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)
• August Kohn (1732–c.1801/2), violinist and composer active at the royal and margravial courts in Berlin
• 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