This list includes people who were born in or lived in Breslau before 1945. For a list of famous residents after 1945, see List of notable people from Wrocław. * Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915) a psychiatrist and neuropathologist, discovered Alzheimer's disease * Paul Amman (1634–1691), German physician and botanist. * Günther Anders (1902–1992) a German-Austrian Jewish émigré, philosopher, essayist and journalist. * Adolf Anderssen (1818–1879) a German chess master. * Đorđe Andrejević-Kun (1904–1964), a Serbian painter and academic. * Heinz Arndt (1915–2002), an Australian economist * Leopold Auerbach (1828–1897), a German anatomist and neuropathologist * Joannes Aurifaber Vratislaviensis (1517–1568), a Lutheran theologian and Protestant reformer. * Bertha Badt-Strauss (1885–1970), a German writer and Zionist. * Boleslaw Barlog (1906–1999), a German stage, film and opera director * Erhard Bauschke (1912–1945), a German jazz and light music reedist and bandleader. * Max Berg (1870–1947), a German architect and urban planner, designed the Centennial Hall * Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), Lutheran clergyman, leader of the resistance against Nazism * Max Born (1882–1970), a German physicist and mathematician, developed quantum mechanics * August Borsig (1804–1854), a German businessman who made steam engines * Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945), a German philosopher, main interests: Epistemology & aesthetics * Hendrik Claudius (c1655-1697), painter and apothecary * Ferdinand Cohn (1828–1898), a biologist, a founder of modern bacteriology and microbiology. * Richard Courant (1888–1972), a German American mathematician, wrote What Is Mathematics? * Harri Czepuck (1927–2015), a German journalist. * Walter Damrosch (1862–1950), an American conductor and composer. * John Gunther Dean (1926–2019), an American diplomat, the United States ambassador to five nations. * Johann Dzierzon (1811–1906), a Polish beekeeper, discovered parthenogenesis in bees. * Hermann von Eichhorn (1848–1918), a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall during WWI. * Norbert Elias (1897–1990), a German/British sociologist, worked on civilizing/decivilizing processes. * Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein (1797-1885), a Prussian General der Infanterie * Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde (1873–1942}, a German botanist. * George Forell (1919–2011), a scholar, author, lecturer and guest professor re. Christian ethics. * Otfrid Förster (1873–1941) a German neurologist and neurosurgeon * Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat (1910–1999) a biochemist, researched viruses. * Zecharias Frankel (1801–1875), rabbi and founder of Conservative Judaism * Hans Freeman (1929–2008), Australian bioinorganic chemist and protein crystallographer * Friedrich von Gentz (1764–1832), a German diplomat and writer. * Alfred Gomolka (1942–2020), a German politician and MEP * Rudolf von Gottschall (1823–1909), a German poet, dramatist, literary critic and literary historian. * Felix Hausdorff (1868–1942), mathematician, one of the founders of algebraic topology * Martin Helwig (1516–1574) a German cartographer, created the first map of Silesia * Sir George Henschel (1850–1934) a British baritone, pianist, conductor and composer. * Johann Heß (1490–1547), Lutheran theologian, Protestant reformer of Breslau and Silesia * Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau (1616–1679) a German poet of the Baroque era * August, Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen (1784–1853), a German general and nobleman. * Karl von Holtei (1798–1880), German poet and actor. * E. A. J. Honigmann (1927–2011), a British scholar of English Literature * Heinz Hopf (1894–1971), a German mathematician who worked on topology and geometry. * Vernon Ingram (1924–2006), a German–American academic professor of biology in the US. * Gustav Adolph Kenngott (1818–1897), a German mineralogist. * Alfred Kerr (1867–1948), theatre critic and essayist * Gustav Kirchhoff (1824–1887), a German physicist, dealt with electrical circuits and spectroscopy * Gerhard Kittel (1888–1948), a German Lutheran theologian and lexicographer of biblical languages. * Otto Klemperer (1885–1973), orchestral conductor and composer * August Kopisch (1799–1853), a German poet and painter. * Wojciech Korfanty (1873–1939), a Polish activist, journalist and politician. * Arthur Korn (1870–1945), physicist, invented transmission of photographs by facsimile and wireless * Arthur Korn (1891–1978), a German architect and urban planner, proponent of modernism * Carl Ferdinand Langhans (1782–1869), a Prussian architect whose specialty was theatres. * Carl Gotthard Langhans (1732–1808), a Prussian master builder and royal architect. * Ferdinand Lassalle (1825–1864), a Prussian-German jurist, philosopher and socialist. * Carl Friedrich Lessing (1808–1880), a German historical and landscape painter. * Marie Leszczyńska (1703 in Trzebnica – 1768), Queen consort of France. * Daniel Casper von Lohenstein (1635–1683), a Baroque Silesian playwright, lawyer, diplomat and poet * Peter Lorre (1904–1964), an Austrian-Hungarian and American actor. * Georg Lunge (1839–1923), a German chemist. * Rudolf Meidner (1914–2005), a Swedish economist and socialist theorist * Joachim Meisner (1933–2017), Cardinal priest and archbishop of Cologne * Adolph Menzel (1815–1905), a German Realist artist noted for drawings, etchings and paintings. * Jan Mikulicz-Radecki (1850-1905), surgeon, contributed to development of modern surgery * Richard Mohaupt (1904–1957), a German composer and Kapellmeister. * Edda Moser (born 1938), a German operatic soprano. * Moritz Moszkowski (1854–1925), a composer, pianist and teacher of Polish-Jewish descent. * Hugo von Pohl (1855–1916), a German admiral, commander of High Seas Fleet * Louis Prang (1824–1909), printer, lithographer and publisher * Michael Oser Rabin (born 1931), mathematician and computer scientist * Manfred von Richthofen (1892–1918), World War I flying ace (the "Red Baron") * Oskar von Riesenthal (1830–1898) a German forester, ornithologist, hunter and writer. * Ludwig Rosenfelder (1813-1881), German painter * Horst Rosenthal (1915–1942), German-born French cartoonist * Julius von Sachs (1832–1897), a German botanist. * Johann Gottfried Scheibel (1783–1843), theological professor and dissenter to the Prussian Union * Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834) a Reformed theologian, philosopher and biblical scholar * Auguste Schmidt (1833–1902), a German feminist, educator, journalist and women's rights activist. * Margarethe Siems (1879–1952), a German operatic coloratura soprano * Angelus Silesius (ca.1624–1677), a German Catholic priest, physician, mystic and religious poet. * Edith Stein (1891–1942), philosopher and Roman Catholic martyr * Michael Steinberg (1928–2009) an American music critic and author * Fritz Stern (1926–2016), American historian of German & Jewish history and historiography. * Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1730–1794), Inspector General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War * Siegbert Tarrasch (1862–1934), chess player * Augustin Theiner ((1804–1874), theologian and Church historian of the Vatican Apostolic Archive * August Tholuck (1799–1877), a German Protestant theologian, pastor and historian. * Michel Thomas (1914–2005), war hero and language teacher. * Zacharias Ursinus (1534–1583) a German Reformed theologian and Protestant reformer. * Christian Wolff (1679–1754), a German philosopher. * Adolf Wuttke (1819–1870) a German Protestant theologian. * Johann Heinrich Zedler (1706–1751), publisher of a German encyclopedia, the Grosses Universal-Lexicon. 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This list includes people who were born in or lived in Breslau before 1945. For a list of famous residents after 1945, see List of notable people from Wrocław. * Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915) a psychiatrist and neuropathologist, discovered Alzheimer's disease * Paul Amman (1634–1691), German physician and botanist. * Günther Anders (1902–1992) a German-Austrian Jewish émigré, philosopher, essayist and journalist. * Adolf Anderssen (1818–1879) a German chess master. * Đorđe Andrejević-Kun (1904–1964), a Serbian painter and academic. * Heinz Arndt (1915–2002), an Australian economist * Leopold Auerbach (1828–1897), a German anatomist and neuropathologist * Joannes Aurifaber Vratislaviensis (1517–1568), a Lutheran theologian and Protestant reformer. * Bertha Badt-Strauss (1885–1970), a (en)
