List of people from Frankfurt

This list contains notable people both born in Frankfurt and residents of the city, ordered chronologically.

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Born in Frankfurt

9th to 17th centuries

• Charles the Bald (823–877), King of West Francia, King of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor
• William I, Duke of Bavaria (1330–1389), also known as William V, Count of Holland, as William III, Count of Hainaut and as William IV, Count of Zeeland
• Jakob Heller (c. 1460—1522), patrician, politician, and merchant
• Johann Dietenberger (c. 1475–1537), Catholic Scholastic theologian
• Konrad Gobel (c. 1498–1557), craftsman of bells and other metal castings
• Sebastian von Heusenstamm (1508–1555), Archbishop-Elector of Mainz
• Elijah Loans (1555–1636), rabbi and Kabbalist
• Philipp Uffenbach (1566–1636), painter and etcher
• Adam Elsheimer (1578–1610), artist
• Hendrik van Steenwijk II (c.1580–1649), Baroque painter
• Lucas Jennis (1590–1630), engraver
• Joachim von Sandrart (1606–1688), Baroque art-historian and painter
• Johannes Lingelbach (1622–1674), Dutch Golden Age painter
• Jacob von Sandrart (1630–1708), engraver
• Abraham Mignon (1640–1679), Dutch golden age painter
• Johann Jacob Schütz (1640–1690), lawyer and hymnwriter
• Philipp von Hörnigk (1640–1714), civil servant and supporter of the economic theory of mercantilism
• Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717), naturalist and scientific illustrator
• Philipp Peter Roos (1655–1706), Baroque painter
• Jacob Christoph Le Blon (1667–1741), painter and engraver
• Lorenz Heister (1683–1758), anatomist, surgeon and botanist

18th century

• Alexander Ferdinand (1704–1773), 3rd Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Postmaster General of the Imperial Reichspost, and Head of the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis
• Princess Marie Auguste of Thurn and Taxis (1706–1756), Regent of Württemberg
• Johann Christian Senckenberg (1707–1772), physician, naturalist and collector
• Susanne von Klettenberg (1723–1774), abbess and writer
• Louis Eugene (1731–1795), Duke of Württemberg
• Catharina Elisabeth Goethe (1731–1808), mother of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Karl Anselm (1733–1805), 4th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Postmaster General of the Imperial Reichspost, and Head of the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis
• Johann Zoffany (1733–1810), neoclassical painter
• Georg Melchior Kraus (1737–1806), painter
• Nathan Adler (1741–1800), kabbalist and rabbi
• Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812), banker and founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), writer and statesman
• Cornelia Schlosser (1750–1777), sister of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen (1751–1827), Princess of Saxe-Meiningen and Duchess consort of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
• Princess Louise of Saxe-Meiningen (1752–1805), Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen
• Abraham Bing (1752–1841), rabbi
• Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752–1831), dramatist and novelist
• Johann Philipp Gabler (1753–1826), Protestant Christian theologian

Karl Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

• Karl Wilhelm (1754–1782), Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

Anton Dereser

• Anton Dereser (1757–1827), Discalced Carmelite professor of hermeneutics and Oriental languages
• Georg I (1761–1803), Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
• Moses Sofer (1762–1839), rabbi
• Philipp Karl Buttmann (1764–1829), philologist of French Huguenot ancestry
• Margarethe Danzi (1768–1800), composer and soprano
• Johann Friedrich von Meyer (1772–1849), senator of Frankfurt
• Amschel Mayer von Rothschild (1773–1855), banker of the Rothschild family financial dynasty
• Salomon Rothschild (1774–1855), banker in the Austrian Empire and founder of the Austrian branch of the Mayer Amschel Rothschild family
• Elisabeth von Adlerflycht (1775–1846), painter
• Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777–1836), London-based banker and financier and one of five sons of the second generation of the Rothschild banking dynasty
• Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779–1861), jurist and historian
• Johann Friedrich Heinrich Schlosser (1780–1851), jurist, writer and translator
• Dorothea von Ertmann (1781–1849), pianist
• Jeanette Wohl (1783–1961), friend and correspondent of Ludwig Börne
• Christian Brentano (1784–1851), writer and Catholic publicist
• Bettina von Arnim (1785–1859), writer and novelist
• Ludwig Börne (1786–1837), political writer and satirist
• Johann David Passavant (1787–1861), painter, curator and artist
• Franz Pforr (1788–1812), painter
• Carl Mayer von Rothschild (1788–1855), banker in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and founder of the Rothschild banking family of Naples
• Jakob Alt (1789–1872), painter and lithographer
• James Mayer de Rothschild (1792–1868 ), banker and founder of the French branch of the Rothschild family
• Carl von Heyden (1793–1866), senator and entomologist
• Eduard Rüppell (1794–1884), naturalist and explorer
• August von Bethmann-Hollweg (1795–1877), jurist and politician
• Johann Friedrich Böhmer (1795–1863), historian
• Heinrich Christian Macklot (1799–1832), naturalist
• Ferdinand Fellner (1799–1859), painter
• Friedrich Wöhler (1800–1882), chemist

19th century

1801–1820

• Joseph Aschbach (1801–1882), historian
• Ferdinand Lindheimer (1801–1879), German Texan botanist
• Hermann von Meyer (1801–1869), palaeontologist

Heinrich Hoffmann

• Frédéric Jules Sichel (1802–1868), French physician and entomologist
• Anselm von Rothschild (1803–1874), Austrian banker and member of the Vienna branch of the Rothschild family
• Karl Friedrich Hermann (1804–1855), classical scholar and antiquary
• Marie d'Agoult (1805–1876), French author

Moritz Abraham Stern

• Moritz Abraham Stern (1807–1894), mathematician
• Georg Fresenius (1808–1866), physician and botanist
• Johann Benedict Listing (1808–1882), mathematician
• Ernst Ludwig von Leutsch (1808–1887), classical philologist
• George Engelmann (1809–1884), German-American botanist
• Jakob Fürchtegott Dielmann (1809–1885), illustrator, genre and landscape painter
• Heinrich Hoffmann (1809–1894), psychiatrist and author
• Gustav Koerner (1809–1896), revolutionary, journalist, lawyer, politician, judge, statesman in Illinois and Germany and Colonel of the U.S. Army
• Abraham Geiger (1810–1874 ), leader of Reform Judaism
• Johann Georg von Hahn (1811–1869), Austrian diplomat, philologist and specialist in Albanian history, language and culture
• Moritz von Bethmann (1811–1877), banker
• Ferdinand Hiller (1811–1885), composer, conductor, writer and music-director
• Henri Nestlé (1814–1890), Swiss confectioner and founder of Nestlé, the world's largest food and beverage company
• Joseph Hoch (1815–1874), lawyer and benefactor
• August Weber (1817–1873), painter
• Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818–1897), chemist
• Henri Weil (1818–1909), philologist
• Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim (1819–1880), publicist and philosopher
• Mayer Carl von Rothschild (1820–1886), banker and politician
• Carl Theodor Reiffenstein (1820–1893), landscape and architecture painter

1821–1840

• Mathilde Marchesi (1821–1913), mezzo-soprano, teacher of singing, and proponent of the bel canto vocal method
• Heinrich Frey (1822–1890), Swiss entomologist
• Georg Heinrich Mettenius (1823–1866), botanist
• Moritz Schiff (1823–1896), physiologist
• Willibald Beyschlag (1823–1900), theologian
• Peter Burnitz (1824–1886), lawyer and landscape painter
• Anton Burger (1824–1905), painter, draftsman and etcher
• Karl Otto Weber (1827–1867), surgeon and pathologist
• Adolf Schreyer (1828–1899), painter
• Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild (1828–1901), banker and financier of the Frankfurt House of Rothschild
• Lazarus Geiger (1829–1870), philologist and philosopher
• Victor Müller (1829–1871), painter
• Heinrich Anton de Bary (1831–1888), surgeon, botanist, microbiologist, and mycologist
• Frédéric Émile d'Erlanger (1832–1911), banker and Consul
• Mathilde Hannah von Rothschild (1832–1924), baroness, composer and patron of the Jewish faith
• Jean Baptista von Schweitzer (1833–1875), politician and dramatic poet
• Otto Scholderer (1834–1902), painter
• Wilhelm von Scherff (1834–1911), general and military writer
• Ernst Georg Ravenstein (1834–1913), geographer cartographer and promoter of physical exercise
• Giorgio Sommer (1834–1914), photographer
• August Weismann (1834–1914), biologist
• Hugo Schiff (1834–1915), chemist
• Nathaniel Meyer von Rothschild (1836–1905), member of the Rothschild banking family of Austria
• Joseph Maria von Radowitz, Jr. (1839–1912), diplomat
• Alexander Riese (1840–1924), classical scholar

1841–1860

• Karl Binding (1841–1920), jurist
• Carl Gräbe (1841–1927), industrial and academic chemist
• Karl Lentzner (1842–1905), linguist
• Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1843–1940), banker and art collector
• Michael Flürscheim (1844–1912), economist and Georgist
• Emil Ponfick (1844–1913), pathologist
• Hans von Zwiedineck-Südenhorst (1845–1906), historian
• Otto Böhler (1847–1913), silhouette artist
• Jacob Schiff (1847–1920), American banker, businessman, and philanthropist
• Alice Charlotte von Rothschild (1847–1922), socialite and member of the Rothschild banking family of Austria
• William Ralph Merton (1848–1916), entrepreneur, social democrat and philanthropist
• Otto Bütschli (1848–1920), zoologist
• Heinrich Bassermann (1849–1909), Lutheran theologian
• Anton Urspruch (1850–1907), composer and pedagogue
• Wilhelm Creizenach (1851–1919), historian and librarian
• Arthur Schuster (1851–1934), British physicist
• Wilhelm von Bismarck (1852–1901), counselor, civil servant and politician
• Carl L. Nippert (1852–1904), engineer and politician
• Carl Chun (1852–1914), marine biologist
• Goby Eberhardt (1852–1926), violinist and composer
• Karl Höchberg (1853–1885), social-reformist writer, publisher and economist
• Karl Sudhoff (1853–1938), historian of medicine
• Moritz von Leonhardi (1856–1910), anthropologist
• Hermann Dessau (1856–1931), ancient historian and epigrapher
• Siegfried Ochs (1858–1929), choir-leader and composer
• Otto Böckel (1859–1923), populist politician
• Alfons Mumm von Schwarzenstein (1859–1924), diplomat
• Philipp Franck (1860–1944), Impressionist painter

Arthur von Weinberg

• Arthur von Weinberg (1860–1943), chemist and industrialist

1861–1880

• Franz Joseph von Bülow (1861–1915), writer
• Ludwig Fulda (1862–1939), playwright and a poet
• Theodor Ziehen (1862–1950), neurologist and psychiatrist
• Karl Wilhelm von Meister (1863–1935), politician and diplomat
• Karl Schaum (1870–1947), chemist

Rahel Hirsch

• Rahel Hirsch (1870–1953), doctor and professor
• Fritz Klimsch (1870–1960), sculptor
• Paul Epstein (1871–1939), mathematician
• Bernhard Sekles (1872–1934), composer, conductor, pianist and pedagogue
• Alfred Hertz (1872–1942), American conductor
• Karl Maria Kaufmann (1872-1951), Biblical archaelogist

Karl Schwarzschild

• Karl Schwarzschild (1873–1916), astronomer and physicist
• Otto Loewi (1873–1961), pharmacologist
• Eduard Fresenius (1874–1946), pharmacist and entrepreneur
• Gerhard Hessenberg (1874–1925), mathematician
• Marcel Sulzberger (1876–1941), Swiss composer, pianist and music author
• Otto Blumenthal (1876–1944), mathematician and professor
• Willy Kaiser-Heyl (1876–1953), film actor
• Isaac Heinemann (1876–1957), rabbinical scholar and professor of classical literature, Hellenistic literature and philology
• Hermann Fellner (1877–1936), screenwriter and film producer
• Arthur Scherbius (1878–1929), electrical engineer
• Ottilie Metzger-Lattermann (1878–1943), contralto
• Richard Goldschmidt (1878–1958), geneticist
• Harry Fuld (1879–1932), entrepreneur whose art collection was looted by Nazis
• Hugo Merton (1879–1940), zoologist
• F.W. Schröder-Schrom (1879–1956), actor

Otto Hahn

• Otto Hahn (1879–1968), chemist and pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry
• Moritz Geiger (1880–1937), philosopher
• Karl von Roques (1880–1949), general and war criminal during World War II
• Paul Maas (1880–1964), classical scholar

1881–1900

• Hermann Zilcher (1881–1948), composer and conductor
• Wilhelm Dörr (1881–1955), track and field athlete and tug of war competitor
• Hans Fischer (1881–1945), organic chemist
• Walter Braunfels (1882–1954), composer, pianist, and music educator

Hans Fischer

• Georg von Neufville (1883–1941), Wehrmacht general during World War II
• Else Gentner-Fischer (1883–1943), operatic soprano
• Hermann Abendroth (1883–1956), conductor
• Ludwig Schunk (1884–1947), manufacturer and cofounder of the firm of Schunk und Ebe oHG
• Ida Wüst (1884–1958), stage and film actress
• Gus Wickie (1885–1947), German-American bass singer and voice actor
• Erich Schönfelder (1885–1933), screenwriter, actor and film director
• Walther Davisson (1885–1973), violinist and conductor
• Ernst May (1886—1970), architect and city planner
• Walter Ruttmann (1887–1941), film director and early practitioner of experimental film
• Hans Adalbert Schlettow (1887–1945), film actor
• Otto Maull (1887–1957), geographer and geopolitician
• Oscar Kreuzer (1887–1968), tennis and rugby player
• Wilhelm Lenz (1888–1957), physicist
• Fritz Becker (1888–1963), football player
• Gussy Holl (1888–1966), actress and singer
• Caesar Rudolf Boettger (1888–1976), zoologist
• Herman Bing (1889–1947), actor
• Johanna Kirchner (1889–1944), opponent of the Nazi régime
• Ernst Schwarz (1889–1962), zoologist, mammalogist, and herpetologist
• Heinrich Jacoby (1889–1964), musician and educator

Siegfried Kracauer

• Siegfried Kracauer (1889–1966), writer, journalist, sociologist, film theorist, and cultural critic
• Otto Frank (1889–1980), businessman
• Martin Weber (1890–1941), architect
• Otto Schmöle (1890–1968), actor
• Martha Wertheimer (1890–1942), journalist, writer, and rescuer
• Leopold Schwarzschild (1891–1950), author
• Karl Ludwig Schmidt (1891–1956), theologian and professor
• Felix Schlag (1891–1974), designer of the United States five cent coin in use from 1938 to 2004
• Elisabeth Schmitt (1891-1974), lawyer and first woman in Germany to earn a PhD in law
• Erwin Straus (1891–1975), German-American phenomenologist and neurologist
• Hans Leybold (1892–1914), poet
• Jakob Weiseborn (1892–1939), SS-Sturmbannführer (major) and commandant of Flossenbürg concentration camp
• Friedrich Weber (1892–1955), instructor in veterinary medicine
• Eugen Kaufmann (1892–1984), architect
• Gus Meins (1893–1940), German-American film director
• Ilse Friedleben (1893–1963), tennis player
• Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack (1893–1965), artist
• Johann Fück (1894–1974), orientalist
• Karl Reinhardt (1895–1941), mathematician

Wilhelm Süss

• Wilhelm Süss (1895–1958), mathematician

Ernst Udet

• Ernst Udet (1896–1941), German flying ace of World War I
• Theodor Haubach (1896–1945), journalist, SPD politician, and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime
• Walter Peterhans (1897–1960), photographer
• Tilly Edinger (1897–1967), paleontologist
• Karl Freiherr von Lersner (1898–1943), Wehrmacht general during World War II
• Karl Menninger (1898–1963), mathematician

Willy Messerschmitt

• Franz Altheim (1898–1976), historian
• Hans Feibusch (1898–1998), painter and sculptor
• Willy Messerschmitt (1898–1978), aircraft designer and manufacturer
• Ferdinand Kramer (1898–1985), architect and functionalist designer
• Nelly Neppach (née Bamberger; 1898–1933), female tennis player
• Irnfried Freiherr von Wechmar (1899–1959), Oberst in the Wehrmacht during World War II and an Oberst der Reserve in the Bundeswehr
• Ilse Bing (1899–1998), avant-garde and commercial photographer
• Paul Leser (1899–1984), ethnologist
• Ernst Friedrich Löhndorff (1899–1976), sailor, adventurer, and writer
• Erich Fromm (1900–1980), social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist
• Otto Kahn-Freund (1900–1979), professor of comparative law and scholar in labour law
• Erich Klibansky (1900–1942), headmaster and teacher of the first Jewish Gymnasium of Rhineland in Cologne
• Leo Löwenthal (1900–1993), sociologist

20th century

1901–1910

• Georg August Zinn (1901–1976), lawyer and politician
• Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt (1901–1986), politician
• Adolf Weidmann (1901–1997), athlete and sports official
• Otto Bayer (1902–1982), industrial chemist
• Fritz Bamberger (1902–1984), scholar and editor
• Hugo Schrader (1902–1993), television and film actor
• Max Rudolf (1902–1995), conductor

Theodor W. Adorno

• Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969), sociologist, philosopher and musicologist
• Julius Eisenecker (1903–1981), fencer
• Karl Chmielewski (1903–1991), SS officer and Herzogenbusch concentration camp commandant
• Otto Mainzer (1903–1995), writer
• Camilla Horn (1903–1996), dancer and film star
• Fritz Weitzel (1904–1940), SS soldier
• Karl Hessenberg (1904–1959), engineer and mathematician
• Milly Reuter (1904–1976), track and field athlete
• Günther Gräntz (1905–1945), SA general and politician
• Richard Ettinghausen (1906–1979), art historian
• Wolfgang Gentner (1906–1980), experimental nuclear physicist
• Helmut Landsberg (1906–1985), climatologist
• Willibald Kreß (1906–1989), footballer

Ott-Heinrich Keller

• Ott-Heinrich Keller (1906–1990), mathematician
• Karl Holzamer (1906–2007), philosopher, pedagogue and former director general of German television station ZDF
• Franka Rasmussen (1907–1994), textile artist
• Herman Geiger-Torel (1907–1976), Canadian opera director
• Eugen Weidmann (1908–1939), career criminal

Kurt H. Debus

• Kurt H. Debus (1908–1983), spaceflight scientist
• Rudolf Gramlich (1908–1988), football player and chairman
• Arthur Dreifuss (1908–1993), film director and occasional producer and screenwriter
• Kurt Hessenberg (1908–1994), composer and professor
• John Slade (1908–2005), American Olympic field hockey player and Wall Street broker
• Edgar Weil (1908–1941), Germanist, dramaturge, and merchant

Ernst vom Rath

• Ernst vom Rath (1909–1938), diplomat
• Andrew Thorndike (1909–1979), documentary film director
• Georg Konrad Morgen (1909–1982), SS judge and lawyer
• Friedrich Bopp (1909–1987), theoretical physicist
• Helm Glöckler (1909–1993), racing driver
• Kurt Lipstein (1909–2006), legal scholar and professor
• Walter Löber (1909–?), racing cyclist
• Tatjana Sais (1910–1981), film actress
• Barys Kit (1910–2018), Belarusian-American rocket scientist
• Fritz Tillmann (1910–1986), actor
• Erwin Walter Palm (1910–1988), scholar, historian, and writer
• Richard Plant (1910–1998), writer
• Robert H. Goetz (1910–2000), surgeon
• Erika Fromm (1910–2003), psychologist

1911–1920

• Karl Heinz Bremer (1911–1942), historian
• Theodor Schneider (1911–1988), mathematician
• Bruno Roth (1911–1998), racing cyclist
• Tilly Fleischer (1911–2005), athlete
• Bruno Beger (1911–2009), racial anthropologist
• Hermann Flohn (1912–1997), climatologist
• Theo Helfrich (1913–1978), racing driver
• Manfred Kersch (1913–1995), athlete
• Karl Dröse (1913–1996), field hockey player
• Bernhard Frank (1913–2011), Nazi leader
• Emil Carlebach (1914–2001), writer, dissident, and journalist
• Herbert Cahn (1915–2002), classical archaeologist, numismatist, coin-dealer and antiquities-dealer

Werner Grothmann (left)

• Werner Grothmann (1915–2002), SS leader
• Wolf Kaiser (1916–1992), theatre and film actor
• Karl Wald (1916–2011), football referee
• Bernd T. Matthias (1918–1980), American physicist
• Toby E. Rodes (1919–2013), business consultant, design-critic, journalist, and lecturer

Eric Koch

• Eric Koch (1919–2018), Canadian author, broadcaster and professor
• Wolfdietrich Schnurre (1920–1989), writer

1921–1930

• Wilhelm Ringelband (1921–1981), theater critic
• Frederick Mayer (1921–2006), educational scientist, philosopher, and creativity expert
• Hans Herrman Strupp (1921–2006), American expert in psychotherapy research
• Ernest Mandel (1923–1995), revolutionary Marxist theorist
• Samson François (1924–1970), French pianist and composer
• Ernst B. Haas (1924–2003), political scientist
• Marianne Beuchert (1924–2007), florist, gardener, and writer
• Jürgen Jürgens (1925–1994), choral conductor and academic teacher
• Carlrichard Brühl (1925–1997), historian of medieval history and philatelist

Alfred Grosser

Anne Frank

• Alfred Grosser (1925–2024), German-French writer, sociologist, and political scientist
• Emil Mangelsdorff (1925–2022), jazz musician
• Margot Frank (1926–1945), sister of Anne Frank
• Herbert Freudenberger (1926–1999), psychologist
• Liselott Linsenhoff (1927–1999), equestrian and Olympic champion
• Hans Heinz Holz (1927–2011), Marxist philosopher
• Charlotte Kerr (1927–2011), director, film producer, actress, writer, and journalist
• Marcel Ophüls (born 1927), documentary film maker and former actor
• Albert Mangelsdorff (1928–2005), jazz trombonist
• Anne Frank (1929–1945), diarist and writer
• Erich Böhme (1930–2009), journalist and television host
• Robert Aumann (born 1930), Israeli-American mathematician
• Ursula Lehr (1930–2022), academic, age researcher, and politician
• Michael Rossmann (1930–2019), German-American physicist, microbiologist, and professor

1931–1940

• Imanuel Geiss (1931–2012), historian
• August Hobl (born 1931), former motorcycle road racer
• Lis Verhoeven (1931–2019), actress and theatre director
• Rainer K. Sachs (born 1932), German-American computational radiation biologist and astronomer
• Hans Krieger (1933–2023), writer, essayist, journalist of influential weekly papers, broadcaster, and poet
• Mary Bauermeister (1934–2023), artist
• Erwin Conradi (born 1935), manager in trade business
• Michael Horovitz (1935–2021), German-born British poet, editor, visual artist, and translator
• Gisela Kessler (1935–2014), trade unionist

Heinz Riesenhuber

• Heinz Riesenhuber (born 1935), politician

Ulrich Schindel

• Ulrich Schindel (born 1935), classical philologist
• Susanne Cramer (1936–1969), film and television actress
• Klaus Heymann (born 1936), entrepreneur
• Franz Ningel (born 1936), pair skater and roller skater
• Klaus Rajewsky (born 1936), immunologist
• Dieter Schenk (born 1937), author, former high police officer, and activist
• Wolfgang Zapf (1937–2018), sociologist

Günter Lenz

• Günter Lenz (born 1938), jazz bassist and composer
• Fritz-Albert Popp (1938–2018), biophysicist
• Gerhard Waibel (born 1938), engineer
• Gerhard Amendt (born 1939), sociologist and former professor
• Gerd Kehrer (born 1939), painter
• Wolfram Saenger (born 1939), biochemist and protein crystallographer
• Bernhard Sinkel (born 1940), film director and screenwriter
• Wolfgang Solz (1940–2017), former professional football winger
• Klaus Zehelein (born 1940), dramaturge and professor

1941–1950

• Brigitte Heinrich (1941–1987), journalist and politician
• Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker (born 1941), geneticist, biochemist, and research manager
• Ernst Klee (1942–2013), journalist and author
• Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul (born 1942), politician
• Marika Kilius (born 1943), pair skater
• Ursula G.T. Müller (born 1944), sociologist specializing in gender studies

Jürgen Roth

• Jürgen Roth (1945–2017), publicist and investigative journalist
• Gerhard Welz (born 1945), former professional footballer

Gerd Binnig

• Gerd Binnig (born 1947), physicist and Nobel laureate

Wolfgang Flür

• Wolfgang Flür (born 1947), musician
• Hans-Joachim Klein (1947–2022), terrorist
• Minka Pradelski (born 1947), sociologist and documentary filmmaker
• Susan Blakely (born 1948), American film actress
• Diethelm Sack (born 1948), financial officer
• Rolf Birkhölzer (born 1949), footballer
• Horst Dröse (born 1949), former field hockey player
• Margot Glockshuber (born 1949), former pair skater

Horst Ludwig Störmer

• Horst Ludwig Störmer (born 1949), physicist and Nobel laureate
• Gert Trinklein (1949–2017), former professional football player
• P. J. Soles (born 1950), American film and television actress

1951–1960

• Hubert Buchberger (born 1951), violinist, conductor, and music university teacher
• Roman Bunka (1951–2022), guitarist and composer
• Martin Mosebach (born 1951), writer

Peter Ammon

• Peter Ammon (born 1952), diplomat
• Cornelia Hanisch (born 1952), former fencer
• Johanna Lindsey (1952–2019), American writer of historical romance novels
• Susanne Porsche (born 1952), film producer
• Horst Stöcker (born 1952), theoretical physicist
• Lutz Kirchhof (born 1953), lutenist
• Stephan W. Koch (1953–2022), theoretical physicist
• Wolfgang Kraus (born 1953), former professional football player
• Dagmar Roth-Behrendt (born 1953), lawyer and politician
• Jan Zweyer (born 1953), writer

Dietrich Thurau

• Dietrich Thurau (born 1954), retired professional road bicycle racer
• Ellen von Unwerth (born 1954), photographer
• Uwe Benter (born 1955), rower
• Uli Lenz (born 1955), composer, pianist, and producer creating music in the modern jazz genre
• Michael Obst (born 1955), composer and pianist
• Ulrike Meyfarth (born 1956), former high jumper
• Ronny Borchers (born 1957), former footballer
• Juliane Kokott (born 1957), Advocate General and professor
• Gerhard Weikum (born 1957), database researcher
• Hans Zimmer (born 1957), film composer and music producer
• Rainer Zitelmann (born 1957), historian, journalist, and management consultant
• Peter Becker (born 1958), molecular biologist
• Thomas Duis (born 1958), pianist
• Peter Kloeppel (born 1958), journalist and news anchor

Roland Koch

• Roland Koch (born 1958), jurist and former conservative politician
• Thomas Metzinger (born 1958), philosopher and professor

Thomas Reiter

• Thomas Reiter (born 1958), retired astronaut and test pilot
• Michael Scheffel (born 1958), Germanist
• Nicole Brown Simpson (1959–1994), ex-wife of professional football player O. J. Simpson
• Martina Hallmen (born 1959), former field hockey player
• Michael Sagmeister (born 1959), Jazz guitarist
• Pete Namlook (1960–2012), ambient and electronic-music producer and composer
• Christoph Franz (born 1960), former Chief Executive Officer of Lufthansa
• Michael Gahler (born 1960), politician and Member of the European Parliament

Hannes Jaenicke

• Hannes Jaenicke (born 1960), actor
• Gabriele Lesser (born 1960), historian and journalist
• Patricia Ott (born 1960), former field hockey player

1961–1970

Valentin Schiedermair

Jakob Arjouni

• Jens Geier (born 1961), politician
• Esther Schapira (born 1961), journalist and filmmaker
• Peter Blank (born 1962), javelin thrower
• Matthias Röhr (born 1962), guitarist
• Inaara Aga Khan (born 1963), second wife of the Aga Khan IV
• Ralf Falkenmayer (born 1963), former footballer
• Thor Kunkel (born 1963), author
• Charlotte Link (born 1963), writer
• Marcus Nispel (born 1963), film director and producer
• Valentin Schiedermair (born 1963), concert pianist
• Jakob Arjouni (1964–2013), author
• Beate Deininger (born 1964), former field hockey player
• Michael Gross (born 1964), swimmer
• Manfred Binz (born 1965), footballer
• Armin Kraaz (born 1965), football manager and former player
• Martin Lawrence (born 1965), American actor, comedian, and filmmaker

Oliver Reck

• Oliver Reck (born 1965), former footballer
• Christine Schäfer (born 1965), soprano
• Torsten de Winkel (born 1965), musician, composer, and philosopher
• Markus Löffel (1966–2006), disc jockey, musician, and record producer
• Eckhart Nickel (born 1966), journalist and author
• Stefan Quandt (born 1966), engineer and industrialist
• Sven Rothenberger (born 1966), equestrian
• Klaus Badelt (born 1967), composer
• Jens Beckert (born 1967), sociologist
• Antje Boetius (born 1967), marine biologist and professor of geomicrobiology
• Johannes Brandrup (born 1967), actor
• Katharina Hacker (born 1967), novelist

Eckart von Hirschhausen

• Eckart von Hirschhausen (born 1967), physician and comedian
• Annette Huber-Klawitter (born 1967), mathematician
• Peter Oliver Loew (born 1967), historian, translator, and scholar
• Stefan Mohr (born 1967), chess grandmaster
• Andreas Möller (born 1967), former internationalist association footballer
• Inka Parei (born 1967), writer

Peter Thiel

• Peter Thiel (born 1967), American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager
• Andreas Paulus (born 1968), jurist
• Uwe Schmidt (born 1968), composer, musician, and producer of electronic music

Shantel

• Shantel (born 1968), DJ and producer
• Carsten Arriens (born 1969), former professional tennis player
• Giorgos Donis (born 1969), former professional football player
• Oliver Lieb (born 1969), electronic music producer and DJ
• Sarah Sorge (born 1969), politician
• Marc Trauner (born 1969), DJ and producer
• Thomas Zampach (born 1969), former professional footballer
• Jo Jo English (born 1970), American NBA basketball player, top scorer in the 1999–2000 Israel Basketball League
• Ronald Reng (born 1970), sports journalist and author
• Markus Rill (born 1970), singer-songwriter
• J. Peter Schwalm (born 1970), composer and music producer
• Simone Thomaschinski (born 1970), former professional field hockey defender

1971–1980

• Jochen Hippel (born 1971), musician
• Holger Kleinbub (born 1971), former professional volleyball player
• Slobodan Komljenović (born 1971), former Serbian footballer
• Moses Pelham (born 1971), rapper and musician
• Tony Richardson (born 1971), former American football fullback
• Alexander Schur (born 1971), former professional footballer
• Tré Cool (born 1972), American drummer
• Wilhelm Fischer (born 1972), boxer
• Steffi Jones (born 1972), former professional football defender
• Anthony Rother (born 1972), electronic music composer, producer, and label owner
• Kai Tracid (born 1972), trance DJ and producer
• Tilo Wolff (born 1972), musician
• Anna Carlsson (born 1973), actress and voice actress
• Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck (born 1973), filmmaker and film curator
• Klark Kent (born 1973), graffiti artist and music producer
• Sonya Kraus (born 1973), television presenter and former model
• Christopher Reitz (born 1973), professional field hockey goalkeeper
• Kaya Yanar (born 1973), comedian
• Michael Aničić (born 1974), former professional football player
• Matthias Becker (born 1974), former professional football player
• Magnus Gäfgen (born 1974), child murderer
• Sinan Şamil Sam (born 1974), Turkish heavyweight professional boxer
• Sabrina Setlur (born 1974), singer, rapper, songwriter and occasional actress
• Julia Voss (born 1974), journalist and scientific historian
• Mandala Tayde (born 1975), award-winning actress and model

Alexander Waske

• Alexander Waske (born 1975), former professional tennis player
• Daniel Dölschner (born 1976), poet and Haiku-writer
• Tamara Milosevic (born 1976), documentary filmer
• Michael Thurk (born 1976), professional football player
• Sascha Amstätter (born 1977), professional football player
• Birgit Prinz (born 1977), former female professional association football player
• Sandra Smisek (born 1977), former female professional football player
• Edwin Thomas (born 1977), English historical novelist
• Jo Weil (born 1977), actor
• Daniel Hartwich (born 1978), actor
• Hartmut Honka (born 1978), conservative politician
• Susanne Keil (born 1978), female hammer thrower

Mark Medlock

• Mark Medlock (born 1978), singer
• Souad Mekhennet (born 1978), journalist
• Heinz Müller (born 1978), professional footballer
• Silke Müller (born 1978), award-winning field hockey midfielder
• Ruben Studdard (born 1978), American R&B, pop, and gospel singer
• Meike Freitag (born 1979), former female swimmer
• Senna Gammour (born 1979), singer-songwriter and entertainer
• Jonesmann (born 1979), rapper

Cha Du-ri

• Cha Du-ri (born 1980), South Korean professional footballer
• Bakary Diakité (born 1980), German-Malian professional footballer
• Patrick Falk (born 1980), professional footballer
• Daniel Gunkel (born 1980), professional footballer
• Giorgos Theodoridis (born 1980), Greek international footballer
• Zaytoven (born 1980), American hip hop DJ and producer

1981–1990

• Giuseppe Gemiti (born 1981), professional footballer

Jermaine Jones

• Jermaine Jones (born 1981), German-American professional soccer player
• Saskia Bartusiak (born 1982), professional footballer
• Nadja Benaissa (born 1982), recording artist, television personality, and occasional actress
• Marijana Marković (born 1982), épée fencer
• Carlos Nevado (born 1982), professional field hockey player
• Patric Klandt (born 1983), professional footballer
• Madeleine Sandig (born 1983), professional road and track racing cyclist
• Pia Eidmann (born 1984), professional field hockey player

Patrick Ochs

• Patrick Ochs (born 1984), professional footballer
• Fouad Brighache (born 1985), German-Moroccan professional footballer
• J. Cole (born 1985), American hip hop recording artist, songwriter, and record producer
• Fikri El Haj Ali (born 1985), professional footballer
• Christian Kum (born 1985), German-Dutch professional footballer
• Mounir Chaftar (born 1986), professional football defender
• Tim Kister (born 1986), professional footballer
• Moritz Müller (born 1986), professional ice hockey defenceman
• Jan-André Sievers (born 1987), professional football player
• Uğur Albayrak (born 1988), Turkish professional footballer
• Niklas Andersen (born 1988), professional football defender
• Lisa Bund (born 1988), pop singer, songwriter, radio host, actor, and reality television star
• Stefan Hickl (born 1988), professional footballer
• Tru Valentino (born 1988), American actor
• Timm Klose (born 1988), German-Swiss professional footballer
• Björn Thurau (born 1988), professional cyclist
• Richard Weil (born 1988), professional footballer
• Marius Ostrowski (born 1988), historian
• Semih Aydilek (born 1989), German-Turkish professional footballer

Kevin Pezzoni

• Kevin Pezzoni (born 1989), professional footballer
• Marcel Titsch-Rivero (born 1989), professional footballer
• Timothy Chandler (born 1990), German-American professional soccer player
• Steffen Fäth (born 1990), professional handball player
• Jan Kirchhoff (born 1990), professional footballer
• Romero Osby (born 1990), American professional basketball player for Maccabi Kiryat Gat of the Israeli Basketball Premier League

1991–2000

• Daniel Döringer (born 1991), professional footballer
• Daniel Henrich (born 1991), professional footballer
• Namika (born 1991), German-Moroccan singer and rapper
• Leon Bunn (born 1992), boxer
• Max Ehmer (born 1992), professional footballer
• Markus Hofmeier (born 1993), professional footballer
• Alice Merton (born 1993), singer
• Emre Can (born 1994), professional footballer

Notable residents of Frankfurt

8th to 17th centuries

Charlemagne

• Charlemagne (born between 742 and 748; died 814), King of the Franks who united most of Western Europe during the Middle Ages and laid the foundations for modern France and Germany
• Fastrada (765–794), East Frankish noblewoman

Louis the German

• Louis the German (c. 810–876), grandson of Charlemagne and third son of the succeeding Frankish Emperor Louis the Pious and his first wife, Ermengarde of Hesbaye
• Louis the Younger (born between 830 and 835; died 882), second eldest son of Louis the German and Emma who succeeded his father as King of Saxony and his elder brother Carloman as King of Bavaria
• Johannes von Soest (1448–1506), composer, theorist, and poet
• Conrad Faber von Kreuznach (born c. 1500; died between 1552 and 1553), painter and woodcuts designer
• Jacob Micyllus (1503–1558), Renaissance humanist and teacher
• Adam Lonicer (1528–1586), botanist
• Giordano Bruno (1548–1600), Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and astrologer

Matthäus Merian

• Matthäus Merian (1593–1650), Swiss-born engraver and publisher
• Johann Schröder (1600–1664), physician and pharmacologist
• Jacob Joshua Falk (1680–1756), Talmudist, served as chief rabbi of Frankfurt
• Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767), Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist

18th century

• Johann Philipp Bethmann (1715–1793), merchant and banker
• Simon Moritz Bethmann (1721–1782), merchant and banker
• Pinchas Horowitz (1731–1805), rabbi
• Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner (1759–1833), composer
• Sekl Loeb Wormser (1768–1846), rabbi
• Clemens Brentano (1778–1842), poet, novelist, and major figure of German Romanticism
• Karoline von Günderrode (1780–1806), Romantic poet

Arthur Schopenhauer

• Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), philosopher

19th century

• Rudolf Christian Böttger (1806–1881), inorganic chemist
• Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808–1888), rabbi
• Johann von Miquel (1828–1901), statesman
• Leopold Sonnemann (1831–1909), journalist, newspaper publisher, and political party leader
• Charles Hallgarten (1838–1908), banker and philanthropist
• Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915), physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology, and chemotherapy
• Engelbert Humperdinck (1854–1921), composer
• Bertha Pappenheim (1859–1936), Austrian-Jewish feminist, social pioneer, and founder of the Jüdischer Frauenbund (League of Jewish Women)
• Adolf Bartels (1862–1945), journalist and poet
• Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915), Bavarian-born psychiatrist and neuropathologist credited with identifying the first published case of "presenile dementia", later identified as Alzheimer's disease
• Georg Voigt (1866–1927), politician
• Ludwig Landmann (1868–1945), liberal politician
• Oskar Ursinus (1877–1952), aerospace engineer
• Max Beckmann (1884–1950), painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer
• Magda Spiegel (1887–1944), contralto
• Oswald von Nell-Breuning (1890–1991), Roman Catholic theologian and sociologist
• Franz Bronstert (1895–1967), engineer and painter
• Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), philosopher and sociologist

Paul Hindemith

• Paul Hindemith (1895–1963), composer, violist, violinist, teacher, and conductor
• Ludwig Erhard (1897–1977), politician affiliated with the CDU and Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) from 1963 until 1966
• Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897–2000), first female Austrian architect and an activist in the Nazi resistance movement

20th century

1901–1910

Oskar Schindler

• Kurt Thomas (1904–1973), composer, conductor, and music educator
• Hans Bethe (1906–2005), German–American nuclear physicist
• Oskar Schindler (1908–1974), industrialist, spy, and member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust
• Alexander Mitscherlich (1908–1982), psychologist
• Bernhard Grzimek (1909–1987), Silesian-German zoo director, zoologist, book author, editor, and animal conservationist

1911–1920

• Josef Neckermann (1912–1992), equestrian and Olympic champion
• Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen (1917–2012), psychoanalyst
• Horst Krüger (1919–1999), novelist
• Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920–2013), Polish-born literary critic and member of the literary group Gruppe 47

1921–1930

Dr. Ruth Westheimer

• Reinhard Goerdeler (1922–1996), accountant instrumental in founding KPMG, a leading international firm of accountants
• Arno Lustiger (1924–2012), historian and author
• Horst Streckenbach (1925–2001), tattoo artist and historian of the medium
• Hilmar Hoffmann (1925–2018), cultural functionary and director
• Ignatz Bubis (1927–1999), chairman (and later president) of the Central Council of Jews in Germany (Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland)
• Ruth Westheimer (born Karola Siegel; 1928–2024), German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, Doctor of Education, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper.
• Karl-Hermann Flach (1929–1973), journalist of the Frankfurter Rundschau, and a politician of the liberal Free Democrats (FDP)
• Jürgen Habermas (born 1929), sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism
• Helmut Kohl (1930–2017), conservative politician and statesman

1931–1940

Pope Francis

• Alfred Schmidt (1931–2012), philosopher
• Walter Wallmann (1932–2013), politician
• Rosemarie Nitribitt (1933–1957), luxury call girl whose violent death caused a scandal in the Wirtschaftswunder years
• Michael Grzimek (1934–1959), zoologist, conservationist, and filmmaker
• Albert Speer Jr. (1934–2017), architect and urban planner
• Pope Francis (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 1936), pope of the Catholic Church, spent several months at the Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology in Frankfurt
• F. K. Waechter (1937–2005), cartoonist, author, and playwright
• Robert Gernhardt (1937–2006), writer, painter, caricaturist, and poet
• Barbara Klemm (born 1939), photographer, worked for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for 45 years

1941–1950

Joschka Fischer

• Jürgen Grabowski (born 1944), former football player
• Petra Roth (born 1944), mayor of Frankfurt from 1995 to 2012
• Daniel Cohn-Bendit (born 1945), politician
• Bernd Hölzenbein (born 1946), former football player
• Johannes Weinrich (born 1947), left-wing political militant and terrorist
• Josef Ackermann (born 1948), Swiss banker and former chief executive officer of Deutsche Bank
• Joschka Fischer (born 1948), politician
• Alfred 23 Harth (born 1949), multimedia artist, band leader, multi-instrumentalist musician, and composer

1951–2000

Michel Friedman

• Armin S., independent securities trader
• Ahron Daum (born 1951), rabbi, professor, author, and educator
• Cha Bum-kun (born 1953), South Korean football manager and former player
• Michel Friedman (born 1956), lawyer, former CDU politician, and talk show host
• Hans Zimmer (born 1957), film score composer and music producer
• Wolfgang Herold (born 1961), film producer and sound supervisor
• Luca Anzilotti (born 1963), Italian DJ/producer of electronic music
• Stephan Weidner (born 1963), musician and music producer
• Heike Matthiesen (1964–2023), classical guitarist
• Sven Väth (born 1964), DJ/producer in electronic music
• Dave McClain (born 1965), drummer
• D-Flame (born 1971), hip hop and reggae musician
• Azad (born 1974), rapper
• Renate Lingor (born 1975), female former international football player
• Pia Wunderlich (born 1975), football midfielder
• Aslı Bayram (born 1981), actress and writer

See also

• Frankfurt School
• List of mayors of Frankfurt
• List of Eintracht Frankfurt players