Stuttgart - Notable Residents

Notable Residents

Famous people born in or associated with Stuttgart are

  • Götz Adriani - art historian
  • Svenja Bazlen - triathlete
  • Günther Behnisch – architect
  • Paul Bonatz – architect, built Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof (main train station)
  • Robert Bosch – inventor (founded the Robert Bosch GmbH)
  • Charles Eugene, 14th Duke of Württemberg, built the New Palace of Stuttgart, Solitude Castle and Hohenheim Castle
  • Charles I of Württemberg, king 1864 to 1891
  • Gottlieb Daimler – inventor of the motorbike, with Karl Benz founded what would become Mercedes-Benz
  • Wilhelm Hauff, poet
  • Roland Emmerich – film producer, director and writer
  • Gerhard Ertl – Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry 2007
  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel – philosopher
  • Maximilian Herre – Influential musician and part founder of the Kolchose
  • Max Horkheimer - sociologist and philosopher ("Critical Theory")
  • Theodor Heuss – First German Post-War President
  • Sami Khedira – football player, formerly VfB Stuttgart, now Real Madrid
  • Arnulf Klett, mayor 1945 to 1974
  • Jürgen Klinsmann – football player, former coach of the German national football team, currently coach of the United States men's national soccer team
  • Klaus von Klitzing – German physicist (1985 Nobel Prize in Physics)
  • Jürgen Klopp, former footballer and then coach at FSV Mainz 05, now coach at Borussia Dortmund (Fußball-Bundesliga champion 2011 and 2012)
  • Wilhelm Maybach – inventor together with Gottlieb Daimler
  • Frei Otto – architect (designer of the roof on the Olympic stadium in Munich)
  • Ferdinand Porsche – creator of the VW Beetle, founder of the Porsche car company
  • Manfred Rommel – Mayor of Stuttgart 1974–1996, son of Erwin Rommel
  • Friedrich von Schiller – famous German poet
  • Kurt Schumacher – sculptor, member of the German Resistance against the Nazis
  • Berthold Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg – lawyer, member of the German Resistance who tried to kill Hitler
  • Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg – Colonel, member of the German Resistance who tried to kill Hitler
  • Sophie of Württemberg, Queen of the Netherlands 1849 to 1877
  • Thaddäus Troll – poet, novelist and playwright
  • Carmen Vincelj – Professional dancer and nine times Latin dance World Championship winner
  • Dorothea Wendling – soprano for whom the role of Ilia was created by Mozart in his Idomeneo
  • Richard von Weizsäcker – former German President, Mayor of Berlin (son of Ernst)

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