Editing Minden (section)

==Notable people==
[[File:Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel.jpeg|thumb|150px|[[Friedrich Bessel|Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel]]]]
[[File:FranzBoas.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Franz Boas]]]]
*[[Master Bertram|Master Bertram of Minden]] (c.1345–c.1415), painter
*[[Johann Vesling]] (1598–1649), physician
*[[Georg Wilhelm von dem Bussche|Georg Wilhelm von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen]] (1726–1794), Hanoveran officer
*[[Caroline von Humboldt]] (1766–1829), art historian, wife of Wilhelm von Humboldt
*[[Ludwig von Vincke]] (1774–1844), Prussian statesman, Supreme President of Westphalia
*[[Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel]] (1784–1846), astronomer and mathematician
*[[Karl von Vincke]] (1800–1869), politician and officer
*[[Pauline von Mallinckrodt]] (1817–1881), founder of the order ''[[Sisters of Christian Charity]]''
*[[Hermann von Mallinckrodt]] (1821–1874), politician
*[[Otto von Diederichs]] (1843–1918), Admiral
*[[Otto von Emmich]] (1848–1915), General
*[[Franz Boas]] (1858–1942), American anthropologist
*[[Ludwig Borckenhagen]] (1859–1917), Admiral
*[[Otto Quante]] (1875–1947), painter
*[[Hans Koeppen]] (1876–1948), officer and racing driver
*[[Gertrud von le Fort]] (1876–1971), writer
*[[Carl Hoffmann]] (1885–1947), cinematographer
*[[Richard Reimann]] (1892–1970), General
*[[Karl-Siegmund Litzmann]] (1893–1945), Nazi officer
*[[Franz Brandt]] (1893–1954), officer
*[[Hans Cramer]] (1896–1968), General 
*[[Rolf E. Vanloo]] (1899–1941 ff.), film producer
*[[Hermann Bartels]] (1900–1989), architect
*[[Paul Kelpe]] (1902–1985), painter
*[[Heinrich Trettner]] (1907–2006), General of the Wehrmacht, Inspector General of the Bundeswehr
*[[Karl Strauss]] (1912–2006), brewer in Milwaukee
*[[Heinz Körvers]] (1915–1942), handball player
*[[Hans Wollschläger]] (1935–2007), translator of [[James Joyce]] and [[Edgar Allan Poe]]
*[[Herbert Lübking]] (born 1941), handball player, field handball world champion
*[[Jutta Hering-Winckler]] (born 1948), patron of music
*[[Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger]] (born 1951), politician
*[[Burkhard Schwenker]] (born 1958), manager
*[[Lutz Hachmeister]] (born 1959), media historian, filmmaker, journalist
*[[Wolfgang Rathert]] (born 1960), musicologist
*[[Angelika Brandt]] (born 1961), marine biologist
*[[Yves Eigenrauch]] (born 1971), footballer
*[[René Müller]] (born 1974), footballer
*[[Martin Schmeding]] (born 1975), concert organist and academic teacher
*[[Jan-Martin Bröer]] (born 1982), rower
*[[Thilo Versick]] (born 1985), footballer
*[[Tim Danneberg]] (born 1986), footballer
*[[René Rast]] (born 1986), racing driver
*[[Jan-Christoph Borchardt]] (born 1989), open source interaction designer

===Notable residents===
[[File:Schachtdeckel mit Wappen der Stadt Minden, Nordrhein-Westfalen.jpg|thumb|Decorative manhole cover]]
*[[Heinrich von Herford]] (c. 1300–1370), Dominican
*[[Friedrich Hoffmann]] (1660–1742), physician in Minden garrison, inventor of the ''Hoffmannstropfen'' ([[Compound spirit of ether]])
*[[Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach]] (1759–1845), composer and music director
*[[Melitta Bentz]] (1873–1950), inventor of the coffee filter

===Honorary citizens===
Honorary citizenship was awarded to fourteen people totally;<ref>{{cite journal |last1=von Schroeder |first1=Johann Karl |title=Die Ehrenbürger der Stadt Minden |journal=Mitteilungen des Mindener Geschichtsvereins |date=1965 |volume=37 |pages=141–151 |url=https://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/hd/download/pdf/4685534?originalFilename=true |access-date=10 March 2022}}</ref> yet living are handball player [[Herbert Lübking]] (born 1941) and former mayor Heinz Röthemeier (born 1924). Other honorary citizens were:

* [[Ludwig von Vincke]] (1774–1844), Prussian statesman
* [[August Karl von Goeben]] (1816–1880), general
* [[Alfred Meyer]] (1891–1945), Nazi official