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| === Nobel laureates === | |||
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- Alois Alzheimer - discoverer of Alzheimer's Disease.
- Adolf Anderssen - 19th-century chess master.
- Max Berg — architect, designer of Centennial Hall.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Lutheran clergyman, religious leader in the resistance movement against Nazism.
- August Borsig - entrepreneur.
- Ernst Cassirer - philosopher.
- Ferdinand Cohn - biologist
- Richard Courant - mathematician
- Jan Dzierżon - apiarist.
- Norbert Elias - sociologist
- Otfrid Förster — neuro-surgeon.
- Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat - virologist
- Zecharias Frankel - rabbi and founder of Conservative Judaism
- Felix Hausdorff - mathematician, one of the founders of algebraic topology
- Johann Heß - lutheran theologian, Protestant reformer of Breslau and Silesia
- Heinz Hopf - mathematician (topology)
- Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau - Baroque poet
- Karl Eduard von Holtei - poet and actor
- Vernon Ingram - biologist.
- Alfred Kerr - theatre critic and essayist
- Gerhard Kittel - New Testament scholar and philologist
- Gustav Robert Kirchhoff - physicist
- Wojciech Korfanty - political activist
- Otto Klemperer (* 1885) - conductor
- Carl Ferdinand Langhans - architect
- Carl Gotthard Langhans - architect
- Daniel Casper von Lohenstein - poet and diplomat
- Ferdinand Lassalle - socialist politician and reformer
- Carl Friedrich Lessing - artist
- Rudolf Meidner - economist and socialist theorist
- Max Born - Physicist
- Joachim Meisner - Cardinal priest and archbishop of Cologne
- Adolph von Menzel - artist
- Jan Mikulicz-Radecki - surgeon, contributed to development of modern surgery
- Edda Moser - soprano opera singer
- Louis Prang - printer, lithographer and publisher
- Manfred von Richthofen - WWI flying ace
- Julius von Sachs - botanist
- Johann Gottfried Scheibel - theological professor and dissenter to the Prussian Union
- Friedrich Schleiermacher - theologian and philosopher
- Angelus Silesius - 17th century religious poet
- Edith Stein - philosopher and Roman Catholic martyr
- Fritz Stern - historian
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben - inspector general of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
- Siegbert Tarrasch - chess player
- Michel Thomas - war hero and language teacher
- Christian Wolff - philosopher
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)