by Holbein, 1523 , 1960
Pre-18th century •
Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466–1536), Dutch Renaissance humanist and theologian •
Berthold Schwarz (c. 1310–1388), fabled
alchemist who introduced gunpowder to Germany •
Martin Waldseemüller (c.1470–1520), Renaissance cartographer
18th century •
Joseph von Auffenberg (1798–1857), playwright and poet •
Aloysius Bellecius (1704–1757), Jesuit
ascetic author •
Jean-Henri Naderman (1734–1799), leading harp-maker and a music publisher •
Johann Nepomuk Locherer (1773–1837), Roman Catholic priest, theologian and professor •
Karl von Rotteck (1775–1840),
political activist, historian, politician and political scientist •
Heinrich Schreiber (1793–1872), Catholic theologian and historian, wrote about Freiburg
19th century •
Sepp Allgeier (1895–1968), cinematographer, worked with
Leni Riefenstahl •
Kurt Bauch (1897–1975), art historian •
Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), literary critic and philosopher •
Alfred Döblin (1878–1957), physician and novelist •
Barney Dreyfuss (1865–1932),
baseball entrepreneur, co-founder of the
Major League Baseball World Series •
Walter Eucken (1891–1950), economist of the Freiburg school and father of
ordoliberalism •
Arnold Fanck (1889–1974), film director and pioneer of the
mountain film genre •
Eugen Fischer (1874–1967), physician who influenced Nazi racial hygiene •
Adolf Furtwangler (1853–1907), archaeologist, teacher, art historian and museum director. •
Max von Gallwitz (1852–1937), general and politician •
Friedrich Gempp (1873–1947),
Major General, founder and first director of the Department Defence of
Reichswehr •
Hans F. K. Günther (1891–1968), Nazi eugenicist •
Friedrich von Hayek (1899–1992), economist, philosopher,
Nobel Prize laureate in economics •
Martin Heidegger (1889–1976), philosopher •
Edmund Husserl (1859–1938), philosopher who established the school of
phenomenology •
Hans Jantzen (1881–1967), art historian, specialised in
Medieval art •
Wilhelm Lamey (1854–1910), jurist •
Ernst Leumann (1859-1931), Swiss Indologist known for research into
Jainism and languages of
Turkestan, died locally •
Felix H. Man (1893–1985), photographer, art collector and pioneer photojournalist for
Picture Post •
Carl Christian Mez (1866–1944), botanist •
Bernhard Sigmund Schultze (1827–1919),
obstetrician and
gynecologist •
Hans Spemann (1869–1941) Nobel prize-winning embryologist •
Hermann Staudinger (1881–1965), 1953
Nobel Prize laureate in
chemistry "for discoveries about
macromolecular chemistry", died locally •
Edith Stein (1891–1942), nun, Saint of the Catholic Church, martyred by the Nazis, Freiburg university faculty member •
Bronisław Trentowski (1808–1869) – Polish philosopher, pedagogue, insurgent and Freemason •
Franz Fischer (1877–1947) – German chemist, discovered the
Fischer–Tropsch process process with
Hans Tropsch. •
Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883–1970), recipient in 1931 of
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine •
Max Weber (1864–1920), lawyer, political economist, and sociologist •
August Weismann (1834–1914), evolutionary biologist •
Joseph Wirth (1879–1956), politician (center), member of the Reichstag, chancellor, foreign minister, minister of the interior •
Engelbert Zaschka (1895–1955), inventor and one of the first German helicopter pioneers
20th century , 1958 , 2014 , 2018 , 2011 , 2014 •
Wolfram Aichele (1924–2016), artist •
Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), political theorist •
Jürgen Aschoff (1913–1998), physician, biologist and behavioral physiologist, co-founded
chronobiology •
Hans Bender (1907–1991), lecturer on
parapsychology •
Nikolaus Brender (born 1949), journalist •
Johannes Boesiger (born 1962), scriptwriter and producer •
Alexander Bonde (born 1975) in the Bundestag for Alliance '90/The Greens 2002 to 2011 •
Borwin, Duke of Mecklenburg (born 1956), head of the
House of Mecklenburg •
Stephan Burger (born 1962), Roman Catholic clergyman,
Archbishop of Freiburg since 2014 •
Hoimar von Ditfurth (1921–1989), physician •
Mohamed Dräger (born 1996), German-Tunisian professional footballer •
Peter Dreher (1932-2020), painter •
Martin Egel (born 1944), bass-baritone in opera and concert •
Hedy Epstein (1924–2016), Holocaust refugee and
political activist •
Anna Ewers (born 1993), fashion model from Freiburg •
Georg Gädker (born 1981), operatic baritone •
Heiner Garg (born 1966), politician (FDP) •
Miriam Gebhardt (born 1962), historian and writer •
Svetlana Geier (1923–2010), translator •
Michael Glatthaar (born 1953), medieval scholar •
Barbara Goette (1908-1997), multiple courses and multiple jobs. •
Katharina Grosse (born 1961), contemporary artist •
Heinrich Haussler (born 1984), professional cyclist
Cervelo TestTeam •
Dany Heatley (born 1981), former professional ice hockey winger •
Peter W. Heller (born 1957), former Deputy Mayor of Freiburg, environmental scientist and venture philanthropist •
Thomas Hengelbrock (born 1958), violinist, musicologist and conductor; co-founded the
Freiburger Barockorchester •
Andreas Holschneider (1931–2019), music historian •
Waldemar Hoven (1903–1948), Nazi physician executed for war crimes •
Tobias Hug (1976–2020), a cappella singer •
Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch (born 1990), high-jump athlete •
Walter Kaufmann (1921–1980), philosopher, translator and poet •
Fritz Keller (born 1957), football administrator •
Boris Kodjoe (born 1973), U.S.based model and actor •
Georges Jean Franz Köhler (1946–1995), geneticist •
Benjamin Lebert (born 1982), author and newspaper columnist •
Joachim Löw (born 1960), coach of the
Germany national football team from 2006 to 2021 •
Michael Leuschner (born 1948), classical pianist and professor of piano at the
Hochschule für Musik Freiburg •
Hanns Ludin (1905–1947), Nazi diplomat executed for war crimes •
Andreas Lutz (born 1981),
media artist analyzes perception versus reality •
Christoph von Marschall (born 1959), journalist •
Christian Meyer (born 1969), track cyclist and gold medallist at the
1992 Summer Olympics •
Michael Nehls (born 1962), medical doctor, author, and former cyclist •
Herbert Niebling (1905–1966), master designer of lace knitting •
Paul Pietsch (1911–2012), racing driver, journalist and publisher of
Das Auto •
Karl Rahner SJ (1904–1984), Jesuit priest and influential Roman Catholic theologian •
Dieter Salomon (born 1960), Alliance '90/The Greens politician, Mayor of Freiburg until 2018 •
Wolfgang Schäuble (1942–2023), CDU politician •
Jürgen E. Schrempp (born 1944), former head of
DaimlerChrysler •
Angelika Schrobsdorff (1927–2016), writer and actress •
Til Schweiger (born 1963), actor and director •
Klaus Tschira (1940–2015), entrepreneur •
Bernhard Witkop (1917–2010), organic chemist •
Johannes Fechner (born 1972), politician •
Joana Zimmer (born 1979), blind pop singer •
Nate Wilbourne (born 2008), Youth and Environmental Advocate, student at
UWC Robert Bosch College ==Gallery==