Notable Residents
- Wolfram Aichele, artist
- Hannah Arendt, political theorist
- Walter Benjamin, literary critic and philosopher
- Alfred Döblin, physician and novelist
- Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, Renaissance humanist and theologian
- Walter Eucken, economist
- Max von Gallwitz, general and politician
- Hans F. K. Günther, Nazi eugenicist
- Heinrich Haussler, profesional cyclist Cervelo TestTeam
- Dany Heatley, player for the Minnesota Wild NHL team
- Martin Heidegger, philosopher
- Edmund Husserl, philosopher
- Walter Kaufmann, philosopher
- Boris Kodjoe, US based model and actor
- Benjamin Lebert, author and newspaper columnist
- Joachim Löw, coach of the German national football team.
- Karl Rahner, Catholic theologian
- Wolfgang Schäuble, Minister of the Interior, 1989–1991, in Helmut Kohl and, 2005 - current, Angela Merkel governments.
- Bernhard Sigmund Schultze, (1827–1919) obstetrician
- Jürgen Schrempp, former head of DaimlerChrysler
- Berthold Schwarz, fabled alchemist who supposedly introduced gunpowder to Germany
- Til Schweiger, actor and director
- Hermann Staudinger, Nobel Prize in chemistry "for his discoveries in the field of macromolecular chemistry"
- Edith Stein, Saint of the Catholic Church, martyred by the Nazis, member of the Freiburg faculty; her residence is marked by a plaque.
- Friedrich von Hayek, economist, philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate in economics
- Christoph von Marschall, journalist
- Martin Waldseemüller, cartographer
- Max Weber, lawyer, political economist, and sociologist
- Engelbert Zaschka, inventor and one of the first German helicopter pioneers
- August Weismann, biologist
- Bernhard Witkop, organic chemist
- Joana Zimmer, pop singer
- Marcel Schirmer, singer and bassist for the metal band Destruction
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