# List of people from Frankfurt

This list contains notable people both born in Frankfurt and residents of the city, ordered chronologically.

## Born in Frankfurt
### 9th to 17th centuries

* Charles the Bald (823–877), King of West Francia, King of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor
* William I, Duke of Bavaria (1330–1389), also known as William V, Count of Holland, as William III, Count of Hainaut and as William IV, Count of Zeeland
* Jakob Heller (c. 1460—1522), patrician, politician, and merchant
* Johann Dietenberger (c. 1475–1537), Catholic Scholastic theologian
* Konrad Gobel (c. 1498–1557), craftsman of bells and other metal castings
* Sebastian von Heusenstamm (1508–1555), Archbishop-Elector of Mainz
* Elijah Loans (1555–1636), rabbi and Kabbalist
* Philipp Uffenbach (1566–1636), painter and etcher
* Adam Elsheimer (1578–1610), artist
* Hendrik van Steenwijk II (c.1580–1649), Baroque painter
* Lucas Jennis (1590–1630), engraver
* Joachim von Sandrart (1606–1688), Baroque art-historian and painter
* Johannes Lingelbach (1622–1674), Dutch Golden Age painter
* Jacob von Sandrart (1630–1708), engraver
* Abraham Mignon (1640–1679), Dutch golden age painter
* Johann Jacob Schütz (1640–1690), lawyer and hymnwriter
* Philipp von Hörnigk (1640–1714), civil servant and supporter of the economic theory of mercantilism
* Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717), naturalist and scientific illustrator
* Philipp Peter Roos (1655–1706), Baroque painter
* Jacob Christoph Le Blon (1667–1741), painter and engraver
* Lorenz Heister (1683–1758), anatomist, surgeon and botanist

### 18th century

* Alexander Ferdinand (1704–1773), 3rd Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Postmaster General of the Imperial Reichspost, and Head of the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis
* Princess Marie Auguste of Thurn and Taxis (1706–1756), Regent of Württemberg
* Johann Christian Senckenberg (1707–1772), physician, naturalist and collector
* Susanne von Klettenberg (1723–1774), abbess and writer
* Louis Eugene (1731–1795), Duke of Württemberg
* Catharina Elisabeth Goethe (1731–1808), mother of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
* Karl Anselm (1733–1805), 4th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Postmaster General of the Imperial Reichspost, and Head of the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis
* Johann Zoffany (1733–1810), neoclassical painter
* Georg Melchior Kraus (1737–1806), painter
* Nathan Adler (1741–1800), kabbalist and rabbi
* Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812), banker and founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty
* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), writer and statesman
* Cornelia Schlosser (1750–1777), sister of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
* Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen (1751–1827), Princess of Saxe-Meiningen and Duchess consort of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
* Princess Louise of Saxe-Meiningen (1752–1805), Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen
* Abraham Bing (1752–1841), rabbi
* Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752–1831), dramatist and novelist
* Johann Philipp Gabler (1753–1826), Protestant Christian theologian
* Karl Wilhelm (1754–1782), Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
* Anton Dereser (1757–1827), Discalced Carmelite professor of hermeneutics and Oriental languages
* Georg I (1761–1803), Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
* Moses Sofer (1762–1839), rabbi
* Philipp Karl Buttmann (1764–1829), philologist of French Huguenot ancestry
* Margarethe Danzi (1768–1800), composer and soprano
* Johann Friedrich von Meyer (1772–1849), senator of Frankfurt
* Amschel Mayer von Rothschild (1773–1855), banker of the Rothschild family financial dynasty
* Salomon Rothschild (1774–1855), banker in the Austrian Empire and founder of the Austrian branch of the Mayer Amschel Rothschild family
* Elisabeth von Adlerflycht (1775–1846), painter
* Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777–1836), London-based banker and financier and one of five sons of the second generation of the Rothschild banking dynasty
* Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779–1861), jurist and historian
* Johann Friedrich Heinrich Schlosser (1780–1851), jurist, writer and translator
* Dorothea von Ertmann (1781–1849), pianist
* Jeanette Wohl (1783–1961), friend and correspondent of Ludwig Börne
* Christian Brentano (1784–1851), writer and Catholic publicist
* Bettina von Arnim (1785–1859), writer and novelist
* Ludwig Börne (1786–1837), political writer and satirist
* Johann David Passavant (1787–1861), painter, curator and artist
* Franz Pforr (1788–1812), painter
* Carl Mayer von Rothschild (1788–1855), banker in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and founder of the Rothschild banking family of Naples
* Jakob Alt (1789–1872), painter and lithographer
* James Mayer de Rothschild (1792–1868 ), banker and founder of the French branch of the Rothschild family
* Carl von Heyden (1793–1866), senator and entomologist
* Eduard Rüppell (1794–1884), naturalist and explorer
* August von Bethmann-Hollweg (1795–1877), jurist and politician
* Johann Friedrich Böhmer (1795–1863), historian
* Heinrich Christian Macklot (1799–1832), naturalist
* Ferdinand Fellner (1799–1859), painter
* Friedrich Wöhler (1800–1882), chemist

### 19th century
#### 1801–1820

* Joseph Aschbach (1801–1882), historian
* Ferdinand Lindheimer (1801–1879), German Texan botanist
* Hermann von Meyer (1801–1869), palaeontologist
* Frédéric Jules Sichel (1802–1868), French physician and entomologist
* Anselm von Rothschild (1803–1874), Austrian banker and member of the Vienna branch of the Rothschild family
* Karl Friedrich Hermann (1804–1855), classical scholar and antiquary
* Marie d'Agoult (1805–1876), French author
* Moritz Abraham Stern (1807–1894), mathematician
* Georg Fresenius (1808–1866), physician and botanist
* Johann Benedict Listing (1808–1882), mathematician
* Ernst Ludwig von Leutsch (1808–1887), classical philologist
* George Engelmann (1809–1884), German-American botanist
* Jakob Fürchtegott Dielmann (1809–1885), illustrator, genre and landscape painter
* Heinrich Hoffmann (1809–1894), psychiatrist and author
* Gustav Koerner (1809–1896), revolutionary, journalist, lawyer, politician, judge, statesman in Illinois and Germany and Colonel of the U.S. Army
* Abraham Geiger (1810–1874 ), leader of Reform Judaism
* Johann Georg von Hahn (1811–1869), Austrian diplomat, philologist and specialist in Albanian history, language and culture
* Moritz von Bethmann (1811–1877), banker
* Ferdinand Hiller (1811–1885), composer, conductor, writer and music-director
* Henri Nestlé (1814–1890), Swiss confectioner and founder of Nestlé, the world's largest food and beverage company
* Joseph Hoch (1815–1874), lawyer and benefactor
* August Weber (1817–1873), painter
* Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818–1897), chemist
* Henri Weil (1818–1909), philologist
* Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim (1819–1880), publicist and philosopher
* Mayer Carl von Rothschild (1820–1886), banker and politician
* Carl Theodor Reiffenstein (1820–1893), landscape and architecture painter

#### 1821–1840

* Mathilde Marchesi (1821–1913), mezzo-soprano, teacher of singing, and proponent of the bel canto vocal method
* Heinrich Frey (1822–1890), Swiss entomologist
* Georg Heinrich Mettenius (1823–1866), botanist
* Moritz Schiff (1823–1896), physiologist
* Willibald Beyschlag (1823–1900), theologian
* Peter Burnitz (1824–1886), lawyer and landscape painter
* Anton Burger (1824–1905), painter, draftsman and etcher
* Karl Otto Weber (1827–1867), surgeon and pathologist
* Adolf Schreyer (1828–1899), painter
* Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild (1828–1901), banker and financier of the Frankfurt House of Rothschild
* Lazarus Geiger (1829–1870), philologist and philosopher
* Victor Müller (1829–1871), painter
* Heinrich Anton de Bary (1831–1888), surgeon, botanist, microbiologist, and mycologist
* Frédéric Émile d'Erlanger (1832–1911), banker and Consul
* Mathilde Hannah von Rothschild (1832–1924), baroness, composer and patron of the Jewish faith
* Jean Baptista von Schweitzer (1833–1875), politician and dramatic poet
* Otto Scholderer (1834–1902), painter
* Wilhelm von Scherff (1834–1911), general and military writer
* Ernst Georg Ravenstein (1834–1913), geographer cartographer and promoter of physical exercise
* Giorgio Sommer (1834–1914), photographer
* August Weismann (1834–1914), biologist
* Hugo Schiff (1834–1915), chemist
* Nathaniel Meyer von Rothschild (1836–1905), member of the Rothschild banking family of Austria
* Joseph Maria von Radowitz, Jr. (1839–1912), diplomat
* Alexander Riese (1840–1924), classical scholar

#### 1841–1860

* Karl Binding (1841–1920), jurist
* Carl Gräbe (1841–1927), industrial and academic chemist
* Karl Lentzner (1842–1905), linguist
* Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1843–1940), banker and art collector
* Michael Flürscheim (1844–1912), economist and Georgist
* Emil Ponfick (1844–1913), pathologist
* Hans von Zwiedineck-Südenhorst (1845–1906), historian
* Otto Böhler (1847–1913), silhouette artist
* Jacob Schiff (1847–1920), American banker, businessman, and philanthropist
* Alice Charlotte von Rothschild (1847–1922), socialite and member of the Rothschild banking family of Austria
* William Ralph Merton (1848–1916), entrepreneur, social democrat and philanthropist
* Otto Bütschli (1848–1920), zoologist
* Heinrich Bassermann (1849–1909), Lutheran theologian
* Anton Urspruch (1850–1907), composer and pedagogue
* Wilhelm Creizenach (1851–1919), historian and librarian
* Arthur Schuster (1851–1934), British physicist
* Wilhelm von Bismarck (1852–1901), counselor, civil servant and politician
* Carl L. Nippert (1852–1904), engineer and politician
* Carl Chun (1852–1914), marine biologist
* Goby Eberhardt (1852–1926), violinist and composer
* Karl Höchberg (1853–1885), social-reformist writer, publisher and economist
* Karl Sudhoff (1853–1938), historian of medicine
* Moritz von Leonhardi (1856–1910), anthropologist
* Hermann Dessau (1856–1931), ancient historian and epigrapher
* Siegfried Ochs (1858–1929), choir-leader and composer
* Otto Böckel (1859–1923), populist politician
* Alfons Mumm von Schwarzenstein (1859–1924), diplomat
* Philipp Franck (1860–1944), Impressionist painter
* Arthur von Weinberg (1860–1943), chemist and industrialist

#### 1861–1880

* Franz Joseph von Bülow (1861–1915), writer
* Ludwig Fulda (1862–1939), playwright and a poet
* Theodor Ziehen (1862–1950), neurologist and psychiatrist
* Karl Wilhelm von Meister (1863–1935), politician and diplomat
* Karl Schaum (1870–1947), chemist
* Rahel Hirsch (1870–1953), doctor and professor
* Fritz Klimsch (1870–1960), sculptor
* Paul Epstein (1871–1939), mathematician
* Bernhard Sekles (1872–1934), composer, conductor, pianist and pedagogue
* Alfred Hertz (1872–1942), American conductor
* Karl Maria Kaufmann (1872-1951), Biblical archaeologist
* Karl Schwarzschild (1873–1916), astronomer and physicist
* Otto Loewi (1873–1961), pharmacologist
* Eduard Fresenius (1874–1946), pharmacist and entrepreneur
* Gerhard Hessenberg (1874–1925), mathematician
* Marcel Sulzberger (1876–1941), Swiss composer, pianist and music author
* Otto Blumenthal (1876–1944), mathematician and professor
* Willy Kaiser-Heyl (1876–1953), film actor
* Isaac Heinemann (1876–1957), rabbinical scholar and professor of classical literature, Hellenistic literature and philology
* Hermann Fellner (1877–1936), screenwriter and film producer
* Arthur Scherbius (1878–1929), electrical engineer
* Ottilie Metzger-Lattermann (1878–1943), contralto
* Richard Goldschmidt (1878–1958), geneticist
* Harry Fuld (1879–1932), entrepreneur whose art collection was looted by Nazis
* Hugo Merton (1879–1940), zoologist
* F.W. Schröder-Schrom (1879–1956), actor
* Otto Hahn (1879–1968), chemist and pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry
* Moritz Geiger (1880–1937), philosopher
* Karl von Roques (1880–1949), general and war criminal during World War II
* Paul Maas (1880–1964), classical scholar

#### 1881–1900

* Hermann Zilcher (1881–1948), composer and conductor
* Wilhelm Dörr (1881–1955), track and field athlete and tug of war competitor
* Hans Fischer (1881–1945), organic chemist
* Walter Braunfels (1882–1954), composer, pianist, and music educator
* Georg von Neufville (1883–1941), Wehrmacht general during World War II
* Else Gentner-Fischer (1883–1943), operatic soprano
* Hermann Abendroth (1883–1956), conductor
* Ludwig Schunk (1884–1947), manufacturer and cofounder of the firm of Schunk und Ebe oHG
* Ida Wüst (1884–1958), stage and film actress
* Gus Wickie (1885–1947), German-American bass singer and voice actor
* Erich Schönfelder (1885–1933), screenwriter, actor and film director
* Walther Davisson (1885–1973), violinist and conductor
* Ernst May (1886—1970), architect and city planner
* Walter Ruttmann (1887–1941), film director and early practitioner of experimental film
* Hans Adalbert Schlettow (1887–1945), film actor
* Otto Maull (1887–1957), geographer and geopolitician
* Oscar Kreuzer (1887–1968), tennis and rugby player
* Wilhelm Lenz (1888–1957), physicist
* Fritz Becker (1888–1963), football player
* Gussy Holl (1888–1966), actress and singer
* Caesar Rudolf Boettger (1888–1976), zoologist
* Herman Bing (1889–1947), actor
* Johanna Kirchner (1889–1944), opponent of the Nazi régime
* Ernst Schwarz (1889–1962), zoologist, mammalogist, and herpetologist
* Heinrich Jacoby (1889–1964), musician and educator
* Siegfried Kracauer (1889–1966), writer, journalist, sociologist, film theorist, and cultural critic
* Otto Frank (1889–1980), businessman
* Martin Weber (1890–1941), architect
* Otto Schmöle (1890–1968), actor
* Martha Wertheimer (1890–1942), journalist, writer, and rescuer
* Leopold Schwarzschild (1891–1950), author
* Karl Ludwig Schmidt (1891–1956), theologian and professor
* Felix Schlag (1891–1974), designer of the United States five cent coin in use from 1938 to 2004
* Elisabeth Schmitt (1891-1974), lawyer and first woman in Germany to earn a PhD in law
* Erwin Straus (1891–1975), German-American phenomenologist and neurologist
* Hans Leybold (1892–1914), poet
* Jakob Weiseborn (1892–1939), SS-Sturmbannführer (major) and commandant of Flossenbürg concentration camp
* Friedrich Weber (1892–1955), instructor in veterinary medicine
* Eugen Kaufmann (1892–1984), architect
* Gus Meins (1893–1940), German-American film director
* Ilse Friedleben (1893–1963), tennis player
* Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack (1893–1965), artist
* Johann Fück (1894–1974), orientalist
* Karl Reinhardt (1895–1941), mathematician
* Wilhelm Süss (1895–1958), mathematician
* Ernst Udet (1896–1941), German flying ace of World War I
* Theodor Haubach (1896–1945), journalist, SPD politician, and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime
* Walter Peterhans (1897–1960), photographer
* Tilly Edinger (1897–1967), paleontologist
* Karl Freiherr von Lersner (1898–1943), Wehrmacht general during World War II
* Karl Menninger (1898–1963), mathematician
* Franz Altheim (1898–1976), historian
* Hans Feibusch (1898–1998), painter and sculptor
* Willy Messerschmitt (1898–1978), aircraft designer and manufacturer
* Ferdinand Kramer (1898–1985), architect and functionalist designer
* Nelly Neppach (née Bamberger; 1898–1933), female tennis player
* Irnfried Freiherr von Wechmar (1899–1959), Oberst in the Wehrmacht during World War II and an Oberst der Reserve in the Bundeswehr
* Ilse Bing (1899–1998), avant-garde and commercial photographer
* Paul Leser (1899–1984), ethnologist
* Ernst Friedrich Löhndorff (1899–1976), sailor, adventurer, and writer
* Erich Fromm (1900–1980), social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist
* Otto Kahn-Freund (1900–1979), professor of comparative law and scholar in labour law
* Erich Klibansky (1900–1942), headmaster and teacher of the first Jewish Gymnasium of Rhineland in Cologne
* Leo Löwenthal (1900–1993), sociologist

### 20th century
#### 1901–1910

* Georg August Zinn (1901–1976), lawyer and politician
* Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt (1901–1986), politician
* Adolf Weidmann (1901–1997), athlete and sports official
* Otto Bayer (1902–1982), industrial chemist
* Fritz Bamberger (1902–1984), scholar and editor
* Hugo Schrader (1902–1993), television and film actor
* Max Rudolf (1902–1995), conductor
* Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969), sociologist, philosopher and musicologist
* Julius Eisenecker (1903–1981), fencer
* Karl Chmielewski (1903–1991), SS officer and Herzogenbusch concentration camp commandant
* Otto Mainzer (1903–1995), writer
* Camilla Horn (1903–1996), dancer and film star
* Fritz Weitzel (1904–1940), SS soldier
* Karl Hessenberg (1904–1959), engineer and mathematician
* Milly Reuter (1904–1976), track and field athlete
* Günther Gräntz (1905–1945), SA general and politician
* Richard Ettinghausen (1906–1979), art historian
* Wolfgang Gentner (1906–1980), experimental nuclear physicist
* Helmut Landsberg (1906–1985), climatologist
* Willibald Kreß (1906–1989), footballer
* Ott-Heinrich Keller (1906–1990), mathematician
* Karl Holzamer (1906–2007), philosopher, pedagogue and former director general of German television station ZDF
* Franka Rasmussen (1907–1994), textile artist
* Herman Geiger-Torel (1907–1976), Canadian opera director
* Eugen Weidmann (1908–1939), career criminal
* Kurt H. Debus (1908–1983), spaceflight scientist
* Rudolf Gramlich (1908–1988), football player and chairman
* Arthur Dreifuss (1908–1993), film director and occasional producer and screenwriter
* Kurt Hessenberg (1908–1994), composer and professor
* John Slade (1908–2005), American Olympic field hockey player and Wall Street broker
* Edgar Weil (1908–1941), Germanist, dramaturge, and merchant
* Ernst vom Rath (1909–1938), diplomat
* Andrew Thorndike (1909–1979), documentary film director
* Georg Konrad Morgen (1909–1982), SS judge and lawyer
* Friedrich Bopp (1909–1987), theoretical physicist
* Helm Glöckler (1909–1993), racing driver
* Kurt Lipstein (1909–2006), legal scholar and professor
* Walter Löber (1909–?), racing cyclist
* Tatjana Sais (1910–1981), film actress
* Barys Kit (1910–2018), Belarusian-American rocket scientist
* Fritz Tillmann (1910–1986), actor
* Erwin Walter Palm (1910–1988), scholar, historian, and writer
* Richard Plant (1910–1998), writer
* Robert H. Goetz (1910–2000), surgeon
* Erika Fromm (1910–2003), psychologist

#### 1911–1920

* Karl Heinz Bremer (1911–1942), historian
* Theodor Schneider (1911–1988), mathematician
* Bruno Roth (1911–1998), racing cyclist
* Tilly Fleischer (1911–2005), athlete
* Bruno Beger (1911–2009), racial anthropologist
* Hermann Flohn (1912–1997), climatologist
* Theo Helfrich (1913–1978), racing driver
* Manfred Kersch (1913–1995), athlete
* Karl Dröse (1913–1996), field hockey player
* Bernhard Frank (1913–2011), Nazi leader
* Emil Carlebach (1914–2001), writer, dissident, and journalist
* Herbert Cahn (1915–2002), classical archaeologist, numismatist, coin-dealer and antiquities-dealer
* Werner Grothmann (1915–2002), SS leader
* Wolf Kaiser (1916–1992), theatre and film actor
* Karl Wald (1916–2011), football referee
* Bernd T. Matthias (1918–1980), American physicist
* Toby E. Rodes (1919–2013), business consultant, design-critic, journalist, and lecturer
* Eric Koch (1919–2018), Canadian author, broadcaster and professor
* Wolfdietrich Schnurre (1920–1989), writer

#### 1921–1930

* Wilhelm Ringelband (1921–1981), theater critic
* Frederick Mayer (1921–2006), educational scientist, philosopher, and creativity expert
* Hans Herrman Strupp (1921–2006), American expert in psychotherapy research
* Ernest Mandel (1923–1995), revolutionary Marxist theorist
* Samson François (1924–1970), French pianist and composer
* Ernst B. Haas (1924–2003), political scientist
* Marianne Beuchert (1924–2007), florist, gardener, and writer
* Jürgen Jürgens (1925–1994), choral conductor and academic teacher
* Carlrichard Brühl (1925–1997), historian of medieval history and philatelist
* Alfred Grosser (1925–2024), German-French writer, sociologist, and political scientist
* Emil Mangelsdorff (1925–2022), jazz musician
* Margot Frank (1926–1945), sister of Anne Frank
* Herbert Freudenberger (1926–1999), psychologist
* Liselott Linsenhoff (1927–1999), equestrian and Olympic champion
* Hans Heinz Holz (1927–2011), Marxist philosopher
* Charlotte Kerr (1927–2011), director, film producer, actress, writer, and journalist
* Marcel Ophüls (born 1927), documentary film maker and former actor
* Albert Mangelsdorff (1928–2005), jazz trombonist
* Anne Frank (1929–1945), diarist and writer
* Erich Böhme (1930–2009), journalist and television host
* Robert Aumann (born 1930), Israeli-American mathematician
* Ursula Lehr (1930–2022), academic, age researcher, and politician
* Michael Rossmann (1930–2019), German-American physicist, microbiologist, and professor

#### 1931–1940

* Imanuel Geiss (1931–2012), historian
* August Hobl (born 1931), former motorcycle road racer
* Lis Verhoeven (1931–2019), actress and theatre director
* Rainer K. Sachs (born 1932), German-American computational radiation biologist and astronomer
* Hans Krieger (1933–2023), writer, essayist, journalist of influential weekly papers, broadcaster, and poet
* Mary Bauermeister (1934–2023), artist
* Erwin Conradi (born 1935), manager in trade business
* Michael Horovitz (1935–2021), German-born British poet, editor, visual artist, and translator
* Gisela Kessler (1935–2014), trade unionist
* Heinz Riesenhuber (born 1935), politician
* Ulrich Schindel (born 1935), classical philologist
* Susanne Cramer (1936–1969), film and television actress
* Klaus Heymann (born 1936), entrepreneur
* Franz Ningel (born 1936), pair skater and roller skater
* Klaus Rajewsky (born 1936), immunologist
* Dieter Schenk (born 1937), author, former high police officer, and activist
* Wolfgang Zapf (1937–2018), sociologist
* Günter Lenz (born 1938), jazz bassist and composer
* Fritz-Albert Popp (1938–2018), biophysicist
* Gerhard Waibel (born 1938), engineer
* Gerhard Amendt (born 1939), sociologist and former professor
* Gerd Kehrer (born 1939), painter
* Wolfram Saenger (born 1939), biochemist and protein crystallographer
* Bernhard Sinkel (born 1940), film director and screenwriter
* Wolfgang Solz (1940–2017), former professional football winger
* Klaus Zehelein (born 1940), dramaturge and professor

#### 1941–1950

* Brigitte Heinrich (1941–1987), journalist and politician
* Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker (born 1941), geneticist, biochemist, and research manager
* Ernst Klee (1942–2013), journalist and author
* Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul (born 1942), politician
* Marika Kilius (born 1943), pair skater
* Ursula G.T. Müller (born 1944), sociologist specializing in gender studies
* Jürgen Roth (1945–2017), publicist and investigative journalist
* Gerhard Welz (born 1945), former professional footballer
* Gerd Binnig (born 1947), physicist and Nobel laureate
* Wolfgang Flür (born 1947), musician
* Hans-Joachim Klein (1947–2022), terrorist
* Minka Pradelski (born 1947), sociologist and documentary filmmaker
* Susan Blakely (born 1948), American film actress
* Diethelm Sack (born 1948), financial officer
* Rolf Birkhölzer (born 1949), footballer
* Horst Dröse (born 1949), former field hockey player
* Margot Glockshuber (born 1949), former pair skater
* Horst Ludwig Störmer (born 1949), physicist and Nobel laureate
* Gert Trinklein (1949–2017), former professional football player
* P. J. Soles (born 1950), American film and television actress

#### 1951–1960

* Hubert Buchberger (born 1951), violinist, conductor, and music university teacher
* Roman Bunka (1951–2022), guitarist and composer
* Martin Mosebach (born 1951), writer
* Peter Ammon (born 1952), diplomat
* Cornelia Hanisch (born 1952), former fencer
* Johanna Lindsey (1952–2019), American writer of historical romance novels
* Susanne Porsche (born 1952), film producer
* Horst Stöcker (born 1952), theoretical physicist
* Lutz Kirchhof (born 1953), lutenist
* Stephan W. Koch (1953–2022), theoretical physicist
* Wolfgang Kraus (born 1953), former professional football player
* Dagmar Roth-Behrendt (born 1953), lawyer and politician
* Jan Zweyer (born 1953), writer
* Dietrich Thurau (born 1954), retired professional road bicycle racer
* Ellen von Unwerth (born 1954), photographer
* Uwe Benter (born 1955), rower
* Uli Lenz (born 1955), composer, pianist, and producer creating music in the modern jazz genre
* Michael Obst (born 1955), composer and pianist
* Ulrike Meyfarth (born 1956), former high jumper
* Ronny Borchers (born 1957), former footballer
* Juliane Kokott (born 1957), Advocate General and professor
* Gerhard Weikum (born 1957), database researcher
* Hans Zimmer (born 1957), film composer and music producer
* Rainer Zitelmann (born 1957), historian, journalist, and management consultant
* Peter Becker (born 1958), molecular biologist
* Thomas Duis (born 1958), pianist
* Peter Kloeppel (born 1958), journalist and news anchor
* Roland Koch (born 1958), jurist and former conservative politician
* Thomas Metzinger (born 1958), philosopher and professor
* Thomas Reiter (born 1958), retired astronaut and test pilot
* Michael Scheffel (born 1958), Germanist
* Nicole Brown Simpson (1959–1994), ex-wife of professional football player O. J. Simpson
* Martina Hallmen (born 1959), former field hockey player
* Michael Sagmeister (born 1959), Jazz guitarist
* Pete Namlook (1960–2012), ambient and electronic-music producer and composer
* Christoph Franz (born 1960), former Chief Executive Officer of Lufthansa
* Michael Gahler (born 1960), politician and Member of the European Parliament
* Hannes Jaenicke (born 1960), actor
* Gabriele Lesser (born 1960), historian and journalist
* Patricia Ott (born 1960), former field hockey player

#### 1961–1970

* Jens Geier (born 1961), politician
* Esther Schapira (born 1961), journalist and filmmaker
* Peter Blank (born 1962), javelin thrower
* Matthias Röhr (born 1962), guitarist
* Inaara Aga Khan (born 1963), second wife of the Aga Khan IV
* Ralf Falkenmayer (born 1963), former footballer
* Thor Kunkel (born 1963), author
* Charlotte Link (born 1963), writer
* Marcus Nispel (born 1963), film director and producer
* Valentin Schiedermair (born 1963), concert pianist
* Jakob Arjouni (1964–2013), author
* Beate Deininger (born 1964), former field hockey player
* Michael Gross (born 1964), swimmer
* Manfred Binz (born 1965), footballer
* Armin Kraaz (born 1965), football manager and former player
* Martin Lawrence (born 1965), American actor, comedian, and filmmaker
* Oliver Reck (born 1965), former footballer
* Christine Schäfer (born 1965), soprano
* Torsten de Winkel (born 1965), musician, composer, and philosopher
* Markus Löffel (1966–2006), disc jockey, musician, and record producer
* Eckhart Nickel (born 1966), journalist and author
* Stefan Quandt (born 1966), engineer and industrialist
* Sven Rothenberger (born 1966), equestrian
* Klaus Badelt (born 1967), composer
* Jens Beckert (born 1967), sociologist
* Antje Boetius (born 1967), marine biologist and professor of geomicrobiology
* Johannes Brandrup (born 1967), actor
* Katharina Hacker (born 1967), novelist
* Eckart von Hirschhausen (born 1967), physician and comedian
* Annette Huber-Klawitter (born 1967), mathematician
* Peter Oliver Loew (born 1967), historian, translator, and scholar
* Stefan Mohr (born 1967), chess grandmaster
* Andreas Möller (born 1967), former internationalist association footballer
* Inka Parei (born 1967), writer
* Peter Thiel (born 1967), American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager
* Andreas Paulus (born 1968), jurist
* Uwe Schmidt (born 1968), composer, musician, and producer of electronic music
* Shantel (born 1968), DJ and producer
* Carsten Arriens (born 1969), former professional tennis player
* Giorgos Donis (born 1969), former professional football player
* Oliver Lieb (born 1969), electronic music producer and DJ
* Sarah Sorge (born 1969), politician
* Marc Trauner (born 1969), DJ and producer
* Thomas Zampach (born 1969), former professional footballer
* Jo Jo English (born 1970), American NBA basketball player, top scorer in the 1999–2000 Israel Basketball League
* Ronald Reng (born 1970), sports journalist and author
* Markus Rill (born 1970), singer-songwriter
* J. Peter Schwalm (born 1970), composer and music producer
* Simone Thomaschinski (born 1970), former professional field hockey defender

#### 1971–1980

* Jochen Hippel (born 1971), musician
* Holger Kleinbub (born 1971), former professional volleyball player
* Slobodan Komljenović (born 1971), former Serbian footballer
* Moses Pelham (born 1971), rapper and musician
* Tony Richardson (born 1971), former American football fullback
* Alexander Schur (born 1971), former professional footballer
* Tré Cool (born 1972), American drummer
* Wilhelm Fischer (born 1972), boxer
* Steffi Jones (born 1972), former professional football defender
* Anthony Rother (born 1972), electronic music composer, producer, and label owner
* Kai Tracid (born 1972), trance DJ and producer
* Tilo Wolff (born 1972), musician
* Anna Carlsson (born 1973), actress and voice actress
* Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck (born 1973), filmmaker and film curator
* Klark Kent (born 1973), graffiti artist and music producer
* Sonya Kraus (born 1973), television presenter and former model
* Christopher Reitz (born 1973), professional field hockey goalkeeper
* Kaya Yanar (born 1973), comedian
* Michael Aničić (born 1974), former professional football player
* Matthias Becker (born 1974), former professional football player
* Magnus Gäfgen (born 1974), child murderer
* Sinan Şamil Sam (born 1974), Turkish heavyweight professional boxer
* Sabrina Setlur (born 1974), singer, rapper, songwriter and occasional actress
* Julia Voss (born 1974), journalist and scientific historian
* Mandala Tayde (born 1975), award-winning actress and model
* Alexander Waske (born 1975), former professional tennis player
* Daniel Dölschner (born 1976), poet and Haiku-writer
* Tamara Milosevic (born 1976), documentary filmer
* Michael Thurk (born 1976), professional football player
* Sascha Amstätter (born 1977), professional football player
* Birgit Prinz (born 1977), former female professional association football player
* Sandra Smisek (born 1977), former female professional football player
* Edwin Thomas (born 1977), English historical novelist
* Jo Weil (born 1977), actor
* Daniel Hartwich (born 1978), actor
* Hartmut Honka (born 1978), conservative politician
* Susanne Keil (born 1978), female hammer thrower
* Mark Medlock (born 1978), singer
* Souad Mekhennet (born 1978), journalist
* Heinz Müller (born 1978), professional footballer
* Silke Müller (born 1978), award-winning field hockey midfielder
* Ruben Studdard (born 1978), American R&B, pop, and gospel singer
* Meike Freitag (born 1979), former female swimmer
* Senna Gammour (born 1979), singer-songwriter and entertainer
* Jonesmann (born 1979), rapper
* Cha Du-ri (born 1980), South Korean professional footballer
* Bakary Diakité (born 1980), German-Malian professional footballer
* Patrick Falk (born 1980), professional footballer
* Daniel Gunkel (born 1980), professional footballer
* Giorgos Theodoridis (born 1980), Greek international footballer
* Zaytoven (born 1980), American hip hop DJ and producer

#### 1981–1990

* Giuseppe Gemiti (born 1981), professional footballer
* Jermaine Jones (born 1981), German-American professional soccer player
* Saskia Bartusiak (born 1982), professional footballer
* Nadja Benaissa (born 1982), recording artist, television personality, and occasional actress
* Marijana Marković (born 1982), épée fencer
* Carlos Nevado (born 1982), professional field hockey player
* Patric Klandt (born 1983), professional footballer
* Madeleine Sandig (born 1983), professional road and track racing cyclist
* Pia Eidmann (born 1984), professional field hockey player
* Patrick Ochs (born 1984), professional footballer
* Fouad Brighache (born 1985), German-Moroccan professional footballer
* J. Cole (born 1985), American hip hop recording artist, songwriter, and record producer
* Fikri El Haj Ali (born 1985), professional footballer
* Christian Kum (born 1985), German-Dutch professional footballer
* Mounir Chaftar (born 1986), professional football defender
* Tim Kister (born 1986), professional footballer
* Moritz Müller (born 1986), professional ice hockey defenceman
* Jan-André Sievers (born 1987), professional football player
* Uğur Albayrak (born 1988), Turkish professional footballer
* Niklas Andersen (born 1988), professional football defender
* Lisa Bund (born 1988), pop singer, songwriter, radio host, actor, and reality television star
* Stefan Hickl (born 1988), professional footballer
* Tru Valentino (born 1988), American actor
* Timm Klose (born 1988), German-Swiss professional footballer
* Björn Thurau (born 1988), professional cyclist
* Richard Weil (born 1988), professional footballer
* Marius Ostrowski (born 1988), historian
* Semih Aydilek (born 1989), German-Turkish professional footballer
* Kevin Pezzoni (born 1989), professional footballer
* Marcel Titsch-Rivero (born 1989), professional footballer
* Timothy Chandler (born 1990), German-American professional soccer player
* Steffen Fäth (born 1990), professional handball player
* Jan Kirchhoff (born 1990), professional footballer
* Romero Osby (born 1990), American professional basketball player for Maccabi Kiryat Gat of the Israeli Basketball Premier League

#### 1991–2000

* Daniel Döringer (born 1991), professional footballer
* Daniel Henrich (born 1991), professional footballer
* Namika (born 1991), German-Moroccan singer and rapper
* Leon Bunn (born 1992), boxer
* Max Ehmer (born 1992), professional footballer
* Markus Hofmeier (born 1993), professional footballer
* Alice Merton (born 1993), singer
* Emre Can (born 1994), professional footballer

## Notable residents of Frankfurt
### 8th to 17th centuries

* Charlemagne (born between 742 and 748; died 814), King of the Franks who united most of Western Europe during the Middle Ages and laid the foundations for modern France and Germany
* Fastrada (765–794), East Frankish noblewoman
* Louis the German (c. 810–876), grandson of Charlemagne and third son of the succeeding Frankish Emperor Louis the Pious and his first wife, Ermengarde of Hesbaye
* Louis the Younger (born between 830 and 835; died 882), second eldest son of Louis the German and Emma who succeeded his father as King of Saxony and his elder brother Carloman as King of Bavaria
* Johannes von Soest (1448–1506), composer, theorist, and poet
* Conrad Faber von Kreuznach (born c. 1500; died between 1552 and 1553), painter and woodcuts designer
* Jacob Micyllus (1503–1558), Renaissance humanist and teacher
* Adam Lonicer (1528–1586), botanist
* Giordano Bruno (1548–1600), Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and astrologer
* Matthäus Merian (1593–1650), Swiss-born engraver and publisher
* Johann Schröder (1600–1664), physician and pharmacologist
* Jacob Joshua Falk (1680–1756), Talmudist, served as chief rabbi of Frankfurt
* Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767), Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist

### 18th century

* Johann Philipp Bethmann (1715–1793), merchant and banker
* Simon Moritz Bethmann (1721–1782), merchant and banker
* Pinchas Horowitz (1731–1805), rabbi
* Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner (1759–1833), composer
* Sekl Loeb Wormser (1768–1846), rabbi
* Clemens Brentano (1778–1842), poet, novelist, and major figure of German Romanticism
* Karoline von Günderrode (1780–1806), Romantic poet
* Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), philosopher

### 19th century

* Rudolf Christian Böttger (1806–1881), inorganic chemist
* Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808–1888), rabbi
* Johann von Miquel (1828–1901), statesman
* Leopold Sonnemann (1831–1909), journalist, newspaper publisher, and political party leader
* Charles Hallgarten (1838–1908), banker and philanthropist
* Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915), physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology, and chemotherapy
* Engelbert Humperdinck (1854–1921), composer
* Bertha Pappenheim (1859–1936), Austrian-Jewish feminist, social pioneer, and founder of the Jüdischer Frauenbund (League of Jewish Women)
* Adolf Bartels (1862–1945), journalist and poet
* Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915), Bavarian-born psychiatrist and neuropathologist credited with identifying the first published case of "presenile dementia", later identified as Alzheimer's disease
* Georg Voigt (1866–1927), politician
* Ludwig Landmann (1868–1945), liberal politician
* Oskar Ursinus (1877–1952), aerospace engineer
* Max Beckmann (1884–1950), painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer
* Magda Spiegel (1887–1944), contralto
* Oswald von Nell-Breuning (1890–1991), Roman Catholic theologian and sociologist
* Franz Bronstert (1895–1967), engineer and painter
* Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), philosopher and sociologist
* Paul Hindemith (1895–1963), composer, violist, violinist, teacher, and conductor
* Ludwig Erhard (1897–1977), politician affiliated with the CDU and Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) from 1963 until 1966
* Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897–2000), first female Austrian architect and an activist in the Nazi resistance movement

### 20th century
#### 1901–1910

* Kurt Thomas (1904–1973), composer, conductor, and music educator
* Hans Bethe (1906–2005), German–American nuclear physicist
* Oskar Schindler (1908–1974), industrialist, spy, and member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust
* Alexander Mitscherlich (1908–1982), psychologist
* Bernhard Grzimek (1909–1987), Silesian-German zoo director, zoologist, book author, editor, and animal conservationist

#### 1911–1920

* Josef Neckermann (1912–1992), equestrian and Olympic champion
* Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen (1917–2012), psychoanalyst
* Horst Krüger (1919–1999), novelist
* Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920–2013), Polish-born literary critic and member of the literary group Gruppe 47

#### 1921–1930

* Reinhard Goerdeler (1922–1996), accountant instrumental in founding KPMG, a leading international firm of accountants
* Arno Lustiger (1924–2012), historian and author
* Horst Streckenbach (1925–2001), tattoo artist and historian of the medium
* Hilmar Hoffmann (1925–2018), cultural functionary and director
* Ignatz Bubis (1927–1999), chairman (and later president) of the Central Council of Jews in Germany (Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland)
* Ruth Westheimer (born Karola Siegel; 1928–2024), German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, Doctor of Education, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper.
* Karl-Hermann Flach (1929–1973), journalist of the Frankfurter Rundschau, and a politician of the liberal Free Democrats (FDP)
* Jürgen Habermas (born 1929), sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism
* Helmut Kohl (1930–2017), conservative politician and statesman

#### 1931–1940

* Alfred Schmidt (1931–2012), philosopher
* Walter Wallmann (1932–2013), politician
* Rosemarie Nitribitt (1933–1957), luxury call girl whose violent death caused a scandal in the Wirtschaftswunder years
* Michael Grzimek (1934–1959), zoologist, conservationist, and filmmaker
* Albert Speer Jr. (1934–2017), architect and urban planner
* Pope Francis (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 1936), pope of the Catholic Church, spent several months at the Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology in Frankfurt
* F. K. Waechter (1937–2005), cartoonist, author, and playwright
* Robert Gernhardt (1937–2006), writer, painter, caricaturist, and poet
* Barbara Klemm (born 1939), photographer, worked for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for 45 years

#### 1941–1950

* Jürgen Grabowski (born 1944), former football player
* Petra Roth (born 1944), mayor of Frankfurt from 1995 to 2012
* Daniel Cohn-Bendit (born 1945), politician
* Bernd Hölzenbein (born 1946), former football player
* Johannes Weinrich (born 1947), left-wing political militant and terrorist
* Josef Ackermann (born 1948), Swiss banker and former chief executive officer of Deutsche Bank
* Joschka Fischer (born 1948), politician
* Alfred 23 Harth (born 1949), multimedia artist, band leader, multi-instrumentalist musician, and composer

#### 1951–2000

* Armin S., independent securities trader
* Ahron Daum (born 1951), rabbi, professor, author, and educator
* Cha Bum-kun (born 1953), South Korean football manager and former player
* Michel Friedman (born 1956), lawyer, former CDU politician, and talk show host
* Hans Zimmer (born 1957), film score composer and music producer
* Wolfgang Herold (born 1961), film producer and sound supervisor
* Luca Anzilotti (born 1963), Italian DJ/producer of electronic music
* Stephan Weidner (born 1963), musician and music producer
* Heike Matthiesen (1964–2023), classical guitarist
* Sven Väth (born 1964), DJ/producer in electronic music
* Dave McClain (born 1965), drummer
* D-Flame (born 1971), hip hop and reggae musician
* Azad (born 1974), rapper
* Renate Lingor (born 1975), female former international football player
* Pia Wunderlich (born 1975), football midfielder
* Aslı Bayram (born 1981), actress and writer