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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.

Through the Centuries

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.

  1. Politician154
  2. Painter104
  3. Football82
  4. Writer62
  5. Actor54
  6. Historian46
  7. Physician39
  8. Theologian32
  1. Theologian325.8×
  2. Physician393.7×
  3. Chemist183.4×
  4. Historian462.9×
  5. Painter1042.6×
  6. Officer252.5×
  7. Mathematician172.2×
  8. Architect292.1×
  1. Football820.5×
  2. Actor540.7×

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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0007 KING

Ludwig I of Bavaria

1786 - 1868

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0030 ARISTOCRAT

Princess Augusta of Bavaria

1788 - 1851

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0060 PIANIST

Camille Pleyel

1788 - 1855

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0192 POLITICIAN

Georges Humann

1780 - 1842

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0225 OBOIST

Gustave Vogt

1781 - 1870

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0405 POET

Georges Daniel Arnold

1780 - 1829

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0544 POLITICIAN

Jean-Frédéric de Turckheim

1780 - 1850

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0573 AUTHOR

Lippmann Moses Büschenthal

1784 - 1818

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0667 GEOLOGIST

Philippe Louis Voltz

1785 - 1840

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0887 MILITAR

Maximilien Joseph Schauenburg

1784 - 1838

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0914 PAINTER

Charles-Louis Schuler

1782 - 1852

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1044 THEOLOGIAN

Frédéric-Charles-Timothée Emmerich

1786 - 1820

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1049 MILITAR

Joseph Conrad (French colonel)

1788 - 1837

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1094 POLITICIAN

Jacques Rauter

1784 - 1854

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1145 GOLDSMITH

Emmanuel Frédéric Imlin

1782 - 1831

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1183 ACTOR

Ferdinand Neukäufler

1785 - 1860

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1266 OFFICER

François Louis Zaepffel

1782 - 1865

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1298 GEHEIMRAT

Ferdinand von Türckheim

1789 - 1848

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1313 OFFICER

Auguste Hatry

1788 - 1863

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1369 WRITER

Charlotte Engelhardt

1781 - 1864

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1504 GENERALMAJOR

Stanislaus Trautwein von Belle

1782 - 1844

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1512 POET

Charles-Frédéric Hartmann

1788 - 1864

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