text: Wilhelm Fuchs (1898–1947), Nazi SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator executed for war crimes
  Hedwig Hillengaß (1902–1970), operatic soprano
  Albert Speer (1905–1981), Nazi architect, Minister for Armaments and Munitions during World War II
  Julius Hatry (1906–2000), aircraft designer and builder. He created the world's first purpose-built rocket plane.
  Hans Filbinger (1913–2007), politician
  Samuel Hans Adler (born 1928), German-American composer, conductor and professor
  Claus Leininger (1931–2005), theatre director and manager
  Wolf Wolfensberger (1934–2011), German-American psychologist
  Roger Fritz (1936–2021), actor
  Rudi Altig (1937–2016), cyclist
  Christiane Schmidtmer (1939–2003), actress
  Fred Breinersdorfer (born 1946), writer
  Karl W Schweizer (born 1946), historian and author
  Kurt Fleckenstein (born 1949), artist/sculptor
  Peter Dani (1956–2002), American footballer
  Norbert Schwefel (1960–2015), musician
  Juergen Adams (born 1961), ice hockey player
  Uwe Rahn (born 1962), footballer
  Christine Lambrecht (born 1965), politician (SPD)
  Franz Jung (born 1966), Roman Catholic bishop
  Steffi Graf (born 1969), tennis player
  Xavier Naidoo (born 1971), pop singer
  Christian Wörns (born 1972), footballer
  Lexi Alexander (born 1974), director
  Bülent Ceylan (born 1976), German-Turkish comedian
  Jochen Hecht (born 1977), ice hockey player
  Uwe Gensheimer (born 1989), handball player
  Giulia Enders (born 1990), writer and medical researcher
  Pascal Groß (born 1991), footballer
  Hakan Çalhanoğlu (born 1994), Turkish footballer
  Paulina Krumbiegel (born 2000), footballer