Famous people of Strasbourg
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[edit] Born in Strasbourg
Strasbourg was the birthplace of:
- Sebastian Brant (1457-1521), satirical poet and humanist
- Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck (1489-1553) Protestant statesman and reformist
- Katharina Zell (1497-1568), Protestant writer.
- Sebastian Stoskopff (1597-1657), painter of still lives
- Johann Fischart (1546-1590), satirical author
- Albrecht Kauw (1621-1681), painter
- François Christophe Kellermann (1735-1820), French marshall
- Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740-1812), painter
- Jean-Frédéric Oberlin (1740-1826), pastor and philanthropist
- Heinrich Leopold Wagner (1747 - 1779), writer
- Jean Baptiste Kléber (1753-1800), general
- Ludwig I of Bavaria (1786-1868)
- Gustave Doré (1832-1883), painter
- Charles Friedel (1832-1899), chemist and mineralogist
- Emile Waldteufel (Charles Émile Lévy) (1837-1915), composer
- Paul Émile Appell (1855-1930), mathematician
- Hans (Jean) Arp (1886-1966), artist
- Charles Münch (1891-1968), conductor
- Marcelle Cahn (1895-1981), artist
- Hans Bethe (1906-2005), physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- Hans-Otto Meissner (1909-1992), writer
- Max Bense (1910-1990), philosopher
- Jean-Paul de Dadelsen (1913-1957), poet
- Camille Claus (1920-2005), painter
- Marcel Marceau (born 1923), mime
- Tomi Ungerer (born 1931), illustrator and caricaturist
- Conrad Winter (born 1931), poet, Goethe Prize Winner
- Gilbert Gress (born 1941), football coach
- Herbert Léonard (born 1945), singer
- Joseph Daul (born 1947), politician
- Francis Wurtz (born 1948), politician
- Arsène Wenger OBE, (born 1949), football manager
- Christophe Ohrel (born 1968), football player
- Eliette Abécassis (born 1969), writer
- Yann Wehrling (born 1971), artist and leader of the French Green Party
- Fréro (born 1971), Emcee, writer & beatmaker
- Elif Şafak (born 1971), writer
- Valérien Ismaël (born 1975), football player
- Armando Teixeira (born 1976), football player
- Salomé Haller, soprano
- Mehdi Baala, (born 1978), athlete
- Paul-Henri Mathieu (born 1982), tennis-player
- M. Pokora (born 1985), singer
[edit] Famous residents of Strasbourg
- Maximilian von Montgelas, Bavarian statesman
- Johann Gutenberg (1400-1468), inventor of printing with movable type
- Erasmus (1467-1536), humanist
- Hans Baldung (1484-1545), painter
- Martin Bucer (1491–1551), Reformation leader
- Johannes Sturm (1507-1589), teacher and pedagogue
- John Calvin (1509-1564), Reformation leader
- Tobias Stimmer (1539-1584), Swiss painter
- François-Marie de Broglie (1671-1745), marshall and governor of Strasbourg
- Franz Xaver Richter (1709-1789), composer, eminent member of the "Mannheim school".
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), writer, researcher
- Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751-1792), poet
- King Maximilian I of Bavaria (1756-1825) spent several years in Strasbourg
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), composer - spent 23 days there in 1778.
- Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831) served as Kapellmeister at the Cathedral in 1789
- Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760-1836), composer of the Marseillaise
- Klemens Wenzel von Metternich (1773-1859), studied in Strasbourg from 1788 to 1790
- Georg Büchner (1813-1837), writer
- Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830-1889), historian
- Louis Pasteur (1830-1895), scientist
- Lujo Brentano (1844–1931), economist
- Ferdinand Braun (1850-1918), physicist, Nobel Prize
- Albrecht Kossel (1853-1927), medical doctor, Nobel Prize
- Georg Simmel (1858–1918), sociologist
- Georges Friedel (1865-1933), mineralogist, son of Charles Friedel
- Hans Pfitzner, (1869-1949) composer
- Jean Jacques Waltz aka. Hansi (1873-1951), artist
- Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), theologian, philosopher, physician and musician
- Paul Rohmer (1876-1977), physician, considered as one of the fathers of modern paediatrics.
- Maurice Halbwachs, (1877-1945), sociologist
- Otto Meißner (1880-1953), politician, father of Hans-Otto Meissner
- Otto Klemperer, (1885-1973), conductor
- Marc Bloch (1886-1944), historian and resistant
- Hans Rosbaud (1895-1962), conductor
- George Szell (1897-1970), conductor
- Emmanuel Lévinas (1906-1995) philosopher
- Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003), writer and philosopher
- Lucie Aubrac (born 1912) and Raymond Aubrac (born 1914), founding members of the Résistance.
- Ernest Bour (1913-2001), conductor
- Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005), philosopher
- René Thom (1923–2002), mathematician
- Guy Debord (1931-1994), philosopher
- Sarkis (born 1938), painter
- Alberto Fujimori (born 1938), peruvian president
- Jean-Marie Lehn (born 1939), Nobel Prize for chemistry 1987
- Alain Lombard (born 1940), conductor
- Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940-2007), philosopher
- Jean-Luc Nancy (born 1940), philosopher
- Georges Aperghis (born 1945), composer
- Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948-1989), playwright
- Barbara Honigmann (born 1949), German writer and painter
- Ségolène Royal (born 1953), leading member of the Parti Socialiste, went to school in Strasbourg.
- Rodolphe Burger (born 1957), musician
- John Howe (born 1957), artist
- Mireille Delunsch (born 1962), soprano
- Marjane Satrapi (born 1969), comic-strip artist.
