Notable Citizens
- died 304 Saint Afra
- c.890–973 Saint Ulrich
- 1070–1127 Saint Wolfhard
- 1442–1528 Erhard Ratdolt Printer, famous for having produced the first known printers type specimen book.
- 1459–1525 Jakob Fugger Noted banker and financial broker. An area within the city, called the Fuggerei was set aside for the poor and needy. Founded in 1519.
- 1460–1524 Hans Holbein the Elder, a pioneer in the transformation of German art from the Gothic to the Renaissance style.
- 1497–1543 Hans Holbein the Younger, portrait and religious painter.
- 1517–1579 Paulus Hector Mair, martial artist.
- 1573–1646 Elias Holl, architect
- 1580–1627 Julius Schiller, lawyer and astronomer.
- 1704–1767 Johann Jakob Haid, engraver
- 1719–1787 Leopold Mozart, violinist-composer and father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- 1740–1786 Christoph Christian Sturm, German preacher and author.
- 1898–1956 Bertolt Brecht, famous German writer.
- 1858–1913 Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the diesel engine.
- 1920–2011 Mietek Pemper, compiled and typed Oskar Schindler's list, which saved 1,200 Jewish prisoners from the Holocaust.
- 1933–2011 Ulrich Biesinger, a former German footballer, part of the team that won the 1954 FIFA World Cup.
- 1939–2012 Helmut Haller, a footballer who represented West Germany at three World Cups.
- 1948 Wolf Blitzer, journalist and CNN reporter
- 1957 Bernhard Langer, famous professional golfer.
- 1959 Bernd Schuster, a German football coach and former player.
- 1961 Armin Veh, a German football coach.
- 1962 Josef Priller, Luftwaffe Ace
- 1980 Benny Greb, a German solo drum artist.
- 1983 Philipp Kohlschreiber, a German tennis player.
- 1985 Bianca Voitek, a German female bodybuilder.
- 1985 Annina Braunmiller, a German voice actress.
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