(1610-1688), doctor and scientist
* Bella Fromm (1890-1972), journalist and writer
* Max Hamburger (1897-1970), lawyer
* Ulf Hoelscher (born 1942), violinist and violin pedagogue
* Fridel Meyer (1904-1982), long-distance kayaker
* Friedrich Spiegel (1820-1905), orientalist
* Konrad Stürtzel