List of University of Bonn people

This is a list of University of Bonn people including people who have taught or studied at the University of Bonn

Nobel laureates

 * Reinhard Genzel – 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics
 * "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy"
 * Harald zur Hausen – 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
 * "for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer"
 * Reinhard Selten – 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics
 * "for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games"
 * Wolfgang Paul – 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics
 * "for the development of the ion trap technique"
 * Luigi Pirandello – 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature
 * "for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art"
 * Otto Wallach – 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * "in recognition of his services to organic chemistry and the chemical industry by his pioneer work in the field of alicyclic compounds"
 * Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse – 1910 Nobel Prize in Literature
 * "as a tribute to the consummate artistry, permeated with idealism, which he has demonstrated during his long productive career as a lyric poet, dramatist, novelist and writer of world-renowned short stories"
 * Philipp Lenard – 1905 Nobel Prize in Physics
 * "for his work on cathode rays"

Fields Medalists

 * Maryna Viazovska - 2022 Fields Medal
 * "for the proof that the E8 lattice provides the densest packing of identical spheres in 8 dimensions, and further contributions to related extremal problems and interpolation problems in Fourier analysis"
 * Peter Scholze – 2018 Fields Medal
 * "for transforming arithmetic algebraic geometry over p-adic fields through his introduction of perfectoid spaces, with application to Galois representations, and for the development of new cohomology theories"
 * Maxim Kontsevich – 1998 Fields Medal
 * "for his contributions to four problems of Geometry"
 * Gerd Faltings – 1986 Fields Medal
 * "for his proof of the Mordell Conjecture"

Faculty

 * Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander (1799–1875), Astronomy
 * Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860), History
 * Karl Barth (1886–1968), Theology
 * Bruno Bauer (1809–1882) Theology
 * Carl Heinrich Becker (1876–1933), Oriental Philology
 * Karl Dietrich Bracher (born 1922), Political Science
 * Franz Bücheler (1837–1908), Classics
 * Friedrich Calker (1790–1870), Philosophy
 * Constantin Carathéodory, (1873–1850) Mathematics
 * Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius (1822–1888), Physics
 * Ernst Robert Curtius (1886–1956), Romance Literature
 * Friedrich Christian Diez (1794–1876), Philology
 * Christian Drosten (born 1972), Head of the Charité Institute of Virology, Virology
 * Benno Erdmann (1898–1909), Philosophy
 * Udo di Fabio (born 1954), member of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany since 1999, Law
 * Gerd Faltings (born 1954), Mathematics
 * Alexander Filippou (born 1958), Professor of Inorganic Chemistry
 * Heinrich Geißler (1814–1879), Physics
 * Felix Hausdorff (1868–1942), Mathematics
 * Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894), Medicine and Physics
 * Georg Hermes (1775–1831), Theology
 * Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894), Physics
 * Werner Hildenbrand (born 1936), Economics
 * Friedrich Hirzebruch (born 1927), Mathematics
 * Manfred Hutter (born 1957), Religious studies
 * Marek Karpinski (born 1948), Computer Science, Mathematics
 * Gottfried Kinkel (1815–1882), History
 * Wilhelm Krelle (1916–2004), Economics
 * Walther Kruse (1864–1943), Bacteriology
 * Christian Lassen (1800–1876), Oriental Philology
 * Maria von Linden, (1869–1936), first female Professor
 * Rudolf Lipschitz, (1832–1903), Mathematics
 * Werner Meyer-Eppler (1913–1960), Phonetics
 * Barthold Georg Niebuhr, (1776–1831) History
 * Martin Noth (1902–1968), Theology
 * Felix Otto (born 1966), Mathematics
 * Wolfgang Paul (1913–1993), Physics
 * Carl Adam Petri (born 1926), Mathematics
 * Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845–1920), Botany
 * Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger (1829–1910), Physiology
 * Alfred Philippson (1864–1953), Geology and Geography
 * Julius Plücker (1801–1868), Mathematics and Physics
 * Joseph Ratzinger (born 1927), Pope, Theology
 * Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833–1905), Geology
 * Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl (1806–1876), Classics
 * Walter Schellenberg (born 1929), Law
 * Rudolf Schieffer (1947–2018), Medieval history
 * Annemarie Schimmel (1922–2003), Oriental Philology
 * August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767–1845), Philosophy
 * Bernhard Schlink (born 1944), Law
 * Johannes Schmidt (1843–1901), Linguistics
 * Carl Schmitt (1888–1985), Law
 * Arnold Schönhage (born 1934), Mathematics
 * Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950), Economics
 * Reinhard Selten (born 1930), Economics
 * Karl Simrock (1802–1872), German Studies
 * Heinrich Freiherr von Stackelberg (1905–1946), Economics
 * Ethelbert Stauffer (1902-1979), Theology
 * Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz (1829–1896), Chemistry
 * Eduard Strasburger (1844–1912), Botany
 * Heinrich von Sybel (1817–1895), History
 * Otto Toeplitz (1881–1940), Mathematics
 * Carl Troll (1899–1975), Geography
 * Hermann Karl Usener (1834–1905), Classics
 * Otto Wallach (1847–1931), Chemistry
 * Axel A. Weber (born 1957), President of the Deutsche Bundesbank since 2004, Economics
 * Walter Weizel (1901–1982), Physics
 * Ernst August Weiß (1900–1942), Mathematics

A

 * Heinrich Friedrich Otto Abel
 * Sigurd Abel
 * Charles McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway
 * Marylyn Addo
 * Konrad Adenauer
 * Hans-Henning Adler
 * Samuel Adler (rabbi)
 * Mary Agria
 * Irene Zoe Alameda
 * Wolfgang Albers (police president)
 * Albert of Saxony
 * Barbara Albert (chemist)
 * Karl Albert
 * Albert, Prince Consort
 * Alexis, Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt
 * Syed Mujtaba Ali
 * Julius Althaus
 * Margaret Altmann
 * Johann Baptist Alzog
 * Juozas Ambrazevičius
 * Katajun Amirpur
 * Andreas Reckwitz
 * Hugo Andresen
 * Ernst Anrich
 * Richard Anschütz
 * John Antoniadis
 * Hans-Jürgen Appelrath
 * Jürgen Aschoff
 * Ludwig Aschoff
 * Jörg Asmussen
 * Erna Auerbach

B

 * Johannes Theodor Baargeld
 * Emil Baehrens
 * Hans Werner Ballmann
 * Johann Baptista Baltzer
 * Christian Bär
 * Otto Bardenhewer
 * Norbert Bartel
 * Sandra Bartky
 * Bartłomiej Wróblewski
 * Tung Pao-cheng
 * Wolf Bauer
 * Bettina Baumgärtel
 * Theodor Baums
 * Canan Bayram
 * Hermann Heinrich Becker
 * Max Joseph Becker
 * Carl Traugott Beilschmied
 * Anna Benaki-Psarouda
 * Hans Bender
 * Otto Benndorf
 * Max Bense
 * Friedrich von Berg
 * Alexander Berghaus
 * Anton Berlage
 * Jakob Bernays
 * Michael Bernays
 * Carlos Bertulani
 * Erich Bethe
 * Peter Beyer (politician)
 * Willibald Beyschlag
 * Ernst Bickel
 * Margarete Bieber
 * August Daniel von Binzer
 * Karl Hermann Bitter
 * Matthew Black
 * Friedrich Blass
 * Orrin Dubbs Bleakley
 * Wilhelm Bleek
 * Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg
 * Raimund Bleischwitz
 * Immanuel Bloch
 * Joachim Blüher
 * Norbert Blüm
 * Clemens Blume
 * Johann Jakob Blumer
 * Franz Boas
 * Eduard Böcking
 * Wilhelm Boden
 * Friedrich Simon Bodenheimer
 * Henning von Boehmer
 * Alberto Boerger
 * Albrecht von Boeselager
 * Peter van Bohlen
 * Emil du Bois-Reymond
 * Wilhelm Bölsche
 * Heinrich Bone
 * Alfred Maximilien Bonnet
 * Beatrix Borchard
 * Eugen Bormann
 * Gustav Jacob Born
 * Axel Börsch-Supan
 * Karl Borsch
 * Hermann Bottenbruch
 * Michael Brand (politician)
 * Helmut Brandt
 * Alexis Brasseur
 * August Brauer
 * Hermann Breymann
 * Götz Briefs
 * Egbert Brieskorn
 * Klaus Brockhoff
 * Caspar Max Brosius
 * Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt
 * Hermann Brück
 * Heinrich Brüning
 * Markus Brunnermeier
 * Claudia Maria Buch
 * Karl Bücher
 * Edith Bülbring
 * Jacob Burckhardt
 * Volker Burkert
 * Wolfram Burgard
 * Karl Butzer

C

 * Otto von Camphausen
 * Petre P. Carp
 * Winifred Cavenagh
 * Victor Cherbuliez
 * Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
 * Kypros Chrysostomides
 * Somyot Chueathai
 * Rainer Ludwig Claisen
 * Campbell Clarke
 * Johannes Classen
 * Carl Clemen
 * Franz Jakob Clemens
 * Charles P. Clever
 * Michael Clyne
 * Pierre Colas
 * Jörg Colberg
 * Alexander Eugen Conrady
 * Julian Coolidge
 * Corps Borussia Bonn
 * Pascal Costanza
 * John Adam Cramb
 * Ronald Crutcher
 * Otto Cuntz

D

 * Hermann von Dechend
 * Otto Deiters
 * Hans Delbrück
 * Eva Demmerle
 * Alastair Denniston
 * Carrie Derick
 * Bärbel Dieckmann
 * Hermann Alexander Diels
 * Paul Diepgen
 * Harold Dillon, 17th Viscount Dillon
 * Karl Dilthey
 * Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
 * Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten (1899–1997)
 * Anton Dohrn
 * Hilde Domin
 * Hans Adam Dorten
 * Markus Dröge
 * Erich von Drygalski
 * Konrad Duden
 * Friedrich von Duhn
 * Ernst Dümmler
 * Maximilian Wolfgang Duncker
 * Johann Heinrich Joseph Düntzer
 * Khalid Duran
 * William West Durant
 * Nikolai Durov
 * Aramesh Dustdar
 * Karl Franz Otto Dziatzko

E

 * Hermann Ebbinghaus
 * Martin Eberts
 * Hendrik Elias
 * Alexander Ellinger
 * Robert Elsie
 * Anton Elter
 * Tom Enders
 * Adolph Albrecht Erlenmeyer
 * Ernst August Weiß
 * Max Ernst
 * Jan Esper
 * Walter Eucken
 * Botho zu Eulenburg
 * August Everding

F

 * Anton Fahne
 * Heino Falcke
 * Constantin Fasolt
 * Markus Feldenkirchen
 * Wilfried Feldenkirchen
 * Michael F. Feldkamp
 * Julius von Ficker
 * Frank Findeiß
 * Wolfgang Finkelnburg
 * Bernhard Fischer-Wasels
 * Anton Hubert Fischer
 * Emil Fischer
 * Karsten Fischer (political scientist)
 * Theobald Fischer
 * William Roby Fletcher
 * Tina van de Flierdt
 * Florika Fink-Hooijer
 * Dieter Fox
 * Wolfgang Bernhard Fränkel
 * Fritz Frech
 * Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
 * Frederick III, German Emperor
 * Wilhelm von Freeden
 * Josef Frenken
 * Solomon Frensdorff
 * Carl Remigius Fresenius
 * Angela D. Friederici
 * Julius Friedländer (numismatist)
 * Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1828–1885)
 * Johann Carl Fuhlrott

G

 * Nina Gantert
 * Harald Garcke
 * Wilhelm von Gayl
 * Emanuel Geibel
 * Abraham Geiger
 * Lazarus Geiger
 * Reinhard Genzel
 * Alfred Gercke
 * Erich Gerhards
 * Pradyut Ghosh
 * Johann Gildemeister
 * Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve
 * Cemile Giousouf
 * Frank Glaw
 * John J. Glennon
 * Hans Globke
 * Joseph Goebbels
 * Hans Rupprecht Goette
 * Leah Goldberg
 * Levin Goldschmidt
 * Theodor Goldstücker
 * Helmut Gollwitzer
 * Heinrich Ernst Göring
 * Guido Görres
 * Hermann Heinrich Gossen
 * Alfred Gottschalk (biochemist)
 * Lothar Göttsche
 * Ernst Götzinger
 * Willi Graf
 * Heinrich Wilhelm Grauert
 * Henry Green (MP for Poplar)
 * Theodore F. Green
 * Karl Gottlieb Grell
 * Hans von der Groeben
 * Detlef Gromoll
 * Bernhard Gröschel
 * Klaus Groth
 * Martin Grötschel
 * Nikolai Grube
 * Heinrich Grüber
 * Monika Grütters
 * Herlind Gundelach

H

 * Harald Haarmann
 * Michaela Haas
 * Julius von Haast
 * Jürgen Habermas
 * Birke Häcker
 * Johann Georg Hagen
 * Jürgen von Hagen
 * Heinz Halm
 * Ursula Hamenstädt
 * Muhammad Hamidullah
 * Han Young-sil
 * Joseph Hansen (historian)
 * Michael E. Hansen
 * Albert Harkness
 * Robert Almer Harper
 * Eva Harth
 * Robert Hartmeyer
 * Martin Haug
 * Prosper de Haulleville
 * Harald zur Hausen
 * Bodo Hauser
 * Martina Havenith-Newen
 * D. E. L. Haynes
 * Matthias Heider
 * Heinrich Heine
 * Karl Heinzen
 * Eduard Heis
 * Wolfgang Helbig
 * Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
 * Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle
 * Kurt Hensel
 * Ferdinand Ludwig Herff
 * Ferdinand A. Hermens
 * Richard Hertwig
 * Laura Herz
 * Gerd Heusch
 * Friedrich Heusler
 * Ludwig Heusner
 * Ahmad Ali Heydari
 * Paul Heyse
 * Raymond Hickey
 * Bernhard Josef Hilgers
 * Hilmar Duerbeck
 * George Him
 * Samson Raphael Hirsch
 * Samuel Hirsch
 * Winifred Hoernlé
 * Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
 * August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
 * Hubertus Hoffmann
 * Dean Hoge
 * Alfred Holder
 * Joachim Wilhelm Franz Philipp von Holtzendorff
 * Karl Holzamer
 * Axel Honneth
 * Karl Hopf
 * Ernst Höpfner
 * Josef Hopmann
 * How to Dress Well
 * Emil Hübner
 * Hermann Hüffer
 * William Wilson Hunter
 * Rene Hurlemann

I

 * Mario Germán Iguarán Arana
 * Johannes Ilberg
 * Wolfgang Ischinger
 * Caspar Isenkrahe
 * Otto Ites

J

 * Abraham Jacobi
 * Paul Jacobsthal
 * Gottlieb von Jagow
 * Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr
 * Johannes Janssen
 * Jens Carsten Jantzen
 * Sheila Jasanoff
 * Anton Saurma von der Jeltsch
 * Ronald Jensen
 * Wilhelm Joest
 * John Hennig
 * Henri Jordan
 * Jürgen Jost
 * Kurt Josten
 * Ju Gau-jeng
 * James Robertson Justice

K

 * Bruno Kahl
 * Paul E. Kahle
 * Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh
 * August Kalkmann
 * Karekin II
 * Georg Karo
 * Gustav Karsten
 * Hermann Karsten (physicist)
 * Alexander Kaufmann
 * Eduard Kaufmann
 * Ralph Kaufmann
 * Franz Philip Kaulen
 * Ulrich Kelber
 * Otto Keller (philologist)
 * Klaus Kern
 * İhsan Ketin
 * John Killick
 * Klaus Kinkel
 * Alfred Kirchhoff
 * Kittisak Prokati
 * Felix Klein
 * Volkmar Klein
 * Onno Klopp
 * Adolf Klügmann
 * Hans Knappertsbusch
 * Karl-Rudolf Koch
 * Wolfgang Köhler
 * Otto Kohlrausch
 * Albert von Kölliker
 * Maxim Kontsevich
 * Bärbel Koribalski
 * Dieter Kotschick
 * Otto Kranzbühler
 * Matthias Kreck
 * Josef Kreiner
 * Heinrich Kreutz
 * August David Krohn
 * Ernst Kromayer
 * Hermann Krukenberg
 * Heinrich Kruse
 * Felix Kübler
 * Heinz Kunert
 * Aenne Kurowski-Schmitz
 * Annette Kurschus
 * Johann Heinrich Kurtz
 * Ernst Georg Ferdinand Küster

L

 * Alexander Graf Lambsdorff
 * Otto Graf Lambsdorff
 * George Martin Lane
 * Johann Peter Lange
 * Joseph Langen
 * Richard Laqueur
 * Ernst von Lasaulx
 * Armin Laschet
 * Christian Lassen
 * Barbour Lathrop
 * Thomas Laubach
 * Georg von Laubmann
 * Sabine Lautenschläger
 * Kartar Lalvani
 * Philip Le Couteur
 * Lee Yuan-tsu
 * Olaf Lechtenfeld
 * Max Lehmann
 * Robert Lehr
 * Ursula Lehr
 * Paul Lejeune-Jung
 * Max Lenz
 * William Ellery Leonard
 * Gerd Leonhard
 * Oliver Lepsius
 * Harald Lesch
 * Erich Leschke
 * Paul Leser
 * Robert Ley
 * Justus von Liebig
 * Peter Liese
 * Justin von Linde
 * Daniel Lindemann
 * Christian Lindner
 * Christiane Löhr
 * Hanns Christian Löhr
 * Detlef Lohse
 * Paul Lorenzen
 * Joseph Lortz
 * August Lösch
 * Otto Lowenstein
 * Wilhelm Lübke
 * Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

M

 * Hans-Georg Maaßen
 * Ulrike Malmendier
 * Bernhard Mann
 * Thilo Marauhn
 * Karl Marx
 * Wilhelm Marx
 * Angus Matheson
 * Friedrich Matz
 * Axel Maußen
 * Alexandru Mavrodi
 * Hans Mayer
 * Hans Meerwein
 * Mehmet Celal Bey
 * Johann Wilhelm Meigen
 * Friedrich Meinecke
 * Anton Menge
 * Heinrich Theodor Menke
 * Wolfgang Menzel
 * Joseph von Mering
 * Friedrich Merz
 * John Theodore Merz
 * Ioan Meșotă
 * Ernst Messerschmid
 * Werner Meyer-Eppler
 * Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg
 * Alfred Meyer
 * Eduard Meyer
 * Hugo Miehe
 * Antonio Milošoski
 * Julius von Mirbach
 * Jürgen Mittelstraß
 * Otto Gottlieb Mohnike
 * Paul Moldenhauer
 * Freya von Moltke
 * Albert Mooren
 * John Daniel Morell
 * Christoph Moufang
 * Hans Müller (politician)
 * John Muir (indologist)
 * Johannes Peter Müller
 * Nicole Müller (linguist)
 * Peter Müller (politician)
 * Hermann Mutschmann

N

 * Andrea Nahles
 * Jürgen Neukirch
 * Stephen Ng
 * James Nicol
 * William H. Nienhauser, Jr.
 * Benedikt Niese
 * Barbara Niethammer
 * Friedrich Nietzsche
 * Georg Nöldeke
 * Carl von Noorden
 * Eduard Norden

O

 * Axel Ockenfels
 * George Ogilvie-Forbes
 * Sjur Olsnes
 * Hermann Oppenheim
 * Gustav Solomon Oppert
 * Johannes Orth
 * Felix Otto (mathematician)
 * Johannes Overbeck
 * Adolf Overweg

P

 * Hermann Pabst
 * Spiridon Palauzov
 * Herbert Edward Palmer
 * Raimon Panikkar
 * Ludwig von Pastor
 * Christian Patermann
 * Friedrich Paulsen
 * Hermann Pauly
 * Heinz-Otto Peitgen
 * Grigol Peradze
 * Erich Pernice
 * Georg Perthes
 * Tilman Pesch
 * Norbert Peters (priest)
 * Eugen Petersen
 * Friedbert Pflüger
 * Friedrich Philippi (historian)
 * Alfred Philippson
 * Claus Pias
 * Monika Piazzesi
 * Amé Pictet
 * Luigi Pirandello
 * Frederik Pleitgen
 * Hans-Gert Pöttering
 * William Thierry Preyer
 * George Prothero
 * Eugen Prym

Q

 * Nicolae Quintescu

R

 * Julius Eckhardt Raht
 * Uta Ranke-Heinemann
 * Rolf Rannacher
 * Gerhard vom Rath
 * Augustus Rauschenbusch
 * Udo Recker
 * Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen
 * Henry Regnery
 * Anton Reicha
 * August Reichensperger
 * August Reifferscheid
 * Joseph Hubert Reinkens
 * Adolf Remelé
 * Alfred von Reumont
 * Franz Heinrich Reusch
 * Otto Ribbeck
 * Franz Richarz
 * Eugen Richter
 * Hans Riegel
 * Charles Pierre Henri Rieu
 * Matthias Ring
 * Gerhard Ringel
 * Albrecht Ritschl
 * Otto Ritschl
 * Franz Ritter
 * Emil Ritterling
 * Robert Kurt Woetzel
 * Erwin Rohde
 * Hermann von Rohden
 * Gustaf Otto Rosenberg
 * Norbert Röttgen
 * Gerhard Charles Rump

S

 * Jörg-Rüdiger Sack
 * Karl Ludwig Fridolin von Sandberger
 * Raymond Sandover
 * Thilo Sarrazin
 * Lisa Sauermann
 * Rudolf Scharping
 * Nina Scheer
 * Walter Schellenberg
 * Alexander Jacob Schem
 * Rudolf Schieffer
 * Jakob Schipper
 * August Schleicher
 * Sigismund von Schlichting
 * Johannes Schmidt (linguist)
 * Klaus M. Schmidt
 * Viktor Schmieden
 * Franz August Schmölders
 * Erhard Scholz
 * Peter Scholze
 * Gustav von Schönberg
 * Ludwig Schopen
 * Julius Schubring
 * Adolf Schulten
 * Hugo Paul Friedrich Schulz
 * Franz Eilhard Schulze
 * Hagen Schulze
 * E. F. Schumacher
 * Robert Schuman
 * Carl Schurz
 * Carl August Wilhelm Schwacke
 * Irmgard Schwaetzer
 * Gustav Schwalbe
 * Joseph Schwane
 * Theodor Schwann
 * Karl Schwarz
 * Hans Schwerdtfeger
 * Joachim Schwermer
 * George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk
 * William Seton
 * Jürgen Seydel
 * Marwan al-Shehhi
 * Bernd Siebert
 * Carl Siegfried
 * Hermann Simon (manager)
 * Karl Joseph Simrock
 * Eduard von Simson
 * Robert Skeris
 * Ronald Smelser
 * Richard Smyth (minister)
 * Theodor Sparkuhl
 * Friedrich von Spiegel
 * Friedrich Spielhagen
 * Jan Michael Sprenger
 * Friedrich Staub
 * Michael Stausberg
 * Angelika Steger
 * Wolfgang Steglich
 * Roderich Stintzing
 * Karlheinz Stockhausen
 * Karl-Otto Stöhr
 * Monika Stolz
 * Eduard Strasburger
 * Julius Strasburger
 * Hendrik Streeck
 * Adolf Strodtmann
 * Siegfried Sudhaus
 * Uwe Sunde
 * Heinrich von Sybel
 * Ludwig von Sybel

T

 * Atif Tauqeer
 * Sabriye Tenberken
 * Michael Theobald
 * Insa Thiele-Eich
 * Hugo Thielen
 * Günther Thomann
 * Sebastian Thrun
 * Hans Tietmeyer
 * Adolf Tobler
 * Jan Peter Toennies
 * Ferdinand Tönnies
 * Peter E. Toschek
 * James W. Treffinger
 * Heinrich von Treitschke
 * Heinrich Trettner

U

 * Horst Ueberhorst
 * Gustav Uhlig
 * Jacob Utsch

V

 * Johannes Vahlen
 * Rüdiger Valk
 * Willi Veller
 * Günter Verheugen
 * Friedrich Heinrich Vering
 * Maryna Viazovska
 * Eva Viehmann
 * Franz Volhard
 * Friedrich Vollmer
 * Andreas von Antropoff

W

 * Curt Wachsmuth
 * Hermann Friedrich Waesemann
 * Henry Wakefield (bishop of Birmingham)
 * Norbert Walter-Borjans
 * George Washington (inventor)
 * Wilhelm Wattenbach
 * Alfred Weber
 * Batty Weber
 * Karl Otto Weber
 * Max Carl Wilhelm Weber
 * Otto Weber (theologian)
 * Franz Gerhard Wegeler
 * Hans-Ulrich Wehler
 * Werner Weidenfeld
 * Jens Weidmann
 * Karl Weierstrass
 * Andreas Weigend
 * Robert Weimar
 * Jakob von Weizsäcker
 * Robert K. von Weizsäcker
 * Benedict Welte
 * Katrin Wendland
 * Guido Westerwelle
 * Robert Whytlaw-Gray
 * Hermann Wichelhaus
 * Max Ernst Wichura
 * Ulrich Wickert
 * Anna Wienhard
 * Leo Wiese
 * Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
 * Wilhelm II, German Emperor
 * Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1906–1940)
 * Léonard Willems
 * August Wilmanns
 * Max Wilms
 * Lewis Strange Wingfield
 * Hermann Winnefeld
 * Robert Wintgen
 * Karl Wirtz
 * Rotraut Wisskirchen
 * Peter Wittig
 * Friedrich Wolf (writer)
 * Guntram Wolff
 * Albrecht Wolters
 * Adolf Wüllner

Y

 * Christos Yannaras

Z

 * Karl Zangemeister
 * Angela Zigahl
 * Ferdinand Zirkel
 * Ernst Zitelmann
 * Wolf W. Zuelzer
 * Nathan Zuntz