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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Louis-François Lejeune
1775 - 1848
Aleksander Antoni Sapieha
1773 - 1812
Ludwik Michał Pac
1778 - 1835
Jean-Louis Aumer
1774 - 1833
Pauline Duchambge
1778 - 1858
Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué
1776 - 1856
Chrétien Géofroy Nestler
1778 - 1832
Benjamin Zix
1772 - 1811
Johann Gottfried Schweighäuser
1776 - 1844
Johann Jakob Humann
1771 - 1834
Samson Cerfberr
1778 - 1826
Ehrenfried Stoeber
1779 - 1835
Louis Jacques de Coehorn
1771 - 1813
Charles Dumonchau
1775 - 1820
Henri Darondeau
1779 - 1865
August Schiebe
1779 - 1851
François-André Baudin
1774 - 1842
Charles-Joseph Christiani
1772 - 1840
François-Daniel Reisseissen
1773 - 1828
Marc François Jérôme Wolff
1776 - 1848
Louis Chouard
1771 - 1843
Jean Henri Cless
1774 - 1812
Auguste Bella
1777 - 1856
Jean-Marie Le Barbier de Tinan
1771 - 1831
Jean Ernest de Beurmann
1775 - 1850
François Henri Redslob
1770 - 1834
Johann von Türckheim (Politiker)
1778 - 1847
Chrétien Henri Schaeffer
1774 - 1842
Joseph Anselme Louis Marchal
1776 - 1854
Jorge Enrique Vidt
Born 1772
Jean Rhem
Born 1770
Jean-Albert de Dietrich
1773 - 1806
Heinrich Daniel Städel
1771 - 1857