List of people from Frankfurt

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
 * 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 (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
 * 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 (1860–1943), chemist and industrialist

1861–1880

 * Franz Joseph von Bülow (1861–1915), writer
 * 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 Maria Kaufmann (1872-1951), Biblical archaelogist
 * 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 (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
 * 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 (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 (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
 * 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

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 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 (1906–1990), mathematician
 * Karl Holzamer (1906–2007), philosopher, pedagogue and former director general of German television station ZDF
 * Franka Rasmussen (1907–1994), textile artist
 * 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
 * Edgar Weil (1908–1941), Germanist, dramaturge, and merchant
 * 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 (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 (1919–2018), 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 (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), 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 (1937–2018), sociologist
 * Günter Lenz (born 1938), jazz bassist and composer
 * Fritz-Albert Popp (1938–2018), biophysicist
 * Gerhard Waibel (born 1938), engineer
 * Gerhard Amendt (born 1939), sociologist and former professor
 * Gerd Kehrer (born 1939), painter
 * Wolfram Saenger (born 1939), biochemist and protein crystallographer
 * Bernhard Sinkel (born 1940), film director and screenwriter
 * Wolfgang Solz (1940–2017), 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
 * Ursula G.T. Müller (born 1944), sociologist specializing in gender studies
 * Jürgen Roth (1945–2017), 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 (1947–2022), terrorist
 * Minka Pradelski (born 1947), sociologist and documentary filmmaker
 * Susan Blakely (born 1948), American film actress
 * Diethelm Sack (born 1948), financial officer
 * Rolf Birkhölzer (born 1949), footballer
 * 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 (1949–2017), 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 (1951–2022), guitarist and composer
 * Martin Mosebach (born 1951), writer
 * 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 (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 (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
 * 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 (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
 * 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 (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 (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 (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
 * Zaytoven (born 1980), American hip hop DJ and producer

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
 * 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 (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
 * Leon Bunn (born 1992), boxer
 * Max Ehmer (born 1992), professional footballer
 * Markus Hofmeier (born 1993), professional footballer
 * Alice Merton (born 1993), singer
 * 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, 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; 1928–2024), 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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