Editing Kassel (section)

==Notable people==
{{Further|Category:People from Kassel}}

=== Academia ===
* [[Helmut Hasse]] (1898–1979), fundamental theorist in algebra and number theory
* [[Dieter Koch-Weser]] (1916–2015), professor, [[Harvard Medical School]] and [[Harvard School of Public Health]]
* [[Franz Rosenzweig]] (1886–1929), Jewish-German theologian, philosopher and translator
* [[Georg Friedrich Sartorius]] (1765–1828), academia, research historian and economist

=== Actors and entertainment ===
* [[Daniel Bandmann]] (1837–1905), actor-manager
* [[Doris Devrient]] (1801–1882), actress and singer.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Eisenberg|first1=Ludwig|title=Ludwig Eisenberg's großes biographisches Lexikon der deutschen Bühne im XIX.|date=1903|location=Leipzig|pages=188–189|url=https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/0006/bsb00067974/images/index.html?id=00067974&groesser=&fip=193.174.98.30&no=&seite=204 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[Christine Genast]] (1798–1860), actress, singer and pianist.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Eisenberg|first1=Ludwig|author1-link=Ludwig Eisenberg (writer)|title=Ludwig Eisenberg's großes biographisches Lexikon der deutschen Bühne im XIX. Jahrhundert|date=1903|publisher=P. List|location=Leipzig|page=314 |url=https://archive.org/details/ludwigeisenberg00eiseuoft/page/314/mode/2up|language=de}}</ref>
* [[Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt]] (born 1956), television journalist and talk show host
* [[F. W. Murnau]] (1888–1931), movie director in the [[silent film|silent era]]
* [[Barbara Rudnik]] (1958–2009), actress
* [[Otto Sander]] (1941–2013), actor
* [[Meryem Sahra Uzerli]] (born 1983), Turkish-German actress

=== Artists and designers ===
* [[Arnold Bode]] (1900–1977), architect, painter, designer, and founder of the documenta
* [[Simon Louis du Ry]] (1726–1799), architect
* [[Hugo Wilhelm Arthur Nahl]] (1833–1899), artist who designed the [[Seal of California]]
* [[Albrecht Rosengarten]] (1809–1893), architect famous for synagogue buildings in Central Europe
* [[Richard Cassels]] (1690 – 1751), architect

=== Business ===
* [[Georges Kugelmann]] (1809–1882), newspaper printer
* [[Horst Paulmann]] (born 1935), German-Chilean billionaire entrepreneur, and founder and chairman of [[Cencosud]]

=== Musicians ===
* [[Franz Curti]] (1854–1898), opera composer
* [[Andreas Dippel]] (1866–1932), operatic tenor
* [[Chris Hülsbeck]] (born 1968), video game music composer
* [[Gertrud Elisabeth Mara]] (1749–1833), operatic soprano
* [[Israel Meyer Japhet]] (1818–1892) choral director in [[Frankfurt am Main]]
* [[Louis Spohr]] (1784–1859), composer and violinist, commemorated by a museum in the city
* [[Charlotte Sporleder]] (1836–1915), composer
* [[Johannes von Soest]] (1448–1506), medieval musician, music theorist, poet, and composer
* [[Milky Chance]] (2013–present), [[Band (rock and pop)|band]]

=== Politicians, military and civil servants ===
*[[Holger Börner]] (1931–2006), politician
*[[Hans Eichel]] (born 1941), politician
*[[Werner von Fichte]] (1896–1955), SA general and police chief
*[[Philipp Scheidemann]] (1865–1939), briefly Germany's Chancellor after the First World War
*[[Josias von Heeringen]] (1850–1926), general
*[[Heinrich von Porbeck]], major general, died at the [[Battle of Talavera]] (1809)
*[[Johanna Vogt]] (1862–1944), [[suffragette]] and the first woman on the city council of Kassel starting in 1919
*[[Kay-Achim Schönbach]] (born 1965), retired Vice Admiral of the [[German Navy]] and politician ([[Values Union]])

=== Royalty and socialites ===
*[[Jérôme Bonaparte]] (1784–1860), Prince, brother of [[Napoleon Bonaparte]], lived in Kassel while he was king of [[Kingdom of Westphalia|Westphalia]]
*[[Maria Amalia of Courland]] (1653–1711), noblewoman, participated in creation of park at [[Karlsaue]]
*[[Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel]] (1744–1836)
*[[Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel]] (1747–1837)
*[[Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel|Princess and Landgravine Augusta of Hesse-Kassel]] (1797–1889), consort to [[Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge]]
*[[Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel]] (1627–1686), noblewoman, member of the [[House of Hesse-Kassel]]
*[[Louise of Hesse-Kassel]] (1817–1898), princess of Hesse-Kassel, later queen consort of [[Christian IX of Denmark|King Christian IX]] of [[Kingdom of Denmark|Denmark]]
*[[William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel]] (1532–1592), the first [[Landgrave]] of the [[Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel]]
*[[Frederick I of Sweden]] (1676–1751), King of Sweden and also Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel

=== Scientists and physicians ===
* [[Valerius Cordus]] (1515–1544) physician and botanist, authored [[pharmacopoeias]] and herbals
* [[Friedrich Armand Strubberg]] (1806–1889), merchant, physician, colonist in North America, direct descendant of [[Frederick I of Sweden]]
* [[Justus Carl Hasskarl]] (1809–1894), botanist specialising in [[Pteridophytes]], [[Bryophytes]], and [[Spermatophytes]]
*[[Carl Friedrich Claus]] (1827–1900), chemist
*[[Adolf Eugen Fick]] (1829–1901), physiologist
*[[Jakob Stilling]] (1842–1915), ophthalmologist, son of [[Benedict Stilling]], surgeon, and brother of [[:de:Heinrich Stilling|Heinrich Stilling]], pathologist
*[[Carl Kaiserling]] (1869–1942), pathologist

=== Sports ===
*[[Leni Junker]] (1905–1997), sprinter
*[[Yunus Mallı]] (born 1992), Turkish footballer
*[[Annika Mehlhorn]] (born 1983), butterfly and medley swimmer
*[[Yona Melnik]] (born 1949), Israeli Olympic judoka
*[[Carolin Simon]] (born 1992), footballer

=== Writers and journalists ===
*The [[Brothers Grimm]], Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859), academics, linguists, cultural researchers, and authors who collected folklore and published several collections as [[Grimms' Fairy Tales]]
*[[Helmut Kollars]] (born 1968), writer and illustrator
*[[Rudolf Erich Raspe]] (1736–1794), [[University of Kassel]] librarian who fled to England after embezzling significant funds from [[Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel]], and wrote (or compiled) ''[[s:The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen|The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchhausen]]''
*[[Christian Ludwig Reissig]] (1784–1847), romantic poet
*[[Paul Reuter]] (1816–1899), reporter, founder of the [[Reuters]] news agency
*[[Lucien Scheler]] (1902–1999), French poet, writer, and publisher
*[[Anant Kumar]] (born 1969), writer, journalist, translator and literary critic of Indian descent

=== Others ===
*[[Herman Lamm]] (1890–1930), German-American bank robber
*[[Norbert Trelle]] (born 1942), Roman Catholic German bishop
*[[Nils Seethaler]] (born 1981), ethnologist

[[File:Kassel asv2022-02 img21 Rathaus.jpg|thumb|The city hall]]