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STRASBOURG
Most Famous People Born in Strasbourg, France
- Notable people
- 1,527
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- Median birth year
- 1894
- Most distinctive
- Theologian 5.8×
A French-German frontier city whose bench carries both languages. Strasbourg's distinctive professions are theologians, physicians, chemists, historians, painters, and mathematicians — the trades of a Reformation university town and of the Alsatian Jewish and Lutheran scholarly community that lived there until 1940. Gustave Doré, Marcel Marceau, Jean Arp, and Hans Bethe were all born here, and the medieval bench includes Gottfried von Strassburg and the mystic Johannes Tauler.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Strasbourg during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Strasbourg Is Known For
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Politician is Strasbourg's biggest profession — 10% of all notables (154).
Strasbourg over-indexes on theologian — 5.8× the global rate.
Strasbourg under-produces football — only 0.5× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Strasbourg's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Politics & Law
- Science
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- Sports
- Music
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Johann Andreas Silbermann
1712 - 1783
Georg David Anthon
1714 - 1781
Johann Friedrich Rosenzweig
1716 - 1794
Elias Stöber
1718 - 1778
Jean de Dietrich (1719-1795)
1719 - 1795
Jean Chrétien Treitlinger
1717 - 1792
Johann Daniel Silbermann
1717 - 1766
Jean Philippe Beyckert
1713 - 1787
Philipp Heinrich Bökler
1718 - 1759
Frederic Charles de Baër
1715 - 1793