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

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
Boleslaw Barlog - stage and film director
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
E. A. J. Honigmann - Professor of English Literature
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
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
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
Manfred von Richthofen - World War I flying ace ("Red Baron")
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
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 Zedler's Grosses Universal-Lexicon

Nobel laureates

listed by year of award

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