- Aurelia Of Strasbourg
Saint Aurelia is a tenth-century Roman Catholic Austrian saint. She was a princess who became a hermitess. She spent more than fifty years as a recluse in Salzburg, Austria, in a Benedictine abbey. Her feast day is celebrated on October 15. Her name of Latin origin means "Golden"
- Paul Sabatier
Paul Sabatier, was a French clergyman and historian who produced the first modern biography of St. Francis of Assisi. He is the brother of Auguste Sabatier. He was born at St. Michel de Chabrillanoux in the Cévennes, and was educated at the faculty of theology in Paris. In 1885 he became vicar of St Nicolas, Strasbourg, but in 1889, declining an offer of preferment which was conditional on his becoming a German subject, he was expelled. For four years he was pastor of St.
- Petit
Armando Gonçalves Teixeira, <small>OIH</small> (born September 25, 1976 in Strasbourg, France), known as Petit (pron.), is a Portuguese football player. He was born to Portuguese parents. He currently plays as a defensive midfielder for SL Benfica and is part of the Portuguese national team. He was nicknamed "Petit" because of his small frame and the fact he was born in France. He is known as 'the pitbull' by his supporters, …
- Fabienne Keller
Fabienne Keller is the mayor of Strasbourg, France. She is the second woman to hold the position.
- Thor Hushovd
Thor Hushovd is a professional road bicycle racer, presently rider for the Crédit Agricole Professional team. Hushovd is renowned for his Sprinting and Time Trialing prowess. He is a former Norwegian National Time Trial Champion and was the first Norwegian to wear the coveted yellow jersey. Before turning a professional in 1998, Hushovd won the U23 Time-Trial World Championship and the U23-versions of the two bicycle classics Paris-Roubaix and Paris-Tours.
- Catherine Trautmann
Mme Catherine Trautmann (born on 15 January 1951 in Strasbourg) is a former Minister of Culture of France and now Member of the European Parliament for the East of France. She was elected as mayor of Strasbourg in 1989, re-elected in 1995, then defeated in 2001. She is a member of the Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists and sits on the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.
- Anabel Medina Garrigues
Ana Isabel Medina Garrigues (born July 31, 1982, Valencia, Spain), better known as Anabel Medina Garrigues, is a Spanish female tennis player. She reached a career high WTA Tour ranking of 23 in August 2006, and has won 7 singles titles and 7 doubles titles. Most recently she won the WTA tournament in Strasbourg, France, beating Amelie Mauresmo in the final in May 2007. Her other singles titles came in Palermo in 2006, 2005, …
- Yann Wehrling
Yann Wehrling (born 3 July 1971 in Strasbourg, France) is an illustrator, French politician and former leader of the political party The Greens.
- Pierre Pflimlin
Pierre Pflimlin (February 5, 1907 in Roubaix - June 27, 2000 in Strasbourg) was a French Christian Democratic politician who served as the penultimate Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic for a few weeks in 1958, before being replaced by Charles de Gaulle during the crisis of that year.
- Mehdi Baala
Mehdi Baala (born August 17, 1978 in Strasbourg) is a French middle-distance athlete competing mainly 1500 m. Baala has won numerous major medals, including two European titles.
- Marcel Marceau
Marcel Marceau (born Marcel Mangel) (22 March 1923 – 22 September 2007) was a well-known mime artist, among the most popular representatives of this art form world-wide.
- Jacques Martin
Jacques Martin is a French writer and artist of comics. He is one of the classic artist of "Le Journal de Tintin" magazine, alongside with Edgar P. Jacobs and Hergé, of whom he was a longtime collaborator. He is best known for his series "Alix".
- Martin Bucer
Martin Bucer (or Butzer, Latin Martinus Buccer, Martinus Bucerus was a German Protestant reformer. Bucer was born at Schlettstadt in Alsace (today Sélestat, in France). In 1506 he entered the Dominican order, and was sent to study at Heidelberg. There he became acquainted with the works of Erasmus and Protestant Luther, and was present at a disputation of the latter with some of the Romanist doctors.
- Marjane Satrapi
Marjane Satrapi (Persian: مرجان ساتراپی is a contemporary graphic novelist, illustrator and children's book author.
- Danijel Ljuboja
Danijel Ljuboja is a Serbian football forward who is under contract with Bundesliga team VfB Stuttgart, and is possibly best known for his Mohawk inspired hairstyle. In August 2006, German club Hamburger SV signed the Serb on a season-long loan. Ljuboja was born in Vinkovci, Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia, where he played in the youth teams of NK Dinamo Vinkovci, NK Osijek and in FK Crvena zvezda in Belgrade.
- Lucie Aubrac
Lucie Samuel née Bernard, better known as Lucie Aubrac, was a French history teacher and member of the French Resistance. In 1939 Lucie Bernard, the daughter of a wine grower, married Raymond Samuel (born 1914) whom she met in Strasbourg. Raymond Samuel would be known during and after the war as Raymond Aubrac, having changed his Jewish surname due to the open anti-Semitism and persecution of Jews at the time.
- Georges Aperghis
Georges Aperghis is a composer working primarily in the field of experimental music theater but has also composed a large amount of non-programmatic chamber music. He is married to actress Edith Scob. His works are often very flamboyant and exhibitionist, sharing a kinship with the work of Vinko Globokar, though Aperghis' music is far less violent and much more playful.
- John Howe
John Howe is a book illustrator, living in Neuchatel, Switzerland. One year after graduating from high school, he studied in a college in Strasbourg, France, then at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs. He is best known for his work based on J. R. R. Tolkien's worlds. Howe and Alan Lee were the lead artists of Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" movie trilogy. Howe also re-illustrated the maps of "The Lord of the Rings", "The Hobbit", …
- Christian Bassila
Christian Bassila (born 5 October 1977 in Paris) is a former France under-21 international footballer. He prefers to play in the defensive midfield position and started his career with the present French Ligue 1 Champions Lyon in the 96-97 season. Bassila joined West Ham in August 2000 on a season-long loan deal, moving from French outfit Rennes. After an indifferent 2000-01 season on loan with West Ham United where he rarely featured, …
- Pierre Chambon
Pierre Chambon (born February 7, 1931, Mulhouse, France) is currently a director of the Institute for Genetics and Cellular and Molecular Biology in Strasbourg, France. Specifically, his major contribution to science involved discovering nuclear hormone receptors, revealing their structure and showing how they contribute to human physiology. He accomplished the much of his work in the 1980s.
- Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (October 24, 1932 in Paris - May 18, 2007 in Orsay) was a French physicist and the Nobel laureate in 1991.
- Charles Nodier
Charles Nodier, was a French author who introduced a younger generation of Romanticists to the "conte fantastique", gothic literature, vampire tales, and the importance of dreams as part of literary creation, and whose career as a librarian is often underestimated by literary historians. He was born at Besançon. His father, on the outbreak of the French Revolution, …
- Carl Schmitt
Carl Schmitt (July 11 1888 - April 7 1985) was a German jurist, political theorist, and professor of law. Schmitt was born the son of a small businessman in Plettenberg, Westphalia on July 11 1888; he studied political science and law in Berlin, Munich and Strasbourg and took his graduation and state exams in the then-German Strasbourg in 1915. He became professor at the University of Berlin in 1933, the same year that he entered the Nazi party (NSDAP).
- Jean-Baptiste Pigalle
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle was a French sculptor. He was born in Paris, the seventh child of a carpenter. Although he failed to obtain the "Grand Prix", after a severe struggle he entered the "Académie Royale" and became one of the most popular sculptors of his day. His earlier work, such as "Child with Cage" (model at Sèvres) and "Mercury Fastening his Sandals" (Berlin, and lead cast in Louvre), …
- Beatus Rhenanus
Beatus Rhenanus, the "Rerum Germanicarum Libri III" (1531), and editions of Velleius Paterculus (1522), based on a manuscript he discovered. He also wrote works on Tacitus (1519), Livy (1522), and a nine-volume work on his friend Erasmus (1540-1541).
- Hans-Peter Martin
Hans-Peter Martin (born August 11, 1957) is an Austrian journalist who has also been a Member of the European Parliament since 1999. Born in Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Martin used to work for the German weekly news magazine "Der Spiegel". As a freelance writer, he has written and co-authored several books, among them "The Global Trap: Globalization and the Assault on Prosperity and Democracy" ("Die Globalisierungsfalle", …
- Gilbert Gress
Gilbert Gress (born 14 December 1941 in Strasbourg) is a French football coach and a former football player.
- Roland Wagner
Roland Wagner (born 22 December, 1955 in Strasbourg) is a French former professional football (soccer) player.
- Paul Janet
Paul Janet was a French philosopher and writer. Born in Paris, he became professor of moral philosophy at Bourges (1845-1848) and Strasbourg (1848-1857), and of logic at the "lycée Louis-le-Grand", Paris (1857-1864). In 1864 he was appointed to the chair of philosophy at the Sorbonne, and elected a member of the academy of moral and political sciences. He wrote widely on philosophy, politics and ethics, on idealistic lines: "La Famille", …
- Karim Matmour
Karim Matmour (born June 25, 1985 in Strasbourg, France) is an Algerian football player who is currently playing for German club SC Freiburg.
- Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (born May 10, 1760 in Lons-le-Saunier, Jura; died June 26, 1836 in Choisy-le-Roi, Seine-et-Oise) was a French composer who in 1792 wrote "La Marseillaise", the French national anthem. Rouget de Lisle entered the army as an engineer and attained the rank of captain. The song that has immortalised him, the "Marseillaise", was composed at Strasbourg, where Rouget de Lisle was quartered in April 1792.
- Martin Djetou
Martin Djetou, is an Ivorian-French football player. He is currently without a club after being released by the English Premier League team Bolton Wanderers in January 2006. Currently having trial with Leeds United F.C. Prior to his brief spell at Bolton, his only other experience in English football came by the way of a two year loan spell at Fulham where he amassed over half a century of appearances but a permanent deal could not be agreed with Italian club A.C. Parma.
- Mireille Delunsch
Mireille Delunsch is an opera soprano. She studied musicology and voice at the conservatory in Strasbourg. Her debut was at the Opéra du Rhin in Mulhouse, in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov. Her repertory is wide, from Baroque opera to 20th century art songs, with an emphasis on French music. She is best known for the operas she has sung under the direction of French conductor Marc Minkowski.
- Noi Morei
Noi Morei is a Hungarian urban artist. He grew up in Budapest but lives in Strasbourg today.
- Sebastian Brant
Sebastian Brant (also Brandt) (1457 - May 10, 1521), German humanist and satirist, was born in Strasbourg. He studied at Basel, took the degree of doctor of law in 1489, and for some time held a professorship of jurisprudence there. Returning to Strasbourg, he was made syndic of the town, remaining there for the rest of his life. He first attracted attention in humanistic circles by his Latin poetry, …
- Frank Leboeuf
Frank Leboeuf (sometimes Franck or Lebœuf<sup>(1)</sup>; born January 22, 1968 in Bouches-du-Rhône near Marseille) is a former French football (soccer) defender. With the French national team, Leboeuf won the 1998 FIFA World Cup. After starting his career in 1986 in the lower divisions of the French league, Leboeuf moved to Laval in 1988. In 1991, he moved to Strasbourg and played there until 1996, …
- Lukas Vischer
Lukas Vischer (1926-) is a Swiss Reformed theologian, author, and advocate of ecumenical dialogue among the world's Christian churches. Born in Basel, Switzerland, Vischer studied theology in Basel, Göttingen, and Strasbourg, and spent one semester at Oxford University. He was ordained in 1950, received a doctorate of theology in 1952, and in 1953 he was appointed as Reformed minister in Herblingen, a small Swiss industrial town near Schaffhausen.
- Joseph Sitruk
Rabbi Joseph Haïm Sitruk is the current Chief Rabbi of France, a position he has held since June 1987. Born Joseph Sitruk in Tunis, after suffering a stroke in 2000 and recovering he added the name "Haim" to his name in line with Jewish tradition. He graduated as a rabbi in 1970 following his studies in a rabbinical school, and was named Rabbi of Strasbourg before becoming the assistant of the Chief Rabbi Max Warchawski.
- Jean/hans Arp
Jean Arp / Hans Arp (September 16, 1886 - June 7, 1966) was a German-French sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist in other media such as torn and pasted paper. Arp was born in Strasbourg. The son of an Alsatian mother and a non-Alsatian German father, he was born during the brief period following the Franco-Prussian War when the area was known as Alsace-Lorraine (Elsass-Lothringen in German) after it had been returned to Germany by France.
- Martin Karplus
Martin Karplus (born March 15, 1930, Vienna) is an Austrian-born U.S. theoretical chemist. He has been Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University since 1979. He is also Director of the Biophysical Chemistry Laboratory, a joint laboratory of CNRS and Universite Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France. He received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1950, and a Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology in 1953 while working with Linus Pauling.