List of University of Freiburg people
This is a list of notable alumni and academics of the University of Freiburg. 10 Nobel laureates are associated with the university and 13 researchers have been honored with the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize since it was first awarded in 1986.- Günther Anders
- Hannah Arendt
- Hildegard Behrens
- Walter Benjamin
- Götz Briefs
- Rudolf Carnap
- James Demske, S.J., – President of Canisius College
- Davor Dzalto
- Alfred Döblin
- Erasmus of Rotterdam
- Eugen Fink
- Hans F. K. Günther
- Albert Bushnell Hart
- Hermann Eduard von Holst
- Martin Heidegger
- Andreas Hillgruber
- Edmund Husserl
- Karl Jaspers
- Eberhard Jäckel
- Hans Jonas
- Paul Kirchhoff
- Emmanuel Lévinas
- Karl Löwith
- Niklas Luhmann
- Claudio Magris
- Karl Mannheim
- Herbert Marcuse
- Werner Marx
- Friedrich Meinecke
- Wilfred Harold Munro
- Henry Pachter
- Hermann Paul
- Heinrich Rickert
- Gerhard Ritter
- James Harvey Robinson
- Franz Rosenzweig
- Kuki Shūzō
- Villy Sørensen
- Humphrey Spender
- Edith Stein
- Leo Strauss
- Matthew Sweeney
- Gerd Tellenbach
- James Hayden Tufts
- George Vernadsky
- Martin Waldseemüller
- Charles William Wallace
- Max Weber
- Wim Wenders
- Heinrich Joseph Wetzer
- H.C. Wolfart
Politics and law
- Konrad Adenauer
- Richard V. Allen
- M. Cherif Bassiouni
- Hildegard Behrens
- Karl Binding
- Alfred Biolek
- Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde
- Ben Bradshaw
- Jürgen Chrobog
- Archibald Cary Coolidge
- Horst Ehmke
- Konstantin Fehrenbach
- Hans Filbinger
- Joseph Goebbels
- John Gormley
- Jürgen-Peter Graf
- Ulrich Haltern
- Volker Kauder
- Julius Leber
- Otto Lenel
- Jutta Limbach
- Carl Otto von Madai
- Thomas de Maizière
- Charles Malik
- Johannes Masing
- Stanisław Mieroszewski
- Cameron Munter
- Karl von Rotteck
- Panagiotis Pipinelis
- Klaus Scharioth
- Wolfgang Schäuble
- Peter Schlechtriem
- Bernhard Schlink
- Friedrich Schoch
- Elsbeth Schragmüller
- Gesine Schwan
- Jürgen Schwarze
- Nikolaus Senn
- Zalman Shazar
- Silja Vöneky
- Andreas Voßkuhle
- Joseph Wirth
- Ulrich Zasius
Economics
- Franz Böhm
- Walter Eucken
- Friedrich August von Hayek, professor
- Adolph Wagner
Theology
- Wolfgang Capito
- Daniel Ciobotea
- Johann Eck
- Josef Frings
- Georg Gänswein
- Romano Guardini
- Balthasar Hubmaier
- Karl Lehmann
- Karl Rahner
- Gregor Reisch
- Franz Anton Staudenmaier
- Robert Zollitsch
Medicine and sciences
- Ludwig Aschoff
- Robert Bárány, student
- Erwin Baur
- Theodor Bilharz
- Korbinian Brodmann
- Vincenz Czerny
- Heinrich Anton de Bary
- Paul du Bois-Reymond
- Alexander Ecker
- Herman Ehrenberg
- Paul Ehrlich, student
- Hermann Emminghaus
- Alice Ettinger
- Sidney Farber
- Eugen Fischer
- Ulrich Förstermann
- Otfrid Foerster
- Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch
- Felix Hausdorff
- Harald zur Hausen, professor
- Alfred Hegar
- Philip Hench, student
- Karl Herxheimer
- George de Hevesy, student and professor
- Alfred Hoche
- Karen Horney
- Waldemar Hoven, German Nazi physician executed for war crimes
- J. Hans D. Jensen, student
- Gustav Killian
- Martin Kirschner
- Georges J. F. Köhler, student and professor
- Otto Krayer
- Hans Adolf Krebs, student and scientist
- Adolph Kussmaul
- Cornelius Lanczos
- Paul Langerhans
- Theodore K. Lawless, American dermatologist, medical researcher, and philanthropist
- Friedrich Wilhelm Levi
- Kurt Lewin
- Erich Lexer
- Ferdinand von Lindemann
- Hubert von Luschka
- Rudolf Robert Maier
- Frank Burr Mallory
- Ernst Messerschmid
- Otto Meyerhof, student
- Gustav Mie
- Woldemar Mobitz
- Mario Molina, student
- Paul Morawitz
- Hugo Münsterberg
- Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli
- Max Nonne
- Wilhelm Normann
- Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, scientist
- Lorenz Oken
- Georgios Papanikolaou
- John Parkinson
- Georg Perthes
- Hagen Pfundner
- Otto Friedrich Ranke, physiologist
- Julius von Sachs
- Bert Sakmann, student
- Christoph Scheiner
- Otto Schirmer
- Rudolph Schoenheimer
- Hans Spemann, professor
- Otto Spiegelberg
- Hermann Staudinger, professor
- Mikhail Stepanovich Voronin
- Louis Stromeyer
- Wilhelm Trendelenburg
- Paul Uhlenhuth
- Herbert E. Walter
- Otto Heinrich Warburg, student ".
- August Weismann
- Robert Wiedersheim, professor of Anatomy between 1887 and 1918.
- Heinrich Otto Wieland, professor
- Adolf Windaus, student and scientist
- Georg Wittig, professor
- Ernst Zermelo, mathematician
Other
- Rabbi David Cohen,"The Nazirite Rabbi"
- Wilhelm Ehmann, musicologist, conductor, founder and director of the Herford School of Church Music
- Pascal Krauss, wrestler; professional mixed martial artist, former Cage Warriors Welterweight Champion and current UFC Welterweight
