List of sons and daughters of the city of Karlsruhe
The following overview contains important personalities born in Karlsruhe , listed chronologically according to their year of birth. It is irrelevant whether or not the people later had their sphere of activity in Karlsruhe. Many have moved away from Karlsruhe and become known elsewhere. The list does not claim to be complete. Persons not born in Karlsruhe who worked there can be found in the list of personalities of the city of Karlsruhe .
18th century
1701-1780
- 1718, February 9, Wilhelm von Rotberg , † October 30, 1795, President of the Chamber and Privy Councilor in the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg
- 1720, September 7, Johann Christian Sachs , † June 29, 1789, grammar school rector and Protestant church councilor; Historian of the House of Baden
- 1722, July 1, Friedrich Valentin Molter , † February 6, 1808, librarian, poet, numismatist, classical archaeologist and councilor, director of the court library and privy councilor
- 1728, November 22, Karl IV. Friedrich von Baden , † June 10, 1811, Margrave, Elector and Grand Duke of Baden 1738–1811
- 1737, Karl Preuschen , † July 18, 1809, Obervogt of the Oberamt Karlsruhe, privy councilor
- 1741, December 8, Karl von Geusau , † February 8, 1829, Baden general, diplomat and minister of war
- 1749, December 18, Carl Friedrich Hermann von Freystedt , † December 20, 1795, margravial colonel of Baden and commander of the entire Baden military
- 1755, February 14, Karl Ludwig von Baden , † December 16, 1801 in Arboga, Sweden; Hereditary Prince of Baden, "Europe's father-in-law"
- 1756, August 29, Friedrich von Baden , † May 28, 1817, titular Margrave of Baden
- 1756, December 3, Karl Friedrich von Fischer , † October 9, 1821, Minister of Baden
- 1758, December 2, Johann Wilhelm Hemeling , † May 22, 1817, teacher of the deaf and dumb and head of the Karlsruhe court library
- 1758, Ephraim Joseph Hirschfeld , † January 27, 1820 in Offenbach am Main, German-Jewish mystic, Kabbalist and Freemason
- 1763, February 9, Ludwig I. Wilhelm August von Baden , † March 30, 1830, Grand Duke of Baden 1818–1830
- 1764, December 22nd, Georg Ernst Ludwig von Preuschen von und zu Liebenstein , † September 12th, 1849, member of the Nassau state parliament and judge and president of the Wiesbaden Court of Appeal
- 1766, September 9, Johann Carl Müller , † August 20, 1834, lawyer, Oberamtmann of Baden
- 1766, November 24, Friedrich Weinbrenner , † March 1, 1826, architect
- 1768, April 23, Friedrich Groos , † June 15, 1852 in Eberbach / Neckar , doctor and philosopher
- 1770, March 20, Johann Gottfried Tulla , † March 27, 1828 in Paris, engineer, officer, Rhine regulator, founder of the Karlsruhe Engineering School, today's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- 1772, April 8, Wilhelm Christian Griesbach , † April 16, 1838, first Lord Mayor of Karlsruhe
- 1773, October 1, Karl Wilhelm Böckmann , † June 18, 1821, chemist
- 1775, November 3, Friedrich Molter , † November 1, 1842, head of the Karlsruhe court library
- 1775, December 15, Christoph Eisenlohr , † July 21, 1852, Oberamtmann of Baden, member of the state parliament
- 1777, August 13, Christian Friedrich von Boeckh , † December 21, 1855, civil servant and politician; Minister of State of Baden from 1844 to 1846
- 1779, June 1, Christoph Arnold , † July 17, 1844 in Heidelberg, architect
- 1779, October 8, Carl Deimling , † March 30, 1850 in Karlsruhe, administrative officer
- 1780, February 11, Karoline von Günderrode , † July 26, 1806 in Winkel , poet
- 1780, March 22, Bernhard Dollmaetsch , † May 8, 1845, Lord Mayor of the City of Karlsruhe (1816–1830), Member of the Baden State Parliament (1822–1828)
1781-1800
- 1781, February 3, Karl Wilhelm Eugen von Freydorf , † July 25, 1854, Baden officer and minister of war
- 1781, March 12, Friederike von Baden , † September 25, 1826, Queen of Sweden from 1797 to 1809
- 1785, April 29, Karl von Drais , formerly Baron von Sauerbronn, † December 10, 1851, inventor (two-wheelers as the archetype of bicycles and motorcycles , keyboard typewriter , punched tape steno machine , cooking box )
- 1785, November 24, August Boeckh , † August 3, 1867 in Berlin, classical philologist and antiquarian
- 1786, January 23, Friedrich Arnold , † November 24, 1854, architect and construction clerk
- 1786, April 25, Friedrich Carl Hector Wilhelm von Günderrode , † March 21, 1862, lawyer and politician
- 1786, June 8, Carl Ludwig Friedrich von Baden , † December 8, 1818 in Rastatt, Grand Duke of Baden 1811–1818
- 1786, September 1, Wilhelm Gayling von Altheim , † October 13, 1861, General
- 1788, May 5, Ferdinand Freiherr von Biedenfeld , † March 8, 1862, poet, publicist and dramaturge
- 1788, September 10, Wilhelmine von Baden , † January 27, 1836 on the Rosenhöhe, daughter of Hereditary Prince Karl Ludwig von Baden
- 1790, January 10th Carl Baumgärtner , † October 8th 1847, bailiff and member of the Baden state parliament
- 1790, August 29, Karl Leopold Friedrich von Baden , † April 24, 1852, Grand Duke of Baden 1830–1852
- 1790, November 18, Karl Friedrich Vierordt † December 19, 1864 in Karlsruhe, historian and educator
- 1790, Johann Ludwig Weinbrenner , † 1858, builder from Baden
- 1791, July 20, August Klose , † March 23, 1872 in Hofstetten near Brienz, Switzerland; Lord Mayor of the City of Karlsruhe
- 1792, April 7, Karl Eduard Morstadt , † January 10, 1850, legal scholar, economist and university lecturer
- 1792, April 8, Wilhelm von Baden , † October 11, 1859
- 1792, April 16, Karl von Stößer ; † August 12, 1874, Oberamtmann of Baden
- 1793, January 28, Friedrich Lauer , † December 26, 1873 in Mannheim, entrepreneur and politician
- 1796, Veit Ettlinger , † July 24, 1877, lawyer; first Jewish city councilor of Karlsruhe, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly and chairman of the Karlsruhe Synagogue Council
- 1798, March 17, Jakob Ettlinger , † December 7, 1871 in Altona, Orthodox rabbi
- 1800, November 1, August Eichrodt , † November 27, 1856, born in Durlach, Oberamtmann of Baden
- 1800, December 11th, Karl Joseph Berckmüller , † April 6th, 1879, architect and construction officer of the Grand Ducal Baden
19th century
1801-1820
- 1801, April 20, Adolf Sander , † March 9, 1845 in Rastatt, lawyer and member of the Baden state parliament
- 1803, September 8, Friedrich Theodor Fischer † November 14, 1867, architect and senior building officer in the Grand Duchy of Baden
- 1804, May 6, Karl Julius Holtzmann , † February 23, 1877, Protestant theologian and prelate of the Evangelical Church in Baden
- 1808, August 27, Franz von Pfeuffer , † August 26, 1883 in Karlsruhe, lawyer and Privy Councilor
- 1809 January 19, Jakob Malsch , † December 12, 1896, was Lord Mayor of Karlsruhe
- 1809, May 9, Rudolf Kusel , † January 26, 1890, lawyer and member of parliament
- 1810, Auguste Frühauf , née Auguste Mayerhofer, † 1852 in Frankfurt am Main, child actress and theater actress
- 1812, February 21, Ludwig Waag , † June 19, 1879 in Bad Gastein, lieutenant general of Baden, governor of Rastatt fortress
- 1812, November 10, Emil von Kageneck , † November 17, 1882 in Karlsruhe, Baden forest official
- 1816, February 25, Charles Reutlinger , † 1881 at the earliest (probably after 1890) in Paris, photographer and entrepreneur
- 1816, September 15, Wilhelm Kohl, † 1907 in Pennsylvania, major general in the American Civil War, renamed William T. Cole
- 1817, April 3, Max von Becker , † February 4, 1884, engineer in the field of railway and hydraulic engineering
- 1817, April 5, Henriette Obermüller , † May 20, 1893 in Oberweiler near Badenweiler , democratic activist and women's rights activist
- 1817, January 17, Georg Wolf , † May 2, 1864 in Konstanz, Oberamtmann of Baden
- 1817, August 25, Hermann von Hillern , † December 8, 1882, Court and Privy Archives Councilor of Baden
- 1817 or 1818, October 11th, Marie Amalie von Baden , † October 8th or 18th, 1888 in Baden-Baden, princess of Baden and by marriage Duchess of Hamilton
- 1820, March 26, Karl Wielandt , † January 3, 1884, Oberamtmann of Baden, President of the Senate of the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court
- 1820, May 2, Robert Gerwig , † December 6, 1885, civil engineer
1821-1840
- 1821, December 12, Friedrich Sachs , † April 26, 1893 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Prussian lieutenant general
- 1823, April 22, Karl Wilhelm von Fabert (1823–1904), Prussian major general
- 1823, May 20, Wilhelm Pleikard Ludwig von Gemmingen , † July 29, 1903, officer, Lord Chamberlain
- 1823, June 15, Friedrich von Preen , † May 5, 1894, Baden district chief, secret councilor
- 1824, August 15, Ludwig II of Baden , † January 22, 1858, Grand Duke of Baden 1852–1856, however, left the official business to his brother Friedrich
- 1824, October 17, Christian Pfann , † November 30, 1885 in Stuttgart, lithographer and photographer
- 1825, July 16, Julius Braun , † July 22, 1869 in Munich, art historian and university professor.
- 1825, August 27, Émile Reutlinger , † August 9, 1907, photographer
- 1826, February 16, Joseph Victor von Scheffel , † April 9, 1886, writer (trumpeter von Säckingen; old Heidelberg, you fine)
- 1826, June 24, Wilhelm Frey , † February 4, 1911 in Mannheim, painter of the Munich School, professor and director of the Grand Ducal Picture Gallery in Mannheim
- 1826, September 9, Friedrich I. Wilhelm Ludwig von Baden , † September 28, 1907 on the island of Mainau / Bodensee, Grand Duke of Baden 1856–1907, previously 1852–1856 regent instead of his brother Ludwig
- 1828, January 5th, Emil Frommel , Protestant theologian and folk writer
- 1829, December 18, Prince Wilhelm von Baden , † April 27, 1897, Prussian and Baden general and politician
- 1830, February 2, Karl von Grimm , † April 6, 1898, Baden Justice Minister, member of the Reichstag
- 1830, June 20, Leopold Heinrich , † January 17, 1891, architect
- 1831, February 17, Maximilian Leichtlin , † January 19, 1910, botanist
- 1832, January 13, Adolf Hausrath , † August 2, 1909 in Heidelberg, theologian and writer
- 1832, May 17, Heinrich Holtzmann , † August 4, 1910 in Lichtental, Protestant theologian
- 1832, November 11, Adolf Williard , † February 26, 1923, architect and building officer, master church builder
- 1833, January 23, Ludwig von Deimling , † October 15, 1906 in Baden-Baden, Lieutenant General
- 1835, March 10, Eduard Gulat von Wellenburg , † February 4, 1901 in Freiburg im Breisgau, administrative lawyer in the Grand Ducal-Baden region, secret councilor and member of the chamber
- 1837, February 14, Josef Durm , † April 3, 1919, architect, building researcher, construction clerk and university professor
- 1837, February 22, Leopoldine von Baden , † December 23, 1903 in Strasbourg, by marriage Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
- 1839, September 20, Cäcilie von Baden , † April 12, 1891 in Charkow, Ukraine, Princess of Baden, Grand Duchess of Russia
- 1839, October 31, Anton von Froben , † April 13, 1910 in Karlsruhe, Prussian general of the artillery and governor of Metz
- 1840, November 23, Wilhelm Schüssele , † March 4, 1905 in Heidelberg, City Councilor
1841-1860
- 1841, February 2, Emil von Kessler , † May 16, 1895 in Baden-Baden, entrepreneur and politician
- 1841, November 15, Anna Ettlinger , † February 17, 1934, literature lecturer, writer and women's rights activist
- 1842, August 5, Ferdinand Keller , † July 8, 1922 in Baden-Baden , painter
- 1842, October 12, Adolf Freiherr Marschall von Bieberstein , † September 24, 1912 in Badenweiler, State Secretary and Head of the Foreign Office of the German Reich (1890–97)
- 1843, May 8, Max Boeckh , † March 10, 1913, lawyer and politician; 1905–13 member of the Baden state parliament
- 1844, June 2, Robert Koelle , † May 30, 1926 in Karlsruhe, politician
- 1844, August 30, Friedrich Ratzel , † August 9, 1904 in Ammerland am Starnberger See, zoologist and geographer; Founder of the scientific theory of geopolitics
- 1844, November 25, Carl Friedrich Benz (in Mühlburg ), † April 4, 1929 in Ladenburg, engineer and automobile pioneer (inventor of the first automobile, 1885)
- 1844, December 24th, Leopold Ettlinger ; † December 7, 1912, businessman, member of the city council and the Karlsruhe synagogue council
- 1845, February 27, Hermann Eichfeld , † August 26, 1917 in Mannheim, landscape painter
- 1845, April 19, Adolf Föhrenbach , † November 29, 1928 in Freiburg im Breisgau , Privy Councilor, senior magistrate in Freiburg and Karlsruhe
- 1845, June 28, Julius Lacher , lawyer and bailiff in the Baden civil service
- 1846, December 19, Karl Friedrich Otto Schuster (1846–1927), officer, weather researcher and mayor of Triberg from 1895 to 1904
- 1847, March 31, Hermann Volz , † November 11, 1941, sculptor
- 1847, August 19, Bertha Bayer-Braun , † July 9, 1909 in Hamburg, theater actress
- 1847, November 29, Wilhelm Holtzmann , † September 19, 1914, Oberamtmann of Baden
- 1847, December 17, Gustav Ziegler , † February 19, 1908, architect of historicism
- 1848, January 11, Adolf Marschall von Bieberstein , † November 13, 1920 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden Foreign Minister
- 1848, March 3, Max Becker , † March 1, 1896 in Lörrach, lawyer and administrative officer
- 1848, April 25, Karl Hartfelder , † June 7, 1893 in Heidelberg, historian, archivist and educator
- 1848, July 21, Ferdinand Karl Roeder von Diersburg , † February 2, 1926, Prussian major general
- 1848, September 22, Theodor Haas , † July 8, 1911 in Leipzig, author, editor and philatelist
- 1849, March 18, Wilhelm von Seldeneck , † March 3, 1925, entrepreneur
- 1849, March 26, Hermann Bissinger , † January 11, 1918 in Munich, engineer
- 1850, October 4, Franz Baer , † July 3, 1891 in Freiburg im Breisgau, architect
- 1850, October 26, Otto Nüsslin , † January 2, 1915 in Baden-Baden, Privy Councilor, zoologist and forest scientist
- 1851, July 19, Wilhelm Hack , † April 23, 1887, medic
- 1851, Rudolf Burckhardt , † 1914, master builder of classicism
- 1853, March 21, Berthold Deimling , † February 3, 1944 in Baden-Baden, Prussian general of the infantry
- 1853, March 24th Emil Nagel , † December 19, 1933 in Karlsruhe, officer and traveler to Africa
- 1855, February 9, Franz Lipp , † March 18, 1937 in Florence, journalist, lawyer and politician
- 1855, May 25, Karl von Savigny , † November 6, 1928 on Gut Trages near Gelnhausen, Majorate, District Administrator von Büren, Member of the Reichstag (center)
- 1855, December 8, Wilhelm Volz , † July 7, 1901 in Munich, painter and graphic artist
- 1856, March 20, Ludwig Richard Conradi , † September 16, 1939 in Hamburg, free church missionary and mission director
- 1856, September 19, Conrad Sutter , † October 22, 1927 in Bethel, architect and graphic artist
- 1856, November 7, Karl Turban , † April 5, 1935 in Maienfeld, physician
- 1857, January 27, Anton Josef Beck , † September 29, 1922, administrative lawyer, member of the Reichstag
- 1857, May 15, Hermann Wiener , † June 13, 1939, mathematician
- 1857, July 9, Friedrich II. Of Baden , † August 9, 1928 in Badenweiler, Grand Duke of Baden 1907–1918
- 1858, November 21, Eduard Alois Prince von Schönburg-Hartenstein , † September 20, 1944 in Hartenstein, Austro-Hungarian Colonel General and Austrian Defense Minister
- 1859, July 17, Karl Asal , † November 8, 1929, born in Durlach, Oberamtmann of Baden
- 1860, January 16, Karl Obser , † January 21, 1944, historian and archivist; 1906–24 director of the General State Archives in Karlsruhe
1861-1880
- 1861, October 26, Carl Gebhard , † December 27, 1903 in Berlin, gynecologist and university professor
- 1861, December 10, Elisabeth von Heyking , † January 4, 1925 in Berlin, writer and painter
- 1862, June 2, Adolf Des Coudres , † September 21, 1924 in Fürstenfeldbruck, landscape painter
- 1862, August 7, Viktoria von Baden , † April 4, 1930 in Rome, princess of the Baden family and queen of Sweden by marriage
- 1862, November 13, Otto Frommel , † October 13, 1930 in Berlin, theologian, Protestant preacher and publicist
- 1862, November 29, Friedrich Klose , † December 24, 1942 in Ruvigliano, composer
- 1863, April 9, Clara Rosenthal , † November 11, 1941 in Jena, art patron, victim of anti-Semitic persecution
- 1865, March 19, August Hofmann , † March 14, 1930, Oberamtmann of Baden
- 1865, June 20, August Hausrath , † May 15, 1944 in Heidelberg, classical philologist, grammar school director
- 1866, March 23, Friedrich Weber , born in Daxlanden, † March 16, 1930 in Durlach, member of the Baden Estates Assembly
- 1866, October 5, Hans Hausrath , † August 29, 1945 in Freiburg im Breisgau, forest scientist
- 1866, November 1, Eduard Dietz , † December 17, 1940 in Stuttgart, lawyer and politician, member of the state parliament; is considered the creator of the republican constitution of the state of Baden
- 1867, January 1, Max von Holzing-Berstett , † September 9, 1936 in Bollschweil, major general
- 1867, February 7, Hermann Billing , † March 2, 1946, architect, designer and university professor
- 1867, September 22, Heinrich Kurz , † October 26, 1934 in Grötzingen, politician, member of the Baden state parliament
- 1867, November 22, Hermann Kiefer , † September 20, 1946 in Heidelberg, Oberamtmann and district administrator in Baden
- 1868, October 7, Leopold Karl Goetz , † April 2, 1931 in Bonn, old Catholic clergyman, Slavist and professor
- 1868, December 12, Gustav Manz , † April 12, 1931 in Berlin, journalist
- 1870, April 7th, Gustav Landauer , politician, publicist and writer, anarcho-pacifist, member of the Munich council government, murdered on May 2nd, 1919 in Munich
- 1870, May 31, Alfred Tritscheler , † February 14, 1935 in Rastatt, lawyer and district administrator
- 1870, August 21, Wilhelm Kolb , † April 18, 1918, member of the Baden state parliament
- 1871, February 1, Heinrich Löhlein , † March 2, 1960 in Herrsching am Ammersee, Vice Admiral
- 1871, October 3, Hermann Schweitzer , † June 25, 1933, art historian
- 1872, February 6, Alfred Mombert , writer and poet, † April 8, 1942 after being released from concentration camp imprisonment in Winterthur / Switzerland
- 1872, May 11, Maximilian Bayer , † October 25, 1917 with Nomeny, officer and founder of the German scout movement
- 1872, June 22nd, Clara Faisst , † November 22nd 1948, composer, music teacher, pianist and poet
- 1872, August 13, Richard Martin Willstätter , † August 3, 1942 in Muralto near Locarno, chemist, Nobel Prize winner 1915
- 1873, May 21, Sigmund Seeligmann , † October 31, 1940 in Amsterdam, Jewish scholar, historian and bibliographer
- 1873, May 22nd, Karl Grosse , † December 17th, 1963 in Wissen / Sieg, mechanical engineer and entrepreneur
- 1873, July 24, Franz Keller , † June 6, 1944 in Freiburg im Breisgau, moral theologian and university lecturer
- 1874, May 20, Albert Lehr , † 1960 in Nuremberg, architect
- 1874, July 5, Eugen Fischer , † July 9, 1967 in Freiburg im Breisgau, professor of anthropology and racial hygienist
- 1876, August 28, Dora Horn-Zippelius , † February 17, 1967, painter
- 1876, November 9, Paul Mombert , † December 8, 1938 in Stuttgart, political economist, university professor
- 1877, March 29, Walter von Gulat-Wellenburg , † August 1, 1944 in Irschenhausen, neurologist and psychiatrist
- 1877, July 3, Friedrich Trautz , † April 6, 1952, Japanologist
- 1877, November 12, Hermann Finke , † January 8, 1947 in Heidelberg, librarian and epigraphist
- 1878, March 14, Erich Blankenhorn , † January 15, 1963 in Badenweiler, officer and director of the Baden Army Museum in Karlsruhe
- 1878, September 29, Heinrich Köhler , † February 6, 1949, President of Baden 1923–24 and 1926–27
- 1878, October 11, Karl Hofer , † April 3, 1955 in Berlin (West), painter
- 1878, November 26, Friedrich Stockinger , † January 4, 1937 in St. Georgen, Baden Minister for Culture and Education
- 1879, January 26, Manfred Faber , † May 15, 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp, architect
- 1879, February 2, Karl Linnebach , † 1961, military historian
- 1879, March 29, Josef Heinrich , † November 15, 1955, politician, 1945 acting mayor of Karlsruhe
- 1879, October 4, Karl Müller-Trefzer , † January 13, 1960 in Baden-Baden, ministerial official
- 1880, March 19, Max Theodor Trautz , † August 19, 1960, chemist
- 1880, March 21, Rahel Straus , † May 15, 1963 in Jerusalem, pioneer of women's studies, doctor and Zionist
- 1880, May 2, Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner , † September 6, 1958 in New York, German-American art historian and museum director
1881-1900
- 1881, February 9, Magdalena Neff , † July 19, 1966 in Ehingen, Germany's first licensed pharmacist
- 1881, April 20, Leopold Rückert , † November 11, 1942, politician (SPD)
- 1882, April 2, Hans Brasch , † May 13, 1973 in Murrhardt near Stuttgart, painter and exponent of Expressionism
- 1882, July 13, Walther Berblinger , † April 10, 1966 in Muri near Bern, pathologist and university professor
- 1882, September 6, Max Bräuner , † December 9, 1966 in Lüneburg, psychiatrist who was involved in euthanasia crimes during the National Socialist era
- 1882, October 30, August Kratt , † October 7, 1969 in Radolfzell, businessman, provisional mayor of Radolfzell
- 1883, April 11, Fritz Freiherr Marschall von Bieberstein , † October 17, 1939 in Freiburg im Breisgau, constitutional law teacher
- 1883, April 12, Otto Bartning , † February 20, 1959 in Darmstadt, architect; in Karlsruhe he built a. a. the Friedenskirche and the Franz-Rohde-Haus
- 1883, June 18, Karl-Friedrich Schweickhard , † July 5, 1968 in Königstetten-Sommerzell in the Black Forest, officer, most recently General der Flieger
- 1883, October 16, Karl Dees , † December 19, 1967, member of the Baden State Parliament
- 1884, October 8, Walter von Reichenau , † January 17, 1942 on the air transport from Poltava to Lemberg , Field Marshal General
- 1884, October 30, Willy Andreas , † July 10, 1967 in Konstanz, historian
- 1885, January 19, Willi Münch-Khe , † December 19, 1960, sculptor
- 1885, May 19, Max Schwarze , † April 5, 1951 in Goch, football player
- 1885, June 5, Rudolf Kircher , † September 27, 1954 in Stuttgart, journalist and writer
- 1886, September 17, Otto Gmelin , † November 22, 1940 in Bensberg, writer
- 1886, December 9, Ernst Hollstein , † August 9, 1950, football player
- 1887, February 25, Raphael Straus , † May 3, 1947 in New York, historian
- 1887, March 22, Siegfried Gräff , † November 2, 1966 in Burgberg , physician and university professor
- 1887, September 27, Karl Wegele , † November 14, 1960, football player
- 1888, January 5, Fritz Förderer , † December 6, 1952 in Weimar, football player
- 1888, February 27, Carl Lautenschläger , † December 6, 1962, chemist and physician
- 1888, July 21, Hermann Leibold , † November 23, 1957, football player
- 1888, November 12, Max Breunig , † July 4, 1961 in Pforzheim , German football player, German football champion 1910, Olympic participant in Stockholm in 1912, flag bearer of the German team
- 1889, Adolf Firnrohr , † October 8, 1914, football player
- 1889, May 3, Gottfried Fuchs , † February 25, 1972 in Montreal, football player
- 1889, October 23, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann , † April 28, 1957 in Rockville , americ. Doctor and psychoanalyst
- 1889, November 16, Emil Oberle , † December 25, 1955, football player
- 1890, Willi Müller-Hufschmid , † April 4, 1966, painter; Representatives of the New Objectivity
- 1890, March 8, Friedrich Metz , † December 24, 1969 in Freiburg im Breisgau, geographer and regional historian
- 1890, May 24, Hermann Kächele , † August 13, 1914 in Bréchaumont (Alsace), football player
- 1890, June 30, Adolf Dell , † September 9, 1977 in Düsseldorf, football player, actor and painter
- 1891, March 21, Helmuth Gmelin , † October 18, 1959 in Hamburg, actor and theater director
- 1891, November 21, Karl Hubbuch , † December 26, 1979, art professor
- 1891, December 2, Friedrich Töpper , † June 29, 1953, politician (SPD), member of the state parliament
- 1892, June 28, Hermann Kurz , † March 3, 1941 in Pforzheim, 1933 to 1941 Lord Mayor of Pforzheim
- 1892, June 30, Franz Hein , † March 26, 1976 in Jena, Grötzingen-born chemist and university professor
- 1893, July 19, Elisabeth Joest , † after 1927, writer
- 1893, August 17, Luitgard Schneider , † December 2, 1972 in Rastatt, doctor and member of the state parliament
- 1894, January 1, Eduard Wenck , † May 16, 1954 in Berlin-Schöneberg, actor
- 1894, May 26, Erwin Kraus , † August 11, 1966 in Munich, politician (NSDAP)
- 1894, June 24, Franz Xaver Schmerbeck , † June 22, 1973, District Administrator in Buchen
- 1894, July 16, Friedrich Leibbrandt , † January 15, 1960 in Freiburg im Breisgau, chemist, manager and politician, member of the state parliament, Minister for Economic Affairs of Baden
- 1894, August 27, Kurt Bürger alias Karl Wilhelm Ganz, † July 28, 1951 in Schwerin, Prime Minister of Mecklenburg (1951)
- 1894, December 29, Friedrich Maier , † December 14, 1960 in Freiburg im Breisgau, politician (SPD), member of the Bundestag
- 1896, February 4, Friedrich Hund , † March 31, 1997 in Göttingen, important atomic physicist and founder of Hund's rules
- 1896, July 16, Werner Max Moser , † August 19, 1970 in Zurich, Swiss architect and professor at the ETH Zurich
- 1897, April 13, Hermann Veit , † March 15, 1973, politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag ( Baden-Württemberg ), Lord Mayor of Karlsruhe, Minister of Economics of Württemberg-Baden and Baden-Württemberg
- 1897, July 21, Freiin von Lersner , † July 8, 1978 in Reutlingen, nurse
- 1898, February 9, Franz Gurk , † July 12, 1984, politician (CDU)
- 1898, July 17, Hermann Goetz , † July 8, 1976 in Heidelberg, art historian, Indian art
- 1898, October 15, Günther Ramin , † February 27, 1956 in Leipzig, organist, harpsichordist, choir director and composer
- 1899, July 15, Arthur Lämmlein , † April 17, 1964 in Freiburg im Breisgau, civil engineer
- 1899, August 18, Philipp Herrmann , † September 19, 1968 in Karlsruhe, painter and restorer
- 1900, March 18, Gustav Heller , † July 8, 1977, resistance fighter against National Socialism, member of the state parliament
- 1900, May 23, Hans Frank , † October 16, 1946 in Nuremberg (executed), leading lawyer of the NSDAP , governor general of parts of Poland
20th century
1901-1910
- 1901, January 22nd, Hans Erich Apostel , † November 30th 1972 in Vienna, composer of the 12-tone music (Kubiniana; piano variations)
- 1901, January 31, Marie-Luise Kaschnitz , † October 10, 1974 in Rome (Italy), writer
- 1901, February 4, Fritz Plattner , † April 10, 1960, politician (NSDAP)
- 1901, May 31, Friedrich Werber , † January 4, 1981, politician (CDU)
- 1901, August 20, Gerth Biese , † March 11, 1980 in Tübingen, painter of classical modernism
- 1901, December 28, Karl Klotter , † September 20, 1984, engineer and civil engineer
- 1902, June 3, Hans Riehm , † August 29, 1984 in Mosbach (Baden), agricultural chemist and soil scientist on Augustenberg
- 1903, January 9, Eugen Seiterich , † March 3, 1958 in Freiburg i. Br., Archbishop of Freiburg 1954–58
- 1903, October 18, Lina Radke , † February 14, 1983, Olympic champion in the 800 m run
- 1904, April 24th, Max Himmelheber , † December 17th, 2000 in Baiersbronn, inventor of chipboard
- 1904, May 4, Wilhelm Schleiermacher , † February 25, 1977 in Heidelberg, classical philologist and Roman provincial archaeologist
- 1904, July 5, Ludwig Seiterich , † August 1, 1979 in Freiburg i. Br., District Administrator
- 1904, October 1, Otto Hafner , † October 26, 1986, engineer, Nazi opponent, Righteous Among the Nations
- 1904, November 5, Hans Haas , † April 16, 2003 in Seewald-Besenfeld, mycologist
- 1905, March 13, Wolfgang Müller , † March 15, 1983 in Freiburg im Breisgau, church historian
- 1905, April 5, Otto Wetzel , † March 29, 1982 in Bonn, politician (NSDAP)
- 1905, December 21, Alfredo Bortoluzzi , † December 20, 1995 in Peschici, dancer, choreographer and set designer
- 1906, February 22, Otto Kast , † January 1988 in Offenburg, painter
- 1906, May 20, Ellen Auerbach , † July 30, 2004 in New York, photo artist
- 1906, September 8, Adolf Jäger , † August 13, 1996 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, politician (NSDAP)
- 1906, September 8, Oskar Herterich , † November 13, 1978 in Ulm, engineer
- 1906, October 13, Albert Kolb , † September 14, 1990 in Hamburg, geographer, President of the West German Rectors' Conference
- 1906, November 6, Franz Doll , † unknown, member of the Reichstag (KPD)
- 1907, April 5, Erwin Huber , † May 23, 2003 in Munich, athlete
- 1908, March 6, Wolfgang Joho , † February 13, 1991 in Kleinmachnow, writer
- 1908, April 18, Franz Anselm Schmitt , † September 20, 1978 in Düsseldorf, librarian, director of the Badische Landesbibliothek
- 1908, April 19, Joseph Keilberth , † July 20, 1968 in Munich, concert and opera conductor
- 1908, May 31, Hans Himmelheber , † November 27, 2003 in Heidelberg, ethnographer and ethnologist
- 1908, August 12, Richard Jörg , † September 1992 in Konstanz, architect, drafts for modern Catholic church buildings
- 1908, September 24, Hans Erwin von Spreti-Weilbach , † June 30, 1934 in Stadelheim, politician ( NSDAP ) and in a leading position in the Sturmabteilung (SA)
- 1908, October 6, Josef Schmidt , † July 28, 1979 in Emmendingen, politician (SPD), MdL Baden-Württemberg and Mayor of Teningen
- 1909, Lothar Rothschild , † 1974 in St. Gallen, Swiss rabbi
- 1909, January 25, Karl Hasel , † February 20, 2001 in Freiburg im Breisgau, forest scientist
- 1909, April 21, Wolfgang Müller-Stoll , † April 16, 1994 in Potsdam, botanist
- 1909, November 4, Fritz Ermarth , † July 27, 1948, director of Radio Stuttgart
- 1910, July 16, Fritz Müller , † July 3, 1984 in Karlsruhe, football player
- 1910, August 5, Kurt Dörflinger , † January 6, 1986, composer (music sounds very soft)
1911-1920
- 1911, October 20, Gerd Grimm , † May 28, 1998 in Freiburg im Breisgau, fashion draftsman and graphic artist
- 1912, March 20, Wilhelm Möhler , † July 9, 1891 in Vallendar, General Rector of the Pallottines
- 1912, November 16, Chaim Seeligmann , † September 29, 2009 in Givat Brenner, historian and educator
- 1913, August 9, Kurt Müller-Graf , † August 10, 2013 in Karlsruhe, actor and festival director
- 1913, August 30, Wolfgang Schmidt-Weiß , † after 1965, pianist and musicologist
- 1914, January 25, Albrecht Achilles , † September 27, 1943 in the Atlantic Ocean near Salvador da Bahia, officer in the Navy
- 1914, September 28, Walter Bleines , † October 2, 1974 in Karlsruhe, hydraulic engineer
- 1914, October 14, Hanne Landgraf , † January 19, 2005 in Karlsruhe, politician (SPD), member of the state parliament, honorary citizen of Karlsruhe
- 1915, February 14, Otto Klenert , † January 7, 1993 in Bad Friedrichshall, Mayor of Bad Friedrichshall, member of the state parliament
- 1915, May 8, Theodard Leitz , † February 27, 1999, Catholic religious, Bishop of Dourados in Brazil
- 1915, July 28th, Lore Hummel , † November 6th 1997 in Neustadt an der Donau, children's / picture book illustrator and author
- 1917, May 9, Albrecht Hege , † August 16, 2017 in Heilbronn, Protestant theologian
- 1918, June 1, Hans Merkle , † May 10, 1993 in Großburgwedel, football coach
- 1918, December 19, Eva-Maria Czakó , † June 16, 2012 in Berlin, scientific photographer
- 1919, January 11, Bert Jäger , † May 2, 1998 in Freiburg im Breisgau, painter, commercial artist, photographer and writer
- 1920, February 11, Otto Dullenkopf , † July 10, 2007 in Karlsruhe, politician (CDU), member of the state parliament, mayor of Karlsruhe
- 1920, December 13, Max Scheifele , † October 9, 2013, forest officer and scientist as well as historian
1921-1930
- 1921, July 4, Martin Matschinsky , † January 24, 2020 in Berlin, sculptor
- 1922, January 25, Kurt Kranich , journalist and book author
- 1922, June 7, Kurt Ehrmann , † August 2, 2013 in Karlsruhe, football player
- 1922, September 6, Wolfgang Hofmann , † March 19, 2003 in Mannheim, violinist, composer and conductor
- 1922, November 6, Walter Brendel , † August 29, 1989 in Munich, experimental surgeon (first used shock wave treatment to break up kidney and gallstones)
- 1923, April 16, Benedikt Schwank , † October 14, 2016 in Beuron, Benedictine monk and professor emeritus for New Testament and Biblical Archeology
- 1923, May 24, Erna-Maria Geier , † October 18, 1994 in Waldbrunn / Odenwald, politician (CDU)
- 1923, June 4, Rudolf Metz , † October 18, 1991, geologist
- 1923, June 28, Bernhard Kirchgässner , † 2007, historian and economist
- 1923, August 14, Paul Wehrle , † February 11, 2013 in Karlsruhe, music teacher and choir director
- 1923, September 3, Herbert Binkert , † January 4, 2020, football player
- 1924, November 29, Chlodwig Beck , † May 9, 2011 in Freiburg im Breisgau, ENT doctor and university professor
- 1925, July 11, Lothar Götz , † April 17, 2018, architect and university professor
- 1925, August 12, Werner Nachmann , † January 21, 1988 in Karlsruhe, Chairman of the Central Council of Jews from 1969 to 1988
- 1925, August 28, Hans Krause-Wichmann , † June 22, 2007 in Saarbrücken, rower
- 1926, January 28, Harry Ettlinger , † October 21, 2018 in Rockaway (New Jersey), German-American veteran of World War II
- 1926, July 21, Marianne Zink , † July 9, 2018, writer
- 1926, November 17, Oswald "Ossi" Traub , † May 17, 2020 in Karlsruhe, football player
- 1927, February 9, Rainer Maria Gerhardt , † July 27, 1954 in Karlsruhe, writer, publisher and translator
- 1927, July 7, Harry Friedauer , † October 14, 1985 in Marzling, operetta singer
- 1927, September 30th, Hanna Meyer-Moses , Jewish contemporary witness of the persecution of the Jews
- 1927, November 1, Paul Niedermann , † December 10, 2018 in Paris, survivor of the Holocaust, contemporary witness of the National Socialist persecution of Jews
- 1928, December 23, Klaus Finck , author
- 1928, December 25, Kurt Sommerlatt , † February 8, 2019 in Karlsruhe, football player and coach
- 1929, March 27, Peter Menke-Glückert , † September 7, 2016, Ministerialbeamter
- 1929, June 19, Dieter Schaller , † July 11, 2003 in Oedekoven, Medievalist and Middle Latin philologist
- 1929, August 4th, Georg Himmelheber , art historian
- 1929, August 26, Walter Helmut Fritz , † November 20, 2010 in Heidelberg, writer
- 1930, March 10, Gunther Wolf , historian
- 1930, April 13, Günter Dietz , † May 13, 2017 in Heidelberg, classical philologist, poet and translator from modern Greek
- 1930, October 21, Gerhard Seiler , politician (CDU), mayor 1977–83, member of the state parliament 1980–84, first mayor 1983–86, mayor 1986–98, president of the German Association of Cities 1995–97
- 1930, November 16, Horst Heine , † June 22, 2015, doctor and cardiologist, director of the Central Institute for Cardiovascular Research of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR
1931-1940
- 1932, Peter Sulzer , † December 18, 2019, architect, university professor and author
- 1932, March 12, Ursula Laquay-Ihm , painter and object artist
- 1932, July 25, Jürgen Wittdorf , † December 2, 2018, painter and graphic artist
- 1932, October 28th, Rüdiger Beile , ev. Pastor, youth leader and theologian
- 1933, March 24, Adolf Theis , † December 24, 2013 in Berlin, lawyer and President of the University of Tübingen 1972–1995
- 1933, May 11th, Dieter Hess , botanist
- 1933, August 4th, Lothar Knörzer , athlete, bronze medalist at the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 with the 4 x 100 meter relay
- 1933, October 3rd, Volkmar Würtz , sword fencer
- 1933, October 8th, Kurt Linder , former soccer player and coach, won the Austrian championship as a player with SK Rapid Wien in 1959/1960; won the Dutch championship 1981/1982 with Ajax Amsterdam and the Swiss Cup with BSC Young Boys in 1977
- 1934, June 9, Dieter Haack , Federal Minister for Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development (1978–1982)
- 1934, July 11, Horst F. Pampel , † July 28, 2010 in Mühlacker, Karlsruhe local researcher
- 1934, October 6, Nils Wiberg , † April 5, 2007 in Munich, chemist, author
- 1935, Klaus J. Kohler , phonetician
- 1935, July 12, Lothar Roos , social ethicist
- 1935, October 10, Manfred Eglin , † August 11, 2001 in Zermatt, football player
- 1936, May 22nd, Gerhard Bloemecke , † April 7th, 2013, entrepreneur and politician (CDU), member of the state parliament
- 1936, June 19, Gerhard Bohner , † July 13, 1992 in Berlin, dancer and choreographer
- 1936, June 19, Peter Corterier , † February 22, 2017, politician (SPD)
- 1936, August 5, Hans Hugo Klein , legal scholar and politician (CDU)
- 1936, August 12, Udo Fink , Swiss jazz musician
- 1936, October 10, Hans Reichenbach , † November 2, 2018 in Wolfenbüttel, microbiologist and natural product biologist
- 1936, November 5, Friedhelm Weick , † March 30, 2017 in Bruchsal, animal illustrator; born in the district of Daxlanden
- 1937, April 15, Hans Baschang , † June 24, 2017 in Munich, painter, draftsman, sculptor and university professor
- 1937, April 18, Barbara Bredow , artist
- 1937, October 31, Dieter Seebach , Professor of Organic Chemistry at the ETH Zurich
- 1938, June 7, Wolfram Angerbauer , † September 10, 2011 in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, archivist
- 1938, September 6, Gerhard Sauder , Germanist and literary scholar
- 1938, December 13th, Volker Heyn , composer
- 1939, March 19, Hermann Becht , † February 12, 2009 in Marxzell, opera singer
- 1939, April 2nd, Reinhard Bentmann , art historian and preservationist
- 1940, Klaus Schroth , defense attorney
- 1940, February 19, Renate Damus , † October 17, 1992 in Osnabrück, university professor and politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen)
- 1940, March 8th, Peter Neumann , church musician, conductor and choir director
- 1940, March 21, Herbert Joos , † December 7, 2019 in Baden-Baden, jazz trumpeter or flugelhorn player and graphic artist
- 1940, March 26th, Karl-Heinz Deutsch , sculptor
- 1940, April 4, Doris Lott , author (including works on Karlsruhe)
- 1940, June 19, Carl Weissner , † January 24, 2012 in Mannheim, writer, translator and editor
- 1940, August 18, Walther Erbacher , composer and university professor
- 1940, September 23, Gerhard Hennige , athlete and Olympic medalist
1941-1950
- 1941, Norbert Gross , lawyer at the Federal Court of Justice
- 1941, Voré (born as Volker Erhard), sculptor, installation artist and multimedia artist
- 1941, February 22, Günter Fischer , politician (SPD), member of the state parliament
- 1941, March 14th, Jürgen Knieper , composer of film music
- 1941, April 3, Hans Peter Henecka , sociologist
- 1941, April 16, Wilfried Heidt , † February 2, 2012 in Achberg, political philosopher and founder of the International Cultural Center Achberg (Lake Constance)
- 1941, August 8, Hildegard Gollinger , Roman Catholic theologian
- 1941, August 31, Walter Mossmann , † May 29, 2015 in Breisach, songwriter
- 1942, Rosemarie Still , translator
- 1942, January 1st, Rainer Wedler , writer
- 1942, July 28, Gisela Bock , historian
- 1943, Kurt Kramer , bell expert and non-fiction author
- 1943, December 19, Kristian Kühl , lawyer and university professor
- 1944, July 24th, Rolf Sutter , heraldist
- 1945, September 30th, Jürgen Morlok , politician (FDP), member of the state parliament, management consultant
- 1946, Dieter Kuhn , sinologist, specialist author and university professor
- 1946, April 19, Brigitte Gutmann , teacher and writer
- 1946, August 9, Clemens Werner , correspondence chess player
- 1946, November 23, Bernd Uhl , Roman Catholic clergyman and auxiliary bishop emeritus in Freiburg
- 1947, February 15, Peter-Michael Riehm , † January 20, 2007 in Deilingen, music teacher, composer and music theorist
- 1947, March 1st, Klaus Uwe Benneter , politician, general secretary of the SPD
- 1947, April 18th, Bernd Hengst, pop singer and member of the group Die Flippers
- 1947, June 26th, Peter Sloterdijk , philosopher, cultural scientist and rector of the Karlsruhe University of Design
- 1947, September 16, Renate Rastätter , politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), member of the state parliament
- 1948, December 23, Manfred Groh , politician (CDU), member of the state parliament
- 1949, April 11, Ulrich Hochschild , diplomat, ambassador to Benin and Burkina Faso
- 1949, April 14th, Reinhart Kößler , sociologist
- 1950, February 18, Hans Rattinger , political scientist and university professor
- 1950, March 10th, Karlheinz Klotz , athlete
- 1950, May 14, Thomas Ernst Josef Wiedemann , † June 28, 2011 in Nottingham, ancient historian
- 1950, December 3rd, Michael Hoffmann , singer
1951-1960
- 1951, February 24, Helmut Drexler , † September 13, 2009, physician
- 1951, February 24th, Heiderose Wallbaum , canoeist
- 1951, May 24th, Gabriele Thome , Classical Philologist
- 1951, June 29, Ferdinand Dudenhöffer , transport scientist
- 1951, September 20, Thomas Schühly , film producer
- 1951, September 22nd, Klaus Lichtblau , historian of ideas and sociologist
- 1951, October 4, Günter Hoffmann , † March 15, 1984 in Rio de Janeiro, singer
- 1952, Ulrich Chaussy , journalist and author
- 1952, January 26, Rainer Rahn , politician (AfD)
- 1952, March 13, Wolfgang Rihm , composer
- 1952, May 3, Ruth W. Lingenfelser , poet
- 1952, November 27th, Joachim Krebs , † December 28th 2013 in Ettlingen, composer, musician, sound and media artist
- 1952, December 27, Raimund Krauth , † November 22, 2012, football player
- 1953, January 17th, Friedrich Däuble , diplomat
- 1953, January 25, Gabriele Fischer , journalist and editor-in-chief
- 1953, March 1st, Klaus Wanninger , teacher and writer
- 1954, January 29, Michael Pfrommer , classical archaeologist and novelist
- 1954, July 21, Günter Sonnenberg , terrorist of the Red Army faction
- 1955, Eckehard "Ecki" Hoffmann , actor, singer and poem declamator
- 1955, January 18, Günter Wagner , sculptor
- 1955, February 12, Werner Raupp , historian of theology and philosophy
- 1955, April 6, Axel W. Bauer , medical historian and bioethicist
- 1955, June 17th, Karl-Heinz Braun , theologian, church historian and university professor
- 1956, Mario Kramer , art historian, museum curator and collection manager
- 1956, Dagmar Zobel , Protestant pastor and prelate for the southern Baden parish of the Baden Evangelical Church
- 1956, January 6, Bernd Ruf , emergency pedagogue
- 1956, March 2nd, Hans-Joachim Vatter , chess player
- 1957, Dagmar Hellberg , musical artist, actress and singer
- 1957, March 1st, Cornelia Rauh , historian and university professor
- 1957, March 26, Walter Bachmeier , author
- 1957, April 21, Herbert Wetterauer , painter, sculptor and author
- 1958, Dieter Speck , mediaevalist and archivist
- 1958, April 25, Claus Kiefer , physicist
- 1958, August 8, Karin Krüger , judoka, European champion and vice world champion
- 1958, October 11th, Andreas Mäckler , art historian, author and ghostwriter
- 1958, November 4th, Joachim Körber , writer, editor, publisher and translator
- 1958, November 5th, Daniela Klette , member of the Red Army parliamentary group
- 1958, December 4th, Markus Printz , theologian, professor of practical theology and community education
- 1959, January 26th, Eva Dessecker , costume designer
- 1959, February 19, Johannes Müller , geographer, geologist and botanist
- 1959, April 11, Heike Hanagarth , engineer and manager
- 1959, August 31, Bernhard Eitel , geoscientist and rector of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
- 1959, October 28th, Martin Daum , manager
- 1959, December 10th, Armin Heitz , jazz musician
- 1959, December 16, Ingo Wellenreuther , politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
- 1960, Klaus Pohl , computer scientist and university professor
- 1960, Andreas Reibenspies , singer and university professor
- 1960, January 5th, Andreas Pollak , politician and former member of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party
- 1960, April 26th, Tina Widmann , Austrian politician, regional councilor in Salzburg
- 1960, May 7th, Jürgen Koffler , sprinter
- 1960, May 13, Maggie Mae , pop singer (My Boy Lollipop; This is my country)
- 1960, May 13th, Gunter Malle , mathematician
- 1960, May 19, Gunther Hellmann , political scientist
- 1960, June 1st, Matthias Bröde , jazz musician
- 1960, July 10th, Karl-Heinz von Liebezeit , actor
- 1960, December 3rd, Jam El Mar , music producer
1961-1970
- 1961, Petra Becker , lawyer, Lord Mayor of Stutensee
- 1961, Martin Franzen , lawyer, professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich
- 1961, Thorsten Poschwatta , General
- 1961, February 23, Jürgen Ehrmann , soccer coach
- 1961, May 15, Siegfried Bauer , † December 30, 2018, physicist and university professor
- 1961, June 9, Wolfram Fleischhauer , writer
- 1961, October 15, Kolja Lessing , classical musician, composer and university professor
- 1962, January 29th, Martin Herbster , wrestler
- 1962, March 8th, Georg Reiser , former soccer player
- 1962, April 6, Günter Kobek , † October 30, 2016 in Waldems, cyclist
- 1962, May 31, Sebastian Koch , actor (The Manns - a novel of the century; Stauffenberg)
- 1962, September 11th, Bruno Leicht , jazz musician and composer
- 1962, November 16, Til Maier , cameraman
- 1963, Jan-Bernd Elpert , Catholic theologian and philosopher
- 1963, Axel Hagen , jazz musician
- 1963, Guido Sieber , comic book author
- 1963, February 10, Martin Gülich , writer
- 1963, March 8, Sasha Waltz , choreographer, dancer and opera director
- 1963, May 12th, Martina Zitterbart , computer scientist
- 1963, May 30th, Eric Veulliet , geologist, President of the Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences
- 1963, June 3rd, Dirk Jens Nonnenmacher , manager
- 1963, July 29th, Michael Schütz , church musician
- 1963, November 12th, Detlef Hofmann , canoeist, Olympic champion in Atlanta 1996
- 1963, December 18, Nino de Angelo , pop singer (Beyond Eden; Breathless)
- 1964, Rudolf Krause , actor
- 1964, Peter Kuhn , conductor
- 1964, January 19, Karin Zimmermann , mediaevalist and head of the manuscript department at Heidelberg University Library
- 1964, March 27, Andreas Ismail Mohr, Islamic scholar
- 1964, October 8, Götz Schulze , † October 30, 2018 in Potsdam, legal scholar
- 1964, October 26th, Bettina Lisbach , politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), member of the state parliament and environmental mayor of the city of Karlsruhe
- 1964, December 19, Martin Bachmann , † August 3, 2016 in Istanbul, building researcher
- 1965, January 21st Thomas Herrmann , photographer and television director
- 1965, May 13th, Florian Sitzmann , musician and music producer
- 1965, May 26th, Christina Lux , musician, singer, guitarist and composer
- 1965, August 23, Alexander Nützenadel , historian
- 1965, December 10th, Axel Kahn , football player, brother of Oliver Kahn
- 1966, Andreas Kröper , musicologist, director, conductor and flautist
- 1966, Nicole Weegmann , director
- 1966, May 5th, Axel Fischer , politician (CDU) and Member of the Bundestag
- 1966, May 6, Andreas Lutz , non-fiction author and founder of the association
- 1966, May 31, Joachim Nagel , economist, member of the board of the Deutsche Bundesbank
- 1966, September 12, Ralf Bauer , actor
- 1966, December 16, Helmut Hermann , football player
- 1966, December 29th, Alexandra Kamp , actress
- 1967, Dirk Eisenbiegler , professor of computer science
- 1967, Wolf-Friedrich Schäufele , Protestant theologian, church historian
- 1967, January 25, Wawau Adler , jazz musician
- 1967, February 17, Matthias Kehle , writer
- 1967, March 4th, Rainer Scharinger , soccer player and coach
- 1967, May 3, Claus Raible , jazz musician
- 1967, May 19, Markus Nagel , cyclist and trainer
- 1967, June 17, Markus Hechtle , composer, author and university professor
- 1967, November 20, Katharina Hagena , author
- 1968, Matthias Pacht , screenwriter
- 1968, January 23, Samir Nasr , German-Egyptian director and author
- 1968, February 13th, Thomas Bierling , jazz pianist, composer and music producer
- 1968, April 14, Gerald H. Haug , geologist and climate researcher
- 1968, May 1st, Oliver Bierhoff , soccer player, Vice World Champion 2002, European Champion 1996
- 1968, June 7th, Roland Specht , poker player
- 1968, August 7th, Gordian Meyer-Plath , President of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Saxony
- 1968, August 17th, Steffen Fetzner , table tennis player
- 1969, June 15, Oliver Kahn , football goalkeeper, 2002 vice world champion, 1996 European champion
- 1969, August 17, Susanne Stichler , journalist and television presenter
- 1970, February 22nd, Marc Nagel , national handball player and handball trainer
- 1970, March 19, Alex Melcher , musical actor
- 1970, April 21, Michael Sternkopf , soccer player
- 1970, May 6th, Step Laube , author and radio play director
- 1970, October 16, Mehmet Scholl , soccer player, European champion 1996
1971-1980
- 1971, Ole Scheeren , architect a. a. of the China Central Television Headquarters
- 1971, May 31, Christian Würtz , Catholic clergyman, auxiliary bishop in Freiburg
- 1971, August 10, Rüdiger Klink , actor
- 1971, September 16, Wolfgang Decker , actor
- 1972, February 20, Laith Al-Deen , pop musician and record producer
- 1972, July 13, Juri Tetzlaff , TV presenter
- 1972, December 18, Thomas Siffling , jazz trumpeter and band leader
- 1973, February 6, Oliver Klein , lawyer, tax advisor and university professor
- 1973, March 20, Catarina Katzer , social psychologist and cyber psychologist
- 1973, June 15, Silke Scheuermann , writer
- 1973, July 27th, Christine Otterbach , wheelchair tennis player
- 1973, October 16, Oliver Kessler , political scientist and university professor
- 1973, December 19, Heike Bollig , artist
- 1974, Thorsten Wettcke , screenwriter and director
- 1975, January 25th, Markus Schroth , soccer player from TSV 1860 Munich
- 1975, July 28th, Imke Duplitzer , sword fencer and diving instructor
- 1975, October 11, Renate Lingor , soccer player, world champion 2003, 2007, European champion 1995, 2001, 2005
- 1975, October 16, Thomas Kies , soccer player
- 1975, November 28th, Muhammed Suiçmez, death metal guitarist, front man for Necrophagist
- 1976, February 11th, Gabriel Krüger , volleyball player
- 1976, March 5, Andreas Schweiger , cooking, with a star in the Michelin guide awarded
- 1976, April 4, Daniel Caspary , politician (CDU) and MEP
- 1976, October 5, Pierre M. Krause , TV presenter, author
- 1976, November 22nd, Regina Halmich , flyweight boxer, world champion from 1995 to 2007
- 1976, December 12th, Maren Ade , director, screenwriter and film producer
- 1977, Nora Krug , German-American illustrator and author
- 1977, February 2, Sebastian Ströbel , actor
- 1977, February 20, Jérôme Crews , athlete
- 1977, November 9th, Jan-Philippe Schlueter , German radio journalist
- 1978, September 26th, Pascal Borel , football goalkeeper
- 1979, December 3rd, Björn Goldschmidt , canoeist
1981-1990
- 1981, June 9th, Arnd Goldschmidt , canoeist
- 1982, March 20, Tatjana Kästel , actress
- 1982, April 10th, Stephanie Gehrlein , tennis player
- 1982, October 2nd, Nina Beeh , presenter and fitness blogger
- 1982, December 30th, Bastian Rutschmann , handball goalkeeper
- 1983, Lisa Charlotte Friederich , actress, screenwriter and director
- 1983, June 29, Marcel Ewald , wrestler
- 1983, November 4th, Patrick Huckle , soccer player
- 1984, Ben Kaiser , film editor, director, cameraman and steadicam operator
- 1984, Boris Rommel , cook
- 1984, May 30th, Turk Toptaş , German-Turkish soccer player
- 1984, November 7, Natascha Sagorski , columnist
- 1985, Andrea Bottlinger , author, translator and editor
- 1985, Larissa Kaufmann , track and field athlete
- 1985, April 23, Sebastian Freis , soccer player
- 1985, May 21, Sascha Traut , soccer player
- 1985, August 13, Marc Gallego , football player
- 1985, August 21, Daniel Bernhardt , soccer player
- 1986, January 10, Johannes Moss , actor
- 1986, January 26th, Silke Hörmann , canoeist
- 1986, February 10th, Nina Perner , ski racer
- 1986, August 6, Alexander Salomon , politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), member of the state parliament
- 1986, October 3, Christine Neumann , politician (CDU), member of the state parliament
- 1987, Alexander Leist freestyle frisbee player
- 1987, Friederike Merz , jazz musician
- 1987, January 14th, Dennis Aogo , soccer player, U-21 European Champion 2009
- 1987, June 20, Hüseyin Kuday , football player
- 1987, July 4th, Svenja Görger , actress and caster
- 1987, July 6th, David Pisot , football player
- 1987, August 1, Alper Balaban , † April 12, 2010 in Karlsruhe, German-Turkish soccer player
- 1987, September 18, Aykut Akgün , German-Turkish soccer player
- 1988, Kerstin Haberecht , jazz musician
- 1988, February 29, Carolin Walter , track and field athlete
- 1988, March 18, Steffen Haas , soccer player
- 1988, April 28, Dorothée Neff , actress
- 1988, June 26th, Jerôme Gondorf , football player
- 1988, July 17, Daniel Brosinski , football player
- 1988, December 17th, Simon Gegenheimer , professional mountain biker
- 1989, March 8, Daniel Williams , German-American soccer player
- 1989, June 27, Verena Hantl , canoeist
- 1989, August 3, Kristina Kober , soccer player
- 1989, December 12th, Martina Zwick , cyclist
- 1990, February 3, Nicolai Groß , soccer player
- 1990, May 4th, Matthias Cuntz , soccer player
- 1990, June 11th, Vanessa Giangrasso , Italian soccer player
- 1990, July 11th, Nina Brandt , actress
- 1990, December 13th, Niklas Ruß , handball player
1991-2000
- 1991, March 29, Jannik Herm , ice hockey player
- 1991, November 13th, Yannick Hanfmann , tennis player
- 1992, Matthias Gärtner , actor
- 1992, February 19, Jan Prax , jazz musician
- 1992, June 9th, Pietro Lombardi , singer and winner of the 8th season of Germany is looking for the superstar
- 1992, June 16, Matthias Zimmermann , soccer player
- 1992, October 5th, Annika Bruhn , swimmer
- 1993, February 6, Marius Steinhauser , handball player
- 1993, April 2, Claire Savin , soccer player
- 1993, June 20, Sead Kolašinac , football player
- 1993, September 25, Friederike Schaaf , soccer player
- 1993, October 19, David Schmidt , handball player
- 1994, January 14th, Vivien Wulf , actress
- 1994, May 31, Rico Seith , pop singer
- 1995, January 27, Tom Alte , basketball player
- 1995, March 13th, Jasmin Huber , grass skier
- 1995, September 11th, Vincent Feigenbutz , professional boxer
- 1995, November 29th, Fabian Roth , badminton player
- 1995, December 3rd, Timon Wellenreuther , soccer goalkeeper
- 1995, December 6th, Joshua Stritzinger , racing cyclist
- 1995, December 25th, Nimo , rapper
- 1996, July 9, Pamela Reif , model
- 1996, July 10th, Mun Ka-Young , South Korean actress
- 1997, July 27th, Ricarda Schaber , soccer player
- 1997, August 28, Sascha Pfattheicher , handball player
- 1997, September 11th, Marvin Mehlem , football player
- 1997, November 13th, Annalena Krämer , soccer player
- 1998, February 15, Berkay Özcan , German-Turkish soccer player
- 1998, July 30th, Christa Riffel , cyclist
- 1999, February 20, Valentino Vujinović , football player
- 2000, June 1st, Stephan Mensah , soccer player
21st century
- 2001, July 25, Alena Pfanz , actress
Web links
- List of residents of Karlsruhe in the Stadtwiki Karlsruhe (alphabetical)