List of people from Nuremberg

Following is a list of notable people from Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany.

• Ottmar Hörl (born 1950), an artist who was president and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg
• August von Kreling (1818–1876), sculptor, painter, and director of the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg
• Johann Daniel Preissler (1666–1737), painter and director of Nuremberg's Academy of Fine Arts
• Jacob von Sandrart (1630–1708), portrait and map engraver who founded and was and first director of the Nuremberg Academy of Fine Arts

• Heinz Bauer (1925–2002), mathematician and professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
• Johann Bauschinger (1834–1893), professor of Engineering Mechanics at Munich Polytechnic
• Hermann Beckh (1875–1937), pioneering Tibetologist and prominent promoter of anthroposophy.
• Hermann Bek-Gran (1869–1909), painter, graphic artist, typographer, and professor of the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg
• Wolfgang Bibel (born 1938), professor emeritus at the Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt
• Gustav Bischof (1792–1870), geologist, chemist, and professor at the University of Bonn
• Ingo Böbel (1947–2020), professor of economics at the International University of Monaco from 2000 to 2020
• Johann Cochlaeus (1479–1552), humanist, music theorist, and dean of the Liebfrauenkirche at Frankfurt
• William Craig (1918–2016), philosopher who taught at the University of California, Berkeley
• Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (1677–1750), astronomer, mathematician, and professor of mathematics at the Aegidien-Gymnasium
• Christian Enzensberger (1931–2009), professor of English studies, author and a translator of English literature into German
• Dieter Fensel (born 1960), professor at the University of Innsbruck and director of the Semantic Technologies Institute Innsbruck
• Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (1804–1872), anthropologist and philosopher, best known for his book The Essence of Christianity^[1]
• Manfred M. Fischer (born 1947), regional scientist and emeritus professor of economic geography at the WU-Vienna University of Economics and Business
• Wilhelm Geiger (1856–1943), Orientalist in the fields of Indo-Iranian languages and the history of Iran and Sri Lanka
• Heinz Gollwitzer (1917–1999), chair of modern political and social history at the University of Münster
• Heinrich Guggenheimer (1924–2021), mathematician and professor of University of Minnesota
• Paula Hahn-Weinheimer (1917–2002), geochemist and professor at the Technical University of Munich
• Lisa Herzog (born 1983), professor at the Center for Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Groningen
• Rudolf Hickel (born 1942), chair of public finance at University of Bremen
• Wolfgang Kaiser (1925–2023), professor for experimental physics at the Technische Universität München
• Uwe Kitzinger (1928–2023), an academic who specialized in international relations
• Wolfgang Koch (born 1962), physicist and computer scientist who teaches at the University of Bonn
• Gerhard Koeppel (1936 –2012), historian of Roman art, resident scholar at the American Academy in Rome, and professor of classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Hermann Leuchs (1879–1945), head of the chemistry institute of the University of Berlin
• Paul Carl Leygebe (1664–1756), painter and anatomy professor at the Prussian Academy of Arts
• Hans Eberhard Mayer (1932–2023), professor of medieval and modern history at the University of Kiel
• Anthony Oettinger (1929–2022), computer scientist who co-founded the Program on Information Resources Policy at Harvard University.
• Johan Martin Preisler (1715 –1794), engraver and professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
• Volker Roemheld (1941–2013), agricultural scientist, plant physiologist, and soil biologist at Hohenheim University
• Manfred Rühl (born 1933), professor of communications at University of Erlangen–Nuremberg and the University of Bamberg
• Gerard Salton (1927–1995), professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and "the father of Information retrieval"
• Diet Sayler (born 1939), painter, sculptor, and professor of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg
• Christoph von Scheurl (1481–1542), professor of law at Wittenberg University
• Matthias Schwab (born 1963), chair of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Tübingen and medical director of the Department of Clinical Pharmacology at the University Hospital Tübingen
• Daniel Schwenter (1585–1636), professor of Semitic languages and mathematics at the University of Altdorf
• Peter Seeberger (born 1966), professor of chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at ETH Zurich
• Johann Philipp Siebenkees (1759–1796), philosopher and professor at the University of Altdorf
• Hartmut Steinecke (1940–2020), professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Bonn
• Alexander Strehl, computer scientist and professor at the University of Aalen
• Karl Süssheim (1878–1947), Islamic historian and professor at the University of Munich
• Conrad Tockler (1470–1530), rector magnificus and professor of the quadrivium at Leipzig University
• Heiko Uecker (1939–2019), professor of Nordic Philology at the University of Bonn
• Johann Christoph Wagenseil (1633–1705), chair of ecclesiastical law and professor of history, civil law, and Semitic languages at the University of Altdorf
• Isabella Weber (born 1987), economist and an assistant professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

• Heinrich Beheim (died 1403), stone mason and architect
• German Bestelmeyer (1874–1942), architect and proponent of Nazi architecture
• Georg Andreas Böckler (c. 1617–1687), architect and engineer who wrote Architectura Curiosa Nova (1664) and Theatrum Machinarum Novum (1661)
• Paul Buchner (1531–1607), architect, geometer, carpenter and screw maker
• Eva Buhrich (1915–1976), architect and writer who fled Nazi Germany and became a prominent architectural commentator in Australia
• Adolf Foehr (1880–1943) architect, city planner, and building supervisor.
• Herta Hammerbacher (1900–1985), landscape architect who taught at the Technical University of Berlin
• Adam Kraft (c. 1460–1509), stone sculptor, master builder and architect^[2]
• Paul Pfann (1860–1919), architect in the Historicist style and professor at the Technical University of Munich
• Hubert Ritter (1886–1967), architect, urban planner and building official
• Paul Ritter (1829–1907), architectural painter and etcher
• Sep Ruf (1908–1982), architect and designer associated with the Bauhaus group

• Caroline Achaintre (1969), mixed media artist
• Bernhard Afinger (1813–1882), sculptor
• Peter Angermann (born 1945), painter^[3]
• Johann Paul Auer (1636–1687), painter
• Ernst Aufseeser (1880–1940), painter, illustrator and graphic designer
• Barthel Beham (1502–1540), engraver, miniaturist, and painter
• Sebald Beham (1500–1550), painter and printmaker mainly known for his very small engravings
• Willem van Bemmel (1630–1708), Dutch Golden Age landscape painter
• Peter von Bemmel (1686–1754), landscape artist
• Anna Katharina Block (1642–1719), Baroque flower painter
• Esther Barbara Bloemart (1651–1733), was a German art collector
• Hans Bolsterer (died 1573), sculptor, carver and medalist
• Werner Braun (1918–2018), photographer, considered a founder of photojournalism in Israel
• Cristoforo Coriolano (born 1540), engraver
• Gabriela Dauerer (born 1958), contemporary artist
• Hans Decker, sculptor
• Joachim Deschler (c. 1500–1571), sculptor and medalist.
• Barbara Regina Dietzsch (1706–1783), painter and engraver known for still lifes
• Hans Dürer (1490 – c. 1538), German Renaissance painter, illustrator, and engraver
• Agnes Dürer (1475–1539) wife and model of artist Albrecht Dürer who helped run his workshops
• Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528), painter, engraver, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance^[4]
• Heinrich Egersdörfer (1853–1915), artist, illustrator and cartoonist
• Michael Sigismund Frank (1770–1847), Catholic artist, rediscovered glass-painting^[5]
• Magdalena Rosina Funck (1672–1695), botanical illustrator
• Magdalena Fürstin (1652–1717), artist and hand-colorist
• Peter Gertner (c. 1495 – after 1541), painter
• Dorothea Maria Graff (1678–1743), painter
• Jonas Haas (1720–1775), engraver
• Jobst Harrich (1579–1617), painter
• Guenter Heim (1935–2014), artist known for impressionistic landscapes of western Canada
• Johanna Helena Herolt (1668–1723), artist
• Werner Heubeck (1923–2009), British transport executive
• Augustin Hirschvogel (1503–1553), artist, mathematician, and cartographer
• Stefan Hirsch (1899–1964), artist.
• Hans Hoffmann (1530–1591), painter, draftsman, and leading representative of the Dürer Renaissance
• Karl Jäger (1833–1887), painter
• Wenzel Jamnitzer (c. 1507–1585), goldsmith and artist
• Paul Juvenel the Elder (1579–1643), painter
• Anna Klein (1883–1941), landscape, animal, and genre painter
• Johann Adam Klein (1792–1875), painter and engraver
• Rudolf Koch (1876–1934), type designer and a master of lettering, calligraphy, typography and illustration
• Johann König (1586–1642), painter known for painting copper panels
• Eliyahu Koren (1907–2001), master typographer, graphic artist, and designer
• Adam Kraft (c. 1460–1509), stone sculptor, master builder and architect^[2]
• Jobst Kuch (1902–1963), painter
• Hans von Kulmbach (1480–1522), artist
• Hanns Lautensack (1524 – c. 1560), etcher and draughtsman
• Heinrich Lautensack (1522–1590), painter and goldsmith
• Kunz Lochner (1510–1567), armourer, blacksmith, silversmith, and court armourer for Maximilian II
• Leo Marchutz (1903–1976), painter and lithographer
• Gustav Metzger (1926–2017), artist and political activist who developed the concept of Auto-Destructive Art and the Art Strike.
• John Miller (1715 – c. 1792), botanical illustrator, engraver, painter, and botanist^[6]
• Georg Mühlberg (1863–1925), painter, draftsman and illustrator of children's books
• Amalia Pachelbel (1688–1723), painter and engraver
• Georg Pencz (c. 1500 –1550), engraver, painter, and printmaker
• Georg Karl Pfahler (1926–2002), painter, printmaker, and sculptor
• Georg Martin Preisler (fl. 1750), engraver
• Johann Justin Preissler (1698–1771), painter and draughtsman
• Valentin Daniel Preisler (1717–1765), engraver
• Maria Katharina Prestel (1747–1794), engraver and painter
• Doris Raab (1851–1933), etcher and engraver
• Johann Leonhard Raab (1825–1899), printmaker and painter
• William Frederic Ritschel (1864–1949), California impressionist painter
• Lorenz Ritter (1832–1921), painter and etcher^[7]
• Paulus Roetter (1806–1894), landscape painter who became a prominent botanical and ichthyological artist
• Ferdinand Rothbart (1823–1899), draftsman, illustrator, history painter, and curator for the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung
• Philipp Rupprecht (1900–1975), cartoonist of anti-Semitic caricatures
• Susanne Maria von Sandrart (1658–1716), artist and engraver
• Eduard Sauer (1899–1975), painter
• Paul Schad-Rossa (1862–1916), painter and sculptor, in the Symbolist style
• Hans Leonhard Schäufelein (c. 1480–1540), artist, painter, and designer of woodcuts^[8]
• Erhard Schön (c. 1491–1542), woodcut designer and painter.
• Martina Schradi (born 1972), cartoonist
• Carl Max Schultheiss (1885–1961), graphic designer
• Matthias Schultheiss (born 1946), graphic novel artist
• Christine Silberhorn (born 1974), physicist and professor at Paderborn University
• Virgil Solis (1514–1562), draughtsman and printmaker in engraving, etching and woodcut
• Johann Sperl (1840–1914), painter
• Hans Springinklee (c. 1490 – c. 1540), artist known for his woodcuts
• Dora Stock (1760–1832), artist who specialized in portraiture
• Veit Stoss (c. 1450–1533), Renaissance sculptor, mostly in wood^[9]
• Juergen Teller (born 1964), fine art and fashion photographer
• Carl Marcus Tuscher (1705–1751), portrait painter, printmaker, architect, and decorator
• Peter Vischer the Elder (c. 1455–1529), sculptor^[10]
• August Weger (1823–1892), graphic artist, steel engraver and printer.
• Michael Wening (1645–1718), engraver
• Michael Wolgemut (1434–1519), painter and printmaker^[11]
• Hermann Zapf (1918–2015), typographer and calligrapher
• Matthias Zündt (1498–1586), engraver
• Gustav Philipp Zwinger (1779–1819), painter and etcher

• Siegfried Bettmann (1868–1951), bicycle, motorcycle and car manufacturer
• Theodor von Cramer-Klett (1817–1884), entrepreneur and banker
• Ronald Grierson (1921–2014), managing director of S.G. Warburg and vice-chairman of General Electric Company
• Max Grundig (1908–1989), founder of electronics company Grundig AG
• Werner Heubeck (1923–2009), transport executive, managing director of the Northern Ireland transport companies Ulsterbus and Citybus
• Adil Kaya (born 1967), CEO of SIGOS
• Georg Leykauf (born 1847), steel metalware producer and trader
• Andy W. Mattes (born 1963), president and chief executive of Diebold
• Max Michaelis (1852–1932), South African mining magnate
• Georg Zacharias Platner (1779–1862), manufacturer-entrepreneur
• Madeleine Schickedanz (born 1943), heiress and philanthropist known for founding Madeleine Schickedanz KinderKrebs-Stiftung
• Ulman Stromer (1329–1407), trader and factory owner

• Martin Behaim (1459–1507), cartographer best known for his Erdapfel, the world's oldest known globe^[12]
• Erhard Etzlaub (c. 1455–1532), cartographer, astronomer, geodesist, and instrument maker
• Hartmann Schedel (1440–1514), one of the first cartographers to use the printing press, best known for his writing the text for the Nuremberg Chronicle^[13]

• Andreas Albrecht (1586–1628), mathematician, engineer, and inventor of a variety of instruments,
• David Beringer (1756–1821), scientific instrument maker and craftsman
• Michael Bümel, maker of scientific and surveying instruments
• Hans Düringer (died 1477), clockmaker
• Hermann Föttinger (1877–1945), engineer and inventor
• Peter Henlein (1485–1542), locksmith and clockmaker who invented the world's first watch
• Andre Kaup, electrical engineer at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
• Karl Küpfmüller (1897–1977), electrical engineer who worked in communications technology
• Adolph Friedrich Lindemann (1846–1931), engineer and businessman who was involved in the Transatlantic telegraph cable project
• Otto Metzger (1885–1961), engineer and inventor
• Wilhelm Nusselt (1882–1957), engineer
• Norbert Riedel (1912–1963), engineer
• Johann Sigmund Schuckert (1846–1895), electrical engineer and pioneer of the electrical industry
• Robert Thelen (1884–1968), aviation pioneer and designer.
• Martin Vossiek, engineer at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

• Tom Beck (born 1978), actor, singer, and entrepreneur
• Hans Berthel (1914–2003), film art director
• Heinz Bernard (1923–1994), actor and director and theatre manager^[14]
• Sandra Bullock (born 1964), actress, producer, and philanthropist
• Annette Carell (1926–1967), actress
• Christoph Dreher (born 1952), filmmaker, musician and scriptwriter
• Angela Finger-Erben (born 1980), TV presenter and journalist for RTL Television.
• Herbert Fleischmann (1925–1984), film and television actor
• Katy Garretson (born 1963), television director and producer
• Nina Gnädig (born 1977), actress
• Ozan Güven (born 1975), film, television, and theatre actor and screenwriter.
• Margarete Haagen (1889–1966), actress
• Johann Kaspar Hechtel (1771–1799), designer of parlor games including the prototype for the Petit Lenormand cartomancy deck
• Thomas Hermanns (born 1963), television presenter, comedian, screenwriter and director
• Rudy Horn (1933–2018), juggler
• Şermin Langhoff (born 1969), director of the Maxim Gorki Theater
• Marcel-André Casasola Merkle (1977), video game designer
• Friedrich Georg Leonhard Miedke (1803–1842), actor, singer, composer, and theatre director
• Kurt Neumann (1908–1958), film director
• Mirjam Novak, television and film actress and screenwriter
• Wolfgang Preiss (1910–2002), actor
• Tobias Rosen, Academy Award-nominated film producer
• Hanns Zischler (born 1947), film actor

• Wolfgang Fikentscher (1928–2015), jurist, legal anthropologist, and professor at University of Münster School of Law, University of Tübingen, and University of California at Berkeley School of Law
• Jude Pate, justice of the Alaska Supreme Court
• Gerhard Schricker (1935–2021) legal scholar and professor at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
• Hildegund Sünderhauf, family law professor at the Lutheran University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg
• Anna Maria Zwanziger (1760–1811), serial killer

• Lilly Becher (1901–1978), writer, journalist, and one of the first anti-Nazi writers
• Karl Ewald Böhm (1913–1977), writer who served as Director of East Germany's Central Publishing Department
• Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800–1875), poet and philosopher
• Gisela Elsner (1937–1992), novelist who won the Prix Formentor
• Hans Folz (c. 1437–1513), author and poet
• Helene von Forster (1859–1923), women's rights activist and author
• Katharina Gerlachin (c. 1517–1592), printer and publisher
• Hans Glaser (c. 1500–1573), printer, block-cutter, woodcut winter, and publisher
• Claire Goll (1890–1977), writer and journalist
• Hans Wilhelm Hammerbacher (1903–1980), author
• Wilfried Happel (born 1965), playwright and author of radio plays and film scripts
• Bertita Harding (1902–1971), royal German biographer
• Georg Philipp Harsdörffer (1607–1658), jurist, poet, and translator^[15]
• Karl von Hegel (1813–1901), author and historian
• Robert Ludwig Kahn (1923–1970), poet
• Hermann Kesten (1900–1996), novelist and dramatist
• Anton Koberger (c. 1440–1513), bookseller who established the first printing house in Nuremberg, known as the publisher of the Nuremberg Chronicle^[16]
• Robert Kurz (1943–2012), Marxist philosopher, social critic, journalist, and editor of Exit!
• Christoph Gottlieb von Murr (1733–1811), historian and journal editor
• Eugen Ortner (1890–1947), playwright and writer
• Peter Owen (1927–2016), publisher and founder of Peter Owen Publishers^[17]
• Johannes Petreius (c. 1497–1550), printer
• Johann Rietsch (1778–1814), poet
• Franz Schmidt (1555–1634), diarist
• Timur Vermes (born 1967), writer
• Johann Vogel (1589–1663), poet and Lutheran minister

• Lucie Adelsberger (1895–1971), Jewish physician, imprisoned at Auschwitz and Ravensbrück
• Karl Bechert (1901–1981), theoretical physicist
• Joachim Camerarius the Younger (1534–1598), physician, botanist, and zoologist^[18]
• Johanna Hellman (1889–1982), surgeon
• Ruth Illig (1924–2017), pediatric endocrinologist and a professor of pediatrics at the University of Zurich
• Friedrich Sigmund Merkel (1845–1919), anatomist and histopathologist
• Marion Rosen (1914–2012), physiotherapist who developed the Rosen Method
• Fredric Wertham (1895–1981), psychiatrist

• Friedrich Beckh (1908–1942), World War II military aviator
• Edmund Blaurock (1899–1966), general in the army of Nazi Germany during World War II
• Gustav Fehn (1892– 1945), German general during World War II
• Otto Heinrich Fugger, Count of Kirchberg (1592–1644), professional soldier in Imperial and Bavarian service during the Thirty Year's War
• Hugo Gutmann (1880–1962), German Jewish army officer
• Georg Haus (1895–1945), general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II
• Karl Herzog (1906–1998), German officer in the Wehrmacht during World War II
• Carl Hilpert (1888–1947), German general during World War II
• Heinz Kemethmüller (1914–1984), Luftwaffe ace and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II
• Fritz Ritter von Kraußer (1888–1934), SA-Obergruppenführer killed in the Night of the Long Knives
• Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein (1870–1948), German general who assisted in the direction of the Ottoman Army during World War I
• Hanns Laengenfelder (1903–1982), German general during World War II
• Hans Michahelles (1899–1975), German admiral during World War II
• Egbert Picker (1895–1960), General in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II
• Friedrich Ritter von Röth (1893–1918), German World War I fighter ace
• Karl Schnörrer (1919–1979), German military aviator who served in the Luftwaffe during World War II
• Otto Sponheimer (1886–1961), German General of the Infantry during World War II
• Heinrich Thoma (1891–1948), German general during World War II
• Arnold Hans Weiss (1924–2010), U.S. Army intelligence officer who helped find Hitler's will

• Pierre Alamire (c. 1470–1536), music copyist, composer, and instrumentalist
• Chaya Arbel (1921–2007), Israeli classical composer^[19]
• Johannes Bastiaan (1911–2012), violinist
• Albert Bittner (1900–1980), conductor and Generalmusikdirektor
• Harald Blüchel (born 1966), electronic artist who is mostly known under his alias Cosmic Baby
• Karl-Walter Böhm (1938–2000), opera singer
• Kevin Coyne (1944–2004), musician, singer, composer, film-maker, and writer
• Hans Deinzer (1934–2020), clarinetist
• Joerg Deisinger (born 1966), bassist and a founding member of the band Bonfire
• Jacob Denner (1681–1735), woodwind instrument maker
• Hugo Distler (1908–1942), organist, choral conductor, teacher, and composer
• Dhurata Dora (born 1992), singer and songwriter
• Cornelius Heinrich Dretzel (c. 1697–1775), organist and composer
• Gerald Eckert (born 1960), composer, cellist, and painter
• Max Erdmannsdörfer (1848–1905), conductor, pianist and composer
• Christina Gerstberger (born 1976), operatic soprano
• Sascha Gerstner (born 1977), guitarist and member of the band Helloween
• Gunther Göbbel (born 1979), singer who took part in Deutschland sucht den Superstar
• Ernst Gröschel (1918–2000), pianist
• Johann Wilhelm Haas (1649–1723), trumpet maker and engraver
• Hans Leo Hassler (1564–1612), composer and organist
• Jakob Hassler (1569–1622), Renaissance composer
• Kasper Hassler (1562–1618), organist and composer
• Johann Andreas Herbst (1588–1666), composer and music theorist
• Sebald Heyden (1499–1561), musicologist, cantor, theologian and hymn-writer
• Stefan Hippe (born 1966), composer, conductor and accordionist
• Carl van der Hoeven (1580–1661), composer and organist
• Hans Hopf (1916–1993), operatic tenor
• Willy Horváth (1917–2011), violinist
• Siegfried Jerusalem (born 1940), operatic tenor
• Johann Erasmus Kindermann (1616–1655), Baroque organist and composer
• Georg Andreas Kraft (c. 1660–1726), Baroque composer and musician
• Karl August Krebs (1804–1880), pianist, composer, conductor and Kapellmeister
• Walter Kreppel (1923–2003), bass singer known for his opera performances
• Johann Krieger (1651–1735), composer and organist
• Johann Philipp Krieger (c. 1649-1725), Baroque composer and organist
• Rudi Mahall (born 1966), contemporary jazz bass clarinet player
• Marusha (born 1966), electronic music disc jockey, producer, and television presenter
• Johannes Menke (born 1972), music theorist and composer.
• Martha Mödl (1912–2001), Wagner soprano/mezzo-soprano
• Bernhard Molique (1802–1869), violinist and composer^[20]
• Johann Pachelbel (1653–1706), composer, organist, and teacher^[21]
• Conrad Paumann (c. 1410–1473), organist, lutenist and composer
• Johann Pfeiffer (1697–1761), violinist, concert master, and composer of the late baroque period
• Deva Premal (born 1970), singer known for introducing Sanskrit mantras into the mainstream
• Franz Reizenstein (1911–1968), composer and concert pianist
• Ulrich Rück (1882–1962), collector of musical instruments and dealer in pianos
• Hans Sachs (1494–1576), Meistersinger, poet, playwright, and shoemaker^[22]
• Gerlinde Sämann (born 1969), soprano known for her performances in concerts and operas
• Martin Scherber (1907–1974), composer
• Ann-Helena Schlüter, pianist, organist, composer, and poet
• Alexander Schreiner (1901–1987), organist of the Salt Lake Tabernacle who wrote the music to several LDS hymns
• Johann Staden (1581–1634), Baroque organist and composer
• Anton Ferdinand Titz (1742–1811), composer, violinist, and viola d'amore player
• André Watts (1946–2023), pianist
• Hieronymus Weickmann (1824–1896), viola player and composer
• Leopold Widhalm (1722–1776), luthier
• Erwin Wohlfahrt (1932–1968), opera singer
• Dan Zimmermann (born 1966), drummer in the bands Gamma Ray and Freedom Call

• Hieronymus Baumgartner (1498–1565), Bürgermeister and a major contributor to the early Reformation.
• Günther Beckstein (born 1943), Minister-President of Bavaria, and head of Frederick V's government-in-exile in the Hague
• Conrad I (c. 1186–1261) Burgrave of Nuremberg from the House of Hohenzollern
• Conrad I of Raabs (died 1143), Burgrave of Nuremberg
• Conrad II of Raabs (c. 1125 – c. 1191), Burgrave of Nuremberg
• Rudolf Eberhard (1914–1998), member of the Landtag of Bavaria
• Hieronymus Wilhelm Ebner von Eschenbach
• Patricia Flor (born 1961), Ambassador of Germany to China
• Helene von Forster (1859–1923), women's rights activist and author
• Frederick I (1139–1200), the first Burgrave of Nuremberg from the House of Hohenzollern
• Frederick III (c. 1220–1297), Burgrave of Nuremberg from the House of Hohenzollern,
• Frederick IV (1287–1332), Burgrave of Nuremberg
• Frederick V (c. 1333–1398), Burgrave of Nuremberg
• Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg (1371–1440), the last Burgrave of Nuremberg in 1397–1427^[23]
• Frederick IV, Count of Zollern (c. 1188 – c. 1255), Burgrave of Nuremberg
• Michael Frieser (born 1964), member of the German Bundestag
• Gottfried II of Raabs (died c. 1137), Burgrave of Nuremberg
• Gottfried III of Raabs (died c. 1160), Burgrave of Nuremberg
• Otto Gessler (1875–1955), mayor of Regensburg, mayor of Nuremberg, and German Minister of Defence
• Hermann Glaser (1928–2018), politically engaged cultural historian and commentator
• Karl Grönsfelder (1882–1964), Bavarian political activist and politician
• Nils Gründer (born 1997), politician of the Free Democratic Party and member of the German Bundestag
• Thomas Händel (born 1953), member of the European Parliament
• Marian Hastings (1675–1729), Scottish Jacobite supporter
• Katja Hessel (born 1972), member of the German Bundestag
• Karl Holz (1895–1945), Nazi Party politician
• Luc Jochimsen (born 1936), former television journalist and politician of The Left party.
• John I (c. 1279–1300), Burgrave of Nuremberg
• John II (c. 1309–1357), Burgrave of Nuremberg
• John III (c. 1369–1420), Burgrave of Nuremberg and Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
• Lisa Kalvelage (1923–2009), anti-war demonstrator during the Vietnam War
• Martin Kastler (born 1974), Member of the European Parliament
• Christian Gottfried Lorsch (1773–1830), first civilian first mayor of Nuremberg after it incorporation into the Kingdom of Bavaria
• Kristine Lütke (born 1982), Member of the German Bundestag
• Margaret of Bohemia (1373–1410), Burgravine of Nuremberg
• Ulrich Maly (born 1960), Mayor of Nuremberg (2002–2020)
• Donald McEachin (1961–2022), U.S. House of Representatives, Virginia Senate, and Virginia House of Delegates
• Verena Osgyan (born 1971), member of the Bavarian Landtag
• Melanie Oßwald (born 1976), member of the German Bundestag
• Willibald Pirckheimer (1470–1530), Renaissance humanist, imperial counselor, and a member of the City Council of Nuremberg
• Jan Plobner (born 1992), member of the German Bundestag
• Heinz Raether (1909–1986), physicist and director of the Institute for Applied Physics at the University of Hamburg
• Hannelore Roedel (born 1957), member of the German Bundestag
• Ludwig Scholz (1937–2005), mayor of Nuremberg
• Martin Sichert (born 1980), member of the German Bundestag
• Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368–1437), King of Hungary, Croatia, Germany, Bohemia, and Italy; Holy Roman emperor from 1433 until 1437.^[24]
• Markus Söder (born 1967), Minister-President of Bavaria
• Käte Strobel (1907–1996), Federal Minister of Healthcare (1966–1969) and Federal Minister of Youth, Family and Health (1969–1972)
• Johannes Wagner (born 1991), member of the German Bundestag
• Bettina Borrmann Wells (born 1874), suffragette
• Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (1361–1419), King of Bohemia and German King^[25]
• Tobias Winkler (born 1978), member of the German Bundestag
• Giora Yoseftal (1912–1962), Israeli Minister of Labour, Minister of Housing, and Minister of Development
• Hans Ziegler (1877–1957), founder of the founder of the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany and mayor of Nuremberg
• Hans Zimmermann (1906–1984), Nazi Party official

• Johann Wilhelm Baier (1647–1695), theologian in the Lutheran scholastic tradition
• Christoph Birkmann (1703–1771), theologian and minister
• Veit Dietrich (1506–1549), Lutheran theologian, writer, and reformer.
• Eberhard I (died 1164), Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria.
• Christina Ebner (1277–1356), Dominican nun, writer and mystic
• August Engelhardt (1875–1919), founder of a sect of sun worshipers in German New Guinea
• Johann Funck (1518–1566), Lutheran theologian
• Johann Heß (1490–1547), Lutheran theologian and Protestant reformer
• Margareta Karthäuserin (mid 15th century), nun and scribe at the Dominican conven
• Adelheid Langmann (c. 1306–1375), nun known for her text, Revelations
• Katerina Lemmel (1466–1533), Birgittine nun and patrician businesswoman
• Georg Major (1502–1574), Lutheran theologian
• Hans Meiser (1881–1956), Protestant theologian, pastor, and the first Landesbischof of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria.
• Gustav Philipp Mörl (1673–1750), theologian and librarian
• Johann Sigismund Mörl (1710–1791), theologian
• Maximilian Nagel (1747–1772), theologian
• Lucas Osiander the Elder (1534–1604), pastor of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg
• Poppo von Osterna (died 1266), ninth Grandmaster of the Teutonic Order
• Caritas Pirckheimer (1467–1532), abbess during the Reformation^[26]
• Johannes Pfefferkorn (1469–1523), Catholic theologian and convert from Judaism^[27]
• Gerhard von Rad (1901–1971), Old Testament scholar, Lutheran theologian, and professor at the University of Heidelberg
• Werner Radspieler (1939–2018), auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bamberg
• Karl-Josef Rauber (1934–2023), cardinal and prelate of the Catholic Church
• Moritz Rosenhaupt (1841–1900), Jewish cantor and composer
• Sebaldus (11th century), the patron saint of Nuremberg
• Gottlieb Christoph Adolf von Harless (1806–1879), Lutheran theologian^[28]
• Hermann Josef Wehrle (1899–1944), Catholic priest

• Michael Adelbulner (1702–1779), physicist, mathematician, physician, and astronomer
• Karl Bechert (1901–1981), theoretical physicist in atomic physics and politician
• Ernst von Bibra (1806–1878), scientist, naturalist and author
• Maria Clara Eimmart (1676–1707), astronomer, engraver and designer
• Albert Fleischmann (1862–1942), zoologist
• Alfred Byrd Graf (1901–2001), botanist
• Ludwig Hopf (1884–1939), theoretical physicist
• Klaus Kalb (born 1942), lichenologist
• Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717), entomologist, naturalist and scientific illustrator
• Karl Michahelles (1807–1834), zoologist
• Franz Wilhelm Neger (1868–1923), botanist, mycologist and dendrologist
• Johann Leonhard Rost (1688–1727), astronomer
• Johannes Roth (1815–1858), zoologist
• Hieronymus Schreiber (died 1547), mathematician and astronomer
• Meier Schwarz (1926–2022), plant physiologist
• Ernst Stromer (1871–1952), paleontologist
• Johann Wilhelm Sturm
• Suzanne Saueressig (1925–2013), first practicing female veterinarian in Missouri
• Kaspar Uttenhofer (1588–1621), astronomer
• Johann Christoph Volkamer (1644–1720), botanist and author
• Johann Georg Wagler (1800–1832), herpetologist and ornithologist
• Johann Andreas Wagner (1797–1861), palaeontologist, zoologist, and archaeologist
• Bernhard Walther (1430–1504), astronomer^[29]
• Johannes Werner (1468–1522), astronomer, mathematician, geography, and instrument maker
• Johann Wolf (1765–1824), naturalist and ornithologist
• Johann Philipp von Wurzelbauer (1651–1725), astronomer

• Kurt Albert (1954–2010), climber
• Tobias Dier (born 1976), professional golfer
• Harry Frei (born 1951), Australian rules footballer and cricketer
• Alfred Kornprobst (1940–1991), weightlifter who competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics
• Günther Meier (1941–2020), amateur boxer, bronze medalist at the 1968 Summer Olympics
• Nicole Roth (born 1995), professional handball player
• Sebastian Steudtner (born 1985), surfer
• Tobias Wadenka (born 1990), badminton player
• Julia Willand (born 1972), beach volleyball player
• Lisa Zimmermann (born 1996), freestyle skier who won the gold medal in slopestyle at the 2015 World Championships

• Bastian Doreth (born 1989), professional basketball player
• Christopher McNaughton (born 1982), professional basketball player
• Kasha Terry (born 1983), professional basketball player

• Georg Klaus (1912–1974), chess player
• Ludwig Rödl (1907–1970), chess master

• Willi Fuggerer (1941–2015), track cyclist who competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics
• Matthias Kessler (born 1979), professional road racing cyclist
• Karl Kittsteiner (1920–2011), racing cyclist who won the German National Road Race in 1946
• Friedrich von Löffelholz (1955–2017), cyclist who competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics
• Fritz Neuser (born 1932), cyclist who competed in the tandem sprint at the 1956 Summer Olympics
• Gerhard Scheller (born 1958), cyclist who competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics
• Georg Umbenhauer (1912–1970), racing cyclist who won the German National Road Race in 1936
• Georg Voggenreiter (1912–1986), racing cyclist who won the German National Road Race in 1947

• Hermann End (born 1942), field hockey player who competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics
• Wolfgang End (1939–2008), field hockey player who competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics
• Nina Hasselmann (born 1986), field hockey player who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics
• Hannah Krüger (born 1988), field hockey player who competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics
• Maximilian Müller (born 1987), field hockey player, gold medalist at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics
• Norbert Schuler (born 1938), field hockey player who competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics
• Justus Weigand (born 2000), field hockey player
• Christopher Wesley (born 1987), field hockey player who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics

• Bruce Collie (born 1962), professional player in the National Football League
• Dominik Eberle (born 1996), National Football League player

• Friedl Iby (1905–1960) gymnast who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics
• Elisabeth Ostermeyer (born 1929), gymnast who competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics
• Hans Pfann (1920–2021), gymnast who competed at the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics
• Irma Walther (1920–2005), gymnast who competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics
• Lydia Zeitlhofer (1931–2019), gymnast who competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics

• Jessin Ayari (born 1992), mixed martial arts fighter and former Superior Fighting Championship Welterweight Champion
• Rabia Gülec (born 1994), taekwondo athlete who represented Germany at the 2016 Summer Olympics
• Sümeyye Manz (born 1989), taekwondo practitioner who won the gold medal at the 2008 European Taekwondo Championships and represented Germany at the 2008 Olympics and 2012 Olympics
• Servet Tazegül (born 1988), taekwondo practitioner who won the bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics

• Hermann Böhm (1916–1983), motorcycle racer.
• Kevin Hanus (born 1993), professional motorcycle racer
• Fritz Riess (1922–1991), racing driver
• Tobias Siegert (born 1991), Grand Prix motorcycle racer

• Heinrich Gollwitzer (born 1923), sports shooter who competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics
• Heinz Mertel (born 1936), sport shooter who competed at the 1968, 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics

• Florian Just (born 1982), pair skater
• Norbert Schramm (born 1960), figure skater
• Freimut Stein (1924–1986), figure skater who competed at the 1952 Winter Olympics
• Markus Tröger (born 1966), speed skater who competed at the 1992 Winter Olympics

• Deniz Aytekin (born 1978), football referee
• Willi Billmann (1911–2001), footballer and member of the German national football team
• Ekin Çelebi (born 2000), professional footballer
• Marco Christ (born 1980), professional footballer
• Şamil Çinaz (born 1986), professional.footballer
• Benjamin Cortus (born 1981), football referee
• Dominik Eberle (born 1996), football player
• Karl-Heinz Ferschl (1944–2023), professional footballer
• Georg Friedel (1913–1987), professional footballer
• Benjamin Fuchs (born 1983), professional footballer
• Vanessa Fudalla (born 2001), professional footballer
• Sebastian Gärtner (born 1993), professional footballer
• Jann George (born 1992), professional footballer
• Peter Geyer (born 1952), professional footballer
• Argiris Giannikis (born 1980), professional football manager
• Madeleine Giske (born 1987), professional footballer
• Günther Glomb (1930–2015), football manager and head coach of the Thailand national football team
• Gottlieb Göller (1935–2004), professional footballer and manager
• Michael Görlitz (born 1987), professional footballer
• Isabella Hartig (born 1997), professional footballer
• Georg Hochgesang (1897–1988), professional footballer and manager
• Arijon Ibrahimović (born 2005), professional footballer
• Helmut Jahn (1917–1986), professional footballer
• Hans Kalb (1899–1945), professional footballer
• Joannis Karsanidis (born 1993), professional footballer
• Alexandros Kartalis (born 1995), professional footballer
• Manfred Kastl (born 1965), professional footballer
• Georg Köhl (born 1995), professional footballer
• Michael Krämer (born 1985), footballer
• Frans Krätzig (born 2003), professional footballer
• Willi Kund (1908–1967), footballer
• Nastassja Lein (born 2001), professional footballer
• Ludwig Leinberger (1903–1943), footballer who was part of Germany's team at the 1928 Summer Olympics
• Horst Leupold (born 1942), professional footballer
• Jamie Leweling (born 2001), professional footballer
• Julian Löschner (born 1996), professional footballer
• Alberto Méndez (born 1974), professional footballer
• Max Morlock (1925–1994), professional footballer
• Andreas Munkert (1908–1982), footballer
• Marc Oechler (born 1968), professional footballer
• Richard Oehm (1909–1975), professional footballer
• Adnan Osmanović (born 1997), professional footballer
• Chhunly Pagenburg (born 1986), professional footballer
• Christiane Pape (born 1960), para table tennis player who won seven medals in world championships
• Peter Perchtold (born 1984), professional footballer and coach
• Nils Piwernetz (born 2000), professional footballer
• Fritz Popp (born 1940), professional footballer
• Luitpold Popp (1893–1968), professional footballer
• Marco Rapp (born 1991), professional footballer
• David Raum (born 1998), professional footballer
• Sercan Sararer (born 1989), professional footballer
• Josef Schmitt (1908–1980), professional footballer and member of Germany's team at the 1928 Summer Olympics
• Patrick Schönfeld (born 1989), professional footballer
• Leonhard Seiderer (1895–1940), professional footballer
• Wolfgang Strobel (1896–1945), professional footballer
• Heinrich Stuhlfauth (1896–1966), footballer and member of Germany's team at the 1928 Summer Olympics
• Hans Sutor (1895–1976), professional footballer
• Sebastian Szikal (born 1986), professional footballer
• Malik Tillman (born 2002), professional footballer
• Timothy Tillman (born 1999), professional soccer player
• Heinrich Träg (1893–1976), professional footballer
• Frank Türr (born 1970), professional footballer
• Enrico Valentini (born 1989), professional footballer
• Daniel Wagner (born 1987), professional footballer
• Ferdinand Wenauer (1939–1992), professional footballer
• Marcel Wenig (born 2004), professional footballer
• Julian Wießmeier (born 1992), professional footballer
• Tasso Wild (born 1940), professional footballer
• Mike Windischmann (born 1965), professional footballer
• Aycan Yanaç (born 1988), professional footballer

• Gerrit Fauser (born 1989), professional ice hockey player
• Bernd Herzig (born 1941), ice hockey player who competed at the 1964 Winter Olympics
• Marius Möchel (born 1991), professional ice hockey player
• Lukas Reichel (born 2002), professional ice hockey player
• Niklas Treutle (born 1991), professional ice hockey player
• Sven Ziegler (born 1994), professional ice hockey player

• Gerda Daumerlang (1920–2006), diver who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics
• Daniela Götz (born 1987), swimmer who won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics
• Suse Heinze (1920–2018), diver who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics
• Olga Jensch-Jordan (1913–2000), springboard diver
• Amina Kajtaz (born 1996), swimmer who competed in the women's 100-metre butterfly at the 2016 Summer Olympics
• Hermann Lotter (1940–2013), swimmer who competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics and the 1964 Summer Olympics
• Teresa Rohmann (born 1987), medley swimmer who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics
• Hannah Stockbauer (born 1982), swimmer and bronze medalist at the 2004 Summer Olympics

• Johannes Härteis (born 1996), professional tennis player
• Robin Kern (born 1993), professional tennis player
• Maximilian Marterer (born 1995), professional tennis player
• Hans Nüsslein (1910–1991), tennis player and coach
• Wiltrud Probst (born 1969), professional tennis player
• Jurij Rodionov (born 1999), professional tennis player
• Nicole Vaidišová (born 1989), professional tennis player
• Nina Zander (born 1990), professional tennis player

• Inge Bausenwein (1920–2008), competed in the women's javelin throw at the 1952 Summer Olympics
• Christian Haas (born 1958), sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres
• Hugo Leistner (1902–2002), hurdler who won the NCAA championship in the 120 yd hurdles in 1925

• Absolute Andy (born 1983), professional wrestler
• Georg Gerstäcker (1889–1949), wrestler who competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics
• Kurt Leucht (1903–1974), Greco-Roman wrestler won a gold medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics
• Tim Schleicher (born 1988), freestyle wrestler who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics
• Alex Wright (born 1975), professional wrestler

• Leonhard Mahlein (1921–1985), trade union leader

• Burgraviate of Nuremberg
• List of mayors of Nuremberg