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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
• Paul Amman (1634–1691), German physician and botanist.
• Günther Anders – philosopher and journalist
• Adolf Anderssen – 19th-century chess master
• Đorđe Andrejević-Kun – painter
• Heinz Arndt – Australian economist
• Leopold Auerbach - anatomist and neuropathologist
• Joannes Aurifaber Vratislaviensis (1517–1568), a Lutheran theologian and Protestant reformer.
• 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
• Friedrich von Gentz (1764–1832) a German diplomat and writer.
• Alfred Gomolka – politician (SPD)
• Rudolf von Gottschall (1823–1909), a German poet, dramatist, literary critic and literary historian.
• Felix Hausdorff – mathematician, one of the founders of algebraic topology
• Martin Helwig – cartographer, created the first map of Silesia
• Sir George Henschel (1850–1934) a British baritone, pianist, conductor and composer.
• Johann Heß – Lutheran theologian, Protestant reformer of Breslau and Silesia
• Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau – Baroque poet
• August zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen - general
• Karl von Holtei (1798–1880), German poet and actor.
• E. A. J. Honigmann – Professor of English Literature
• Heinz Hopf – mathematician (topologist)
• Vernon Ingram – biologist
• Gustav Adolph Kenngott (1818–1897) a German mineralogist.
• Alfred Kerr – theatre critic and essayist
• Gustav Robert Kirchhoff – physicist
• Gerhard Kittel – New Testament scholar and philologist
• Otto Klemperer (1885–1973) – conductor
• August Kopisch (1799–1853) a German poet and painter.
• 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 (1825–1864) a Prussian-German jurist, philosopher and socialist.
• Carl Friedrich Lessing – artist
• Marie Leszczyńska (1703 in Trzebnica – 1768), Queen consort of France.
• Daniel Casper von Lohenstein – poet and diplomat
• Peter Lorre – actor
• Georg Lunge (1839–1923) a German chemist.
• Rudolf Meidner (1914–2005), a Swedish economist and socialist theorist
• Joachim Meisner (1933–2017), Cardinal priest and archbishop of Cologne
• Adolph Menzel (1815–1905) a German Realist artist noted for drawings, etchings and paintings.
• Jan Mikulicz-Radecki (1850-1905), surgeon, contributed to development of modern surgery
• Richard Mohaupt (1904–1957), a German composer and Kapellmeister.
• Edda Moser (born 1938), a German operatic soprano.
• Moritz Moszkowski (1854–1925) a German composer, pianist and teacher of Polish-Jewish descent.
• Hugo von Pohl (1855–1916), a German admiral, commander of High Seas Fleet
• Louis Prang (1824–1909), printer, lithographer and publisher
• Michael Oser Rabin (born 1931), mathematician and computer scientist
• Manfred von Richthofen (1892–1918), World War I flying ace (the "Red Baron")
• Oskar von Riesenthal (1830–1898) a German forester, ornithologist, hunter and writer.
• Ludwig Rosenfelder (1813-1881), German painter
• Horst Rosenthal (1915–1942), German-born French cartoonist
• Julius von Sachs (1832–1897), a German botanist.
• Johann Gottfried Scheibel (1783–1843), theological professor and dissenter to the Prussian Union
• Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834) a German Reformed theologian, philosopher and biblical scholar
• Auguste Schmidt (1833–1902), a German feminist, educator, journalist and women's rights activist.
• Margarethe Siems (1879–1952), a German operatic coloratura soprano
• Angelus Silesius (ca.1624–1677), a German Catholic priest, physician, mystic and religious poet.
• Edith Stein (1891–1942), philosopher and Roman Catholic martyr
• Michael Steinberg (1928–2009) an American music critic and author
• Fritz Stern (1926–2016), American historian of German & Jewish history and historiography.
• Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1730–1794), Inspector General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
• Siegbert Tarrasch (1862–1934), chess player
• Augustin Theiner ((1804–1874), theologian and Church historian, Prefect of the Vatican Secret Archives
• August Tholuck (1799–1877), a German Protestant theologian, pastor and historian.
• Michel Thomas (1914–2005), war hero and language teacher.
• Zacharias Ursinus (1534–1583) a German Reformed theologian and Protestant reformer.
• Christian Wolff (1679–1754), a German philosopher.
• Adolf Wuttke (1819–1870) a German Protestant theologian.
• 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

1. "Amman, Paul" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 859.
2. "Aurifaber" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 925–926, see para 2. 2. Joannes (Vratislaviensis; 1517–1568), the younger brother of Andreas.....
3. Rainer E. Lotz, "Erhard Bauschke". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld.
4. "The danger of thinking we are really holy". Leader-Post. 19 March 1983. Retrieved 25 February 2011.
5. Phillips, Walter Alison (1911). "Gentz, Friedrich von" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). pp. 606–607.
6. "Gottschall, Rudolf von" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 279.
7. "Henschel, George" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 302.
8. "Holtei, Karl Eduard von" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 619–620.
9. "Kenngott, Gustav Adolph" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 732.
10. "Kopisch, August" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 897.
11. Kirkup, Thomas (1911). "Lassalle, Ferdinand" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). pp. 235–236.
12. "Marie Leszczynska" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 713.
13. "Lunge, Georg" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 126.
14. "Menzel, Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 146–147.
15. "Moszkowski, Moritz" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 904.
16. "Sachs, Julius von" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). 1911.
17. "Tholuck, Friedrich August Gottreu" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 862.
18. "Ursinus, Zacharias" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 803.
19. Pringle-Pattison, Andrew Seth (1911). "Wolff, Christian" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). p. 774.
20. "Wuttke, Karl Friedrich Adolf" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 861.
21. "Encyclopaedia" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 369–382, see page 374, para 3. One of the largest .....completed by Johann Heinrich Zedler, a bookseller of Leipzig, who was born at Breslau 7th January 1706...

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