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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Hieronymus Brunschwig
1450 - 1533
Georg Renno
1907 - 1997
Émile Küss
1815 - 1871
Michel Lévy
1809 - 1872
Thomas Lauth
1758 - 1826
Édouard Rist
1871 - 1956
Johann Christian Ehrmann
1749 - 1827
Léon Nisand
1923 - 2014
Arnold Netter
1855 - 1936
Paul Barbette
1620 - 1666
Werner Greunuss
1908 - 1949
Heinrich Rindfleisch
1916 - 1969
Johannes Nicolaus Furichius
1602 - 1633
Eugène Boeckel
1831 - 1900
André Boeckel
1882 - 1933
François-Daniel Reisseissen
1773 - 1828
Victor Stoeber
1803 - 1871
Pierre Pellerin
1923 - 2013
Bernard Metz
1920 - 2009
Robert Nußbaum
1892 - 1941
Walter Schmitt (Chirurg)
1911 - 2005
Charles Schützenberger
1809 - 1881
Hans Ritter von Baeyer
1875 - 1941
Samuel S. Kottek
Born 1931
Henri Nerson
1902 - 1980
Victor Nessmann
1900 - 1944
Jean-Jacques Sachs
1686 - 1762
Édouard Eissen
1805 - 1875
Jacques Bassot
1923 - 2018
Robert Nerson
1912 - 1962
Georg Heinrich Behr
1708 - 1761
Anton Will
1756 - 1827
Friedrich Holtzmann
1876 - 1948
Johann Michael Faust
1663 - 1707
Johann Daniel Widt
Died 1693
Philipp Heinrich Bökler
1718 - 1759
Johann Jacob Henrici
1656 - 1686
Caspar Weckerlin
1580 - 1616
Arthur Wœhrlin
1847 - 1900