48.5733° N, 7.7522° E
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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Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser
1724 - 1797
Richard François Philippe Brunck
1729 - 1803
Johann Georg Roederer
1726 - 1763
Jacob Reinbold Spielmann
1722 - 1783
Jean-Henri Eberts
1726 - 1793
Jean-Georges Stuber
1722 - 1797
Jean-Louis Lombard
1723 - 1794
Jean-Jérémie Brackenhoffer
1723 - 1789
Johannes Herrenschneider
1723 - 1802
Johann Gottfried Zentgrav
1722 - 1762
Johann Reinhard Kugler
1723 - 1770
Jean-Marie Cuchot d’Herbain
1727 - 1801
Nicolas Louis de Gelb
1721 - 1793
Mademoiselle Lyonnois
1728 - 1803