List of Famous people named Ludwig

Name Ludwig is among the most common names in Germany, Austria. Here are some famous Ludwigs:

Ludwig Tieck

Johann Ludwig Tieck
First Name Ludwig
Last Name Tieck
Born on May 31, 1773
Died on April 28, 1853 (aged 79)
Born in Germany

Johann Ludwig Tieck was a German poet, fiction writer, translator, and critic. He was one of the founding fathers of the Romantic movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Ludwig Anzengruber

First Name Ludwig
Last Name Anzengruber
Died on December 10, 1889
Born in Austria

Ludwig Anzengruber was an Austrian dramatist, novelist and poet. He was born and died in Vienna, Austria.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Ludwig Angerer

First Name Ludwig
Last Name Angerer
Died on May 12, 1879

Ludwig Angerer was an Austrian photographer who founded the first photo studio in Vienna and was appointed k.k. court photographer by Emperor Franz Joseph I. He is also known for taking some of the earliest photographs of Bucharest.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Ludwig Finscher

First Name Ludwig
Last Name Finscher
Born on March 14, 1930
Died on June 30, 2020 (aged 90)
Born in Germany, Hesse

Ludwig Finscher was a German musicologist. He was a professor of music history at the University of Heidelberg from 1981 to 1995 and editor of the encyclopedia Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. He is respected internationally as an authority on the history of Western Classical music from the 16th century to contemporary classical music, with a view on music in cultural, social, historical and philosophical context, in a clear language for both specialists and lay readers.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Ludwig Purtscheller

First Name Ludwig
Last Name Purtscheller
Born on October 6, 1849
Died on March 3, 1900 (aged 50)
Born in Austria, Tyrol

Ludwig Purtscheller was an Austrian mountaineer and teacher.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Ludwig Schick

First Name Ludwig
Last Name Schick
Born on September 22, 1949 (age 76)
Born in Germany, Hesse

Ludwig Schick is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as auxiliary bishop of Fulda from 1998 till 2002, when he became archbishop of Bamberg.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Ludwig Pfau

First Name Ludwig
Last Name Pfau
Born on August 25, 1821
Died on April 12, 1894 (aged 72)

Karl Ludwig Pfau  was a German poet, journalist, and revolutionary. He was born in Heilbronn and died, aged 72, in Stuttgart.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Ludwig Gehre

First Name Ludwig
Last Name Gehre
Born on October 5, 1895
Died on April 9, 1945 (aged 49)

Ludwig Gehre was an officer and resistance fighter involved in the preparation of an assassination attempt against Adolf Hitler.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Ludwig Binswanger

First Name Ludwig
Last Name Binswanger
Born on April 13, 1881
Died on February 5, 1966 (aged 84)

Ludwig Binswanger was a Swiss psychiatrist and pioneer in the field of existential psychology. His parents were Robert Johann Binswanger (1850–1910) and Bertha Hasenclever (1847–1896). Robert's German-Jewish father Ludwig "Elieser" Binswanger (1820–1880) was founder, in 1857, of the "Bellevue Sanatorium" in Kreuzlingen. Robert's brother Otto Binswanger (1852–1929) was a professor of psychiatry at the University of Jena.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg

First Name Ludwig,
Born on October 20, 1696
Died on January 16, 1765 (aged 68)

Ludwig of Hohenlohe-Langenburg was a Count of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. On 7 January 1764, he was elevated to Imperial Prince by Emperor Francis I.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her
    index: 1x 0.044984102249146s
fmsppl-page-output: 1x 0.041350841522217s
t_/pages/list-of-people: 1x 0.041327953338623s
t_/blocks/list-of-people: 1x 0.030349016189575s
t_/blocks/person-card: 10x 0.026067018508911s
t_/common/header: 1x 0.0055022239685059s
headline: 2x 0.0032258033752441s
router_page: 1x 0.0031440258026123s
list-of-people-content: 1x 0.0025510787963867s
t_/common/footer: 1x 0.0004119873046875s
t_/common/head: 1x 0.00023198127746582s
head-facts: 1x 0.0002129077911377s
related: 1x 0.00012993812561035s
t_/blocks/switcher: 1x 2.598762512207E-5s
qids: 1.5x 1.3113021850586E-5s
using-file-qids-cache: 1x 1.1920928955078E-6s
using-qids-cache: 1x 9.5367431640625E-7s
----- END OF DUMP (2026-04-21 12:52:04)  -----