List of sons and daughters of the city of Königsberg
This list of sons and daughters of the city of Königsberg records those born in Königsberg (Prussia) . The Jewish community in Königsberg was the third largest German Jewish community after Berlin and Breslau. It made many important Königsbergers. For the period since 1946, see Kaliningrad # Sons and Daughters of the City .
15th century
- Fabian von Lossainen (* around 1470, † 1523), Canon and Prince-Bishop of Warmia
- Jakob Binck (* 1490 or 1504; † 1569), painter and engraver
- Paul vom Stein (* 15th or 16th century; † 1584), medic, physicist and educator
16th Century
1501-1550
- Christoph Jonas (* around 1510; † 1582), legal scholar and Prussian politician
- Bartholomäus Wagner (around 1520; † 1571), mathematician and physician
- Nikolaus Jagenteufel (1526–1583), Lutheran theologian and educator
- Matthias Stoius (1526–1583), mathematician and physician
- Anna Sophia of Prussia (1527–1591), princess of the Duchy of Prussia and by marriage Duchess of Mecklenburg
- Heinrich Königswieser (* 1530; † around 1583), painter
- Severin Göbel the Elder (1530–1612), medic
- Levin Buchius (1550–1613), legal scholar
- Paul Crüger (around 1550; † 1593), legal scholar
- Krzysztof Klabon (* around 1550, † after 1616), Polish composer, lutenist and singer
- Hieronymus vom Stein (1550–1595), legal scholar
1551-1600
- Albrecht Friedrich of Prussia (1553–1618), Duke in Prussia
- Reinhold Heidenstein (* around 1553; † 1620), diplomat, lawyer and 1583–1611 chronicler in the service of Duke Prussia as a representative of the Polish crown
- Albert Voit (* around 1562; † 1606), educator and literary scholar
- Anton Möller (1563–1611), painter in Prague, Venice, Antwerp, Amsterdam and Danzig
- Severin Göbel the Younger (1569–1627), medic
- Abraham van den Blocke (1572–1628), architect and sculptor of Flemish origin
- Anna of Prussia (1576–1625), Princess of Prussia, by marriage Electress of Brandenburg
- Johann Behm (1578–1648), Lutheran theologian
- Marie of Prussia (1579–1649), princess and by marriage Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
- Peter Crüger (1580–1639), philologist, astronomer and mathematician
- Matthäus Reimer (1581–1646), philologist
- Eleonore of Prussia (1583–1607), Princess of the Duchy of Prussia, by marriage Electress of Brandenburg
- Magdalena Sibylle of Prussia (1586–1659), princess of the Duchy of Prussia, by marriage Electress of Saxony
- Kaspar Perband (1589–1665), legal scholar
- Johann Strauss (1590–1630), mathematician
- Caspar Stein (1592–1652), doctor, "Baedeker Königsbergs"
- Levin Pouchenius (1594–1648), Lutheran theologian
- Otto Wilhelm von Podewils (1595–1657), officer
- Laurentius Weger the Elder (1599–1629), philosopher
- Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (1599–1655), Queen of Sweden by marriage
- Reinhold von Derschau (1600–1667), lawyer
- Innocent Giesel (* around 1600, † 1683), historian, archimandrite of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra and professor and rector of the Kiev Mogila Academy
17th century
1601-1650
- Christian Seth († 1699), lawyer
- Katharina von Brandenburg (1602–1644), through marriage successively Princess of Transylvania and Duchess of Saxony-Lauenburg
- Johann Schimmelpfennig (1604–1669), lawyer, councilor and benefactor of his hometown
- Simon Dach (1605–1659), poet
- Andreas Mylius (1606–1649), philologist and educator
- Hieronymus Roth (1606–1678), leader of the Königsberg uprising
- Valentin Thilo the Younger (1607–1662), Lutheran theologian, professor of rhetoric and hymn poet
- Andreas Adersbach (1610–1660), diplomat and poet
- Michael Behm (1612–1650), Protestant theologian
- Georg Mylius (1613–1640), poet and Protestant theologian
- Albert Kyper (1614–1655), medic
- Georg Loth the Younger (1623–1684), medic
- Georg Wosegin (1624–1705), mathematician and physician
- Daniel Beckher the Younger (1627–1670), medic
- Theodor Wolder (1628–1672), lawyer, rector of the University of Königsberg and hymn poet
- Christian Feyerabend (1629–1696), mayor of Königsberg
- Jakob Sahme (1629–1680), philologist and Protestant theologian
- Heinrich Friese (1630–1690), medic
- Michael Willmann (1630–1706), baroque painter
- Melchior Zeidler (1630–1686), philosopher and Lutheran theologian
- Friedrich Lepner (around 1633–1701), physician
- Jacob Reich (1635–1690), rhetorician and poet
- Andreas Hedio (1640–1703), philosopher and librarian
- Gertraud Moller b. Eifler (1641–1705), Poeta laureata, buried in the cathedral
- Joachim Tielke (1641–1719), instrument maker
- Gustav Wilhelm von Wedel (1641–1717), general in the service of the Bishop of Münster and, as Danish field marshal, commanding general of Norway
- Martin von Kempe (1642–1683), writer of the Baroque period
- Gottfried Sand (1647–1710), medic
- Samuel Strimesius (1648–1730), physicist and Reformed theologian
- Georg Raddäus (1649–1707), Cantor and Kapellmeister in Königsberg
1651-1700
- Georg Rast (1651–1729), medic
- Georg Thegen (1651–1729), philosopher and mathematician
- Isaak Riga (before 1653 – between 1715 and 1720), picture carver
- Laurentius Weger the Younger (1653–1715), philologist
- Paul Rabe (1656–1713), philologist and philosopher
- Friedrich Deutsch (1657–1709), Protestant theologian
- Friedrich I (1657–1713), King in Prussia, Elector of Brandenburg
- Daniel Christoph Beckher (1658–1691), physician
- Hieronymus Georgi (1659–1717), printer and poet
- David Bläsing (1660–1719), mathematician and astronomer
- Michael Schreiber (1662–1717), Lutheran theologian
- Christian Sahme (1663–1732), Lutheran theologian, mathematician and astronomer
- Georg Emmerich (1665–1727), medic
- Erhard Ernst von Röder (1665–1743), royal Prussian field marshal and budget and war minister
- Johannes Ernst Grabe (1666–1711), Lutheran, later Anglican theologian
- Bernhard von Sanden the Younger (1666–1721), Lutheran theologian
- Luise Charlotte Radziwill (1667–1695), noblewoman, patron of Calvinism
- Bogislaw Friedrich von Dönhoff (1669–1742), Prussian major general
- Christian Ackermann (* before 1670, † after 1710), sculptor and art carver
- Ernst Wladislaus von Dönhoff (1672–1724), Lieutenant General
- Heinrich von Sanden (1672–1728), physicist
- Christian Masecovius (1673–1732), Lutheran theologian
- Sylvester Grabe (1674–1727), librarian and medic
- Johann Sturmer (1675–1729), sculptor
- Christian Reinhold von Derschau (1679–1742), major general, governor of Peitz and Cottbus
- Theodor Boltz (1680–1764), lawyer
- Reinhold Friedrich von Sahme (1682–1753), lawyer
- Alexander von Dönhoff (1683–1742), military
- Samuel von Marschall (1683–1749), Minister
- Daniel Nicolai (1683–1750), lawyer
- Friedrich Boltz (around 1685 - 1754), Lutheran theologian and clergyman
- Melchior Philipp Hartmann (1685–1765), medic
- Jacob Theodor Klein (1685–1759), legal and historical scholar, botanist, mathematician and diplomat
- Johann Jakob Quandt (1686–1772), Lutheran theologian
- Christian Goldbach (1690–1764), mathematician, originator of Goldbach's conjecture, which has not yet been proven
- Heinrich Kühn (1690–1769), mathematician and natural scientist
- Christoph Langhansen (1691–1770), mathematician and Lutheran theologian
- Christian Ludwig Charisius (1692–1741), medic
- David Mill (1692–1756), Oriental philologist and Reformed theologian
- Gottlieb Siegfried Bayer (1694–1738), philologist, historian and orientalist, one of the first academics at the Petersburg Academy of Sciences
- Wilhelm Heinrich Beckher (1694–1768), Lutheran theologian
- Peter August (Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck) (1697–1775), Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck and Russian Field Marshal
- Friedrich Saturgus (1697–1754), creator of the Saturgus garden
- Johann Georg Bock (1698–1762), literary scholar and poet
- Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700–1766), writer, dramaturge and literary theorist
18th century
1701-1720
- Georg Friedrich Rogall (1701–1733), pioneer of East Prussian Pietism, director of the Collegium Fridericianum
- Johann Christoph Bohl (1703–1785), physician
- Jakob Friedrich von Rohd (1703–1784), Prussian Minister and Oberburgraf
- Johann Gottfried Teske (1704–1772), physicist
- Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt (1706–1775), theologian and church historian
- Johann von Buddenbrock (1707–1781), Prussian general
- Karl Andreas Christiani (1707–1780), German philosopher
- Georg Friedrich von Kleist (1707–1765), Prussian lieutenant general
- Johann Bartsch (1709–1738), German doctor and botanist
- Cölestin Flottwell (1711-1759), Germanist
- Friedrich Christoph zu Solms-Wildenfels (1712–1792), General of the Infantry Electorate of Saxony
- Martin Knutzen (1713–1751), philosopher
- Christoph Friedrich von Derschau (1714–1799), poet and Prussian civil servant
- Friedrich Samuel Bock (1716–1785), Protestant theologian, librarian, historian and writer
- Friedrich Wilhelm Lölhöffel von Löwensprung (1717–1780), Lieutenant General
- Theodor Christoph Lilienthal (1717–1781), Lutheran theologian
- Matthias Balthasar Nicolovius (1717–1778), councilor and senior secretary
1721-1740
- Johann Jakob von Collas (1721–1792), military and landlord
- Friedrich Johann Buck (1722–1786), philosopher and mathematician
- Paul Heinrich Trummer (1722–1808), lawyer and mayor
- Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), Enlightenment philosopher
- Caroline von Keyserling (1727–1791), artist, private scholar and society lady (court of muses of the Keyserlings)
- Friedrich von der Trenck (1727–1794), officer and adventurer
- Johann Christoph Ungefug (1728–1775), organ builder
- Johann Georg Hamann (1730–1788), philosopher and writer
- Wilhelm Crichton (1732–1805), theologian and court preacher
- Jacob Friedrich Werner (1732–1782), rhetorician and historian
- David von Neumann (1734–1807), major general, defender of Cosel, Pour le Mérite
- Johann Gottlieb Walter (1734–1818), anatomist (Berlin Anatomical Museum)
- Karl Daniel Reusch (1735–1806), physicist and librarian
- Johann Georg Scheffner (1736–1820), lawyer, writer, translator, Prussian civil servant, enlightener and Freemason
- Wilhelm Bernhard Jester (1736–1785), lawyer
- Gottlieb Schlegel (1739–1810), Protestant theologian and general superintendent for Western Pomerania
- Ludwig Ernst von Borowski (1740–1831), Prussia's only Protestant archbishop
1741-1760
- Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel the Elder (1741–1796), lawyer, writer, Königsberg mayor, friend of Kant, women's rights activist
- Friedrich Ernst Jester (1743–1822), forester and author
- Friedrich Cerulli (1746–1801), Lutheran pastor
- Julius von Grawert (1746–1821), General
- Tadeusz Brzozowski (1749–1820), 19th general of the Societas Jesu
- Christoph Friedrich Elsner (1749-1820), physician
- Karl Gottfried Hagen (1749–1829), universal scholar
- David Friedländer (1750–1834), manufacturer and author
- Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752–1814), composer and music writer
- Daniel Gotthilf Moldenhawer (1753–1823), Protestant theologian, philologist, librarian and Bible translator
- Christian Jakob Kraus (1753–1807), economist
- God of honor Andreas Wasianski (1755–1831), Protestant theologian
- Johann Christoph Wedeke (1755–1815), Lutheran theologian
- Friedrich Karl Ludwig (Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck) (1757-1816), the last Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Prussian, Russian and Danish lieutenant general
1761-1780
- Elisabeth von Staegemann (1761–1835), writer, painter and salonnière
- Johann Gottfried Frey (1762–1831), Prussian reformer
- Georg Ludwig Collins (1763–1814), Protestant clergyman in Riga
- Daniel Georg Balk (1764–1826), physician
- Carl Wilhelm Cruse (1765–1834), historian and preacher
- Michael Friedländer (1767–1824), physician in Paris and student of the philosopher Immanuel Kant
- Franz Ludwig Jakob von Haine (1767–1837), Prussian major general
- Reinhold Bernhard Jachmann (1767–1843), theologian and educator as well as a student of the philosopher Immanuel Kant
- Georg Heinrich Ludwig Nicolovius (1767–1839), ministerial official for church and school matters in the Kingdom of Prussia
- Theodor Nicolovius (1768–1831), District President of Danzig (1819–1825)
- Zacharias Werner (1768–1823), romantic poet and playwright
- Martin Gottlieb Deetz (1769–1842), businessman and local politician
- Karl von Lehndorff (1770–1854), court master in Prussia
- Heinrich Wilhelm von Werther (1772–1859), diplomat and between 1837 and 1841 Prussian Foreign Minister
- Karl Peter Faber (1773-1853), archivist and historian
- Johann David Naumann (1775–1824), Privy High Tribunal Councilor
- ETA Hoffmann (1776–1822), romantic writer, lawyer, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist
- William Motherby (1776–1847), doctor and landowner, began vaccinating against smallpox in 1803 and founded the Society of Friends of Kant
- Carl von Wegnern (1777–1854), descendant of Luther, Chancellor of the Kingdom of Prussia
- Johann Friedrich Ludwig Göschen (1778–1837), legal scholar
- Gottfried Peter Rauschnick (1778–1835), writer
- Christian Friedrich Reusch (1778–1848), administrative lawyer
- Johann Philipp Samuel Schmidt (1779–1853), lawyer, journalist, music writer and composer
1781-1800
- Martin Wilhelm Oppenheim (1781–1863), banker
- George Friedrich Hartung (1782–1849), printer and publisher
- Carl Heinrich Hagen (1785–1856), lawyer, economist, government councilor and full professor for law and political science at the University of Königsberg
- Johannes Voigt (1786–1863), historian
- David Assing (1787–1842), physician, poet and editor
- Johann Theodor Mosewius (1788–1858), opera singer, choir director and music director of the University of Breslau
- Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1788–1853), painter, etcher and lithographer of the German Romantic era
- Heinrich Tuckermann (1788–1867), Prussian lieutenant general
- Reinhold Ferdinand Neumann (1789–1833), teacher of the deaf and dumb
- Johann Daniel Symanski (1789–1857), poet, publisher of democratic magazines
- Heinrich Eduard Dirksen (1790–1868), legal scholar, lexicographer and university professor
- Charles Mayer (1790–1862), pianist, piano teacher and composer
- Heinrich von Ostau (1790–1872), Prussian major general, knight of the Order of St. John
- Heinrich Degen (1791–1848), councilor and art collector
- Karl Friedrich David von Lindheim (1791–1862), General of the Infantry, Chief of the Military Cabinet
- Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach (1792–1847), surgeon
- Johann Funk (1792–1867), pastor
- August Lewald (1792–1871), writer and publicist
- Otto Julius Bogislav Leo (1793–1865), Prussian lieutenant general
- Gustav Schnell (1793–1864), shipowner
- Friedrich Alexander Simon (1793–1869), doctor and author
- Johann Hermann Franz Kasimir Leo (1794–1869), Prussian major general
- Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794–1863), chemist and mineralogist, member of the Leopoldina
- Benjamin Wegner (1795–1864), Norwegian industrialist
- Friedrich Genée (1796-1856), opera singer (bass)
- Karl von Starck (1796–1875), civil servant and politician
- Alfred von Auerswald (1797–1870), politician in Prussia
- Ernst August Hagen (1797–1880), art writer and novelist
- Gotthilf Heinrich Ludwig Hagen (1797–1884), hydraulic engineer
- Leopold von Puttkamer (1797–1868), general of the infantry
- Karl von der Goltz (1798–1878), Prussian general of the cavalry
- Leonhard von Koschkull (1798–1872), Lieutenant General
- Otto Bachmann (1799–1870), stage actor
- Carl Laudien (1799–1856), member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
- Hedwig von Olfers (1799–1891), writer and salonnière
- Friedrich Wilhelm Schubert (1799–1868), historian, first complete edition of Kant's works (with rosary)
- Ferdinand Schur (1799–1878), German-Austrian botanist, chemist and manufacturer
- Friedrich Daniel Sanio (1800–1882), legal scholar at the Albertus University in Königsberg
- Agathon Wernich (1800–1868), entrepreneur and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
19th century
1801-1810
- Wilhelm von Neitschütz (1801–1849), lawyer, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly and the Prussian State Parliament
- Otto Rimpler (1801–1882), major in the Prussian Guard Artillery Brigade
- Joseph Levin Saalschütz (1801–1863), archaeologist, historian, cultural scientist and author
- Georg Steenke (1801–1884), Royal Building Councilor (Oberland Canal)
- Alexander August von Buchholtz (1802–1856), Pandect scientist
- Johann Franz Krieger (1802–1842), actor
- Johann August Lehmann (1802–1883), philologist, high school teacher
- Karl Lehrs (1802–1878), classical philologist
- Adolf Göschen (1803–1898), Lutheran theologian and general superintendent of the General Diocese of Harburg
- Karl Heinrich von Wnuck (1803–1881), Lieutenant General
- Heinrich Dorn (1804–1892), Romantic composer
- Botho Heinrich zu Eulenburg (1804–1879), administrative lawyer and landlord in the Kingdom of Prussia
- Karl Haffner (1804–1876), playwright
- Georg Phillips (1804–1872), legal historian and canon lawyer
- Leopold Steinfurt (1804–1864), industrialist (Waggonbau Königsberg)
- Friedrich Dewischeit (1805–1884), philologist, educator and poet in Masuria
- Friedrich Reinhold Dietz (1805–1836), philologist and doctor
- Johann Jacoby (1805–1877), Jewish doctor, publicist and radical democrat
- Robert von Blumenthal (1806–1892), District President in Danzig and Sigmaringen
- Theophil Herbst (1806–1868), philologist and university professor
- Alfred Nicolovius (1806–1890), legal scholar, university professor and author
- Heinrich Gustav Brzoska (1807–1839), educator and university professor
- Richard Friedrich zu Dohna-Schlobitten (1807–1894), landowner and politician
- Anton von Below (1808-1896), Lieutenant General
- Robert Motherby (1808–1861), doctor, landowner and parliamentarian
- Friedrich Julius Richelot (1808–1875), mathematician
- Eduard Sobolewski (1808–1872), German-American composer and conductor
- Albrecht of Prussia (1809–1872), Colonel General
- Karl Heinrich Burow (1809–1874), doctor
- Friedrich Adolf Meckelburg (1809–1881), archivist
- Boguslaw von Radziwill (1809–1873), Polish-Prussian soldier and later Berlin local politician
- Julius Rupp (1809–1884), theologian, politician of the Vormärz
- Karl von Werther (1809–1894), diplomat and ambassador
- Carl Ludwig Adolf Gamradt (1810–1860), District Administrator, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly, member of the Prussian House of Representatives
- Eduard Guth (1810–1865), philologist
- Friedrich Wilhelm Kalau von dem Hofe (1810–1874), landlord, member of the Prussian House of Representatives
- Otto Nicolai (1810–1849), German composer
- Wilhelm von Schrötter (1810–1876), Prussian lawyer and district administrator, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
- Eduard von Simson (1810–1899), judge, university professor and parliamentarian; Father of the first German constitution
1811-1820
- Leopold Hermann von Boyen (1811–1886), Prussian infantry general and governor of the Mainz fortress and later of Berlin
- Otto Hesse (1811–1874), mathematician
- Fanny Lewald (1811–1889), writer
- Rudolph Oppenheim (1811–1871), businessman, banker and consul
- Leopold Friedrich Witt (1811–1890), theater music director, opera and theater director and composer
- Ferdinand von Below (1812–1870), Prussian major general
- Otto Reinhold Jacobi (1812–1901), painter
- Karl von Wrangel (1812–1899), infantry general, honorary citizen of Flensburg
- Wilhelm August Friedrich Bechius (1813–1897), historian and writer
- Ernst Haberbier (1813–1869), composer and Imperial Russian court pianist
- Robert Kleyenstüber (1813–1884), shipowner
- Rudolf Köpke (1813–1870), historian and publicist
- Leonhard Lentz (1813–1887), classical philologist, naturalist and high school teacher
- Carl Wilhelm Hübner (1814–1879), genre and landscape painter of the Romantic era
- Konstantin Gottlieb Knauth (1814–1864), doctor, member of the Prussian House of Representatives
- Ludwig Friedrich Leo (1814–1892), physician
- Heinrich Rudolph Schmidt (1814–1867), high school teacher
- Friedrich zu Eulenburg (1815–1881), Prussian statesman
- Robert Hagen (1815–1858), chemist, mineralogist and high school teacher
- Alexander von Kotzebue (1815–1889), German-Russian battle painter of the Romantic era
- Karl Wilhelm Meixner (1815–1888), actor
- Wilhelm Schmiedeberg (1815–1865), lawyer and draftsman
- Carl Witt (1815–1891), philologist and high school teacher
- August Wilhelm Zumpt (1815–1877), classical scholar who was best known for his work on Latin inscriptions
- Adolph Oppenheim (1816–1894), farmer and manor owner
- Albert Reusch (1816–1892), philologist and high school teacher
- Johann Georg Rosenhain (1816–1887), mathematician
- Julius Ellinger (1817–1881), mathematics teacher
- Hermann August Hagen (1817–1893), doctor, zoologist and entomologist
- Robert Jaensch (1817-1892), mathematics teacher
- Otto Georg Oppenheim (1817–1909), lawyer and senior tribunal councilor
- Georg Bernhard Simson (1817–1897), lawyer and politician
- Arthur Woltersdorff (1817–1878), lawyer and theater manager
- Kuno Thassilo von Auer (1818–1895), major general
- Karl von Below (1818–1897), Prussian lieutenant general
- Robert Caspary (1818-1887), botanist
- Adele von Portugall (1818–1910), Froebel teacher
- Peter Adolf Reincke (1818–1886), doctor and university lecturer as well as politician
- Albert Wander (1818–1893), landowner, MdR
- Albert Dulk (1819–1884), free thinker and writer
- Julius Otto Ludwig Möller (1819–1887), surgeon, MdR
- Alexander Oppenheim (1819–1898), lawyer and photographer
- Hermann Settegast (1819–1908), agricultural scientist
- Ferdinand Falkson (1820–1900), doctor, writer and politician
- Adolf Hermann Wilhelm Hagen (1820–1894), banker and liberal politician
- Carl Hermann Kanngießer (1820–1882), lawyer and national liberal politician
1821-1830
- Ernst Wilhelm Ackermann (1821–1846), theologian and poet
- Rudolph von Buddenbrock (1821–1895), politician, member of the Prussian manor house
- Herminia Borchard Dassel (1821–1857), German-American portrait, landscape and genre painter
- Leo Delsa (1821–1910), administrative lawyer
- Theodor Goldstücker (1821–1872), Sanskrit researcher
- Gustav Graef (1821–1895), history and portrait painter
- Emil von Gutzmerow (1821–1906), Chamberlain to the Queen and Empress Augusta, MdHH
- Heinrich August Hahn (1821–1861), Protestant theologian and professor at the universities in Königsberg and Greifswald
- Georg Hartung (1821-1891), geologist
- Robert Schweichel (1821–1907), writer, participant in the "1848 movement"
- Wilhelm von Wittich (1821-1884), physiologist
- Agnes von Auer (1822–1902), writer
- Julius Hermann Spirgatis (1822–1899), pharmaceutical chemist and university professor
- Max Toeppen (1822-1893), historian
- Gustav Engel (1823–1895), singer, music theorist, music teacher and journalist
- Hermann Frischbier (1823–1891), teacher and regional historian of East Prussia
- Walter von Gottberg (1823–1885), general of the infantry
- Hugo von Knobloch (1823-1896), major general
- Carl Neumann (1823–1880), geographer, historian and university professor in Breslau
- Ludwig Friedländer (1824–1909), classical philologist and cultural historian
- Robert von Keudell (1824–1903), diplomat
- Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (1824–1887), physicist
- Adolph Samter (1824–1883), banker and newspaper publisher
- Ludwig Diestel (1825–1879), Protestant theologian and university professor
- Louis Ehlert (1825–1884), composer and music critic
- Heinrich Abegg (1826–1900), poor doctor and obstetrician in Gdansk
- Karl von Lehndorff (1826–1883), large landowner
- August Wittich (1826–1897), librarian and archivist
- Theodor Joseph Blell (1827–1902), politician, MdR
- Georg Voigt (1827–1891), historian
- Bernhard Weiß (1827–1918), Protestant theologian
- Julius Jacobson (1828-1889), ophthalmologist
- Theodor Liedtcke (1828–1902), actor
- Oskar Meding (1828–1903), diplomat and writer
- Waldemar Philippi (1828–1869), painter
- Franz Krüger (1829-1896), Prussian lieutenant general
- Heinrich von Lehndorff (1829–1905), general of the cavalry
- Heinrich Schröter (1829–1892), mathematician and university professor
- Gustav Calame (1830–1905), Reich judge
- Karl Güterbock (1830–1914), legal scholar and legal historian
- Richard Liebreich (1830–1917), physiologist, pioneer in the field of ophthalmology
1831-1840
- Heinrich von Hagen (1831–1905), Prussian lieutenant general
- Otto Stobbe (1831–1887), private lawyer, rector of the University of Leipzig
- Walter von Funke (1832–1900), agricultural scientist
- Leonard Jacobi (1832–1900), lawyer and university lecturer
- Rudolf Kneisel (1832–1899), actor and playwright
- Rudolph Koenig (1832–1901), acoustician
- Rudolf Lipschitz (1832–1903), mathematician and university professor
- Carl Gottfried Neumann (1832–1925), mathematician
- Alfred Clebsch (1833–1872), mathematician
- Leopold Götz (1833–1903), Protestant theologian
- Hugo Hildebrandt (1833–1882), gynecologist and university professor
- Emil Jacobson (1833–1874), member of parliament
- Bernhard Salbach (1833–1894), hydraulic engineer
- Carl Scherres (1833–1923), painter
- Karl Friedrich Skrzeczka (1833–1902), doctor
- Adolf von Gizycki (1834–1891), mechanical engineer and rector of RWTH Aachen University
- Otto Glagau (1834-1892), writer
- Hugo Grahl (1834–1905), agricultural scientist
- Gustav Eilers (1834–1911), engraver, etcher and painter
- George Japha (1834-1892), violinist
- Edwin Klebs (1834-1913), bacteriologist
- Hugo Knorr (1834–1904), landscape and marine painter, draftsman and art professor
- Bernhard Kolscher (1834–1868), architect
- Ernst Neumann (1834–1918), pathologist and hematologist in Königsberg
- Eduard Preuss (1834–1904), Lutheran theologian, university professor, convert to Catholicism and journalist
- Georg Bujack (1835-1891), prehistoric
- Friedrich Julius Neumann (1835–1910), economist in Königsberg, Basel, Freiburg and Tübingen
- Louis Saalschütz (1835–1913), mathematician
- Rudolf Siemering (1835–1905), sculptor
- Julius Witt (1835–1879), actor and theater director
- Emil von Burchard (1836–1901), politician and State Secretary in the Imperial Treasury of the German Empire
- Adolf Jensen (1837–1879), composer
- Luise Neumann (1837–1934), painter
- Paul Stolterfoth (1837-1894), President of the Senate of the Imperial Court
- Ernst Burow (1838–1885), doctor
- August zu Eulenburg (1838–1921), General of the Infantry, Minister of the Royal House
- Max von der Goltz (1838–1906), naval officer, most recently Admiral of the Imperial Navy, Chief Shipyard Director of the Imperial Shipyard Kiel (KWK)
- Arthur Kittel (1838–1926), doctor
- Otto Ferdinand Lorenz (1838–1896), architect and construction clerk
- Wilhelm Maurenbrecher (1838–1892), historian
- Werner von Bergen (1839–1901), Ambassador of the German Empire
- Oskar Liebreich (1839–1908), physician and pharmacologist
- Hermann Goetz (1840–1876), composer
- Otto Hieber (1840–1929), secret medical council and freemason
- Philipp Hirschfeld (1840–1896), chess master and theorist
- Eugen Keyler (1840–1902), general, in command of Königsberg
- Bernhard Rathke (1840–1923), chemist
- Bernhard von Simson (1840–1915), historian
1841-1850
- Franz Olck (1841–1905), classical philologist
- Benoit Oppenheim the Elder (1842–1931), banker and art collector
- Max Arendt (1843–1913), Jewish wholesale merchant and local politician
- Konrad Gaedeke (1843–1912), banker and industrialist
- Otto Hirschfeld (1843–1922), ancient historian
- Gustav Jensen (1843–1895), violinist and composer
- Emil Neide (1843–1908), painter
- Anton Emil Friedrich Sieffert (1843–1911), Reformed theologian and university professor
- Karl Wichert (1843–1921), railway engineer
- Arnold Gaedeke (1844-1892), historian
- Ernst Leopold Salkowski (1844–1923), physician and physiological chemist
- Emanuel Kayser (1845–1927), geologist
- Paul Bienko (1845–1909), administrative lawyer, district administrator and chief of police
- Adolf zu Dohna-Schlodien (1846–1905), majority holder, MdR
- Heinrich Elditt (1846–1909), lawyer and politician
- Johann Gustav Hermes (1846–1912), mathematician
- Emil Hundrieser (1846–1911), sculptor
- Ernst Hugo Heinrich Pfitzer (1846–1906), botanist
- Johanna Buska (1847–1922), actress and opera singer
- Philipp zu Eulenburg (1847–1921), diplomat
- Otto Wallach (1847–1931), chemist and Nobel Prize winner (1910)
- Georg Bender (1848–1924), local politician and long-time mayor of the city of Wroclaw
- Carl Gotthilf Büttner (1848–1893), Protestant pastor, missionary and linguist
- Hermann Eichhorst (1849–1921), physician
- Arthur Vollmer (1849–1927), actor
- Ludwig Leo († 1915), businessman, city elder and honorary citizen
- Franz Falkson (1850–1904), German local politician and from 1885 to 1897 first mayor of Weißenfels
- Richard Koss (1850–1932), civil engineer
1851-1860
- Albert Krantz (1851–1938), military musician
- Johannes Lehmann-Hohenberg (1851–1925), geologist
- Eugen Zabel (1851–1924), journalist, writer, playwright and translator
- Marie Bernhard (1852–1937), writer
- Richard Börnstein (1852–1913), physicist and meteorologist
- Richard von Helmholtz (1852–1934), engineer and designer of steam locomotives
- Johannes Friedrich Guttzeit (1853–1935), natural philosopher and life reformer
- Paul Pabst (1854–1897), German-Baltic pianist and composer
- Konrad Cosack (1855–1933), Professor of Law in Giessen, Freiburg, Bonn and Munich
- Martin von Wegnern (1855–1897), Minister of State of Schaumburg-Lippe
- Johannes Galli (1856–1927), ironworker and university professor
- Max Richter (1856–1921), ministerial official, undersecretary of state in the Reich Office of the Interior and chairman of the supervisory board of the German Potash Indicate
- Paul Friedlaender (1857–1923), chemist
- Oskar Gimnig (1857–1920), actor
- Julius Konegen (1857–1916), engineer and industrialist
- Adalbert Matkowsky (1857–1909), Berlin actor
- Emma Reichel (1857–1931), writer
- Walter Simon (1857–1920), banker and honorary citizen (1908)
- Ernst Wilhelm Wagner (1857–1927), philologist and teacher
- Georg von Below (1858–1927), constitutional and economic historian
- Eugen Boermel (1858–1932), sculptor
- Johannes Gerschmann (1858–1928), philologist and high school teacher in Königsberg
- Margarethe Quidde (1858–1940), writer, pianist and cellist, married to the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ludwig Quidde
- Hans Crüger (1859–1927), lawyer, MdR
- Paul Jacobson (1859-1923), chemist
- Samuel Jessner (1859–1929), dermatologist and sex researcher
- Ludwig Scheeffer (1859–1885), mathematician
- Kurt von Olszewski (1860–1937), major general
- Paul Rampold (1860–1926), naval officer, most recently Rear Admiral of the Imperial German Navy, naval attache and association official
- Hedwig Weiß (1860–1923), painter
1861-1870
1861-1865:
- Kurt Hensel (1861–1941), mathematician
- Hans Koch (1861–1945), classical philologist
- Clara Sudermann (1861–1924), writer
- Kurt Diestel (1862–1946), architect and professor at the Technical University of Dresden
- David Hilbert (1862–1943), mathematician
- Georg Jacob (1862–1937), Islamic scholar and orientalist
- Carl von Peistel (1862–1930), administrative lawyer
- Paul Stettiner (1862–1941), historian, classical philologist and cultural politician
- Käthe van Beeker (1863–1917), writer
- Ernst von Below (1863–1955), General of the Infantry
- Ernst Brausewetter (1863–1904), translator, editor and author
- Alfred Gottschalk (1863–1942), doctor for the poor and social democratic politician
- Ernst Gutzeit (1863–1927), university professor in Königsberg and Halle
- Hans Heinrich Hofrichter (1863–1945), officer and SA brigade leader
- Johannes Kemke (1863–1918), classical philologist and librarian
- Bruno Möhring (1863–1929), architect, urban planner and designer
- Ernst Moser (1863–1927), writer and bookseller
- Georg Reicke (1863–1923), writer and politician, Second Mayor of Berlin (1903–1920)
- Alfred Reisenauer (1863–1907), pianist, composer and music teacher
- Conrad Schmidt (1863–1932), economist, philosopher and journalist
- Paul Wendling (1863–1933), painter and illustrator
- Kurt Burchard (1864–1933), legal scholar
- Agnes Harder (1864–1939), teacher and writer
- Heinrich Kemke (1864–1941), bookseller, prehistorian and curator
- Hans Kiewning (1864–1939), archive and library director, historian, writer and painter
- Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909), mathematician and physicist
- Hans Aronson (1865–1919), pediatrician and bacteriologist
- Eugen Czaplewski (1865–1945), hygienist and university professor
- Carl Dorno (1865–1942), naturalist
- Erich von Drygalski (1865–1949), geographer, geophysicist, geodesist and polar researcher
- Jacques Joseph (1865–1934), plastic surgeon
- Richard Radow (1865–1920), opera singer
- Johannes Tolkiehn (1865–1933), classical philologist
1866-1870:
- Hermann Boettcher (1866–1935), actor
- Fritz Cohn (1866–1922), German astronomer
- Hans Georg von Doering (1866–1921), German officer and colonial official
- Agnes Freund (1866 - after 1902), German stage actress
- Robert von Hippel (1866–1951), lawyer
- Siegfried Passarge (1866–1958), geographer
- Max Wien (1866–1938), physicist
- Robert Davy (1867–1924), Austrian ministerial official
- Ludwig Goldstein (1867–1943), art historian and journalist
- Eugen von Hippel (1867–1939), ophthalmologist
- Walther Kausch (1867–1928), surgeon
- Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), visual artist
- Eugen Sandow (1867–1925), founder of bodybuilding
- Georg Stern (1867–1934), German engineer
- Moritz Korn (1868–1927), architect
- Fritz Reich (1868–1944), politician, businessman and Nazi victim
- Arnold Sommerfeld (1868–1951), mathematician and physicist
- Gustav Wittschas (1868–1953), painter
- Walter Bistrick (1869–1927), watchmaker and jeweler in Königsberg
- Adolf Behrend (1869–1946), artist and aviation pioneer
- Hanna Brandenfels (1869 - after 1932), German writer
- Felix Heumann (1869–1932), engineer and entrepreneur
- Paul Adloff (1870–1944), dentist and anthropologist
- Carl Franz (1870–1946), Army Medical Inspector
1871-1880
1871–1875:
- Max Rosenfeld (1871–1956), neurologist, psychiatrist and university professor
- Franz Bartschat (1872–1952), politician and member of the Reichstag
- Otto Braun (1872–1955), politician (social democrat) in the Weimar Republic, Prussian Prime Minister
- Helene Fehdmer (1872–1939), actress
- Richard Adolf Hoffmann (1872–1948), theologian and university professor, German Christian
- Otto Maurenbrecher (1872–1960), theater director
- Ludwig Quessel (1872–1931), editor of social democratic newspapers, MdR (1912–1931)
- Hugo Schlemüller (1872–1918), cellist, composer, instrumental teacher, music critic and publisher
- Oswald Arnoldt (1873–1922), engineer and private lecturer
- Henriette Arendt (1874–1922), first German female police officer
- Erich Berneker (1874–1937), Slavist
- Edwin Adolar Klein (1874–1944), politician and district administrator
- Max Maurenbrecher (1874–1930), theologian, publicist and politician
- Helene Neumann (1874–1942), artist (painter, graphic artist) and chairwoman of the Königsberg Housewives Association
- Otto Pietsch (1874–1960), writer
- Arwed Seitz (1874–1933), celebrity and landscape painter
- Hermann Bauer (1875–1958), German admiral
- Ernst Behmer (1875–1938), actor
- Carl Bulcke (1875–1936), writer and public prosecutor
- Arthur Crispien (1875-1946), social democratic politician
- Felix Japha (1875–1945), businessman and sponsor of Königsberg
- Eduard Kado (1875–1946), painter, draftsman, sculptor and craftsman
- Frieda Magnus-Unzer (1875–1966), writer
- Ernst Richard Neumann (1875–1955), mathematician
1876-1880:
- Alexander Cohn (1876–1951), senior judge, specialist author and survivor of the Holocaust
- Alfred Kahle (1876–1915), member of parliament
- Friedrich Radszuweit (1876–1932), publisher, publicist and LGBTI activist
- Heinrich Spiero (1876–1947), Germanist and literary historian
- Franz Schlegelberger (1876–1970), State Secretary and Acting Minister of Justice during the Nazi era
- Walter Bauer (1877–1960), theologian
- Fritz Behrendt (1877-1941 or 1967), architect
- Rudolf Borchardt (1877–1945), German writer, poet and translator
- Otto Frick (1877 - after 1939), architect
- Arnold Japha (1877-1943), medical doctor
- Gerhard Bohlmann (1878–1944), writer and journalist
- Arthur Hiller (1878-1949), doctor
- Leopold Jessner (1878–1945), director
- Otto Paetsch (1878–1927), bookseller and publisher in Königsberg
- Arthur Preuss (1878–1944), opera singer (tenor), composer and singing teacher
- Hugo Tortilowicz von Batocki-Friebe (1878–1920), district administrator
- Bruno Wollstädter (1878–1940), sculptor
- Paul Hübschmann (1878–1960), pathologist
- Wilhelm Freiherr von Gayl (1879–1945), politician (DNVP), Reich Minister of the Interior
- Ernst Tristan Kurtzahn (1879–1939), occultist
- Wilhelm von Kuhlmann (1879–1937), envoy
- Hans Holldack (1879–1950), agricultural engineer and university lecturer
- Max Isserlin (1879-1941), neurologist
- Agnes Miegel (1879–1964), writer, journalist and ballad poet
- Arno von Rehbinder (1879–1957), lawyer and politician
- Ernst Wichmann (1879–1931), architect
- Katarina Botsky (1880–1945), writer
- Hans Feige (1880–1953), infantry general in World War II
- Curt Godlewski (1880–1959), President of the Reich Statistical Office
- Felix Holldack (1880–1944), lawyer and university professor
- Paul Knapp (1880–1946), pastor
- Friedrich Lahrs (1880–1964), architect, art historian and university professor (Kant's tomb, castle excavations)
- Walter Scheffler (1880–1964), bookbinder and poet
- Bruno Taut (1880–1938), architect
1881-1890
1881–1885:
- Werner Funck (1881–1951), actor, singer, film director
- Fritz Jacoby (1881–1943), composer
- Günther Jacoby (1881–1969), philosopher
- Emil Podszus (1881–1968), physicist and inventor
- Max Bröske (1882–1915), oarsman
- Victor Caillé (1882–1958), entrepreneur and local politician
- Erich Haslinger (1882–1956), shipowner
- Walter Heymann (1882–1915), East Prussian trainee lawyer and writer
- Eva Klemperer (1882–1951), pianist, organist and translator
- Paul von Krause (1882–1946), district administrator
- Harry Liedtke (1882–1945), actor
- Walter Rosenberg (1882–1945), sculptor and artist
- Hans Steffen (1882–1945), botanist and bryologist
- Fritz Strich (1882–1963), German-Swiss Germanist
- Walter Telemann (1882–1941), internist and radiologist
- Siegfried von der Trenck (1882–1951), writer
- Franz Unterberger (1882–1945), gynecologist
- Walter Wachsmuth (1882–1964), composer and violinist
- Eberhard Arnold (1883–1935), Protestant activist
- Walter Braemer (1883–1955), general of the cavalry and SS group leader in World War II
- Alexander Flessburg (1883–1942), actor, singer and lyricist
- Victor Julius Franz (1883–1950), German zoologist and Nazi racial theorist
- Oskar von Hindenburg (1883–1960), son of Reich President Paul von Hindenburg
- Walter Krantz (1883–1945, missing), judge in Halle and Berlin
- Reinhold Trautmann (1883–1951), Slavist
- Arthur Baumgarten (1884–1966), German-Swiss lawyer
- Curt Elwenspoek (1884–1959), actor, director and writer
- Kurt Frick (1884–1963), architect
- Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1884–1945), city treasurer, resistance fighter, designated Reich Chancellor
- Marie Hartung (1884–1971), politician
- Ernst von Krause (1884–1960), major general in the Wehrmacht
- Max Taut (1884–1967), architect
- Fritz Ausländer (1885–1943), communist
- Hans Espe (1885–1965), Romance scholar and teacher
- Max Neumann (1885–1973), painter and illustrator
- Martin Wagner (1885–1957), architect and urban planner
- Viktor von Schmiedeberg (1889–1969), German lawyer in financial administration, ministerial official
1886–1890:
- Johannes Denk (1886–1964), lawyer and diplomat
- Werner Kempf (1886–1964), General of the Armored Force, Commander, Oak Leaves for the Knight's Cross
- Walter Moehrs (1886–1978), lawyer
- Hermann Densch (1887–1963), admiral
- Franz Krüger (1887–1924), social democrat
- Rolf Lauckner (1887–1954), poet, playwright, librettist and screenwriter
- Lily Pringsheim (1887–1954), politician
- Heinz Tiessen (1887–1971), composer
- Friedrich Tucholski (1887–1972), civil engineer and author
- Ludwig Dehio (1888–1963), historian and archivist
- Walter Jankuhn (1888–1953), operetta tenor
- Paul Kimritz (1888–1973), sculptor
- Georg Richard Kinat (1888–1973), bricklayer, member of the East Prussian Provincial Parliament and the German Bundestag (SPD)
- Fritz Kudnig (1888–1979), writer
- Friedrich Lehmann (1888–1960), city treasurer in Königsberg and Frankfurt am Main
- Moses Smoira (1888–1961), German-Israeli lawyer; 1948 President of Israel's Supreme Court
- Heinrich Thieslauk (1888–1937), Nazi resistance fighter
- Herbert Ziemer (1888–1975), last district administrator in Johannisburg
- Walter Forstreuter (1889–1960), CEO of the Gerling Group (1935–1948)
- Lucy Falk (1889–1968), teacher, author of children's books, testified to the post-war years in Königsberg / Kaliningrad
- Eduard Bischoff (1890–1974), freelance artist and professor at the Art Academy in Königsberg
- Karl Bülowius (1890–1945), Lieutenant General in World War II
- Hans Forstreuter (1890–1978), German high school teacher, author and sports pedagogue
- Rudolf Glass (1890 – after 1945), Nazi resistance fighter, political prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp
- Robert Jentzsch (1890–1918), mathematician and poet
- Hugo Linck (1890–1976), pastor who stayed with his congregation in Königsberg / Kaliningrad until 1948
- Max Lindh (1890–1971), landscape painter and university professor
- Gertrud Papendick (1890–1982), teacher and writer
- Ernst Schaumann (1890–1955), painter
1891-1900
1891–1895:
- Karl Alwin (1891–1945), conductor
- Eccard Freiherr von Gablenz (1891–1978), Lieutenant General in World War II
- Heinz Goldberg (1891–1969), theater director and screenwriter
- Gerhard Lapp (1891–1977), Ministerial Director in the Postal Service
- Kurt Latte (1891–1964), classical philologist
- Fritz Rumey (1891–1918), fighter pilot in the First World War
- Fritz Schellong (1891–1953), medic
- Richard Stahlmann (1891–1974), functionary of the KPD / SED and officer of the Ministry for State Security
- Alfred Bülowius (1892–1968), officer, most recently General of the Air Force Aviators in World War II
- Siegfried Hoffheinz (1892–1952), surgeon, university professor and medical officer
- Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld (1892–1929), aviation pioneer and initiator of the first east-west flight over the North Atlantic in 1928
- Helmuth Kienast (1892–1987), naval officer, commander
- Hans Lucke (1892–1983), German engineer and writer
- Ernst Mollenhauer (1892–1963), the "Nehrungsmaler"
- Joachim von Reichel (1892–1954), writer and dramaturge
- Erich Wollenberg (1892–1973), politician (KPD)
- Charlotte Wüstendörfer (1892–1945), writer
- Werner Riemann (1893–1936), painter
- Alexander Dorner (1893–1957), art historian, university professor and museum director
- Fritz Gause (1893–1973), high school teacher, historian and archivist
- Erich Jenisch (1893–1966), literary historian
- Alfred Karrasch (1893–1973), writer and editor
- Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt (1893–1982), internist and art historian (Stadtlexikon Königsberg)
- Margarete Schuchmann (1893–1991), pianist
- Wolff von Stutterheim (1893–1940), Major General in the Air Force in World War II
- Eva Tinschmann (1893–1978), actress
- Ernst Wermke (1893–1987), librarian and bibliographer, bibliography on the history of East and West Prussia (47,000 titles)
- Günther Altenburg (1894–1984), diplomat
- Hellmuth Bieske (1894–1972), industrialist, initiator of the Duisburg-Königsberg sponsorship
- Immanuel Birnbaum (1894–1982), journalist and publicist
- Hellmuth Passarge (* 1894; † around 1945), actor
- Philipp Schaeffer (1894–1943), orientalist, sinologist and Nazi resistance fighter
1896–1900:
- Harald Berkowitz (1896–1952), German doctor
- Kurt Bobeth Bolander (1896–1961), German actor
- Alfred Gause (1896–1967), Lieutenant General, holder of the Knight's Cross
- Werner Richard Heymann (1896–1961), Jewish composer and conductor
- Ewald Oppermann (1896–1965), DLV and NSFK group leader
- Georg Schwarz (1896–1979), food technologist
- Alfred Funk (1897–1943), judge and active National Socialist
- Horst Egon Berkowitz (1898–1983), lawyer and patron
- Rolf Cavael (1898–1979), painter, draftsman and graphic artist
- Wolfgang Erdmann (1898–1946), Lieutenant General in the Air Force in World War II
- Erna Fuehrer (1898–1981), doctor
- Emil Johannes Guttzeit (1898–1984), author and local history researcher
- Walter Herzberg (1898–1943), graphic artist and caricaturist
- Werner Lufft (1898–1984), lawyer and politician (SPD, SED)
- Gerda Luft (1898–1986), journalist
- Georg Schroeder (1898 – after 1939), politician (NSDAP) and SS leader
- Emy von Stetten (1898–1980), oratorio, opera and lieder singer
- Walter Strauss (1898–1982), historian and history educator
- Hans-Ulrich Twiehaus (1898–1986), tax advisor and author
- Lilli Henoch (1899–1942), track and field athlete and gym teacher
- Walter Kaminsky (1899–1975), founder of the customer credit bank
- Hans Laser (1899–1980), German-British physician
- Käthe Latzke (1899–1945), communist resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899–1986), German-American biochemist (1953 Nobel Prize with Hans Adolf Krebs )
- Hanfried Ludloff (1899–1987), German-American physicist
- Alfred Marchionini (1899-1965), dermatologist
- Margarete Riemschneider , b. Hoerner (1899–1985), art historian and author
- Eugen Scheyer (1899–1957), communist politician
- Bernhard Witt (1899–1967), politician (SPD)
- Herbert Brust (1900–1968), composer of the East Prussian song
- Samuel Sambursky (1900–1990), physicist and natural science historian
20th century
1901-1910
1901-1905:
- Otto Aßmann (1901–1977), Lord Mayor of Zwickau (1949–1954) and Lord Mayor of Gera (1956–1958)
- Hannes W. Braun (1901–1984), German actor
- Hennig Brinkmann (1901–2000), classical philologist and Germanist
- Erich Ebel (1901–1973), politician (NSDAP) and district administrator
- Jonas zu Eulenburg (1901–1945), officer, most recently colonel
- Ernst Hartmann (1901–1988), German teacher and local researcher
- Eugen Plorin (1901–1943), politician (NSDAP) and SA leader
- Reinhold Rehs (1901–1971), politician and lawyer; President of the Federation of Expellees
- Paul Ronge (1901–1965), defender of Jews and persecuted pastors in the Third Reich, 1948–1958 member of parliament and parliamentary group leader of the Berlin FDP
- Kurt Benson (1902–1942), SS-Oberführer
- Ernst Gonell (1902–1945), Major General, Commander of the Poznan Fortress (1945)
- Wilhelm Lotze (1902–1983), lawyer and politician (CDU)
- Waldemar Magunia (1902–1974), leader of the SA in East Prussia and Commissioner General in Kiev
- Helene Schwärzel (1902 - after 1992), bookkeeper who betrayed resistance fighter Carl Friedrich Goerdeler to the National Socialists
- Paul Suhr (1902–1933), politician and KPD functionary
- Fritz Bouillon (1903 - after 1983), football referee
- Walter Duddins (1903-1945), communist
- Arnold Ehrhardt (1903–1965), German lawyer, then British theologian
- Erich Gindler (1903–1995), painter
- Willi Krause (1903–1987), SPD politician and union official
- Hilde Leest (1903–1970), sculptor (Ernst Reuter)
- Lotte Lemke (1903–1988), welfare worker and chairwoman of the workers' welfare organization
- Wilhelm Matull (1903–1985), journalist and historian
- Werner Ostendorff (1903–1945), SS group leader and lieutenant general of the Waffen SS in World War II
- Herbert Rosinski (1903–1962), American historian of German descent
- Hans-Günther Seraphim (1903–1992), historian and librarian
- Udo Adelsberger (1904–1992), physicist and engineer
- Adolf Arndt (1904–1974), politician (SPD)
- Helmut Behrendt (1904–1985), sports official in the GDR
- Charlotte Kaminsky (1904–1989), voice trainer, editor and director
- Willi Kollo (1904–1988), composer
- Helge Tanck (1904–1960), painter
- Wolfgang Weyrauch (1904–1980), writer and radio play author
- Max Colpet (1905–1998), American writer, screenwriter and songwriter
- Max Fürst (1905–1978), writer
- Paul Gehlhaar (1905–1968), football player
- Adolf Greifenhagen (1905–1989), classical archaeologist and museum director
- Adalbert Jaschinski (1905–1989), painter and graphic artist
- Heinz Pose (1905–1975), nuclear physicist
- Gerhard Rautenberg (1905–1982), print shop owner and publisher
- Otto Schön (1905–1968), office manager of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED in the GDR
- Curt Teichert (1905–1996), German-American paleontologist and geologist
- Erich Trunz (1905-2001), Germanist
1906–1910:
- Felix Grayeff (1906–1981), German-New Zealand classical philologist and philosopher
- Yoram Jacoby (1906–1997), lawyer and Israeli diplomat
- Gerhard Knaak (1906–1944), Wehrmacht officer and resistance fighter of July 20, 1944
- Hans-Erich Riebensahm (1906–1988), pianist
- Wolfgang Scholz (1906–2002), doctor and regatta sailor
- Helmut Allardt (1907–1987), ambassador to Madrid and Moscow
- Bruno Fuhrmann (1907–1979), functionary of the KPD and SED
- Herbert Langkeit (1907–1979), judge at the Federal Social Court
- Reinhard Lullies (1907–1986), classical archaeologist
- Bernhard Mrowka (1907–1973), physicist
- Erwin Nötzelmann (1907–1981), politician (NSDAP)
- Karl-Lothar Schulz (1907–1972), Major General in the Air Force in World War II
- Hans Zangemeister (1907–1970), ENT doctor, audiologist and university professor
- Hans Besig (1908–1965), classical archaeologist and high school teacher
- Otfried Deubner (1908–2001), classical archaeologist and diplomat
- Bruno Endrejat (1908–1945), resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Heinrich Gerlach (1908–1991), writer
- Erich Grimoni (1908–1974), teacher, hereditary trustee of East Prussia in Duisburg
- Clemens Hasse (1908–1959), actor
- Georg Spielmann (1908–1985), communist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime, fighter in the Red Army, employee in the General Secretariat of the VVN
- Walter Tarrach (1908–1965), actor
- Ulrich Albinus (1909–1988), architect and art historian
- Rudolf Kaufmann (1909–1941), geologist and paleontologist
- Karl Hermann Knoke (1909–1994), lawyer and diplomat
- Hans Ernst Schneider (1909–1999), literary scholar
- Lothar Selke (1909–1980), historian and journalist
- Horst Uffhausen (1909–1999), federal judge
- Hans-Joachim Haecker (1910–1994), writer
- Elisabeth Herrmann (1910–1984), commercial artist and writer
- Theodor Kaluza (1910–1994), mathematician and university professor
- Karl William Kapp (1910–1976), political economist
- Hans Kaufmann (1910–2012), computer scientist
- Heinrich Koenen (1910–1945), engineer and anti-fascist resistance fighter
- Gerhard Saager (1910–1992), administrative and business lawyer
1911-1920
1911–1915:
- Walter Adamson (1911-2010), German-Australian writer
- Helmut Arndt (1911–1997), economist
- Leah Goldberg (1911–1970), Israeli writer, poet and linguist
- Hans Hermann Henseleit (1911–1997), journalist and art collector, honorary professor of Schleswig-Holstein
- Horst Kudritzki (1911–1970), jazz and entertainment musician
- Willi Kuhn (1911–1982), politician (KPD / SED) and trade unionist
- Gerhard Mitscherlich (1911–2007), forest scientist
- Hermann "Hannes" Hansen (1912–1944), German field handball player
- Karl Iffländer (1912–1983), German politician (KPD / SED) and trade unionist
- Hans-Peter Kosack (1912–1976), geographer and cartographer
- Gerhard Mollowitz (1912–2006), philosopher, co-editor of the Kant studies and the Schopenhauer yearbook
- Charlott Daudert (1913–1961), actress
- Waldemar Kampf (1913–1988), historian and literary historian
- Leopold Ettlinger (1913–1989), art historian
- Herta Heuwer (1913–1999), inventor of the spicy chill-up sauce for currywurst
- Lothar Malskat (1913–1988), painter and art forger
- Lotar Olias (1913–1990), composer and lyricist
- Erwin Shoultz-Carrnoff (1913–1990), German painter
- Kurt Zehe (1913–1969), catcher and actor
- Martin Eidt (1914-2005), lawyer
- Alfred Hein (1914–1971), politician (GB / BHE, GDP, CDU)
- Heinz Teuchert (1914–1998), guitarist and university professor
- Gerhard Assmann (1915–1976), confectioner and union official
- Horst-Günter Benkmann (1915–1996), expellee politician, founder of the East Prussian Salzburg Association
- Wolfhart Burdenski (1915–2010), judge at the Federal Social Court
- Maria Ewel (1915–1988), sculptor
- Ulrich Fischer (1915–2005), prehistorian and museum director
- Walther Hubatsch (1915–1984), historian
- Ernst Müller-Hermann (1915–1994), politician (CDU) and journalist
- Siegfried Perrey (1915–1984), head of organization of the Olympic Games in Helsinki ( 1952 ) and Munich ( 1972 )
- Friedrich Schlette (1915–2003), prehistoric
1916–1920:
- Ruth Geede (1916–2018), writer and journalist
- Kurt Hasse (1916–1999), cameraman
- Fred Thieler (1916–1999), painter
- Joachim-Ernst Meyer (1917–1998), psychiatrist
- Gerhard Schilfert (1917–2001), modern historian
- Georg-Winfried Schmidt (1917–2008), pediatrician and university professor
- Werner Behrend (1918–1987), politician
- Kurt Dahlmann (1918–2017), officer and journalist
- Karl Konrad von der Groeben (1918–2005), entrepreneur and founder
- Walter Ostendorff (1918–1989), politician (FDP)
- Gerhard Barkhorn (1919–1983), fighter pilot in World War II, holder of the Knight's Cross, major general in the German Air Force
- Konrad Hesse (1919–2005), legal scholar, judge at the Federal Constitutional Court from 1975 to 1987
- Ottokar Israel (1919–2004), historian, archivist and genealogist
- Alfred Klaus (1919–2008), a detective who became well known for his role in the fight against terrorism of the RAF
- Gerhard Klumbies (1919–2015), professor, internist and psychotherapist in Jena
- Marianne Meyer-Krahmer (1919–2011), historian, teacher and writer
- Cuno Winkler (1919–2003), nuclear medicine specialist and university professor
- Klaus Behrendt (1920–2013), actor
- Gerhard Doerfer (1920–2003), Turkologist and Altaist
- Henry Glade (1920–1999), German-American linguist and university professor
- Hans Josephsohn (1920–2012), Swiss sculptor
- Heinz-Karl Konrad (* 1920), actor
- Bernhard Markwitz (1920–2000), businessman
- Günter Georg Mollowitz (1920–2011), surgeon in Kiel and Rheinhausen
- Herbert Morét (1920–2009), Baptist pastor
1921-1930
1921–1925:
- Horst Ankermann (1921–2005), pharmacologist and sculptor
- Tamara Ehlert (1921–2008), poet and narrator
- Klaus Friedrich (1921–2005), judge at the Federal Social Court
- Richard Groß (1921–1968), writer and radio play author
- Walter Kallweit (1921-2001), German politician (SPD)
- Lothar Klimek (1921–2013), photo artist and university professor
- Heinz Lehmann (1921–1995), chess player
- Heinz Rox-Schulz (1921–2004), globetrotter and adventurer
- Lothar Schmidt (1921–2020), physician in the field of addiction aid
- Hanns Christian Schroeder-Hohenwarth (1921–2011), banker
- Alfons Schwarz (1921–1995), politician (CDU)
- Friedemann Stallmann (1921–2014), German-American mathematician
- Maria Blohmke (1922–2016), doctor
- Wolfgang Borchert (1922–2007), actor
- Erika Durban-Hofmann (1922–2005), painter, graphic artist and book author
- Reinhard Goerdeler (1922–1996), lawyer and auditor, founder of KPMG
- Hartwig Kirschner (1922–1995), surgeon in Altona
- Rudolf Konrad (1922–2009), musician, composer and university professor
- Werner Ruhnau (1922–2015), architect and university professor
- Antje Weisgerber (1922–2004), actress
- Paul Wiens (1922–1982), writer
- Joe Wildon (1922-2003), magician
- Wolfgang Harich (1923–1995), philosopher and journalist in the GDR
- Eberhard von Claer (1923-2013), German politician (CDU)
- Ursula Koschinsky (1923–2016), artist and glass painter
- Günter Oehlert (1923–2013), gynecologist and obstetrician
- Hermanas Perelšteinas (1923–1998), Lithuanian choir conductor and music teacher
- Hermann Stegemann (1923–2018), Professor of Biochemistry
- Ulrich Wannagat (1923–2003), chemist
- Herbert Beister (1924–2012), civil engineer
- Gotthold Gloger (1924–2001), writer and painter
- Kurt Wöhler (1924-2006), lawyer, administrative officer and politician (FDP)
- Rüdiger Beer (1925–1975), anesthesiologist and university professor
- Hans-Jürgen Augstein (1925-2001), politician (SPD)
- Sabine Ball (1925–2009), evangelist and operator of social projects
- Hans-Joachim Newiger (1925–2011), classical philologist
- Günter Schischefski (1925–2007), ice hockey player and coach and soccer player
1926–1930:
- Roswitha von Bergmann (1926-2004), politician (FDP)
- Ingeborg Lapsien (1926–2014), actress and voice actress
- Christian Papendick (* 1926), architect, writer and photographer
- Gerlind Reinshagen (1926–2019), writer
- Christa Williams (1926–2012), pop singer
- Ulrich von Witten (1926–2015), administrative lawyer
- Nechama Drober (* 1927), German-Israeli author
- Bernhard Elsner (1927–2017), major general in the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR
- Peter Roquette (* 1927), mathematician
- Erwin Scheffler (1927–2009), football player
- Rainer Wohlfeil (* 1927), historian
- Gerd Crüger (1928–2019), agricultural scientist in phytomedicine
- Hans Helmut Kornhuber (1928–2009), neurologist and neurophysiologist
- Karl-Heinz Kress (1928–1979), painter
- Gerhard Lehmbruch (* 1928), political scientist
- Jürgen Moser (1928–1999), German-US-American-Swiss mathematician
- Leah Rabin (1928–2000), Israeli politician and wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, who was assassinated in 1995
- Michael Wieck (* 1928), violinist
- Joachim Dikau (* 1929), educational scientist
- Karl-Hermann Flach (1929–1973), journalist and politician
- Klaus Gernhuber (* 1929), jazz musician
- Henning-Leopold von Hassell (1929–1996), diplomat
- Lothar Juckel (1929–2005), architect and editor
- Irene Mann (1929–1996), dancer, actress and choreographer
- Gerda Munsinger (1929–1998), German model
- Johannes Neumann (1929–2013), sociologist
- Andreas Spira (1929–2004), classical philologist
- Wilfried Warneck (1929–2015), Protestant theologian
- Gerhard Waschewski (1929–2009), diplomat of the GDR
- Joachim Hoffmann (1930–2002), historian and publicist
- Gert Huffmann (1930-2011), neurologist
- Helmut Komp (1930–2016), Wolfskind, writer, translator from Lithuanian
- Lothar Mosler (1930–2002), author, local history researcher, trade unionist and local politician (SPD)
- Wolfgang Tiessen (1930–2017), book designer and publisher
1931-1940
1931-1935:
- Algis Budrys (1931–2008), Lithuanian-American science fiction writer
- Thomas Eichelbaum (1931–2018), New Zealand lawyer
- Esther Knorr-Anders (* 1931), journalist and writer
- Klaus Jürgen Schoen (1931–2018), painter
- Klaus Schröter (1931–2017), literary scholar and literary historian
- Rasmus von Gottberg (1932–2010), writer, director and film producer
- Hinrich Lehmann-Grube (1932–2017), local politician (SPD); from 1990 to 1998 mayor of the city of Leipzig
- Gerhard Deutschmann (* 1933), composer
- Renate Ewert (1933–1966), film actress
- Manfred Fischer (1933–2010), pastor of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg
- Horst Haase (1933–2019), politician (SPD)
- Fritz Hermann Kayser (* 1933), microbiologist
- Klaus-Wolfgang Klein (1933–1993), Major General of the Ministry for State Security (MfS)
- Reinhard Klesczewski (1933–2011), Romanist, Italianist and literary scholar
- Arnold Meyer-Faje (* 1933), economist and university professor
- Eva Müller (* 1933), German sinologist
- Eckhard Neumann (1933–2006), graphic designer, design historian and publicist
- Erhard Ragwitz (* 1933), composer and musicologist
- Gerhard Ruhbach (1933–1999), Protestant theologian
- Eberhard Winkler (* 1933), pastor and professor for practical theology
- Horst Arndt (1934-2014), rower
- Franz-Christian Czygan (1934–2012), Professor of Pharmaceutical Biology
- Erika Hickel (* 1934), pharmacist and politician
- Ulrich Kaiser (1934–2015), sports journalist
- Martin Keilhacker (1934–2016), plasma physicist
- Haug von Kuenheim (* 1934), journalist
- Martin Link (1934–2005), gynecologist and obstetrician
- Manfred Lossau (1934–2017), classical philologist
- Konrad Marwinski (1934–2019), historian and librarian
- Egbert Nitsch (1934–2005), politician
- Christa Oenicke (1934–2004), actress
- Hans Georg Anscheidt (* 1935), motorcycle racing driver
- Bashir Ahmad Dultz (* 1935), German Islamic religious functionary and Sufi sheikh
- Eve Gramatzki (1935–2003), German-French graphic artist
- Anneli Granget (1935–1971), actress
- Hans Grass (1935–2014), painter
- Reiner Labusch (1935–2016), physicist and university professor
- Ralph Knebel (1935–1990), writer
- Winrich Mothes (* 1935), pediatric surgeon
- Frank Schepke (1935–2017), rower and Olympic champion in 1960
- Wolfgang Schieder (* 1935), historian
- Willi Schrade (* 1935), actor
- Hans-Georg Soldat (1935–2012), radio journalist and critic
1936:
- Henning Frederichs (1936–2003), composer, conductor and music teacher
- Brigitte Gedon (* 1936), art historian and biographer
- Wolfgang Giere (* 1936), medical IT specialist
- Klaus-Jürgen Hoffie (* 1936), entrepreneur and politician (FDP)
- Peter Makolies (* 1936), sculptor
- Volkwin Marg (* 1936), architect
- Peter Pflegel (1936–2017), pharmacist
- Monika Wiskandt (1936–2011), table tennis player
1937:
- Lothar Czayka (* 1937), economist, systems researcher and philosopher of science
- Peter-Jürgen Czygan (* 1937), gynecologist
- Franz-Adolf Gehlhaar (1937–2016), teacher
- Heinz Greiffenberger (* 1937), entrepreneur
- Ottfried Hennig (1937–1999), Member of the Bundestag
- Peter Klepatz (1937–2001), football player
- Ulrich Kohn (* 1937), football player
- Konrad Morgenroth (* 1937), pathologist
- Dieter Motzkus (1937–2016), classical philologist, teacher and translator
- Albrecht Noth (1937–1999), Islamic scholar
- Erwin Oberländer (* 1937), Eastern European historian
- Witta Pohl (1937–2011), actress
- Claus Henning Schapper (* 1937), government official (SPD)
- Irene Shirun-Grumach (* 1937), Israeli Egyptologist
- Axel Wernitz (* 1937), politician (SPD)
1938:
- Wolfgang Bodeit (1938–2018), Hamburg politician (FDP)
- Jürgen Eckhardt (* 1938), lawyer
- Helmut Fleck (* 1938), politician
- Ulli Herzog (1938–2003), radio play director, author and radio play speaker
- Rainer Hesse (* 1938), poet and author of scientific works
- Max G. Kaminski (1938–2019), painter
- Manfred Kinder (* 1938), track and field athlete, Olympic medalist
- Heinz Reisz (* 1938), politician (NPD)
- Michael Salewski (1938-2010), historian
- Eckhard Sauerbaum (* 1938), mayor of Kiel
- Otto Schieder (1938–1998), biologist
- Fred Schulz (1938-2004), Brigadier General
- Konrad Wickert (* 1938), historian and librarian
- Heinrich August Winkler (* 1938), historian
1939:
- Wolf-Dieter Heilmeyer (* 1939), classical archaeologist
- Klaus-Michael von Keussler (* 1939), lawyer and escape helper on the inner-German border
- Reinhard Kuhnert (* 1939), English graduate, university professor and politician
- Helga Kutz-Bauer (* 1939), sociologist, social historian, politician (SPD) and author
- Veruschka Countess von Lehndorff (* 1939), actress, photo model, painter and photographer
- Hermann Leskien (* 1939), librarian
- Siegward Lychatz (1939-2008), cycling training scientist; Head of the GDR cycling center in Leipzig
- Peter Musäus (* 1939), German-Austrian actor and voice actor
- Christine Wolter (* 1939), writer
- Klaus Zähringer (* 1939), marksman
1940:
- Reinhard Bonnke (1940–2019), Christian evangelist with a Pentecostal orientation
- Peter Budschun (* 1940), politician (SPD) and police officer
- Michael Fengler (* 1940), film producer, screenwriter and director
- Jörg Fligge (* 1940), historian and librarian
- Edelgard Jucknies (1940-2002), television announcer
- Dietrich Lehmann (* 1940), theater and television actor, director and radio play speaker
- Manfred Lischewski (* 1940), politician (CDU)
- Marion Michael (1940–2007), stage and film actress
- Ulrich Muhlack (* 1940), historian
- Jürgen Nitsch (* 1940), psychologist and sports scientist
- Lutz Philipp (1940–2012), long-distance runner
- Gerd-Rüdiger Puin (* 1940), Islamic scholar
- Manfred Reichert (1940-2010), football player
- Manfred HG Sanden (* 1940), politician (CDU), member of the state parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia
- Luzius Theiler (* 1940), Swiss politician
- Klaus Willimczik (* 1940), sports scientist
- Eberhard Wilms (* 1940), historian and textbook author
1941-1945
1941:
- Hans-Dieter Arntz (* 1941), teacher and regional historian
- Bernd Becker (1941–2012), lawyer and administrative scientist
- Jürgen Bischof (* 1941), apparatus gymnast
- Annelore Engel-Braunschmidt (* 1941), Slavist in Kiel
- Claus Grossner (1941–2010), investment banker, publicist and journalist
- Fritz Haake (1941–2019), theoretical physicist
- Hermann Graf Hatzfeldt (* 1941), forest owner and author
- Ulrich Heising (1941–2013), theater and film director
- Viktoras Justickis (* 1941), Lithuanian forensic psychologist and criminologist
- Stefan Karwiese (* 1941), Austrian classical archaeologist and numismatist
- Peter Kohnke (1941–1975), marksman and Olympic champion
- Peter Lautzas (* 1941), historian and history educator
- Wolf Oschlies (* 1941), political scientist
- Hans-Georg Stümke (1941–2002), weather observer, writer, teacher, historian and publicist
- Karsten Voigt (* 1941), neuroradiologist
- Klaus Weigelt (* 1941), Chairman of the Königsberg Foundation
- Jörg W. Ziegenspeck (* 1941), educational scientist
1942:
- Volker Canaris (1942–2012), dramaturge, theater critic, theater director and film producer
- Chris Doerk (* 1942), pop singer
- Gisela Fröhlich (* 1942), politician (SPD)
- Wolfgang Gabel (1942–2015), author and journalist
- Helga Guitton (* 1942), radio and television presenter
- Uwe Herder (1942–1998), politician (SPD)
- Olaf Ihlau (* 1942), social scientist, journalist and non-fiction author
- Bernd Kannenberg (* 1942), track and field athlete
- Dietrich-Alex Koch (* 1942), Protestant theologian
- Werner Lauterborn (* 1942), physicist
- Rolf Lechner (* 1942), entrepreneur in the real estate sector
- Hans-Joachim Paproth (1942–2007), ethnologist
- Thomas Philipp (* 1942), internist and university professor
- Eberhard Piltz (1942–2011), journalist
- Eberhard Reichert (* 1942), lawyer and mayor of Graefelfing
1943:
- Dietrich Andreas (* 1943), diplomat
- Martin Born (1943–2007), journalist
- Hans-Joachim Braun (* 1943), German social, economic and technical historian
- Klaus Dreikopf (* 1943), politician (SPD, CDU)
- Robert Hettlage (* 1943), sociologist and professor
- Ulrich Küchl (* 1943), Austrian composer and Roman Catholic priest
- Rainer Liedtke (1943–2012), doctor, scientist and entrepreneur
- Vera Münchow (* 1943), writer
- Gundula Petrovska (1943–2017), actress
- Bernd Reuter (* 1943), politician
- Michael Schneider (* 1943), writer
- Juergen Schulz (1943–2020), radio presenter as well as author and editor
- Berndt A. Skott (1943–2018), cartoonist
- Christean Wagner (* 1943), CDU politician
1944:
- Uwe-Bernd Griesert (1944–2017), politician
- Helmut Lölhöffel von Löwensprung (1944–2018), journalist
- Bernd-Dieter Hüge (1944–2000), writer
- Max J. Kobbert (* 1944), game designer and professor of perceptual psychology
- Eckard König (* 1944), educational scientist
- Jürgen-Detlef Kuckein (* 1944), lawyer and from 1994 to 2009 judge at the German Federal Court of Justice
- Klaus-Jürgen Melullis (* 1944), legal scholar and judge at the Federal Court of Justice (BGH)
- Giselher Schubert (* 1944), musicologist
- Wolfgang Steguweit (* 1944), numismatist
- Anne Volk (1944–2017), journalist
- Herbert Wessel (* 1944), track and field athlete and Olympic participant
- Verena Wohlleben (* 1944), politician (SPD)
1945:
- Martin Rosz (* 1945), visual artist