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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Marie Tussaud
1761 - 1850
Christian Kramp
1760 - 1826
Joseph Ludwig Colmar
1760 - 1818
Alexandre-Antoine Hureau de Sénarmont
1769 - 1810
Jean-Urbain Guérin
1760 - 1836
Jean-Frédéric Hermann
1768 - 1793
Johann Protasius von Anstett
1767 - 1835
Jean-Daniel Kieffer
1767 - 1833
Jean-Baptiste Olivier
1765 - 1813
Philippe-Gaétan Mathieu de Faviers
1761 - 1833
Georges Henri Eppler
1764 - 1806
Johann Daniel Osterrieth
1768 - 1839
Johann Jakob Jägle
1763 - 1837
Louise Humann
1766 - 1836
Marie-Frédéric-Henri Christiani
1760 - 1838