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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Paul Émile Appell
1855 - 1930
Charles Ehresmann
1905 - 1979
Christian Kramp
1760 - 1826
Jean-Louis Koszul
1921 - 2018
Heinrich Liebmann
1874 - 1939
Jacques Feldbau
1914 - 1945
Hans Samelson
1916 - 2005
Walther Hermann Ryff
1500 - 1548
Jules Molk
1857 - 1914
Heinrich Emil Timerding
1873 - 1945
Julius Reichelt
1637 - 1719
Ernst August Weiß
1900 - 1942
Carlo Bourlet
1866 - 1913
Jacques Blum
Born 1950
Johann Caspar Eisenschmidt
1656 - 1712
Wilhelm Quade
1898 - 1975
Johann Conrad Musculus
1587 - 1651