# List of University of Bonn people

This is a list of University of Bonn people including people who have taught or studied at the University of Bonn

## Nobel laureates

* Reinhard Genzel – 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics
** "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy"
* Harald zur Hausen – 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
** "for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer"
* Reinhard Selten – 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics
** "for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games"
* Wolfgang Paul – 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics
** "for the development of the ion trap technique"
* Luigi Pirandello – 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature
** "for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art"
* Otto Wallach – 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
** "in recognition of his services to organic chemistry and the chemical industry by his pioneer work in the field of alicyclic compounds"
* Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse – 1910 Nobel Prize in Literature
** "as a tribute to the consummate artistry, permeated with idealism, which he has demonstrated during his long productive career as a lyric poet, dramatist, novelist and writer of world-renowned short stories"
* Philipp Lenard – 1905 Nobel Prize in Physics
** "for his work on cathode rays"

## Fields Medalists

* Maryna Viazovska - 2022 Fields Medal
** "for the proof that the E8 lattice provides the densest packing of identical spheres in 8 dimensions, and further contributions to related extremal problems and interpolation problems in Fourier analysis"
* Peter Scholze – 2018 Fields Medal
** "for transforming arithmetic algebraic geometry over p-adic fields through his introduction of perfectoid spaces, with application to Galois representations, and for the development of new cohomology theories"
* Maxim Kontsevich – 1998 Fields Medal
** "for his contributions to four problems of Geometry"
* Gerd Faltings – 1986 Fields Medal
** "for his proof of the Mordell Conjecture"

## Faculty

* Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander (1799–1875), Astronomy
* Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860), History
* Karl Barth (1886–1968), Theology
* Bruno Bauer (1809–1882) Theology
* Carl Heinrich Becker (1876–1933), Oriental Philology
* Karl Dietrich Bracher (born 1922), Political Science
* Franz Bücheler (1837–1908), Classics
* Friedrich Calker (1790–1870), Philosophy
* Constantin Carathéodory, (1873–1850) Mathematics
* Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius (1822–1888), Physics
* Ernst Robert Curtius (1886–1956), Romance Literature
* Friedrich Christian Diez (1794–1876), Philology
* Christian Drosten (born 1972), Head of the Charité Institute of Virology, Virology
* Benno Erdmann (1898–1909), Philosophy
* Udo di Fabio (born 1954), member of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany since 1999, Law
* Gerd Faltings (born 1954), Mathematics
* Alexander Filippou (born 1958), Professor of Inorganic Chemistry
* Heinrich Geißler (1814–1879), Physics
* Felix Hausdorff (1868–1942), Mathematics
* Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894), Medicine and Physics
* Georg Hermes (1775–1831), Theology
* Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894), Physics
* Werner Hildenbrand (born 1936), Economics
* Friedrich Hirzebruch (born 1927), Mathematics
* Manfred Hutter (born 1957), Religious studies
* Marek Karpinski (born 1948), Computer Science, Mathematics
* Gottfried Kinkel (1815–1882), History
* Wilhelm Krelle (1916–2004), Economics
* Walther Kruse (1864–1943), Bacteriology
* Christian Lassen (1800–1876), Oriental Philology
* Maria von Linden, (1869–1936), first female Professor
* Rudolf Lipschitz, (1832–1903), Mathematics
* Karl Martin Menten, (1957–2024) Radio astronomy
* Werner Meyer-Eppler (1913–1960), Phonetics
* Barthold Georg Niebuhr, (1776–1831) History
* Martin Noth (1902–1968), Theology
* Felix Otto (born 1966), Mathematics
* Wolfgang Paul (1913–1993), Physics
* Carl Adam Petri (born 1926), Mathematics
* Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845–1920), Botany
* Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger (1829–1910), Physiology
* Alfred Philippson (1864–1953), Geology and Geography
* Julius Plücker (1801–1868), Mathematics and Physics
* Joseph Ratzinger (born 1927), Pope, Theology
* Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833–1905), Geology
* Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl (1806–1876), Classics
* Walter Schellenberg (born 1929), Law
* Rudolf Schieffer (1947–2018), Medieval history
* Annemarie Schimmel (1922–2003), Oriental Philology
* August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767–1845), Philosophy
* Bernhard Schlink (born 1944), Law
* Johannes Schmidt (1843–1901), Linguistics
* Carl Schmitt (1888–1985), Law
* Arnold Schönhage (born 1934), Mathematics
* Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950), Economics
* Reinhard Selten (born 1930), Economics
* Karl Simrock (1802–1872), German Studies
* Heinrich Freiherr von Stackelberg (1905–1946), Economics
* Ethelbert Stauffer (1902-1979), Theology
* Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz (1829–1896), Chemistry
* Eduard Strasburger (1844–1912), Botany
* Heinrich von Sybel (1817–1895), History
* Otto Toeplitz (1881–1940), Mathematics
* Carl Troll (1899–1975), Geography
* Hermann Karl Usener (1834–1905), Classics
* Otto Wallach (1847–1931), Chemistry
* Axel A. Weber (born 1957), President of the Deutsche Bundesbank since 2004, Economics
* Walter Weizel (1901–1982), Physics
* Ernst August Weiß (1900–1942), Mathematics

## Alumni

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* C
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* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
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* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
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* W
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* Y
* Z

### A

* Heinrich Friedrich Otto Abel
* Sigurd Abel
* Charles McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway
* Marylyn Addo
* Konrad Adenauer
* Hans-Henning Adler
* Samuel Adler (rabbi)
* Mary Agria
* Irene Zoe Alameda
* Wolfgang Albers (police president)
* Albert of Saxony
* Barbara Albert (chemist)
* Karl Albert
* Albert, Prince Consort
* Alexis, Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt
* Syed Mujtaba Ali
* Julius Althaus
* Margaret Altmann
* Johann Baptist Alzog
* Juozas Ambrazevičius
* Katajun Amirpur
* Andreas Reckwitz
* Hugo Andresen
* Ernst Anrich
* Richard Anschütz
* John Antoniadis
* Hans-Jürgen Appelrath
* Jürgen Aschoff
* Ludwig Aschoff
* Jörg Asmussen
* Erna Auerbach

### B

* Johannes Theodor Baargeld
* Emil Baehrens
* Hans Werner Ballmann
* Johann Baptista Baltzer
* Christian Bär
* Otto Bardenhewer
* Norbert Bartel
* Sandra Bartky
* Bartłomiej Wróblewski
* Tung Pao-cheng
* Wolf Bauer
* Bettina Baumgärtel
* Theodor Baums
* Canan Bayram
* Hermann Heinrich Becker
* Max Joseph Becker
* Carl Traugott Beilschmied
* Anna Benaki-Psarouda
* Hans Bender
* Otto Benndorf
* Max Bense
* Friedrich von Berg
* Alexander Berghaus
* Anton Berlage
* Jakob Bernays
* Michael Bernays
* Carlos Bertulani
* Erich Bethe
* Peter Beyer (politician)
* Willibald Beyschlag
* Ernst Bickel
* Margarete Bieber
* August Daniel von Binzer
* Karl Hermann Bitter
* Matthew Black
* Friedrich Blass
* Orrin Dubbs Bleakley
* Wilhelm Bleek
* Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg
* Raimund Bleischwitz
* Immanuel Bloch
* Joachim Blüher
* Norbert Blüm
* Clemens Blume
* Johann Jakob Blumer
* Franz Boas
* Eduard Böcking
* Wilhelm Boden
* Friedrich Simon Bodenheimer
* Henning von Boehmer
* Alberto Boerger
* Albrecht von Boeselager
* Peter van Bohlen
* Emil du Bois-Reymond
* Wilhelm Bölsche
* Heinrich Bone
* Alfred Maximilien Bonnet
* Beatrix Borchard
* Eugen Bormann
* Gustav Jacob Born
* Axel Börsch-Supan
* Karl Borsch
* Hermann Bottenbruch
* Michael Brand (politician)
* Helmut Brandt
* Alexis Brasseur
* August Brauer
* Hermann Breymann
* Götz Briefs
* Egbert Brieskorn
* Klaus Brockhoff
* Caspar Max Brosius
* Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt
* Hermann Brück
* Heinrich Brüning
* Markus Brunnermeier
* Claudia Maria Buch
* Karl Bücher
* Edith Bülbring
* Jacob Burckhardt
* Volker Burkert
* Wolfram Burgard
* Karl Butzer

### C

* Otto von Camphausen
* Petre P. Carp
* Winifred Cavenagh
* Victor Cherbuliez
* Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
* Kypros Chrysostomides
* Somyot Chueathai
* Rainer Ludwig Claisen
* Campbell Clarke
* Johannes Classen
* Carl Clemen
* Franz Jakob Clemens
* Charles P. Clever
* Michael Clyne
* Pierre Colas
* Jörg Colberg
* Alexander Eugen Conrady
* Julian Coolidge
* Corps Borussia Bonn
* Pascal Costanza
* John Adam Cramb
* Ronald Crutcher
* Otto Cuntz

### D

* Hermann von Dechend
* Otto Deiters
* Hans Delbrück
* Eva Demmerle
* Alastair Denniston
* Carrie Derick
* Bärbel Dieckmann
* Hermann Alexander Diels
* Paul Diepgen
* Harold Dillon, 17th Viscount Dillon
* Karl Dilthey
* Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
* Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten (1899–1997)
* Anton Dohrn
* Hilde Domin
* Hans Adam Dorten
* Markus Dröge
* Erich von Drygalski
* Konrad Duden
* Friedrich von Duhn
* Ernst Dümmler
* Maximilian Wolfgang Duncker
* Johann Heinrich Joseph Düntzer
* Khalid Duran
* William West Durant
* Nikolai Durov
* Aramesh Dustdar
* Karl Franz Otto Dziatzko

### E

* Hermann Ebbinghaus
* Martin Eberts
* Hendrik Elias
* Alexander Ellinger
* Robert Elsie
* Anton Elter
* Tom Enders
* Adolph Albrecht Erlenmeyer
* Ernst August Weiß
* Max Ernst
* Jan Esper
* Walter Eucken
* Botho zu Eulenburg
* August Everding

### F

* Anton Fahne
* Heino Falcke
* Constantin Fasolt
* Markus Feldenkirchen
* Wilfried Feldenkirchen
* Michael F. Feldkamp
* Julius von Ficker
* Frank Findeiß
* Wolfgang Finkelnburg
* Bernhard Fischer-Wasels
* Anton Hubert Fischer
* Emil Fischer
* Karsten Fischer (political scientist)
* Theobald Fischer
* William Roby Fletcher
* Tina van de Flierdt
* Florika Fink-Hooijer
* Dieter Fox
* Wolfgang Bernhard Fränkel
* Fritz Frech
* Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
* Frederick III, German Emperor
* Wilhelm von Freeden
* Josef Frenken
* Solomon Frensdorff
* Carl Remigius Fresenius
* Angela D. Friederici
* Julius Friedländer (numismatist)
* Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1828–1885)
* Johann Carl Fuhlrott

### G

* Nina Gantert
* Harald Garcke
* Wilhelm von Gayl
* Emanuel Geibel
* Abraham Geiger
* Lazarus Geiger
* Reinhard Genzel
* Alfred Gercke
* Erich Gerhards
* Pradyut Ghosh
* Johann Gildemeister
* Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve
* Cemile Giousouf
* Frank Glaw
* John J. Glennon
* Hans Globke
* Joseph Goebbels
* Hans Rupprecht Goette
* Leah Goldberg
* Levin Goldschmidt
* Theodor Goldstücker
* Helmut Gollwitzer
* Heinrich Ernst Göring
* Guido Görres
* Hermann Heinrich Gossen
* Alfred Gottschalk (biochemist)
* Lothar Göttsche
* Ernst Götzinger
* Willi Graf
* Heinrich Wilhelm Grauert
* Henry Green (MP for Poplar)
* Theodore F. Green
* Karl Gottlieb Grell
* Hans von der Groeben
* Detlef Gromoll
* Bernhard Gröschel
* Klaus Groth
* Martin Grötschel
* Nikolai Grube
* Heinrich Grüber
* Monika Grütters
* Herlind Gundelach

### H

* Harald Haarmann
* Michaela Haas
* Julius von Haast
* Jürgen Habermas
* Birke Häcker
* Johann Georg Hagen
* Jürgen von Hagen
* Heinz Halm
* Ursula Hamenstädt
* Muhammad Hamidullah
* Han Young-sil
* Joseph Hansen (historian)
* Michael E. Hansen
* Albert Harkness
* Robert Almer Harper
* Eva Harth
* Robert Hartmeyer
* Martin Haug
* Prosper de Haulleville
* Harald zur Hausen
* Bodo Hauser
* Martina Havenith-Newen
* D. E. L. Haynes
* Matthias Heider
* Heinrich Heine
* Karl Heinzen
* Eduard Heis
* Wolfgang Helbig
* Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
* Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle
* Kurt Hensel
* Ferdinand Ludwig Herff
* Ferdinand A. Hermens
* Richard Hertwig
* Laura Herz
* Gerd Heusch
* Friedrich Heusler
* Ludwig Heusner
* Ahmad Ali Heydari
* Paul Heyse
* Raymond Hickey
* Bernhard Josef Hilgers
* Hilmar Duerbeck
* George Him
* Samson Raphael Hirsch
* Samuel Hirsch
* Winifred Hoernlé
* Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
* August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
* Hubertus Hoffmann
* Dean Hoge
* Alfred Holder
* Joachim Wilhelm Franz Philipp von Holtzendorff
* Karl Holzamer
* Axel Honneth
* Karl Hopf
* Ernst Höpfner
* Josef Hopmann
* How to Dress Well
* Emil Hübner
* Hermann Hüffer
* William Wilson Hunter
* Rene Hurlemann

### I

* Mario Germán Iguarán Arana
* Johannes Ilberg
* Wolfgang Ischinger
* Caspar Isenkrahe
* Otto Ites

### J

* Abraham Jacobi
* Paul Jacobsthal
* Gottlieb von Jagow
* Sheik-Umarr Mikailu Jah
* Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr
* Johannes Janssen
* Jens Carsten Jantzen
* Sheila Jasanoff
* Anton Saurma von der Jeltsch
* Ronald Jensen
* Wilhelm Joest
* John Hennig
* Henri Jordan
* Jürgen Jost
* Kurt Josten
* Ju Gau-jeng
* James Robertson Justice

### K

* Bruno Kahl
* Paul E. Kahle
* Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh
* August Kalkmann
* Karekin II
* Georg Karo
* Gustav Karsten
* Hermann Karsten (physicist)
* Alexander Kaufmann
* Eduard Kaufmann
* Ralph Kaufmann
* Franz Philip Kaulen
* Ulrich Kelber
* Otto Keller (philologist)
* Klaus Kern
* İhsan Ketin
* John Killick
* Klaus Kinkel
* Alfred Kirchhoff
* Kittisak Prokati
* Felix Klein
* Volkmar Klein
* Onno Klopp
* Adolf Klügmann
* Hans Knappertsbusch
* Karl-Rudolf Koch
* Wolfgang Köhler
* Otto Kohlrausch
* Albert von Kölliker
* Maxim Kontsevich
* Bärbel Koribalski
* Dieter Kotschick
* Otto Kranzbühler
* Matthias Kreck
* Josef Kreiner
* Heinrich Kreutz
* August David Krohn
* Ernst Kromayer
* Hermann Krukenberg
* Heinrich Kruse
* Felix Kübler
* Heinz Kunert
* Aenne Kurowski-Schmitz
* Annette Kurschus
* Johann Heinrich Kurtz
* Ernst Georg Ferdinand Küster

### L

* Alexander Graf Lambsdorff
* Otto Graf Lambsdorff
* George Martin Lane
* Johann Peter Lange
* Joseph Langen
* Richard Laqueur
* Ernst von Lasaulx
* Armin Laschet
* Christian Lassen
* Barbour Lathrop
* Thomas Laubach
* Georg von Laubmann
* Sabine Lautenschläger
* Kartar Lalvani
* Philip Le Couteur
* Lee Yuan-tsu
* Olaf Lechtenfeld
* Max Lehmann
* Robert Lehr
* Ursula Lehr
* Paul Lejeune-Jung
* Max Lenz
* William Ellery Leonard
* Gerd Leonhard
* Oliver Lepsius
* Harald Lesch
* Erich Leschke
* Paul Leser
* Robert Ley
* Justus von Liebig
* Peter Liese
* Justin von Linde
* Daniel Lindemann
* Christian Lindner
* Christiane Löhr
* Hanns Christian Löhr
* Detlef Lohse
* Paul Lorenzen
* Joseph Lortz
* August Lösch
* Otto Lowenstein
* Wilhelm Lübke
* Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

### M

* Hans-Georg Maaßen
* Ulrike Malmendier
* Bernhard Mann
* Thilo Marauhn
* Karl Marx
* Wilhelm Marx
* Angus Matheson
* Friedrich Matz
* Axel Maußen
* Alexandru Mavrodi
* Hans Mayer
* Hans Meerwein
* Mehmet Celal Bey
* Johann Wilhelm Meigen
* Friedrich Meinecke
* Anton Menge
* Heinrich Theodor Menke
* Wolfgang Menzel
* Joseph von Mering
* Friedrich Merz
* John Theodore Merz
* Ioan Meșotă
* Ernst Messerschmid
* Werner Meyer-Eppler
* Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg
* Alfred Meyer
* Eduard Meyer
* Hugo Miehe
* Antonio Milošoski
* Julius von Mirbach
* Jürgen Mittelstraß
* Otto Gottlieb Mohnike
* Paul Moldenhauer
* Freya von Moltke
* Albert Mooren
* John Daniel Morell
* Christoph Moufang
* Hans Müller (politician)
* John Muir (indologist)
* Johannes Peter Müller
* Nicole Müller (linguist)
* Peter Müller (politician)
* Hermann Mutschmann

### N

* Andrea Nahles
* Jürgen Neukirch
* Stephen Ng
* James Nicol
* William H. Nienhauser, Jr.
* Benedikt Niese
* Barbara Niethammer
* Friedrich Nietzsche
* Georg Nöldeke
* Carl von Noorden
* Eduard Norden

### O

* Axel Ockenfels
* George Ogilvie-Forbes
* Sjur Olsnes
* Hermann Oppenheim
* Gustav Solomon Oppert
* Johannes Orth
* Felix Otto (mathematician)
* Johannes Overbeck
* Adolf Overweg

### P

* Hermann Pabst
* Spiridon Palauzov
* Herbert Edward Palmer
* Raimon Panikkar
* Ludwig von Pastor
* Christian Patermann
* Friedrich Paulsen
* Hermann Pauly
* Heinz-Otto Peitgen
* Grigol Peradze
* Erich Pernice
* Georg Perthes
* Tilman Pesch
* Norbert Peters (priest)
* Eugen Petersen
* Friedbert Pflüger
* Friedrich Philippi (historian)
* Alfred Philippson
* Claus Pias
* Monika Piazzesi
* Amé Pictet
* Luigi Pirandello
* Frederik Pleitgen
* Hans-Gert Pöttering
* William Thierry Preyer
* George Prothero
* Eugen Prym

### Q

* Nicolae Quintescu

### R

* Julius Eckhardt Raht
* Uta Ranke-Heinemann
* Rolf Rannacher
* Gerhard vom Rath
* Augustus Rauschenbusch
* Udo Recker
* Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen
* Henry Regnery
* Anton Reicha
* August Reichensperger
* August Reifferscheid
* Joseph Hubert Reinkens
* Adolf Remelé
* Alfred von Reumont
* Franz Heinrich Reusch
* Otto Ribbeck
* Franz Richarz
* Eugen Richter
* Hans Riegel
* Charles Pierre Henri Rieu
* Matthias Ring
* Gerhard Ringel
* Albrecht Ritschl
* Otto Ritschl
* Franz Ritter
* Emil Ritterling
* Robert Kurt Woetzel
* Erwin Rohde
* Hermann von Rohden
* Gustaf Otto Rosenberg
* Norbert Röttgen
* Gerhard Charles Rump

### S

* Jörg-Rüdiger Sack
* Karl Ludwig Fridolin von Sandberger
* Raymond Sandover
* Thilo Sarrazin
* Lisa Sauermann
* Rudolf Scharping
* Nina Scheer
* Walter Schellenberg
* Alexander Jacob Schem
* Rudolf Schieffer
* Jakob Schipper
* August Schleicher
* Sigismund von Schlichting
* Johannes Schmidt (linguist)
* Klaus M. Schmidt
* Viktor Schmieden
* Franz August Schmölders
* Erhard Scholz
* Peter Scholze
* Gustav von Schönberg
* Ludwig Schopen
* Julius Schubring
* Adolf Schulten
* Hugo Paul Friedrich Schulz
* Franz Eilhard Schulze
* Hagen Schulze
* E. F. Schumacher
* Robert Schuman
* Carl Schurz
* Carl August Wilhelm Schwacke
* Irmgard Schwaetzer
* Gustav Schwalbe
* Joseph Schwane
* Theodor Schwann
* Karl Schwarz
* Hans Schwerdtfeger
* Joachim Schwermer
* George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk
* William Seton
* Jürgen Seydel
* Marwan al-Shehhi
* Bernd Siebert
* Carl Siegfried
* Hermann Simon (manager)
* Karl Joseph Simrock
* Eduard von Simson
* Robert Skeris
* Ronald Smelser
* Richard Smyth (minister)
* Theodor Sparkuhl
* Friedrich von Spiegel
* Friedrich Spielhagen
* Jan Michael Sprenger
* Friedrich Staub
* Michael Stausberg
* Angelika Steger
* Wolfgang Steglich
* Roderich Stintzing
* Karlheinz Stockhausen
* Karl-Otto Stöhr
* Monika Stolz
* Eduard Strasburger
* Julius Strasburger
* Hendrik Streeck
* Adolf Strodtmann
* Siegfried Sudhaus
* Uwe Sunde
* Heinrich von Sybel
* Ludwig von Sybel

### T

* Atif Tauqeer
* Sabriye Tenberken
* Michael Theobald
* Insa Thiele-Eich
* Hugo Thielen
* Günther Thomann
* Sebastian Thrun
* Hans Tietmeyer
* Adolf Tobler
* Jan Peter Toennies
* Ferdinand Tönnies
* Peter E. Toschek
* James W. Treffinger
* Heinrich von Treitschke
* Heinrich Trettner

### U

* Horst Ueberhorst
* Gustav Uhlig
* Jacob Utsch

### V

* Johannes Vahlen
* Rüdiger Valk
* Willi Veller
* Günter Verheugen
* Friedrich Heinrich Vering
* Maryna Viazovska
* Eva Viehmann
* Franz Volhard
* Friedrich Vollmer
* Andreas von Antropoff

### W

* Curt Wachsmuth
* Hermann Friedrich Waesemann
* Henry Wakefield (bishop of Birmingham)
* Norbert Walter-Borjans
* George Washington (inventor)
* Wilhelm Wattenbach
* Alfred Weber
* Batty Weber
* Karl Otto Weber
* Max Carl Wilhelm Weber
* Otto Weber (theologian)
* Franz Gerhard Wegeler
* Hans-Ulrich Wehler
* Werner Weidenfeld
* Jens Weidmann
* Karl Weierstrass
* Andreas Weigend
* Robert Weimar
* Jakob von Weizsäcker
* Robert K. von Weizsäcker
* Benedict Welte
* Katrin Wendland
* Guido Westerwelle
* Robert Whytlaw-Gray
* Hermann Wichelhaus
* Max Ernst Wichura
* Ulrich Wickert
* Anna Wienhard
* Leo Wiese
* Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
* Wilhelm II, German Emperor
* Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1906–1940)
* Léonard Willems
* August Wilmanns
* Max Wilms
* Lewis Strange Wingfield
* Hermann Winnefeld
* Robert Wintgen
* Karl Wirtz
* Rotraut Wisskirchen
* Peter Wittig
* Friedrich Wolf (writer)
* Guntram Wolff
* Albrecht Wolters
* Adolf Wüllner

### Y

* Christos Yannaras

### Z

* Karl Zangemeister
* Angela Zigahl
* Ferdinand Zirkel
* Ernst Zitelmann
* Wolf W. Zuelzer
* Nathan Zuntz