Notable Inhabitants
- José Rizal (1861–1896), National Hero of the Philippines
- Petar Beron (1799–1871), Bulgarian educator
- Vasil Radoslavov (1854–1929), Bulgarian Prime Minister
- Heinrich Neal (1870–1940), composer, directed the Heidelberg Conservatory of Music.
- Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938), Poet, Philosopher, national poet of Pakistan
- Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002), philosopher
- Albert Speer (1905–1981), German architect and Third Reich minister
- Ananda Mahidol (1925–1946), King of Thailand
- Klaus Schütz (*1926), politician
- Harald zur Hausen (*1936), virologist, Nobel Laureate
- Christiane Schmidtmer (1939–2003), Hollywood actress and model
- Dietmar Hopp (*1940), software entrepreneur
- Paul Kirchhof (*1943), former Judge in the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (Bundesverfassungsgericht)
- Silvia Renate Sommerlath (*1943), Queen of Sweden
- Karl A. Lamers (*1951), politician, President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly
- Antje Duvekot (*1976), singer-songwriter
- Michael Fassbender (*1977), Irish actor born here
- Ian Harding (*1986), actor
- Colonel Klink, Stalag 13
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