Sons and daughters of the town •
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945–1982), film director •
Jeremias Schröder (born in 1964 as Maximilian Schröder), Benedictine Abbot and President of the Benedictine Congregation of
St. Ottilien. •
Yank Azman (born 1947), Canadian actor
Personalities associated with Bad Wörishofen • Hermann Aust (1853–1944), a keen supporter of Sebastian Kneipp and supporter of the development of Bad Wörishofen as a spa town. •
Viktor Frankl (1905–1997), founder of
logotherapy, worked in Bad Wörishofen in 1945 where he was a doctor at the Hospital for Displaced Persons. •
Sebastian Kneipp (1821–1897), pastor and Hydrotherapeut, inventor of
Kneipp health treatment using water
. •
Carl Beines (1869–1950), violinist, composer, choral director and vocal pedagogue, whose pupils included
Richard Tauber, and
Herbert Ernst Groh, lived, taught and died in the town. •
Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923), New Zealand-born writer, wrote the short stories of
In a German Pension after a stay at Bad Wörishofen in 1909. •
Franz "Bulle" Roth (born 1946), football player for the
Germany national football team and
FC Bayern München, owner of a shop for sportswear in Bad Wörishofen •
Ulla Salzgeber (born 1958), dressage rider, lived in Bad Wörishofen until 2011. •
Irmgard Seefried (1919–1988), soprano, lived in Bad Wörishofen from 1923 to 1940, winner of Bad Wörishofen's Public Service Medal in gold. •
Ethel Smyth (1858–1944), an English composer, lived in Munich for a while and had a health-related stay in Bad Wörishofen in 1889. •
Antanas Deksnys (1906–1999), a Catholic bishop from Lithuania. ==Economy==