- Stefan Ulm
Stefan Ulm (born 21 December 1975 in Berlin) is a German flatwater canoer. From 1997-2004 he was a member of Germany's successful K-4 kayak crew. During this time he won two Olympic silver medals (2000 and 2004) as well as a total of five world championship gold medals.
- Max Bill
Swiss artist, architect, designer, typographer, and theorist Max Bill (1908-94) was one of the most important exponents of concrete and constructive art and a key figure in European applied arts and design history. Educated by such prominent teachers as Paul Klee , Wassily Kandisky, and Walter Gropius at the Bauhaus, at the start of his career in the 1930s.
- Ludwig Erhard
Ludwig Erhard (February 4, 1897-May 5, 1977) was a German politician (CDU) and Chancellor of West Germany from 1963 until 1966.
- Claudia Roth
Claudia Benedikta Roth (born May 15, 1955 in Ulm) is a German Green Party politician.
- Wolfgang Schuster
Wolfgang Schuster (b. 5 September 1949 in Ulm) is the Lord Mayor of Stuttgart. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
- Marc Forster
Marc Forster (born 1969 in Ulm, Germany) is a Swiss film director and screenwriter.
- Andreas Eschbach
Andreas Eschbach (born September 15, 1959, in Ulm) is a German writer who mostly writes science fiction. Even if his some of his stories do not exactly fall into the SF genre, they usually feature elements of the fantastic. Eschbach studied aerospace engineering at the University of Stuttgart and later worked as a software engineer. He has been writing since he was 11 years old. His first professional publication was the short story "Dolls", …
- Tomás Maldonado
Tomás Maldonado. Argentine painter, designer and thinker, considered of the principal theorists of the so-called Scientific Design movement. Born in the Argentine city of Buenos Aires, his artistic formation took place at "Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredón". In this early period he was invovled with the Argentine Avant Gardes, in fact, …
- Ludwig Beck
Ludwig August Theodor Beck (June 29, 1880 - July 21, 1944) was a German general and the Chief of the General Staff of the Oberkommando des Heeres during the early years of the Nazi regime in Germany before World War II. Born in Biebrich in Hessen-Nassau, he was educated in the conservative Prussian military tradition. After serving on the Western Front in World War I, he was eventually promoted to the General Staff in 1933.
- Albrecht Berblinger
Albrecht Ludwig Berblinger (June 24 1770, Ulm - January 28 1829, Ulm), also known as the Tailor of Ulm, is famous for having constructed a working flying machine, presumably a hang glider.
- Lothar Fischer
Lothar Fischer was a German sculptor. He was born in Germersheim, Palatinate. Between 1952 and 1958 he studied under Professor Heinrich Kirchner at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich. After this he joined the painters Heimrad Prem, Helmut Sturm and Hans-Peter Zimmer in founding the group SPUR, which in 1959 entered the Situationist International. That year he participated in the "Junge Kunst" (Young Art) exhibition in Ulm.
- Dieter Hoeneß
Dieter Hoeneß, (born January 7, 1953 in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany) was a German football (soccer) player and is now general manager of the football club Hertha BSC Berlin. Dieter Hoeneß played on amateur level for VfB Ulm and SSV Ulm 1846 before he started a professional career in the German Bundesliga with VfB Stuttgart. There he played between 1975 and 1979, the first two years in the 2nd Bundesliga. After this he transferred to Bayern Munich.
- Adam Kraft
Adam Kraft or Krafft (c. 1455 - January 1509) was a German sculptor and master builder of the late Gothic period. Published dates of his life span also are given as, 1441-1507. Kraft was born and raised in Nuremberg. It is known that in his youth, he visited Ulm and Strasbourg. Kraft is believed to have married twice, but is not known to have produced any children. Many of his pieces are exhibited at the Nuremberg museum, the Germanisches Nationalmuseum.
- Yvonne Buschbaum
Yvonne Buschbaum (born 14 July 1980 in Ulm) is a German pole vaulter. Her personal best is 4.70 metres, achieved in June 2003 in Ulm. This ranks her second among German pole vaulters, only behind Annika Becker.
- Claudia Hoffmann
Claudia Hoffmann is a German sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. She represents SC Potsdam and trains under Frank Möller. Her personal best time is 51.79 seconds, achieved in July 2006 in Ulm.
- Kilian von Steiner
Kilian von Steiner (9 October 1833 - 25 September 1903) was a German banker and industrialist. Born in Laupheim as the eighth child of the wealthy Jewish merchant Viktor Steiner and his wife Sophie, Kilian Steiner spent his youth in the small Upper Swabian town. He attended secondary school in Ulm and Stuttgart, after which he went on to go to university to study law at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and the University of Heidelberg.
- Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart
Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (March 24, 1739 - October 10, 1791), German poet, was born at Obersontheim in Swabia. He entered the university of Erlangen in 1758 as a student of theology. He led a dissolute life, and after two years' stay was summoned home by his parents. After attempting to earn a livelihood as private tutor and as assistant preacher, his musical talents gained him the appointment of organist in Geislingen, …
- Ursula Karven
Ursula Karven (born 17 September 1964 in Ulm, Germany) is a German actress. Ursula Karven acts and has been involved in numerous German television films and series. In 2001, Ursula Karven made headlines for a tragic reason. Her four year-old son Daniel drowned during a birthday party in the swimming pool of American musician Tommy Lee in Santa Monica. She is married and has two other children. She lived with her family for a few years in Florida, USA, …
- Matthias Lehmann
Matthias Lehmann (b. May 28, 1983 in Ulm) is a German footballer who currently plays for Alemannia Aachen.
- Bernhard Strigel
Bernhard Strigel was a German portrait and historical painter of the Swabian school, the most important of a family of artists established at Memmingen. He was born at Memmingen and was probably a pupil of Zeitblom at Ulm. He stood in high favor with the Emperor Maximilian I, in whose service he repeatedly journeyed to Augsburg, Innsbruck, and Vienna. His religious paintings, which include four altar wings with scenes from the "Life of the Virgin," in the Berlin Gallery, …
- Florian Seitz
Florian Seitz (born 5 August 1982 in Berlin) is a German sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. He represents OSC Berlin. He finished fourth with the German 4x400 m relay team at the 2005 European Indoor Championships and the 2006 European Championships. The relay team also competed at the 2005 World Championships without reaching the final. His personal best time is 45.95 seconds, achieved in July 2006 at the German championships in Ulm.
- Bartholomäus Zeitblom
Bartholomäus Zeitblom was a German painter, the chief master of the school of Ulm, where he is on official record from 1484 to 1517. He was born in Nordlingen and was the pupil and son-in-law of Hans Schüchlein, but, unlike his master, was singularly free from Dutch and Flemish influence. Zeitblom's paintings are distinguished by artistic feeling and clear, cool, delicate color.
- Manuel Konrad
Manuel Konrad (born April 14 1988 in Illertissen, Bavaria) is a German footballer, currently playing for German club SC Freiburg, whom he joined from Ulm in 2003. Konrad made his debut for Freiburg on August 25, 2006, in a 1-1 draw with Unterhaching.
- Gregor Erhart
Gregor Erhart was a German sculptor who was born at Ulm, the son of sculptor Michel Erhart. Gregor spent his working career at Augsburg, where was made master in 1496, and where he died. Attributions of sculpture to his workshop, mixing Late Gothic and Renaissance formulas, are based on a single documented work originally from the Cistercian abbey of Kaisheim, which was lost in World War II.
- Johann Faulhaber
Johann Faulhaber (5 May 1580 in Ulm - 10 September 1635 in Ulm) was a German Mathematician. He was a trained weaver who later took the role of a surveyor of the city of Ulm. He collaborated with Johannes Kepler and Ludolph van Ceulen. Besides his work on the fortifications of cities (notably Basel and Frankfurt), Faulhaber built water wheels in his home town and geometrical instruments for the military.
- Heinrich August Winkler
Heinrich August Winkler is a German historian. After attending a Gymnasium in Ulm, he studied history, political science, philosophy and public law at Münster, Heidelberg and Tübingen. In 1970 he became professor at the Free University of Berlin. From 1972 to 1991 he was professor at the University of Freiburg. Since 1991 he has held a chair of modern history at the Humboldt University Berlin.
- Paul Kleinschmidt
As a student of art at the Berlin Akademie Paul Kleinschmidt's greatest influence was Anton von Werner Adolf von Menzel, who was at the time Kleinschmidt's history art teacher. It was during his time as a student that Kleinschmidt met the beloved Lovis Corinth who became an informative and strongly educational individual for the young student. Kleinschmidt continued his studies in 1904 under Peter Halm's direction, as well as Heirnrich von Zügel at the Akademie in Munich.
- Henry Suso
Henry Suso was a German mystic, born at Überlingen on Lake Constance on March 21, circa 1300; he died at Ulm, January 25, 1366; declared Blessed in 1831 by Gregory XVI, who assigned his feast in the Dominican Order to March 2.
- René Kollo
René Kollo is a German tenor. He was born René Kollodzieyski in Berlin and grew up in Wyk auf Föhr. He attended a photography school in Hamburg, although he had always been interested in music, particularly conducting. He did not begin to perform (as a self-taught drummer) until the mid-50s. He played in jazz clubs and studied acting with Else Bongers in Berlin. To prepare for musical roles, he studied with Elsa Varena, …
- Leonhard Hutter
Leonhard Hutter (January, 1563 - October 23, 1616), was a German Lutheran theologian. He was born at Nellingen near Ulm. From 1581 he studied at the universities of Strasbourg, Leipzig, Heidelberg and Jena. In 1594 he began to give theological lectures at Jena, and in 1596 accepted a call as professor of theology at Wittenberg, where he died twenty years later. Hutter was a stern champion of Lutheran orthodoxy, …
- Ferdinand Alexander Porsche
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche (born December 11, 1935, in Stuttgart), nicknamed "Butzi", son of Ferry Porsche, grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, is a designer whose best known product is the sportscar - the very first Porsche 911. Being born the first son of sportscar company founder Ferry Porsche F.A. Porsche was nearly destined to be involved in the development of cars. After his grandfather and his father were engineers, …
- Karl Christian Planck
Karl Christian Planck ((January 17, 1819–June 7, 1880) was a German philosopher. Planck was born in Stuttgart. He studied at Tübingen, where he became doctor of philosophy in 1840 and Privatdozent in 1848. During this period the influence of Reiff led him to oppose the dominant Hegelianism of the time. In 1850-1851 he published his great book, "Die Weltalter", in which he developed a complete original system of philosophy, …
- Auguste Marmont
Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont, Duc de Ragusa was a French general and nobleman, and Marshal of France. He was the son of an ex-officer in the army who belonged to the petite noblesse and adopted the principles of the Revolution. His love of soldiering soon showed itself, and his father took him to Dijon to learn mathematics prior to entering the artillery, and there he made the acquaintance of Napoleon Bonaparte, …
- Alfred Lorenzer
Alfred Lorenzer (Ulm, April 8, 1922 - Perugia, June 26, 2002) was a German psychoanalyst and sociologist. Lorenzer is regarded as a pioneer of interdisciplinary psychoanalysis. He integrated the psychological, the biological and the sociological dimension in the science of man, especially the psychoanalysis.
- Gerhard Klopfer
Gerhard Klopfer was an official of the Nazi Party and assistant to Martin Bormann in the Office of the (Nazi) Party Chancellery. Klopfer was born in Schreibersdorf, Silesia (now in Poland), in 1905. He studied law and economics and in 1931 became a judge in Düsseldorf, Germany. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, he joined the Nazi Party and the SA (Sturmabteilung) along with the Gestapo (German secret police) the following year.
- Oskar Speck
Oskar Speck (1907-1995) was a German canoeist who paddled by folding kayak from Germany to Australia over the period 1932-1939. A Hamburg electrical contractor made unemployed during the Weimar-period Depression, he left Germany to seek work in the Cypriot copper mines, departing from Ulm and travelling south via the Danube. En route he changed plan and decided to "see the world", continuing to Australia via the Middle East, India and Southeast Asia.
- Ludwig Ferdinand Huber
Ludwig Ferdinand Huber, German author, was born in Paris, the son of Michael Huber (1727-1804), who did much to promote the study of German literature in France. In his infancy young Huber removed with his parents to Leipzig, where he was carefully instructed in modern languages and literature, and showed a particular inclination for those of France and England. In Leipzig he became intimate with Christian Gottfried Körner, …
- Karl Nessler
Karl Ludwig Nessler (2 May 1872 in Todtnau, Germany - 22 January 1951 in Harrington Park New Jersey, USA) was the inventor of the permanent wave. Karl Nessler was the son of a shoemaker from Todtnau, a small town located high in the Black Forest, just beneath the Feldberg. He got the idea for the perm early in his youth. He began an apprenticeship which he dropped. He worked in Basle and Milan in different jobs, …
- Johann Georg Specht
Johann Georg Specht was born in Lindenberg im Allgäu. He was a civil engineer and architect in the south of Germany. Johann Georg Specht trained as a civil engineer with Peter Thumb in Vorarlberg. Specht planned and had a vast number of edifices and other constructions built in Upper Swabia and the Allgäu, amongst which are as varied constructions as water works, bridges, mills, residential buildings, industrial buildings and even castles and churches.
- Johann Albrecht Widmannstetter
Johann Albrecht Widmannstetter (born 1506 in Nellingen/Blaubeuren near Ulm, died March 28 1557 in Regensburg), was a German humanist, orientalist, philologist, and theologian.