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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Gustave Doré
1832 - 1883
Jean Arp
1886 - 1966
Philip James de Loutherbourg
1740 - 1812
Hilla von Rebay
1890 - 1967
Louis-François Lejeune
1775 - 1848
Sebastian Stoskopff
1597 - 1657
Johann Wilhelm Baur
1607 - 1640
Marcelle Cahn
1895 - 1981
Johann Christian von Mannlich
1741 - 1822
Christoph Weiditz
1498 - 1559
Louis-Frédéric Schützenberger
1825 - 1903
Léo Schnug
1878 - 1933
Jacob van der Heyden
1573 - 1645
Paul Welsch
1889 - 1954
Matthaeus Greuter
1564 - 1638
Louis Charles Auguste Steinheil
1814 - 1885
Jean-Urbain Guérin
1760 - 1836
Thierry Bisch
Born 1953
Albrecht Kauw
1621 - 1681
Lucien Adrion
1889 - 1953
Élodie La Villette
1848 - 1917
Mark Wirtz
1943 - 2020
Benjamin Zix
1772 - 1811
Valentin Bousch
1490 - 1541
Maria Elektrine von Freyberg
1797 - 1847
Léon Hornecker
1864 - 1924
Johann Walter (painter)
1604 - 1677
Frédéric Lix
1830 - 1897
François-Émile Ehrmann
1833 - 1910
Hans Wechtlin
1480 - 1530
Wilhelm Stetter
1487 - 1552
Joseph Wencker
1848 - 1919
Otto Leiber
1878 - 1958
Jost Haller
1410 - 1470
Robert Kuven
1901 - 1983
René Beeh
1886 - 1922
Matthias Klotz (peintre)
1748 - 1821
Camille Gabriel Schlumberger
1864 - 1958
Auguste Cammissar
1873 - 1962
Jean-Frédéric Schall
1752 - 1825
Alfred Touchemolin
1829 - 1907
Hippolyte Pradelles
1824 - 1913
Camille Claus
1920 - 2005
Félix Haffner
1818 - 1875
Philippe Beyer
1817 - 1893
Jacques Gachot
1885 - 1954
Henri Beecke
1877 - 1954
Franz Josef Sandmann
1805 - 1856
Jean-Georges Cornélius
1880 - 1963
Anna Maria von Baden-Durlach
1617 - 1672
Francine Mayran
Born 1958
Lucien Blumer
1871 - 1947
Raymond de La Nézière
1865 - 1953
Lucien Haffen
1888 - 1968
Hans Herbst (Maler)
1470 - 1552
Camille Saglio
1804 - 1889
Elsa Pfister
1893 - 1955
Gabrielle Kayser
1902 - 1993
Alexandre Dang
Born 1973
Marie-Théodore de Bussierre
1802 - 1865
Carola Sorg
1833 - 1923
Eugène Cottin
1841 - 1902
Georges-Frédéric Meyer
1735 - 1779
Jean Henri Cless
1774 - 1812
Louis-Philippe Kamm
1882 - 1959
Georges Ritleng
1875 - 1972
Hans Mathis
1882 - 1944
Charles-Louis Schuler
1782 - 1852
Paul Braunagel
1873 - 1954
André Bricka
1922 - 1999
Anna Maria Brentel
1613 - 1633
Johann Friedrich Greuter
1590 - 1662
Werner Mollweide
1889 - 1978
Freddy Ruhlmann
1941 - 2004
Jean-Jacques Sorg
1743 - 1821
Émile Georges Weiss
1861 - 1929
Benjamin Netter
1811 - 1889
Jean Nicolas Karth
1795 - 1878
Hans Friedrich Brentel
1602 - 1636
Marthe Kiehl
1902 - 1978
Jules Holzapffel
1826 - 1866
Johann Adam Seupel
1662 - 1717
Paul Iské
1877 - 1961
Jean-Daniel Heimlich
1740 - 1796
Charles Rauch
1791 - 1857
Gustave Krafft
1861 - 1927
Friedrich Arnold (Maler)
1815 - 1854
Marie Pittroff
Born 1952
Henri Bischoff
1869 - 1949
Rudolf Cammisar
1891 - 1983
Gérard Krimmel
Born 1944
Eugène Petitville
1815 - 1868
Nicholas Wurmser
1320 - 1363
Bernhard Otterpohl
1881 - 1963
Marthe Ruhlmann
1905 - 1983
Johanna Hipp
1873 - 1953
Charles Gottweiss
1887 - 1976
François Walter (peintre)
1755 - 1830
Monique Winckler
Born 1922
Hans Friedrich Brentel (II.)
1600 - 1634
Marcel Schwarz
1914 - 1985
Georges Klaenschi
1882 - 1949
Jean Bouman
1601 - 1658
Gabriel Dachs
1560 - 1600