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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.
- Alois Alzheimer – discoverer of Alzheimer's disease
- Günther Anders – philosopher and journalist
- Adolf Anderssen – 19th-century chess master
- Đorđe Andrejević-Kun – painter
- Heinz Arndt – Australian economist
- Leopold Auerbach - anatomist and neuropathologist
- Bertha Badt-Strauss – writer
- Boleslaw Barlog – stage and film director
- Erhard Bauschke (1912–1945), was a German jazz and light music reedist and bandleader
- Max Berg – architect, designer of Centennial Hall
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer – Lutheran clergyman, religious leader in the resistance movement against Nazism
- Max Born – physicist
- August Borsig – entrepreneur
- Ernst Cassirer – philosopher
- Ferdinand Cohn – biologist
- Louis M. Cohn – suspected of starting the Great Chicago Fire
- Richard Courant – mathematician
- Harri Czepuck - journalist
- Walter Damrosch – conductor
- Jan Dzierżon – apiarist
- Hermann von Eichhorn - Prussian field marshal
- Norbert Elias – sociologist
- Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein (1797-1885), Prussian general
- Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde – botanist
- George Wolfgang Forell (1919–2011) was a world-renowned scholar, author, lecturer and guest professor
- Otfrid Förster — neurosurgeon
- Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat – virologist
- Zecharias Frankel – rabbi and founder of Conservative Judaism
- Hans Freeman – biochemist
- Alfred Gomolka – politician (SPD)
- Felix Hausdorff – mathematician, one of the founders of algebraic topology
- Martin Helwig – cartographer, created the first map of Silesia
- George Henschel – conductor and singer
- Johann Heß – Lutheran theologian, Protestant reformer of Breslau and Silesia
- Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau – Baroque poet
- August zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen - general
- Karl Eduard von Holtei – poet and actor
- E. A. J. Honigmann – Professor of English Literature
- Heinz Hopf – mathematician (topologist)
- Vernon Ingram – biologist
- Alfred Kerr – theatre critic and essayist
- Gustav Robert Kirchhoff – physicist
- Gerhard Kittel – New Testament scholar and philologist
- Otto Klemperer (1885–1973) – conductor
- Wojciech Korfanty – political activist
- Arthur Korn – physicist, invented transmission of photographs by facsimile and wireless
- Arthur Korn – architect and town planner
- Carl Ferdinand Langhans – architect
- Carl Gotthard Langhans – architect
- Ferdinand Lassalle – socialist politician and reformer
- Carl Friedrich Lessing – artist
- Daniel Casper von Lohenstein – poet and diplomat
- Peter Lorre – actor
- Rudolf Meidner – economist and socialist theorist
- Joachim Meisner – Cardinal priest and archbishop of Cologne
- Adolph von Menzel – artist
- Jan Mikulicz-Radecki – surgeon, contributed to development of modern surgery
- Richard Mohaupt – German-American composer and Kapellmeister
- Edda Moser – soprano opera singer
- Svika Pick (born 1949) – Israeli pop singer and composer
- Hugo von Pohl – German admiral, commander of High Seas Fleet
- Louis Prang – printer, lithographer and publisher
- Michael Oser Rabin – mathematician and computer scientist
- Manfred von Richthofen – World War I flying ace (the "Red Baron")
- Oskar von Riesenthal – ornithologist, forester, author
- Horst Rosenthal (1915–1942) – German-born French cartoonist
- Julius von Sachs – botanist
- Johann Gottfried Scheibel – theological professor and dissenter to the Prussian Union
- Friedrich Schleiermacher – theologian and philosopher
- Auguste Schmidt, educationist and feminist
- Margarethe Siems – operatic soprano
- Angelus Silesius – 17th-century religious poet
- Edith Stein – philosopher and Roman Catholic martyr
- Michael Steinberg – music critic
- Fritz Stern – historian
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben – Inspector General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
- Siegbert Tarrasch – chess player
- Augustin Theiner – theologian and Church historian, Prefect of the Vatican Secret Archives
- Michel Thomas – war hero and language teacher.
- Christian Wolff – philosopher
- Johann Heinrich Zedler (1706–1751) – publisher of a German encyclopedia, the Grosses Universal-Lexicon
Nobel laureates
listed by year of award
- Theodor Mommsen (1902)
- Philipp Lenard (1905)
- Eduard Buchner (1907)
- Paul Ehrlich (1908)
- Gerhart Hauptmann (1912)
- Fritz Haber (1918)
- Friedrich Bergius (1931)
- Erwin Schrödinger (1933)
- Otto Stern (1943)
- Max Born (1954)
- Reinhard Selten (1994)
References
- Rainer E. Lotz, "Erhard Bauschke". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld.
- "The danger of thinking we are really holy". Leader-Post. 19 March 1983. Retrieved 25 February 2011.