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Albertus Magnus (around 1200-1280), Dominican, bishop, Saint and important Aristotelian scholar •
Martin Ruland the Younger (1569-1611), physician and alchemist •
Nikolaus Geiger (1849-1897), painter and sculptor •
Heinz Piontek (1925-2003), writer and Büchner Prize winner lived from 1947 to 1955 in Lauingen ==International relations==