Editing Augsburg (section)

==Notable people==
[[File:Heilige Afra.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Saint Afra]]]]
[[File:Holbeinhaus Augsburg.jpg|thumb|Holbein's house]]
[[File:Guilehelmus Xylander 1669.jpg|140px|thumb|[[Wilhelm Xylander|Guilehelmus Xylander]], 1669]]
[[File:Rudolf Diesel2.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Rudolf Diesel]], {{circa|1900}}]]
[[File:Bertolt-Brecht.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Bertolt Brecht]], 1954]]
*[[Saint Afra]], (died 304), patron Saint of Augsburg, martyr 
*[[Simpert]], (died 807), abbot, bishop and confessor
*[[Ulrich of Augsburg|Saint Ulrich]] ({{Circa|890}}–973), Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg
*[[Gualfardo of Verona|Saint Wolfhard]] (1070–1127), Swabian artisan, trader and hermit
*[[Jakob Fugger the Elder]] (1398–1469), master weaver, town councillor and merchant<ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Fugger | volume= 11 | pages = 287&ndash;288  |short= 1}}</ref>
*[[Erhard Ratdolt]] (1442–1528), Printer, famous for having produced the first known printers type specimen book
*[[Jakob Fugger]] (1459–1525), Noted banker and financial broker. An area within the city, called the [[Fuggerei]], was set aside for the poor and needy in 1519.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
*[[Hans Holbein the Elder]] (1460–1524), pioneer in the transformation of German art from the [[gothic art|Gothic]] to the [[Renaissance]] style<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Holbein, Hans, the elder | volume= 13 |pages = 577&ndash;578 |short=1}}</ref>
*[[Konrad Peutinger]] (1465–1547), humanist, jurist, diplomat, politician, economist and archaeologist<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Peutinger Konrad | volume= 21 | page = 338 |short= 1}}</ref>
*[[Hans Burgkmair]] (1473–1531), painter and woodcut printmaker<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Burgkmair, Hans | volume= 4 | page = 817 |short= 1}}</ref>
*[[Caspar Aquila]] (1488–1560), Lutheran theologian and reformer<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Aquila, Caspar | volume= 2 | pages = 248&ndash;249 |short= 1}}</ref>
*[[Hans Holbein the Younger]] (1497–1543), portrait and religious painter<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Holbein, Hans, the younger | volume= 13 |last1= Crowe |first1= Joseph Archer |author1-link= Joseph Archer Crowe | pages = 578&ndash;580 |short=1}}</ref>
*[[Matthäus Schwarz]] (1497–{{Circa|1574}}), accountant and author
*[[Paulus Hector Mair]] (1517–1579), martial artist
*[[Wilhelm Xylander]] (1532–1576), classical scholar and humanist<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Xylander, Guilielmus | volume= 28 | page = 889 |short= 1}}</ref>
*[[Elias Holl]] (1573–1646), architect
*[[Philipp Hainhofer]] (1578–1647), merchant, banker, diplomat and art collector
*[[Julius Schiller]] (1580–1627), lawyer and astronomer
*[[Johann Georg Wirsung]] (1589–1643), anatomist
*[[Johann Jakob Brucker]] (1696–1770), German historian of philosophy<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Brucker, Johann Jakob | volume= 4 | pages = 677&ndash;678 |short= 1}}</ref>
*[[Andreas Christoph Graf]] (1701–1776), German teacher, author and poet
*[[Johann Jakob Haid]] (1704–1767), engraver
*[[Leopold Mozart]] (1719–1787), violinist-composer, father of [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]]
*[[Christoph Christian Sturm]] (1740–1786), preacher and author
*[[Gerhard Adam Neuhofer]] (1773–1816), deacon and historian
*[[Eduard Bayer]] (1822–1908), composer and classical guitarist
*[[Emil Schürer]] (1844–1910), Protestant theologian. He studied the history of the Jews.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Schürer, Emil | volume= 24 | page = 386 |short= 1}}</ref>
*[[Johann Most]] (1846–1906), Social Democratic and then anarchist politician, newspaper editor and orator<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Most, John | volume= 18 | page = 903 |short= 1}}</ref>
*[[Rudolf Diesel]] (1858–1913), inventor of the diesel engine
*[[Albert Rehm]] (1871–1949), philologist who first understood the significance of the [[Antikythera mechanism]]
*[[Hans von Euler-Chelpin]] (1873–1964), co-recipient of 1929 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
*[[Karl Haberstock]] (1878–1956), art dealer to the Nazis
*[[Artur Lauinger]] (1879–1961), German journalist
*[[Julius Streicher]] (1885–1946), prominent Nazi prior to World War II, founder and publisher of anti-Semitic ''[[Der Stürmer]]'' newspaper, executed for war crimes
*[[Julius Schaxel]] (1887–1943), biologist
*[[Hans Loritz]] (1895–1946), Nazi SS concentration camp commandant
*[[Bertolt Brecht]] (1898–1956), writer and theater director
*[[August Schmidhuber]] (1901–1947), Nazi SS officer, executed for war crimes
*[[Wilhelm Gerstenmeier]] (1908–1944), SS concentration camp officer, executed for war crimes
*[[Josef Priller]] (1915–1961), [[Luftwaffe]] ace
*[[Mietek Pemper]] (1920–2011), Polish-born Jew. He compiled and typed [[Oskar Schindler]]'s list, which saved 1,200 Jewish prisoners from the Holocaust.<ref name=mg>{{cite news |title=Oskar Schindler's collaborator, Mietek Pemper, has died |url=https://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Oskar+Schindler+collaborator+dies/4919305/story.html |work=[[Agence France-Presse]] |publisher=[[The Gazette (Montreal)]] |date=15 June 2011 |access-date=26 June 2011}}{{Dead link|date=December 2021|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name=nytimes>{{cite news |first=Douglas |last=Martin |title=Mietek Pemper, 91, Camp Inmate Who Compiled Schindler's List |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/world/europe/19pemper.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=18 June 2011 |access-date=26 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110623164128/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/world/europe/19pemper.html |archive-date=23 June 2011<!--DASHBot--> |url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Günther Schneider-Siemssen]] (1926–2015), scenic designer
*[[Hans Henning Atrott]] (1944–2018), German author and theorist
*[[Wolf Blitzer]] (born 1948), American journalist and CNN reporter
*[[Francis T. McAndrew]] (born 1953), American Psychologist, Professor, and Author (U.S. military parents)
*[[Günther K.H. Zupanc]] (born 1958), neurobiologist, researcher, university teacher, book author, journal editor and educational reformer
*[[Sheryl Lee]] (born 1967), actress, poet and activist
*[[Alexander Wesselsky]] (born 1968), lead singer of the German band [[Eisbrecher]]
*[[Florian Hecker]] (born 1975), experimental electronic music composer
*[[Marisa Olson]] (born 1977), artist
*[[Benny Greb]] (born 1980), solo drum artist
*[[Andreas Bourani]] (born 1983), singer-songwriter
*[[Bianca Voitek]] (born 1985), female bodybuilder
*[[Maximilian Hornung]] (born 1986), cellist

=== Sport ===
[[File:1969 Juventus FC - Helmut Haller.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Helmut Haller]], 1969]]
*[[Werner Haas]] (1927–1956), Grand Prix motorcycle road racer
*[[Ulrich Biesinger]] (1933–2011), former German footballer, part of the team that won the [[1954 FIFA World Cup]]
*[[Helmut Haller]] (1939–2012), [[Football player|footballer]] who represented [[Germany national football team|West Germany]] at three [[FIFA World Cup|World Cups]]
*[[Bernhard Langer]] (born 1957), professional golfer
*[[Bernd Schuster]] (born 1959), football coach and former player
*[[Armin Veh]] (born 1961), football coach
*[[Alexander Grau]] (born 1973), racing driver
*[[Philipp Kohlschreiber]] (born 1983), former tennis player
*[[Thomas Holzer]] (born 1985), racing driver
*[[Stefan Bradl]] (born 1989), motorcycle racer
*[[Johnny Cecotto Jr.]] (born 1989), racing driver
* [[Phoenix Sanders]] (born 1995), American baseball pitcher in the [[San Francisco Giants]] organisation
*[[Nico Sturm]] (born 1995), ice hockey player
*[[Georg Zimmermann]] (born 1997), professional cyclist
*[[Justin Butler]] (born 2001), footballer<ref>{{Cite web |title=Justin Butler |url=https://fbref.com/en/players/4bc6aa51/Justin-Butler |access-date=19 February 2025 |website=[[Sports Reference|FBref]]}}</ref>
*[[Marco Brenner]] (born 2002), professional cyclist