Notable people from Metz Notable people born in or near Metz (sorted by category): Activism and politics Jean-Jacques Aillagon (1946), French politician and contemporary and modern arts connoisseur Charles Ancillon (1659–1715), French jurist and diplomat François Barbé-Marbois (1745–1837), French politician Jean Burger (1907–1945), French resistant Marte Cohn (1920), French spy during World War II Désiré Ferry (1886–1940), French politician Volker Hassemer (1944), German senator Jean Laurain (1921–2008), French philosopher and politician Willy Huhn (1909–1970), German council communism theorist Pierre Louis Roederer (1754–1835), French politician and economist Fritz von Twardowski, German diplomat Adventure Jean Bernanos (1648–1695), French filibuster and privateer Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (1757–1785), first man to fly in a hot air balloon Arts Walter Curt Behrendt (1884–1945), German-American architect Solange Bertrand (1913–2011), French abstract painter, sculptor and engraver Christopher Fratin (1801–1864), French animalier sculptor Monsù Desidero (1593–ca. 1640), French painter, also known as François de Nomé or Didier Barra Louis-Théodore Devilly (1818–1888), French painter Oskar Kurt Döbrich (1911–1970), German painter and graphic designer Auguste Hussenot (1799–1885), French painter Jutta Jol (1896–1981), German actress Charles Willy Kayser (1881–1942), German actor Abraham-César Lamoureux (c. 1640–1692), French sculptor in Sweden and Denmark Tiana Lemnitz (1897–1994), German operatic soprano Jean-Baptiste Le Prince (1734–1781), French etcher and painter Charles-Laurent Maréchal (1801–1887), French painter and master glass maker Paul Niclausse (1879–1958), French sculptor Jean-Marie Straub (1933), French cineast Walter Ulbrich (1910–1991), German film producer Hugo Becker (1987), French actor Business Thierry Antinori (*1961), French aviation Manager Literature and poetry Joseph Décembre (1836–1906), French writer and freemason Otto Flake (1880–1963), German writer Rudolf John Gorsleben (1883–1930), German ariosophist Pierre Hanot (born 1952), French novelist, visual artist and musician Gustave Kahn (1859–1936), French poet Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948–1989), French playwright and director Wilhelm Michel (1877–1942), German writer Ernst Moritz Mungenast (1898–1964), German writer and journalist Frieda von Richthofen (1879–1956), German writer Raymond Schwartz (1894–1973), German writer and Esperantist André Schwarz-Bart (1928–2006), French novelist Stephen Michael Stirling (1953), Canadian-American writer Paul Verlaine (1844–1896), French poet Hermann Wendel (1884–1936), German writer Anny Wienbruch (1899–1976), German writer Military Basile Guy Marie Victor Baltus de Pouilly (1766–1845), French general Wilhelm Baur (1883–1964), German general Hans Benda (1877–1951), German admiral Theodor Berkelmann (1894–1943), German general Julius von Bernuth (1897–1942), German general Ludwig Bieringer (1892–1975), German general Helmuth Bode (1907–1985), German officer Walter Bordellé (1918–1984), German officer Karl Braun, (1885–1945) German pilot Arthur von Briesen (1891–1981), German general Erich von Brückner (1896–1949), German officer