Editing Bonn (section)

=== Pre–20th century ===
[[File:Joseph Karl Stieler's Beethoven mit dem Manuskript der Missa solemnis.jpg|thumb|[[Ludwig van Beethoven]]]]
[[File:Alexander Koenig.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|[[Alexander Koenig]]]]
* [[Johann Peter Salomon]] (1745–1815), musician
* [[Franz Anton Ries]] (1755–1846), violinist and violin teacher
* [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] (1770–1827), composer
* [[Salomon Oppenheim, Jr.]] (1772–1828), banker
* [[Peter Joseph Lenné]] (1789–1866), gardener and landscape architect
* [[Friedrich von Gerolt]] (1797–1879), diplomat
* [[Karl Joseph Simrock]] (1802–1876), writer and specialist in German
* [[Wilhelm Neuland]] (1806–1889), composer and conductor
* [[Johanna Kinkel]] (1810–1858), composer and writer
* [[Moses Hess]] (1812–1875), philosopher and writer
* [[Johann Gottfried Kinkel]] (1815–1882), theologian, writer, and politician 
* [[Alexander Kaufmann]] (1817–1893), author and archivist
* [[Leopold Kaufmann]] (1821–1898), mayor
* [[Julius von Haast]] (1822–1887), New Zealand explorer and professor of geology
* [[Dietrich Brandis]] (1824–1907), botanist
* [[Balduin Möllhausen]] (1825–1905), traveler and writer
* [[Maurus Wolter]] (1825–1890), Benedictine, founder and first abbot of the Abbey of Beuron and Beuronese Congregation
* [[August Reifferscheid]] (1835–1887), philologist
* [[Antonius Maria Bodewig]] (1839–1915), Jesuit missionary and founder
* [[Nathan Zuntz]] (1847–1920), physician
* [[Alexander Koenig]] (1858–1940), zoologist, founder of [[Museum Koenig]] in Bonn
* [[Alfred Philippson]] (1864–1953), geographer
* [[Johanna Elberskirchen]] (1864–1943), writer and activist
* [[Max Alsberg]] (1877–1933), lawyer
* [[Kurt Wolff (publisher)|Kurt Wolff]] (1887–1963), publisher
* [[Hans Riegel Sr.]] (1893–1945), entrepreneur, founder of [[Haribo]]
* [[Eduard Krebsbach]] (1894–1947), [[SS]] doctor in [[Nazi]] [[Mauthausen concentration camp]], executed for war crimes
* [[Paul Kemp (actor)|Paul Kemp]] (1896–1953), actor