List of people from Aachen

This is a list of people from Aachen, alternatively known as Bad Aachen and Aix-la-Chapelle, arranged by date.

Pre 13th century

Charlemagne, also known as Charles the Great, moved to Aachen and made it the capital of his empire.
Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, and father of Alfred the Great, was born in Aachen.

Adam Eberle (1804–1832), history painter and lithographer of the romance
Friedrich Thyssen (1804-1877), banker
Johannes Theodor Laurent (1804–1884), Apostolic Vicar of Luxemburg
Alfred von Reumont (1808–1887), statesman and historian
Henri Victor Regnault (1810–1878), French physicist and chemist
Arnold Foerster (1810–1884), botanist and entomologist
Peter Ludwig Kuhnen (1812–1877), landscape painter of the Romantic
Mary Frances Schervier (1819–1876), founder of the Poor Sisters of St. Francis

Joseph Hubert Reinkens (1821–1896), Old Catholic Church bishop and theologian
Franz Bock (1823–1899), canon and art historian
Adolph von Hansemann (1826–1903), entrepreneur and banker
Adolph Sutro (1830–1898), mayor of San Francisco
Adam Bock (1832–1912), politician
Albert Baur (1835-1906), German painter
Anton Anno (1838-1893), German theatre actor, theatre director, and playwright

Arthur Kampf (1864–1950), history painter and university professor
Arthur Eichengrün (1867–1949), chemist and university lecturer
Friedrich Pützer (1871–1922), architect, Protestant church architect and university lecturer
Gottfried Hinze (1873–1953), 1st Chairman of the German Football Association
Heinrich Hubert Houben (1875–1935), literary critic and journalist

Wilhelm Worringer (1881–1965), art historian
Hugo Werner-Kahle (1882–1961), actor
Hanns Bolz (1885–1918), painter, sculptor and illustrator
Emil Fahrenkamp (1885–1966), architect, university professor and director of Düsseldorf Art Academy
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), architect
Adam Kuckhoff (1887–1943), writer and resistance fighter against Nazism
Walter Grotrian (1890–1954), astronomer and astrophysicist
Walter Hasenclever (1890–1940), writer
Hans Freiherr von Funck (1891–1979), an officer
Edgar André (1894–1936), politician
Alfred Gottschalk (1894–1973), biochemist
Heinrich Maria Davringhausen (1894–1970), painter
Hans Croon (1896–1977), a textile manufacturer and president of the IHK Aachen
Edith Frank, mother to Anne Frank, was born in Aachen.

Robert Ritter (1901–1951), Nazi racial theorist
Leonhard Drach (1903–1996), jurist and war criminal
Carl Schneider (1905–1975), painter and university professor
Helmuth Gericke (1909–2007), mathematician and historian of mathematics
Hans Ernst Schneider alias Hans Schwerte (1909/10–1999), SS-Hauptsturmführer and literary scholar

Friedrich Hendrix (1911–1941), athlete
Bert Heller (1912–1970), painter
Fredy Hirsch (1916-1944) German Jewish youth movement leader known for helping children during the Holocaust
Karl Otto Götz (born 1914), the main representative of abstract art and Informel in Germany

Gerd Heinz (born 1940), stage, film and television actor, stage director and theatre manager
Horst H. Baumann (born 1934), artist, designer and photographer
Kurt Malangré (1934–2018), politician
Paul Theissen (born 1937), pianist, conductor and choirmaster
Wolf Kahlen (born 1940), video pioneer and performance, object and media artist

Udo Dahmen (born 1951), drummer, managing director of the Pop Academy Baden-Württemberg and music lecturer
Léo Apotheker (born 1953), manager, SAP
Matthias Frings (born 1953), journalist, television presenter and writer
Karl Del'Haye (born 1955), football player
Bascha Mika (born 1954) is a German journalist and publicist

Sabina Classen (born 1963), thrash metal singer of the band Holy Moses, was born in Aachen.
Michael Reisch (born 1964), artist and photographer, was born in Aachen.
Uli Kusch (born 1967), a worldwide recognized metal drummer, was born in Aachen.
Kool Savas (born 1975), musician and rapper
David Garrett (born 1980), a world-famous violinist, was born in Aachen.^[1]
Katrin Heß (born 1985), actress and model
Kai Havertz, German professional footballer