Notable People From Wuppertal
See also category: People from Wuppertal- Friedrich Engels, philosopher, historian, coauthor of the Communist Manifesto (with Karl Marx)
- Johannes Rau, former Federal President of Germany
- Alice Schwarzer, one of the leaders of the German second wave feminist movement
- Tom Tykwer, film director (Run Lola, Run, The Princess and the Warrior), cofounder of X-Filme syndicate
- Rita Süssmuth, former President of the German Parliament
- Horst Tappert, actor
- Linda Kisabaka, athlete
- Pina Bausch, choreographer
- Friedrich Bayer, founder of the Friedrich Bayer paint factory, later Bayer AG
- Arno Breker, sculptor
- Rudolf Carnap, philosopher of science
- Udo Dirkschneider, singer in heavy-metal band Accept
- George Dreyfus, bassoonist, composer
- Hermann Ebbinghaus, psychologist who studied memory
- Hans Knappertsbusch, orchestra conductor
- Hans Peter Luhn, computer scientist
- Else Lasker-Schüler, expressionist poet
- Harald Leipnitz, actor
- Ulrich Leyendecker, composer
- Reimar Lüst, astrophysicist
- Steffen Möller, satirist, soap-opera star and TV celebrity in Poland; the most popular German in Poland
- Tyron Montgomery, Oscar-winning film director
- Simone Osygus, swimmer
- Siegfried Palm, cellist, director of Hochschule für Musik Köln, Intendant of Deutsche Oper Berlin
- Julius Plücker, physicist
- Hans Singer, economist
- Helmut Thielicke, theologian
- Ferdinand Thun, American industrialist (Textile Machine Works of Wyomissing PA), born in Barmen
- Bettina Tietjen, television presenter
- Günter Wand, orchestra conductor
- Sulamith Wülfing, artist and illustrator
- Peter Brötzmann and Peter Kowald, noted innovators in modern improvised music
- Christoph Maria Herbst, actor
- Henrik Freischlader, blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer.
- Wolf Hoffmann, Metal guitarist,founder of Accept
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