Editing Wiesbaden (section)

==Notable people==
[[File:פרופ' שלמה אקשטיין (24519769611) (cropped).jpg|thumb|180px|[[Shlomo Eckstein]]]]
[[File:MoritzKoernerMEP (cropped).jpg|thumb|180px|[[Moritz Körner]]]]
[[File:John McEnroe 005.png|thumb|180px|[[John McEnroe]]]]
[[File:Simone Signoret (Harcourt).jpg|thumb|180px|[[Simone Signoret]]]]
*[[Kathrin Ackermann]] (born 1938), actress
*[[Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg]] (born 1817, [[Biebrich Palace]]), reign 23 November 1890 – 17 November 1905
*[[Norbert Becker (agroscientist)|Norbert J. Becker]] (1937–2012), agricultural scientist and specialist in the area of vine breeding and viticulture
*[[Adolphus Busch]] (1839–1913), founder of [[Anheuser-Busch]]
*[[Sarah Colonna]] (born 1974), American stand-up comedian
*[[Shlomo Eckstein]] (1929–2020), Israeli economist and President of [[Bar-Ilan University]]
*[[Gisela Ehrensperger]] (born 1943), Swiss operatic soprano
*[[Erwin Finlay-Freundlich]] (1885–1964), astronomer
*[[Petra Fuhrmann]] (1955–2019), member of the [[Hessian Landtag]]
*[[Biruté Galdikas]] (born 1946), Lithuanian-Canadian primatologist
*[[Jürgen Grabowski]] (1944–2022), footballer
*[[Berthold Guthmann]] (1893–1944), lawyer and First World War veteran
*[[Peter Hanenberger]] (born 1942), automotive specialist for [[General Motors]], previously chairman of [[Holden]]
*[[Karl Herxheimer]] (1861–1942), dermatologist 
*[[Renée Riese Hubert]] (1916–2005), German-born American writer and academic
*[[Franz Kaiser]] (1891–1962), astronomer, discoverer of asteroid [[717 Wisibada]] and asteroid [[765 Mattiaca]], both named in honour of the city of Wiesbaden
*[[Wilhelm Kempf (bishop)|Wilhelm Kempf]] (1906–1982), Catholic theologian, Bishop of Limburg 1949–1981
*[[Julia Kerr]] (1898–1965), composer and pianist
*[[Michael Kessler]] (born 1967), actor and comedian
*[[Alfred Koerppen]] (1926–2022), organist, music pedagogue, composer and academic teacher
* [[Moritz Körner]] (born 1990), German politician of the [[Free Democratic Party (Germany)|Free Democratic Party]], [[Member of the European Parliament]] 
*[[Otto Krebs]] (1873–1941), industrialist and art collector
*[[Günther Lütjens]] (1889–1941), admiral and commander of the World War II naval [[Operation Rheinübung]], aboard the battleship {{ship|German battleship|Bismarck||2}}
*[[Bruce Maxwell]] (born 1990), American baseball player (born on a U.S. military base)
*[[John McEnroe]] (born 1959), American tennis player (born on a U.S. military base)
*[[August Momberger]] (1905–1969), racing driver and engineer
*[[Melody Perkins]] (born 1974), American actress
*[[Emil Pfeiffer]] (1846–1921), physician
*[[Bud Pierce]] (born 1956), American politician
*[[Dieter Rams]] (born 1932), industrial designer, former head of design for [[Braun (company)|Braun]]
*[[Rudolf von Ribbentrop]] (1921–2019), captain in the [[Waffen-SS]], recipient of the [[Knights Cross of the Iron Cross]] for bravery
*[[Leona Riemann]] (born 1952) German writer, author, and publisher
*[[Nico Rosberg]] (born 1985), Finnish-German racing driver, [[2016 Formula One season|2016 Formula One World Champion]]
*[[Heinrich Rubens]] (1865–1922), physicist
*[[Volker Schlöndorff]] (born 1939), film director
*[[Kristina Schröder]] (born 1977), politician (CDU)
*[[Henry Schwarzschild]] (1925–1996), American activist for civil rights and human rights
*[[Simone Signoret]] (1921–1985), French actress
*[[Kiki VanDeWeghe]] (born 1958), American basketball player, coach and executive
*[[Valerie Weigmann]] (born 1989), Filipino-German actress, host and [[Miss World Philippines 2014]] titleholder
*[[Silvia Weiss]], soprano
*[[Susan Wild]] (born 1957), American lawyer and former member of the US House of Representatives (born on a U.S. military base)
*[[Arnold Walfisz]] (1892–1962), Polish mathematician
*[[William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg]] (born 1852, [[Biebrich Palace]]), reign 17 November 1905 – 25 February 1912
*[[Maria Yakunchikova]] (1870–1902), Russian painter and graphic artist
*[[Schoolboy Q]] (born 1986), American rapper (born on a U.S. military base)

===Notable residents===

*[[Eno (rapper)|Eno]], rapper, lives in Wiesbaden
*[[Peter Carl Fabergé]], fled Russia to Germany, settled first in Bad Homburg and then in Wiesbaden
*[[Mayte Garcia]], American belly dancer, actress, author, singer and choreographer, lived in Wiesbaden with her parents. It was here that she met her future husband, the singer Prince, backstage at one of his concert
*[[Alexej von Jawlensky]], Russian Expressionist painter, lived there in 1922–1941 and died there
*[[Hava Lazarus-Yafeh]] (1930–1998), [[Orientalism|Orientalist]], scholar, editor, and educator; born in Wiesbaden.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Strauss |first=Herbert A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fNKJDwAAQBAJ |title=The Arts, Sciences, and Literature |last2=Röder |first2=Werner |last3=Caplan |first3=Hannah |last4=Radvany |first4=Egon |last5=Möller |first5=Horst |last6=Schneider |first6=Dieter Marc |date=7 February 2014 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |isbn=978-3-11-097027-2 |pages=699 |language=en |chapter=Lazarus-Yafeh, Hava |access-date=2 June 2022 |archive-date=18 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230918200512/https://books.google.com/books?id=fNKJDwAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Béla Kéler]], Hungarian composer, he lived in Wiesbaden from 1863 until his death in 1882. He led the orchestra of the Second Regiment of the Duke of Nassau (1863–1866), and later also the spa orchestra (1870–1872). 
*[[Vladimir Nabokov]], Russian novelist, poet, translator and entomologist, writes in his autobiography about his memories of his childhood in Wiesbaden
*[[Priscilla Presley]], lived in Wiesbaden with her parents. It was here that she met [[Elvis Presley]].
*[[Max Reger]], studied in Wiesbaden
*[[Mickey Rourke]], resides in Wiesbaden at least part-time with his Russian-born girlfriend Anastassija Makarenko
*[[Debby Ryan]], American actress, lived in Wiesbaden for three years
*[[Richard Wagner]], settled in [[Wiesbaden-Biebrich|Biebrich]] (now part of Wiesbaden) in 1861, after the political ban against him in Germany was lifted. It was there that he began work on [[Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg]].
*[[Reese Witherspoon]], lived in Wiesbaden with her parents

===Notable visitors===
*In the 19th century, visitors to the Wiesbaden's famous hot springs included [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] and [[Johannes Brahms]]. Brahms' [[Symphony No. 3 (Brahms)|Symphony No. 3]] (Op. 90) was composed in Wiesbaden in the summer of 1883.
*[[Washington Roebling]], chief engineer of the [[Brooklyn Bridge]], came to Wiesbaden—along with his wife, [[Emily Warren Roebling]]—in 1873, hoping that the warm springs would ameliorate the effects of the decompression sickness he suffered as a result of working in caissons of the bridge.<ref>Wagner, Erica, ''Chief Engineer: Washington Roebling, The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge'', New York, Bloomsbury, 2017, p.191ff</ref>
*Russian author [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]], who suffered from an acute gambling compulsion, allegedly lost his travelling money in Wiesbaden's ''Spielbank'' casino in 1865. The experience became the inspiration of his 1866 novel [[The Gambler (novel)|The Gambler]] (Russian Игрок), set in the fictitious place "Roulettenburg". Some historians have disputed this account, saying that [[Bad Homburg]] was the location for Dostoevsky's real-life misfortune.
*Wiesbaden's Bowling Green has been very popular in recent years since various open-air concerts have been held there by artists like [[Elton John]] (2009, 2011 & 2019), [[Rod Stewart]] (2009), [[Eric Clapton]] (2008), [[R.E.M.]] (2003), [[Sting (musician)|Sting]] (2001), [[Bryan Adams]] (2000), [[Simply Red]] (1999), [[José Carreras]] (1992), and [[Luciano Pavarotti]] (1993). [[Lionel Richie]] and [[Plácido Domingo]] (2nd time in Wiesbaden) have also performed there.