The following is a list containing people both born in Stuttgart and notable residents of the city, ordered chronologically.
| Image | Name | Date born | Date died | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balduin Hoyoul | 1547 or 1548 | 26 November 1594 | Composer | |
| Paul Peuerl | 13 June 1570 | After 1625 | Organist, organ builder, composer | |
| | Georg Rudolf Weckherlin | 15 September 1584 | 13 February 1653 | Poet and diplomat. [1] |
| Johann Jakob Froberger | 19 May 1616 | 7 May 1667 | Composer, keyboard virtuoso, organist | |
| Charles Theodore Pachelbel | 24 November 1690 | 15 September 1750 | Composer, organist, harpsichordist | |
| | Dorothea Wendling | 21 March 1736 | 20 August 1811 | Soprano |
| Karl Friedrich Abt | 1743 | 20 November 1783 | Actor | |
| | Reinhard Heinrich Ferdinand Fischer | 18 June 1746 | 25 June 1813 | Architect |
| | Johann Heinrich von Dannecker | October 16, 1758 | December 8, 1841 | Sculptor. [2] |
| | Nicolas Lupot | 4 December 1758 | 14 August 1824 | Violin maker |
| | Johann Andreas Streicher | 13 December 1761 | 25 May 1833 | Pianist, composer, piano maker |
| | Eberhard Georg Friedrich von Wächter | 29 February 1762 | 14 August 1852 | Painter. [3] |
| | Gustav Friedrich Hetsch | 28 September 1788 | 7 September 1864 | Architect |
| | Carl Alexander Heideloff | 2 February 1789 | 28 September 1865 | Architect. [4] |
| | Gustav Schwab | 19 June 1792 | 4 November 1850 | Writer, pastor, publisher |
| | Emilie Zumsteeg | 9 December 1796 | 1 August 1857 | Choir conductor, songwriter, composer, pianist |
| | Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer | 23 June 1800 | 25 August 1868 | Actress. [5] |
| | Victor Aimé Huber | 10 March 1800 | 19 July 1869 | Social reformer, travel writer, literary historian |
| | Wilhelm Hauff | 29 November 1802 | 18 November 1827 | Poet, novelist. [6] |
| | Julius Benedict | 27 November 1804 | 5 June 1885 | Composer and conductor. [7] |
| | Therese von Lützow | 4 July 1804 | 16 September 1852 | Noblewoman and writer. [8] |
| | Gustav Pfizer | 1807 | 1890 | Poet and lyrist. [9] |
| | Georg Herwegh | 31 May 1817 | 7 April 1875 | Poet. [10] |
| | Wilhelm Hertz | 24 September 1835 | 7 January 1902 | Writer |
| | Frederick Leypoldt | 17 November 1835 | 31 March 1884 | Bibliographer |
| | Gustav Adolf Kröner | 26 May 1836 | 29 January 1911 | Publisher |
| Julius Ruthardt | 13 December 1841 | 13 October 1909 | Violinist, composer | |
| | Louis Welden Hawkins | 1 July 1849 | 1 May 1910 | Painter |
| | Isolde Kurz | 21 December 1853 | 5 April 1944 | Poet, writer |
| | Cäsar Flaischlen | 12 May 1864 | 16 October 1920 | Poet |
| | Theodor Bertram | 12 February 1869 | 24 November 1907 | Opera singer |
| | Otto Treßler | 13 April 1871 | 27 April 1965 | Actor |
| Johannes Baader | 22 June 1875 | 15 January 1955 | Architect, writer, artist | |
| Fritz Lang | 15 March 1877 | 26 October 1961 | Painter | |
| | Ludwig Dürr | 4 June 1878 | 1 January 1956 | Airship designer |
| Alfred Roth | 27 April 1879 | 9 October 1948 | Politician, writer | |
| Alfred Fischer | 29 August 1881 | 10 April 1950 | Architect | |
| Paul Leni | 8 July 1885 [11] | 2 September 1929 [11] | Filmmaker | |
| Otto Wunderlich | 1886 | 1975 | Photographer | |
| | Bruno Frank | 13 June 1887 | 20 June 1945 | Author, poet, dramatist, humanist |
| | Oskar Schlemmer | 4 September 1888 | 13 April 1943 | Painter, sculptor, choreographer |
| | Willi Baumeister | 22 January 1889 | 31 August 1955 | Painter, scenic designer, art professor, typographer |
| C. Paul Jennewein | 2 December 1890 | 22 February 1978 | Sculptor |
| | Carl Jules Weyl | 6 December 1890 | 12 July 1941 | Art director, soldier |
| | Fred Uhlman | 19 January 1901 | 11 April 1985 | Writer, painter, lawyer |
| Werner Klingler | 23 October 1903 | 23 June 1972 | Film director, actor | |
| Kurt Schumacher | 6 May 1905 | 22 December 1942 | Sculptor, communist, member of the German resistance to Nazism | |
| Will Eisenmann | 3 March 1906 | 20 August 1992 | Composer | |
| | Eberhard Koebel | 22 June 1907 | 31 August 1955 | Youth leader, writer, publisher |
| Trude Eipperle | 27 January 1908 | 18 October 1997 | Operatic soprano | |
| | Gerda Taro | 1 August 1910 | 26 July 1997 | War photographer |
| Anni Schaad | 10 December 1911 | 20 December 1988 | Jewelry designer | |
| Richard Holm | 3 August 1912 | 20 July 1988 | Operatic tenor | |
| Hermann Lenz | 26 February 1913 | 12 May 1998 | Poet, author, novelist | |
| Alfred Vohrer | 29 December 1914 | 3 February 1986 | Film director, actor | |
| Alfred Weidenmann | 10 May 1916 | 9 June 2000 | Film director, screenwriter | |
| Heinz Weiss | 12 June 1921 | 20 November 2010 | Actor | |
| | Fritz Umgelter | 18 August 1922 | 9 May 1981 | Television director, television writer, film director |
| Dieter Eppler | 11 February 1927 | 12 April 2008 | Actor | |
| | Joachim Fuchsberger | 11 March 1927 | 11 September 2014 | Actor, television presenter, lyricist, businessman, activist, paratrooper |
| Wolf Kahn | 4 October 1927 | 15 March 2020 | Painter | |
| Ernst Mahle | 3 January 1929 | — | Composer, conductor | |
| Fred Herzog | 21 September 1930 | 9 September 2019 | Photographer | |
| Werner Haas | 3 March 1931 | 11 October 1976 | Pianist | |
| Michael Pfleghar | 20 March 1933 | 23 June 1991 | Film director, screenwriter | |
| | Helmuth Rilling | 29 May 1933 | — | Conductor |
| | Wolfgang Dauner | 30 December 1935 | 10 January 2020 | Jazz fusion pianist, composer, keyboardist |
| | Helmut Lachenmann | 27 November 1935 | — | Composer |
| Ferdinand Alexander Porsche | 11 December 1935 | 5 April 2012 | Car designer | |
| | Walter Stöhrer | 15 January 1937 | 10 April 2000 | Painter |
| Eberhard Schoener | 13 May 1938 | — | Composer, conductor, arranger, keyboardist | |
| Hartmut Geerken | 15 January 1939 | 21 October 2021 | Musician, composer, writer, journalist, playwright, filmmaker | |
| | Bettina Kupfer | 19 July 1963 | — | Actress, writer |
| Image | Name | Date born | Date died | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Johann Jakob Moser | 18 January 1701 | 30 September 1785 | Jurist. [16] |
| | Robert von Mohl | 17 August 1799 | 4 November 1875 | Jurist |
| | Max Bodenheimer | 12 March 1865 | 19 July 1940 | Lawyer |
| Arnulf Klett | 8 April 1905 | 14 August 1974 | Lawyer and politician, former mayor of Stuttgart | |
| | Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg | 15 March 1905 | 10 August 1944 | Aristocrat, lawyer and member of the 20 July plot |
| | Rosalie Abella | 1 July 1946 | — | Jurist |
| Ferdinand Oliver Porsche | 13 March 1961 | — | Lawyer |
| Image | Name | Date born | Date died | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Martin Eisengrein | 28 December 1535 | 4 May 1578 | Catholic theologian and polemical writer |
| | Johann Gottlieb Faber | 8 March 1717 | 18 March 1779 | Theologian and author |
| | Hermann Gundert | 4 February 1814 | 25 April 1893 | Missionary and scholar |
| William Julius Mann | 1819 | 1892 | Theologian and author | |
| | Karl Theodor Keim | 17 December 1825 | 17 November 1878 | Protestant theologian. [22] |