page_title: Heidelberg
section_title: Notable inhabitants
hierarchical_section_title: Heidelberg / Notable inhabitants
caption_attribution_description: Español: Friedrich Ebert, president of Germany (1919-1925).
context_page_description: Heidelberg is a university town in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. In the 2016 census, its population was 159,914, of which roughly a quarter consisted of students.
  Located about 78 km south of Frankfurt, Heidelberg is the fifth-largest city in Baden-Württemberg. Heidelberg is part of the densely populated Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region.
  Heidelberg University, founded in 1386, is Germany's oldest and one of Europe's most reputable universities. Heidelberg is a scientific hub in Germany and home to several internationally renowned research facilities adjacent to its university, including the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and four Max Planck Institutes. The city has also been a hub for the arts, especially literature, throughout the centuries, and it was designated a "City of Literature" by the UNESCO Creative Cities Network.
  Heidelberg was a seat of government of the former Electorate of the Palatinate and is a popular tourist destination due to its romantic cityscape, including Heidelberg Castle, the Philosophers' Walk, and the Baroque old town.
context_section_description: Ernst Albrecht (1930–2014), politician (CDU), Minister-president of Lower Saxony, father of Ursula von der Leyen
  Jill Asemota, German-Nigerian model
  Jackson Browne (born 1948), singer-songwriter and musician born here
  Petar Beron (1799–1871), Bulgarian educator
  Arvid Boecker (born 1964) German painter and curator
  Carl Bosch (1874–1940) German chemist and engineer and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
  Robert Bunsen (1811–1899), German chemist
  Hubert Burda (born 1940), journalist and publisher
  Antje Duvekot (born 1976), singer-songwriter
  Friedrich Ebert (1871-1925), President of Germany 1919-1925
  Marc S. Ellenbogen (born 1963), Member of National Advisory Board, U.S. Democratic Party (2004-2010), nominated by President Barack Obama to be U.S. Ambassador
  Michael Fassbender (born 1977), German-Irish actor born here
  Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002), German philosopher
  Ian Harding (born 1986), German actor
  Harald zur Hausen (born 1936), virologist, Nobel Laureate
  Dietmar Hopp (born 1940), software entrepreneur SAP
  Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938), British Indian poet, philosopher
  Ernst Jünger (1895–1998), German author, officer, botanist and entomologist, famous for his World War I memoir Storm of Steel
  Wolfgang Ketterle (born 1957), physicist, professor at MIT, Nobel Laureate
  Paul Kirchhof (born 1943), former Judge in the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (Bundesverfassungsgericht)
  Hans Kroh (1907–1967), German officer in Wehrmacht and Bundeswehr
  Karl A. Lamers (born 1951), politician, former President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly
  Ananda Mahidol (1925–1946), King of Thailand
  Helene Mayer (1910–1953), German and American Olympic champion fencer
  Heinrich Neal (1870–1940), German composer, directed the Heidelberg Conservatory of Music
  Nelson Piquet, Jr. (born 1985), Brazilian race car driver and former Formula One driver born here
  Vasil Radoslavov (1854–1929), Bulgarian Prime Minister
  José Rizal (1861–1896), national hero of the Philippines
  Khalid Robinson (born 1998), American singer
  Christiane Schmidtmer (1939–2003), Hollywood actress and model
  Bernd Schmitt (born 1957), marketing professor at Columbia University
  Klaus Schütz (1926–2012), German politician (SPD)
  Elisabeth Seitz (born 1993), Olympic gymnast
  Silvia Renate Sommerlath (born 1943), Queen of Sweden
  Albert Speer (1905–1981), German architect and Third Reich minister
  Ferdinand Thomas (1913–1944), resistance fighter
  Karl Philipp von Wrede (1767-1838), Bavarian field marshal
caption: Friedrich Ebert first President of Germany from 1919 until his death in office in 1925
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