Editing Karlsruhe (section)

==Notable people==
=== Public service ===
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R35179, Prof. Friedrich Ratzel.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Friedrich Ratzel]]]]
[[File:Siegfried Buback.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Siegfried Buback]], 1976]]
[[File:Frank-Jurgen Richter (Horasis Global India Business Meeting 2010).jpg|thumb|140px|[[Frank-Jurgen Richter]], 2010)]]
* [[Jacob Ettlinger]] (1798–1871), an [[Ashkenazi Jews|Ashkenazi]] rabbi and author and one of the leaders of [[Orthodox Judaism]]. 
* [[Anton von Stabel]] (1806-1880), a Baden lawyer, judge and statesman.
* [[Heinrich Julius Holtzmann]] (1832–1910), Protestant theologian.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Holtzmann, Heinrich Julius|volume=13|page=620|short=1}}</ref>
* [[Adolf Hausrath]] (1837–1909), a German theologian.<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Hausrath, Adolph |volume= 13 |page= 71 |last= |first= |author-link= |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Adolf Marschall von Bieberstein]] (1842–1912), [[State Secretary]] of the [[Federal Foreign Office|Foreign Office]] of the [[German Empire]].<ref>{{Cite EB1922|wstitle=Marschall von Bieberstein, Baron Adolf von|short=1}}</ref>
* [[Karl Benz]] (1844–1929), mechanical engineer and inventor of the first automobile; founded [[Karl Benz#Benz .26 Cie. and the Benz Patent Motorwagen|Benz & Co.]], [[Daimler-Benz]], (now part of [[Daimler&nbsp;AG]]). He was born locally in [[Mühlburg]] 
* [[Friedrich Ratzel]] (1844–1904), geographer and ethnographer, used the term ''[[Lebensraum]]''.<ref>{{Cite NIE |wstitle= Ratzel, Friedrich |volume= XVI | page= 720 |short=1}}</ref> 
* [[Hedwig Kettler]] (1851–1937),  women's rights activist, writer and education reformer; founded the first German ''Mädchengymnasium'' (girls' high school) in Karlsruhe
* [[Berthold von Deimling]] (1853–1944), general officer of the German Army during [[World War I|WW1]] became a pacifist.
* [[Franz Lipp]] (1855–1937), a German lawyer and politician, participant in [[Palm Sunday Putsch]]
* [[Ludwig R. Conradi]] (1856–1939), leader of European [[Adventism]], caused controversy and schism
* [[Gustav Landauer]] (1870–1919), theorist of [[anarchism]] in Germany
* [[Maximilian Bayer]] (1872–1917), founded [[Scouting and Guiding in Germany|Scouting in Germany]] 
* [[Walter von Reichenau]] (1884–1942), ''[[Generalfeldmarschall]]'' in World War II; authored the [[Severity Order]]
* [[Otto Wagener]] (1888–1971), SA-''[[Stabschef]]'', Nazi economic specialist and a ''[[Generalmajor]]'' in the ''[[Wehrmacht]]''
*brothers [[Maximilian Fretter-Pico]] (1892–1984), & [[Otto Fretter-Pico]] (1893–1966), WW2 generals 
* [[Reinhold Frank]] (1896–1945), lawyer who worked for the [[German resistance to Nazism|resistance]] in Nazi Germany. helped the [[20 July plot]]
* [[Hans Frank]] (1900–1946), [[War crime|war criminal]] Obergruppenführer SA, [[Gauleiter]] and governor-general of Nazi-occupied Poland; hanged at Nuremberg for his war crimes during [[World War&nbsp;II]]
* [[Siegfried Buback]] (1920–1977), then-[[Attorney General of Germany|Attorney General of West Germany]], victim of the [[Rote Armee Fraktion]]
* [[Werner Nachmann]] (1925–1988), entrepreneur and politician
* [[Harry L. Ettlinger]] (1926–2018), US Army private who assisted the [[Monuments Men and Women Foundation|MFAA]] in the recovery of art looted by the Nazis. He was the last Jewish boy to celebrate his [[bar mitzvah]] in Karlsruhe's Kronenstrasse Synagogue
* [[Ingo Wellenreuther]] (born 1959), former judge; politician, (CDU), member of the Bundestag, 2002 to 2021.
* [[Dirk Jens Nonnenmacher]] (born 1963), [[mathematician]] and bank CEO and chairman
* [[Joachim Nagel]] (born 1966), economist, President of the [[Deutsche Bundesbank|Bundesbank]] since 2022.
* [[Frank-Jürgen Richter]] (born 1967), entrepreneur and former director of the [[World Economic Forum]].
* [[Ulrich Arnswald]] (born 1970), German philosopher, economist and political scientist
* [[Diana Stöcker]] (born 1970), politician (CDU)

[[File:Karoline von guenderode.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Karoline von Günderrode]]]]
[[File:Rihm Wolfgang Philharmonie koeln 0806 2007 - cropped.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Wolfgang Rihm]], 2007]]
[[File:2013-01-20-niedersachsenwahl-146.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Susanne Stichler]], 2013]]

=== The arts ===
* [[Johann Peter Hebel]] (1760–1826), short story writer, dialectal poet and Lutheran theologian; lived locally.<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Hebel, Johann Peter |volume= 13 |page= 166 |last= |first= |author-link= |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Antoine Ignace Melling]] (1763–1831), painter, architect and voyager
* [[Friedrich Weinbrenner]] (1766–1826), [[Classical architecture|neoclassicist]] architect; his tomb is in the main Protestant church.
* [[Karoline von Günderrode]] (1780–1806), [[Romanticism|romantic]] poet.
* [[August Böckh]] (1785–1867), classical scholar and antiquarian.<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Böckh, Philipp August |volume= 4 |pages= 106-107 |last= |first= |author-link= |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Julius Braun]] (1825–1869), historian, with an interest in art, culture and religion.<ref>{{Cite NIE |wstitle= Braun, Julius |volume= III | page= |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Joseph Viktor von Scheffel]] (1826–1886), poet and novelist.<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Scheffel, Joseph Viktor von |volume= 24 |pages= 315-316 |last= |first= |author-link= |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Ludwig Eichrodt]] (1827-1892), poet and dramatist.<ref>{{Cite Americana|wstitle= Eichrodt, Ludwig |volume= X |short= 1}}</ref>
* [[Ferdinand Keller (painter)|Ferdinand Keller]] (1842–1922), genre and history painter.<ref>{{Cite NIE |wstitle= Keller, Ferdinand (painter) |volume= XI | page= |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Teobert Maler]] (1842–1917),  an explorer who documented the ruins of the [[Maya civilization]].
* [[Hermann Billing]] (1867–1946), [[Art Nouveau]] architect, born and lived in Karlsruhe, where his works now are. 
* [[Karl Hofer]] (1878–1955) an [[Expressionism|expressionist]] painter & director of the [[Berlin University of the Arts|Berlin Academy of Fine Arts]].
* [[Otto Bartning]] (1883–1959), architect and architectural theorist; planned the [[Bauhaus]] with [[Walter Gropius]]
* [[Margarete Schweikert]] (1887–1957), composer, music critic, violinist and pianist
* [[Hermann Goetz (art historian)|Hermann Goetz]] (1898–1976), art historian (partic. Indian art history) and museum director 
* [[Marie Luise Kaschnitz]] (1901–1974). short story writer, novelist, essayist and poet. 
* [[Peter Sloterdijk]] (born 1947), philosopher and cultural theorist, rejects the existence of [[Mind–body dualism|dualisms]] 
* [[Wolfgang Rihm]] (1952–2024), composer of [[contemporary classical music]]
* [[Kolja Lessing]] (born 1961), violinist, pianist, composer and academic teacher
* [[Sebastian Koch]] (born 1962), television and film actor.
* [[Andi Deris]] (born 1964), musician and songwriter, lead singer of the [[power metal]] band [[Helloween]] 
* [[Susanne Stichler]] (born 1969), journalist and television presenter
* [[Laith Al-Deen]] (born 1972), pop singer.
* [[Maren Ade]] (born 1976), film director, screenwriter and producer.
* [[Nora Krug]] (born 1977), German-American writer, lives in [[Brooklyn]]
* [[Moon Ga-young]] (born 1996), South Korean actress and model

[[File:ETH-BIB-Willstätter, Richard (1872-1942)-Portrait-Portr 07881.tif|thumb|140px|[[Richard Willstätter]]]]
[[File:Rahel straus 1905.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Rahel Straus]], 1905]]
=== Science ===
* [[Johann Gottfried Tulla]] (1770–1828), stabilized and straightened the southern [[Rhine]]; a co-founder of the [[Karlsruhe University]] (1825)
* [[Karl Drais]] (1785–1851), inventor of the two-wheeler principle ([[dandy horse]]) basic to bicycles and motorcycles & the key typewriter and earliest stenograph
* [[Friedrich Parrot]] (1791–1841), a Baltic German naturalist, explorer, and mountaineer; climbed [[Mount Ararat]]
* [[Robert Gerwig]] (1820–1885), civil engineer, designer of the [[Black Forest Railway (Baden)|Black Forest Railway]]
* [[Heinrich Hertz]] (1857–1894), discovered electromagnetic waves at the [[University of Karlsruhe]] in the 1880s.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Hertz, Heinrich Rudolf |volume= 13 | pages = 400&ndash;401  |short= 1}}</ref>
* [[Hermann Blau]] (1871–1944), engineer and chemist and inventor of [[Blau gas]]
* [[Richard Willstätter]] (1872–1942), [[Organic chemistry|organic chemist]], recipient of 1915 [[Nobel Prize for Chemistry]]
* [[Eugen Fischer]] (1874–1967), physician who influenced Nazi racial hygiene
* [[Rahel Straus]] (1880–1963), a pioneering German-Jewish medical doctor, feminist and writer. 
* [[Friedrich Hund]] (1896–1997), physicist of the pioneering generation of [[quantum mechanics]] (see [[Hund's rules]]) 
* [[S. H. Foulkes]] (1898-1976), psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, founder of [[group analysis]].
* [[Erik H. Erikson]] (1902–1994), children's psychoanalyst and theoretical pioneer of [[Identity crisis|identity building]]. School locally
* [[Fritz Görnnert]] (1907–1984), German aircraft engineer and civil servant in the [[Ministry of Aviation (Nazi Germany)|Reich Aviation Ministry]]
* [[Klaus-Robert Müller]] (born 1964), computer scientist and physicist, a pioneer of [[machine learning]]

=== Sport ===
[[File:Lina Radke 1928.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Lina Radke]], 1928]]
[[File:2018-11-30 DFB presentation of the new head coach of the National Womens Team StP 6868 LR10 by Stepro.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Oliver Bierhoff]], 2018]]
* [[Ludwig Durlacher]] (1844–1924), a [[Grand Duchy of Baden]]-born American strongman and gym owner.
* [[Walther Bensemann]] (1873–1934), one of the founders of the first southern German soccer club [[Karlsruher FV]] and later one of the founders of [[German Football Association|DFB]], lived locally
* [[Gottfried Fuchs]] (1889–1972), was born in Karlsruhe and holds the record of ten goals in one single international soccer match  at the [[Football at the 1912 Summer Olympics|1912 Olympics]] for the German national team
* [[Julius Hirsch]] (1892–1945), Olympian footballer, first Jewish member of the [[Germany national football team|national team]], two-time Germany team champion, awarded the [[Iron Cross]] during World War I, murdered in [[Auschwitz concentration camp]]
* [[Lina Radke]] (1903–1983), track and field athlete gold medallist, women's 800m at the [[1928 Summer Olympics]].
* [[Gerhard Hennige]] (born 1940). a retired sprinter, silver medallist at the [[1968 Summer Olympics]] 
* [[Detlef Hofmann]] (born 1963), sprint canoeist, gold medallist at the [[1996 Summer Olympics]]. 
* [[Oliver Bierhoff]] (born 1968), retired footballer and captain of [[Germany national football team|Germany]]; played 444 games and 70 for [[Germany national football team|Germany]]
* [[Oliver Kahn]] (born 1969), [[Goalkeeper (association football)|goalkeeper]] of [[Karlsruher SC]] & [[Bayern Munich]], played 630 games and 86 for [[Germany national football team|Germany]]
* [[Mehmet Scholl]] (born 1970), footballer for [[Karlsruher SC]] & [[Bayern Munich]], played 420 games and 36 for [[Germany national football team|Germany]]
* [[Jens Nowotny]] (born 1974), footballer, played 344 games and 48 for [[Germany national football team|Germany]]
* [[Renate Lingor]] (born 1975), former footballer  for the [[Germany women's national football team]], played 149 games
* [[Regina Halmich]] (born 1976), retired female boxing flyweight world champion
* [[Vincenzo Italiano]] (born 1977), Italian football manager currently managing [[Fiorentina]], played 410 games
* [[Dennis Aogo]] (born 1987), football defender, played 340 games and 12 for [[Germany national football team|Germany]]
* [[Danny Williams (soccer, born 1989)|Danny Williams]] (born 1989), footballer played 290 games and 23 for [[United States men's national soccer team|United States]]
* [[Sead Kolašinac]] (born 1993), [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnian]] footballer, played 60 games for [[Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team|Bosnia]] 
* [[Marco Pašalić]] (born 2000), footballer<ref>{{Cite web |date=5 February 2025 |title=Orlando City SC acquires Croatian international Marco Pašalić as Designated Player |url=https://www.orlandocitysc.com/news/orlando-city-sc-acquires-croatian-international-marco-pasalic-as-designated-player |access-date=15 February 2025 |website=[[Orlando City SC|Orlando City]]}}</ref>
* [[Alexi Pitu]] (born 2002), [[Romanian national football team|Romanian]] football player

=== Aristocracy ===
* [[Charles III William, Margrave of Baden-Durlach]] (1679–1738), [[Margrave of Baden-Durlach]], 1709 to 1738. 
* [[Frederica of Baden]] (1781–1826) Queen of Sweden from 1797 to 1809 as the consort of King [[Gustav IV Adolf]].
* [[Princess Alexandrine of Baden]] (1820–1904), [[Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]] 1844 to 1893
* [[Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden]] (1857–1928) the last sovereign [[Grand Duke of Baden]], 1907 to abolition 1918.
* [[Victoria of Baden]] (1862–1930), queen consort of Sweden by her marriage to King [[Gustaf&nbsp;V of Sweden]]
* [[Berthold, Margrave of Baden]] (1906–1963), head of the [[House of Baden]], until 1918 & 1929 until his death