List of people from Königsberg

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

Writers

Stanisław Murzynowski (c.1527–53), a Polish writer, translator and a Lutheran activist during the Protestant Reformation.
Caspar Schütz (c.1540 Eisleben – 1594 Danzig) historian at Königsberg and Danzig, known for his interest in the history of Prussia.
Martynas Mažvydas (1510–63), priest, writer and translator
Johann Georg Hamann (1730–88), philosopher
E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822), author
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), philosopher
Ferdinand Nesselmann (1811 Fürstenau – 1881 Königsberg), mathematician, historian, orientalist and philologist
Fanny Lewald (1811–89), feminist and author
Abraham Mapu (1808–67), Hebrew novelist
Friedrich Radszuweit (1876–1932), author and publisher
Agnes Miegel (1879–1964), author
Max Colpet (1905–98), popular song lyricist
Leah Goldberg (1911–1970), Israeli poet
Leah Rabin (née Schloßberg) (1928–2000), author and wife of Yitzhak Rabin

Scientists

Christian Goldbach (1690–1764), mathematician
Johann Bartsch (1709–38), physician, botanist, and collaborator with Carl Linnaeus
Karl Gottfried Hagen (1749–1829), chemist, opened first German chemistry lab at Königsberg's Albertina University, father of de:Ernst August Hagen
Gotthilf Heinrich Ludwig Hagen (1797–1884), physicist
Ludwig Otto Hesse (1811–74), mathematician
Adolph Eduard Grube (1812–80), zoologist
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (1824–87), physicist
Karl Rudolf König (1832–1901), physicist
Carl Neumann, (1832–1925), mathematician
Rudolf Lipschitz (1832–1903), mathematician
Alfred Clebsch, (1833–72), mathematician
Franz Ernst Christian Neumann (1834–1918), pathologist
Ernst Hugo Heinrich Pfitzer (1846–1906), botanist
Otto Wallach (1847–1931), chemist
David Hilbert (1862–1943), mathematician
Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909), mathematician
Arnold Sommerfeld (1868–1951), physicist
Friedrich Adolf Paneth (1887–1958), chemist
Hermann Eichhorst (1849–1921), physician
Max Wien (1866–1938), physicist
Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899–1986), biochemist

Others

Stanislovas Rapalionis (1485–1545), at Königsberg Albertina University first translator of the Bible into Lithuanian
Abraomas Kulvietis (1509–45), religious reformer at Königsberg Albertina University
Anton Möller (c.1563–1611), painter active mostly in Danzig (Gdańsk)
Friedrich von der Trenck (1726–94), Prussian officer and adventurer
Johann Jacoby (1805–77), politician
Carl Otto Nicolai (1810–49), composer and conductor
Eduard von Simson (1810–99), jurist and politician
Hermann August Hagen (1817–93) Cambridge, USA, German entomologist
Walter Liebenthal (1886–1982), sinologist and philosopher
Pavel Pabst (1854–97), pianist/composer and professor at the Moscow Conservatory
Heinz Tiessen (1887–1971), composer
Erich von Drygalski (1865–1949), explorer
Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), painter and sculptor
Eugen Sandow (1867–1925), first modern bodybuilder
Otto Braun, (1872–1955), statesman and politician
Hans Feige, (1880–1953), Wehrmacht general
Bruno Taut (1880–1938), architect
Max Taut (1884–1967), architect
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1884–1945), politician
Moshe Smoira (1888–1961), first President of the Supreme Court of Israel
Lilli Henoch (1899–1942), world record holder in the discus, shot put, and 4 × 100 meters relay events who was killed by the Nazis
Hannah Arendt (1906–75), political theorist
Rabbi Josef Hirsch Dunner (1913–2007), Chief Rabbi of East Prussia 1936-1938
Gerhard Barkhorn (1919–83), second-highest-ranking Luftwaffe fighter ace (301 victories).
Michael Wieck (born 1928), musician and author
de:Helmut Komp (born 1930), writer and translator of Lithuanian literature into German
Thomas Eichelbaum (born 1931), former Chief Justice of New Zealand
Witta Pohl (1937–2011), German actress
Heinrich August Winkler (born 1938), historian
Veruschka von Lehndorff (born 1939), model, actress and artist
Reinhard Bonnke (born 1940), televangelist