This is a list of people who have lived in Heilbronn, Germany.

Julius Robert Mayer

Gustav von Schmoller by Rudolf Dührkoop 1908

Siegfried Gumbel

Theodor Heuss 1953

• Gustav Schübler (1787–1834), scientist (meteorology)
• Heinrich Friedrich Füger (1751–1818), painter
• Wilhelm Waiblinger (1804–1830), poet and author
• Julius Robert von Mayer (1814–1878), physician and physicist, formulated the principle of mechanical equivalence
• Ludwig Pfau (1821–1894), poet and revolutionary
• Adolf Cluss (1825–1905), architect, builder of numerous public buildings in Washington D.C.
• Gustav von Schmoller (1838–1917), economist
• Wilhelm Maybach (1846–1929), engineer and motor vehicle pioneer, developed the first fast-running gasoline engine together with Gottlieb Daimler
• Friedrich Stolz (1860–1936), chemist, invented in 1897 a predecessor of aspirin
• Siegfried Gumbel (1874–1942), lawyer, alderman (DDP), since 1933 head of the Israelite High Councillor for Württemberg in Stuttgart, died in Dachau concentration camp
• Theodor Heuss (1884–1963), politician, first President of the Federal Republic of Germany (1949 to 1959)
• Hellmuth Hirth (1886–1938), aviation pioneer, aircraft and airship builder
• Richard Drauz (1894–1946) in Landsberg Lech (executed as a war criminal), headed up the NSDAP in the Heilbronn district
• Walter Kreiser (1898–1958), aircraft designer and journalist
• Walter Vielhauer (1909–1986), politician (KPD)
• Joseph Asher (1921–1990), German-American rabbi
• Rolf Wütherich (1927–1981), passenger of the fatal car accident of James Dean
• Heinz A. Richter (born 1939), historian to the specialty Greece and Cyprus
• Dieter Schwarz (born 1939), entrepreneur and owner of the Schwarz-Gruppe. (Kaufland, Lidl)
• Rosemarie Haag Bletter (born 1939), German-American architectural historian
• Andrzej Seweryn (born 1946), Polish actor
• Jürgen Schreiber (born 1947), journalist
• Heide Rühle (born 1948), politician (Greens) MEP, Federal President of the Greens 1990–1991
• Thomas Roth (born 1951), journalist, retired TV-presenter Tagesthemen
• Freddy Sahin-Scholl (born 1953 as Freddy Scholl), singer and composer
• Michael Wittmann (born 1956), musicologist
• Falk Struckmann (born 1958), opera singer (baritone)
• Joachim Schlör (born 1960), professor, author of Jewish history
• Thomas Strobl (born 1960), politician (CDU) Member of Bundestag
• Michael Georg Link (born 1963), politician (FDP) Member of Bundestag
• Michael Wenczel (born 1977), football player
• Sibel Kekilli (born 1980), German actress
• Michael Hackert (born 1981), professional ice hockey player NHL
• Corey Mapes (born 1992), hockey player
• Daniel Fischbuch (born 1993), hockey player

Other notable residents

Karl Mayer

Kilian Steiner

• Martinus von Biberach (d. 1498), theologian, writer of famous epitaph
• Christian Friedrich Duttenhofer (1742–1814), theologian, pastor and prelate in Heilbronn
• Karl Mayer (1786–1870), poet, lived for a time in Heilbronn
• Louis Mayer (1791–1843), landscape painter lived for a time in Heilbronn
• Carl Heinrich Theodor Knorr (1800–1875), founder of the food business Knorr
• Alexander Bruckmann (1806–1852), historical and portrait painter, lived for a time in Heilbronn
• Gustav Rümelin (1815–1889), politician, lived and worked temporarily in Heilbronn
• Kilian von Steiner (1833–1903), banker, was lawyer in Heilbronn
• Max Eyth (1836–1906), writer, studied in Heilbronn
• Karl Nicolai (1839–1892) German magistrate and politician, from 1881 onwards Official notary in Heilbronn
• Max Cramer (1859–1933), teacher and genealogist in Heilbronn
• Theophil Wurm (1868–1953), prelate of Heilbronn 1927–29
• Ernst August Wagner (1874–1938), mass murderer, convicted and temporarily detained in Heilbronn
• Ernst Jaeckh (1875–1959), 1902–1912 editor of Neckar-Zeitung
• Oskar Dirlewanger (1895–1945), deputy director since 1933 of the Heilbronner labor office, later Waffen-SS officer and war criminal
• Emanuel H. Bronner (1908–1997), maker of Dr. Bronner's castile soap
• Walter Vielhauer (1909–1986), politician, mayor
• Marla Glen (born 1960), singer, living in Heilbronn since 1998