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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Oscar Cullmann
1902 - 1999
Wolfgang Huber
Born 1942
Johannes Piscator
1546 - 1625
Ulrich of Strasburg
1220 - 1277
Martin Schalling the Younger
1532 - 1608
Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg
1210 - 1270
Frédéric Auguste Lichtenberger
1832 - 1899
August Eduard Cunitz
1812 - 1886
Johannes Lippius
1585 - 1612
Isabelle Graesslé
Born 1959
Johann Lorenz Blessig
1747 - 1816
Jean Georges Dorsch
1597 - 1659
Balthasar Bebel
1632 - 1686
Jean Joachim Zentgraff
1643 - 1707
Peter Schott der Jüngere
1460 - 1490
Emil Heitz (Altphilologe)
1825 - 1890
Otto Michaelis
1875 - 1949
Matthieu Arnold
Born 1965
Pierre Lenhardt
1927 - 2019
Christian Grappe
Born 1957
Johannes Bader
1487 - 1545
Friedrich Smend
1893 - 1980
Christoph Lasius
1504 - 1572
Frédéric-Charles-Timothée Emmerich
1786 - 1820
Heinz Renkewitz
1902 - 1974
Elias Stöber
1718 - 1778
Jean Philippe Beyckert
1713 - 1787
Gervasius Schuler
1495 - 1563
Symphorian Altbießer
1475 - 1537
Christian Carl Gambs
1747 - 1822
Johann Gottfried Zentgrav
1722 - 1762
August Kayser
1821 - 1885