List of people from Königsberg

The following is a list of people associated with the former city of Königsberg (Duchy of Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia, Germany) which was renamed to Kaliningrad, Soviet Union in 1946.

Writing and public thinking

 * Stanislovas Rapalionis (1485–1545), at Königsberg Albertina University first translator of the Bible into Lithuanian
 * Abraomas Kulvietis (1509–1545), religious reformer at Königsberg Albertina University
 * Stanisław Murzynowski (c. 1527–1553), Polish writer, translator and a Lutheran activist during the Protestant Reformation.
 * Caspar Schütz (c. 1540 Eisleben – 1594 Danzig), historian at Königsberg and Danzig, interest in the history of Prussia.
 * Martynas Mažvydas (1510–1563), priest, writer and translator
 * Jan Kochanowski (1530 in Sycyna – 1584) Polish poet, attended the University of Königsberg after 1547
 * Simon Dach (1605 in Memel – 1659) a lyrical poet and hymnwriter.
 * Frederick I of Prussia (1657–1713), Elector of Brandenburg & Duke of Prussia
 * John Ernest Grabe (1666–1711) an Anglican divine.
 * Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700–1766) philosopher, author and critic of the Age of Enlightenment.
 * Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), philosopher
 * Johann Georg Hamann (1730–1788), philosopher
 * Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel the Elder (1741–1796) a satirical and humorous writer.
 * Zacharias Werner (1768–1823) a poet, dramatist and preacher.
 * E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822), author
 * Karl Lehrs (1802–1878) a classical scholar.
 * Karl Rosenkranz (1805–1879) a philosopher and pedagogue.
 * Wincenty Pol (1807 in Lublin – 1872) Polish poet; was interned in Königsberg  after the fall of the November Uprising in Russian partition of Poland.
 * Abraham Mapu (1808–1867), Hebrew novelist
 * Ferdinand Nesselmann (1811 Fürstenau – 1881 Königsberg), mathematician, historian, orientalist and philologist
 * Fanny Lewald (1811–1889), feminist and author
 * Theodor Goldstücker (1821–1872) a German Sanskrit scholar.
 * August Wilhelm Zumpt (1815–1877) a German classical scholar
 * Bernhard Weiss (1827–1918) a Protestant New Testament scholar.
 * Emma Goldman (1869–1940), author and political theorist
 * Friedrich Radszuweit (1876–1932), author and publisher
 * Agnes Miegel (1879–1964), author
 * Walter Liebenthal (1886–1982), sinologist and philosopher
 * Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), political theorist and philosopher
 * Leah Goldberg (1911–1970), Israeli poet
 * Annemarie Bostroem (1922-2015), author
 * Hans-Joachim Newiger, (1925–2011), philologist
 * Leah Rabin (née Schloßberg) (1928–2000), author and wife of Yitzhak Rabin

Scientists

 * Johann Bartsch (1709–1738), physician, botanist, and collaborator with Carl Linnaeus
 * Johann Christoph Bohl (1703–1785), physician, professor, and sponsor of Kant
 * Friedrich Bessel (1784–1846) an astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and geodesist.
 * Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach (1792–1847), surgeon
 * Karl Gottfried Hagen (1749–1829), chemist, opened first German chemistry lab at Königsberg's Albertina University
 * Gotthilf Hagen (1797–1884), physicist, contributed to fluid dynamics
 * Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur (1799–1878) a German-Austrian pharmacist and botanist
 * Adolph Eduard Grube (1812–1880), zoologist
 * Hermann August Hagen (1817–1893) Cambridge, U.S., German entomologist
 * Erich von Drygalski (1865–1949) geographer, geophysicist and polar scientist
 * Hermann Eichhorst (1849–1921), physician
 * Emanuel Kayser (1845–1927) geologist and palaeontologist
 * Gustav Kirchhoff (1824–1887), physicist and spectroscopist
 * Karl Rudolf König (1832–1901), physicist
 * Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899–1986), biochemist, shared the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
 * Arno Motulsky 1923-2018. medical geneticist
 * Franz Ernst Christian Neumann (1834–1918), pathologist
 * Friedrich Adolf Paneth (1887–1958), chemist
 * Siegfried Passarge (1866–1958), geographer
 * Ernst Hugo Heinrich Pfitzer (1846–1906), botanist
 * Arnold Sommerfeld (1868–1951), physicist, pioneered atomic and quantum physics
 * Otto Wallach (1847–1931), chemist, recipient of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Max Wien (1866–1938), physicist

Mathematicians

 * Christian Goldbach (1690–1764), mathematician, developed Goldbach's conjecture
 * Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804–1851), mathematician, worked on elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations
 * Otto Hesse (1811–1874), mathematician, worked on algebraic invariants
 * Carl Neumann (1832–1925), mathematician, worked on the Dirichlet principle
 * Rudolf Lipschitz (1832–1903), mathematician, named the Lipschitz continuity condition
 * Alfred Clebsch (1833–1872), mathematician, contributed to algebraic geometry
 * Ludwig Scheeffer (1859–1885), mathematician, contributed to calculus
 * Kurt Hensel (1861–1941) mathematician, introduced p-adic number
 * David Hilbert (1862–1943), mathematician, developed invariant theory
 * Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909), mathematician, developed the geometry of numbers

Arts and music

 * Anton Möller (c. 1563–1611), painter active mostly in Danzig (Gdańsk)
 * August Kohn (1732–c. 1801/2), violinist and composer active at the courts in Berlin
 * Otto Nicolai (1810–1849), composer and conductor
 * Rudolf Siemering (1835–1905) German sculptor
 * Hermann Goetz (1840–1876) a composer of the 1872 opera Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung.
 * Pavel Pabst (1854–1897), pianist/composer and professor at the Moscow Conservatory
 * Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), painter and sculptor
 * Ernst Behmer (1875–1938) a prolific German stage and film actor
 * Werner Funck (1881–1951), actor, singer, and film director
 * Harry Liedtke (1882–1945), actor
 * Heinz Tiessen (1887–1971), composer
 * Emy von Stetten (1898–1980), soprano
 * Max Colpet (1905–1998), popular song lyricist
 * Michael Wieck (1928–2021), musician and author
 * Veruschka von Lehndorff (born 1939), model, actress and artist
 * Eberhard Feltz (born 1937), German classical violinist
 * Wilfried Gruhn (born 1939), German violinist, musicologist, music educator and emeritus professor

Military

 * Erhard Ernst von Röder (1665–1743), Prussian field marshal
 * Peter August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1697–1775) Field Marshal in the Russian Imperial Army
 * Friedrich von der Trenck (1726–1794), Prussian officer and adventurer.
 * Leopold von Rauch (1787-1860), Prussiand general
 * Prince Albert of Prussia (1809–1872) Generaloberst
 * Max von der Goltz (1838-1906), Prussian admiral
 * Ernst von Below (1863-1955), German general
 * Hans Feige, (1880–1953), Wehrmacht general
 * Oskar von Hindenburg (1883–1960) a German Generalleutnant
 * Wolff von Stutterheim (1893–1940) a German Generalmajor
 * Werner Ostendorff (1903–1945), German SS Major General (Gruppenführer) of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich
 * Gerhard Barkhorn (1919–1983), second-highest-ranking Luftwaffe fighter ace (301 victories).

Politicians

 * Johann Jacoby (1805–1877), politician
 * Eduard von Simson (1810–1899), jurist and politician
 * Otto Stellter (1823-1894), politician, member of German Reichstag
 * Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg (1847–1921) diplomat and close friend of Wilhelm II
 * Robert Rasch (1852–1938), a German settler in Nauru & first resident Administrator
 * Otto Braun, (1872–1955), statesman and politician, Minister President of Prussia
 * Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1884–1945), a monarchist conservative politician
 * Wilhelm von Gayl (1879–1945), politician of the German National People's Party
 * Karl-Hermann Flach (1929–1973) journalist at the Frankfurter Rundschau and FDP politician

Sport

 * Eugen Sandow (1867–1925), first modern bodybuilder
 * Lilli Henoch (1899–1942), world record holder in the discus, shot put, and 4 × 100 meters relay, shot as a Jew by a Nazi Einsatzgruppen death squad
 * brothers Kraft Schepke (born 1934) & Frank Schepke (1935–2017) German Olympic rowers

Others

 * brothers Bruno Taut (1880–1938) & Max Taut (1884–1967), architects
 * Moshe Smoira (1888–1961), first President of the Supreme Court of Israel
 * Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld (1892–1929) aviator, made the first east-west transatlantic flight in 1928
 * Rabbi Josef Hirsch Dunner (1913–2007), Chief Rabbi of East Prussia 1936-1938
 * Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits (1921–1999) Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, from 1967 to 1991
 * Ulrich Schnaft (born 1923) Waffen-SS man in WWII, emigrated to Israel where he spied for Egypt
 * Gerda Munsinger (1929–1998) an East German prostitute and alleged Soviet spy
 * Thomas Eichelbaum (1931–2018), former Chief Justice of New Zealand
 * Heinrich August Winkler (born 1938), historian, academic and author
 * Reinhard Bonnke (1940–2019), televangelist, missionary in Africa from 1967
 * Heinrich Wilhelm Nehrenheim (1875–1939), military and provincial official in the Landeshaus Königsberg, married to Olga Wagner