Heidelberg University alumni

German philosopher and theologian (1770–1831)

German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864–1920)

Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)

Chancellor of West Germany and reunified Germany (1982–1998)

German-American political theorist and philosopher (1906–1975)

German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)

English playwright and author (1874–1965)

South Asian Islamic philosopher, poet and politician

German philosopher and anthropologist (1804–1872)

German sociologist and psychoanalyst (1900–1980)

German physicist (1862-1947)

Czech teacher, educator, philosopher and writer (1592-1670)

German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)

German physician, physiologist, philosopher and professor (1832-1920)

Dutch physicist, Nobel prize winner (1853-1926)

19th-century Russian mathematician

German physicist (1882–1964)

Swiss mathematician (1700-1782)

former World Chess champion (1868–1941)

German philosopher (1401 – 1464)

German reformer (1497-1560)

German chemist (1835-1917)

American scientist (1839–1903)

German chemist (1800-1882)

Swiss politician and lawyer (1843-1914)

German-American anthropologist

German physicist

German physicist and nobel laureate (born 1941)

Swiss poet and writer of German literature (1819–1890)

Swiss-American naturalist (1807–1873)

director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany

German writer (1900–1983)

German biochemist (1884-1951)

German embryologist (1869–1941)

King of Greece (r. 1913–17; 1920–22)

Belgian prime minister and human rights activist (1829-1912)

German poet and novelist (1788-1857)

German Nazi Party politician (1877–1946)

German astrophotography pioneer (1863–1932)

German botanist and philosopher (1804-1881)

German-American biochemist

German poet, translator, and professor of Oriental languages (1788–1866)

German historian, psychologist, sociologist, student of hermeneutics, and philosopher (1833–1911)

German geographer and ethnographer (1844–1904)

German sociologist (1897–1990)

German inventor of early form of bicycle and typewriter (1785-1851)

German chancellor (1867-1929)

German chancellor (1876-1933)

American composer of musical theater and popular music (1885-1945)

German author (1812–1882)

Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, and nobleman (1840–1902)

American paleontologist (1831–1899)

German jurist (1818–1892)

German businessperson, politician (1870-1950)

German-Swiss historian (1909-1994)

German philosopher (1905–1997)

German anthropologist (1826–1905)

father of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank (1889–1980)

German poet

German surgeon, botanist, microbiologist, and mycologist (1831–1888)