Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1788-1793) - Philosopher, known for his work in dialectical method and historical development.
Friedrich Hölderlin (1788-1793) - Poet, considered one of the greatest lyric poets in the German language.
Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) (1946-1951) - Theologian and Pope, significant contributions to Catholic theology.
Hans-Georg Gadamer (1922-1924) - Philosopher, known for his work in hermeneutics and philosophical hermeneutics.
Günter Blobel (1960) - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1999) for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell.
Harald zur Hausen (1960) - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2008) for his discovery of human papillomaviruses causing cervical cancer.
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1964) - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1995) for discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development.
Bertram Brockhouse (1947) - Nobel Prize in Physics (1994) for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter.
Hans Spemann (1895) - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1935) for his discovery of the organizer effect in embryonic development.
Wolfgang Ketterle (1982) - Nobel Prize in Physics (2001) for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates.
