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List of people from Breslau

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This list includes people who were born in or lived in Breslau before 1945. For a list of famous residents after 1945, see List of notable people from Wrocław

  1. Alois Alzheimer - discoverer of Alzheimer's Disease.

  2. Günther Anders - philosopher and journalist.

  3. Adolf Anderssen - 19th-century chess master.

  4. Đorđe Andrejević-Kun - painter

  5. Heinz Arndt - Australian economist

  6. Boleslaw Barlog - stage and film director

  7. Max Berg — architect, designer of Centennial Hall.

  8. Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Lutheran clergyman, religious leader in the resistance movement against Nazism.

  9. Max Born - Physicist

  10. August Borsig - entrepreneur.

  11. Ernst Cassirer - philosopher

  12. Ferdinand Cohn - biologist

  13. Louis M. Cohn - a person suspected of starting the Great Chicago Fire

  14. Richard Courant - mathematician

  15. Jan Dzierżon - apiarist

  16. Norbert Elias - sociologist

  17. Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde - botanist

  18. Otfrid Förster — neuro-surgeon

  19. Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat - virologist

  20. Zecharias Frankel - rabbi and founder of Conservative Judaism

  21. Felix Hausdorff - mathematician, one of the founders of algebraic topology

  22. Martin Helwig cartographer, first map of Silesia

  23. Johann Heß - Lutheran theologian, Protestant reformer of Breslau and Silesia

  24. Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau - Baroque poet

  25. Karl Eduard von Holtei - poet and actor

  26. E. A. J. Honigmann - Professor of English Literature

  27. Heinz Hopf - mathematician (topology)

  28. Vernon Ingram - biologist.

  29. Alfred Kerr - theatre critic and essayist

  30. Gustav Robert Kirchhoff - physicist

  31. Gerhard Kittel - New Testament scholar and philologist

  32. Otto Klemperer (* 1885) - conductor

  33. Wojciech Korfanty - political activist

  34. Arthur Korn - Physicist - Invented transmission of photographs by facsimile and wireless.

  35. Arthur Korn - Architect and town planner.

  36. Carl Ferdinand Langhans - architect

  37. Carl Gotthard Langhans - architect

  38. Ferdinand Lassalle - socialist politician and reformer

  39. Carl Friedrich Lessing - artist

  40. Daniel Casper von Lohenstein - poet and diplomat

  41. Peter Lorre- actor

  42. Rudolf Meidner - economist and socialist theorist

  43. Joachim Meisner - Cardinal priest and archbishop of Cologne

  44. Adolph von Menzel - artist

  45. Jan Mikulicz-Radecki - surgeon, contributed to development of modern surgery

  46. Edda Moser - soprano opera singer

  47. Svika Pick (born 1949) - Israeli pop singer and composer

  48. Hugo von Pohl - German admiral, commander of High Seas Fleet.

  49. Louis Prang - printer, lithographer and publisher

  50. Manfred von Richthofen - World War I flying ace ("Red Baron")

  51. Oskar von Riesenthal - ornithologist, forester, author

  52. Julius von Sachs - botanist

  53. Johann Gottfried Scheibel - theological professor and dissenter to the Prussian Union

  54. Friedrich Schleiermacher - theologian and philosopher

  55. Margarethe Siems - operatic soprano

  56. Angelus Silesius - 17th century religious poet

  57. Edith Stein - philosopher and Roman Catholic martyr

  58. Michael Steinberg - music critic

  59. Fritz Stern - historian

  60. Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben - Inspector General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War

  61. Siegbert Tarrasch - chess player

  62. Augustin Theiner - theologian and Church historian, Prefect of the Vatican Secret Archives

  63. Michel Thomas - war hero and language teacher

  64. Christian Wolff - philosopher

  65. Johann Heinrich Zedler (1706–1751) publisher of a German encyclopedia, the Zedler's Grosses Universal-Lexicon

Nobel laureates

listed by year of award

  1. Theodor Mommsen (1902)

  2. Philipp Lenard (1905)

  3. Eduard Buchner (1907)

  4. Paul Ehrlich (1908)

  5. Gerhart Hauptmann (1912)

  6. Fritz Haber (1918)

  7. Friedrich Bergius (1931)

  8. Erwin Schrödinger (1933)

  9. Otto Stern (1943)

  10. Max Born (1954)

  11. Reinhard Selten (1994)