List of people from Königsberg

The following is a list of people from the former city of Königsberg (Królewiec), (Duchy of Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia, Germany) which was renamed to Kaliningrad, (Soviet Union) in 1946.

Writers

Caspar Schütz (ca. 1540 Eisleben - 1594 Danzig) Prussian Historian at Königsberg and Danzig
Martynas Mažvydas (1510–1563), priest, writer, translator
Karl Gottfried Hagen 1749-1829 chemist
Ernst August Hagen (son of Karl Gottfried Hagen) 1797-1880 art historian, author, novelist (August Hagen: Norika)
Johann Georg Hamann (1730–1788), philosopher
E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822), author
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), philosopher
Max Toeppen (1822- 1893), historian
Siegfried von der Trenck author
Fanny Lewald (1811–1889), feminist and author
Abraham Mapu (1808–1867), Hebrew novelist
Friedrich Radszuweit (1876-1932), author and publisher
Agnes Miegel (1879–1964), author
Max Colpet (1905-1998) popular song lyrics
Leah Goldberg (1911–1970), Israeli poet
Leah Rabin (née Schlossberg) (1928–2000), author and wife of Yitzhak Rabin

Christian Goldbach (1690–1764), mathematician
Karl Gottfried Hagen (1749-1829), (father of Ernst August Hagen) chemist, opened first German chemistry lab at Königsberg's Albertina University
Gotthilf Heinrich Ludwig Hagen (1797–1884), physicist
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (1824–1887), physicist
Karl Rudolf König (1832–1901), physicist
Otto Wallach (1847–1931), chemist
David Hilbert (1862–1943), mathematician
Arnold Sommerfeld (1868–1951), physicist
Friedrich Adolf Paneth (1887–1958), chemist
Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899 - 1986), biochemist

Stanislovas Rapalionis (1485-1545), at Albertina first translator of the Bible into Lithuanian
Abraomas Kulvietis (1509–1545), religious reformer at Albertina
Friedrich von der Trenck 1726-1794 Prussian officer and adventurer
Johann Friedrich Steenke († 1818) maritime trader, founded sea rescue mission
Georg Steenke (1801-1867), Baurat, canal builder
Johann Jacoby. politician 1805-1877
Carl Otto Nicolai (1810-1849), composer, conductor
Eduard von Simson (1810-1899), jurist and politician
Hermann August Hagen 1817-1893 Cambridge, USA, German entomologist
Emil Hundrieser 1846-1911 sculptor
Pavel Pabst (1854–1897), pianist/composer and professor at the Moscow Conservatory
Heinz Tiessen conponist
Bruno Möhring (1863-1929 Berlin), architect, city planner
Erich von Drygalski (1865-1949), explorer
Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945), painter and sculptor
Eugen Sandow (1867–1925), first modern bodybuilder
Otto Braun, 1872-1955, statesmen, politician
Bruno Taut architect
Max Taut architect
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler 1884-1945, politician
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), political theorist
Josef Hirsch Dunner (1913-2007), Chief Rabbi of East Prussia
Michael Wieck (born 1928), musician and author
Thomas Eichelbaum (born 1931), former Chief Justice of New Zealand
Heinrich August Winkler (born 1938), historian
Veruschka von Lehndorff, born 1939
Heinrich Thieslauk Anti-Nazi fighter