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 Diehl
1859 - 1944
Jakob Twinger von Königshofen
1346 - 1420
Françoise Thom
Born 1951
Sébastien Fath
Born 1968
Ernst Anrich
1906 - 2001
Karl Galinsky
Born 1942
Fritsche Closener
1315 - 1390
Rodolphe Reuss
1841 - 1924
Philippe-André Grandidier
1752 - 1787
Pascale Hummel
Born 1963
Philippe Dollinger
1904 - 1999
Charles Schmidt
1812 - 1895
Francis Rapp
1926 - 2020
Auguste Laugel
1830 - 1914
Théodore Ungerer
1894 - 1935
Richard Laqueur
1881 - 1959
Auguste Himly
1823 - 1906
Jean Henri Schnitzler
1802 - 1871
Louis Schneegans
1812 - 1858
Albert Waddington
1861 - 1926
Roland Marx (historien)
1933 - 2000
Lucien Lazare
Born 1924
Jean Meyer (historien, 1924)
Born 1924
Lazare Landau
1928 - 2012
Michel Cahen
Born 1953
Yves Krumenacker
Born 1957
Richard Seiler
Born 1940
Wilhelm Kühnert
1900 - 1980
Albert Greiner
1918 - 2013
François Wendel
1905 - 1972
Jean-Jacques Schleret
1935 - 2013
Bruno Schumacher
1879 - 1957
Adolphe Seyboth
1848 - 1907
Guy Trendel
Born 1937
Robert Weyl
1913 - 1997
Louis Bergeron (Historiker)
1929 - 2014
Marc-André Wagner
1960 - 2010
Gustave Rothan
1822 - 1890
Charles Weiss (historien)
1812 - 1864
Walter Grube
1907 - 1992
Ginette Dreyfus
1912 - 1981
Fritz Kloevekorn
1885 - 1964
Joseph Maria Benedikt Clauß
1868 - 1949
Johann Michael Beuther
1566 - 1618
André Humm
1929 - 1988
Jakob Ludwig Beuther
1573 - 1625