A Day On Wikipedia

<small>This list includes people who were born in or lived in [[Wrocław|Wrocław/Breslau]] before 1945. For a list of famous residents after 1945, see [[List of notable people from Wrocław]]</small>

* [[Alois Alzheimer]] – discoverer of [[Alzheimer’s Disease]].
* [[Adolf Anderssen]] – 19th-century [[chess master]].
* [[Max Berg]] — architect, designer of ”[[Centennial Hall]]”.
* [[Dietrich Bonhoeffer]] – [[Lutheran]] clergyman, religious leader in the resistance movement against [[Nazism]].
* [[August Borsig]] – entrepreneur.
* [[Ernst Cassirer]] – philosopher.
* [[Ferdinand Cohn]] – biologist
* [[Richard Courant]] – mathematician
* [[Jan Dzierżon]] – [[apiarist]].
* [[Norbert Elias]] – sociologist
* [[Otfrid Foerster|Otfrid Förster]] — neuro-surgeon.
* [[Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat]] – virologist
* [[Zecharias Frankel]] – rabbi and founder of [[Conservative Judaism]]
* [[Felix Hausdorff]] – mathematician, one of the founders of [[algebraic topology]]
* [[Johann Heß]] – lutheran theologian, Protestant reformer of Breslau and Silesia
* [[Heinz Hopf]] – mathematician (topology)
* [[Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau]] – Baroque poet
* [[Karl Eduard von Holtei]] – poet and actor
* [[Vernon Ingram]] – biologist.
* [[Alfred Kerr]] – theatre critic and essayist
* [[Gerhard Kittel]] – New Testament scholar and philologist
* [[Gustav Robert Kirchhoff]] – physicist
* [[Wojciech Korfanty]] – political activist
* [[Otto Klemperer]] (* 1885) – conductor
* [[Carl Ferdinand Langhans]] – architect
* [[Carl Gotthard Langhans]] – architect
* [[Daniel Casper von Lohenstein]] – poet and diplomat
* [[Ferdinand Lassalle]] – socialist politician and reformer
* [[Carl Friedrich Lessing]] – artist
* [[Rudolf Meidner]] – economist and socialist theorist
* [[Max Born]] – Physicist
* [[Joachim Meisner]] – Cardinal priest and archbishop of Cologne
* [[Adolph von Menzel]] – artist
* [[Jan Mikulicz-Radecki]] – surgeon, contributed to development of modern surgery
* [[Edda Moser]] – soprano opera singer
* [[Louis Prang]] – printer, lithographer and publisher
* [[Manfred von Richthofen]] – WWI flying ace
* [[Julius von Sachs]] – botanist
* [[Johann Gottfried Scheibel]] – theological professor and dissenter to the [[Prussian Union (Evangelical Christian Church)|Prussian Union]]
* [[Friedrich Schleiermacher]] – theologian and philosopher
* [[Angelus Silesius]] – 17th century religious poet
* [[Edith Stein]] – philosopher and Roman Catholic martyr
* [[Fritz Stern]] – historian
* [[Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben]] – inspector general of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
* [[Siegbert Tarrasch]] – chess player
* [[Michel Thomas]] – war hero and language teacher
* [[Christian Wolff (philosopher)|Christian Wolff]] – philosopher

=== Nobel laureates ===
<!– born in Breslau ? –>
<small>”listed by year of award” </small>
* [[Theodor Mommsen]] (1902)
* [[Philipp Lenard]] (1905)
* [[Eduard Buchner]] (1907)
* [[Paul Ehrlich]] (1908)
* [[Gerhart Hauptmann]] (1912)
* [[Fritz Haber]] (1918)
* [[Friedrich Bergius]] (1931)
* [[Erwin Schrödinger]] (1933)
* [[Otto Stern]] (1943)
* [[Max Born]] (1954)
* [[Reinhard Selten]] (1994)