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
• Jörg Baberowski (born 1961), professor of eastern European history
• Michelle Bachelet (born 1951), pediatrician and epidemiologist, president of the Republic of Chile
• Azmi Bishara (born 1956), Arab-Israeli politician
• Bruno Bauer (1809–1882), theologian, Bible critic and philosopher
• Jurek Becker (1937–1997), writer (Jacob the Liar)
• Eliezer Berkovits (1908–1992), rabbi, philosopher and theologian
• 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
• Max Born (1882–1970), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1954
• 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)
• 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
• 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
• Wilhelm Dilthey (1833–1911), philosopher
• Georg Dohrn, conductor
• W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), African-American activist and scholar
• 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
• 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)
• 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
• Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1932
• 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
• 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 Hussain (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
• Paul Alfred Kleinert, German writer, editor and translator
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Erich Regener (1881–1955), physicist
• Robert Remak (1815–1865), cell biologist
• 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)
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Otto von Bismarck

Albert Einstein

Karl Marx

Georg Hegel

Werner Heisenberg

Yeshayahu Leibowitz

Max Planck

Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm

Angela Davis