List of sons and daughters of the city of Mainz
List of the sons and daughters of the city of Mainz
Further lists of Mainz personalities who worked in the city but were not necessarily born in Mainz:
- List of Mainz personalities
- List of honorary citizens of Mainz
- List of the auxiliary bishops of Mainz
(Chronological order)
By 1700
- around 780, Rabanus Maurus OSB, † February 4, 856 in Winkel im Rheingau, abbot of the Fulda monastery and Archbishop of Mainz
- around 960 (possibly also born in Metz ), Gerschom ben Jehuda , † 1028 or 1040, Jewish legal scholar, "lamp of exile"
- around 1395, Hermann Edlerawer , † around 1458 in Vienna, composer and lawyer in Vienna
- around 1397, Johannes Gutenberg (actually Gensfleisch zur Laden), † February 3, 1468 in Mainz, printer. The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz is named after him. (Date of birth arbitrarily set to 1400)
- around 1400, Johannes Fust , † October 30, 1466 in Paris, printer, employee and financier of Gutenberg; founded his own printing company with Peter Schöffer , whose printer's mark is today the logo of the German Stock Exchange Association. Book trade serves
- 1488, Otto Brunfels , † November 23, 1534 in Bern, theologian and botanist
- 1588, Georg Helwich , † 1632 in Mainz, Catholic priest, cathedral vicar and historian of the Archdiocese of Mainz
- around 1620, Quirinus von Merz , † 1695 in Minden / Schierholz, Catholic canon lawyer, Chancellor of Mainz
- around 1660, Johann Adam Breunig , † 1727, German builder and Baroque architect
- 1646, October 19, Johann Anton I. Knebel von Katzenelnbogen , † April 27, 1725 in Eichstätt, Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt
- 1674, March 3, Friedrich Carl von Schönborn , † July 26, 1746 in Würzburg, Prince-Bishop of Würzburg and Bamberg and Vice Chancellor
- 1675, December 27, Johann Kaspar Herwarthel , † November 13, 1720 in Mannheim, architect and builder of the Rhenish-Franconian Baroque
- 1684, September 24, Bartholomäus Lutz † 1756 in Bruchsal, Jesuit, theologian and canon lawyer
1701-1800
- 1708, July 8, Joseph Franz Bonaventura von Schönborn-Wiesentheid , † January 25, 1772 in Wiesentheid , sovereign, vice cathedral of Aschaffenburg
- 1710, March 8, Heinrich Kilber , † October 25, 1783 in Heidelberg , Jesuit priest , theologian and university professor
- 1714, December 3, Karl Busäus , † 1782 in Bamberg , Jesuit priest, theologian and university professor
- 1718, April 14, Hermann Goldhagen , † April 22, 1794, Jesuit priest, theologian and university professor
- 1721, August 4, Anselm Eckart , † June 29, 1809 in Polazk, religious priest (Jesuit) and missionary
- 1732, Joseph Fuchs , † July 19, 1782 in Seligenstadt , Benedictine father, Mainz court archaeologist, author
- 1739, March 2, Philipp Franz Wilderich Nepomuk von Walderdorf , † April 21, 1810 in Bruchsal, Prince-Bishop of Speyer 1797–1810
- 1745, August 18, Ludwig Fischer , † July 10, 1825 in Berlin, opera singer
- 1747, May 11, Carl May , † June 6, 1822 in Aschaffenburg, German phelloplastic artist
- 1749, December 3, Gottlieb Welté , † December 17, 1792 in Kohila / Estonia, German landscape painter and etcher
- 1749, February 20, Georg Karl Ignaz Freiherr von Fechenbach zu Laudenbach , † April 9, 1808 in Werneck near Würzburg, Prince-Bishop of Bamberg and Würzburg 1800-08
- 1750, November 18, Wolfgang Heribert von Dalberg , † September 28, 1806 in Mannheim, treasurer of Worms and director of the Mannheim National Theater
- 1753, March 11, Rudolf Eickemeyer , † September 9, 1825 in Gau-Algesheim, Kurmainzer professor and artillery officer, French general, mayor and mayor of Gau-Algesheim
- 1755, Ernst Koch , † February 2, 1825 in Vienna, master builder
- 1755, January 29, Christian Lauteren , † December 19, 1843, commercial judge and member of the state parliament
- 1756, December 6, Nicolaus Vogt , † May 19, 1836 in Frankfurt am Main, historian, conservative state theorist and politician
- 1760, December 5, Franz Josef Ignaz von Linden , † January 3, 1836 in Stuttgart, lawyer and member of the Württemberg state parliament
- 1762, Johann Georg Graeff , † February 7, 1829 in London, flautist and composer
- 1764, November 19 Lothar Franz Marx , † October 22, 1831 in Frankfurt am Main, Roman Catholic theologian
- 1765, February 7, Caspar Hilt , † May 2, 1829 in Wiesbaden, lawyer
- 1765, May 3, Johann Adam Braun , † around 1808, theologian and doctor
- 1766, January 19, Johann Martin Manl , † October 15, 1835 in Eichstätt, Bishop of Speyer 1827–35 and of Eichstätt 1835
- 1768, March 7, Joseph Wenzel , † April 14, 1808 in Mainz, physician, doctor and professor in Mainz
- 1769, April 25, Karl Wenzel , † October 19, 1827 in Frankfurt am Main, obstetrician
- 1769, May 22nd, Johann Aloys Becker , † September 21st, 1850 in Mainz, Jacobin in the administration of the French-occupied Mainz
- 1770, June 24, Heinrich Anton Hoffmann , † January 19, 1842 in Frankfurt am Main, composer (concerts, chamber music, etc.)
- 1770, May 14, Nikolaus Müller , † June 14, 1851 in Mainz, painter, poet, writer and Jacobin in Mainz
- 1772, Marianne Müller , † May 31, 1851 in Berlin, child actress, actress and opera singer
- 1774, April 13, Johann Peter Mayer , † November 3, 1848 in Mainz, leather wholesaler and politician
- 1775, April 23rd, Edmund Hardy , Hessian civil servant and politician and member of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
- 1775, August 24, Karl Joseph Hieronymus Windischmann , † April 23, 1839 in Bonn, doctor, philosopher and anthropologist
- 1775, September 28, Johann Adam von Itzstein , † September 14, 1855 in Hallgarten, Baden politician and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
- 1777, March 17, Johann Josef Ignaz von Hoffmann , † January 30, 1866 in Aschaffenburg, mathematician
- 1777, March 21, Benedikt Kühn , † August 9, 1854 in Karlsruhe, major general in Baden
- 1780, Johann Adam Ackermann , † March 27, 1853, painter
- 1782, February 2, Theodor von Haupt , † June 12, 1832 in Paris, lawyer and writer
- 1785, February 21, Tobias Dionys Raulino , † April 16, 1839 in Vienna, watercolorist and landscape painter
- 1786, October 25, Clemens Lauteren , † October 10, 1877, entrepreneur, member of the state parliament
- 1787, April 17th, Aloysius von Amelunxen , † March 5th, 1860 in Helmersen, lieutenant general of the Electorate of Hesse and member of the Hessian Estates Assembly
- 1788, November 21, Bernhard Würschmitt , † June 18, 1853 in Bergzabern, Catholic priest and sculptor
- 1789, May 16, Michael Creizenach , † August 5, 1842 in Frankfurt am Main, educator and theologian
- 1789, September 30, Johann Friedrich Carl von Zeppelin-Aschhausen , † April 2, 1836 in Stuttgart, Württemberg master of ceremonies and member of the state parliament
- 1790, Martin Krautheimer , † June 20, 1869 in Mainz, theologian, clergyman and university professor
- 1791, September 14, Franz Bopp , † October 23, 1867 in Berlin, linguist and Sanskrit researcher
- 1794, July 7, Carl Johann Franz Josef Becker , † December 1, 1848 in Darmstadt, theater actor, theater and opera director and theater manager
- 1796, November 3, Friedrich Lennig , † April 6, 1838 in Mainz, Mainz dialect poet
- 1798, March 7, Hermann Umpfenbach , † March 16, 1862, mathematician
- 1800, Johann-Joseph Krug , † August 5, 1866 in Reims, founder of the Krug champagne house in 1843
1801-1850
- 1801, August 5, Theodor Friedrich Knyn , † November 20, 1877 in Mainz, German lawyer
- 1801, November 4th, Kathinka Zitz-Halein , † 1877 in Mainz, German activist and writer
- 1803, July 19, August Johann Becker , † September 21, 1881 in Mainz, Hessian politician (German Progressive Party) and former member of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
- 1804, December 16, Franz Anton Probst , † February 10, 1878 in Mainz, wine merchant and member of the state parliament
- 1806, June 27, Adolph Hügel , † December 3, 1887 in Darmstadt, Hessian civil servant and politician
- 1807, January 19, Heinrich Joseph Himioben , † December 27, 1860 in Mainz, Roman Catholic clergyman, theologian and publicist.
- 1807, May 13, Doris Haus , † January 11, 1870 in Stuttgart, opera singer and singing teacher
- 1809, May 3, Friedrich Kaspar Hartmann , † October 22, 1896 in Darmstadt, Prussian major general
- 1809, May 10, Anton Hungari , † December 17, 1881 in Frankfurt-Rödelheim, Catholic priest , poet, writer and publicist
- 1809, July 3, Heinrich Hattemer , † November 11, 1849 in Biel / Bienne, linguist and literary scholar, actively involved in the 1848/49 revolution in Switzerland and Baden
- 1809, August 19, Sabine Heinefetter , † November 18, 1872 in Achern, opera singer
- 1809, September 4, Ludwig Lindenschmit the Elder , † February 14, 1893 in Mainz, prehistoric painter, history painter, lithographer, drawing teacher
- 1811, March 19, Josef Kling , † December 1, 1876 in London, chess player and study composer
- 1814, November 17, Kaspar Wilhelm Betz , † October 20, 1882 in Mainz, member of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
- 1815, April 2, Johann Baptist Heinefetter , † November 4, 1902 in Baden-Baden, painter
- 1816, February 17, Klara Stöckl-Heinefetter , † February 24, 1857, opera singer
- 1816, April 15, Johann Baptist Heinrich , † February 9, 1891 in Mainz, Catholic priest, professor of dogmatics, cathedral capitular, cathedral dean and vicar general of Mainz
- 1816, May 8, Peter Backé , † October 23, 1886 in Darmstadt, member of the Hessian state parliament
- 1816, September 10, David Klein , February 4, 1884 in Wiesbaden, opera singer
- 1817, February 17, Christoph Moufang , † February 27, 1890 in Mainz, bishop administrator of the diocese of Mainz 1877–86
- 1819, May 1, Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Bruch , † January 4, 1884, discoverer of the Bruch membrane
- 1819, July 1, Georg Röder , † February 24, 1896, Hessian judge and member of the state parliament
- 1820, January 30, Jacob Becker , † December 3, 1883 in Frankfurt am Main, high school teacher and antiquarian
- 1821, February 4, Rudolph Bamberger , † June 7, 1900 in Baden-Baden, Jewish banker ( Bankhaus Bamberger & Co. in Main) and member of the state parliament
- 1821, September 9, Karl Wagner , † August 28, 1869 in Bombay, Jesuit and architect; designed St. Patrick's Cathedral in Karachi
- 1822, January 19, Joseph Gottsleben , † 1888, printer and newspaper publisher, founder of the "Mainzer Anzeiger"
- 1823, July 22nd, Ludwig Bamberger , † 1899 in Berlin, politician and publicist. Participant in the Palatinate uprising of 1848, later supporter and financial adviser to Bismarck . As such, involved in the establishment of the Reichsbank .
- 1824, December 9, Auguste Arens von Braunrasch , † December 9, 1904 in Wiesbaden, writer
- 1824, December 24th, Peter Cornelius , † October 26th, 1874 in Mainz, composer (6 Christmas carols, including "Drei Könige", choirs, orchestral works, etc.)
- 1825, September 13, Johann Falk , † January 5, 1905 in Mainz, Catholic publicist and member of the Hessian state parliament ( Center Party )
- 1826, August 5, Paul Stumpf , † March 15, 1912 in Mainz, politician and manufacturer
- 1827, August 13, Karl von der Esch , † March 27, 1880 in Karlsruhe, Prussian major general
- 1828, August 7, Heinrich von Hügel , † August 2, 1899 in Berlin, German architect and railway contractor
- 1833, March 17th Hedwig Henrich-Wilhelmi , † February 8th 1910 in Wiesbaden, German writer, free thinker and suffragette
- 1833, October 3, Friedrich Dernburg , † October 3, 1911 in Berlin, national liberal publicist and politician
- 1833, October 25, Konrad Kraus , † May 21, 1886 in Mainz, architect and writer
- 1834, November 14th, Helene Richter , † May 10th 1913 in Rome, genre painter
- 1835, March 19, Franz Betz , † August 11, 1900 in Berlin, opera singer (bass baritone)
- 1835, October 17, Paul Haenlein , † January 27, 1905 in Mainz, engineer and inventor of the steerable airship " Aeolus "
- 1835, December 28, Theodor Eichberger , † May 3, 1917 in Seligenstadt, popular humorist, writer, sculptor and fast night in Mainz in the 19th century
- 1836, March 30, Ludwig Johann Leichner , † August 10, 1912 in Dahlem, opera singer and cosmetics manufacturer
- 1838, November 18, Charles Hallgarten , † April 19, 1908 in Frankfurt am Main, banker and social reformer
- 1839, July 10th, Adolphus Busch * in Kastel, † October 10th 1913 in Langenschwalbach, founder of the Anheuser-Busch brewing dynasty in the USA
- 1839, July 26, Rudolf von Spankeren , † March 22, 1920 in Berlin-Schmargendorf, royal Prussian lieutenant general
- 1840, March 8, Gideon Dael von Köth-Wanscheid , † October 29, 1899 in Darmstadt, landowner, politician (center) and member of parliament
- 1840, October 28, Karl von Bock and Polach , † January 29, 1902 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, local politician
- 1842, June 10, Adolf Stoltze , † April 19, 1933 in Frankfurt am Main, journalist and poet
- 1843, January 8, Nathaniel Sichel , † December 4, 1907 in Berlin, painter and book illustrator
- 1843, December 25, Franz Gredy , † January 25, 1911 in Charlottenburg, factory director
- 1845, April 23, Franz Heerdt , † March 6, 1935, member of the Hessian state parliament
- 1846, July 2, Ferdinand Becker , † August 21, 1877 in Munich, the "painter Becker from Gunsenum"
- 1847, January 11, Josef Racke , † December 26, 1908 in Mainz, member of the Reichstag and Landtag (center)
- 1849, May 29, Lorenz Adlon , † April 7, 1921 in Berlin, restaurateur, founder of the Hotel Adlon in Berlin
- 1850, March 4, Ludwig Lindenschmit the Younger , † July 20, 1922 in Mainz, German prehistorian , head of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum and painter , son of Ludwig Lindenschmit the Elder
- 1850, November 30th, Jean Falk , † December 31st 1930 in Manz, German craftsman, city councilor in Mainz and member of parliament
1851-1900
- 1853, November 17, Lorenz Goebel , † November 30, 1936 in Mainz, confectioner and manufacturer
- 1854, April 26, Georg Sieglitz , † November 3, 1917 in Munich, Kammersänger in Munich
- 1854, August 19, Helene Hecht , † October 22 or 24, 1940 in an unknown location, Salonnière and patron of the arts, victim of National Socialism
- 1857, December 18, Adolf Görz , † July 28, 1900 in Giessbach (Switzerland), merchant and builder of the Görzsiedlung
- 1858, July 2, Georg Heinrich Maria Kirstein , † April 15, 1921 in Mainz, Bishop of Mainz 1904–21
- 1860, June 2, Gustav Killian , † February 24, 1921 in Berlin, was a German physician, laryngologist (ear, nose and throat medicine) and the founder of bronchoscopy
- 1860, November 12, Emma Koch , † 1945 in Berlin, pianist and music teacher
- 1861, January 20, Albanus Schachleiter , † June 20, 1937 in Feilnbach, Benedictine abbot of Emaus / Prague and Spanheim
- 1863, March 7, Carl von Heß , † June 28, 1923 in Possenhofen, ophthalmologist in Marburg, Würzburg and Munich
- 1866, June 22nd, Carl Goebel , † 1937 in Planegg, painter and art teacher
- 1866, December 7, Wilhelm Seel , † August 4, 1921 in Mainz, politician (SPD) and member of the state parliament
- 1868, February 1, Johannes Glückert , † after 1918, landscape painter of the Düsseldorf School
- 1869, April 3, Ludwig Krug , † December 15, 1943, Reich judge
- 1870, May 31, Theodore von Rommel , † December 2, 1950 in Tutzing, writer
- 1871, January 9, Friedrich Pagenstecher , † November 14, 1941 in Mainz, liberal member of the state parliament
- 1871, March 1, Oskar Heinroth , † May 31, 1945 in Berlin, zoologist / ornithologist
- 1872, March 9, Melchior Kern ; † 1947 in Munich, painter
- 1872, March 10, Ernst Mayer , † June 19, 1943 in Frankfurt-Heddernheim, lawyer and higher regional judge, victim of National Socialism
- 1873, March 25, Rudolf Rocker , † September 19, 1958 in Mohegan / Maine (USA); Anarchosyndicalism theorist , writer, historian
- 1875, January 15, Joseph Bauer , † April 17, 1931 in Mainz, member of the state parliament and city council in Mainz
- 1875, September 5, Martin Mayer , † February 17, 1951 in Caracas, tropical medicine specialist and university professor
- 1877, October 30, Ludwig Lipp senior , † August 14, 1945 in Mainz, stone sculptor, also built the first Schwellköpp
- 1877, December 14th, Friedrich Bräuninger , born in Mainz-Drais, † 1942 in Triberg, lawyer
- 1878, June 9, Katharina Maria Kuhn , † October 4, 1948 in Hamburg, politician and member of the Hamburg Parliament
- 1878, September 30, Karl Zörgiebel , † March 14, 1961 in Mainz, police chief in Cologne, Berlin and Dortmund, politician of the SPD
- 1879, March 15, Peter Paul Koch , † October 1, 1945 in Hamburg, experimental physicist and university professor
- 1881, May 1, Emmi Knoche , † March 3, 1970 in Braunschweig, pianist and piano teacher in Braunschweig
- 1881, August 18, Carl Renninger , † August 28, 1951 in Munich, was a German manufacturer and Lord Mayor of Mannheim.
- 1882, October 30, Martin Mundo , † March 14, 1941 in Mainz, Mainz folk poet and a formative figure of the Mainz Carnival; The famous Mainz song comes from him: "Heile Heile Gänsje".
- 1883, June 21, Emil Preetorius , † 1973 in Munich, painter and stage designer, 1948–1968 President of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
- 1883, December 23, Adolf Reinach , † November 16, 1917 near Diksmuide (Belgium), philosopher, phenomenologist, philosopher of language and legal theorist
- 1885, May 24, Adam Abt , † 1918, classical philologist
- 1885, July 9, Philipp Harth , † December 25, 1968 in Bayrischzell, sculptor, dominant representative of the animal sculpture genre
- 1885, July 17, Adolf Richard Walther , † January 31, 1948 in Bavaria, university lecturer for animal breeding in Gießen and Hohenheim
- 1887, December 6, Heinrich von Vietinghoff , † February 23, 1952 in Pfronten, Colonel General of the Second World War
- 1888, May 6, Alfred Mumbächer , † February 14, 1953 in Mainz, landscape and cityscape painter
- 1888, November 5th Heinrich Laurenz Dietz , † March 24th 1942 in Narva, architect with a focus on Potsdam
- 1888, November 17, Curt Goetz , † September 12, 1960 in Grabs / St. Gallen (Switzerland), writer (The Liar and the Nun, Das Haus in Montevideo ), actor, director ( Das Haus in Montevideo , hocus-pocus )
- 1889, May 23, Max Ludwig Cahn , † October 14, 1967 in Frankfurt am Main, German lawyer and notary
- 1891, March 10, Carl Nathan , † September 11, 1980 in Basel, bank director and watch collector in Basel
- 1891, May 12, Alexander Kolb , † April 4, 1963 in Darmstadt, officer, lieutenant general in the Air Force
- 1891, June 1, Seppel Glückert , † March 31, 1955 in Mainz, Mainz Fastnachter
- 1892, January 6, Ludwig Berger, actually Ludwig Bamberger, † May 18, 1969 in Schlangenbad, director, Shakespeare interpreter
- 1892, August 28, Wolfgang Fritz Volbach , † December 23, 1988 in Mainz, art historian
- 1893, March 28, Julius Buckler , † May 23, 1960 in Bonn, fighter pilot in World War I and holder of the order Pour le Mérite
- 1893, June 15, Carl Fieger , † November 21, 1960 in Berlin, architect and designer ( Bauhaus )
- 1893, June 26, Karl Freiherr von Thüngen , † October 24, 1944 in the Brandenburg prison , lieutenant general and murdered resistance fighter on July 20, 1944
- 1894, January 14, Fritz Fremersdorf , † January 25, 1983 in Cologne, Provincial Roman archaeologist, ground monument curator and museum director in Cologne
- 1895, March 5, Gertrude Fehr , † August 16, 1996 in Montreux, photographer
- 1896, January 28, Karl Sattler , † probably May 8, 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, machinist and politician of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD)
- 1896, July 2, Hugo Wolf , † September 4, 1960 in Mainz, Hessian member of the state parliament of the Reich Party for People's Law and Appreciation (VRP)
- 1897, April 6, Fritz Erpenbeck , † January 7, 1975 in Berlin, writer, publicist and actor
- 1897, December 24, Walther R. Volbach , † August 5, 1996 in Amherst, German-American theater director, educator and scientist
- 1897, Hans Kohl , † April 11, 1990 in Heppenheim (Bergstrasse), painter and graphic artist
- 1899, August 27, Hans Wilhelmi , † June 5, 1970 in Frankfurt am Main, Federal Minister for Economic Property of the Federal Government (1960–1961)
- 1899, November 11, Teo Gebürsch , † July 7, 1958, painter, wood cutter, caricaturist and draftsman
- 1900, July 5, August Schuchert , † May 24, 1962 in Rome, Roman Catholic theologian and archaeologist, rector of the Campo Santo Teutonic
- 1900, September 28, Max Strub , † March 23, 1966 in Bad Oeynhausen, violinist and chamber musician
- 1900, November 19, Anna Seghers , † June 1, 1983 in Berlin (East), writer (including “ The Seventh Cross ”, “ The Excursion of the Dead Girls ”), honorary citizen of Mainz
- 1900, November 27, Ludwig Link , † January 15, 1960 in Mainz, Roman Catholic theologian and university professor
1901-1925
- 1901, November 17, Walter Hallstein , † March 29, 1982 in Stuttgart, politician (CDU), State Secretary and Head of the Federal Chancellery (1950–1951)
- 1902, February 12, Otto Meyer-Tonndorf , † March 30, 1971 in Wittlaer, lawyer and district administrator
- 1902, June 1, Dora Hennig , † March 11, 1989 in Mainz, politician (SPD), member of the state parliament
- 1903, February 22, Just Scheu , † August 8, 1956 in Bad Mergentheim, composer, librettist, actor, screenwriter, stage designer, songwriter and songwriter
- 1903, Gerda Eichbaum , † 1992 in Wellington, New Zealand, Germanist
- 1904, November 10, Heinrich Mohn , † February 3, 2003 in Gelnhausen, engineer, inventor and philanthropist
- 1904, December 30, Edith Schultze-Westrum , † March 20, 1981 in Munich, actress (" Die Brücke ", "Everyone dies for himself")
- 1905, March 23, Robert Seyfried , † May 2, 1991 in Singen (Hohentwiel), painter and sculptor
- 1906, June 13, Heinz Hugo Hoffmann , † probably December 28, 1978, lawyer
- 1906, December 14, Karl Schramm , † July 27, 1969 in Mainz, dramaturge and writer
- 1907, January 20, Hans Richtscheid , † January 27, 1992 in Mainz, writer and philosopher
- 1907, March 25, Horst von Waldthausen , † August 27, 1933 in Miramas (southern France), racing car driver
- 1908, March 10, Edmund Gassner , † March 20, 2004 in Bonn, German town planner and professor for town planning and settlement
- 1908, November 18, Heinrich Büttner , † October 15, 1970 in Bad Godesberg, historian and archivist
- 1909, January 14, Ernst Neger , † January 15, 1989 in Mainz, singer (" Heile, heile Gänsje ", "Rucki-Zucki")
- 1909, September 26, Guido von Kaulla , † January 3, 1991 in Konstanz, actor, book and screenwriter
- 1909, December 10, Karl Gumbel , † May 21, 1984 in Stegen, administrative lawyer and State Secretary
- 1910, May 20, Margret Hofheinz-Döring , † June 18, 1994 in Bad Boll, painter
- 1910, March 21, Gustav Neidlinger , † December 26, 1991 in Bad Ems, internationally known bass baritone (Wagner interpreter)
- 1911, April 16, Elisabeth Reiff , † August 2, 1993, art historian, head of the Rheinisches Bildarchiv
- 1912, October 19, Fritz Arens , † November 13, 1986 in Mainz, art historian and preservationist
- 1913, March 4, Leo Trepp , † September 2, 2010 in San Francisco, German-American rabbi and professor of theology
- 1914, December 11, Toni Hämmerle , † December 8, 1968 in Mainz, composer, pianist, organist ("Humba-Täterä", "Gell you like me like")
- 1914, December 25, Konrad Georg , † September 8, 1987 in Hamburg, actor (" Kommissar Freytag ", " Tim Frazer ")
- 1916, March 11, Ferdy Mayne , † January 30, 1998 in London, actor
- 1916, September 29, Josef Traxel , † October 8, 1975 in Stuttgart, singer
- 1916, November 3, Joachim Neumann , † October 17, 2000 in Bonn, officer
- 1917, May 5, Martin Graßnick , † July 4, 2020 in Baden-Baden, architect, architectural historian and preservationist
- 1917, May 31, Gustl Stark , † February 18, 2009 in Mainz, painter and graphic artist of abstract art
- 1918, November 16, Claude Albert Mayer , † May 21, 1998 in Wisbech St Mary, British Romance studies and university professor
- 1919, August 15, Maria Mucke † May 27, 2018, pop singer during the economic boom ("Today is a holiday for me")
- 1920, November 11th, Walter Scherf , † October 25th 2010 in Munich (pseudonym: tejo), writer, composer, researcher of children's and young people's literature and fairy tales
- 1921, October 14, Josef Amadori , † March 21, 2007 in Budenheim, football player
- 1922, February 6, Rudi Zörns , † January 26, 2009 in Mainz-Hechtsheim, Fastnachter, Büttenredner
- 1922, June 10, Alban Becker , † January 13, 1992 in Frankfurt am Main, doctor and president of the International Union of Medical Motor Vehicle Associations
- 1922, December 22nd, Jean Malaurie , geomorphologist, ethnologist, Arctic explorer, author and documentary filmmaker and “UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador”.
- 1923, May 1, Georg Berresheim , † December 31, 1987, Fastnachter, Fraa Struwwelich
- 1923, October 22nd, Lotte Kramer , British writer of German origin
- 1924, November 6th, Otto Höpfner , † January 31st, 2005 in Paris, first host of the “ Blauer Bock ”, singer, actor, emcee, author
- 1924, December 11, Heinz Schenk , † May 1, 2014 in Wiesbaden, actor, singer (“It's all just borrowed”), moderator (“ Zum Blauen Bock ”), songwriter (“Ole, ole Fiesta”)
- 1925, January 19, Philipp Filtzinger , † June 12, 2006 in Tübingen, archaeologist
- 1925, March 7, Philippe Malaurie , † April 1, 2020, French lawyer and university professor
- 1925, March 21, Heinz Laubach , architect and local politician
- 1925, August 4, Josef Schmitz , † October 12, 2013 in Mainz, Catholic theologian
- 1925, September 24, Alois Gerlich , † March 11, 2010, historian and university professor
- 1925, October 7, Kurt Heinrich , † March 24, 2015, medical doctor and psychiatrist
1926-1950
- 1928, January 10, Anton Diehl , † October 10, 2008 in Mainz, politician, member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament
- 1928, January 26, Richard Ott , † March 17, 2008 in Werne, religious priest, philologist and teacher
- 1929, January 11, Otto Dürr , † November 28, 2011 in Mainz, Fastnachter, Fraa Babbisch
- 1929, December 5th, Günther Tölg , chemist
- 1929, December 23, Heinz Koch , † December 9, 2005, Honorary President of the Mombacher Carneval Association "Die Bohnebeitel"
- 1930, March 12, Kurt Flasch , historian of philosophy specializing in the philosophy of late antiquity and the Middle Ages
- 1933, November 9, Herbert Bonewitz , † April 29, 2019 in Mainz, Mainz Fastnachter and cabaret artist
- 1934, November 9, Wolfgang Knies , † October 20, 2019, legal scholar and politician (CDU)
- 1935, January 26, Hans-Kurt Mees , lawyer, judge at the Federal Court of Justice from 1983 to 2000
- 1935, May 30, Heinz-Georg Diehl , † January 2019 in Gran Canaria, politician, member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament
- 1935, October 4, Horst Janson , actor ( Der Bastian , Sesame Street )
- 1936, April 12, Josef Mayer-Scheu , † 2013 in Mölln, Roman Catholic theologian, pastor and pastoral psychologist
- 1936, June 2nd, Gerulf Herzog , local politician
- 1937, February 20, Hartmut Breitkreuz , † February 17, 2020, linguist and literary scholar
- 1937, June 21, Herbert Krug , † November 2, 2010 in Hochheim am Main, dressage rider, Olympic champion, world and European champion
- 1938, February 25, Dieter Reith , died April 1, 2020 in Stuttgart, composer (TV melodies), band leader
- 1940, February 13th, Rolf Krebs , physician, pharmacologist and business manager
- 1940, June 5, Hans-Otto Wilhelm , † July 19, 2019, politician (CDU)
- 1941, January 2, Johannes Gerster , deputy chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag (1992–94), state chairman of the CDU Rhineland-Palatinate (1994–97)
- 1941, May 15, Carlo von Opel , entrepreneur
- 1941, June 16, Otfrid-Reinald Ehrismann , Medievalist
- 1941, August 15, Jürgen Dietz , † February 7, 2015 in Mainz, Shrovetide speaker
- 1942, February 7th, Gert Metz , athlete and Olympian
- 1942, March 21, Wolfgang Seibrich , † April 5, 2018, church historian
- 1942, April 18, Jochen Rindt , † September 5, 1970 in Monza, racing driver, Austrian Formula 1 world champion
- 1942, June 25, Volker David Kirchner , † February 4, 2020 in Wiesbaden, contemporary composer
- 1942, December 30, Holger Herrmann , † May 20, 2014 in Frankfurt am Main, painter and graphic artist
- 1943, March 19, Fritz Schmidt , hockey player and Olympic champion
- 1943, October 18, Dietrich Keller , basketball player, Olympic participant
- 1943, December 8th, Michael Reitzel , politician (SPD), vice-president of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament
- 1943, Christine Jackob-Marks , painter
- 1943, Gerhard R. Kaiser , Germanist
- 1945, May 31, Walter Jertz , general and author
- 1947, Michael Ernst , theologian
- 1947, January 31, Rudolf Schieffer , † September 14, 2018 in Bonn, historian and President of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH)
- 1947, October 19, Jutta Weinhold , rock singer
- 1947, December 31, Gerhard Ludwig Müller , Bishop of Regensburg from 2002 to 2012, since 2012 Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
- 1948, Thomas Bayer , actor, director and general manager
- 1948, February 2, Theo Brandmüller , † November 26, 2012 in Saarbrücken, composer
- 1948, September 13, Walter Strutz , journalist, politician (FDP) and member of the state parliament
- 1949, May 1st, Antonia Lerch , film director, screenwriter and film editor
- 1950, September 26, Sigrid Mangold-Wegner , politician (SPD)
- 1950, December 22nd, Harald Strutz , athlete, lawyer, politician (FDP) and football official
1951-1975
- 1951, October 7th, Norbert Franz , Slavist
- 1953, September 9, Harald Martenstein , columnist for Die Zeit
- 1954, January 13, Johannes Führ , † August 4, 2019 in Tenerife, asset manager
- 1954, May 18, Thomas Sinsel , handball player
- 1954, May 24th, Joachim Schroedel , Roman Catholic clergyman and chaplain abroad in Cairo
- 1955, Ullrich Wegerich , writer
- 1956, Udo Münch , State Police President in Hesse
- 1956, Michael Schornstheimer , sociologist and journalist
- 1956, April 10, Thomas Palzer , writer and filmmaker
- 1956, July 31, Susanne Wasum-Rainer , lawyer, since 2012 Ambassador to France
- 1957, March 15, Eva-Maria Stange , politician (SPD)
- 1957, December 6th Detlev Wolter , diplomat, ambassador to Chad
- 1957, December 11th, Albert Hedderich , rower
- 1958, Gerhard P. Groß , officer and military historian
- 1958, March 16, Jürgen Kolb , radio announcer and presenter
- 1958, March 26th, Klaus Brantzen , actor, singer, musician and cabaret artist
- 1958, June 12, Alexander Wendt , political scientist
- 1959, Juliane Vogel , literary scholar
- 1959, April 17th, Nanette Scriba , chanson singer
- 1959, July 29, Werner Landgraf , astrophysicist
- 1959, December 10th, Wolf Hoffmann , musician and photographer
- 1960, Johannes Geismann , State Secretary
- 1960, Stephan A. König , doctor and university professor
- 1961, February 18, Claudius Gros , physicist
- 1961, December 5th, Thomas Koch , lawyer
- 1961, December 6th, Manuel Reuter , racing car driver
- 1962, November 14th, Ursula Meissner , photojournalist
- 1962, Klaus Bernward Springer , church historian
- 1963, June 2, Christian Heidel , football official
- 1963, August 28, Matthias Fornoff , journalist and television presenter
- 1963, Adrian Runhof , fashion designer and co-founder of Talbot Runhof
- 1964, March 19, Christiane Lange , art historian
- 1964, June 12th, Lars Reichow , cabaret artist
- 1964, August 1st, Dirk Jäger , oncologist and managing director of the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) in Heidelberg
- 1965, Michael Talke , opera and theater director and dramaturge
- 1965, May 24th, Ursula Groden-Kranich , politician, member of the German Bundestag
- 1966, Susanne Ring , painter and sculptor
- 1966, Cora Volz , sculptor
- 1966, Hubert Winter , jazz musician
- 1966, January 13th, Wolfgang Lutz , psychologist, psychotherapist and university professor
- 1966, April 16, Matthias Penzel , writer and journalist
- 1966, April 23, Franco Foda , football player and coach
- 1966, September 19, Klaus-Peter Diehl , orchestral musician, conductor and church musician
- 1966, December 25th, Franziska Reichenbacher , journalist and television presenter
- 1967, February 14, Andreas Mosbacher , legal scholar, judge at the Federal Court of Justice since 2013
- 1967, March 23, Stefan Krämer , football coach
- 1968, May 16, Anja Gockel , fashion designer
- 1968, May 20, Martin Quast , sports journalist
- 1969, Gudrun Pawelke , designer , cultural communicator and author
- 1969, November 15, Ulrike Ehmig , Roman provincial archaeologist
- 1970, Mascha Kurtz , writer
- 1970, May 21, Hans Horberth , cook, with two stars in the Michelin guide awarded
- 1971, January 24th, Norbert Himmler , media manager, program director of ZDF
- 1971, September 7th, Caroline Peters , actress
- 1971, July 2nd, Corinna Lampadius , journalist and TV presenter
- 1972, Ingo Schmidt-Lucas , sound engineer and university professor
- 1972, January 26th, Denise Klecker , hockey defender, gold medalist at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens
- 1972, August 16, Sabine Lorenz , actress
- 1972, September 25, Michael Kling , lawyer and university professor
- 1973, June 24th, Thomas Gerlach , house DJ and music producer
- 1974, Alexander Göbel , journalist
- 1974, Matthias Hofmann , alternative school teacher, mediator and author
- 1974, March 28, Matthias Koeberlin , actor and reciter
- 1974, April 17th, Jens Schumacher , author
- 1974, July 17th, Susanne Völker , German Wine Queen 1998/1999
- 1974, August 26th, Katrein Frenzel , actress
- 1974, September 16, Loretta Stern , actress and singer
- 1975, April 29th, Stephan Käfer , actor and model
From 1976
- 1976, August 17th, Tobias Mann , cabaret artist and musician
- 1976, November 2, Marina Mehlinger , actress
- 1977, Cornelia Dörr , actress
- 1977, Pascal Finkenauer , musician and participant in the Bundesvision Song Contest 2009
- 1977, May 8th, Thomas Barth , politician (CDU), member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament
- 1977, August 13, Florian Hartenstein , basketball player
- 1978, February 1st, Marion Wagner , sprinter
- 1978, October 17th, Sandro Schwarz , soccer player and coach
- 1980, Christiane Lutz , opera director
- 1980, March 3rd, Tanja Krämer , table tennis player
- 1981, Christoph Bauss , composer and music producer
- 1982, July 29, Paul Bokowski , German-Polish writer and satirist
- 1982, October 23, Jens Kern , soccer goalkeeper
- 1983, April 23, Nina Kuhn , triathlete, German champion
- 1983, December 22nd, Lilly Andres , foosball player
- 1983, Sebastian Sternal , jazz musician, professor at the Mainz University of Music
- 1984, January 25, Katrin Schultheis , Artistic Cycling World Champion 2007, 2008, 2009, Vice World Champion 2004, 2005, 2006
- 1984, May 31, Sandra Sprinkmeier , Artistic Cycling World Champion 2007, 2008, 2009, Vice World Champion 2004, 2005, 2006
- 1985, February 24th, Tristan Brandt , star chef
- 1986, January 14th, Verena Bechtluft , German A-Youth 2002 champion in bowling
- 1986, February 7th, Fabian Liesenfeld , soccer player
- 1987, May 13th, Felix Kossler , handball player
- 1988, January 9, Christian Telch , soccer player
- 1989, July 11th, Jan-Lars Gaubatz , handball player
- 1989, September 8, Josephine Henning , soccer player
- 1989, December 28, Sandro Foda , football player
- 1990, Hanna Herbst , journalist and author
- 1990, February 16, Philipp Stein , Koch
- 1991, Peter Blum , actor
- 1991, November 7th, Marcel Kohler , actor
- 1991, December 14, Davide Spiga , television presenter
- 1991, December 23, Immanuel Höhn , football player
- 1992, * Jan Felix May , jazz musician
- 1992, February 7th, Sven Müller , automobile racing driver
- 1992, December 28th, Erik Schmidt , handball player
- 1993, May 28, Selina Herrero , singer
- 1994, September 7th, Maximilian-Leon Bettin , handball player
- 1995, February, Paula Beer , actress
- 1995, February 9, Mario Pašalić , football player
- 1998, April 8, Makana Baku , football player
- 1998, April 8, Ridle Baku , football player
- 1998, February 11th, Niklas Kaul , decathlete
- 1999, May 13th, Roman Lochmann , song parodist