# List of people from Aachen

This is a list of people from Aachen, alternatively known as Bad Aachen and Aix-la-Chapelle, arranged by date.

## Pre 13th century

* Charlemagne (748–814), also known as Charles the Great, moved to Aachen and made it the capital of his empire
* Æthelwulf (–858), king of Wessex, and father of Alfred the Great, was born in Aachen

## 13th–17th century

* Theobald Craschel (1511–1587), auxiliary bishop in Cologne

## 18th century

* Isabelle Brunelle (1724–1805), refugee and philanthropist
* Johann Joseph Couven (1701–1763), architect and builder

## 1800–1820

* Adam Eberle (1804–1832), history painter and lithographer of the romance
* Friedrich Thyssen (1804–1877), banker
* Johannes Theodor Laurent (1804–1884), Apostolic Vicar of Luxemburg
* Alfred von Reumont (1808–1887), statesman and historian
* Henri Victor Regnault (1810–1878), French physicist and chemist
* Arnold Foerster (1810–1884), botanist and entomologist
* Peter Ludwig Kuhnen (1812–1877), landscape painter of the Romantic
* Mary Frances Schervier (1819–1876), founder of the Poor Sisters of St. Francis

## 1821–1840

* Joseph Hubert Reinkens (1821–1896), Old Catholic Church bishop and theologian
* Franz Bock (1823–1899), canon and art historian
* Adolph von Hansemann (1826–1903), entrepreneur and banker
* Adolph Sutro (1830–1898), mayor of San Francisco
* Adam Bock (1832–1912), politician
* Albert Baur (1835–1906), German painter
* Anton Anno (1838–1893), German theatre actor, theatre director, and playwright

## 1841–1860

* Ludwig von Pastor (1854–1928), historian and Austrian diplomat

## 1861–1880

* Arthur Kampf (1864–1950), history painter and university professor
* Arthur Eichengrün (1867–1949), chemist and university lecturer
* Friedrich Pützer (1871–1922), architect, Protestant church architect and university lecturer
* Gottfried Hinze (1873–1953), 1st Chairman of the German Football Association
* Heinrich Hubert Houben (1875–1935), literary critic and journalist

## 1881–1900

* Ilse Essers (1898–1994), aeronautical engineer
* Wilhelm Worringer (1881–1965), art historian
* Hugo Werner-Kahle (1882–1961), actor
* Hanns Bolz (1885–1918), painter, sculptor and illustrator
* Emil Fahrenkamp (1885–1966), architect, university professor and director of Düsseldorf Art Academy
* Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), architect
* Adam Kuckhoff (1887–1943), writer and resistance fighter against Nazism
* Walter Grotrian (1890–1954), astronomer and astrophysicist
* Walter Hasenclever (1890–1940), writer
* Hans Freiherr von Funck (1891–1979), an officer
* Edgar André (1894–1936), politician
* Alfred Gottschalk (1894–1973), biochemist
* Heinrich Maria Davringhausen (1894–1970), painter
* Hans Croon (1896–1977), a textile manufacturer and president of the IHK Aachen
* Edith Frank (1900–1945), mother to Anne Frank, was born in Aachen

## 1901–1910

* Robert Ritter (1901–1951), Nazi racial theorist
* Leonhard Drach (1903–1996), jurist and war criminal
* Carl Schneider (1905–1975), painter and university professor
* Helmuth Gericke (1909–2007), mathematician and historian of mathematics
* Hans Ernst Schneider alias Hans Schwerte (1909/10–1999), SS-Hauptsturmführer and literary scholar

## 1911–1920

* Friedrich Hendrix (1911–1941), athlete
* Bert Heller (1912–1970), painter
* Fredy Hirsch (1916–1944) German Jewish youth movement leader known for helping children during the Holocaust
* Karl Otto Götz (b. 1914), the main representative of abstract art and Informel in Germany

## 1921–1930

* Claus Helmut Drese (1922–2011), opera and theatre director, writer
* Max Imdahl (1925–1988), art historian
* Otto Graf Lambsdorff (1926–2009), politician (FDP)

## 1931–1940

* Heiner Ruland (1934–2017), composer and music therapist
* Gerd Heinz (born 1940), stage, film and television actor, stage director and theatre manager
* Horst H. Baumann (1934–2019), artist, designer and photographer
* Kurt Malangré (1934–2018), politician
* Paul Theissen (born 1937), pianist, conductor and choirmaster
* Wolf Kahlen (born 1940), video pioneer and performance, object and media artist

## 1941–1950

* Manfred Schell (born 1943), trade unionist and politician
* Raymund Havenith (1947–1993), pianist and university lecturer
* Paul Lovens (born 1949), drummer
* Ulla Schmidt (born 1949), politician
* Franz Josef Radermacher (born 1950), professor of computer science

## 1951–1960

* Udo Dahmen (born 1951), drummer, managing director of the Pop Academy Baden-Württemberg and music lecturer
* Léo Apotheker (born 1953), manager, SAP
* Matthias Frings (born 1953), journalist, television presenter and writer
* Karl Del'Haye (born 1955), football player
* Bascha Mika (born 1954) is a German journalist and publicist
* Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen (born 1954), politician
* Thomas Springel (born 1959), handball player
* Sabine Wils (born 1959), politician

## 1960-2000

* Sabina Classen (born 1963), thrash metal singer of the band Holy Moses, was born in Aachen
* Michael Reisch (born 1964), artist and photographer, was born in Aachen
* Uli Kusch (born 1967), a worldwide recognized metal drummer, was born in Aachen
* Kool Savas (born 1975), musician and rapper
* Gracht, Heiko Andreas von der, German economist, futurist, and non-fiction author, was born in Aachen
* David Garrett (born 1980), a world-famous violinist, was born in Aachen.
* Katrin Heß (born 1985), actress and model
* Kai Havertz (born 1999), German professional footballer who plays for Premier League club Arsenal F.C. and the Germany national team.