List of people from Frankfurt

Updated on Oct 08, 2024

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This list contains notable people both born in Frankfurt and residents of the city, ordered chronologically.

9th to 17th centuries

Charles the Bald (823–877), King of West Francia, King of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor

William I, Duke of Bavaria (1330–1389), also known as William V, Count of Holland, as William III, Count of Hainaut and as William IV, Count of Zeeland

Jakob Heller (c. 1460—1522), patrician, politician, and merchant

Johann Dietenberger (c. 1475–1537), Catholic Scholastic theologian

Konrad Gobel (c. 1498–1557), craftsman of bells and other metal castings

Sebastian von Heusenstamm (1508–1555), Archbishop-Elector of Mainz

Elijah Loans (1555–1636), rabbi and Kabbalist

Philipp Uffenbach (1566–1636), painter and etcher

Adam Elsheimer (1578–1610), artist

Hendrik van Steenwijk II (c.1580–1649), Baroque painter

Lucas Jennis (1590-1630), engraver

Joachim von Sandrart (1606–1688), Baroque art-historian and painter

Johannes Lingelbach (1622–1674), Dutch Golden Age painter

Jacob von Sandrart (1630–1708), engraver

Abraham Mignon (1640-1679), Dutch golden age painter

Johann Jacob Schütz (1640–1690), lawyer and hymnwriter

Philipp von Hörnigk (1640–1714), civil servant and supporter of the economic theory of mercantilism

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717), naturalist and scientific illustrator

Philipp Peter Roos (1655-1706), Baroque painter

Jacob Christoph Le Blon (1667–1741), painter and engraver

Lorenz Heister (1683–1758), anatomist, surgeon and botanist

18th century

Alexander Ferdinand (1704–1773), 3rd Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Postmaster General of the Imperial Reichspost, and Head of the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis

Princess Marie Auguste of Thurn and Taxis (1706–1756), Regent of Württemberg

Johann Christian Senckenberg (1707–1772), physician, naturalist and collector

Susanne von Klettenberg (1723–1774), abbess and writer

Louis Eugene (1731–1795), Duke of Württemberg

Katharina Elisabeth Goethe (1731-1808), mother of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Karl Anselm (1733–1805), 4th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Postmaster General of the Imperial Reichspost, and Head of the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis

Johann Zoffany (1733–1810), neoclassical painter

Georg Melchior Kraus (1737–1806), painter

Nathan Adler (1741–1800), kabbalist and rabbi

Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812), banker and founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), writer and statesman

Cornelia Schlosser (1750–1777), sister of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen (1751–1827), Princess of Saxe-Meiningen and Duchess consort of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

Princess Louise of Saxe-Meiningen (1752–1805), Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen

Abraham Bing (1752–1841), rabbi

Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752–1831), dramatist and novelist

Johann Philipp Gabler (1753–1826), Protestant Christian theologian

Karl Wilhelm (1754–1782), Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

Anton Dereser (1757–1827), Discalced Carmelite professor of hermeneutics and Oriental languages

Georg I (1761–1803), Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

Moses Sofer (1762–1839), rabbi

Philipp Karl Buttmann (1764–1829), philologist of French Huguenot ancestry

Margarethe Danzi (1768–1800), composer and soprano

Johann Friedrich von Meyer (1772–1849), senator of Frankfurt

Amschel Mayer von Rothschild (1773–1855), banker of the Rothschild family financial dynasty

Salomon Rothschild (1774–1855), banker in the Austrian Empire and founder of the Austrian branch of the Mayer Amschel Rothschild family

Elisabeth von Adlerflycht (1775–1846), painter

Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777–1836), London-based banker and financier and one of five sons of the second generation of the Rothschild banking dynasty

Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779–1861), jurist and historian

Johann Friedrich Heinrich Schlosser (1780–1851), jurist, writer and translator

Dorothea von Ertmann (1781–1849), pianist

Jeanette Wohl (1783–1961), friend and correspondent of Ludwig Börne

Christian Brentano (1784–1851), writer and Catholic publicist

Bettina von Arnim (1785–1859), writer and novelist

Ludwig Börne (1786–1837), political writer and satirist

Johann David Passavant (1787–1861), painter, curator and artist

Franz Pforr (1788–1812), painter

Carl Mayer von Rothschild (1788–1855), banker in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and founder of the Rothschild banking family of Naples

Jakob Alt (1789–1872), painter and lithographer

James Mayer de Rothschild (1792–1868 ), banker and founder of the French branch of the Rothschild family

Carl von Heyden (1793–1866), senator and entomologist

Eduard Rüppell (1794–1884), naturalist and explorer

August von Bethmann-Hollweg (1795–1877), jurist and politician

Johann Friedrich Böhmer (1795–1863), historian

Heinrich Christian Macklot (1799–1832), naturalist

Ferdinand Fellner (1799–1859), painter

Friedrich Wöhler (1800–1882), chemist

1801–1820

Joseph Aschbach (1801–1882), historian

Ferdinand Lindheimer (1801–1879), German Texan botanist

Hermann von Meyer (1801–1869), palaeontologist

Frédéric Jules Sichel (1802–1868), French physician and entomologist

Anselm von Rothschild (1803–1874), Austrian banker and member of the Vienna branch of the Rothschild family

Karl Friedrich Hermann (1804–1855), classical scholar and antiquary

Marie d'Agoult (1805–1876), French author

Moritz Abraham Stern (1807–1894), mathematician

Georg Fresenius (1808–1866), physician and botanist

Johann Benedict Listing (1808–1882), mathematician

Ernst Ludwig von Leutsch (1808–1887), classical philologist

George Engelmann (1809–1884), German-American botanist

Jakob Fürchtegott Dielmann (1809-1885), illustrator, genre and landscape painter

Heinrich Hoffmann (1809-1894), psychiatrist and author

Gustav Koerner (1809–1896), revolutionary, journalist, lawyer, politician, judge, statesman in Illinois and Germany and Colonel of the U.S. Army

Abraham Geiger (1810–1874 ), leader of Reform Judaism

Johann Georg von Hahn (1811–1869), Austrian diplomat, philologist and specialist in Albanian history, language and culture

Moritz von Bethmann (1811–1877), banker

Ferdinand Hiller (1811–1885), composer, conductor, writer and music-director

Henri Nestlé (1814–1890), Swiss confectioner and founder of Nestlé, the world's largest food and beverage company

Joseph Hoch (1815–1874), lawyer and benefactor

August Weber (1817–1873), painter

Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818–1897), chemist

Henri Weil (1818-1909), philologist

Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim (1819–1880), publicist and philosopher

Mayer Carl von Rothschild (1820–1886), banker and politician

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein (1820-1893), landscape and architecture painter

1821–1840

Mathilde Marchesi (1821–1913), mezzo-soprano, teacher of singing, and proponent of the bel canto vocal method

Heinrich Frey (1822–1890), Swiss entomologist

Georg Heinrich Mettenius (1823–1866), botanist

Moritz Schiff (1823–1896), physiologist

Willibald Beyschlag (1823–1900), theologian

Peter Burnitz (1824-1886), lawyer and landscape painter

Anton Burger (1824–1905), painter, draftsman and etcher

Karl Otto Weber (1827–1867), surgeon and pathologist

Adolf Schreyer (1828–1899), painter

Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild (1828–1901), banker and financier of the Frankfurt House of Rothschild

Lazarus Geiger (1829–1870), philologist and philosopher

Victor Müller (1829–1871), painter

Heinrich Anton de Bary (1831–1888), surgeon, botanist, microbiologist, and mycologist

Frédéric Émile d'Erlanger (1832–1911), banker and Consul

Mathilde Hannah von Rothschild (1832–1924), baroness, composer and patron of the Jewish faith

Jean Baptista von Schweitzer (1833–1875), politician and dramatic poet

Otto Scholderer (1834–1902), painter

Wilhelm von Scherff (1834–1911), general and military writer

Ernst Georg Ravenstein (1834–1913), geographer cartographer and promoter of physical exercise

Giorgio Sommer (1834–1914), photographer

August Weismann (1834–1914), biologist

Hugo Schiff (1834–1915), chemist

Nathaniel Meyer von Rothschild (1836–1905), member of the Rothschild banking family of Austria

Joseph Maria von Radowitz, Jr. (1839–1912), diplomat

Alexander Riese (1840–1924), classical scholar

1841–1860

Karl Binding (1841–1920), jurist

Carl Gräbe (1841–1927), industrial and academic chemist

Karl Lentzner (1842–1905), linguist

Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1843–1940), banker and art collector

Michael Flürscheim (1844-1912), economist and Georgist

Emil Ponfick (1844–1913), pathologist

Hans von Zwiedineck-Südenhorst (1845–1906), historian

Otto Böhler (1847–1913), silhouette artist

Jacob Schiff (1847–1920), American banker, businessman, and philanthropist

Alice Charlotte von Rothschild (1847–1922), socialite and member of the Rothschild banking family of Austria

William Ralph Merton (1848–1916), entrepreneur, social democrat and philanthropist

Otto Bütschli (1848–1920), zoologist

Heinrich Bassermann (1849–1909), Lutheran theologian

Anton Urspruch (1850–1907), composer and pedagogue

Wilhelm Creizenach (1851–1919), historian and librarian

Arthur Schuster (1851–1934), British physicist

Wilhelm von Bismarck (1852–1901), counselor, civil servant and politician

Carl L. Nippert (1852-1904), engineer and politician

Carl Chun (1852–1914), marine biologist

Karl Höchberg (1853–1885), social-reformist writer, publisher and economist

Karl Sudhoff (1853-1938), historian of medicine

Moritz von Leonhardi (1856-1910), anthropologist

Hermann Dessau (1856-1931), ancient historian and epigrapher

Siegfried Ochs (1858–1929), choir-leader and composer

Otto Böckel (1859-1923), populist politician

Alfons Mumm von Schwarzenstein (1859-1924), diplomat

1861–1880

Ludwig Fulda (1862–1939), playwright and a poet

Theodor Ziehen (1862–1950), neurologist and psychiatrist

Karl Wilhelm von Meister (1863–1935), politician and diplomat

Karl Schaum (1870–1947), chemist

Rahel Hirsch (1870–1953), doctor and professor

Fritz Klimsch (1870–1960), sculptor

Paul Epstein (1871–1939), mathematician

Bernhard Sekles (1872–1934), composer, conductor, pianist and pedagogue

Alfred Hertz (1872–1942), American conductor

Karl Schwarzschild (1873–1916), astronomer and physicist

Otto Loewi (1873–1961), pharmacologist

Gerhard Hessenberg (1874–1925), mathematician

Marcel Sulzberger (1876–1941), Swiss composer, pianist and music author

Otto Blumenthal (1876–1944), mathematician

Willy Kaiser-Heyl (1876–1953), film actor

Isaac Heinemann (1876–1957), rabbinical scholar and professor of classical literature, Hellenistic literature and philology

Hermann Fellner (1877–1936), screenwriter and film producer

Arthur Scherbius (1878–1929), electrical engineer

Ottilie Metzger-Lattermann (1878–1943), contralto

Richard Goldschmidt (1878–1958), geneticist

Hugo Merton (1879–1940), zoologist

F.W. Schröder-Schrom (1879–1956), actor

Otto Hahn (1879–1968), chemist and pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry

Moritz Geiger (1880–1937), philosopher

Karl von Roques (1880–1949), general and war criminal during World War II

Paul Maas (1880–1964), classical scholar

1881–1900

Hermann Zilcher (1881–1948), composer and conductor

Wilhelm Dörr (1881–1955), track and field athlete and tug of war competitor

Hans Fischer (1881–1945), organic chemist

Walter Braunfels (1882–1954), composer, pianist, and music educator

Georg von Neufville (1883–1941), Wehrmacht general during World War II

Else Gentner-Fischer (1883-1943), operatic soprano

Hermann Abendroth (1883–1956), conductor

Ludwig Schunk (1884–1947), manufacturer and cofounder of the firm of Schunk und Ebe oHG

Ida Wüst (1884–1958), stage and film actress

Erich Schönfelder (1885–1933), screenwriter, actor and film director

Walther Davisson (1885–1973), violinist and conductor

Ernst May (1886—1970), architect and city planner

Walter Ruttmann (1887–1941), film director and early practitioner of experimental film

Hans Adalbert Schlettow (1887–1945), film actor

Otto Maull (1887–1957), geographer and geopolitician

Oscar Kreuzer (1887–1968), tennis and rugby player

Wilhelm Lenz (1888–1957), physicist

Fritz Becker (1888–1963), football player

Gussy Holl (1888–1966), actress and singer

Caesar Rudolf Boettger (1888–1976), zoologist

Herman Bing (1889–1947), actor

Johanna Kirchner (1889–1944), opponent of the Nazi régime

Ernst Schwarz (1889-1962), zoologist, mammalogist, and herpetologist

Heinrich Jacoby (1889–1964), musician and educator

Siegfried Kracauer (1889–1966), writer, journalist, sociologist, film theorist, and cultural critic

Otto Frank (1889–1980), businessman

Martin Weber (1890–1941), architect

Otto Schmöle (1890–1968), actor

Leopold Schwarzschild (1891–1950), author

Karl Ludwig Schmidt (1891-1956), theologian and professor

Felix Schlag (1891–1974), designer of the United States five cent coin in use from 1938 to 2004

Erwin Straus (1891–1975), German-American phenomenologist and neurologist

Hans Leybold (1892–1914), poet

Jakob Weiseborn (1892–1939), SS-Sturmbannführer (major) and commandant of Flossenbürg concentration camp

Friedrich Weber (1892–1955), instructor in veterinary medicine

Eugen Kaufmann (1892-1984), architect

Gus Meins (1893–1940), German-American film director

Ilse Friedleben (1893–1963), tennis player

Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack (1893–1965), artist

Johann Fück (1894–1974), orientalist

Karl Reinhardt (1895–1941), mathematician

Wilhelm Süss (1895-1958), mathematician

Ernst Udet (1896–1941), German flying ace of World War I

Theodor Haubach (1896–1945), journalist, SPD politician, and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime

Walter Peterhans (1897–1960), photographer

Tilly Edinger (1897–1967), paleontologist

Karl Freiherr von Lersner (1898–1943), Wehrmacht general during World War II

Karl Menninger (1898–1963), mathematician

Franz Altheim (1898–1976), historian

Hans Feibusch (1898–1998), painter and sculptor

Willy Messerschmitt (1898–1978), aircraft designer and manufacturer

Ferdinand Kramer (1898–1985), architect and functionalist designer

Irnfried Freiherr von Wechmar (1899–1959), Oberst in the Wehrmacht during World War II and an Oberst der Reserve in the Bundeswehr

Ilse Bing (1899–1998), avant-garde and commercial photographer

Paul Leser (1899–1984), ethnologist

Ernst Friedrich Löhndorff (1899–1976), sailor, adventurer, and writer

Erich Fromm (1900–1980), social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist

Otto Kahn-Freund (1900–1979), professor of comparative law and scholar in labour law

Erich Klibansky (1900–1942), headmaster and teacher of the first Jewish Gymnasium of Rhineland in Cologne

Leo Löwenthal (1900–1993), sociologist

1901–1910

Georg August Zinn (1901–1976), lawyer and politician

Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt (1901–1986), politician

Adolf Weidmann (1901–1997), athlete and sports official

Otto Bayer (1902–1982), industrial chemist

Fritz Bamberger (1902–1984), scholar and editor

Hugo Schrader (1902–1993), television and film actor

Max Rudolf (1902–1995), conductor

Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969), sociologist, philosopher and musicologist

Julius Eisenecker (1903–1981), fencer

Karl Chmielewski (1903–1991), SS officer and concentration camp commandant

Otto Mainzer (1903–1995), writer

Camilla Horn (1903–1996), dancer and film star

Fritz Weitzel (1904–1940), SS soldier

Karl Hessenberg (1904–1959), engineer and mathematician

Milly Reuter (1904–1976), track and field athlete

Richard Ettinghausen (1906–1979), art historian

Wolfgang Gentner (1906–1980), experimental nuclear physicist

Helmut Landsberg (1906–1985), climatologist

Willibald Kreß (1906–1989), footballer

Ott-Heinrich Keller (1906–1990), mathematician

Karl Holzamer (1906–2007), philosopher, pedagogue and former director general of German television station ZDF

Herman Geiger-Torel (1907–1976), Canadian opera director

Eugen Weidmann (1908–1939), career criminal

Kurt H. Debus (1908–1983), spaceflight scientist

Rudolf Gramlich (1908–1988), football player and chairman

Arthur Dreifuss (1908–1993), film director and occasional producer and screenwriter

Kurt Hessenberg (1908–1994), composer and professor

John Slade (1908–2005), American Olympic field hockey player and Wall Street broker

Ernst vom Rath (1909–1938), diplomat

Andrew Thorndike (1909–1979), documentary film director

Georg Konrad Morgen (1909–1982), SS judge and lawyer

Friedrich Bopp (1909–1987), theoretical physicist

Helm Glöckler (1909-1993), racing driver

Kurt Lipstein (1909–2006), legal scholar and professor

Walter Löber (1909–?), racing cyclist

Hans Bartels (1910–1945), Marine officer

Tatjana Sais (1910–1981), film actress

Fritz Tillmann (1910–1986), actor

Erwin Walter Palm (1910–1988), scholar, historian, and writer

Richard Plant (1910–1998), writer

Robert H. Goetz (1910–2000), surgeon

Erika Fromm (1910–2003), psychologist

1911–1920

Karl Heinz Bremer (1911–1942), historian

Theodor Schneider (1911–1988), mathematician

Bruno Roth (1911–1998), racing cyclist

Tilly Fleischer (1911–2005), athlete

Bruno Beger (1911–2009), racial anthropologist

Hermann Flohn (1912–1997), climatologist

Theo Helfrich (1913–1978), racing driver

Manfred Kersch (1913–1995), athlete

Karl Dröse (1913–1996), field hockey player

Bernhard Frank (1913–2011), Nazi leader

Emil Carlebach (1914–2001), writer and dissident

Herbert Cahn (1915–2002), classical archaeologist, numismatist, coin-dealer and antiquities-dealer

Werner Grothmann (1915–2002), SS leader

Wolf Kaiser (1916–1992), theatre and film actor

Karl Wald (1916–2011), football referee

Bernd T. Matthias (1918–1980), American physicist

Toby E. Rodes (1919–2013), business consultant, design-critic, journalist, and lecturer

Eric Koch (born 1919), Canadian author, broadcaster and professor

Wolfdietrich Schnurre (1920–1989), writer

1921–1930

Wilhelm Ringelband (1921–1981), theater critic

Frederick Mayer (1921–2006), educational scientist, philosopher, and creativity expert

Hans Herrman Strupp (1921–2006), American expert in psychotherapy research

Ernest Mandel (1923–1995), revolutionary Marxist theorist

Samson François (1924–1970), French pianist and composer

Ernst B. Haas (1924–2003), political scientist

Marianne Beuchert (1924–2007), florist, gardener, and writer

Jürgen Jürgens (1925–1994), choral conductor and academic teacher

Carlrichard Brühl (1925–1997), historian of medieval history and philatelist

Alfred Grosser (born 1925), German-French writer, sociologist, and political scientist

Emil Mangelsdorff (born 1925), jazz musician

Margot Frank (1926–1945), sister of Anne Frank

Herbert Freudenberger (1926–1999), psychologist

Liselott Linsenhoff (1927–1999), equestrian and Olympic champion

Hans Heinz Holz (1927–2011), Marxist philosopher

Charlotte Kerr (1927–2011), director, film producer, actress, writer, and journalist

Marcel Ophüls (born 1927), documentary film maker and former actor

Albert Mangelsdorff (1928–2005), jazz trombonist

Anne Frank (1929–1945), diarist and writer

Erich Böhme (1930–2009), journalist and television host

Robert Aumann (born 1930), Israeli-American mathematician

Ursula Lehr (born 1930), academic, age researcher, and politician

Michael Rossmann (born 1930), German-American physicist, microbiologist, and professor

1931–1940

Imanuel Geiss (1931–2012), historian

August Hobl (born 1931), former motorcycle road racer

Lis Verhoeven (born 1931), actress and theatre director

Rainer K. Sachs (born 1932), German-American computational radiation biologist and astronomer

Hans Krieger (born 1933), writer, essayist, journalist of influential weekly papers, broadcaster, and poet

Mary Bauermeister (born 1934), artist

Erwin Conradi (born 1935), manager in trade business

Gisela Kessler (born 1935), trade unionist

Heinz Riesenhuber (born 1935), politician

Ulrich Schindel (born 1935), classical philologist

Susanne Cramer (1936–1969), film and television actress

Klaus Heymann (born 1936), entrepreneur

Franz Ningel (born 1936), pair skater and roller skater

Klaus Rajewsky (born 1936), immunologist

Dieter Schenk (born 1937), author, former high police officer, and activist

Wolfgang Zapf (born 1937), sociologist

Günter Lenz (born 1938), jazz bassist and composer

Fritz-Albert Popp (born 1938), biophysicist

Gerhard Waibel (born 1938), engineer

Gerhard Amendt (born 1939), sociologist and former professor

Gerd Kehrer (born 1939), German painter

Wolfram Saenger (born 1939), biochemist and protein crystallographer

Bernhard Sinkel (born 1940), film director and screenwriter

Wolfgang Solz (born 1940), former professional football winger

Klaus Zehelein (born 1940), dramaturge and professor

1941–1950

Brigitte Heinrich (1941–1987), journalist and politician

Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker (born 1941), geneticist, biochemist, and research manager

Ernst Klee (1942–2013), journalist and author

Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul (born 1942), politician

Marika Kilius (born 1943), pair skater

Jürgen Roth (born 1945), publicist and investigative journalist

Gerhard Welz (born 1945), former professional footballer

Gerd Binnig (born 1947), physicist and Nobel laureate

Wolfgang Flür (born 1947), musician

Hans-Joachim Klein (born 1947), terrorist

Minka Pradelski (born 1947), sociologist and documentary filmmaker

Susan Blakely (born 1948), American film actress

Diethelm Sack (born 1948), financial officer

Horst Dröse (born 1949), former field hockey player

Margot Glockshuber (born 1949), former pair skater

Horst Ludwig Störmer (born 1949), physicist and Nobel laureate

Gert Trinklein (born 1949), former professional football player

P. J. Soles (born 1950), American film and television actress

1951–1960

Hubert Buchberger (born 1951), violinist, conductor, and music university teacher

Roman Bunka (born 1951), guitarist and composer

Martin Mosebach (born 1951), writer

Peter Ammon (born 1952), diplomat

Cornelia Hanisch (born 1952), former fencer

Johanna Lindsey (born 1952), American writer of historical romance novels

Susanne Porsche (born 1952), film producer

Horst Stöcker (born 1952), theoretical physicist

Stephan W. Koch (born 1953), theoretical physicist

Wolfgang Kraus (born 1953), former professional football player

Dagmar Roth-Behrendt (born 1953), lawyer and politician

Jan Zweyer (born 1953), writer

Dietrich Thurau (born 1954), retired professional road bicycle racer

Ellen von Unwerth (born 1954), photographer

Uwe Benter (born 1955), rower

Uli Lenz (born 1955), composer, pianist, and producer creating music in the modern jazz genre

Michael Obst (born 1955), composer and pianist

Ulrike Meyfarth (born 1956), former high jumper

Ronald Borchers (born 1957), former footballer

Juliane Kokott (born 1957), Advocate General and professor

Gerhard Weikum (born 1957), database researcher

Hans Zimmer (born 1957), film composer and music producer

Rainer Zitelmann (born 1957), historian, journalist, and management consultant

Peter Becker (born 1958), molecular biologist

Thomas Duis (born 1958), pianist

Peter Kloeppel (born 1958), journalist and news anchor

Roland Koch (born 1958), jurist and former conservative politician

Thomas Metzinger (born 1958), philosopher and professor

Thomas Reiter (born 1958), retired astronaut and test pilot

Michael Scheffel (born 1958), Germanist

Nicole Brown Simpson (1959–1994), ex-wife of professional football player O. J. Simpson

Martina Hallmen (born 1959), former field hockey player

Michael Sagmeister (born 1959), Jazz guitarist

Pete Namlook (1960–2012), ambient and electronic-music producer and composer

Christoph Franz (born 1960), former Chief Executive Officer of Lufthansa

Michael Gahler (born 1960), politician and Member of the European Parliament

Hannes Jaenicke (born 1960), actor

Gabriele Lesser (born 1960), historian and journalist

Patricia Ott (born 1960), former field hockey player

1961–1970

Jens Geier (born 1961), politician

Michael Hofmann (born 1961), film director

Esther Schapira (born 1961), journalist and filmmaker

Peter Blank (born 1962), javelin thrower

Beate Deininger (born 1964), former field hockey player

Matthias Röhr (born 1962), guitarist

Inaara Aga Khan (born 1963), second wife of the Aga Khan IV

Ralf Falkenmayer (born 1963), former footballer

Thor Kunkel (born 1963), author

Charlotte Link (born 1963), writer

Marcus Nispel (born 1963), film director and producer

Valentin Schiedermair (born 1963), concert pianist

Jakob Arjouni (1964–2013), author

Michael Gross (born 1964), swimmer

Manfred Binz (born 1965), footballer

Christoph Korn (born 1965), audio and media artist

Armin Kraaz (born 1965), football manager and former player

Martin Lawrence (born 1965), American actor, comedian, and filmmaker

Oliver Reck (born 1965), former footballer

Christine Schäfer (born 1965), soprano

Torsten de Winkel (born 1965), musician, composer, and philosopher

Markus Löffel (1966–2006), disc jockey, musician, and record producer

Eckhart Nickel (born 1966), journalist and author

Stefan Quandt (born 1966), engineer and industrialist

Sven Rothenberger (born 1966), equestrian

Klaus Badelt (born 1967), composer

Jens Beckert (born 1967), sociologist

Antje Boetius (born 1967), marine biologist and professor of geomicrobiology

Johannes Brandrup (born 1967), actor

Katharina Hacker (born 1967), novelist

Eckart von Hirschhausen (born 1967), physician and comedian

Annette Huber-Klawitter (born 1967), mathematician

Peter Oliver Loew (born 1967), historian, translator, and scholar

Stefan Mohr (born 1967), chess grandmaster

Andreas Möller (born 1967), former internationalist association footballer

Inka Parei (born 1967), writer

Peter Thiel (born 1967), American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager

Andreas Paulus (born 1968), jurist

Uwe Schmidt (born 1968), composer, musician, and producer of electronic music

Shantel (born 1968), DJ and producer

Carsten Arriens (born 1969), former professional tennis player

Giorgos Donis (born 1969), former professional football player

Oliver Lieb (born 1969), electronic music producer and DJ

Sarah Sorge (born 1969), politician

Marc Trauner (born 1969), DJ and producer

Thomas Zampach (born 1969), former professional footballer

Ronald Reng (born 1970), sports journalist and author

Markus Rill (born 1970), singer-songwriter

J. Peter Schwalm (born 1970), composer and music producer

Simone Thomaschinski (born 1970), former professional field hockey defender

1971–1980

Jochen Hippel (born 1971), musician

Holger Kleinbub (born 1971), former professional volleyball player

Slobodan Komljenović (born 1971), former Serbian footballer

Tony Richardson (born 1971), former American football fullback

Alexander Schur (born 1971), former professional footballer

Tré Cool (born 1972), American drummer

Wilhelm Fischer (born 1972), boxer

Steffi Jones (born 1972), former professional football defender

Anthony Rother (born 1972), electronic music composer, producer, and label owner

Kai Tracid (born 1972), trance DJ and producer

Tilo Wolff (born 1972), musician

Anna Carlsson (born 1973), actress and voice actress

Klark Kent (born 1973), graffiti artist and music producer

Sonya Kraus (born 1973), television presenter and former model

Christopher Reitz (born 1973), professional field hockey goalkeeper

Kaya Yanar (born 1973), comedian

Michael Aničić (born 1974), former professional football player

Matthias Becker (born 1974), former professional football player

Magnus Gäfgen (born 1974), child murderer

Sinan Şamil Sam (born 1974), Turkish heavyweight professional boxer

Sabrina Setlur (born 1974), rapper, songwriter and occasional actress

Julia Voss (born 1974), journalist and scientific historian

Yvonne Maria Schaefer (born 1975), actress, model, and producer

Mandala Tayde (born 1975), award-winning actress and model

Alexander Waske (born 1975), former professional tennis player

Daniel Dölschner (born 1976), poet and Haiku-writer

Tamara Milosevic (born 1976), documentary filmer

Michael Thurk (born 1976), professional football player

Sascha Amstätter (born 1977), professional football player

Birgit Prinz (born 1977), former female professional association football player

Sandra Smisek (born 1977), former female professional football player

Edwin Thomas (born 1977), English historical novelist

Jo Weil (born 1977), actor

Fabian Del Priore (born 1978), composer, arranger, and sound designer

Hartmut Honka (born 1978), conservative politician

Susanne Keil (born 1978), female hammer thrower

Mark Medlock (born 1978), singer

Souad Mekhennet (born 1978), journalist

Heinz Müller (born 1978), professional footballer

Silke Müller (born 1978), award-winning field hockey midfielder

Ruben Studdard (born 1978), American R&B, pop, and gospel singer

Meike Freitag (born 1979), former female swimmer

Senna Guemmour (born 1979), singer-songwriter and entertainer

Jonesmann (born 1979), rapper

Cha Du-ri (born 1980), South Korean professional footballer

Bakary Diakité (born 1980), German-Malian professional footballer

Patrick Falk (born 1980), professional footballer

Daniel Gunkel (born 1980), professional footballer

Giorgos Theodoridis (born 1980), Greek international footballer

1981–1990

Giuseppe Gemiti (born 1981), professional footballer

Jermaine Jones (born 1981), German-American professional soccer player

Saskia Bartusiak (born 1982), professional footballer

Nadja Benaissa (born 1982), recording artist, television personality, and occasional actress

Marijana Marković (born 1982), épée fencer

Carlos Nevado (born 1982), professional field hockey player

Patric Klandt (born 1983), professional footballer

Madeleine Sandig (born 1983), professional road and track racing cyclist

Pia Eidmann (born 1984), professional field hockey player

Patrick Ochs (born 1984), professional footballer

Fouad Brighache (born 1985), German-Moroccan professional footballer

J. Cole (born 1985), American hip hop recording artist, songwriter, and record producer

Fikri El Haj Ali (born 1985), professional footballer

Christian Kum (born 1985), German-Dutch professional footballer

Mounir Chaftar (born 1986), professional football defender

Tim Kister (born 1986), professional footballer

Moritz Müller (born 1986), professional ice hockey defenceman

Jan-André Sievers (born 1987), professional football player

Uğur Albayrak (born 1988), Turkish professional footballer

Niklas Andersen (born 1988), professional football defender

Lisa Bund (born 1988), pop singer, songwriter, radio host, actor, and reality television star

Stefan Hickl (born 1988), professional footballer

Timm Klose (born 1988), German-Swiss professional footballer

Björn Thurau (born 1988), professional cyclist

Richard Weil (born 1988), professional footballer

Semih Aydilek (born 1989), German-Turkish professional footballer

Kevin Pezzoni (born 1989), professional footballer

Marcel Titsch-Rivero (born 1989), professional footballer

Timothy Chandler (born 1990), German-American professional soccer player

Steffen Fäth (born 1990), professional handball player

Jan Kirchhoff (born 1990), professional footballer

Romero Osby (born 1990), American professional basketball player for Maccabi Kiryat Gat of the Israeli Basketball Premier League

1991–2000

Daniel Döringer (born 1991), professional footballer

Daniel Henrich (born 1991), professional footballer

Namika (born 1991), German-Moroccan singer and rapper

Max Ehmer (born 1992), professional footballer

Markus Hofmeier (born 1993), professional footballer

Emre Can (born 1994), professional footballer

8th to 17th centuries

Charlemagne (born between 742 and 748; died 814), King of the Franks who united most of Western Europe during the Middle Ages and laid the foundations for modern France and Germany

Fastrada (765–794), East Frankish noblewoman

Louis the German (c. 810–876), grandson of Charlemagne and third son of the succeeding Frankish Emperor Louis the Pious and his first wife, Ermengarde of Hesbaye

Louis the Younger (born between 830 and 835; died 882), second eldest son of Louis the German and Emma who succeeded his father as King of Saxony and his elder brother Carloman as King of Bavaria

Johannes von Soest (1448–1506), composer, theorist, and poet

Conrad Faber von Kreuznach (born c. 1500; died between 1552 and 1553), painter and woodcuts designer

Jacob Micyllus (1503–1558), Renaissance humanist and teacher

Adam Lonicer (1528–1586), botanist

Giordano Bruno (1548–1600), Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and astrologer

Matthäus Merian (1593–1650), Swiss-born engraver and publisher

Johann Schröder (1600–1664), physician and pharmacologist

Jacob Joshua Falk (1680–1756), Talmudist, served as chief rabbi of Frankfurt

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767), Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist

18th century

Johann Philipp Bethmann (1715–1793), merchant and banker

Simon Moritz Bethmann (1721–1782), merchant and banker

Pinchas Horowitz (1731–1805), rabbi

Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner (1759–1833), composer

Sekl Loeb Wormser (1768-1846), rabbi

Clemens Brentano (1778–1842), poet, novelist, and major figure of German Romanticism

Karoline von Günderrode (1780–1806), Romantic poet

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), philosopher

19th century

Rudolf Christian Böttger (1806–1881), inorganic chemist

Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808–1888), rabbi

Johann von Miquel (1828–1901), statesman

Leopold Sonnemann (1831–1909),journalist, newspaper publisher, and political party leader

Charles Hallgarten (1838–1908), banker and philanthropist

Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915), physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology, and chemotherapy

Engelbert Humperdinck (1854–1921), composer

Bertha Pappenheim (1859–1936), Austrian-Jewish feminist, social pioneer, and founder of the Jüdischer Frauenbund (League of Jewish Women)

Adolf Bartels (1862–1945), journalist and poet

Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915), Bavarian-born psychiatrist and neuropathologist credited with identifying the first published case of "presenile dementia", later identified as Alzheimer's disease

Georg Voigt (1866–1927), politician

Ludwig Landmann (1868–1945), liberal politician

Oskar Ursinus (1877–1952), aerospace engineer

Max Beckmann (1884–1950), painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer

Magda Spiegel (1887–1944), contralto

Oswald von Nell-Breuning (1890–1991), Roman Catholic theologian and sociologist

Franz Bronstert (1895–1967), engineer and painter

Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), philosopher and sociologist

Paul Hindemith (1895–1963), composer, violist, violinist, teacher, and conductor

Ludwig Erhard (1897–1977), politician affiliated with the CDU and Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) from 1963 until 1966

Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897–2000), first female Austrian architect and an activist in the Nazi resistance movement

1901–1910

Kurt Thomas (1904–1973), composer, conductor, and music educator

Hans Bethe (1906–2005), German–American nuclear physicist

Oskar Schindler (1908–1974), industrialist, spy, and member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust

Alexander Mitscherlich (1908–1982), psychologist

Bernhard Grzimek (1909–1987), Silesian-German zoo director, zoologist, book author, editor, and animal conservationist

1911–1920

Josef Neckermann (1912–1992), equestrian and Olympic champion

Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen (1917–2012), psychoanalyst

Horst Krüger (1919–1999), novelist

Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920–2013), Polish-born literary critic and member of the literary group Gruppe 47

1921–1930

Reinhard Goerdeler (1922–1996), accountant instrumental in founding KPMG, the leading international firm of accountants

Horst Heinrich Streckenbach (1925–2001), tattoo artist and historian of the medium

Hilmar Hoffmann (born 1925), cultural functionary and director

Ignatz Bubis (1927–1999), chairman (and later president) of the Central Council of Jews in Germany (Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland)

Karl-Hermann Flach (1929–1973), journalist of the Frankfurter Rundschau and a politician of the liberal Free Democrats (FDP)

Jürgen Habermas (born 1929), sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism

Helmut Kohl (born 1930), conservative politician and statesman

1931–1940

Alfred Schmidt (1931–2012), philosopher

Walter Wallmann (1932–2013), politician

Rosemarie Nitribitt (1933–1957), luxury call girl whose violent death caused a scandal in the Wirtschaftswunder years

Michael Grzimek (1934–1959), zoologist, conservationist, and filmmaker

Albert Speer, Jr. (born 1934), architect and urban planner

Pope Francis (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 1936), pope of the Catholic Church, spent several months at the Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology in Frankfurt

F. K. Waechter (1937–2005), cartoonist, author, and playwright

Robert Gernhardt (1937–2006), writer, painter, caricaturist, and poet

Barbara Klemm (born 1939), photographer, worked for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for 45 years

1941–1950

Jürgen Grabowski (born 1944), former football player

Petra Roth (born 1944), mayor of Frankfurt from 1995 to 2012

Daniel Cohn-Bendit (born 1945), politician

Bernd Hölzenbein (born 1946), former football player

Johannes Weinrich (born 1947), left-wing political militant and terrorist

Josef Ackermann (born 1948), Swiss banker and former chief executive officer of Deutsche Bank

Joschka Fischer (born 1948), politician

Alfred 23 Harth (born 1949), multimedia artist, band leader, multi-instrumentalist musician, and composer

1951–2000

Ahron Daum (born 1951), rabbi, professor, author, and educator

Michel Friedman (born 1956), lawyer, former CDU politician, and talk show host

Wolfgang Herold (born 1961), film producer and sound supervisor

Stephan Weidner (born 1963), musician and music producer

Sven Väth (born 1964), DJ/producer in electronic music

Dave McClain (born 1965), drummer

D-Flame (born 1971), German hip hop and reggae musician

Azad (born 1974), rapper

Renate Lingor (born 1975), former female German international football player

Pia Wunderlich (born 1975), football midfielder

Aslı Bayram (born 1981), actress and writer

References

List of people from Frankfurt Wikipedia

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Contents

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18th century

1801–1820

1821–1840

1841–1860

1861–1880

1881–1900

1901–1910

1911–1920

1921–1930

1931–1940

1941–1950

1951–1960

1961–1970

1971–1980

1981–1990

1991–2000

8th to 17th centuries

18th century

19th century

1901–1910

1911–1920

1921–1930

1931–1940

1941–1950

1951–2000

References