This list includes notable people who were born in Strasbourg or have lived there as notable residents, spanning from the early medieval period to the present day.

Born in Strasbourg

Before 1750 Eric of Friuli (8th century), Frankish duke of Friuli Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg (ca. 1205–ca. 1270), theologian Johannes Tauler (1300–1361), mystic and theologian Fritsche Closener (died before 1373), priest, historian Rulman Merswin (ca. 1307–1382), mystic Jakob Twinger von Königshofen (1346–1420), chronicler Martin Schott (d. 1499), printer Johannes Schott (1477–1550), printer Hieronymus Brunschwig (ca. 1450–ca. 1512), surgeon, alchemist and botanist Sebastian Brant (1457–1521), satirical poet and humanist Ottmar Luscinius (1478–1537), theologian and humanist Hans Kotter (1480–1541), composer and organist Wilhelm Stetter (1487–1552), painter and priest Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck (1489–1553), Protestant statesman and reformist Andreas Cratander (1490–1540), printer Katharina Zell (1497–1568), Protestant writer Jacob Micyllus (1503–1558), humanist and teacher Martin Schalling the Younger (1532–1608), Protestant theologian and writer Daniel Specklin (1536–1589), architect, engineer and cartographer Johann Fischart (1545–1591), satirical author Johannes Piscator (1546–1625), theologian and translator Johann Theodor de Bry (1561–1623), engraver and publisher Sebastian Stoskopff (1597–1657), painter Johann Wilhelm Baur (1607–1640), engraver, etcher and miniature painter Albrecht Kauw (1621–1681), painter Marie Luise von Degenfeld (1634–1677), morganatic second wife of Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine Countess Palatine Anna Magdalena of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler (1640–1693) Christian III, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1674–1735) Friedrich Ludwig, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1688–1750) Jacques-Antoine Denoyé (died 1759), composer and organist Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken (1721–1774) Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser (1724–1797), Austrian field marshal Johann Georg Roederer (1726–1763), physician and obstetrician Richard François Philippe Brunck (1729–1803), French classical scholar Jean-Joseph Rodolphe (1730–1812), horn player, violinist and composer Jérémie-Jacques Oberlin (1735–1806), philologist and archaeologist François Christophe Kellermann (1735–1820), French marshall Christoph Wilhelm von Koch (1737–1813), diplomat, politician, librarian and writer Philippe Rühl (1737–1795), politician Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolay (1737–1820), poet and President of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740–1812), painter Jean-Frédéric Oberlin (1740–1826), pastor and philanthropist Johann Christian von Mannlich (1741–1822), painter and architect Heinrich Leopold Wagner (1747–1779), writer Philippe Friedrich Dietrich (1748–1793), scholar and politician Jean-Frédéric Edelmann (1749–1794), composer Johan Peter Rottler (1749–1836), missionary and botanist Johann von Türckheim (1749–1824), diplomat

Between 1750 and 1900 Sébastien Érard (1752–1837), instrument maker Philippe-André Grandidier (1752–1787), priest and historian Bernard-Frédéric de Turckheim (1752–1831), politician Jean Baptiste Kléber (1753–1800), architect and general Jean-François Barbier (1754–1828), general Louis Ramond de Carbonnières (1755–1827), politician, geologist and botanist Antoinette Saint-Huberty (1756–1812), opera singer Christophe Guérin (1758–1831), engraver and painter François Andrieux (1759–1833), playwright and poet Jacques Widerkehr (1759–1823), cellist and composer Joseph Ludwig Colmar (1760–1818), bishop of Mainz Christian Kramp (1760–1826), mathematician Marie Tussaud (1761–1850), founder of Madame Tussauds Johann Jakob Humann (1771–1834) Roman Catholic clergyman Charles-Joseph Christiani (1772–1840), Maréchal de camp of the French Army Louis-François Lejeune (1775–1848), general, painter, and lithographer Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué (1776–1856), clockmaker Chrétien Géofroy Nestler (1778–1832), botanist and pharmacist Johann Georg Daniel Arnold (1780–1829), lawyer and writer Samson Cerfberr (1780–1826), soldier and author Jean-Georges Humann (1780–1842), statesman Jean-Frédéric de Turckheim (1780–1850), politician Gustave Vogt (1781–1870), oboist and composer Maximilien Joseph Schauenburg (1784–1838), military officer Ludwig I of Bavaria (1786–1868) Camille Pleyel (1788–1855), piano manufacturer and musical entrepreneur Princess Augusta of Bavaria (1788–1851) Édouard Spach (1801–1879), botanist Marie-Théodore Ratisbonne (1802–1884), Catholic priest and missionary Baruch Schleisinger Weil (1802–1893), American businessman and politician August Stöber (1808–1884), poet, scholar and collector of folklore Louis Roederer (1809–1870), champagne maker Jean-Georges Kastner (1810–1867), composer and musicologist Adolphe Stoeber (1810–1892), ecclesiastic and writer August Eduard Cunitz (1812–1886), Protestant theologian Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne (1814–1884), Catholic priest and missionary Louis Charles Auguste Steinheil (1814–1885), painter Émile Küss (1815–1871), physician and politician Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1818–1884), chemist Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1818–1856), chemist Benjamin-Constant Martha (1820–1895), historian August Kayser (1821–1885), Protestant theologian Théophile Schuler (1821–1878), painter and illustrator Hippolyte Pradelles (1824–1913), painter Oscar Berger-Levrault (1826–1903), philatelist Charles Netter (1826–1882), French Zionist Louis Ratisbonne (1827–1900), writer Paul Schützenberger (1829–1897), chemist Frédéric Albert Constantin Weber (1830–1903), botanist Gustave Doré (1832–1883), painter Charles Friedel (1832–1899), chemist and mineralogist Frédéric Auguste Lichtenberger (1832–1899), theologian Mélanie de Pourtalès (1836–1914), socialite Émile Waldteufel (1837–1915), composer Édouard Schuré (1841–1929), philosopher Edward Dannreuther (1844–1905), pianist and musicologist Nicolas Delsor (1847–1927), priest and politician Alfred Morel-Fatio (1850–1924), hispanist Jules Martha (1853–1932), archaeologist Paul Émile Appell (1855–1930), mathematician Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1856–1901), botanist and phytogeographer Léon Wieger (1856–1933), Jesuit missionary, medical doctor, theologist and sinologist Charles de Foucauld (1858–1916), Christian mystic Franz Zorn von Bulach (1858–1925), Catholic bishop Charles Diehl (1859–1944), historian Hugo Becker (1863–1941), cellist, cello teacher, and composer Charles Andler (1866–1933), germanist and philosopher Eugène Wilhelm (1866–1951), lawyer, judge and writer Ernest Henri Demanne (1870–1938), comedian André Lichtenberger (1870–1940), novelist and sociologist Helmar Lerski (1871–1956), photographer Heinrich Emil Timerding (1873–1945), mathematician Heinrich Liebmann (1874–1939), mathematician and geometer Max Looff (1874–1954), naval officer Karl Wendling (1875–1962), violinist and musical educator Léo Schnug (1878–1933), painter and illustrator Karl Klingler (1879–1971), violinist and composer Émile Mathis (1880–1956), car manufacturer Richard Laqueur (1881–1959), historian and philologist Elisabeth Abegg (1882–1974), educator and Nazi resistance fighter Ernst Damzog (1882–1945), Brigadeführer of the SS Robert Redslob (1882–1962), constitutional and public international law-scientist Georges Weill (1882–1970), German politician who defected to France Otto Froitzheim (1884–1962), tennis player Paul Gröber (1885–1964), geologist Jean/Hans Arp (1886–1966), artist René Beeh (1886–1822), painter and draughtsman Robert Heger (1886–1978), conductor Hilla von Rebay (1890–1967), artist, museum director Jules Kruger (1891–1959), cinematographer Charles Münch (1891–1968), conductor Friedrich-Georg Eberhardt (1892–1964), general Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger (1894–1945), Nazi official and high-ranking member of the SA and the SS Marcelle Cahn (1895–1981), artist Hans-Georg von Friedeburg (1895–1945), admiral of the Kriegsmarine Paul Alverdes (1897–1979), novelist and poet Rudolf Schwarz (1897–1961), architect

After 1900 Robert Kuven (1901-1983), German/French artist Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt (1901–1988), musicologist Charles Ehresmann (1905–1979), mathematician Hans Bethe (1906–2005), physicist, Nobel Prize winner Gerolf Steiner (1908–2009), zoologist Hans-Otto Meissner (1909–1992), writer Max Bense (1910–1990), philosopher Georges Loinger (1910–2018), member of the French Resistance Jean-Paul de Dadelsen (1913–1957), poet and journalist Antoinette Becker (1920–1998), writer and translator Jacques Martin (1921–2010), comic-book artist Germain Muller (1923–1994), playwright, songwriter, poet, actor, humourist, politician Marcel Marceau (1923–2007), mime Serge Leclaire (1924–1994), psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Pierre Weil (1924–2008), psychologist and educator Noah Klieger (1926–2018), journalist Francis Rapp (1926–2020), historian Claude Rich (1929–2017), actor Tomi Ungerer (1931–2019), writer, illustrator and caricaturist Solange Fernex (1934–2006), politician Liliane Ackermann (1938–2007), French Jewish community leader Gilbert Gress (born 1941), football coach Jean-Pierre Hubert (1941–2006), author Isoldé Elchlepp (born 1942) German protest song singer, and operatic mezzo-soprano and soprano Wolfgang Huber (born 1942), theologian and ethicist Bob Wollek (1943–2001), rally driver Herbert Léonard (born 1945), singer Jean-Louis Mandel (born 1946), geneticist Joseph Daul (born 1947), politician Thierry Mugler (1948–2022), fashion designer Francis Wurtz (born 1948), politician Michel Warschawski (born 1949), Israeli anti-Zionist writer and activist Arsène Wenger OBE (born 1949), football manager Jean-Marie Bockel (born 1950), politician Catherine Trautmann (born 1951), politician Patrice Meyer (born 1957), guitarist Elizabeth Sombart (born 1958), pianist Alain Weill (born 1961), business executive Patrick Cahuzac (born 1963), writer, winner of the Prix Fénéon for literature in 1990 Emmanuel Villaume (born 1964), conductor Carole Richert (born 1967), actress Christophe Ohrel (born 1968), football player Philippe Schaaf (born 1968), handball player Eliette Abécassis (born 1969), writer Yvon Riemer (born 1970), wrestler Yann Wehrling (born 1971), artist and leader of the French Green Party Elif Şafak (born 1971), writer Alexis Kohler (born 1972), politician Valérien Ismaël (born 1975), football player Armando Teixeira (born 1976), football player Mehdi Baala (born 1978), athlete Nicolas Mougin (born 1979), professional vert skater Blandine Brocard (born 1981), politician Paul-Henri Mathieu (born 1982), tennis player Antoine Grauss (born 1984), football player Pio Marmaï (born 1984), actor Karim Matmour (born 1985), football player Laura Weissbecker (born 1984), actress M. Pokora (born 1985), singer Candice Didier (born 1988), figure skater Jonathan Schmid (born 1990), football player Jonathan Clauss (born 1992), football player

Notable residents of Strasbourg

Meister Eckhart (1260–1328), philosopher Johannes Gutenberg (1400–1468), inventor of printing with movable type Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg (1445–1510), preacher Erasmus (1467–1536), humanist Hans Baldung (1484–1545), painter Beatus Rhenanus (1485–1547), humanist Caspar Schwenckfeld (1489–1561), theologian Martin Bucer (1491–1551), Reformation leader Johannes Sleidanus (1506–1556), German historian, the annalist of the Reformation Johannes Sturm (1507–1589), teacher and pedagogue John Calvin (1509–1564), Reformation leader Michael Servetus (1511–1553), Spanish theologian, physician and humanist Joachim Meyer (1537?–1571), fencer, author of an influential fechtbuch Tobias Stimmer (1539–1584), Swiss painter Johann Carolus (1575–1634), German publisher François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie (1671–1745), marshall and governor of Strasbourg