# List of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich people

This is a list of people associated with Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany.

## Nobel laureates
### Nobel Prize in Physics

* Ferenc Krausz (Physics 2023; professor and chair of experimental physics since 2004)
* Theodor W. Hänsch (Physics 2005; professor, 2001-02 Chairman of the Physics Department)
* Wolfgang Ketterle (Physics 2001; PhD physics 1986)
* Gerd Binnig (Physics 1986; Honorary Professor since 1987; 1987-1995 Director of IBM physics group at LMU Munich)
* Hans Bethe (Physics 1967; PhD)
* Wolfgang Pauli (Physics 1945; PhD)
* Werner Heisenberg (Physics 1932; PhD)
* Gustav Hertz (Physics 1926; student 1907-1908)
* Johannes Stark (Physics 1919; PhD)
* Max Planck (Physics 1918; PhD)
* Max von Laue (Physics 1914; student one semester 1901-02, Privatdozent 1909, Honorary Doctorate)
* Wilhelm Wien (Physics 1911; professor of physics since 1920)
* Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (Physics 1901; professor chair since 1900)

### Nobel Prize in Chemistry

* Gerhard Ertl (Chemistry 2007; student 1958-1959, professor 1973-1986)
* Hartmut Michel (Chemistry 1988; student lab work 1972/73)
* Ernst Otto Fischer (Chemistry 1973; professor 1957-1959; honorary doctorate 1972)
* Otto Hahn (Chemistry 1944; PhD student)
* Adolf Butenandt (Chemistry 1939; professor)
* Richard Kuhn (Chemistry 1938; PhD)
* Peter Debye (Chemistry 1936; PhD)
* Hans Fischer (Chemistry 1930; MD 1908)
* Heinrich Wieland (Chemistry 1927; PhD)
* Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (Chemistry 1925; professor)
* Richard Willstätter (Chemistry 1915; diploma & PhD)
* Eduard Buchner (Chemistry 1907; PhD & professor)
* Adolf von Baeyer (Chemistry 1905; professor)
* Hermann Emil Fischer (Chemistry 1902; professor 1875-1881)

### Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

* Günter Blobel (Physiology or Medicine 1999; studied medicine at the University of Munich)
* Bert Sakmann (Physiology or Medicine 1991; medical assistant 1968, MD 1974)
* Karl von Frisch (Physiology or Medicine 1973; student, assistant since 1910 & professor since 1925)
* Feodor Lynen (Physiology or Medicine 1964; student since 1930, PhD Mar. 1937, professor since 1947)
* Hans Adolf Krebs (Physiology or Medicine 1953; student, 1921 transferred to the University of Munich, started his clinical training, 1923 completed his medical exams)
* Otto Loewi (Physiology or Medicine 1936; student)
* Hans Spemann (Physiology or Medicine 1935; 1893-1894 studied at the University of Munich for clinical training)

### Nobel Prize in Literature

* Thomas Mann (Literature 1929; student)

## Politicians and public figures
### Chancellor of Germany

* Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany (1949–1963)

### President of Germany

* Karl Carstens, President of Germany (1979–1984)
* Gustav Heinemann, President of Germany (1969–1974)
* Roman Herzog, President of Germany (1994–1999)
* Theodor Heuss, President of Germany (1949–1959)

### Anti-Nazi resistance activists

* Willi Graf, anti-Nazi resistance activist in the White Rose rebellion
* Eric Voegelin, anti-Nazi philosopher
* Dietrich von Hildebrand, anti-Nazi philosopher, former student, and later professor at the University of Munich. Founder of the anti-Nazi newspaper The Christian Corporative State while living in exile in Austria before the Anschluss
* Kurt Huber, well known professor during the World War II era; anti-Nazi resistance activist in the White Rose rebellion
* Ernst Munzinger, Abwehr Lieutenant Colonel turned anti-Nazi
* Christoph Probst, anti-Nazi resistance activist in the White Rose rebellion
* Alexander Schmorell, anti-Nazi resistance activist in the White Rose rebellion
* Hans Scholl, anti-Nazi resistance activist, leader of the White Rose rebellion
* Sophie Scholl, anti-Nazi resistance activist in the White Rose rebellion

### Other politicians and public figures

* John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834–1902), British historian and politician
* Valdas Adamkus, President of Lithuania (1998–2003, 2004–2009)
* Kunigunde Bachl, member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein
* Ümit Özdağ, Turkish political scientist, academic, writer and politician
* Jaladat Ali Badirkhan, Kurdish writer, linguist, journalist and political activist
* Dora Bakoyannis, Greek Foreign Affairs Minister, outgoing Mayor of Athens
* Pope Benedict XVI, Pope (2005–2013) and former theologian
* Dr. Diether Haenicke, President of Western Michigan University (1985–1998); Interim President (2006–2007)
* Michael Haußner, a former State Secretary
* Erwin Huber, leader of the Christian Social Union (2007–2009)
* Sir Allama Muhammad Iqbal, poet and philosopher of Pakistan
* Conrad Krez, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
* King Ludwig III of Bavaria
* Birgitt Ory, German Ambassador to Nigeria, former Director General of the German Institute Taipei
* Manfred Wörner, Secretary General of NATO (1988–1994)
* Michael Zickerick, former German Ambassador to Moldova and Director General of the German Institute Taipei

## Other notable alumni

* Andrea Ablasser, immunologist
* Ludwig Bachhofer, art historian
* Frank Baffoe, Ghanaian economist, diplomat and businessman
* Celadet Bedir Khan, Kurdish politician and writer
* Ingeborg Beling, ethologist in the field of chronobiology
* Hermann Boehm (1884–1962), German eugenicist, professor of "racial hygiene" and SA-Sanitäts-Gruppenführer
* Werner Braune (1909–1951), Nazi SS officer, executed for war crimes
* Bertolt Brecht, poet, playwright, and theatre director
* Gisela Bulla (1932–2018), archeologist, author, and politician
* William Lane Craig, Christian theologian and philosopher
* Stefan Dassler, author of business-related non-fiction books
* Georg Dohrn, German conductor
* Bernadette Eberlein (born 1964), dermatologist, allergologist, and researcher
* Claudia Fischbach, biomedical engineer
* Aloys Fischer, educationalist and statistician
* Wilhelm Frick (1877–1946), Nazi official, executed for war crimes
* Diego García-Borreguero, Director of the Sleep Research Institute in Madrid, Spain
* Maren Gaulke, (born 1955), German herpetologist
* Karl Gebhardt (1897–1948), Nazi SS physician who conducted criminal medical experiments; executed for war crimes
* Helmut Gernsheim, photo-historian, collector, and photographer
* Gerd Gigerenzer, psychologist
* Claus Guth (born 1964), theatre and opera director
* Yvonne Hackenbroch (1912–2012), British museum curator and historian of jewellery (last Jew to earn a PhD there before World War II)
* Roger Härtl, neurosurgeon
* Wolfhart Hauser, businessman, chief executive of Intertek
* Rudolf Hess, Nazi official acting as Adolf Hitler's deputy in the Nazi Party
* Werner Herzog, film director
* Henry Hochheimer (1818–1912), German-American rabbi
* Rolf Hofmeier, (born 1939), German economist and Africanist
* Ödön von Horváth, German-writing Austro-Hungarian-born playwright and novelist
* Waldemar Hoven (1903–1948), Nazi physician executed for war crimes
* Rolf Issels, medical oncologist and biochemist
* Edward Rand, American medievalist
* Sara Murray Jordan, American gastroenterologist
* Andreas Kaplan, German University professor and Rector
* Alexander Kekulé, German doctor and biochemist
* Inga Koerte, neuroradiologist, scientific researcher and medical academic
* Ernst Lengyel, gynecologic oncologist, scientific researcher and medical academic
* Christof Loy, opera director
* Xaver Landerer (1809–1885), one of the first chemistry professors in Modern Greece.
* Josef Mengele, SS officer and Auschwitz physician; earned a doctorate in anthropology
* Hercules Anastasios Mitsopoulos (1816–1892), father of modern natural sciences in Greece.
* Wolf-Dieter Montag (1924–2018), German physician, and international sports administrator
* Humberto Fernández Morán, Venezuelan scientist, inventor of the diamond knife
* Dieter Nörr, scholar of ancient law
* Michael Otto, head of German Otto Group
* Sergey Padyukov, American architect
* Dušan David Pařízek, Czech theatre director
* John Piper, reformed theologian, author and pastor
* Otto Friedrich Ranke, physiologist
* Jan Rohls, Reformed theologian
* Marko Sarstedt, Researcher and academic
* Berta Scharrer, U.S.-based endocrinologist and scientific researcher (d. 1995)
* Avinoam Shalem, Israeli art historian, director of the American Academy in Rome
* Carl Sternheim, German playwright and short story writer
* Antony Theodore, German poet and social worker
* Heinz Hermann Thiele, German billionaire businessman and the chairman of Knorr-Bremse
* Blake Ragsdale Van Leer, President of Georgia Tech and United States Army Officer
* Martin H. Wiggers, German economist, editor, author and businessman
* Cüneid Zapsu, Turkish businessman
* Gottlieb Olpp, medical missionary, research and author
* Bettina Bäumer (born 1940), Austrian-born Indian scholar and Indologist
* Angela Zigahl (1885–1955), German teacher and politician
* Peter Voswinckel (born 1951), German physician, medical historian and author