Famous People
The following personalities were born in Warburg:
- Antonius Corvinus, theologian
- Antonius Eisenhoit, goldsmith
- Johann Conrad Schlaun, Baroque building master (born in Nörde near Warburg)
- Arnold Güldenpfennig, Paderborn cathedral and diocesan building master
- Ignatz Urban, botanist
- Hermann Oppenheim, Charité neurologist
- Emil Herz, Germanist and Ullstein publishing director
- Rudolf von Delius, writer, publisher
- Heinrich Emmerich, cartographic leader in the Vatican (born in Dössel near Warburg)
- Heinrich Holtgreve, painter and artistic educator
- Manfred Grothe, suffragan bishop in the Bishopric of Paderborn
The following personalities were not born in Warburg, but lived and worked in the town:
- Lorenz Humburg (1906–1994), painter, worked as an art teacher at Warburg Gymnasien
- Christoph Cardinal Schönborn (born 1945), Archbishop of Vienna, joined the Domican Order in Warburg in 1963
- Josef Wirmer (1901–1944), jurist and Resistance fighter against National Socialism; a memorial stone is dedicated to him at the Gymnasium Marianum
- Franz-Josef Würmeling, (1900–1986), family minister, Gymnasium Marianum old boy
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