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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David Paul Drach
1791 - 1865
Maria Elektrine von Freyberg
1797 - 1847
François-Henri Haerter
1797 - 1874
Charles Niellon
1795 - 1871
André Jung
1793 - 1863
Johann Georg Heck
1795 - 1857
Georg Wilhelm von Wedekind
1796 - 1856
Georges Schützenberger
1799 - 1859
Max Ballmann
1798 - 1859
Jean Nicolas Karth
1795 - 1878
Frédéric Engelhardt
1796 - 1874
Charles Rauch
1791 - 1857
Félix Jean-Baptiste Joseph Reibell
1795 - 1867
Maximilien Magnier de Maisonneuve
1797 - 1844
Guillaume Lauth
1794 - 1865
Charles Oesinger
1794 - 1864
Jacques Timothée Dürr
1796 - 1876