Editing Ansbach (section)

=== Arts & science ===
* [[Leonhart Fuchs]] (1501–1566), botanist and physician to margrave Georg Friedrich
* [[Simon Marius]] (1573–1625), astronomer lived in Ansbach, he observed [[Jupiter]]'s moons from the castle's tower, which led to a dispute with the true discoverer, [[Galileo Galilei]]
* [[Georg Ernst Stahl]] (1659–1734), chemist, physician and metallurgist.<ref>{{Cite NIE |wstitle= Stahl, Georg Ernest |volume= XVIII | page= |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Matthias Buchinger]] (1674–1740), a German artist, magician and illustrator, born without hands or legs
* [[Johann Uz]] (1720–1796), a German poet.<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Uz, Johann Peter |volume= 27 |pages=828-829 |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Marcus Eliezer Bloch]] (1723–1799), ichthyologist.<ref>{{cite EB9 |wstitle = Bloch, Mark Eliezer |volume= III | page= | short=1 }}</ref>
* [[Georg Christian Oeder]] (1728–1791), [[Carl Linnaeus|pre-Linnean]] botanist
* [[Ludwig Förster|Ludwig von Förster]] (1792–1863), architect: Ringstrasse, 3 & synagogues in Vienna and Budapest
* [[August von Platen-Hallermünde]] (1796–1835), poet.<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Platen-Hallermund, August, Graf von |volume= 21 |pages=804-805 |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Georges Oberhaeuser]] (1798–1868), optician
* [[Oskar von Redwitz|Oskar Freiherr von Redwitz]] (1823–1891), a poet from nearby [[Lichtenau, Bavaria|Lichtenau]].<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Redwitz, Oskar, Freiherr von |volume= 22 |page=972 |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Ferdinand Christian Gustav Arnold]] (1828–1901), lichenologist and taxonomist
* [[Wilhelm Hecht]] (1843–1920), wood engraver and etcher
* [[Fritz Hommel]] (1854–1936), orientalist
* [[Theodor Escherich]] (1857–1911), pediatrician and bacteriologist
* [[Max Westenhöfer]] (1871–1957), pathologist, professor at the [[University of Berlin]] and the [[University of Chile]]. Proposed the [[Aquatic ape hypothesis]]
* [[Herbert Blendinger]] (1936–2020), violinist and composer

[[File:Georg Volkert (1977).jpg|thumb|140px|[[Georg Volkert]], 1977]]