), grande dame of Berlin high society
Jürgen Hofer (* 1941), politician
Elmar M. Lorey (1941–2019), author and television journalist
Hans-Reinhard Scheu (* 1941), radio reporter and television presenter
Rudolf G. Wagner (1941–2019), sinologist
Klaus Haacker (* 1942), Protestant theologian
Klaus Hammer (* 1942), politician
Dieter Leisegang (1942–1973), author, philosopher and translator
Manfred Letzerich (* 1942), track and field athlete
Volker Elis Pilgrim (* 1942), writer
Hannelore Rönsch (* 1942), politician
Herbert Schneider (* 1942), politician
Gisela Ehrensperger (* 1943), Swiss opera / operetta / musical singer
Hans Michael Maus (* 1943), politician
Gottfried Schiemann (* 1943), legal scholar
Joachim W. Engels (1944–2018), chemist
Jürgen Grabowski (* 1944), soccer player
Michael Herrmann (* 1944), culture and music manager
Dirk Kaesler (* 1944), sociologist
Götz von Rohr (* 1944), geographer
Hanns-Georg Brose (1945–2018), sociologist
Stephan Krier (* 1945), diplomat
Jürgen Doeblin (* 1946), politician
Pierre Even (* 1946), Luxembourg lawyer, composer and historian
Birutė Galdikas (* 1946), zoologist and behavioral scientist
Folkert Meeuw (* 1946), swimmer
Gerhard Besier (* 1947), Protestant theologian, historian and politician
Ute Gerhard (1947–1987), actress
Michael Glotzbach (* 1947), diplomat
Rainer Seifert (* 1947), hockey player
Ulrich Stiehl (* 1947), non-fiction author and programmer
Flora Veit-Wild (* 1947), professor
Herbert Wehnert (* 1947), German handball player
Hildegard Bachmann (* 1948), fast night, singer, actress and book author
Edzard Ernst (* 1948), Professor of Alternative Medicine in Great Britain
Rainer Hirsch (1948–2009), television journalist
Eleonore Weisgerber (* 1947), actress
Hans-Peter Wodarz (* 1948), cook, restaurateur and event manager
Angelika Zöllner (* 1948), writer
Mark Binz (* 1949), legal scholar and lawyer
Wolfgang Czysz (* 1949), archaeologist
Frieder Gebhardt (* 1949), politician
Walter Pradt (1949–2014), soccer player and coach
Erika Skrotzki (* 1949), actress
Gernot Stroth (* 1949), mathematician
Hans Demant (* 1950), engineer
Tatjana Hauptmann (* 1950), illustrator and author
Alexander Osteroth (born 1950), actor
Ralf Reichenbach (1950–1998), track and field athlete
Brigitte Weining (* 1950), journalist
Reinhard Welter (* 1950), lawyer and professor
Christine Windbichler (* 1950), lawyer and professor

1951 to 1960

Michael Bauch (* 1951), painter
Wolfgang Diefenbach (* 1951), jazz musician and conductor
Bettina Kenter (* 1951), author, speaker, director and actress
Armin Klein (* 1951), cultural scientist and university professor
Clemens Knobloch (* 1951), linguist
Bernd Lehmann (1951–2018), geodesist and professor
Werner Krag (* 1951), psychotherapist and non-fiction author
Michael Georg Schmunk (* 1951), diplomat
Malte Thorsten (* 1951), actor
Michael Walter (* 1951), translator
Otto Winzen (* 1951), author
Günter Germann (* 1952), specialist in plastic surgery and aesthetic surgery
Anton Himstedt (* 1952), sculptor
Elke Lang (1952–1998), actress, set designer and director
Gunther Mende (* 1952), music producer
Wolfgang Grams (1953–1993), RAF terrorist
Stefan Ziffzer (* 1953), renovator and sports official
Günther van Endert (* 1954), television editor
Jochen Kuhn (* 1954), painter and filmmaker, screenwriter, composer and photographer
Günther Bräunig (* 1955), entrepreneur
Petra Fuhrmann (1955–2019), politician
Francisco González (* 1955), Paraguayan tennis player
Franz-Theo Gottwald (* 1955), Catholic theologian, philosopher and Indologist
Jutta Kaußen (* 1955), author, translator and dramaturge
Klaus Küspert (* 1955), computer scientist and university professor
Ulrich Mehlhart (* 1955), clarinetist
Sandro R. Müller (* 1955), organist
Anette Rein (* 1955), director of the Museum of World Cultures in Frankfurt am Main
Frank Witzel (* 1955), writer and musician
Jürgen Czwienk (* 1956), author, screenwriter and director
Ute Finckh-Krämer (* 1956), politician, member of the German Bundestag
Matthias Frey (* 1956), pianist and keyboardist
Stefan Grüttner (* 1956), politician
Dieter Hillert (* 1956), neurolinguist, hockey player
Birgit Hogefeld (* 1956), former RAF terrorist
Hans-Jürgen Jakobs (* 1956), economist and journalist
Emmerich Müller (* 1956), banker
Michael Wilk (* 1956), doctor, anarchist author and environmental activist
Anna Brunotte (* 1957), aviation clerk
Gabriele Hasler (* 1957), singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer
Birgid Helmy (* 1957), sculptor
Andrea Klump (* 1957), former RAF terrorist
Martin Kukula (1957-2013), cameraman
Felix Leinen (* 1957), professor, graduate mathematician and politician
Uwe Müller (* 1957), economist and journalist
Ursula Nonnemacher (* 1957), politician
Peter von Strombeck (* 1957), actor
Daniel Werner (* 1957), actor and speaker
Susan Wild (* 1957), American politician
Peter Henning (* 1958), computer scientist and physicist
Halim Hosny (* 1958), journalist
Manfred Rolf Langner (* 1958), theater director and artistic director
Andrea Asch (* 1959), politician
Marianne Betz (* 1959), flautist and musicologist
Jörg W. Busch (* 1959), medieval historian
Christine Esterházy (* 1959), opera singer and musicologist
Thomas Giegerich (* 1959), lawyer
Johannes Masing (* 1959), legal scholar and judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
John McEnroe (born 1959), American tennis player
Ralph Misske (* 1959), actor, director and video producer
Frank Schirrmacher (1959–2014), journalist, literary scholar and essayist, book author and co-editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Nanette Scriba (* 1959), painter, musician and chanson singer
Gaby Sommer (1959–2018), photographer and photo journalist
Annette Winkler (* 1959), manager
Stefan Blöcher (* 1960), hockey player
Fred Kogel (* 1960), media manager, television producer and presenter
Frank Runhof (* 1960), jazz musician
Sigrid Schmitt (* 1960), historian
Michael Schulz (* 1960), Catholic theologian
Leif Trenkler (* 1960), painter
Axel Wintermeyer (* 1960), politician
Rainer Zaun (* 1960), opera singer

1961 to 1970

Hansjörg Biener (* 1961), Protestant theologian
Andrea Ruppert (* 1961), Professor of Private Business Law
Arne Skerra (* 1961), biochemist
Thomas Stiller (* 1961), film director, screenwriter and actor
Bruno Hübner (* 1961), soccer player and manager
Wolfgang Bergmann (* 1962), publicist
Andreas Dorschel (* 1962), philosopher
Uwe Oberg (* 1962), jazz musician
Wolfgang Kraus (* 1962), soccer player
Dirk Kurbjuweit (* 1962), journalist and writer
Tanja Langer (* 1962), writer and lyricist
Hans-Eberhard Roß (* 1962), church music director
Christof Sänger (* 1962), jazz musician
Rainer Thiel (* 1962), classical philologist
Michael Altripp (* 1963), Byzantinist and art historian
Frank Eulberg (* 1963), football coach
Andy Gillmann (* 1963), jazz drummer, music teacher and author
Hanno Hurth (* 1963), administrative lawyer and district administrator for the district of Emmendingen
Eckhard Jansen (* 1963), cameraman
Burkhard König (* 1963), chemist and university professor
Andreas Lucas (* 1963), composer, music producer, filmmaker and entrepreneur
Elisabeth Naske (* 1963), Austrian composer and cellist
Marco Pighetti (* 1963), politician
Katharina Schubert (* 1963), actress
Wolfram Adolph (1964–2019), publicist, ev. Theologian and music journalist
Rainer Forst (* 1964), Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy
Daniel Kempin (* 1964), singer and guitarist
Friedrich Lohmann (* 1964), Protestant theologian
Torsten Meireis (* 1964), Protestant theologian
Michael Schacht (* 1964), game designer and graphic designer
Hans-Georg Ambrosius (1965–2007), visual artist
Christian Boehringer (* 1965), Chairman of the Shareholders' Committee of Boehringer Ingelheim
Antje Damm (* 1965), author and illustrator
Alexandra Ernst (* 1965), journalist, literary critic and literary translator
Sven Hasper (* 1965), actor and voice actor
Matthias Heep (* 1965), Swiss composer, choir director and arranger
Jörg Hickl (* 1965), chess player
Matthias Jacobs (* 1965), legal scholar
Romuald Karmakar (* 1965), director and screenwriter
Uwe Knietsch (* 1965), action artist
Betty Wahl (* 1965), Scandinavian scholar and translator
Adrienne Braun (* 1966), journalist, author and columnist
Katja von Garnier (* 1966), director
Hendrik Schneider (* 1966), legal scholar
Jens Zemke (* 1966), racing cyclist
Dario Azzellini (* 1967), Italian author, documentary filmmaker, artist, political scientist and sociologist
Thomas Ernst (* 1967), football player
Eva Hagenbäumer (* 1967), field hockey player
Michael Kessler (* 1967), actor, comedian and author
Mika Metz (1967-2017), actor
Frank Neese (* 1967), professor of theoretical chemistry
Georg Breitner (* 1968), archaeologist and monument conservator
Jeanne Faust (* 1968), artist
Honke Rambow (* 1968), musician, author and publicist
Thilo Wydra (* 1968), author and journalist
Fabrizio Hayer (* 1969), soccer player
Arne Hoffmann (* 1969), media scientist, journalist and book author
Michael Sauer (* 1969), soccer player
Aron Stiehl (* 1969), opera director
Nicola Beer (* 1970), politician
Alain Blažević (* 1970), actor

1971 to 1980

Larissa Boehning (* 1971), writer
Eva Brühl (* 1971), polo player
Reinhard Dörner (* 1961), nuclear physicist and university professor
Katja Boost (* 1972), opera, oratorio, lied and concert singer
Clemens Bratzler (* 1972), television presenter and journalist
Jens Harzer (* 1972), actor
Daniel Klaus (* 1972), writer
Steffen Weber (* 1972), handball player
Jennifer Davids (* 1973), German-Filipino musician
Scott D. Davis (* 1973), pianist and composer
Andreas Diefenbach (* 1973), artist
Erik Reischl (* 1973), pianist
Till Steffen (* 1973), politician
Alexander Sternberg (* 1973), actor
Andrea Diefenbach (* 1974), photographer
Sascha Ehlert (* 1974), dialect author
Julie Leuze (* 1974), writer
Ulrike Scheffler (* 1974), TV presenter and singer
Ingo Zamperoni (* 1974), TV presenter and journalist
Angela Maurer (* 1975), swimmer
Björn Michel (* 1975), field hockey player
Marion Petri (* 1975), lawyer and politician
Patrick Simon (* 1975), racing driver
Verena Wriedt (* 1975), journalist and television presenter
Andy Dörner (* 1976), heavy athlete, powerlifting fighter
Jan-Olaf Immel (* 1976), handball player
Norman Simon (* 1976), racing car driver
Ulrike Syha (* 1976), playwright
Bernd Perplies (* 1977), author, translator and journalist
Kristina Schröder (* 1977), politician
Surjo R. Soekadar (* 1977), doctor
Gregor Werum (* 1977), handball player
Ken Bardowicks (* 1978), magician and comedian
Christophe Fricker (* 1978), literary scholar and writer
Sebastian Schulte (* 1978), rower
Shy Love (* 1978), American porn actress
Ricarda Junge (* 1979), writer
Gisbert zu Knyphausen (* 1979), songwriter, singer and guitarist
Alexa Feser (* 1979), singer and songwriter
Heiko Rüll (* 1979), television and screenwriter
Manuel Schleis (* 1979), music producer
Stephanie Sturm (* 1979), musical actress
David Barbarino (* 1980), artist
Nils Döring (* 1980), soccer player
Andreas Hornig (* 1980), basketball player
Stefan Kühne (* 1980), soccer player
Saskia de Lando (* 1980), actress and presenter

1981 to 1990

Daniel Deußer (* 1981), show jumper
Ansgar Focke (* 1982), politician
Claudia Grehn (* 1982), playwright
Sabine Rumpf (* 1983), discus thrower
Helge Meeuw (* 1984), swimmer
Daniel Roesner (* 1984), actor
Johannes Clair (* 1985), author and former Bundeswehr soldier
Marlene Dietrich (* 1985), racing car driver
Nico Rosberg (* 1985), automobile racing driver
Halil Savran (* 1985), German-Turkish soccer player
Schoolboy Q (* 1986), American rapper
Christopher Hübner (* 1986), football player
Stefanie Dauber (* 1987), pole vaulter
Tobias Hahn (* 1987), handball player
Sandra Kleinjung (* 1987), handball player
Tobias Schimmelbauer (* 1987), handball player
Wiebke Ullmann (* 1988), track and field athlete
Bosca (* 1988), rapper and producer
Tunay Acar (* 1989), Turkish soccer player
Benjamin Hübner (* 1989), soccer player
Jasna Fritzi Bauer (* 1989), actress
Valerie Weigmann (* 1989), German-Filipino model
Maximilian Schubert (* 1990), handball player

1991 to 2000

Tom Gramenz (* 1991), actor
Kevin Kraus (* 1992), soccer player
Alexander Schwolow (* 1992), football player
Kira Linn (* 1993), jazz musician and composer
Shawn Parker (born 1993), soccer player
Meike Schmelzer (* 1993), handball player
Nico Brauner (* 1994), basketball player
Lea Wagner (* 1994) sports presenter
Lina Bürger (* 1995), soccer player
Max Hopp (* 1996), darts player
Jan Röling (* 1999), volleyball player

21st century

Leia Holtwick (* 2002), actress

Personalities who have worked in the city

To 1900

Karl Adolph Gottlob Schellenberg (born May 2, 1764 in Idstein, † September 13, 1835 in Wiesbaden), founder of the simultaneous school in the Duchy of Nassau and first pastor in Wiesbaden
Christian Zais (* 1770 in Cannstatt; † 1820 in Wiesbaden), classicist architect and city architect in Wiesbaden
Johannes Weitzel (born October 24, 1771 in Johannisberg; † January 10, 1837 in Wiesbaden), writer, publisher and state librarian in the Duchy of Nassau
Johann Ludwig Koch (born November 1, 1772 in Niederklein; † May 2, 1853 in Wiesbaden) clergyman, politician, canon lawyer, Nassau secret government councilor and state librarian in Wiesbaden
Ludwig Schellenberg (born March 23, 1772 in Usingen, † February 23, 1834 in Wiesbaden), bookseller, printer and publisher
Christian Rummel (* 1787 in Gollachostheim, † 1849 in Wiesbaden), pianist, violinist, clarinetist, music teacher, conductor of the ducal band, then court conductor of the Wiesbaden Opera
Theodor Schliephake (* 1808 in Dörnten; † 1871 in Heidelberg), philosopher, historian and private tutor at the Nassau court
Theodore Eisfeld (* 1816 in Wolfenbüttel, † 1882 in Wiesbaden), composer, music director of the New York Philharmonic
Ernst Litfaß (* 1816 in Berlin; † 1874 in Wiesbaden), publisher and inventor of the advertising column, which was first used in 1854
Alois Boczek (* 1817; † 1876 in Vienna), Austrian tax officer, journalist and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly. Published the Nassauische Allgemeine Zeitung in Wiesbaden

Carl Remigius Fresenius (* 1818 in Frankfurt am Main, † 1897 in Wiesbaden), chemist, founded the Institut Fresenius in 1848

Carl Theodor Wagner (* 1826 in Usingen, † 1907 in Wiesbaden), master watchmaker and entrepreneur

Konrad Duden (* 1829 Hof Bossigt near Wesel; † 1911 in Sonnenberg near Wiesbaden), philologist, laid the foundation for German uniform spelling with his works (later the "Duden")

Kaspar Kögler (* 1838 in Molsberg, † 1923 in Wiesbaden), painter and writer

Josef Massenez (* 1839 in Grünberg; † 1923 in Wiesbaden), coal and steel entrepreneur

Heinrich von Herzogenberg (* 1843 in Graz, † 1900 in Wiesbaden), composer, died in Wiesbaden

Luise Adolpha Le Beau (* 1850 in Rastatt; † 1927 in Baden-Baden), composer, lived in Wiesbaden from 1885–90

Joseph Miroslav Weber (* 1854 in Prague; † 1906 in Munich), 1889–94 music director in Wiesbaden

Alexander Alberti (* 1855 in Wörsdorf; † 1929 in Wiesbaden), lawyer and head of the city council in Wiesbaden

Felix Genzmer (* 1856 in Labes / Pomerania; † 1929 in Berlin), from 1881 to 1903 city architect of Wiesbaden

Hermine Spies (* 1857 in Löhnberger Hütte near Weilburg; † 1893 in Wiesbaden), famous song and oratorio singer (alto), a. a. WP of Brahms works

Ludwig Hofmann (* 1862 in Herborn; † 1933 in Herborn), architect and preservationist

Alexej von Jawlensky (* 1865 in Torzhok (Russia), † 1941 in Wiesbaden), expressionist painter

Otto Henkell (* 1869 in Mainz; † 1929 in Schwarzach im Pongau), sparkling wine manufacturer, led the sparkling wine cellar Henkell & Co to world fame

Max Reger (* 1873 in Brand / Opf .; † 1916 in Leipzig), studied at the Wiesbaden Conservatory

Heinrich Kirchhoff (* 1874 in Essen; † 1934 in Wiesbaden), art collector and patron

Otto Haese (* 1874 in Arnswalde; † 1944 in Dachau concentration camp), trade unionist and politician (SPD)

Otto Klemperer (* 1885 in Breslau; † 1973 in Zurich), general music director in Wiesbaden from 1924 to 1927

Gustav Lampmann (* 1885 in Frankfurt am Main, † 1970 in Wiesbaden), building construction department at the government in Wiesbaden from 1933 to 1950 and architecture writer

August Momber (* 1886 in Danzig; † 1969 in Karlsruhe), actor and director, was “First Hero” at the Wiesbaden State Theater from 1922 to 1933

Ferdinand Kutsch (* 1889 in Burg-Gemünden, † 1972 in Wiesbaden), prehistoric and provincial Roman archaeologist

Hans Albers (* 1891 in Hamburg, † 1960 in Kempfenhausen mountain), occurred during the First World War at the Residenz Theater on

Karl Elmendorff (* 1891 in Düsseldorf, † 1962 in Hofheim am Taunus), conductor at the Wiesbaden State Theater

Walter Gieseking (* 1895 in Lyon, † 1956 in London), German pianist and composer

From 1901

Bernard von Brentano (* 1901 in Offenbach, † 1964 in Wiesbaden), writer, poet, playwright and essayist
Axel Ivers (* 1902 in Gdansk, † 1964 in Wiesbaden), actor, theater director, radio play speaker, playwright and translator
Alo Altripp (* 1906 in Altrip, † 1991 in Wiesbaden), painter and graphic artist
Walter Pongs (* 1911 in Remscheid; † unknown), concentration camp doctor and dentist in Buchenwald concentration camp; ran a dental practice in Wiesbaden after the end of the war
George Konell (* 1912 in Berlin; † 1991 in Trostberg), writer
Waldemar Reichhard (* 1915 in Berlin-Steglitz, † 1988 in Wiesbaden), called "Knoblauchkönig" or "Knobloch", former opera singer and city original
Helmut Schön (* 1915 in Dresden; † 1996 in Wiesbaden), soccer player and national coach
Eddie Constantine (* 1917 in Los Angeles (USA), † 1993 in Wiesbaden), film actor
Ilse Konell (* 1919 in Oederan; † 2012 in Mölln), literature patron
Wolfgang Schuppli (* 1922 in Bad Landeck, Silesia; † 2015 in Wiesbaden), entrepreneur
Hans Joachim Fröhlich (* 1923 in Gelnhausen; † 2008), forest scientist, from 1968 to 1988 head of the Hessian forest administration
Heinz Schenk (* 1924 in Mainz; † 2014 in Wiesbaden), actor and showmaster ( Zum Blauen Bock )
Wim Thoelke (* 1927 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, † 1995 in Niedernhausen), show master
Gottfried Kiesow (* 1931 in Landsberg an der Warthe; † November 7, 2011 in Wiesbaden), monument conservator and chairman of the German Foundation for Monument Protection
Nossrat Peseschkian (* 1933 in Kaschan, Iran; † 2010 in Wiesbaden), neurologist, psychiatrist and psychotherapist, holder of the Federal Cross of Merit
Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul (* 1942 in Frankfurt am Main), Member of the Bundestag, from 1998 to 2009 Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development
Claus Theo Gärtner (* 1943 in Berlin), actor
Volker Kriegel (* 1943 in Darmstadt; † 2003 in San Sebastián), guitarist and draftsman, pioneer of the German rock jazz scene
Helge Philipp (* 1944), German journalist and former television presenter
Hartmann Wunderer (* 1950; † 2016 in Wiesbaden), German historian
Béla Réthy (* 1956 in Vienna), German sports reporter for ZDF
James Peace (* 1963 in Paisley), Scottish composer, concert pianist and visual artist
Karsten Thormaehlen (* 1965 in Bad Kreuznach), photo artist
Ralph Valenteano (* 1965 in Eltville am Rhein), singer, music producer and composer
Thilo von Debschitz (* 1966 in Offenbach am Main), designer and author
Sven Gerich (* 1974 in Hannoversch Münden), Lord Mayor since 2013
Tobias Welz (* 1977), DFB and FIFA referee; lives in Wiesbaden
Daniel Küblböck (* 1985 in Hutthurm, Bavaria, missing in the Labrador Sea since September 9, 2018), since December 2008 in Wiesbaden, singer and entertainer
Debby Ryan (* 1993 in Huntsville, Alabama), from 2000 to 2003 in Wiesbaden, actress and singer