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This list contains notable people both born in
Frankfurt and residents of the city, ordered chronologically.
Born in Frankfurt
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
Catharina 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
Karl Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Anton Dereser
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
19th century
1801–1820
Heinrich Hoffmann
Moritz Abraham Stern
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
Goby Eberhardt (1852–1926), violinist and composer
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
Philipp Franck (1860–1944), Impressionist painter
Arthur von Weinberg
1861–1880
Rahel Hirsch
Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild (1873–1916), astronomer and physicist
Otto Loewi (1873–1961), pharmacologist
Eduard Fresenius (1874–1946), pharmacist and entrepreneur
Gerhard Hessenberg (1874–1925), mathematician
Marcel Sulzberger (1876–1941), Swiss composer, pianist and music author
Otto Blumenthal (1876–1944), mathematician and professor
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
Harry Fuld (1879–1932), entrepreneur whose art collection was looted by Nazis
Hugo Merton (1879–1940), zoologist
F.W. Schröder-Schrom (1879–1956), actor
Otto Hahn
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
Hans Fischer
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
Gus Wickie (1885-1947), German-American bass singer and voice actor
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
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
Martha Wertheimer (1890–1942), journalist, writer, and rescuer
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
Ernst Udet
Willy Messerschmitt
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
Nelly Neppach (née Bamberger; 1898–1933), female tennis player
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
20th century
1901–1910
Theodor W. Adorno
Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969), sociologist, philosopher and musicologist
Julius Eisenecker (1903–1981), fencer
Karl Chmielewski (1903–1991), SS officer and
Herzogenbusch 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
Kurt H. Debus
Ernst vom Rath
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
Tatjana Sais (1910–1981), film actress
Barys Kit (1910–2018), Belarusian-American rocket scientist
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, dissident, and journalist
Herbert Cahn (1915–2002), classical archaeologist, numismatist, coin-dealer and antiquities-dealer
Werner Grothmann (left)
Eric Koch
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
Anne Frank
Alfred Grosser (1925–2024), German-French writer, sociologist, and political scientist
Emil Mangelsdorff (1925–2022), 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 (1930–2022), academic, age researcher, and politician
Michael Rossmann (1930–2019), German-American physicist, microbiologist, and professor
1931–1940
Imanuel Geiss (1931–2012), historian
August Hobl (born 1931), former motorcycle road racer
Lis Verhoeven (1931–2019), actress and theatre director
Rainer K. Sachs (born 1932), German-American computational radiation biologist and astronomer
Hans Krieger (1933–2023), writer, essayist, journalist of influential weekly papers, broadcaster, and poet
Mary Bauermeister (1934–2023), artist
Erwin Conradi (born 1935), manager in trade business
Michael Horovitz (1935–2021), German-born British poet, editor, visual artist, and translator
Gisela Kessler (1935–2014),
[1] trade unionist
Heinz Riesenhuber
Ulrich Schindel
Günter Lenz
1941–1950
Jürgen Roth
Jürgen Roth (1945–2017), publicist and investigative journalist
Gerhard Welz (born 1945), former professional footballer
Gerd Binnig
Wolfgang Flür
Horst Ludwig Störmer
1951–1960
Peter Ammon
Peter Ammon (born 1952), diplomat
Cornelia Hanisch (born 1952), former fencer
Johanna Lindsey (1952–2019), American writer of historical romance novels
Susanne Porsche (born 1952), film producer
Horst Stöcker (born 1952), theoretical physicist
Lutz Kirchhof (born 1953), lutenist
Stephan W. Koch (1953–2022), 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
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
Ronny 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
Thomas Reiter
Hannes Jaenicke
1961–1970
Valentin Schiedermair
Jakob Arjouni
Jens Geier (born 1961), politician
Esther Schapira (born 1961), journalist and filmmaker
Peter Blank (born 1962), javelin thrower
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
Beate Deininger (born 1964), former field hockey player
Michael Gross (born 1964), swimmer
Manfred Binz (born 1965), footballer
Armin Kraaz (born 1965), football manager and former player
Martin Lawrence (born 1965), American actor, comedian, and filmmaker
Oliver Reck
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
Peter Thiel
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
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
Jo Jo English (born 1970), American NBA basketball player,
top scorer in the 1999–2000 Israel Basketball League
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
Moses Pelham (born 1971), rapper and musician
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
Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck (born 1973), filmmaker and film curator
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), singer, rapper, songwriter and occasional actress
Julia Voss (born 1974), journalist and scientific historian
Mandala Tayde (born 1975), award-winning actress and model
Alexander Waske
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
Daniel Hartwich (born 1978), actor
Hartmut Honka (born 1978), conservative politician
Susanne Keil (born 1978), female hammer thrower
Mark Medlock
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 Gammour (born 1979), singer-songwriter and entertainer
Jonesmann (born 1979), rapper
Cha Du-ri
1981–1990
Jermaine Jones
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
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
Tru Valentino (born 1988), American actor
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
1991–2000
Notable residents of Frankfurt
8th to 17th centuries
Charlemagne
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
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
18th century
Arthur Schopenhauer
19th century
Paul Ehrlich
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
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
20th century
1901–1910
Oskar Schindler
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
1921–1930
Dr. Ruth Westheimer
Reinhard Goerdeler (1922–1996), accountant instrumental in founding KPMG, a leading international firm of accountants
Arno Lustiger (1924–2012), historian and author
Horst Streckenbach (1925–2001), tattoo artist and historian of the medium
Hilmar Hoffmann (1925–2018), 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)
Ruth Westheimer (born Karola Siegel, 1928), German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, Doctor of Education,
Holocaust survivor , and former
Haganah
sniper .
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 (1930–2017), conservative politician and statesman
1931–1940
Pope Francis
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. (1934–2017), 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
Joschka Fischer
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
Michel Friedman
Armin S. , independent securities trader
Ahron Daum (born 1951), rabbi, professor, author, and educator
Cha Bum-kun (born 1953), South Korean football manager and former player
Michel Friedman (born 1956), lawyer, former CDU politician, and talk show host
Wolfgang Herold (born 1961), film producer and sound supervisor
Luca Anzilotti (born 1963), Italian DJ/producer of electronic music
Stephan Weidner (born 1963), musician and music producer
Heike Matthiesen (born 1964), classical guitarist
Sven Väth (born 1964), DJ/producer in electronic music
Dave McClain (born 1965), drummer
D-Flame (born 1971), hip hop and reggae musician
Azad (born 1974), rapper
Renate Lingor (born 1975), female former international football player
Pia Wunderlich (born 1975), football midfielder
Aslı Bayram (born 1981), actress and writer
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