List of people from Strasbourg

Before 1750

 * Eric of Friuli (8th century), Frankish duke of Friuli
 * Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg (ca. 1205–ca. 1270), theologian
 * Johannes Tauler (1300–1361), mystic and theologian
 * Fritsche Closener (died before 1373), priest, historian
 * Rulman Merswin (ca. 1307–1382), mystic
 * Jakob Twinger von Königshofen (1346–1420), chronicler
 * Martin Schott (d. 1499), printer
 * Johannes Schott (1477–1550), printer
 * Hieronymus Brunschwig (ca. 1450–ca. 1512), surgeon, alchemist and botanist
 * Sebastian Brant (1457–1521), satirical poet and humanist
 * Ottmar Luscinius (1478–1537), theologian and humanist
 * Hans Kotter (1480–1541), composer and organist
 * Wilhelm Stetter (1487–1552), painter and priest
 * Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck (1489–1553), Protestant statesman and reformist
 * Andreas Cratander (1490–1540), printer
 * Katharina Zell (1497–1568), Protestant writer
 * Jacob Micyllus (1503–1558), humanist and teacher
 * Martin Schalling the Younger (1532–1608), Protestant theologian and writer
 * Daniel Specklin (1536–1589), architect, engineer and cartographer
 * Johann Fischart (1545–1591), satirical author
 * Johannes Piscator (1546–1625), theologian and translator
 * Johann Theodor de Bry (1561–1623), engraver and publisher
 * Sebastian Stoskopff (1597–1657), painter
 * Johann Wilhelm Baur (1607–1640), engraver, etcher and miniature painter
 * Albrecht Kauw (1621–1681), painter
 * Marie Luise von Degenfeld (1634–1677), morganatic second wife of Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine
 * Countess Palatine Anna Magdalena of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler (1640–1693)
 * Christian III, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1674–1735)
 * Friedrich Ludwig, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1688–1750)
 * Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken (1721–1774)
 * Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser (1724–1797), Austrian field marshal
 * Johann Georg Roederer (1726–1763), physician and obstetrician
 * Richard François Philippe Brunck (1729–1803), French classical scholar
 * Jean-Joseph Rodolphe (1730–1812), horn player, violinist and composer
 * Jérémie-Jacques Oberlin (1735–1806), philologist and archaeologist
 * François Christophe Kellermann (1735–1820), French marshall
 * Christoph Wilhelm von Koch (1737–1813), diplomat, politician, librarian and writer
 * Philippe Rühl (1737–1795), politician
 * Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolay (1737–1820), poet and President of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences
 * Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740–1812), painter
 * Jean-Frédéric Oberlin (1740–1826), pastor and philanthropist
 * Johann Christian von Mannlich (1741–1822), painter and architect
 * Heinrich Leopold Wagner (1747–1779), writer
 * Philippe Friedrich Dietrich (1748–1793), scholar and politician
 * Jean-Frédéric Edelmann (1749–1794), composer
 * Johan Peter Rottler (1749–1836), missionary and botanist
 * Johann von Türckheim (1749–1824), diplomat

Between 1750 and 1900

 * Sébastien Érard (1752–1837), instrument maker
 * Philippe-André Grandidier (1752–1787), priest and historian
 * Bernard-Frédéric de Turckheim (1752–1831), politician
 * Jean Baptiste Kléber (1753–1800), architect and general
 * Jean-François Barbier (1754–1828), general
 * Louis Ramond de Carbonnières (1755–1827), politician, geologist and botanist
 * Antoinette Saint-Huberty (1756–1812), opera singer
 * Christophe Guérin (1758–1831), engraver and painter
 * François Andrieux (1759–1833), playwright and poet
 * Jacques Widerkehr (1759–1823), cellist and composer
 * Joseph Ludwig Colmar (1760–1818), bishop of Mainz
 * Christian Kramp (1760–1826), mathematician
 * Marie Tussaud (1761–1850), founder of Madame Tussauds
 * Johann Jakob Humann (1771–1834) Roman Catholic clergyman
 * Charles-Joseph Christiani (1772–1840), Maréchal de camp of the French Army
 * Louis-François Lejeune (1775–1848), general, painter, and lithographer
 * Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué (1776–1856), clockmaker
 * Chrétien Géofroy Nestler (1778–1832), botanist and pharmacist
 * Johann Georg Daniel Arnold (1780–1829), lawyer and writer
 * Samson Cerfberr (1780–1826), soldier and author
 * Jean-Georges Humann (1780–1842), statesman
 * Jean-Frédéric de Turckheim (1780–1850), politician
 * Gustave Vogt (1781–1870), oboist and composer
 * Maximilien Joseph Schauenburg (1784–1838), military officer
 * Ludwig I of Bavaria (1786–1868)
 * Camille Pleyel (1788–1855), piano manufacturer and musical entrepreneur
 * Princess Augusta of Bavaria (1788–1851)
 * Édouard Spach (1801–1879), botanist
 * Marie-Théodore Ratisbonne (1802–1884), Catholic priest and missionary
 * Baruch Schleisinger Weil (1802–1893), American businessman and politician
 * August Stöber (1808–1884), poet, scholar and collector of folklore
 * Louis Roederer (1809–1870), champagne maker
 * Jean-Georges Kastner (1810–1867), composer and musicologist
 * Adolphe Stoeber (1810–1892), ecclesiastic and writer
 * August Eduard Cunitz (1812–1886), Protestant theologian
 * Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne (1814–1884), Catholic priest and missionary
 * Louis Charles Auguste Steinheil (1814–1885), painter
 * Émile Küss (1815–1871), physician and politician
 * Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1818–1884), chemist
 * Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1818–1856), chemist
 * Benjamin-Constant Martha (1820–1895), historian
 * August Kayser (1821–1885), Protestant theologian
 * Théophile Schuler (1821–1878), painter and illustrator
 * Hippolyte Pradelles (1824–1913), painter
 * Oscar Berger-Levrault (1826–1903), philatelist
 * Charles Netter (1826–1882), French Zionist
 * Louis Ratisbonne (1827–1900), writer
 * Paul Schützenberger (1829–1897), chemist
 * Frédéric Albert Constantin Weber (1830–1903), botanist
 * Gustave Doré (1832–1883), painter
 * Charles Friedel (1832–1899), chemist and mineralogist
 * Frédéric Auguste Lichtenberger (1832–1899), theologian
 * Mélanie de Pourtalès (1836–1914), socialite
 * Émile Waldteufel (1837–1915), composer
 * Édouard Schuré (1841–1929), philosopher
 * Edward Dannreuther (1844–1905), pianist and musicologist
 * Nicolas Delsor (1847–1927), priest and politician
 * Alfred Morel-Fatio (1850–1924), hispanist
 * Jules Martha (1853–1932), archaeologist
 * Paul Émile Appell (1855–1930), mathematician
 * Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1856–1901), botanist and phytogeographer
 * Léon Wieger (1856–1933), Jesuit missionary, medical doctor, theologist and sinologist
 * Charles de Foucauld (1858–1916), Christian mystic
 * Franz Zorn von Bulach (1858–1925), Catholic bishop
 * Charles Diehl (1859–1944), historian
 * Hugo Becker (1863–1941), cellist, cello teacher, and composer
 * Charles Andler (1866–1933), germanist and philosopher
 * Eugène Wilhelm (1866–1951), lawyer, judge and writer
 * Ernest Henri Demanne (1870–1938), comedian
 * André Lichtenberger (1870–1940), novelist and sociologist
 * Helmar Lerski (1871–1956), photographer
 * Heinrich Emil Timerding (1873–1945), mathematician
 * Heinrich Liebmann (1874–1939), mathematician and geometer
 * Max Looff (1874–1954), naval officer
 * Karl Wendling (1875–1962), violinist and musical educator
 * Léo Schnug (1878–1933), painter and illustrator
 * Karl Klingler (1879–1971), violinist and composer
 * Émile Mathis (1880–1956), car manufacturer
 * Richard Laqueur (1881–1959), historian and philologist
 * Elisabeth Abegg (1882–1974), educator and Nazi resistance fighter
 * Ernst Damzog (1882–1945), Brigadeführer of the SS
 * Robert Redslob (1882–1962), constitutional and public international law-scientist
 * Georges Weill (1882–1970), German politician who defected to France
 * Otto Froitzheim (1884–1962), tennis player
 * Paul Gröber (1885–1964), geologist
 * Jean/Hans Arp (1886–1966), artist
 * René Beeh (1886–1822), painter and draughtsman
 * Robert Heger (1886–1978), conductor
 * Hilla von Rebay (1890–1967), artist, museum director
 * Jules Kruger (1891–1959), cinematographer
 * Charles Münch (1891–1968), conductor
 * Friedrich-Georg Eberhardt (1892–1964), general
 * Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger (1894–1945), Nazi official and high-ranking member of the SA and the SS
 * Marcelle Cahn (1895–1981), artist
 * Hans-Georg von Friedeburg (1895–1945), admiral of the Kriegsmarine
 * Paul Alverdes (1897–1979), novelist and poet
 * Rudolf Schwarz (1897–1961), architect

After 1900

 * Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt (1901–1988), musicologist
 * Hans Bethe (1906–2005), physicist, Nobel Prize winner
 * Gerolf Steiner (1908–2009), zoologist
 * Hans-Otto Meissner (1909–1992), writer
 * Max Bense (1910–1990), philosopher
 * Georges Loinger (1910–2018), member of the French Resistance
 * Jean-Paul de Dadelsen (1913–1957), poet and journalist
 * Antoinette Becker (1920–1998), writer and translator
 * Jacques Martin (1921–2010), comic-book artist
 * Germain Muller (1923–1994), playwright, songwriter, poet, actor, humourist, politician
 * Marcel Marceau (1923–2007), mime
 * Serge Leclaire (1924–1994), psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
 * Pierre Weil (1924–2008), psychologist and educator
 * Noah Klieger (1926–2018), journalist
 * Francis Rapp (1926–2020), historian
 * Claude Rich (1929–2017), actor
 * Tomi Ungerer (1931–2019), writer, illustrator and caricaturist
 * Solange Fernex (1934–2006), politician
 * Liliane Ackermann (1938–2007), French Jewish community leader
 * Gilbert Gress (born 1941), football coach
 * Jean-Pierre Hubert (1941–2006), author
 * Isoldé Elchlepp (born 1942) German protest song singer, and operatic mezzo-soprano and soprano
 * Wolfgang Huber (born 1942), theologian and ethicist
 * Bob Wollek (1943–2001), rally driver
 * Herbert Léonard (born 1945), singer
 * Jean-Louis Mandel (born 1946), geneticist
 * Joseph Daul (born 1947), politician
 * Thierry Mugler (1948–2022), fashion designer
 * Francis Wurtz (born 1948), politician
 * Michel Warschawski (born 1949), Israeli anti-Zionist writer and activist
 * Arsène Wenger OBE (born 1949), football manager
 * Jean-Marie Bockel (born 1950), politician
 * Catherine Trautmann (born 1951), politician
 * Patrice Meyer (born 1957), guitarist
 * Elizabeth Sombart (born 1958), pianist
 * Alain Weill (born 1961), business executive
 * Patrick Cahuzac (born 1963), writer, winner of the Prix Fénéon for literature in 1990
 * Emmanuel Villaume (born 1964), conductor
 * Carole Richert (born 1967), actress
 * Christophe Ohrel (born 1968), football player
 * Philippe Schaaf (born 1968), handball player
 * Eliette Abécassis (born 1969), writer
 * Yvon Riemer (born 1970), wrestler
 * Yann Wehrling (born 1971), artist and leader of the French Green Party
 * Elif Şafak (born 1971), writer
 * Alexis Kohler (born 1972), politician
 * Valérien Ismaël (born 1975), football player
 * Armando Teixeira (born 1976), football player
 * Mehdi Baala (born 1978), athlete
 * Nicolas Mougin (born 1979), professional vert skater
 * Blandine Brocard (born 1981), politician
 * Paul-Henri Mathieu (born 1982), tennis player
 * Antoine Grauss (born 1984), football player
 * Pio Marmaï (born 1984), actor
 * Karim Matmour (born 1985), football player
 * Laura Weissbecker (born 1984), actress
 * M. Pokora (born 1985), singer
 * Candice Didier (born 1988), figure skater
 * Jonathan Schmid (born 1990), football player

Notable residents of Strasbourg

 * Meister Eckhart (1260–1328), philosopher
 * Johannes Gutenberg (1400–1468), inventor of printing with movable type
 * Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg (1445–1510), preacher
 * Erasmus (1467–1536), humanist
 * Hans Baldung (1484–1545), painter
 * Beatus Rhenanus (1485–1547), humanist
 * Caspar Schwenckfeld (1489–1561), theologian
 * Martin Bucer (1491–1551), Reformation leader
 * Johannes Sleidanus (1506–1556), German historian, the annalist of the Reformation
 * Johannes Sturm (1507–1589), teacher and pedagogue
 * John Calvin (1509–1564), Reformation leader
 * Michael Servetus (1511–1553), Spanish theologian, physician and humanist
 * Joachim Meyer (1537?–1571), fencer, author of an influential fechtbuch
 * Tobias Stimmer (1539–1584), Swiss painter
 * Johann Carolus (1575–1634), German publisher
 * François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie (1671–1745), marshall and governor of Strasbourg
 * Johann Daniel Schöpflin (1694–1771), historian and jurist, Goethe's teacher at Strasbourg University
 * Franz Xaver Richter (1709–1789), composer, eminent member of the Mannheim school
 * Johann Hermann (1738–1800), French physician and naturalist
 * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), poet, playwright, novelist, researcher
 * Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751–1792), poet
 * King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (1756–1825), spent several years in Strasbourg
 * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), composer, spent 23 days there in 1778
 * Ignaz Pleyel (1757–1831), served as Kapellmeister at the Cathedral in 1789
 * Maximilian von Montgelas (1759–1838), Bavarian statesman
 * Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760–1836), composer of the Marseillaise
 * Klemens von Metternich (1773–1859), studied in Strasbourg from 1788 to 1790
 * Georg Büchner (1813–1837), writer
 * Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830–1889), historian
 * Louis Pasteur (1830–1895), scientist
 * Viktor Nessler (1841–1890), composer
 * Lujo Brentano (1844–1931), economist
 * Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850–1918), physicist, Nobel Prize
 * Albrecht Kossel (1853–1927), medical doctor, Nobel Prize
 * Georg Simmel (1858–1918), sociologist
 * Georges Friedel (1865–1933), mineralogist, son of Charles Friedel
 * Hans Pfitzner (1869–1949), composer
 * Fritz Beblo (1872–1947), architect
 * Jean-Jacques Waltz aka Hansi (1873–1951), artist
 * Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965), theologian, philosopher, physician and musician
 * Paul Rohmer (1876–1977), physician, considered as one of the fathers of modern paediatrics
 * Maurice Halbwachs (1877–1945), sociologist
 * Otto Meißner (1880–1953), politician, father of Hans-Otto Meissner
 * Otto Klemperer (1885–1973), conductor
 * Marc Bloch (1886–1944), historian and resistant
 * Hans Rosbaud (1895–1962), conductor
 * George Szell (1897–1970), conductor
 * Emmanuel Lévinas (1906–1995), philosopher
 * Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003), writer and philosopher
 * Pierre Pflimlin (1907–2000), politician
 * Lucie Aubrac (born 1912) and Raymond Aubrac (born 1914), founding members of the Résistance
 * Antoinette Feuerwerker (1912–2003), jurist, member of the Résistance
 * Ernest Bour (1913–2001), conductor
 * Paul Ricoeur (1913–2005), philosopher
 * Salomon Gluck (1914–1944), physician, member of the Résistance
 * Rose Warfman (born 1916), nurse, survivor of Auschwitz and member of the Résistance
 * Hélène Boschi (1917–1990) pianist
 * René Thom (1923–2002), mathematician
 * Guy Debord (1931–1994), philosopher
 * Sarkis Zabunyan (born 1938), painter
 * Alberto Fujimori (born 1938), Peruvian president
 * Jean-Marie Lehn (born 1939), Nobel Prize for chemistry 1987
 * Alain Lombard (born 1940), conductor
 * Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940–2007), philosopher
 * Jean-Luc Nancy (born 1940), philosopher
 * Jules Hoffmann (born 1941), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011
 * Georges Aperghis (born 1945), composer
 * Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948–1989), playwright
 * Barbara Honigmann (born 1949), German writer and painter
 * Pierre Moerlen (1952–2005), musician
 * Ségolène Royal (born 1953), leading member of the Parti Socialiste, went to school in Strasbourg
 * Thomas Ebbesen (born 1954), physical chemist
 * John Howe (born 1957), artist
 * Mireille Delunsch (born 1962), soprano
 * Marjane Satrapi (born 1969), comic-strip artist