Editing Wuppertal (section)

==Notable people==
{{Category see also|People from Wuppertal}}
[[File:Friedr. Bayer 1863.jpg|thumb|100px|Friedrich Bayer 1863]]
[[File:Engels 1856.jpg|thumb|100px|Friedrich Engels]]
[[File:Else Lasker-Schüler 1875.jpg|thumb|100px|Else Lasker-Schüler 1895]]
[[File:Johannes rau 2004-05-16 berlin-RZ.jpg|thumb|100px|Federal President Johannes Rau in 2004]]
*[[Ian Ashley]] (born 1947), British-German [[Formula One]] driver
*[[Christian Lindner]] (born 1979), politician
*[[Pina Bausch]] (1940–2009), choreographer known for her work with the Wuppertal Dance Theater, died in Wuppertal
*[[Friedrich Bayer]] (1825–1880), founder of the Friedrich Bayer paint factory, later [[Bayer|Bayer AG]]
*[[Greta Bösel]] (1908–1947), concentration camp guard executed for war crimes
*[[Gyles Brandreth]] (born 1948), English writer, broadcaster, actor, and former British Conservative Member of Parliament
*[[Arno Breker]] (1900–1991), sculptor
*[[Peter Brötzmann]] (1941–2023), [[free jazz]] musician
*[[Rudolf Carnap]] (1891–1970), philosopher of science
*[[Udo Dirkschneider]] (born 1952), singer and songwriter
*[[Rudolf Dreßler]] (1940–2025), politician and ambassador
*[[George Dreyfus]] (born 1928), Australian bassoonist, composer
*[[Hermann Ebbinghaus]] (1850–1909), psychologist who studied [[memory]]
*[[Friedrich Engels]] (1820–1895), philosopher, historian, coauthor of ''[[The Communist Manifesto]]'' (with [[Karl Marx]])
*[[Kurt Franz]] (1914–1998), SS Officer, major perpetrator of genocide during the Holocaust, died in Wuppertal
*[[Daniel Gerlach]] (born 1977), journalist
*[[Hans Grüneberg]] (1907–1982), British geneticist, born in Wuppertal.
*[[Marco Goecke]], (born 1972) choreographer
*[[Vincenzo Gualtieri]], professional boxer
*[[Christoph Maria Herbst]] (born 1966), actor and comedian
*[[Carolina Hermann]] (born 1988), figure skater
*[[Felix Hoffmann]] (1868–1946), scientist, synthesized aspirin while working at a Bayer facility in Wuppertal
*[[Raimund Hoghe]] (1949–2021), choreographer, dancer, film maker, journalist, and author
*[[Werner Hoyer]] (born 1951), politician (FDP), President of the European Investment Bank
*[[Ignaz Kirchner]] (1946–2018), actor
*[[Linda Kisabaka]] (born 1969), middle-distance runner
*[[Hans Knappertsbusch]] (1888–1965), orchestra conductor
*[[Peter Kowald]] (1944–2002), [[free jazz]] musician
* Adolph Hermann Josef Kuhrs, later [[Adolph Coors]], (1847-1929), brewer
*[[Hans Peter Luhn]] (1896–1964), computer scientist
*[[Else Lasker-Schüler]] (1869–1945), expressionist poet
*[[Harald Leipnitz]] (1926–2000), actor
*[[Ulrich Leyendecker]] (1946–2018), composer
*[[Reimar Lüst]] (1923–2020), astrophysicist
*[[Hans Moller (painter)|Hans Moller]] (1905–2000), painter
*[[Steffen Möller]] (born 1969), satirist and actor in Poland
*[[Sylkie Monoff]], singer-songwriter
*[[Franz Yaakov Orgler]] (1914-2015), track and field athlete
*[[Simone Osygus]] (born 1968), swimmer
*[[Siegfried Palm]] (1927–2005), cellist, director of [[Hochschule für Musik Köln]], general manager of [[Deutsche Oper Berlin]]
*[[Julius Plücker]] (1801–1868), physicist
*[[Kolja Pusch]] (born 1993), footballer
*[[Johannes Rau]] (1931–2006), politician (SPD), former Federal President of Germany.
*[[Hans Reichel]] (1949–2011), composer, recording artist, and inventor of the [[Daxophone]]
*[[Emil Rittershaus]] (1834–1897), poet
*[[Alice Schwarzer]] (born 1942), one of the leaders of the German second wave [[feminism]]
*[[Annette Seiltgen]] (born 1964), operatic singer
*[[Hans Singer]] (1910–2006), British economist
*[[Ilse Steppat]] (1917–1969), actress
*[[Rita Süssmuth]] (born 1937), former president of the German Parliament
*[[Horst Tappert]] (1923–2008), actor
*[[Helmut Thielicke]] (1908–1986), theologian
*[[Stephen Timoshenko]] (1878–1972), Russian engineer and academician
*[[Bettina Tietjen]] (born 1960), television presenter
*[[Tom Tykwer]] (born 1965), movie director and composer
*[[Günter Wand]] (1912–2002), composer and orchestra conductor
*[[Ute Vinzing]] (born 1936), operatic soprano
*[[Henrik Freischlader]] (born 1982), blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer
*[[Wolf Hoffmann]] (born 1959), metal guitarist, initiator of the musical band [[Accept (band)|Accept]]
*[[Armin T. Wegner]] (1886–1978), soldier, medic, human rights activist
*[[Mathilde Wesendonck]] (1828–1902), poet, author, artist, muse of [[Richard Wagner]]