Editing Karlsruhe (section)

=== 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