The Howaldt family is a German family, whose members were famous commanders, shipyards and sculptors.
Count Georg Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm zu Münster was a German paleontologist.
Princess Caroline Elizabeth of Great Britain was the fourth child and third daughter of King George II of Great Britain and his wife Caroline of Ansbach.
Anne of Bohemia and Austria was a Duchess of Luxembourg in her own right and, as a consort, Landgravine of Thuringia and of Saxony.
August Ferdinand Howaldt was a German engineer and ship builder. The German sculptor Georg Ferdinand Howaldt was his brother.
ArchduchessMaria Elisabeth of Austria, was the governor of the Habsburg Netherlands between 1725 and 1741.
Maria Magdalena, Archduchess of Austria was a governor of Tyrol and daughter of Emperor Leopold I and his third wife Eleonore Magdalene of the Palatinate. She died unmarried.
Maria Amalia of Austria was Holy Roman empress, queen of Bohemia, and electress of Bavaria among many other titles as the spouse of Emperor Charles VII. By birth, she was an archduchess of Austria as the daughter of Emperor Joseph I. One of her children was Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria.
Levinus Hulsius was a maker and dealer of fine scientific instruments; publisher and printer; linguist and lexicographer; wrote extensively on the construction of geometrical instruments. Although he was born in Flanders he lived and worked in the Netherlands and Germany.
John Casimir, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Kleeburg was the son of John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken and his wife, Duchess Magdalene of Jülich-Cleves-Berg. He was married to Catherine of Sweden and was the founder of a branch of Wittelsbach Counts Palatine often called the Swedish line, because it gave rise to three subsequent kings of Sweden, but more commonly known as the Kleeburg line.
Georg Cracow, Kraków, Cracov, Cracau or Cracovius was a German lawyer and statesman.
Jörg Syrlin the Younger (c.1455–1521) was a German sculptor. He was born in Ulm, the son of Jörg Syrlin the Elder and became a member of the Ulm school.
Leopold Kupelwieser was an Austrian painter, often associated with the Nazarene movement.
Johann Elias Ridinger was a German painter, engraver, draughtsman and publisher. He is considered one of the most famous German engravers of animals, particularly horses, hounds and hunting scenes.
Franz Michael Leuchsenring was a German writer of the German Enlightenment.
Adolf August Wilhelm Breymann was a German sculptor.
Johann Erich Biester was a German philosopher. With Friedrich Nicolai and Friedrich Gedike, he formed what was known as the 'Triumvirate' of late Enlightenment Berlin.
Johann Georg Ebeling was a German composer who was born in Lüneburg and died in Stettin. Ebeling is known as editor and composer of hymns by Paul Gerhardt. He published in 1667 120 songs by Gerhardt, adding new melodies to many, writing the first melody for 26 of them, including "Die güldne Sonne voll Freud und Wonne" and "Du meine Seele singe". Several of his cantatas are extant.
Georg Kaspar Nagler was a German art historian and art writer.
Hermann Howaldt was a German engineer and entrepreneur; co-founder and board member of "Howaldtswerke AG", now Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW).
Johann Christoph Arnschwanger was a German Lutheran pastor and hymn writer.