lived and died here Christopher Besoldus (1577–1638), lawyer and publicist Johann Georg Gmelin (1709–1755), naturalist and botanist, explorer of Siberia Philipp Friedrich Gmelin (1721–1768), botanist and chemist Johann Friedrich Cotta (1764–1832), publisher of many important writers of his time such as Goethe and Schiller, industrial pioneer and politician Ferdinand Gottlieb von Gmelin (1782–1848), physician Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862), poet and philologist, lawyer and politician, lived and died here Friedrich Silcher (1789–1860), composer, lived and died here Christian Gottlob Gmelin (1792–1860), chemist Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), poet, novelist and painter, worked here as a bookseller trainee in 1895–1899, later Nobel laureate for literature Ernst Fritz Schmid (1904–1960), musicologist and Mozart scholar Geoffrey Elton (1921–1994), political and historian Felicia Langer (1930–2018), attorney and human rights activist, lived and died here Helmut Haussmann (born 1943), academic and politician Hans-Peter Uhl (1944–2019), politician Hartmut Zinser (born 1944), scholar and religionist Eva Haule (born 1954), former leftist terrorist Dieter Baumann (born 1965), track and field athlete, Olympic winner, lives here Sigi Schmid (1953–2018), football coach Vera Wülfing-Leckie (1954–2021), homeopath and translator Matthias Untermann (born 1956), art historian and archaeologist Viola Vogel (born 1959), biophysicist and bioengineer Michael Theurer (born 1967), politician Despina Vandi (born 1969), singer Clemens Schick (born 1972), actor Boris Palmer (born 1972), current Lord Mayor Benjamin Heisenberg (born 1974), film director and screenwriter Sung Yu-ri (born 1981), actress Thilo Kehrer (born 1996), football player (national team) Amelie Berger (born 1999), handball player (national team) Associated with the university Johann Reuchlin (1455–1522), Catholic humanist and scholar of Greek and Hebrew Philip Melanchthon (1497–1560), Lutheran reformer Johannes Kepler (1571–1630), astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer Wilhelm Schickard (1592–1635), professor of Hebrew and astronomy, inventor of the world's first mechanical calculator in 1623, lived and died here Rudolf Jakob Camerarius (1655–1721), botanist and professor, proved for the first time the sexual reproduction of plants Christoph Martin Wieland (1733–1813), classical writer of the Enlightenment J. G. Friedrich von Bohnenberger (1765–1835), pioneer of a modern geodesy, inventor of the gyroscope Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), philosopher of Idealism Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843), poet and philosopher, lived and died here Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775–1854), philosopher of Idealism Friedrich List (1789–1846), economist, university professor Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792–1860), Protestant theologian, lived and died here Immanuel Hermann Fichte (1796–1879), philosopher, held a chair of philosophy at the university Wilhelm Hauff (1802–1827), writer of the early Romantic period Eduard Mörike (1804–1875), Lutheran pastor, poet and