Notable People
The following people were born in Colmar:
- Martin Schongauer (1450–1491), painter and engraver
- Georg Wickram (1502–1562), poet and novelist
- Antoine Xavier Natal (1733–1801), brigadier during the French Revolution
- Jean-François Rewbell (1747–1807), diplomat and revolutionist
- Jean Rapp (1771–1821), general
- Charles Xavier Thomas (1785–1870), inventor
- Marie Bigot (1786–1820), musician
- Armand Joseph Bruat (1796–1855), admiral
- Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès (1812–1895), politician, killer of Alexander Pushkin in a duel
- Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834–1904), sculptor, created the original Statue of Liberty
- Camille Sée, (1847–1919), politician
- Jean-Baptiste Lemire (1867–1945), composer
- Jean-Jacques Waltz (1873–1951), drawer and caricaturist
- Guy Roux (born 1938), football coach
- Pierre Moerlen (1952–2005), musician
- Pierre Hermé (born 1961), pastry chef
- Thomas Bloch (born 1962), musician
- Lætitia Bléger (born 1981), Miss France 2004
- Marc Keller (born 1968), football player
- Amaury Bischoff (born 1987), football player
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