This list contains notable people both born in Frankfurt and residents of the city, ordered chronologically.
Born in Frankfurt
9th to 17th centuries Charles the Bald (823–877), King of West Francia, King of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor William I, Duke of Bavaria (1330–1389), also known as William V, Count of Holland, as William III, Count of Hainaut and as William IV, Count of Zeeland Jakob Heller (c. 1460—1522), patrician, politician, and merchant Johann Dietenberger (c. 1475–1537), Catholic Scholastic theologian Konrad Gobel (c. 1498–1557), craftsman of bells and other metal castings Sebastian von Heusenstamm (1508–1555), Archbishop-Elector of Mainz Elijah Loans (1555–1636), rabbi and Kabbalist Philipp Uffenbach (1566–1636), painter and etcher Adam Elsheimer (1578–1610), artist Hendrik van Steenwijk II (c.1580–1649), Baroque painter Lucas Jennis (1590–1630), engraver Joachim von Sandrart (1606–1688), Baroque art-historian and painter Johannes Lingelbach (1622–1674), Dutch Golden Age painter Jacob von Sandrart (1630–1708), engraver Abraham Mignon (1640–1679), Dutch golden age painter Johann Jacob Schütz (1640–1690), lawyer and hymnwriter Philipp von Hörnigk (1640–1714), civil servant and supporter of the economic theory of mercantilism Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717), naturalist and scientific illustrator Philipp Peter Roos (1655–1706), Baroque painter Jacob Christoph Le Blon (1667–1741), painter and engraver Lorenz Heister (1683–1758), anatomist, surgeon and botanist
18th century Alexander Ferdinand (1704–1773), 3rd Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Postmaster General of the Imperial Reichspost, and Head of the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis Princess Marie Auguste of Thurn and Taxis (1706–1756), Regent of Württemberg Johann Christian Senckenberg (1707–1772), physician, naturalist and collector Susanne von Klettenberg (1723–1774), abbess and writer Louis Eugene (1731–1795), Duke of Württemberg Catharina Elisabeth Goethe (1731–1808), mother of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Karl Anselm (1733–1805), 4th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Postmaster General of the Imperial Reichspost, and Head of the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis Johann Zoffany (1733–1810), neoclassical painter Georg Melchior Kraus (1737–1806), painter Nathan Adler (1741–1800), kabbalist and rabbi Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812), banker and founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), writer and statesman Cornelia Schlosser (1750–1777), sister of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen (1751–1827), Princess of Saxe-Meiningen and Duchess consort of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg Princess Louise of Saxe-Meiningen (1752–1805), Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen Abraham Bing (1752–1841), rabbi Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752–1831), dramatist and novelist Johann Philipp Gabler (1753–1826), Protestant Christian theologian
Karl Wilhelm (1754–1782), Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Anton Dereser (1757–1827), Discalced Carmelite professor of hermeneutics and Oriental languages Georg I (1761–1803), Duke of Saxe-Meiningen Moses Sofer (1762–1839), rabbi Philipp Karl Buttmann (1764–1829), philologist of French Huguenot ancestry Margarethe Danzi (1768–1800), composer and soprano Johann Friedrich von Meyer (1772–1849), senator of Frankfurt Amschel Mayer von Rothschild (1773–1855), banker of the Rothschild family financial dynasty Salomon Rothschild (1774–1855), banker in the Austrian Empire and founder of the Austrian branch of the Mayer Amschel Rothschild family Elisabeth von Adlerflycht (1775–1846), painter Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777–1836), London-based banker and financier and one of five sons of the second generation of the Rothschild banking dynasty Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779–1861), jurist and historian Johann Friedrich Heinrich Schlosser (1780–1851), jurist, writer and translator Dorothea von Ertmann (1781–1849), pianist Jeanette Wohl (1783–1961), friend and correspondent of Ludwig Börne Christian Brentano (1784–1851), writer and Catholic publicist Bettina von Arnim (1785–1859), writer and novelist Ludwig Börne (1786–1837), political writer and satirist Johann David Passavant (1787–1861), painter, curator and artist Franz Pforr (1788–1812), painter Carl Mayer von Rothschild (1788–1855), banker in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and founder of the Rothschild banking family of Naples Jakob Alt (1789–1872), painter and lithographer James Mayer de Rothschild (1792–1868 ), banker and founder of the French branch of the Rothschild family Carl von Heyden (1793–1866), senator and entomologist Eduard Rüppell (1794–1884), naturalist and explorer August von Bethmann-Hollweg (1795–1877), jurist and politician Johann Friedrich Böhmer (1795–1863), historian Heinrich Christian Macklot (1799–1832), naturalist Ferdinand Fellner (1799–1859), painter Friedrich Wöhler (1800–1882), chemist
19th century 1801–1820 Joseph Aschbach (1801–1882), historian Ferdinand Lindheimer (1801–1879), German Texan botanist Hermann von Meyer (1801–1869), palaeontologist
Frédéric Jules Sichel (1802–1868), French physician and entomologist Anselm von Rothschild (1803–1874), Austrian banker and member of the Vienna branch of the Rothschild family Karl Friedrich Hermann (1804–1855), classical scholar and antiquary Marie d'Agoult (1805–1876), French author
Moritz Abraham Stern (1807–1894), mathematician Georg Fresenius (1808–1866), physician and botanist Johann Benedict Listing (1808–1882), mathematician Ernst Ludwig von Leutsch (1808–1887), classical philologist George Engelmann (1809–1884), German-American botanist Jakob Fürchtegott Dielmann (1809–1885), illustrator, genre and landscape painter Heinrich Hoffmann (1809–1894), psychiatrist and author Gustav Koerner (1809–1896), revolutionary, journalist, lawyer, politician, judge, statesman in Illinois and Germany and Colonel of the U.S. Army Abraham Geiger (1810–1874 ), leader of Reform Judaism Johann Georg von Hahn (1811–1869), Austrian diplomat, philologist and specialist in Albanian history, language and culture Moritz von Bethmann (1811–1877), banker Ferdinand Hiller (1811–1885), composer, conductor, writer and music-director Henri Nestlé (1814–1890), Swiss confectioner and founder of Nestlé, the world's largest food and beverage company Joseph Hoch (1815–1874), lawyer and benefactor August Weber (1817–1873), painter Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818–1897), chemist Henri Weil (1818–1909), philologist Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim (1819–1880), publicist and philosopher Mayer Carl von Rothschild (1820–1886), banker and politician Carl Theodor Reiffenstein (1820–1893), landscape and architecture painter
1821–1840 Mathilde Marchesi (1821–1913), mezzo-soprano, teacher of singing, and proponent of the bel canto vocal method Heinrich Frey (1822–1890), Swiss entomologist Georg Heinrich Mettenius (1823–1866), botanist Moritz Schiff (1823–1896), physiologist Willibald Beyschlag (1823–1900), theologian Peter Burnitz (1824–1886), lawyer and landscape painter Anton Burger (1824–1905), painter, draftsman and etcher Karl Otto Weber (1827–1867), surgeon and pathologist Adolf Schreyer (1828–1899), painter Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild (1828–1901), banker and financier of the Frankfurt House of Rothschild Lazarus Geiger (1829–1870), philologist and philosopher Victor Müller (1829–1871), painter Heinrich Anton de Bary (1831–1888), surgeon, botanist, microbiologist, and mycologist Frédéric Émile d'Erlanger (1832–1911), banker and Consul Mathilde Hannah von Rothschild (1832–1924), baroness, composer and patron of the Jewish faith Jean Baptista von Schweitzer (1833–1875), politician and dramatic poet Otto Scholderer (1834–1902), painter Wilhelm von Scherff (1834–1911), general and military writer Ernst Georg Ravenstein (1834–1913), geographer cartographer and promoter of physical exercise Giorgio Sommer (1834–1914), photographer August Weismann (1834–1914), biologist Hugo Schiff (1834–1915), chemist Nathaniel Meyer von Rothschild (1836–1905), member of the Rothschild banking family of Austria Joseph Maria von Radowitz, Jr. (1839–1912), diplomat Alexander Riese (1840–1924), classical scholar
1841–1860 Karl Binding (1841–1920), jurist Carl Gräbe (1841–1927), industrial and academic chemist Karl Lentzner (1842–1905), linguist Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1843–1940), banker and art collector Michael Flürscheim (1844–1912), economist and Georgist Emil Ponfick (1844–1913), pathologist Hans von Zwiedineck-Südenhorst (1845–1906), historian Otto Böhler (1847–1913), silhouette artist Jacob Schiff (1847–1920), American banker, businessman, and philanthropist Alice Charlotte von Rothschild (1847–1922), socialite and member of the Rothschild banking family of Austria William Ralph Merton (1848–1916), entrepreneur, social democrat and philanthropist Otto Bütschli (1848–1920), zoologist Heinrich Bassermann (1849–1909), Lutheran theologian Anton Urspruch (1850–1907), composer and pedagogue Wilhelm Creizenach (1851–1919), historian and librarian Arthur Schuster (1851–1934), British physicist Wilhelm von Bismarck (1852–1901), counselor, civil servant and politician Carl L. Nippert (1852–1904), engineer and politician Carl Chun (1852–1914), marine biologist Goby Eberhardt (1852–1926), violinist and composer Karl Höchberg (1853–1885), social-reformist writer, publisher and economist Karl Sudhoff (1853–1938), historian of medicine Moritz von Leonhardi (1856–1910), anthropologist Hermann Dessau (1856–1931), ancient historian and epigrapher Siegfried Ochs (1858–1929), choir-leader and composer Otto Böckel (1859–1923), populist politician Alfons Mumm von Schwarzenstein (1859–1924), diplomat Philipp Franck (1860–1944), Impressionist painter
Arthur von Weinberg (1860–1943), chemist and industrialist
1861–1880 Franz Joseph von Bülow (1861–1915), writer Ludwig Fulda (1862–1939), playwright and a poet Theodor Ziehen (1862–1950), neurologist and psychiatrist Karl Wilhelm von Meister (1863–1935), politician and diplomat Karl Schaum (1870–1947), chemist
Rahel Hirsch (1870–1953), doctor and professor Fritz Klimsch (1870–1960), sculptor Paul Epstein (1871–1939), mathematician Bernhard Sekles (1872–1934), composer, conductor, pianist and pedagogue Alfred Hertz (1872–1942), American conductor Karl Maria Kaufmann (1872-1951), Biblical archaeologist
Karl Schwarzschild (1873–1916), astronomer and physicist Otto Loewi (1873–1961), pharmacologist Eduard Fresenius (1874–1946), pharmacist and entrepreneur Gerhard Hessenberg (1874–1925), mathematician Marcel Sulzberger (1876–1941), Swiss composer, pianist and music author Otto Blumenthal (1876–1944), mathematician and professor Willy Kaiser-Heyl (1876–1953), film actor Isaac Heinemann (1876–1957), rabbinical scholar and professor of classical literature, Hellenistic literature and philology Hermann Fellner (1877–1936), screenwriter and film producer Arthur Scherbius (1878–1929), electrical engineer Ottilie Metzger-Lattermann (1878–1943), contralto Richard Goldschmidt (1878–1958), geneticist Harry Fuld (1879–1932), entrepreneur whose art collection was looted by Nazis Hugo Merton (1879–1940), zoologist F.W. Schröder-Schrom (1879–1956), actor
Otto Hahn (1879–1968), chemist and pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry Moritz Geiger (1880–1937), philosopher Karl von Roques (1880–1949), general and war criminal during World War II Paul Maas (1880–1964), classical scholar
1881–1900 Hermann Zilcher (1881–1948), composer and conductor Wilhelm Dörr (1881–1955), track and field athlete and tug of war competitor Hans Fischer (1881–1945), organic chemist Walter Braunfels (1882–1954), composer, pianist, and music educator
Georg von Neufville (1883–1941), Wehrmacht general during World War II Else Gentner-Fischer (1883–1943), operatic soprano