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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François Christophe de Kellermann
1735 - 1820
Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolay
1737 - 1820
Philippe Rühl
1737 - 1795
Jean-Joseph Rodolphe
1730 - 1812
Jérémie-Jacques Oberlin
1735 - 1806
Marianne Camasse
1734 - 1807
Johann Daniel Metzger
1739 - 1805
Claude J. Sauthier
1736 - 1802
Georges-Frédéric Meyer
1735 - 1779
Théodose Le Barbier de Tinan
1738 - 1791
Leontzi Honauer
1730 - 1790
Jacques Brunck
1735 - 1807
Louis Joseph de Fernig
1735 - 1816
Jean Étienne François Monter
1738 - 1811