List of Humboldt University of Berlin people

The following is a list of individuals associated with Humboldt University of Berlin through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff. As of October 2020, the university has been associated with 57 Nobel Prize winners (including former students, faculty and researchers)

Bozorg Alavi (1904–1997), novelist and writer
Alexander Altmann (1906–1987), rabbi and scholar of Jewish philosophy and mysticism
Gerhard Anschütz (1867–1948), leading jurisprudent and "father of the constitution" of the state of Hesse
Arthur Arndt (1893–1974), physician who hid with his family during the Holocaust, the largest known surviving group of people to hide in Germany
Jörg Baberowski (born 1961), professor of eastern European history
Michelle Bachelet (born 1951), pediatrician and epidemiologist, president of the Republic of Chile
Shepard Barclay (1847–1925), justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri^[1]
Bruno Bauer (1809–1882), theologian, Bible critic and philosopher
Jurek Becker (1937–1997), writer (Jacob the Liar)
Max Bergmann (1886–1944), biochemist
Azmi Bishara (born 1956), Arab-Israeli politician
Inke Siewert (1980), professor of inorganic chemistry at University of Göttingen
Eliezer Berkovits (1908–1992), rabbi, philosopher and theologian
Willibald Beyschlag (1823-1900), theologian, publisher
Algernon Sydney Biddle (1847-1891), American lawyer and law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), first German chancellor
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), theologian and resistance fighter
Beatrix Borchard, (born 1950), musicologist
Louis Borchardt, (1816/17-1883), paediatrician
Max Born (1882–1970), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1954
Siegfried Borris (1906–1987), composer, musicologist and music educator
Aron Brand (1910–1977), pediatric cardiologist
Rudolf Brandt (1909–1948), Nazi SS officer, executed for war crimes
Gottlieb Burckhardt (1836–1907), psychiatrist, first physician to perform modern psychosurgery (1888)
Stephanie Buhmann (born 1977), art critic, art historian, and curator.
Michael C. Burda, macroeconomist
Ezriel Carlebach (1909–1956), Israeli journalist and editorial writer
Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945), philosopher
Adelbert von Chamisso (1781–1838), natural scientist and writer
Ramesh Chennamaneni (born 1956), Indian politician
Paul Anton Cibis (1911-1965), ophthalmologist and recruit under Operation Paperclip
Georg von Dadelsen (1918–2007), musicologist, Neue Bach-Ausgabe
Angela Davis (born 1944), political activist, educator, author, philosopher
Gustav Adolf Deissmann (1866-1937), theologian, New Testament Greek philologist, author, Nobel nominee
Suat Derviş (1904/1905–1972), Turkish novelist, journalist, and political activist
Harilal Dhruv (1856–1896), Indian lawyer, poet, indologist
Hermann Alexander Diels, (1848-1922), classical scholar
Wilhelm Dilthey (1833–1911), philosopher
Georg Dohrn, conductor
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), African-American activist and scholar
William Duane (1872-1935), physicist
E. A. Dupont (1891–1956), film director, pioneer of the German film industry^[2]
Benedykt Dybowski (1833-1930), zoologist, pioneer of Limnology
Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915), physician, Nobel Prize for medicine in 1908
Albert Einstein (1879–1955), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1921
Gotthold Eisenstein (1823–1852), mathematician, specialized in number theory and analysis
Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), journalist and philosopher
Annemarie Esche, scholar of Burmese literature
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (1804–1872), philosopher
Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814), philosopher, rector of the university (1810–1812)
Horst Fischer (1912–1966), SS concentration camp doctor executed for war crimes
Emil Fischer (1852–1919), founder of modern biochemistry, Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1902
Bruno Flierl (b. 1927), architect and city planner^[3]
Werner Forßmann (1904–1979), physician, Nobel Prize for medicine in 1956
James Franck (1882–1964), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1925
Wilhelm Frick (1877-1946), Nazi official, executed for war crimes
Karl Gebhardt (1897–1948), Nazi SS physician who conducted criminal medical experiments; executed for war crimes
Ernst Gehrcke (1878–1960), experimental physicist
Jacob Grimm (1785–1863), linguist and literary critic
Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859), linguist and literary critic
Gregor Gysi (1948–), German politician and lawyer
Fritz Haber (1868–1934), chemist, Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1918
Otto Hahn (1879–1968), chemist, Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1944
Sir William Reginald Halliday (1886–1966), principal of King's College London (1928–1952)\
Adolf von Harnack (1851-1930), theologian, educator, academic administrator
Roger Härtl, neurological surgeon
Robert Havemann (1910–1982), chemist, co-founder of European Union, and leading GDR dissident
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), philosopher, rector of the university (1830–1831)
Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), writer and poet
Reinhart Heinrich (1946–2006), pioneer in systems biology
Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1932
Dieter Helm (1941–2022), farmer and politician
Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894), physician and physicist
Gustav Hertz (1887–1975), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1925
Paula Hertwig (1889–1983), biologist, politician
Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894), physicist
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) rabbi, philosopher, and theologian
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852–1911), chemist, Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1901
Johanna Hellman (1889–1982), surgeon
Wassily Hoeffding (1914–1991), statistician who introduced U-statistic and known for Hoeffding's inequality
Julius Hoffory (1855-1897), phonetician, associate professor
Max Huber (1874–1960), international lawyer and diplomat
Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (1762–1836), founder of macrobiotics
Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835), politician, linguist, and founder of the university
Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), natural scientist
Zakir Husain (1897–1969), third president of India
Yitzchok Hutner American Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva (dean)
Sadi Irmak (1904–1990), Prime minister of Turkey
Elisabeth Jastrow (1890–1981), German-born American classical archaeologist
Hermann Kasack (1896–1966), writer
George F. Kennan (1904–2005), American diplomat, political scientist and historian
Gustav Kirchhoff (1824–1887), physicist
Philip Klein (1849–1926), rabbi
Paul Alfred Kleinert, German writer, editor and translator
Wilhelm Knabe (1923–2021), German ecologist, pacifist, civil servant and politician
Robert Koch (1843–1910), physician, Nobel Prize for medicine in 1905
Komitas Vardapet (1869–1935) Armenian priest, composer, ethnomusicologist, music pedagogue, singer, choirmaster and the founder of the Armenian classical music.
Albrecht Kossel (1853–1927), physician, Nobel Prize for medicine in 1910
Arnold Kutzinski (died 1956), psychiatrist
Edmund Landau (1877–1938), mathematician
Arnold von Lasaulx (1839–1886) mineralogist and petrographer
Max von Laue (1879–1960), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1914
Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903–1994), Israeli public intellectual and polymath
Nechama Leibowitz Israeli Bible scholar
Wassily Leontief (1905–1999), economist, Nobel Prize for economics in 1973
James Lewin (1887-1937), physician and psychiatrist
Karl Liebknecht (1871–1919), socialist politician and revolutionary
Friedrich Loeffler (1852–1915), bacteriologist
Ram Manohar Lohia (1910–1967), Indian activist and politician
Karl Adolf Lorenz (1837–1923), composer
Ivan Lysiak Rudnytsky (1919–1984), Ukrainian-Canadian historian, political scientist, publicist
Andreas Maercker, (born 1960), clinical psychologist
Judah Leon Magnes, rabbi, Chancellor/President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1925-1948
Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979), philosopher
Karl Marx (1818–1883), philosopher and sociologist
Lippman Mayer (1841–1904), rabbi
Ernst Mayr (1904–2005), biologist
Benjamin Mazar (1906–1995), President of Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Joachim Mrugowsky (1905–1948), Nazi doctor executed for war crimes
Lise Meitner (1878–1968), physicist, Enrico Fermi Award in 1966
Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847), composer
Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794–1863), German chemist
Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903), historian, Nobel Prize for literature in 1902
Edmund Montgomery (1835–1911), philosopher, scientist, physician
John von Neumann (1903–1957), mathematician and physicist
Adalbert Parmet (1830–1898), priest and professor
Max Planck (1858–1947), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1918
Gordon Prange (1910–1980), American historian
Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886), historian
Otto Friedrich Ranke (1899–1959), physiologist
Ingeborg Rapoport (1912-2017), paediatrician
Samuel Mitja Rapoport (1912–2004), biochemist, leading scientist in the German Democratic Republic
Tom Rapoport (born 1947), biochemist
Adolph Moses Radin (1848–1909), rabbi
Erich Regener (1881–1955), physicist
Robert Remak (1815–1865), cell biologist
Ludwig Scheeffer (1859–1885), mathematician
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775–1854), philosopher
Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (1768–1834), philosopher
Moritz Schlick (1882-1936), philosopher
Bernhard Schlink (born 1944), writer, Der Vorleser (The Reader)
Max Schloessinger (1877–1944), scholar
Annette Schmiedchen (born 1966), Indologist and Padma Shri award winner
Carl Schmitt (1888–1985), German jurist, political theorist, and professor of law
Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902–1994), rabbi, philosopher, theologian, engineer, educator and writer
Edith Schönert-Geiß (1933-2012), numismatist
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), philosopher
Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1933
Peter Schubert (1938–2003), diplomat and albanologist
Stepan Shahumyan (1878–1918), Armenian communist politician and head of the Baku Commune
Georg Simmel (1858–1918), philosopher and sociologist
Joseph B. Soloveitchik (1903–1993), rabbi, philosopher, and theologian
Herman Smith-Johannsen (1875–1987), sportsman who introduced cross-country skiing to North America
Werner Sombart (1863–1941), philosopher, sociologist and economist
Hans Spemann (1869–1941), biologist, Nobel Prize for biology in 1935
Margot Sponer (1898–1945), philologist and resistance fighter
Hermann Stieve (1886–1952), anatomist who did research on bodies of Nazi execution victims
Max Stirner (1806–1856), philosopher
Yemima Tchernovitz-Avidar (1909–98), Israeli author
Gustav Tornier (1859–1938), paleontologist and zoologist
Kurt Tucholsky (1890–1935), writer and journalist
Luis Villar Borda (1929–2008), Colombian politician and diplomat
Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902), physician and politician
Filip Neriusz Walter (1810–1847), Polish organic chemist
Max Weber (1864–1920), sociologist, philosopher, and political economist
Alfred Wegener (1880–1930), scientist, geologist, and meteorologist, early theorist of continental drift
Karl Weierstraß (1815–1897), mathematician
Max Westenhöfer (1871–1957), pathologist, proposed the Aquatic ape hypothesis, reformer of field of pathology in Chile
Stephan Westmann (1893–1964), Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Wilhelm Heinrich Westphal (1882–1978), physicist
Wilhelm Wien (1864–1928), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1911
Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848–1931), philologist
Ernest Julius Wilczynski (1876–1932), mathematician
Richard Willstätter (1872–1942), chemist, Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1915
Shlomo Wolbe Orthodox Rabbi and author of the Alei Shur
Leonidas Zervas (1902–1980), Greek organic chemist