List of people from Aachen

This is a list of people from Aachen, alternatively known as Bad Aachen and Aix-la-Chapelle, arranged by date.

Pre 13th century

 * Charlemagne (748–814), also known as Charles the Great, moved to Aachen and made it the capital of his empire
 * Æthelwulf (–858), king of Wessex, and father of Alfred the Great, was born in Aachen

13th–17th century

 * Theobald Craschel (1511–1587), auxiliary bishop in Cologne

18th century

 * Isabelle Brunelle (1724–1805), refugee and philanthropist
 * Johann Joseph Couven (1701–1763), architect and builder

1800–1820

 * Adam Eberle (1804–1832), history painter and lithographer of the romance
 * Friedrich Thyssen (1804–1877), banker
 * Johannes Theodor Laurent (1804–1884), Apostolic Vicar of Luxemburg
 * Alfred von Reumont (1808–1887), statesman and historian
 * Henri Victor Regnault (1810–1878), French physicist and chemist
 * Arnold Foerster (1810–1884), botanist and entomologist
 * Peter Ludwig Kuhnen (1812–1877), landscape painter of the Romantic
 * Mary Frances Schervier (1819–1876), founder of the  Poor Sisters of St. Francis 

1821–1840

 * Joseph Hubert Reinkens (1821–1896), Old Catholic Church bishop and theologian
 * Franz Bock (1823–1899), canon and art historian
 * Adolph von Hansemann (1826–1903), entrepreneur and banker
 * Adolph Sutro (1830–1898), mayor of San Francisco
 * Adam Bock (1832–1912), politician
 * Albert Baur (1835–1906), German painter
 * Anton Anno (1838–1893), German theatre actor, theatre director, and playwright

1841–1860

 * Ludwig von Pastor (1854–1928), historian and Austrian diplomat

1861–1880

 * Arthur Kampf (1864–1950), history painter and university professor
 * Arthur Eichengrün (1867–1949), chemist and university lecturer
 * Friedrich Pützer (1871–1922), architect, Protestant church architect and university lecturer
 * Gottfried Hinze (1873–1953), 1st Chairman of the German Football Association
 * Heinrich Hubert Houben (1875–1935), literary critic and journalist

1881–1900

 * Ilse Essers (1898–1994), aeronautical engineer
 * Wilhelm Worringer (1881–1965), art historian
 * Hugo Werner-Kahle (1882–1961), actor
 * Hanns Bolz (1885–1918), painter, sculptor and illustrator
 * Emil Fahrenkamp (1885–1966), architect, university professor and director of Düsseldorf Art Academy
 * Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), architect
 * Adam Kuckhoff (1887–1943), writer and resistance fighter against Nazism
 * Walter Grotrian (1890–1954), astronomer and astrophysicist
 * Walter Hasenclever (1890–1940), writer
 * Hans Freiherr von Funck (1891–1979), an officer
 * Edgar André (1894–1936), politician
 * Alfred Gottschalk (1894–1973), biochemist
 * Heinrich Maria Davringhausen (1894–1970), painter
 * Hans Croon (1896–1977), a textile manufacturer and president of the IHK Aachen
 * Edith Frank (1900–1945), mother to Anne Frank, was born in Aachen

1901–1910

 * Robert Ritter (1901–1951), Nazi racial theorist
 * Leonhard Drach (1903–1996), jurist and war criminal
 * Carl Schneider (1905–1975), painter and university professor
 * Helmuth Gericke (1909–2007), mathematician and historian of mathematics
 * Hans Ernst Schneider alias Hans Schwerte (1909/10–1999), SS-Hauptsturmführer and literary scholar

1911–1920

 * Friedrich Hendrix (1911–1941), athlete
 * Bert Heller (1912–1970), painter
 * Fredy Hirsch (1916–1944) German Jewish youth movement leader known for helping children during the Holocaust
 * Karl Otto Götz (b. 1914), the main representative of abstract art and Informel in Germany

1921–1930

 * Claus Helmut Drese (1922–2011), opera and theatre director, writer
 * Max Imdahl (1925–1988), art historian
 * Otto Graf Lambsdorff (1926–2009), politician (FDP)

1931–1940

 * Heiner Ruland (1934–2017), composer and music therapist
 * Gerd Heinz (born 1940), stage, film and television actor, stage director and theatre manager
 * Horst H. Baumann (1934–2019), artist, designer and photographer
 * Kurt Malangré (1934–2018), politician
 * Paul Theissen (born 1937), pianist, conductor and choirmaster
 * Wolf Kahlen (born 1940), video pioneer and performance, object and media artist

1941–1950

 * Manfred Schell (born 1943), trade unionist and politician
 * Raymund Havenith (1947–1993), pianist and university lecturer
 * Paul Lovens (born 1949), drummer
 * Ulla Schmidt (born 1949), politician
 * Franz Josef Radermacher (born 1950), professor of computer science

1951–1960

 * Udo Dahmen (born 1951), drummer, managing director of the Pop Academy Baden-Württemberg and music lecturer
 * Léo Apotheker (born 1953), manager, SAP
 * Matthias Frings (born 1953), journalist, television presenter and writer
 * Karl Del'Haye (born 1955), football player
 * Bascha Mika (born 1954) is a German journalist and publicist
 * Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen (born 1954), politician
 * Thomas Springel (born 1959), handball player
 * Sabine Wils (born 1959), politician

1960-2000

 * Sabina Classen (born 1963), thrash metal singer of the band Holy Moses, was born in Aachen
 * Michael Reisch (born 1964), artist and photographer, was born in Aachen
 * Uli Kusch (born 1967), a worldwide recognized metal drummer, was born in Aachen
 * Kool Savas (born 1975), musician and rapper
 * David Garrett (born 1980), a world-famous violinist, was born in Aachen.
 * Katrin Heß (born 1985), actress and model
 * Kai Havertz (born 1999), German professional footballer who plays for Premier League club Arsenal F.C. and the Germany national team.