List of Famous people named Christian

Christian Ludwig Nitzsch was a German zoologist. He is best remembered for his approach to classifying birds on the basis of their feather tract distributions or pterylosis of their young.

Christian Friedrich Henrici, writing under the pen name Picander, was a German poet and librettist for many of the cantatas which Johann Sebastian Bach composed in Leipzig.

Christian Mayer was a Moravian-German Catholic priest, astronomer and teacher.

Christian Jank was a scenic painter and stage designer.

Christian Scherer is a German/French Business executive. Born in Duisburg, Germany, and raised in Toulouse, France, he holds an MBA Degree in international marketing from the University of Ottawa and graduated from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris.

Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck was a German composer and organist of the late classical and early romantic eras.

Christian Theodor Weinlig was a German music teacher, composer, and choir conductor in Dresden and Leipzig.

Christian Gottlieb Ludwig was a German physician and botanist born in Brieg, Silesia. He was the father of physician/naturalist Christian Friedrich Ludwig (1757–1823) and of Christian L. Ludwig (1749–1784), a physician/scientist known for his translation of Joseph Priestley's scientific experiments.

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich was a German painter and art administrator. In his own works, he was adept at imitating many earlier artists, but never developed a style of his own.