List of sons and daughters of the city of Forchheim

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The list contains important personalities who were born in Forchheim . They are arranged chronologically according to the year of birth. It doesn't matter whether they became famous in the city or elsewhere.

To 1900

  • Johannes Fabri (* in the 15th century; † 1480 in Mühlberg), Roman Catholic theologian
  • Heinrich Koburger (* in the 15th century; † around 1450), resident surgeon and traveling doctor in southwest Germany
  • Georg Helt (* around 1485; † March 6, 1545 in Dessau), humanist, classical philologist and universal scholar
  • Johann Salver (* around 1670; † 1738 in Forchheim), engraver
  • Johann Philipp Anton von und zu Frankenstein (born March 27, 1695 - † June 3, 1753 in Bamberg), Bamberg Prince-Bishop
  • Benedict Schmidt (born March 21, 1726 - † October 3, 1778 in Ingolstadt), lawyer
  • Karl von Göb (* 1787; † April 19, 1870 in Munich), general administrator of the Bavarian posts and railways
  • Johann Baptist Baron von Roppel (born April 16, 1791; † June 20, 1874 in Munich), Lieutenant General
  • Matthias Benzinger (* 1800; † 1856?), Founder of St. Marys, Pennsylvania
  • Nikolaus Titus (born January 28, 1808, † November 29, 1874 in Bamberg), lawyer and politician
  • Johann Spörlein (born January 7, 1814 in Burk; † November 19, 1873 in Bamberg), Catholic theologian and Güntherian
  • Carl Karl (born April 4, 1830; † August 20, 1898 in Munich), composer and musician
  • Christoph Reisser (born April 11, 1836 - † February 8, 1892 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary), technical director of the Neue Freie Presse newspaper
  • Josef Maria Schönfelder (born June 8, 1838 - † July 23, 1913 in Munich), Catholic theologian
  • Karl Michael Oertel (born January 29, 1866 - † April 4, 1900 in Nuremberg), owner of a book printer and member of the Reichstag
  • Georg Mayer-Franken (born March 15, 1870; † March 18, 1926 in Munich), portrait, still life and landscape painter
  • Christian Roth (born February 12, 1873, † September 16, 1934 in Breslau), administrative lawyer and politician
  • Volkmar Kohlschütter (born August 29, 1874 - † September 10, 1938 in Bern, Switzerland), chemist
  • Karl Fuchs (born June 17, 1881, † February 22, 1972 in Bad Kissingen), Lord Mayor of Bad Kissingen
  • Karl Sitzmann (born January 18, 1883; † January 2, 1963 in Bayreuth), art historian
  • Willy Hornschuch (born March 31, 1889 - † February 23, 1962), entrepreneur
  • Hanns Kreutz (born September 14, 1892; † December 3, 1952 in Munich), crop scientist
  • Andreas Steinmetz (born May 12, 1899 - February 21, 1971), master bookbinder and mayor, honorary citizen of the city
  • Hilmar Wäckerle (born November 24, 1899 - † July 2, 1941 on the Eastern Front), National Socialist, commandant of the Dachau concentration camp

From 1901