List of Humboldt University of Berlin people

The following is a list of individuals associated with Humboldt University of Berlin through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff. As of October 2020, the university has been associated with 57 Nobel Prize winners (including former students, faculty and researchers).

Bozorg Alavi (1904–1997), novelist and writer Alexander Altmann (1906–1987), rabbi and scholar of Jewish philosophy and mysticism Gerhard Anschütz (1867–1948), leading jurisprudent and "father of the constitution" of the state of Hesse Arthur Arndt (1893–1974), physician who hid with his family during the Holocaust, the largest known surviving group of people to hide in Germany Jörg Baberowski (born 1961), professor of eastern European history Michelle Bachelet (born 1951), pediatrician and epidemiologist, president of the Republic of Chile Shepard Barclay (1847–1925), justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri Bruno Bauer (1809–1882), theologian, Bible critic and philosopher Jurek Becker (1937–1997), writer (Jacob the Liar) Max Bergmann (1886–1944), biochemist Azmi Bishara (born 1956), Arab-Israeli politician Inke Siewert (1980), professor of inorganic chemistry at University of Göttingen Eliezer Berkovits (1908–1992), rabbi, philosopher and theologian Willibald Beyschlag (1823–1900), theologian, publisher Algernon Sydney Biddle (1847–1891), American lawyer and law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), first German chancellor Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), theologian and resistance fighter Beatrix Borchard, (born 1950), musicologist Louis Borchardt, (1816/17-1883), paediatrician Max Born (1882–1970), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1954 Siegfried Borris (1906–1987), composer, musicologist and music educator Aron Brand (1910–1977), pediatric cardiologist Rudolf Brandt (1909–1948), Nazi SS officer, executed for war crimes Gottlieb Burckhardt (1836–1907), psychiatrist, first physician to perform modern psychosurgery (1888) Stephanie Buhmann (born 1977), art critic, art historian, and curator. Michael C. Burda, macroeconomist Ezriel Carlebach (1909–1956), Israeli journalist and editorial writer Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945), philosopher Adelbert von Chamisso (1781–1838), natural scientist and writer Ramesh Chennamaneni (born 1956), Indian politician Paul Anton Cibis (1911–1965), ophthalmologist and recruit under Operation Paperclip Georg von Dadelsen (1918–2007), musicologist, Neue Bach-Ausgabe Angela Davis (born 1944), political activist, educator, author, philosopher Gustav Adolf Deissmann (1866–1937), theologian, New Testament Greek philologist, author, Nobel nominee Suat Derviş (1904/1905–1972), Turkish novelist, journalist, and political activist Harilal Dhruv (1856–1896), Indian lawyer, poet, indologist Hermann Alexander Diels, (1848–1922), classical scholar Wilhelm Dilthey (1833–1911), philosopher Georg Dohrn, conductor W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), African-American activist and scholar William Duane (1872–1935), physicist E. A. Dupont (1891–1956), film director, pioneer of the German film industrySt. Pierre, Paul (2010). E.A. Dupont and His Contribution to British Film: Varieté, Moulin Rouge. Canterbury, NJ: Associated University Press. p. 13. . Benedykt Dybowski (1833–1930), zoologist, pioneer of Limnology Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915), physician, Nobel Prize for medicine in 1908 Albert Einstein (1879–1955), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1921 Gotthold Eisenstein (1823–1852), mathematician, specialized in number theory and analysis Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), journalist and philosopher Annemarie Esche, scholar of Burmese literature Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (1804–1872), philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814), philosopher, rector of the university (1810–1812) Horst Fischer (1912–1966), SS concentration camp doctor executed for war crimes Emil Fischer (1852–1919), founder of modern biochemistry, Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1902 Bruno Flierl (b. 1927), architect and city planner Werner Forßmann (1904–1979), physician, Nobel Prize for medicine in 1956 James Franck (1882–1964), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1925 Wilhelm Frick (1877–1946), Nazi official, executed for war crimes Karl Gebhardt (1897–1948), Nazi SS physician who conducted criminal medical experiments; executed for war crimes Ernst Gehrcke (1878–1960), experimental physicist Nathan Michael Gelber (1891–1966), Austrian-Israeli historian Jacob Grimm (1785–1863), linguist and literary critic Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859), linguist and literary critic Ernst Guhl (1818–1862), art historian Gregor Gysi (1948–), German politician and lawyer Fritz Haber (1868–1934), chemist, Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1918 Otto Hahn (1879–1968), chemist, Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1944 Sir William Reginald Halliday (1886–1966), principal of King's College London (1928–1952)\ Adolf von Harnack (1851–1930), theologian, educator, academic administrator Roger Härtl, neurological surgeon Robert Havemann (1910–1982), chemist, co-founder of European Union, and leading GDR dissident Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), philosopher, rector of the university (1830–1831) Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), writer and poet Reinhart Heinrich (1946–2006), pioneer in systems biology Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1932 Dieter Helm (1941–2022), farmer and politician Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894), physician and physicist Gustav Hertz (1887–1975), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1925 Paula Hertwig (1889–1983), biologist, politician Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894), physicist Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) rabbi, philosopher, and theologian Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852–1911), chemist, Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1901 Johanna Hellman (1889–1982), surgeon Wassily Hoeffding (1914–1991), statistician who introduced U-statistic and known for Hoeffding's inequality Julius Hoffory (1855–1897), phonetician, associate professor Max Huber (1874–1960), international lawyer and diplomat Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (1762–1836), founder of macrobiotics Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835), politician, linguist, and founder of the university Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), natural scientist Zakir Husain (1897–1969), third president of India Yitzchok Hutner, American Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva (dean) Sadi Irmak (1904–1990), Prime minister of Turkey Elisabeth Jastrow (1890–1981), German-born American classical archaeologist Hermann Kasack (1896–1966), writer George F. Kennan (1904–2005), American diplomat, political scientist and historian Gustav Kirchhoff (1824–1887), physicist Philip Klein (1849–1926), rabbi Paul Alfred Kleinert, German writer, editor and translator Wilhelm Knabe (1923–2021), German ecologist, pacifist, civil servant and politician Robert Koch (1843–1910), physician, Nobel Prize for medicine in 1905 Komitas Vardapet (1869–1935) Armenian priest, composer, ethnomusicologist, music pedagogue, singer, choirmaster and the founder of the Armenian classical music. Albrecht Kossel (1853–1927), physician, Nobel Prize for medicine in 1910 Arnold Kutzinski (died 1956), psychiatrist Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736 – 1813), mathematician, physicist, worked at the Prussian Academy of Sciences, the predecessor of the University of Berlin Edmund Landau (1877–1938), mathematician Diana Lange, Tibetologist and Sinologist, professor of history and cultures of Central Asia Arnold von Lasaulx (1839–1886) mineralogist and petrographer Max von Laue (1879–1960), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1914 Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903–1994), Israeli public intellectual and polymath Nechama Leibowitz Israeli Bible scholar Walter Lenkeit (1900–1986), veterinarian, professor at the University of Göttingen Wassily Leontief (1905–1999), economist, Nobel Prize for economics in 1973 James Lewin (1887–1937), physician and psychiatrist Karl Liebknecht (1871–1919), socialist politician and revolutionary Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (1886–1957), British-German Physicist, Advisor to Winston Churchill during WW II. Inventor of the U-Boat detecting surface radar and proponent of carpet bombing of German cities. Friedrich Loeffler (1852–1915), bacteriologist Ram Manohar Lohia (1910–1967), Indian activist and politician Karl Adolf Lorenz (1837–1923), composer Ivan Lysiak Rudnytsky (1919–1984), Ukrainian-Canadian historian, political scientist, publicist Andreas Maercker, (born 1960), clinical psychologist Judah Leon Magnes, rabbi, Chancellor/President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1925–1948 Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979), philosopher Karl Marx (1818–1883), philosopher and sociologist Lippman Mayer (1841–1904), rabbi Ernst Mayr (1904–2005), biologist Benjamin Mazar (1906–1995), President of Hebrew University of Jerusalem Joachim Mrugowsky (1905–1948), Nazi doctor executed for war crimes Lise Meitner (1878–1968), physicist, Enrico Fermi Award in 1966 Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847), composer Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794–1863), German chemist Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903), historian, Nobel Prize for literature in 1902 Edmund Montgomery (1835–1911), philosopher, scientist, physician Walther Nernst (1864 – 1941), physical chemist John von Neumann (1903–1957), mathematician and physicist Adalbert Parmet (1830–1898), priest and professor Max Planck (1858–1947), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1918 William Popper (1874–1963), Orientalist and professor Gordon Prange (1910–1980), American historian Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886), historian Otto Friedrich Ranke (1899–1959), physiologist Ingeborg Rapoport (1912–2017), paediatrician Samuel Mitja Rapoport (1912–2004), biochemist, leading scientist in the German Democratic Republic Tom Rapoport (born 1947), biochemist Adolph Moses Radin (1848–1909), rabbi Erich Regener (1881–1955), physicist Robert Remak (1815–1865), cell biologist Ludwig Scheeffer (1859–1885), mathematician Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775–1854), philosopher Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (1768–1834), philosopher Moritz Schlick (1882–1936), philosopher Bernhard Schlink (born 1944), writer, Der Vorleser (The Reader) Max Schloessinger (1877–1944), scholar Annette Schmiedchen (born 1966), Indologist and Padma Shri award winner Henry Slonimsky (1884–1970), professor Carl Schmitt (1888–1985), German jurist, political theorist, and professor of law Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902–1994), rabbi, philosopher, theologian, engineer, educator and writer Edith Schönert-Geiß (1933–2012), numismatist Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), philosopher Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1933 Peter Schubert (1938–2003), diplomat and albanologist Stepan Shahumyan (1878–1918), Armenian communist politician and head of the Baku Commune Georg Simmel (1858–1918), philosopher and sociologist Joseph B. Soloveitchik (1903–1993), rabbi, philosopher, and theologian Herman Smith-Johannsen (1875–1987), sportsman who introduced cross-country skiing to North America Werner Sombart (1863–1941), philosopher, sociologist and economist Hans Spemann (1869–1941), biologist, Nobel Prize for biology in 1935 Margot Sponer (1898–1945), philologist and resistance fighter Hermann Stieve (1886–1952), anatomist who did research on bodies of Nazi execution victims Max Stirner (1806–1856), philosopher Yemima Tchernovitz-Avidar (1909–98), Israeli author Gustav Tornier (1859–1938), paleontologist and zoologist Kurt Tucholsky (1890–1935), writer and journalist Luis Villar Borda (1929–2008), Colombian politician and diplomat Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902), physician and politician Filip Neriusz Walter (1810–1847), Polish organic chemist Max Weber (1864–1920), sociologist, philosopher, and political economist