# List of people from Heilbronn

This is a list of people who have lived in Heilbronn, Germany.
* Gustav Schübler (1787–1834), scientist (meteorology)
* Heinrich Friedrich Füger (1751–1818), painter
* Wilhelm Waiblinger (1804–1830), poet and author
* Julius Robert von Mayer (1814–1878), physician and physicist, formulated the principle of mechanical equivalence
* Ludwig Pfau (1821–1894), poet and revolutionary
* Adolf Cluss (1825–1905), architect, builder of numerous public buildings in Washington D.C.
* Gustav von Schmoller (1838–1917), economist
* Wilhelm Maybach (1846–1929), engineer and motor vehicle pioneer, developed the first fast-running gasoline engine together with Gottlieb Daimler
* Friedrich Stolz (1860–1936), chemist, invented in 1897 a predecessor of aspirin
* Siegfried Gumbel (1874–1942), lawyer, alderman (DDP), since 1933 head of the Israelite High Councillor for Württemberg in Stuttgart, died in Dachau concentration camp
* Theodor Heuss (1884–1963), politician, first President of the Federal Republic of Germany (1949 to 1959)
* Hellmuth Hirth (1886–1938), aviation pioneer, aircraft and airship builder
* Richard Drauz (1894–1946) in Landsberg Lech (executed as a war criminal), headed up the NSDAP in the Heilbronn district
* Walter Kreiser (1898–1958), aircraft designer and journalist
* Walter Vielhauer (1909–1986), politician (KPD)
* Joseph Asher (1921–1990), German-American rabbi
* Rolf Wütherich (1927–1981), passenger of the fatal car accident of James Dean
* Heinz A. Richter (born 1939), historian to the specialty Greece and Cyprus
* Dieter Schwarz (born 1939), entrepreneur and owner of the Schwarz-Gruppe. (Kaufland, Lidl)
* Rosemarie Haag Bletter (born 1939), German-American architectural historian
* Andrzej Seweryn (born 1946), Polish actor
* Jürgen Schreiber (born 1947), journalist
* Heide Rühle (born 1948), politician (Greens) MEP, Federal President of the Greens 1990–1991
* Thomas Roth (born 1951), journalist, retired TV-presenter Tagesthemen
* Freddy Sahin-Scholl (born 1953 as Freddy Scholl), singer and composer
* Michael Wittmann (born 1956), musicologist
* Falk Struckmann (born 1958), opera singer (baritone)
* Joachim Schlör (born 1960), professor, author of Jewish history
* Thomas Strobl (born 1960), politician (CDU) Member of Bundestag
* Michael Georg Link (born 1963), politician (FDP) Member of Bundestag
* Michael Wenczel (born 1977), football player
* Sibel Kekilli (born 1980), German actress
* Michael Hackert (born 1981), professional ice hockey player
* Corey Mapes (born 1992), hockey player
* Daniel Fischbuch (born 1993), hockey player

## Other notable residents

* Martinus von Biberach (d. 1498), theologian, writer of famous epitaph
* Christian Friedrich Duttenhofer (1742–1814), theologian, pastor and prelate in Heilbronn
* Karl Mayer (1786–1870), poet, lived for a time in Heilbronn
* Louis Mayer (1791–1843), landscape painter lived for a time in Heilbronn
* Carl Heinrich Theodor Knorr (1800–1875), founder of the food business Knorr
* Alexander Bruckmann (1806–1852), historical and portrait painter, lived for a time in Heilbronn
* Gustav Rümelin (1815–1889), politician, lived and worked temporarily in Heilbronn
* Kilian von Steiner (1833–1903), banker, was lawyer in Heilbronn
* Max Eyth (1836–1906), writer, studied in Heilbronn
* Karl Nicolai (1839–1892) German magistrate and politician, from 1881 onwards Official notary in Heilbronn
* Max Cramer (1859–1933), teacher and genealogist in Heilbronn
* Theophil Wurm (1868–1953), prelate of Heilbronn 1927–29
* Ernst August Wagner (1874–1938), mass murderer, convicted and temporarily detained in Heilbronn
* Ernst Jaeckh (1875–1959), 1902–1912 editor of Neckar-Zeitung
* Oskar Dirlewanger (1895–1945), deputy director since 1933 of the Heilbronner labor office, later Waffen-SS officer and war criminal
* Emanuel H. Bronner (1908–1997), maker of Dr. Bronner's castile soap
* Walter Vielhauer (1909–1986), politician, mayor
* Marla Glen (born 1960), singer, living in Heilbronn since 1998