People born in Wrocław.

Before 1945

Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915) a psychiatrist and neuropathologist, discovered Alzheimer's disease Paul Amman (1634–1691), German physician and botanist. Günther Anders (1902–1992) a German-Austrian Jewish émigré, philosopher, essayist and journalist. Adolf Anderssen (1818–1879) a German chess master. Đorđe Andrejević-Kun (1904–1964), a Serbian painter and academic. Heinz Arndt (1915–2002), an Australian economist Leopold Auerbach (1828–1897), a German anatomist and neuropathologist Joannes Aurifaber Vratislaviensis (1517–1568), a Lutheran theologian and Protestant reformer. Bertha Badt-Strauss (1885–1970), a German writer and Zionist. Boleslaw Barlog (1906–1999), a German stage, film and opera director Erhard Bauschke (1912–1945), a German jazz and light music reedist and bandleader.Rainer E. Lotz, "Erhard Bauschke". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld. Max Berg (1870–1947), a German architect and urban planner, designed the Centennial Hall Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), Lutheran clergyman, leader of the resistance against Nazism Max Born (1882–1970), a German physicist and mathematician, developed quantum mechanics August Borsig (1804–1854), a German businessman who made steam engines Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945), a German philosopher, main interests: Epistemology & aesthetics Hendrik Claudius (c1655–1697), painter and apothecary Ferdinand Cohn (1828–1898), a biologist, a founder of modern bacteriology and microbiology. Richard Courant (1888–1972), a German American mathematician, wrote What Is Mathematics? Harri Czepuck (1927–2015), a German journalist. Walter Damrosch (1862–1950), an American conductor and composer. John Gunther Dean (1926–2019), an American diplomat, the United States ambassador to five nations. Johann Dzierzon (1811–1906), a Polish beekeeper, discovered parthenogenesis in bees. Hermann von Eichhorn (1848–1918), a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall during WWI. Norbert Elias (1897–1990), a German/British sociologist, worked on civilizing/decivilizing processes. Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein (1797-1885), a Prussian General der Infanterie Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde (1873–1942), a German botanist. George Forell (1919–2011), a scholar, author, lecturer and guest professor re. Christian ethics. Otfrid Förster (1873–1941) a German neurologist and neurosurgeon Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat (1910–1999) a biochemist, researched viruses. Zecharias Frankel (1801–1875), rabbi and founder of Conservative Judaism Hans Freeman (1929–2008), Australian bioinorganic chemist and protein crystallographer Protásio Frikel (1912–1974), German-Brazilian missionary and anthropologist Maria Frisé (1926–2022), German author and journalist Friedrich von Gentz (1764–1832), a German diplomat and writer. Alfred Gomolka (1942–2020), a German politician and MEP Rudolf von Gottschall (1823–1909), a German poet, dramatist, literary critic and literary historian. Felix Hausdorff (1868–1942), mathematician, one of the founders of algebraic topology Martin Helwig (1516–1574) a German cartographer, created the first map of Silesia Sir George Henschel (1850–1934) a British baritone, pianist, conductor and composer. Johann Heß (1490–1547), Lutheran theologian, Protestant reformer of Breslau and Silesia Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau (1616–1679) a German poet of the Baroque era August, Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen (1784–1853), a German general and nobleman. Karl von Holtei (1798–1880), German poet and actor. E. A. J. Honigmann (1927–2011), a British scholar of English Literature Heinz Hopf (1894–1971), a German mathematician who worked on topology and geometry. Vernon Ingram (1924–2006), a German–American academic professor of biology in the US. Gustav Adolph Kenngott (1818–1897), a German mineralogist. Alfred Kerr (1867–1948), theatre critic and essayist Gustav Kirchhoff (1824–1887), a German physicist, dealt with electrical circuits and spectroscopy Gerhard Kittel (1888–1948), a German Lutheran theologian and lexicographer of biblical languages. Friedrich Heinrich von Kittlitz (1799–1874), artist, naval officer, explorer and naturalist. Otto Klemperer (1885–1973), orchestral conductor and composer August Kopisch (1799–1853), a German poet and painter. Wojciech Korfanty (1873–1939), a Polish activist, journalist and politician. Arthur Korn (1870–1945), physicist, invented transmission of photographs by facsimile and wireless Arthur Korn (1891–1978), a German architect and urban planner, proponent of modernism Carl Ferdinand Langhans (1782–1869), a Prussian architect whose specialty was theatres. Carl Gotthard Langhans (1732–1808), a Prussian master builder and royal architect. Ferdinand Lassalle (1825–1864), a Prussian-German jurist, philosopher and socialist. Carl Friedrich Lessing (1808–1880), a German historical and landscape painter. Marie Leszczyńska (1703 in Trzebnica – 1768), Queen consort of France. Daniel Casper von Lohenstein (1635–1683), a Baroque Silesian playwright, lawyer, diplomat and poet Peter Lorre (1904–1964), an Austrian-Hungarian and American actor. Georg Lunge (1839–1923), a German chemist. Rudolf Meidner (1914–2005), a Swedish economist and socialist theorist Joachim Meisner (1933–2017), Cardinal priest and archbishop of Cologne Adolph Menzel (1815–1905), a German Realist artist noted for drawings, etchings and paintings. Jan Mikulicz-Radecki (1850-1905), surgeon, contributed to development of modern surgery Richard Mohaupt (1904–1957), a German composer and Kapellmeister. Edda Moser (born 1938), a German operatic soprano. Moritz Moszkowski (1854–1925), a composer, pianist and teacher of Polish-Jewish descent. Sepp Piontek (1940–2026), German footballer and football coach Hugo von Pohl (1855–1916), a German admiral, commander of High Seas Fleet Louis Prang (1824–1909), printer, lithographer and publisher Y. Michel Rabbinowicz (1892 - ?), author Michael Oser Rabin (1931–2026), mathematician and computer scientist Manfred von Richthofen (1892–1918), World War I flying ace (the "Red Baron") Oskar von Riesenthal (1830–1898) a German forester, ornithologist, hunter and writer. Ludwig Rosenfelder (1813-1881), German painter Horst Rosenthal (1915–1942), German-born French cartoonist Julius von Sachs (1832–1897), a German botanist. Johann Gottfried Scheibel (1783–1843), theological professor and dissenter to the Prussian Union Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834) a Reformed theologian, philosopher and biblical scholar Auguste Schmidt (1833–1902), a German feminist, educator, journalist and women's rights activist. W.E. Scholz (1807 or 1808–1866), German composer and conductor Margarethe Siems (1879–1952), a German operatic coloratura soprano Angelus Silesius (ca.1624–1677), a German Catholic priest, physician, mystic and religious poet. Karl Slotta (1895–1987), biochemist Edith Stein (1891–1942), philosopher and Roman Catholic martyr Michael Steinberg (1928–2009) an American music critic and author Fritz Stern (1926–2016), American historian of German & Jewish history and historiography. Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1730–1794), Inspector General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War Siegbert Tarrasch (1862–1934), chess player Augustin Theiner ((1804–1874), theologian and Church historian of the Vatican Apostolic Archive August Tholuck (1799–1877), a German Protestant theologian, pastor and historian. Michel Thomas (1914–2005), war hero and language teacher. Heinz Henry Todtmann (1908–1975), German-Jewish journalist and NS collaborator.Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Record cards from Personal Cards (1939–1994) Zacharias Ursinus (1534–1583) a German Reformed theologian and Protestant reformer. Christian Wolff (1679–1754), a German philosopher. Adolf Wuttke (1819–1870) a German Protestant theologian. Johann Heinrich Zedler (1706–1751), publisher of a German encyclopedia, the Grosses Universal-Lexicon.

After 1945

Jan Borysewicz - guitar player, composer, leader of the rock band Lady Pank Leszek Czarnecki - businessman and billionaire Artur Ekert - physicist Władysław Frasyniuk - politician Jolanta Fraszyńska, actress Robert Fudali - sole member of black metal band Graveland Waldemar Fydrych - alias "Major"; artist, founder of the Orange Alternative happening movement Eugeniusz Geppert - painter Kamil Giżycki - writer and traveler Jerzy Grotowski - theatre director and theatrical avant-garde figure Mirosław Hermaszewski - cosmonaut Ludwik Hirszfeld - microbiologist, co-discover of the inheritance of the BO blood type Marek Hłasko - novelist, writer Hubert Hurkacz - tennis player Klaudia Jachira - politician and comedian Lech Janerka - singer, musician and composer Ewa Klonowski - forensic anthropologist Aleksandr Ivanovich Korolyov - vice-president of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic Urszula Kozioł - poet Marek Krajewski - writer Wojciech Kurtyka - mountain climber Aleksandra Kurzak - opera singer Olaf Lubaszenko - actor and film director Jan Łopuszański - physicist Mata - rapper Mateusz Morawiecki - politician, former Prime Minister of Poland Rafał Omelko - athlete Piotr Ponikowski - cardiologist Tadeusz Różewicz - poet and writer Wanda Rutkiewicz - mountaineer Selma Nicklass-Kempner - soprano Andrzej Sekuła - cinematographer and film director Hugo Steinhaus - mathematician Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski - chemist and physicist Aleksander Wachniewski - engineer and politician, government plenipotentiary in Wrocław (1945–1947) Michał Witkowski - writer Rafał Wojaczek - poet Dagmara Wozniak (born 1988) - Polish-American U.S. Olympic sabre fencer Maciej Żurowski - historian of French literature, translator, Romanist

Nobel laureates

listed by year of award Theodor Mommsen (1902) Philipp Lenard (1905) Eduard Buchner (1907) Paul Ehrlich (1908) Gerhart Hauptmann (1912) Fritz Haber (1918) Friedrich Bergius (1931) Erwin Schrödinger (1933) Otto Stern (1943) Max Born (1954) Reinhard Selten (1994)

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