- Notable German Jews Wikipedia
Natural Scientists
- Adolf von Baeyer, industrial chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1905) (Jewish mother)
- Norbert Berkowitz, physicist
- Hans Bethe, nuclear physics, Nobel Prize (1967)
- Sir Walter Bodmer, medical researcher
- Max Born, quantum mechanics, Nobel Prize (1954)
- Heinrich Caro, industrial chemist
- Nikodem Caro, industrial chemist
- Albert Einstein, theoretical physics, Nobel Prize (1921)
- Erwin Finlay-Freundlich, astronomer
- James Franck, quantum physics, Nobel Prize (1925)
- Adolph Frank, industrial chemist
- Herbert Fröhlich, physicist
- Eugen Glueckauf, chemist, expert on atomic energy
- Hans Goldschmidt, industrial chemist
- Fritz Haber, developed the Haber process, Nobel Prize (1918)
- Walter Heitler, chemist
- Arthur Korn, physicist
- Ernst Ising, statistical mechanics
- Albert Ladenburg, chemist
- Fritz London, quantum mechanics
- Leonard Mandel, quantum optics
- Kurt Mendelssohn, German-born British medical physicist
- Viktor Meyer, organic chemist
- Leonor Michaelis, biochemist
- Albert Michelson, measured speed of light, Nobel Prize (1907) (Jewish father)
- Ludwig Mond, chemist & industrialist
- Sir Rudolf Peierls, solid state theory
- Arno Penzias, co-discoverer of CMB, Nobel Prize (1978)
- Alfred Philippson, geologist
- John Charles Polanyi, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1986) (born Berlin, educated in UK)
- Ernst Pringsheim, spectrometry, black-body radiation
- Michael Rossmann, physicist and microbiologist (Jewish mother)
- Rudolf Schoenheimer, biochemist
- Arthur Schuster, spectroscopist
- Karl Schwarzschild, physicist & Astronomen
- Franz Simon, physicist, separation of Uranium 235
- Jack Steinberger, particle physics, Nobel Prize (1988)
- Otto Stern, experimental physicist, Nobel Prize (1943)
- Otto Wallach, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1910)
- Richard Willstätter, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1915)
Physicians / Medical Researchers
- Adolph Baginsky, pediatrician, diphtheria researcher
- Alfred Bielschowsky, ophthalmologist
- Max Bielschowsky, neuropathologist
- Konrad Bloch, biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1964)
- Marcus Elieser Bloch, physician
- Gustav Born, professor of pharmacology
- Edith Bulbring, Professor of pharmacy (Jewish mother)
- Sir Ernst B. Chain, developed penicillin, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1945)
- Ferdinand Cohn, pioneer in microbiology
- Julius Friedrich Cohnheim, pathologist
- Paul Ehrlich, developed magic bullet concept, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1908)
- Arthur Eichengrün, possible inventor of aspirin
- Wilhelm Feldberg, biologist
- Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, biochemist
- Ludwig Frankenthal, surgeon
- Hermann Friedberg, physician
- Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch, geneticist
- Ernst Gräfenberg, obstetrician, the G-spot
- Martin Gumpert, physician, writer
- Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, physician
- Sir Bernard Katz, biophysicist, Nobel Prize (1970)
- Hans Kornberg, biochemist researcher[
- Hans Kosterlitz, discovered endorphins
- Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1953)
- Fritz Lipmann, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1953)
- Jacques Loeb, physiologist
- Otto Loewi, pharmacologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1936)
- Elisabeth Mann, biologist (Jewish mother)
- Otto Meyerhof, biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1922) (Jewish father)
- Oskar Minkowski, physiologist
- Albert Neisser, physician, discovered the cause of gonorrhea (Jewish father)
- Emin Pasha, physician, naturalist, explorer
- Nathanael Pringsheim, botanist
- Ottomar Rosenbach, physician
- Moritz Traube, biochemist
- Moshe Wallach, founder and director, Shaare Zedek Hospital, Jerusalem
- Schwester Selma, longtime head nurse at Shaare Zedek Hospital, Jerusalem
- Carl Warburg, doctor of medicine and clinical pharmacologist.
- Otto Heinrich Warburg, physiologist, Nobel Prize (1931) (Jewish father)
- Karl Weigert, pathologist
Economists
- Robert Aumann, Nobel Prize for Economics
- Richard Ehrenberg, economist
- Ludwig Lachmann, economist
- Emil Lederer, economist
- Robert Liefmann, economist
- Adolph Lowe, economist
- Rosa Luxemburg, economist, co-founder of the KPD
- Fritz Naphtali, economist, editor, later Israeli finance minister
- Sigbert Prais, economist (JYB 2005 p215)
- Reinhard Selten, Nobel prize (1994)
- Hans Singer, economist
Mathematicians
- Felix Bernstein, set theory
- Maurice Block, statistician
- Richard Brauer, modular representation theory
- Paul Cohn, algebraist
- Richard Courant, mathematical analysis & applied mathematics
- Max Dehn, topology
- Paul Epstein, number theory
- Adolf Fraenkel, set theory
- Hans Freudenthal, algebraic topology
- Felix Hausdorff, topology
- Heinz Hopf, topology (Jewish father)
- Adolf Hurwitz, mathematician
- Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, analysis
- Leopold Kronecker, number theory
- Edmund Landau, number theory
- Rudolf Lipschitz, mathematician
- Kurt Mahler, mathematician
- Hermann Minkowski, geometrical theory of numbers
- Claus Moser, Statistician
- Leonard Nelson, mathematician, philosopher
- Bernhard Neumann, mathematician
- Emmy Noether, algebra & theoretical physics
- Alfred Pringsheim, analysis, theory of functions
- Richard Rado, combinatorics
- Abraham Robinson, nonstandard analysis
- Arthur Moritz Schönflies, mathematician
- Issai Schur, mathematician
- Otto Toeplitz, linear algebra & functional analysis
Technical Scientists
- Ralph Baer, inventor of the games console
- Emile Berliner, inventor of the gramophone
- Emanuel Goldberg (1881–1970, from Russia, but published in German), pioneered Microdots and microfilm retrieval technology
- Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, electrical engineer
- Siegfried Marcus, automobile pioneer
- Michael O. Rabin, computer algorithms, Turing Award (1976)
- Reinhold Rudenberg, electrical engineer and inventor, Reinhold Rudenberg
- Adolf Schallamach, pioneered understanding of friction and wear phenomena in rubber
- Joseph Weizenbaum, AI critic, ELIZA
Psychologists
- Karl Abraham, psychoanalyst
- Rudolf Arnheim, perception theorist
- Erik Erikson, developmental psychologist (Jewish mother)
- Erich Fromm, psychologist & humanistic philosopher
- Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, psychoanalyst
- Kurt Goldstein, Gestalt-influenced neurologist
- Max Hamilton, psychiatrist
- Magnus Hirschfeld, sexologist
- Kurt Koffka, Gestalt psychologist
- Kurt Lewin, social psychologist
- Hugo Münsterberg, industrial psychologist
- Ulric Neisser, cognitive psychologist (Jewish father)
- Erich Neumann, analytical psychologist
- Fritz Perls, psychotherapist
- Otto Selz, cognitive psychologist
- William Stern, the Intelligence Quotient
- Max Wertheimer, Gestalt psychologist
Philosophers
- Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), philosopher (Jewish father)
- Ernst Bloch, philosopher
- Constantin Brunner, philosopher
- Ernst Cassirer, philosopher
- Hermann Cohen, philosopher
- Friedrich Dessauer, philosopher
- Max Dessoir, philosopher
- Ossip Flechtheim Sociologist Philosopher
- Julius Frauenstädt, philosopher
- Kurt Grelling, philosopher
- Richard Hönigswald (Jewish father)
- Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), philosopher & sociologist
- Edmund Husserl, philosopher (converted to Christianity)
- Hans Jonas, philosopher
- Horace Kallen, philosopher
- Adolf Lasson, philosopher
- Theodor Lessing, philosopher, writer
- Karl Löwith, philosopher
- Salomon Maimon, philosopher
- Fritz Mauthner, author & philosopher
- Moses Mendelssohn, philosopher, scholar
- Helmuth Plessner, philosopher (Jewish father)
- Hans Reichenbach, philosopher (Jewish father)
- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, philosopher (Jewish father)
- Max Scheler, philosopher (Jewish mother)
- Kurt Sternberg, philosopher
- Richard Rudolf Walzer, philosopher (Jewish Year Book 1975 p214)
Historians
- Ernst Bernheim, historian
- Geoffrey Rudolph Elton (son of Wictor Ehrenberg)
- Richard Ettinghausen, art historian
- Henry Friedlander, historian
- Peter Gay, historian
- Heinrich Graetz, historian
- George W. F. Hallgarten, historian
- Eric Hobsbawm, historian
- Ernst Kantorowicz, historian of medieval political and intellectual history
- Richard Krautheimer, historian
- Arno Lustiger, historian
- Lothar Machtan
- Golo Mann, historian (Jewish mother)
- George Mosse, historian
- Hans Rothfels, historian
- Fritz Stern, historian
- Michael Wolffsohn, historian
Social Scientists
- Reinhard Bendix, sociologist
- Eduard Bernstein, founder of evolutionary socialism
- Franz Boas, cultural anthropologist
- Lewis A. Coser, sociologist
- Norbert Elias, sociologist
- Amitai Etzioni, sociologist
- Shelomo Dov Goitein, Arabist
- Moses Hess, socialist
- Eugene Kamenka, sociologist
- Siegfried Kracauer, sociologist & film critic
- Ferdinand Lassalle, founder of first German worker's party
- Karl Mannheim, sociologist
- Herbert Marcuse, sociologist, New Left figurehead
- Karl Marx, founder of communism (parents converted to Protestantism)
- Franz Oppenheimer, sociologist & economist
- Leo Loewenthal, sociologist
- Georg Simmel, sociologist
- Georg Steindorff, egyptologist (Jewish father)
- Jacob Taubes, theologist
- Louis Wirth, sociologist
Jurists
- Hannah Arendt, political theorist
- Jacob Friedrich Behrend, jurist
- David Daube, Professor of Law
- Heinrich Dernburg, jurist
- Victor Ehrenberg, juris
- Hugo Haase, jurist
- Sir Otto Kahn-Freund, Professor of Law
- Hermann Kantorowicz, jurist
- Walter Kaskel, jurist
- Robert Kempner, jurist
- Paul Laband, jurist, b. Breslau
- Otto Lenel, jurist
- Franz Neumann, legal theorist
- Arthur Nussbaum, jurist
- Joseph Süss Oppenheimer, financial planner & court Jew
- Gabriel Riesser, deputy speaker of Frankfurt Assembly in 1848, first Jewish judge in Hamburg
- Rudolf Schlesinger, jurist
- Georg Schwarzenberger, jurist
- Hugo Sinzheimer, legal scholar
- Sigmund Zeisler, jurist
Scholars
- Moses Buttenweiser (1862–1939), Bible scholar
- Immanuel Oscar Menahem Deutsch (1829–1873), Semitic scholar and orientalist
- Marcus Kalisch, Biblical scholar
- Arthur Liebert
Writers - Journalists - Poets
- Erich Auerbach, literature critic
- Julius Bab, dramatist and theater critic
- Jurek Becker, writer
- Maxim Biller, writer
- Rudolf Borchardt poet
- Ludwig Börne, satirist
- Otto Brahm, literary critic
- Henryk Broder, journalist
- Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), literary critic & philosopher
- Emil Carlebach, writer, dissident
- Joseph Derenbourg, orientalist, father of Hartwig Derenbourg
- Hilde Domin, poet
- Lion Feuchtwanger, novelist
- Hubert Fichte, author (Jewish father)
- Anne Frank, diarist
- Karen Gershon, poet (1923–1993)
- Friedrich Gundolf, literary man
- Glückel of Hameln, 18th-century Yiddish diarist
- Maximilian Harden, journalist
- Heinrich Heine, poet (converted for job prospects)
- Stefan Heym, novelist, politician
- Wolfgang Hildesheimer
- Edgar Hilsenrath, novelist
- Barbara Honigmann, writer
- Heinrich Eduard Jacob, writer and journalist
- Siegfried Jacobsohn, journalist and theater critic
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, novelist and screenwriter
- Wladimir Kaminer, short story writer
- Judith Kerr, children's writer
- Victor Klemperer, writer
- Else Lasker-Schüler, writer, poet & artist (converted to Protestantism for job prospects)
- Claire Loewenfeld, writer and herbalist.
- Gila Lustiger, author
- Erika Mann, writer, actress (Jewish mother)
- Klaus Mann, writer (Jewish mother)
- Monika Mann, writer (Jewish mother)
- Julius Mosen, born Moses
- Erich Mühsam, anarchist poet
- Henning Pawel, child-book author, writer.
- Solomon Perel, author
- Marcel Reich-Ranicki, literary critic
- H. A. Rey & Margret Rey, creators of Curious George
- Renate Rubinstein (Jewish father)
- Nelly Sachs, poet, Nobel Prize (1966)
- Anna Seghers, novelist
- Oskar Seidlin, writer
- Rafael Seligmann, writer
- William Sternheim playwright
- Süßkind von Trimberg writer
- Kurt Tucholsky, writer (converted to Protestantism)
- Samuel Ullman, poet
- Rahel Varnhagen, writer and saloniste (converted to Christianity)
- Moritz Callmann Wahl
- Jakob Wassermann, novelist
- Trude Weiss-Rosmarin
- Jeanette Wohl
- Friedrich Wolf, writer, physician
- Carl Zuckmayer, playwright (Jewish mother)
- Arnold Zweig, writer
- Stefan Zweig, novelist, playwright and journalist, best known for his autobiograph
- Walter Tetzlaff, ed. "2000 Kurzbiographien bedeutender deutscher Juden des 20. Jahrhunderts" (Lindhorst: Askania, 1982).
Linguists and philologists
- Paulus Aemilius, professor of Hebrew
- Theodor Benfey, linguist (Jewish father)
- Eduard Fraenkel, philologist
- Wilhelm Freund, philologist
- Ludwig Friedländer, philologist
- Julius Fürst, orientalist
- Theodor Goldstücker, linguist
- Moshe Goshen-Gottstein, linguist
- Victor Klemperer, linguist & diarist
- Siegbert Salomon Prawer, Professor of German
- Chaim Menachem Rabin, linguist
- Edward Sapir, anthropologist-linguist
- Ernest Simon, professor of Chinese
- Heymann Steinthal, linguist
Musicians
- Samuel Adler, composer
- Haim Alexander, composer
- Tzvi Avni, composer
- Paul Ben-Haim, composer
- Julius Benedict, composer
- Herman Berlinski, American composer, organist, pianist, musicologist and choir conductor
- Wolf Biermann, singer/songwriter (Jewish father)
- Yehezkel Braun, Israeli composer
- Manfred Bukofzer, musicologist
- Paul Dessau, composer
- Abel Ehrlich, Israeli composer
- Alfred Einstein, musicologist
- Hanns Eisler, German-born composer (Jewish father)
- Lukas Foss, composer & conductor Claude Frank, pianist
- Alexander Goehr, composer
- Walter Goehr, conductor
- Berthold Goldschmidt, composer
- Bernard Greenhouse, cellist
- George Henschel, singer & conductor
- Alfred Hertz, conductor
- André Herzberg, musician
- Gerard Hoffnung, musicologist
- Friedrich Holländer, composer
- Salomon Jadassohn, composer
- Leon Jessel, composer
- Robert Kahn, composer
- Otto Klemperer, conductor
- Robert Lachmann, musicologist
- Ludwig Lenel, organist and composer
- Hermann Levi, conductor
- Alfred Lion & Frank Wulff, founders of Blue Note Records
- Edward Lowinsky, musicologist
- Michael Mann, musician (Jewish mother)
- Arnold Mendelssohn, organist
- Felix Mendelssohn, composer & conductor (Jewish ancestry but raised Lutheran)
- Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, composer
- Giacomo Meyerbeer, composer
- Ben-Zion Orgad, Israeli composer
- Menahem Pressler, pianist
- André Previn, conductor
- Franz Reizenstein, pianist, composer
- Curt Sachs, musicologist, co-founder of modern organology
- Kurt Sanderling, conductor
- Adolf Martin Schlesinger, music publisher
- Heinrich Sontheim, tenor
- William Steinberg, conductor
- Erich Walter Sternberg, composer
- Josef Tal, composer
- Ilia Trilling, synagogue composer
- Ignatz Waghalter, composer & conductor
- Bruno Walter, conductor (Jewish father)
- Franz Waxman, film composer
- Kurt Weill, composer
- Indira Weiss, singer & actress
- Stefan Wolpe, composer
- Alec Empire, member of Atari Teenage Riot
- Hilde Zadek, soprano
- Aron Liedtke, Music Producer
Artists - Art Dealers
- • Anni Albers, textile designer
- • Frank Auerbach, painter
- • Eduard Bendemann, painter
- • Martin Bloch, British painter
- • Erwin Blumenfeld, photographer
- Paul Cassirer gallery owner
- • Alfred Eisenstaedt, photographer
- • Benno Elkan, sculptor
- Alfred Flechteim art gallery owner
- • James Ingo Freed, architect
- • Gisèle Freund, photographer
- • Eva Hesse, materials artist
- • Erich Kahn, painter, expressionist
- • Eugen Kaufmann, architect
- • Hugo Lederer (1871–1940) sculptor
- • Max Liebermann, painter
- • Wilhelm Löwith, artist
- • Peter Max, pop artist
- • Ludwig Meidner, painter
- • Erich Mendelsohn, architect
- • Helmut Newton, photographer (Jewish father)
- • Felix Nussbaum, painter
- • Meret Oppenheim, surrealist
- • Erwin Panofsky, art historian
- • Hans Schleger, designer
- • Charlotte Salomon, artist
- • Erich Salomon, news photographer Grete Stern, photographer
- • Victor Weisz, Vicky, cartoonist
Showbusiness
- • Hugo Egon Balder, comedian, producer (Jewish mother)
- • Ludwig Berger, director
- • Lotte Berk, dancer and health guru
- • Kurt Bernhardt, director
- • Artur Brauner, film producer
- • Friedrich Dalsheim, director
- • Michael Degen, actor
- • Ernst Dohm, actor, editor
- • Hedwig Dohm-Pringsheim, actress
- • E.A. Dupont, director
- • Michel Friedman, TV personality
- • Kurt Gerron, stage actor & film director
- • Dora Gerson, actress, cabaret singer
- • Therese Giehse, actress Pepermill
- • Lou Jacobs, clown
- • Ludwig Karl Koch, broadcaster and sound recordist
- • Werner Klemperer, Movie, TV Hogan's Heroes and Broadway actor, violinist
- • Carl Laemmle, film producer
- • Paul Leni, film director
- • Ernst Lubitsch, director
- • Jeanine Meerapfel, film director and screenwriter
- • Max Ophüls, film director
- • Richard Oswald, director
- • Ferdinand Eduard Pahnecke, actor
- • Lilli Palmer, actress
- • Hans Rosenthal, one of Germany's most popular TV personalities in history
- • Susan Sideropoulos, actress
- • Robert Siodmak, director
- • Ruth Westheimer, sex therapist
- • Konrad Wolf, film director
- • Peter Zadek, theatre director
- • Christian Berkel, actor
Politicians
- • Fischel Arnheim, politician
- Siegfried Aufhäuser, SPD politician and Reichstag member (1921-1933)
- • Ludwig Bamberger, politician
- • Daniel Cohn-Bendit, member of European Parliament, student leader in 1968
- • Wilhelm Dröscher, SPD politician (half-Jewish)
- • Kurt Eisner, Bavarian prime minister
- • Heinrich von Friedberg, jurist, statesman (converted to Christianity)
- • Karl Rudolf Friedenthal, Prussian politician
- • Clement Freud, German-born British MP
- • Alex Himelfarb, ambassador
- • Henry Kissinger, US Secretary of State, Nobel Prize (1973)
- • Ludwig Landmann, mayor of Frankfurt/Main
- • Eduard Lasker, co-founder of the National Liberal Party
- • Eugen Levine, Bavarian prime minister
- • Jutta Oesterle-Schwerin, Member of parliament, Green party, Feminist party
- • Eduard von Simson, President of the Reichstag, President of the Reichsgericht
- • Walther Rathenau, Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic
- • Herbert Weichmann, mayor of Hamburg
- • Jeanette Wolff, West Berlin politician
- • Walter Wolfgang, German-born politician
Entrepreneurs
- Albert Ballin entrepreneur
- • Alfred Beit, financier
- • Sir Ernest Cassel, banker
- • Maurice de Hirsch, banker
- Emil Rathenau
- • Hugo Reiss
- • Sir Robert Mayer, German-born businessman and philanthropist
- • Stef Wertheimer "77 year old German-born Stef Wertheimer"
- • Abraham Kuhn[73] and Solomon Loeb, founders of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
- • Gustav Wilhelm Wolff, founder of Harland and Wolff
Court Jews
- • Josel of Rosheim; de (1476–1554)
- • Chajim Fürst, (1592–1653), court agent in Hamburg, elder of the Jewish community in Hamburg, richest Jew in Hamburg.
- • Moses Israel Fürst, (1617–1692), court agent in Hamburg and Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- • Leffmann Behrends (Liepmann Cohen) of Hanover (c. 1630–1714)
- • Samuel Oppenheimer (1635–1703), military supplier for the Holy Roman Emperor.
- • Samson Wertheimer (1658–1724), Austrian financier,rabbi of Eisenstadt
- • Issachar Berend Lehmann; de (1661–1730)
- • Joseph Süß Oppenheimer (1698–1738), financier for Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg
- • Aaron Beer († 1740) of Aurich and Frankfurt
- • Löw Sinzheim (c. 1675 – 1744), court purveyor of Mainz
- • Daniel Itzig (1723–1799), a court Jew of Frederick II the Great and Frederick William II of Prussia.
- • Raphael Kaulla († 1810) and "Madame Kaulla" (1739–1809)
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812), "court factor" for William I, Elector of Hesse
- • Israel Jacobson (1768–1828), philanthropist and reformer, court agent of Brunswick.
- • Wolf Breidenbach (1751–1829), factor to the Elector of Hesse, father of Moritz Wilhelm August Breidenbach
Rabbis
- • Ahron Daum, Chief Rabbi of Frankfurt am Main
- • Immanuel Jakobovits, Chief Rabbi of Great Britain
- • Samson Raphael Hirsch, intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism
- • Levi Herzfeld, 19th century proponent of moderate reform
Activists
- • Hedwig Dohm-Schleh, feminist, author
- • Nahum Goldmann, president of World Jewish Congress
- • Josel of Rosheim, court Jew & Jewish advocate
- • Paul Spiegel, leader of the Central Council of Jews in Germany
Sports
- • Rudi Ball, ice hockey player, right wing, Olympic bronze, world runner-up, bronze
- • Gretel Bergmann, high jumper
- • Hans Berliner, world postal chess champion
- • Barney Dreyfuss, co-founder of the World Series
- • Alfred Flatow, 3x Olympic gymnastics champion (parallel bars, team parallel bars, team horizontal bar), silver (horizontal bar)
- • Gustav Felix Flatow, 2x Olympic gymnastics champion (team parallel bars, team horizontal bar)
- • Gottfried Fuchs, soccer player, (German national team)
- • Ludwig Guttmann, founder of the Paralympics
- • Lilli Henoch, world records (discus, shot put, and 4x100-m relay); shot by the Nazis in Latvia
- • Julius Hirsch, footballer, German champion, killed during the Holocaust
- • Bernhard Horwitz, chess player
- • Herbert Klein, swimmer, Olympic bronze (200-m breaststroke); 3 world records
- • Emanuel Lasker, world chess champion
- • Henry Laskau, racewalker, won 42 national titles; Pan American champion; 4x Maccabiah champion
- • Helene Mayer, foil fencer (Jewish father), Olympic champion
- • Sarah Poewe, swimmer (Jewish mother), Olympic bronze (4x100 medley relay)
- • Daniel Prenn, tennis player, highest world ranking # 6
- • Siegbert Tarrasch, chess player
Educationalists
- • Lewis Elton, educationalist
- • Kurt Hahn, educationalist
Other
- • Ridley Haim Herschell, missionary
- • Joseph Wolff, missionary