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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Charles Adolphe Wurtz
1817 - 1884
Charles Frédéric Gerhardt
1816 - 1856
Charles Friedel
1832 - 1899
Paul Schützenberger
1829 - 1897
Paul Knochel
Born 1955
Étienne Roth
1922 - 2009
Charles Lauth
1836 - 1913
Jacob Reinbold Spielmann
1722 - 1783
Heinrich Oster
1878 - 1954
Jean-François Nierengarten
Born 1950
Eduard Hepp
1851 - 1917
Michel Rohmer
Born 1948
Hans Erlenmeyer
1900 - 1967
Félix Worms de Romilly
1824 - 1903
Hans Wolfgang Kohlschütter
1902 - 1986
Siegfried Hilpert
1883 - 1951
Daniel Auguste Rosenstiehl
1839 - 1916
Erwin Spiegelberg
1901 - 1938