Famous residents of Strasbourg

Johann Gutenberg (1400-1468), inventor of printing with movable type
Erasmus (1467-1536), humanist
Hans Baldung (1484-1545), painter
Martin Bucer (1491-1551), Reformation leader
Johannes Sturm (1507-1589), teacher and pedagogue
John Calvin (1509-1564), Reformation leader
François-Marie de Broglie (1671-1745), marshall and governor of Strasbourg
Franz Xaver Richter (1709-1789), composer, eminent member of the “Mannheim school”.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), writer, researcher
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), composer - spent 23 days there in 1778.
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760-1836), composer of the Marseillaise
Georg Buchner (1813-1837), writer
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830-1889), historian
Louis Pasteur (1830-1895), scientist
Lujo Brentano (1844-1931), economist
Georg Simmel (1858-1918), sociologist
Hans Pfitzner, (1869-1949) composer
Jean Jacques Waltz aka. Hansi (1873-1951), artist
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), theologian, philosopher, physician and musician
Maurice Halbwachs, (1877-1945) sociologist
Otto Klemperer, (1885-1973) conductor
Marc Bloch (1886-1944), historian and resistant
Hans Rosbaud (1895-1962), conductor
Emmanuel Levinas (1905-1995) philosopher
Lucie Aubrac (born 1912) and Raymond Aubrac (born 1914), founding members of the Resistance.
Ernest Bour (1913-2001), conductor
Jean-Marie Lehn (born 1939), Nobel Prize for chemistry 1987
Bernard-Marie Koltes (1948-1989), playwright
Barbara Honigmann (born 1949), german writer and painter
Segolene Royal (born 1953), leading member of the Parti Socialiste.
Rodolphe Burger (born 1957), musician
Mireille Delunsch (born 1962), soprano