This is a list of people from Aachen, alternatively known as Bad Aachen and Aix-la-Chapelle, arranged by date.
Pre 13th century
Charlemagne (748–814), also known as Charles the Great, moved to Aachen and made it the capital of his empire Æthelwulf (–858), king of Wessex, and father of Alfred the Great, was born in Aachen while his father, Egbert, was in exile at Charlemagne's court.
13th–17th century
Theobald Craschel (1511–1587), auxiliary bishop in Cologne
18th century Isabelle Brunelle (1724–1805), refugee and philanthropist Johann Joseph Couven (1701–1763), architect and builder
1800–1820
Adam Eberle (1804–1832), history painter and lithographer of the romance Friedrich Thyssen (1804–1877), banker Johannes Theodor Laurent (1804–1884), Apostolic Vicar of Luxemburg Alfred von Reumont (1808–1887), statesman and historian Henri Victor Regnault (1810–1878), French physicist and chemist Arnold Foerster (1810–1884), botanist and entomologist Peter Ludwig Kuhnen (1812–1877), landscape painter of the Romantic Mary Frances Schervier (1819–1876), founder of the Poor Sisters of St. Francis
1821–1840
Joseph Hubert Reinkens (1821–1896), Old Catholic Church bishop and theologian Franz Bock (1823–1899), canon and art historian Adolph von Hansemann (1826–1903), entrepreneur and banker Adolph Sutro (1830–1898), mayor of San Francisco Adam Bock (1832–1912), politician Albert Baur (1835–1906), German painter Anton Anno (1838–1893), German theatre actor, theatre director, and playwright
1841–1860
Ludwig von Pastor (1854–1928), historian and Austrian diplomat
1861–1880
Arthur Kampf (1864–1950), history painter and university professor Arthur Eichengrün (1867–1949), chemist and university lecturer Friedrich Pützer (1871–1922), architect, Protestant church architect and university lecturer Gottfried Hinze (1873–1953), 1st Chairman of the German Football Association Heinrich Hubert Houben (1875–1935), literary critic and journalist
1881–1900 Ilse Essers (1898–1994), aeronautical engineer Wilhelm Worringer (1881–1965), art historian Hugo Werner-Kahle (1882–1961), actor Hanns Bolz (1885–1918), painter, sculptor and illustrator Emil Fahrenkamp (1885–1966), architect, university professor and director of Düsseldorf Art Academy Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), architect Adam Kuckhoff (1887–1943), writer and resistance fighter against Nazism Walter Grotrian (1890–1954), astronomer and astrophysicist Walter Hasenclever (1890–1940), writer Hans Freiherr von Funck (1891–1979), an officer Edgar André (1894–1936), politician Alfred Gottschalk (1894–1973), biochemist Heinrich Maria Davringhausen (1894–1970), painter Hans Croon (1896–1977), a textile manufacturer and president of the IHK Aachen Edith Frank (1900–1945), mother to Anne Frank, was born in Aachen
1901–1910
Robert Ritter (1901–1951), Nazi racial theorist Leonhard Drach (1903–1996), jurist and war criminal Carl Schneider (1905–1975), painter and university professor Helmuth Gericke (1909–2007), mathematician and historian of mathematics Hans Ernst Schneider alias Hans Schwerte (1909/10–1999), SS-Hauptsturmführer and literary scholar
1911–1920
Friedrich Hendrix (1911–1941), athlete Bert Heller (1912–1970), painter Fredy Hirsch (1916–1944) German Jewish youth movement leader known for helping children during the Holocaust Karl Otto Götz (b. 1914), the main representative of abstract art and Informel in Germany
1921–1930
Claus Helmut Drese (1922–2011), opera and theatre director, writer Max Imdahl (1925–1988), art historian Otto Graf Lambsdorff (1926–2009), politician (FDP)
1931–1940 Heiner Ruland (1934–2017), composer and music therapist Gerd Heinz (born 1940), stage, film and television actor, stage director and theatre manager Horst H. Baumann (1934–2019), artist, designer and photographer Kurt Malangré (1934–2018), politician Paul Theissen (born 1937), pianist, conductor and choirmaster Wolf Kahlen (born 1940), video pioneer and performance, object and media artist
1941–1950
Manfred Schell (born 1943), trade unionist and politician Raymund Havenith (1947–1993), pianist and university lecturer Paul Lovens (born 1949), drummer Ulla Schmidt (born 1949), politician Hermann Bühlbecker (born 1950), entrepreneur Franz Josef Radermacher (born 1950), professor of computer science
1951–1960
Gisela Burckhardt (born 1951), human rights activist Udo Dahmen (born 1951), drummer, managing director of the Pop Academy Baden-Württemberg and music lecturer Léo Apotheker (born 1953), manager, SAP Matthias Frings (born 1953), journalist, television presenter and writer Karl Del'Haye (born 1955), football player Bascha Mika (born 1954) is a German journalist and publicist Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen (born 1954), politician Thomas Springel (born 1959), handball player Sabine Wils (born 1959), politician
1960-2000 Sabina Classen (born 1963), thrash metal singer of the band Holy Moses, was born in Aachen Michael Reisch (born 1964), artist and photographer, was born in Aachen Uli Kusch (born 1967), a worldwide recognized metal drummer, was born in Aachen Kool Savas (born 1975), musician and rapper Gracht, Heiko Andreas von der, German economist, futurist, and non-fiction author, was born in Aachen Hendrik Schmitz (born 1978), German politician David Garrett (born 1980), a world-famous violinist, was born in Aachen. Katrin Heß (born 1985), actress and model Kai Havertz (born 1999), German professional footballer who plays for Premier League club Arsenal F.C. and the Germany national team.
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