List of people from Nuremberg

Following is a list of notable people from Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany.

Presidents and directors

 * Ottmar Hörl (born 1950), an artist who was president and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg
 * August von Kreling (1818–1876), sculptor, painter, and director of the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg
 * Johann Daniel Preissler (1666–1737), painter and director of Nuremberg's Academy of Fine Arts
 * Jacob von Sandrart (1630–1708), portrait and map engraver who founded and was and first director of the Nuremberg Academy of Fine Arts



Professors

 * Heinz Bauer (1925–2002), mathematician and professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
 * Johann Bauschinger (1834–1893), professor of Engineering Mechanics at Munich Polytechnic
 * Hermann Beckh (1875–1937), pioneering Tibetologist and prominent promoter of anthroposophy.
 * Hermann Bek-Gran (1869–1909), painter, graphic artist, typographer, and professor of the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg
 * Wolfgang Bibel (born 1938), professor emeritus at the Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt
 * Gustav Bischof (1792–1870), geologist, chemist, and professor at the University of Bonn
 * Ingo Böbel (1947–2020), professor of economics at the International University of Monaco from 2000 to 2020
 * Johann Cochlaeus (1479–1552), humanist, music theorist, and dean of the Liebfrauenkirche at Frankfurt
 * William Craig (1918–2016), philosopher who taught at the University of California, Berkeley
 * Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (1677–1750), astronomer, mathematician, and professor of mathematics at the Aegidien-Gymnasium
 * Christian Enzensberger (1931–2009), professor of English studies, author and a translator of English literature into German
 * Dieter Fensel (born 1960), professor at the University of Innsbruck and director of the Semantic Technologies Institute Innsbruck
 * Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (1804–1872), anthropologist and philosopher, best known for his book The Essence of Christianity
 * Manfred M. Fischer (born 1947), regional scientist and emeritus professor of economic geography at the WU-Vienna University of Economics and Business
 * Wilhelm Geiger (1856–1943), Orientalist in the fields of Indo-Iranian languages and the history of Iran and Sri Lanka
 * Heinz Gollwitzer (1917–1999), chair of modern political and social history at the University of Münster
 * Heinrich Guggenheimer (1924–2021), mathematician and professor of University of Minnesota
 * Paula Hahn-Weinheimer (1917–2002), geochemist and professor at the Technical University of Munich
 * Lisa Herzog (born 1983), professor at the Center for Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Groningen
 * Rudolf Hickel (born 1942), chair of public finance at University of Bremen
 * Wolfgang Kaiser (1925–2023), professor for experimental physics at the Technische Universität München
 * Uwe Kitzinger (1928–2023), an academic who specialized in international relations
 * Wolfgang Koch (born 1962), physicist and computer scientist who teaches at the University of Bonn
 * Gerhard Koeppel (1936 –2012), historian of Roman art, resident scholar at the American Academy in Rome, and professor of classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 * Hermann Leuchs (1879–1945), head of the chemistry institute of the University of Berlin
 * Paul Carl Leygebe (1664–1756), painter and anatomy professor at the Prussian Academy of Arts
 * Hans Eberhard Mayer (1932–2023), professor of medieval and modern history at the University of Kiel
 * Anthony Oettinger (1929–2022), computer scientist who co-founded the Program on Information Resources Policy at Harvard University.
 * Johan Martin Preisler (1715 –1794), engraver and professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
 * Volker Roemheld (1941–2013), agricultural scientist, plant physiologist, and soil biologist at Hohenheim University
 * Manfred Rühl (born 1933), professor of communications at University of Erlangen–Nuremberg and the University of Bamberg
 * Gerard Salton (1927–1995), professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and "the father of Information retrieval"
 * Diet Sayler (born 1939), painter, sculptor, and professor of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg
 * Christoph von Scheurl (1481–1542), professor of law at Wittenberg University
 * Matthias Schwab (born 1963), chair of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Tübingen and medical director of the Department of Clinical Pharmacology at the University Hospital Tübingen
 * Daniel Schwenter (1585–1636), professor of Semitic languages and mathematics at the University of Altdorf
 * Peter Seeberger (born 1966), professor of chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at ETH Zurich
 * Johann Philipp Siebenkees (1759–1796), philosopher and professor at the University of Altdorf
 * Hartmut Steinecke (1940–2020), professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Bonn
 * Alexander Strehl, computer scientist and professor at the University of Aalen
 * Karl Süssheim (1878–1947), Islamic historian and professor at the University of Munich
 * Conrad Tockler (1470–1530), rector magnificus and professor of the quadrivium at Leipzig University
 * Heiko Uecker (1939–2019), professor of Nordic Philology at the University of Bonn
 * Johann Christoph Wagenseil (1633–1705), chair of ecclesiastical law and professor of history, civil law, and Semitic languages at the University of Altdorf
 * Isabella Weber (born 1987), economist and an assistant professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

Architecture

 * Heinrich Beheim (died 1403), stone mason and architect
 * German Bestelmeyer (1874–1942), architect and proponent of Nazi architecture
 * Georg Andreas Böckler (c. 1617–1687), architect and engineer who wrote Architectura Curiosa Nova (1664) and Theatrum Machinarum Novum (1661)
 * Paul Buchner (1531–1607), architect, geometer, carpenter and screw maker
 * Eva Buhrich (1915–1976), architect and writer who fled Nazi Germany and became a prominent architectural commentator in Australia
 * Adolf Foehr (1880–1943) architect, city planner, and building supervisor.
 * Herta Hammerbacher (1900–1985), landscape architect who taught at the Technical University of Berlin
 * Adam Kraft (c. 1460–1509), stone sculptor, master builder and architect
 * Paul Pfann (1860–1919), architect in the Historicist style and professor at the Technical University of Munich
 * Hubert Ritter (1886–1967), architect, urban planner and building official
 * Paul Ritter (1829–1907), architectural painter and etcher
 * Sep Ruf (1908–1982), architect and designer associated with the Bauhaus group





Art

 * Caroline Achaintre (1969), mixed media artist
 * Bernhard Afinger (1813–1882), sculptor
 * Peter Angermann (born 1945), painter
 * Johann Paul Auer (1636–1687), painter
 * Ernst Aufseeser (1880–1940), painter, illustrator and graphic designer
 * Barthel Beham (1502–1540), engraver, miniaturist, and painter
 * Sebald Beham (1500–1550), painter and printmaker mainly known for his very small engravings
 * Willem van Bemmel (1630–1708), Dutch Golden Age landscape painter
 * Peter von Bemmel (1686–1754), landscape artist
 * Anna Katharina Block (1642–1719), Baroque flower painter
 * Esther Barbara Bloemart (1651–1733), was a German art collector
 * Hans Bolsterer (died 1573), sculptor, carver and medalist
 * Werner Braun (1918–2018), photographer, considered a founder of photojournalism in Israel
 * Cristoforo Coriolano (born 1540), engraver
 * Gabriela Dauerer (born 1958), contemporary artist
 * Hans Decker, sculptor
 * Joachim Deschler (c. 1500–1571), sculptor and medalist.
 * Barbara Regina Dietzsch (1706–1783), painter and engraver known for still lifes
 * Hans Dürer (1490 – c. 1538), German Renaissance painter, illustrator, and engraver
 * Agnes Dürer (1475–1539) wife and model of artist Albrecht Dürer who helped run his workshops
 * Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528), painter, engraver, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance
 * Heinrich Egersdörfer (1853–1915), artist, illustrator and cartoonist
 * Michael Sigismund Frank (1770–1847), Catholic artist, rediscovered glass-painting
 * Magdalena Rosina Funck (1672–1695), botanical illustrator
 * Magdalena Fürstin (1652–1717), artist and hand-colorist
 * Peter Gertner (c. 1495 – after 1541), painter
 * Dorothea Maria Graff (1678–1743), painter
 * Jonas Haas (1720–1775), engraver
 * Jobst Harrich (1579–1617), painter
 * Guenter Heim (1935–2014), artist known for impressionistic landscapes of western Canada
 * Johanna Helena Herolt (1668–1723), artist
 * Werner Heubeck (1923–2009), British transport executive
 * Augustin Hirschvogel (1503–1553), artist, mathematician, and cartographer
 * Stefan Hirsch (1899–1964), artist.
 * Hans Hoffmann (1530–1591), painter, draftsman, and leading representative of the Dürer Renaissance
 * Karl Jäger (1833–1887), painter
 * Wenzel Jamnitzer (c. 1507–1585), goldsmith and artist
 * Paul Juvenel the Elder (1579–1643), painter
 * Anna Klein (1883–1941), landscape, animal, and genre painter
 * Johann Adam Klein (1792–1875), painter and engraver
 * Rudolf Koch (1876–1934), type designer and a master of lettering, calligraphy, typography and illustration
 * Johann König (1586–1642), painter known for painting copper panels
 * Eliyahu Koren (1907–2001), master typographer, graphic artist, and designer
 * Adam Kraft (c. 1460–1509), stone sculptor, master builder and architect
 * Jobst Kuch (1902–1963), painter
 * Hans von Kulmbach (1480–1522), artist
 * Hanns Lautensack (1524 – c. 1560), etcher and draughtsman
 * Heinrich Lautensack (1522–1590), painter and goldsmith
 * Kunz Lochner (1510–1567), armourer, blacksmith, silversmith, and court armourer for Maximilian II
 * Leo Marchutz (1903–1976), painter and lithographer
 * Gustav Metzger (1926–2017), artist and political activist who developed the concept of Auto-Destructive Art and the Art Strike.
 * John Miller (1715 – c. 1792), botanical illustrator, engraver, painter, and botanist
 * Georg Mühlberg (1863–1925), painter, draftsman and illustrator of children's books
 * Amalia Pachelbel (1688–1723), painter and engraver
 * Georg Pencz (c. 1500 –1550), engraver, painter, and printmaker
 * Georg Karl Pfahler (1926–2002), painter, printmaker, and sculptor
 * Georg Martin Preisler (fl. 1750), engraver
 * Johann Justin Preissler (1698–1771), painter and draughtsman
 * Valentin Daniel Preisler (1717–1765), engraver
 * Maria Katharina Prestel (1747–1794), engraver and painter
 * Doris Raab (1851–1933), etcher and engraver
 * Johann Leonhard Raab (1825–1899), printmaker and painter
 * William Frederic Ritschel (1864–1949), California impressionist painter
 * Lorenz Ritter (1832–1921), painter and etcher
 * Paulus Roetter (1806–1894), landscape painter who became a prominent botanical and ichthyological artist
 * Ferdinand Rothbart (1823–1899), draftsman, illustrator, history painter, and curator for the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung
 * Philipp Rupprecht (1900–1975), cartoonist of anti-Semitic caricatures
 * Susanne Maria von Sandrart (1658–1716), artist and engraver
 * Eduard Sauer (1899–1975), painter
 * Paul Schad-Rossa (1862–1916), painter and sculptor, in the Symbolist style
 * Hans Leonhard Schäufelein (c. 1480–1540), artist, painter, and designer of woodcuts
 * Erhard Schön (c. 1491–1542), woodcut designer and painter.
 * Martina Schradi (born 1972), cartoonist
 * Carl Max Schultheiss (1885–1961), graphic designer
 * Matthias Schultheiss (born 1946), graphic novel artist
 * Christine Silberhorn (born 1974), physicist and professor at Paderborn University
 * Virgil Solis (1514–1562), draughtsman and printmaker in engraving, etching and woodcut
 * Johann Sperl (1840–1914), painter
 * Hans Springinklee (c. 1490), artist known for his woodcuts
 * Dora Stock (1760–1832), artist who specialized in portraiture
 * Veit Stoss (c. 1450–1533), Renaissance sculptor, mostly in wood
 * Juergen Teller (born 1964), fine art and fashion photographer
 * Carl Marcus Tuscher (1705–1751), portrait painter, printmaker, architect, and decorator
 * Peter Vischer the Elder (c. 1455–1529), sculptor
 * August Weger (1823–1892), graphic artist, steel engraver and printer.
 * Michael Wening (1645–1718), engraver
 * Michael Wolgemut (1434–1519), painter and printmaker
 * Hermann Zapf (1918–2015), typographer and calligrapher
 * Matthias Zündt (1498–1586), engraver
 * Gustav Philipp Zwinger (1779–1819), painter and etcher

Business

 * Siegfried Bettmann (1868–1951), bicycle, motorcycle and car manufacturer
 * Theodor von Cramer-Klett (1817–1884), entrepreneur and banker
 * Ronald Grierson (1921–2014), managing director of S.G. Warburg and vice-chairman of General Electric Company
 * Max Grundig (1908–1989), founder of electronics company Grundig AG
 * Werner Heubeck (1923–2009), transport executive, managing director of the Northern Ireland transport companies Ulsterbus and Citybus
 * Adil Kaya (born 1967), CEO of SIGOS
 * Georg Leykauf (born 1847), steel metalware producer and trader
 * Andy W. Mattes (born 1963), president and chief executive of Diebold
 * Max Michaelis (1852–1932), South African mining magnate
 * Georg Zacharias Platner (1779–1862), manufacturer-entrepreneur
 * Madeleine Schickedanz (born 1943), heiress and philanthropist known for founding Madeleine Schickedanz KinderKrebs-Stiftung
 * Ulman Stromer (1329–1407), trader and factory owner

Cartography

 * Martin Behaim (1459–1507), cartographer best known for his Erdapfel, the world's oldest known globe
 * Erhard Etzlaub (c. 1455–1532), cartographer, astronomer, geodesist, and instrument maker
 * Hartmann Schedel (1440–1514), one of the first cartographers to use the printing press, best known for his writing the text for the Nuremberg Chronicle

Engineering

 * Andreas Albrecht (1586–1628), mathematician, engineer, and inventor of a variety of instruments,
 * David Beringer (1756–1821), scientific instrument maker and craftsman
 * Michael Bümel, maker of scientific and surveying instruments
 * Hans Düringer (died 1477), clockmaker
 * Hermann Föttinger (1877–1945), engineer and inventor
 * Peter Henlein (1485–1542), locksmith and clockmaker who invented the world's first watch
 * Andre Kaup, electrical engineer at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
 * Karl Küpfmüller (1897–1977), electrical engineer who worked in communications technology
 * Adolph Friedrich Lindemann (1846–1931), engineer and businessman who was involved in the Transatlantic telegraph cable project
 * Otto Metzger (1885–1961), engineer and inventor
 * Wilhelm Nusselt (1882–1957), engineer
 * Norbert Riedel (1912–1963), engineer
 * Johann Sigmund Schuckert (1846–1895), electrical engineer and pioneer of the electrical industry
 * Robert Thelen (1884–1968), aviation pioneer and designer.
 * Martin Vossiek, engineer at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Entertainment

 * Tom Beck (born 1978), actor, singer, and entrepreneur
 * Hans Berthel (1914–2003), film art director
 * Heinz Bernard (1923–1994), actor and director and theatre manager
 * Sandra Bullock (born 1964), actress, producer, and philanthropist
 * Annette Carell (1926–1967), actress
 * Christoph Dreher (born 1952), filmmaker, musician and scriptwriter
 * Angela Finger-Erben (born 1980), TV presenter and journalist for RTL Television.
 * Herbert Fleischmann (1925–1984), film and television actor
 * Katy Garretson (born 1963), television director and producer
 * Nina Gnädig (born 1977), actress
 * Ozan Güven (born 1975), film, television, and theatre actor and screenwriter.
 * Margarete Haagen (1889–1966), actress
 * Johann Kaspar Hechtel (1771–1799), designer of parlor games including the prototype for the Petit Lenormand cartomancy deck
 * Thomas Hermanns (born 1963), television presenter, comedian, screenwriter and director
 * Rudy Horn (1933–2018), juggler
 * Şermin Langhoff (born 1969), director of the Maxim Gorki Theater
 * Marcel-André Casasola Merkle (1977), video game designer
 * Friedrich Georg Leonhard Miedke (1803–1842), actor, singer, composer, and theatre director
 * Kurt Neumann (1908–1958), film director
 * Mirjam Novak, television and film actress and screenwriter
 * Wolfgang Preiss (1910–2002), actor
 * Tobias Rosen, Academy Award-nominated film producer
 * Hanns Zischler (born 1947), film actor

Law

 * Wolfgang Fikentscher (1928–2015), jurist, legal anthropologist, and professor at University of Münster School of Law, University of Tübingen, and University of California at Berkeley School of Law
 * Jude Pate, justice of the Alaska Supreme Court
 * Gerhard Schricker (1935–2021) legal scholar and professor at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
 * Hildegund Sünderhauf, family law professor at the Lutheran University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg
 * Anna Maria Zwanziger (1760–1811), serial killer

Literature and journalism



 * Lilly Becher (1901–1978), writer, journalist, and one of the first anti-Nazi writers
 * Karl Ewald Böhm (1913–1977), writer who served as Director of East Germany's Central Publishing Department
 * Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800–1875), poet and philosopher
 * Gisela Elsner (1937–1992), novelist who won the Prix Formentor
 * Hans Folz (c. 1437–1513), author and poet
 * Helene von Forster (1859–1923), women's rights activist and author
 * Katharina Gerlachin (c. 1517–1592), printer and publisher
 * Hans Glaser (c. 1500–1573), printer, block-cutter, woodcut winter, and publisher
 * Claire Goll (1890–1977), writer and journalist
 * Hans Wilhelm Hammerbacher (1903–1980), author
 * Wilfried Happel (born 1965), playwright and author of radio plays and film scripts
 * Bertita Harding (1902–1971), royal German biographer
 * Georg Philipp Harsdörffer (1607–1658), jurist, poet, and translator
 * Karl von Hegel (1813–1901), author and historian
 * Robert Ludwig Kahn (1923–1970), poet
 * Hermann Kesten (1900–1996), novelist and dramatist
 * Anton Koberger (c. 1440–1513), bookseller who established the first printing house in Nuremberg, known as the publisher of the Nuremberg Chronicle
 * Robert Kurz (1943–2012), Marxist philosopher, social critic, journalist, and editor of Exit!
 * Christoph Gottlieb von Murr (1733–1811), historian and journal editor
 * Eugen Ortner (1890–1947), playwright and writer
 * Peter Owen (1927–2016), publisher and founder of Peter Owen Publishers
 * Johannes Petreius (c. 1497–1550), printer
 * Johann Rietsch (1778–1814), poet
 * Franz Schmidt (1555–1634), diarist
 * Timur Vermes (born 1967), writer
 * Johann Vogel (1589–1663), poet and Lutheran minister

Medicine

 * Lucie Adelsberger (1895–1971), Jewish physician, imprisoned at Auschwitz and Ravensbrück
 * Karl Bechert (1901–1981), theoretical physicist
 * Joachim Camerarius the Younger (1534–1598), physician, botanist, and zoologist
 * Johanna Hellman (1889–1982), surgeon
 * Ruth Illig (1924–2017), pediatric endocrinologist and a professor of pediatrics at the University of Zurich
 * Friedrich Sigmund Merkel (1845–1919), anatomist and histopathologist
 * Marion Rosen (1914–2012), physiotherapist who developed the Rosen Method
 * Fredric Wertham (1895–1981), psychiatrist

Military

 * Friedrich Beckh (1908–1942), World War II military aviator
 * Edmund Blaurock (1899–1966), general in the army of Nazi Germany during World War II
 * Gustav Fehn (1892– 1945), German general during World War II
 * Otto Heinrich Fugger, Count of Kirchberg (1592–1644), professional soldier in Imperial and Bavarian service during the Thirty Year's War
 * Hugo Gutmann (1880–1962), German Jewish army officer
 * Georg Haus (1895–1945), general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II
 * Karl Herzog (1906–1998), German officer in the Wehrmacht during World War II
 * Carl Hilpert (1888–1947), German general during World War II
 * Heinz Kemethmüller (1914–1984), Luftwaffe ace and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II
 * Fritz Ritter von Kraußer (1888–1934), SA-Obergruppenführer killed in the Night of the Long Knives
 * Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein (1870–1948), German general who assisted in the direction of the Ottoman Army during World War I
 * Hanns Laengenfelder (1903–1982), German general during World War II
 * Hans Michahelles (1899–1975), German admiral during World War II
 * Egbert Picker (1895–1960), General in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II
 * Friedrich Ritter von Röth (1893–1918), German World War I fighter ace
 * Karl Schnörrer (1919–1979), German military aviator who served in the Luftwaffe during World War II
 * Otto Sponheimer (1886–1961), German General of the Infantry during World War II
 * Heinrich Thoma (1891–1948), German general during World War II
 * Arnold Hans Weiss (1924–2010), U.S. Army intelligence officer who helped find Hitler's will

Music

 * Pierre Alamire (c. 1470–1536), music copyist, composer, and instrumentalist
 * Chaya Arbel (1921–2007), Israeli classical composer
 * Johannes Bastiaan (1911–2012), violinist
 * Albert Bittner (1900–1980), conductor and Generalmusikdirektor
 * Harald Blüchel (born 1966), electronic artist who is mostly known under his alias Cosmic Baby
 * Karl-Walter Böhm (1938–2000), opera singer
 * Kevin Coyne (1944–2004), musician, singer, composer, film-maker, and writer
 * Hans Deinzer (1934–2020), clarinetist
 * Joerg Deisinger (born 1966), bassist and a founding member of the band Bonfire
 * Jacob Denner (1681–1735), woodwind instrument maker
 * Hugo Distler (1908–1942), organist, choral conductor, teacher, and composer
 * Dhurata Dora (born 1992), singer and songwriter
 * Cornelius Heinrich Dretzel (c. 1697–1775), organist and composer
 * Gerald Eckert (born 1960), composer, cellist, and painter
 * Max Erdmannsdörfer (1848–1905), conductor, pianist and composer
 * Christina Gerstberger (born 1976), operatic soprano
 * Sascha Gerstner (born 1977), guitarist and member of the band Helloween
 * Gunther Göbbel (born 1979), singer who took part in Deutschland sucht den Superstar
 * Ernst Gröschel (1918–2000), pianist
 * Johann Wilhelm Haas (1649–1723), trumpet maker and engraver
 * Hans Leo Hassler (1564–1612), composer and organist
 * Jakob Hassler (1569–1622), Renaissance composer
 * Kasper Hassler (1562–1618), organist and composer
 * Johann Andreas Herbst (1588–1666), composer and music theorist
 * Sebald Heyden (1499–1561), musicologist, cantor, theologian and hymn-writer
 * Stefan Hippe (born 1966), composer, conductor and accordionist
 * Carl van der Hoeven (1580–1661), composer and organist
 * Hans Hopf (1916–1993), operatic tenor
 * Willy Horváth (1917–2011), violinist
 * Siegfried Jerusalem (born 1940), operatic tenor
 * Johann Erasmus Kindermann (1616–1655), Baroque organist and composer
 * Georg Andreas Kraft (c. 1660–1726), Baroque composer and musician
 * Karl August Krebs (1804–1880), pianist, composer, conductor and Kapellmeister
 * Walter Kreppel (1923–2003), bass singer known for his opera performances
 * Johann Krieger (1651–1735), composer and organist
 * Johann Philipp Krieger (c. 1649-1725), Baroque composer and organist
 * Rudi Mahall (born 1966), contemporary jazz bass clarinet player
 * Marusha (born 1966), electronic music disc jockey, producer, and television presenter
 * Johannes Menke (born 1972), music theorist and composer.
 * Martha Mödl (1912–2001), Wagner soprano/mezzo-soprano
 * Bernhard Molique (1802–1869), violinist and composer
 * Johann Pachelbel (1653–1706), composer, organist, and teacher
 * Conrad Paumann (c. 1410–1473), organist, lutenist and composer
 * Johann Pfeiffer (1697–1761), violinist, concert master, and composer of the late baroque period
 * Deva Premal (born 1970), singer known for introducing Sanskrit mantras into the mainstream
 * Franz Reizenstein (1911–1968), composer and concert pianist
 * Ulrich Rück (1882–1962), collector of musical instruments and dealer in pianos
 * Hans Sachs (1494–1576), Meistersinger, poet, playwright, and shoemaker
 * Gerlinde Sämann (born 1969), soprano known for her performances in concerts and operas
 * Martin Scherber (1907–1974), composer
 * Ann-Helena Schlüter, pianist, organist, composer, and poet
 * Alexander Schreiner (1901–1987), organist of the Salt Lake Tabernacle who wrote the music to several LDS hymns
 * Johann Staden (1581–1634), Baroque organist and composer
 * Anton Ferdinand Titz (1742–1811), composer, violinist, and viola d'amore player
 * André Watts (1946–2023), pianist
 * Hieronymus Weickmann (1824–1896), viola player and composer
 * Leopold Widhalm (1722–1776), luthier
 * Erwin Wohlfahrt (1932–1968), opera singer
 * Dan Zimmermann (born 1966), drummer in the bands Gamma Ray and Freedom Call



Politics

 * Hieronymus Baumgartner (1498–1565), Bürgermeister and a major contributor to the early Reformation.
 * Günther Beckstein (born 1943), Minister-President of Bavaria, and head of Frederick V's government-in-exile in the Hague
 * Conrad I (c. 1186–1261) Burgrave of Nuremberg from the House of Hohenzollern
 * Conrad I of Raabs (died 1143), Burgrave of Nuremberg
 * Conrad II of Raabs (c. 1125), Burgrave of Nuremberg
 * Rudolf Eberhard (1914–1998), member of the Landtag of Bavaria
 * Hieronymus Wilhelm Ebner von Eschenbach
 * Patricia Flor (born 1961), Ambassador of Germany to China
 * Helene von Forster (1859–1923), women's rights activist and author
 * Frederick I (1139–1200), the first Burgrave of Nuremberg from the House of Hohenzollern
 * Frederick III (c. 1220–1297), Burgrave of Nuremberg from the House of Hohenzollern,
 * Frederick IV (1287–1332), Burgrave of Nuremberg
 * Frederick V (c. 1333–1398), Burgrave of Nuremberg
 * Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg (1371–1440), the last Burgrave of Nuremberg in 1397–1427
 * Frederick IV, Count of Zollern (c. 1188), Burgrave of Nuremberg
 * Michael Frieser (born 1964), member of the German Bundestag
 * Gottfried II of Raabs (died c. 1137), Burgrave of Nuremberg
 * Gottfried III of Raabs (died c. 1160), Burgrave of Nuremberg
 * Otto Gessler (1875–1955), mayor of Regensburg, mayor of Nuremberg, and German Minister of Defence
 * Hermann Glaser (1928–2018), politically engaged cultural historian and commentator
 * Karl Grönsfelder (1882–1964), Bavarian political activist and politician
 * Nils Gründer (born 1997), politician of the Free Democratic Party and member of the German Bundestag
 * Thomas Händel (born 1953), member of the European Parliament
 * Marian Hastings (1675–1729), Scottish Jacobite supporter
 * Katja Hessel (born 1972), member of the German Bundestag
 * Karl Holz (1895–1945), Nazi Party politician
 * Luc Jochimsen (born 1936), former television journalist and politician of The Left party.
 * John I (c. 1279–1300), Burgrave of Nuremberg
 * John II (c. 1309–1357), Burgrave of Nuremberg
 * John III (c. 1369–1420), Burgrave of Nuremberg and Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
 * Lisa Kalvelage (1923–2009), anti-war demonstrator during the Vietnam War
 * Martin Kastler (born 1974), Member of the European Parliament
 * Christian Gottfried Lorsch (1773–1830), first civilian first mayor of Nuremberg after it incorporation into the Kingdom of Bavaria
 * Kristine Lütke (born 1982), Member of the German Bundestag
 * Margaret of Bohemia (1373–1410), Burgravine of Nuremberg
 * Ulrich Maly (born 1960), Mayor of Nuremberg (2002–2020)
 * Donald McEachin (1961–2022), U.S. House of Representatives, Virginia Senate, and Virginia House of Delegates
 * Verena Osgyan (born 1971), member of the Bavarian Landtag
 * Melanie Oßwald (born 1976), member of the German Bundestag
 * Willibald Pirckheimer (1470–1530), Renaissance humanist, imperial counselor, and a member of the City Council of Nuremberg
 * Jan Plobner (born 1992), member of the German Bundestag
 * Heinz Raether (1909–1986), physicist and director of the Institute for Applied Physics at the University of Hamburg
 * Hannelore Roedel (born 1957), member of the German Bundestag
 * Ludwig Scholz (1937–2005), mayor of Nuremberg
 * Martin Sichert (born 1980), member of the German Bundestag
 * Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368–1437), King of Hungary, Croatia, Germany, Bohemia, and Italy; Holy Roman emperor from 1433 until 1437.
 * Markus Söder (born 1967), Minister-President of Bavaria
 * Käte Strobel (1907–1996), Federal Minister of Healthcare (1966–1969) and Federal Minister of Youth, Family and Health (1969–1972)
 * Johannes Wagner (born 1991), member of the German Bundestag
 * Bettina Borrmann Wells (born 1874), suffragette
 * Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (1361–1419), King of Bohemia and German King
 * Tobias Winkler (born 1978), member of the German Bundestag
 * Giora Yoseftal (1912–1962), Israeli Minister of Labour, Minister of Housing, and Minister of Development
 * Hans Ziegler (1877–1957), founder of the founder of the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany and mayor of Nuremberg
 * Hans Zimmermann (1906–1984), Nazi Party official

Religion

 * Johann Wilhelm Baier (1647–1695), theologian in the Lutheran scholastic tradition
 * Christoph Birkmann (1703–1771), theologian and minister
 * Veit Dietrich (1506–1549), Lutheran theologian, writer, and reformer.
 * Eberhard I (died 1164), Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria.
 * Christina Ebner (1277–1356), Dominican nun, writer and mystic
 * August Engelhardt (1875–1919), founder of a sect of sun worshipers in German New Guinea
 * Johann Funck (1518–1566), Lutheran theologian
 * Johann Heß (1490–1547), Lutheran theologian and Protestant reformer
 * Margareta Karthäuserin (mid 15th century), nun and scribe at the Dominican conven
 * Adelheid Langmann (c. 1306–1375), nun known for her text, Revelations
 * Katerina Lemmel (1466–1533), Birgittine nun and patrician businesswoman
 * Georg Major (1502–1574), Lutheran theologian
 * Hans Meiser (1881–1956), Protestant theologian, pastor, and the first Landesbischof of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria.
 * Gustav Philipp Mörl (1673–1750), theologian and librarian
 * Johann Sigismund Mörl (1710–1791), theologian
 * Maximilian Nagel (1747–1772), theologian
 * Lucas Osiander the Elder (1534–1604), pastor of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg
 * Poppo von Osterna (died 1266), ninth Grandmaster of the Teutonic Order
 * Caritas Pirckheimer (1467–1532), abbess during the Reformation
 * Johannes Pfefferkorn (1469–1523), Catholic theologian and convert from Judaism
 * Gerhard von Rad (1901–1971), Old Testament scholar, Lutheran theologian, and professor at the University of Heidelberg
 * Werner Radspieler (1939–2018), auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bamberg
 * Karl-Josef Rauber (1934–2023), cardinal and prelate of the Catholic Church
 * Moritz Rosenhaupt (1841–1900), Jewish cantor and composer
 * Sebaldus (11th century), the patron saint of Nuremberg
 * Gottlieb Christoph Adolf von Harless (1806–1879), Lutheran theologian
 * Hermann Josef Wehrle (1899–1944), Catholic priest



Science

 * Michael Adelbulner (1702–1779), physicist, mathematician, physician, and astronomer
 * Karl Bechert (1901–1981), theoretical physicist in atomic physics and politician
 * Ernst von Bibra (1806–1878), scientist, naturalist and author
 * Maria Clara Eimmart (1676–1707), astronomer, engraver and designer
 * Albert Fleischmann (1862–1942), zoologist
 * Alfred Byrd Graf (1901–2001), botanist
 * Ludwig Hopf (1884–1939), theoretical physicist
 * Klaus Kalb (born 1942), lichenologist
 * Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717), entomologist, naturalist and scientific illustrator
 * Karl Michahelles (1807–1834), zoologist
 * Franz Wilhelm Neger (1868–1923), botanist, mycologist and dendrologist
 * Johann Leonhard Rost (1688–1727), astronomer
 * Johannes Roth (1815–1858), zoologist
 * Hieronymus Schreiber (died 1547), mathematician and astronomer
 * Meier Schwarz (1926–2022), plant physiologist
 * Ernst Stromer (1871–1952), paleontologist
 * Johann Wilhelm Sturm
 * Suzanne Saueressig (1925–2013), first practicing female veterinarian in Missouri
 * Kaspar Uttenhofer (1588–1621), astronomer
 * Johann Christoph Volkamer (1644–1720), botanist and author
 * Johann Georg Wagler (1800–1832), herpetologist and ornithologist
 * Johann Andreas Wagner (1797–1861), palaeontologist, zoologist, and archaeologist
 * Bernhard Walther (1430–1504), astronomer
 * Johannes Werner (1468–1522), astronomer, mathematician, geography, and instrument maker
 * Johann Wolf (1765–1824), naturalist and ornithologist
 * Johann Philipp von Wurzelbauer (1651–1725), astronomer



Sports

 * Kurt Albert (1954–2010), climber
 * Tobias Dier (born 1976), professional golfer
 * Harry Frei (born 1951), Australian rules footballer and cricketer
 * Alfred Kornprobst (1940–1991), weightlifter who competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics
 * Günther Meier (1941–2020), amateur boxer, bronze medalist at the 1968 Summer Olympics
 * Nicole Roth (born 1995), professional handball player
 * Sebastian Steudtner (born 1985), surfer
 * Tobias Wadenka (born 1990), badminton player
 * Julia Willand (born 1972), beach volleyball player
 * Lisa Zimmermann (born 1996), freestyle skier who won the gold medal in slopestyle at the 2015 World Championships

Basketball

 * Bastian Doreth (born 1989), professional basketball player
 * Christopher McNaughton (born 1982), professional basketball player
 * Kasha Terry (born 1983), professional basketball player

Chess

 * Georg Klaus (1912–1974), chess player
 * Ludwig Rödl (1907–1970), chess master

Cycling

 * Willi Fuggerer (1941–2015), track cyclist who competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics
 * Matthias Kessler (born 1979), professional road racing cyclist
 * Karl Kittsteiner (1920–2011), racing cyclist who won the German National Road Race in 1946
 * Friedrich von Löffelholz (1955–2017), cyclist who competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics
 * Fritz Neuser (born 1932), cyclist who competed in the tandem sprint at the 1956 Summer Olympics
 * Gerhard Scheller (born 1958), cyclist who competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics
 * Georg Umbenhauer (1912–1970), racing cyclist who won the German National Road Race in 1936
 * Georg Voggenreiter (1912–1986), racing cyclist who won the German National Road Race in 1947

Field Hockey

 * Hermann End (born 1942), field hockey player who competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics
 * Wolfgang End (1939–2008), field hockey player who competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics
 * Nina Hasselmann (born 1986), field hockey player who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics
 * Hannah Krüger (born 1988), field hockey player who competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics
 * Maximilian Müller (born 1987), field hockey player, gold medalist at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics
 * Norbert Schuler (born 1938), field hockey player who competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics
 * Justus Weigand (born 2000), field hockey player
 * Christopher Wesley (born 1987), field hockey player who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Football (American)

 * Bruce Collie (born 1962), professional player in the National Football League
 * Dominik Eberle (born 1996), National Football League player

Gymnastics

 * Friedl Iby (1905–1960) gymnast who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics
 * Elisabeth Ostermeyer (born 1929), gymnast who competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics
 * Hans Pfann (1920–2021), gymnast who competed at the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics
 * Irma Walther (1920–2005), gymnast who competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics
 * Lydia Zeitlhofer (1931–2019), gymnast who competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Martial Arts and Taekwondo

 * Jessin Ayari (born 1992), mixed martial arts fighter and former Superior Fighting Championship Welterweight Champion
 * Rabia Gülec (born 1994), taekwondo athlete who represented Germany at the 2016 Summer Olympics
 * Sümeyye Manz (born 1989), taekwondo practitioner who won the gold medal at the 2008 European Taekwondo Championships and represented Germany at the 2008 Olympics and 2012 Olympics
 * Servet Tazegül (born 1988), taekwondo practitioner who won the bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Racing

 * Hermann Böhm (1916–1983), motorcycle racer.
 * Kevin Hanus (born 1993), professional motorcycle racer
 * Fritz Riess (1922–1991), racing driver
 * Tobias Siegert (born 1991), Grand Prix motorcycle racer

Shooting

 * Heinrich Gollwitzer (born 1923), sports shooter who competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics
 * Heinz Mertel (born 1936), sport shooter who competed at the 1968, 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics

Skating

 * Florian Just (born 1982), pair skater
 * Norbert Schramm (born 1960), figure skater
 * Freimut Stein (1924–1986), figure skater who competed at the 1952 Winter Olympics
 * Markus Tröger (born 1966), speed skater who competed at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Soccer (football)

 * Deniz Aytekin (born 1978), football referee
 * Willi Billmann (1911–2001), footballer and member of the German national football team
 * Ekin Çelebi (born 2000), professional footballer
 * Marco Christ (born 1980), professional footballer
 * Şamil Çinaz (born 1986), professional.footballer
 * Benjamin Cortus (born 1981), football referee
 * Dominik Eberle (born 1996), football player
 * Karl-Heinz Ferschl (1944–2023), professional footballer
 * Georg Friedel (1913–1987), professional footballer
 * Benjamin Fuchs (born 1983), professional footballer
 * Vanessa Fudalla (born 2001), professional footballer
 * Sebastian Gärtner (born 1993), professional footballer
 * Jann George (born 1992), professional footballer
 * Peter Geyer (born 1952), professional footballer
 * Argiris Giannikis (born 1980), professional football manager
 * Madeleine Giske (born 1987), professional footballer
 * Günther Glomb (1930–2015), football manager and head coach of the Thailand national football team
 * Gottlieb Göller (1935–2004), professional footballer and manager
 * Michael Görlitz (born 1987), professional footballer
 * Isabella Hartig (born 1997), professional footballer
 * Georg Hochgesang (1897–1988), professional footballer and manager
 * Arijon Ibrahimović (born 2005), professional footballer
 * Helmut Jahn (1917–1986), professional footballer
 * Hans Kalb (1899–1945), professional footballer
 * Joannis Karsanidis (born 1993), professional footballer
 * Alexandros Kartalis (born 1995), professional footballer
 * Manfred Kastl (born 1965), professional footballer
 * Georg Köhl (born 1995), professional footballer
 * Michael Krämer (born 1985), footballer
 * Frans Krätzig (born 2003), professional footballer
 * Willi Kund (1908–1967), footballer
 * Nastassja Lein (born 2001), professional footballer
 * Ludwig Leinberger (1903–1943), footballer who was part of Germany's team at the 1928 Summer Olympics
 * Horst Leupold (born 1942), professional footballer
 * Jamie Leweling (born 2001), professional footballer
 * Julian Löschner (born 1996), professional footballer
 * Alberto Méndez (born 1974), professional footballer
 * Max Morlock (1925–1994), professional footballer
 * Andreas Munkert (1908–1982), footballer
 * Marc Oechler (born 1968), professional footballer
 * Richard Oehm (1909–1975), professional footballer
 * Adnan Osmanović (born 1997), professional footballer
 * Chhunly Pagenburg (born 1986), professional footballer
 * Christiane Pape (born 1960), para table tennis player who won seven medals in world championships
 * Peter Perchtold (born 1984), professional footballer and coach
 * Nils Piwernetz (born 2000), professional footballer
 * Fritz Popp (born 1940), professional footballer
 * Luitpold Popp (1893–1968), professional footballer
 * Marco Rapp (born 1991), professional footballer
 * David Raum (born 1998), professional footballer
 * Sercan Sararer (born 1989), professional footballer
 * Josef Schmitt (1908–1980), professional footballer and member of Germany's team at the 1928 Summer Olympics
 * Patrick Schönfeld (born 1989), professional footballer
 * Leonhard Seiderer (1895–1940), professional footballer
 * Wolfgang Strobel (1896–1945), professional footballer
 * Heinrich Stuhlfauth (1896–1966), footballer and member of Germany's team at the 1928 Summer Olympics
 * Hans Sutor (1895–1976), professional footballer
 * Sebastian Szikal (born 1986), professional footballer
 * Malik Tillman (born 2002), professional footballer
 * Timothy Tillman (born 1999), professional soccer player
 * Heinrich Träg (1893–1976), professional footballer
 * Frank Türr (born 1970), professional footballer
 * Enrico Valentini (born 1989), professional footballer
 * Daniel Wagner (born 1987), professional footballer
 * Ferdinand Wenauer (1939–1992), professional footballer
 * Marcel Wenig (born 2004), professional footballer
 * Julian Wießmeier (born 1992), professional footballer
 * Tasso Wild (born 1940), professional footballer
 * Mike Windischmann (born 1965), professional footballer
 * Aycan Yanaç (born 1988), professional footballer

Ice Hockey

 * Gerrit Fauser (born 1989), professional ice hockey player
 * Bernd Herzig (born 1941), ice hockey player who competed at the 1964 Winter Olympics
 * Marius Möchel (born 1991), professional ice hockey player
 * Lukas Reichel (born 2002), professional ice hockey player
 * Niklas Treutle (born 1991), professional ice hockey player
 * Sven Ziegler (born 1994), professional ice hockey player

Swimming and diving

 * Gerda Daumerlang (1920–2006), diver who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics
 * Daniela Götz (born 1987), swimmer who won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics
 * Suse Heinze (1920–2018), diver who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics
 * Olga Jensch-Jordan (1913–2000), springboard diver
 * Amina Kajtaz (born 1996), swimmer who competed in the women's 100-metre butterfly at the 2016 Summer Olympics
 * Hermann Lotter (1940–2013), swimmer who competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics and the 1964 Summer Olympics
 * Teresa Rohmann (born 1987), medley swimmer who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics
 * Hannah Stockbauer (born 1982), swimmer and bronze medalist at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Tennis

 * Johannes Härteis (born 1996), professional tennis player
 * Robin Kern (born 1993), professional tennis player
 * Maximilian Marterer (born 1995), professional tennis player
 * Hans Nüsslein (1910–1991), tennis player and coach
 * Wiltrud Probst (born 1969), professional tennis player
 * Jurij Rodionov (born 1999), professional tennis player
 * Nicole Vaidišová (born 1989), professional tennis player
 * Nina Zander (born 1990), professional tennis player

Track and field

 * Inge Bausenwein (1920–2008), competed in the women's javelin throw at the 1952 Summer Olympics
 * Christian Haas (born 1958), sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres
 * Hugo Leistner (1902–2002), hurdler who won the NCAA championship in the 120 yd hurdles in 1925

Wrestling

 * Absolute Andy (born 1983), professional wrestler
 * Georg Gerstäcker (1889–1949), wrestler who competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics
 * Kurt Leucht (1903–1974), Greco-Roman wrestler won a gold medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics
 * Tim Schleicher (born 1988), freestyle wrestler who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics
 * Alex Wright (born 1975), professional wrestler

Other

 * Leonhard Mahlein (1921–1985), trade union leader