List of people from Heilbronn

This is a list of people who have lived in Heilbronn, Germany.

Gustav Schübler (1787–1834), scientist (meteorology)
Heinrich Friedrich Füger (1751–1818), painter
Wilhelm Waiblinger (1804–1830), poet and author
Julius Robert von Mayer (1814–1878), physician and physicist, formulated the principle of mechanical equivalence
Ludwig Pfau (1821–1894), poet and revolutionary
Adolf Cluss (1825–1905), architect, builder of numerous public buildings in Washington D.C.
Gustav von Schmoller (1838–1917), economist
Wilhelm Maybach (1846–1929), engineer and motor vehicle pioneer, developed the first fast-running gasoline engine together with Gottlieb Daimler
Friedrich Stolz (1860–1936), chemist, invented in 1897 a predecessor of aspirin
Siegfried Gumbel (1874–1942), lawyer, alderman (DDP), since 1933 head of the Israelite High Councillor for Württemberg in Stuttgart, died in Dachau concentration camp
Theodor Heuss (1884–1963), politician, first President of the Federal Republic of Germany (1949 to 1959)
Hellmuth Hirth (1886–1938), aviation pioneer, aircraft and airship builder
Richard Drauz (1894–1946) in Landsberg Lech (executed as a war criminal), headed up the NSDAP in the Heilbronn district
Walter Kreiser (1898–1958), aircraft designer and journalist
Walter Vielhauer (1909–1986), politician (KPD)
Joseph Asher (1921–1990), German-American rabbi
Rolf Wütherich (1927–1981), passenger of the fatal car accident of James Dean
Heinz A. Richter (born 1939), historian to the specialty Greece and Cyprus
Dieter Schwarz (born 1939), entrepreneur and owner of the Schwarz-Gruppe. (Kaufland, Lidl)
Rosemarie Haag Bletter (born 1939), German-American architectural historian
Andrzej Seweryn (born 1946), Polish actor
Jürgen Schreiber (born 1947), journalist
Heide Rühle (born 1948), politician (Greens) MEP, Federal President of the Greens 1990–1991
Thomas Roth (born 1951), journalist, retired TV-presenter Tagesthemen
Freddy Sahin-Scholl (born 1953 as Freddy Scholl), singer and composer
Michael Wittmann (born 1956), musicologist
Falk Struckmann (born 1958), opera singer (baritone)
Joachim Schlör (born 1960), professor, author of Jewish history
Thomas Strobl (born 1960), politician (CDU) Member of Bundestag
Michael Georg Link (born 1963), politician (FDP) Member of Bundestag
Michael Wenczel (born 1977), football player
Sibel Kekilli (born 1980), German actress
Michael Hackert (born 1981), professional ice hockey player NHL
Corey Mapes (born 1992), hockey player
Daniel Fischbuch (born 1993), hockey player

Other notable residents

Martinus von Biberach (d. 1498), theologian, writer of famous epitaph
Christian Friedrich Duttenhofer (1742–1814), theologian, pastor and prelate in Heilbronn
Karl Mayer (1786–1870), poet, lived for a time in Heilbronn
Louis Mayer (1791–1843), landscape painter lived for a time in Heilbronn
Carl Heinrich Theodor Knorr (1800–1875), founder of the food business Knorr
Alexander Bruckmann (1806–1852), historical and portrait painter, lived for a time in Heilbronn
Gustav Rümelin (1815–1889), politician, lived and worked temporarily in Heilbronn
Kilian von Steiner (1833–1903), banker, was lawyer in Heilbronn
Max Eyth (1836–1906), writer, studied in Heilbronn
Karl Nicolai (1839–1892) German magistrate and politician, from 1881 onwards Official notary in Heilbronn
Max Cramer (1859–1933), teacher and genealogist in Heilbronn
Theophil Wurm (1868–1953), prelate of Heilbronn 1927–29
Ernst August Wagner (1874–1938), mass murderer, convicted and temporarily detained in Heilbronn
Ernst Jaeckh (1875–1959), 1902–1912 editor of Neckar-Zeitung
Oskar Dirlewanger (1895–1945), deputy director since 1933 of the Heilbronner labor office, later Waffen-SS officer and war criminal
Emanuel H. Bronner (1908–1997), maker of Dr. Bronner's castile soap
Walter Vielhauer (1909–1986), politician, mayor
Marla Glen (born 1960), singer, living in Heilbronn since 1998

The name "Halperin"

The Jewish surname "Halperin", attested in various Jewish communities worldwide, is considered to be derived from "Heilbronn" and indicates an ultimate family origin in the German city, though it might be centuries ago.