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This list includes people who were born in or lived in Wrocław/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.
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 - a person suspected of starting the Great Chicago Fire
Richard Courant - mathematician
Jan Dzierżon - apiarist.
Norbert Elias - sociologist
Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde - botanist.
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
Martin Helwig cartographer, first map of Silesia
Johann Heß - lutheran theologian, Protestant reformer of Breslau and Silesia
Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau - Baroque poet
Karl Eduard von Holtei - poet and actor
Heinz Hopf - mathematician (topology)
Vernon Ingram - biologist.
Alfred Kerr - theatre critic and essayist
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff - physicist
Gerhard Kittel - New Testament scholar and philologist
Otto Klemperer (* 1885) - 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
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
Edda Moser - soprano opera singer
Hugo von Pohl - German admiral, commander of High Seas Fleet.
Louis Prang - printer, lithographer and publisher
Manfred von Richthofen - World War I flying ace
Oskar von Riesenthal - ornithologist, forester, author
Julius von Sachs - botanist
Johann Gottfried Scheibel - theological professor and dissenter to the Prussian Union
Friedrich Schleiermacher - theologian and philosopher
Margarethe Siems - operatic soprano
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
Johann Heinrich Zedler (1706-1751) publisher of a German encyclopedia, the Zedler's Grosses Universal-Lexicon

Nobel laureates

listed by year of award

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