List of people from Heilbronn

This is a list of people who have lived in Heilbronn, Germany.
 * Gustav Schübler (1787–1834), scientist (meteorology)
 * Heinrich Friedrich Füger (1751–1818), painter
 * Wilhelm Waiblinger (1804–1830), poet and author
 * Julius Robert von Mayer (1814–1878), physician and physicist, formulated the principle of mechanical equivalence
 * Ludwig Pfau (1821–1894), poet and revolutionary
 * Adolf Cluss (1825–1905), architect, builder of numerous public buildings in Washington D.C.
 * Gustav von Schmoller (1838–1917), economist
 * Wilhelm Maybach (1846–1929), engineer and motor vehicle pioneer, developed the first fast-running gasoline engine together with Gottlieb Daimler
 * Friedrich Stolz (1860–1936), chemist, invented in 1897 a predecessor of aspirin
 * Siegfried Gumbel (1874–1942), lawyer, alderman (DDP), since 1933 head of the Israelite High Councillor for Württemberg in Stuttgart, died in Dachau concentration camp
 * Theodor Heuss (1884–1963), politician, first President of the Federal Republic of Germany (1949 to 1959)
 * Hellmuth Hirth (1886–1938), aviation pioneer, aircraft and airship builder
 * Richard Drauz (1894–1946) in Landsberg Lech (executed as a war criminal), headed up the NSDAP in the Heilbronn district
 * Walter Kreiser (1898–1958), aircraft designer and journalist
 * Walter Vielhauer (1909–1986), politician (KPD)
 * Joseph Asher (1921–1990), German-American rabbi
 * Rolf Wütherich (1927–1981), passenger of the fatal car accident of James Dean
 * Heinz A. Richter (born 1939), historian to the specialty Greece and Cyprus
 * Dieter Schwarz (born 1939), entrepreneur and owner of the Schwarz-Gruppe. (Kaufland, Lidl)
 * Rosemarie Haag Bletter (born 1939), German-American architectural historian
 * Andrzej Seweryn (born 1946), Polish actor
 * Jürgen Schreiber (born 1947), journalist
 * Heide Rühle (born 1948), politician (Greens) MEP, Federal President of the Greens 1990–1991
 * Thomas Roth (born 1951), journalist, retired TV-presenter Tagesthemen
 * Freddy Sahin-Scholl (born 1953 as Freddy Scholl), singer and composer
 * Michael Wittmann (born 1956), musicologist
 * Falk Struckmann (born 1958), opera singer (baritone)
 * Joachim Schlör (born 1960), professor, author of Jewish history
 * Thomas Strobl (born 1960), politician (CDU) Member of Bundestag
 * Michael Georg Link (born 1963), politician (FDP) Member of Bundestag
 * Michael Wenczel (born 1977), football player
 * Sibel Kekilli (born 1980), German actress
 * Michael Hackert (born 1981), professional ice hockey player NHL
 * Corey Mapes (born 1992), hockey player
 * Daniel Fischbuch (born 1993), hockey player

Other notable residents

 * Martinus von Biberach (d. 1498), theologian, writer of famous epitaph
 * Christian Friedrich Duttenhofer (1742–1814), theologian, pastor and prelate in Heilbronn
 * Karl Mayer (1786–1870), poet, lived for a time in Heilbronn
 * Louis Mayer (1791–1843), landscape painter lived for a time in Heilbronn
 * Carl Heinrich Theodor Knorr (1800–1875), founder of the food business Knorr
 * Alexander Bruckmann (1806–1852), historical and portrait painter, lived for a time in Heilbronn
 * Gustav Rümelin (1815–1889), politician, lived and worked temporarily in Heilbronn
 * Kilian von Steiner (1833–1903), banker, was lawyer in Heilbronn
 * Max Eyth (1836–1906), writer, studied in Heilbronn
 * Karl Nicolai (1839–1892) German magistrate and politician, from 1881 onwards Official notary in Heilbronn
 * Max Cramer (1859–1933), teacher and genealogist in Heilbronn
 * Theophil Wurm (1868–1953), prelate of Heilbronn 1927–29
 * Ernst August Wagner (1874–1938), mass murderer, convicted and temporarily detained in Heilbronn
 * Ernst Jaeckh (1875–1959), 1902–1912 editor of Neckar-Zeitung
 * Oskar Dirlewanger (1895–1945), deputy director since 1933 of the Heilbronner labor office, later Waffen-SS officer and war criminal
 * Emanuel H. Bronner (1908–1997), maker of Dr. Bronner's castile soap
 * Walter Vielhauer (1909–1986), politician, mayor
 * Marla Glen (born 1960), singer, living in Heilbronn since 1998