Editing Heidelberg (section)

=== Arts===
[[File:Zelfportret Caspar Netscher - Rijksmuseum SK-A-2666.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Caspar Netscher]], self portrait]]
[[File:12 Years a Slave 18 (9733817928).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Michael Fassbender]], 2013]]
* [[Caspar Netscher]] (1639–1684), a Dutch portrait and genre painter.<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Netscher, Gaspar |volume= 19 |page= 421 |last= |first= |author-link= |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Joseph Görres]] (1776–1848), writer, philosopher, theologian, historian and local University lecturer.<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Görres, Johann Joseph von |volume= 12 |pages= 260-261 |short=1}}</ref>
* brothers [[Karl Philipp Fohr]] (1795–1818) & [[Daniel Fohr]] (1801-1862), painters
* [[Carl Rottmann]] (1797–1850), landscape painter.<ref>{{Cite NIE |wstitle= Rottmann, Karl |volume= XVII | page= |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Charles Beck]] (1798–1866), American classical scholar.<ref>{{cite Appletons'|wstitle= Beck, Charles |volume = I |page= 212 |short= 1}}</ref>
* [[Ernst Fries]] (1801–1833), painter, worked on a transition from [[Romanticism]] to [[Realism (arts)|Realism]].
* [[Jakob Götzenberger]] (1802–1866), mural painter and portraitist.<ref>{{Cite NIE |wstitle= Götzenberger, Jakob |volume= IX | page= |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Caroline Bauer]] (1807–1877), actress of the [[Biedermeier]] era
* [[Ernst Jünger]] (1895–1998), German author, officer, botanist and entomologist, wrote ''[[Storm of Steel]]'' 
* [[Muhammad Iqbal]] (1877–1938), [[South Asia]]n poet and philosopher; studied locally
* [[Marie Marcks]] (1922–2014), graphic artist and cartoonist; the ''Grande Dame of [[Political cartoon|political caricature]]''
* [[Viola Farber]] (1931–1998) an American choreographer and dancer.
* [[Michael Hampe]] (1935–2022), theatre and opera director
* [[Bernhard Schlink]] (born 1944), lawyer, academic and novelist; wrote ''[[The Reader]]''
* [[Jackson Browne]] (born 1948), singer-songwriter and musician
* [[:de:Nico Hofmann|Nico Hofmann, (DE Wiki)]] (born 1959), film director, film producer, screenwriter and businessman
* [[Arvid Boecker]] (born 1964) painter and curator, lives and works locally
* [[Ellen Ehni]] (born 1973), journalist and TV editor
* [[Michael Fassbender]] (born 1977), German-Irish actor
* [[Paul Ripke]] (born 1981), [[Fashion photography|fashion]] and [[sports photographer]] and [[music video director]] 
* [[Marcel Cartier]] (born 1984), hip-hop artist, journalist, filmmaker, writer and political commentator