Editing Karlsruhe (section)

=== Public service ===
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R35179, Prof. Friedrich Ratzel.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Friedrich Ratzel]]]]
[[File:Siegfried Buback.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Siegfried Buback]], 1976]]
[[File:Frank-Jurgen Richter (Horasis Global India Business Meeting 2010).jpg|thumb|140px|[[Frank-Jurgen Richter]], 2010)]]
* [[Jacob Ettlinger]] (1798–1871), an [[Ashkenazi Jews|Ashkenazi]] rabbi and author and one of the leaders of [[Orthodox Judaism]]. 
* [[Anton von Stabel]] (1806-1880), a Baden lawyer, judge and statesman.
* [[Heinrich Julius Holtzmann]] (1832–1910), Protestant theologian.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Holtzmann, Heinrich Julius|volume=13|page=620|short=1}}</ref>
* [[Adolf Hausrath]] (1837–1909), a German theologian.<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Hausrath, Adolph |volume= 13 |page= 71 |last= |first= |author-link= |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Adolf Marschall von Bieberstein]] (1842–1912), [[State Secretary]] of the [[Federal Foreign Office|Foreign Office]] of the [[German Empire]].<ref>{{Cite EB1922|wstitle=Marschall von Bieberstein, Baron Adolf von|short=1}}</ref>
* [[Karl Benz]] (1844–1929), mechanical engineer and inventor of the first automobile; founded [[Karl Benz#Benz .26 Cie. and the Benz Patent Motorwagen|Benz & Co.]], [[Daimler-Benz]], (now part of [[Daimler&nbsp;AG]]). He was born locally in [[Mühlburg]] 
* [[Friedrich Ratzel]] (1844–1904), geographer and ethnographer, used the term ''[[Lebensraum]]''.<ref>{{Cite NIE |wstitle= Ratzel, Friedrich |volume= XVI | page= 720 |short=1}}</ref> 
* [[Hedwig Kettler]] (1851–1937),  women's rights activist, writer and education reformer; founded the first German ''Mädchengymnasium'' (girls' high school) in Karlsruhe
* [[Berthold von Deimling]] (1853–1944), general officer of the German Army during [[World War I|WW1]] became a pacifist.
* [[Franz Lipp]] (1855–1937), a German lawyer and politician, participant in [[Palm Sunday Putsch]]
* [[Ludwig R. Conradi]] (1856–1939), leader of European [[Adventism]], caused controversy and schism
* [[Gustav Landauer]] (1870–1919), theorist of [[anarchism]] in Germany
* [[Maximilian Bayer]] (1872–1917), founded [[Scouting and Guiding in Germany|Scouting in Germany]] 
* [[Walter von Reichenau]] (1884–1942), ''[[Generalfeldmarschall]]'' in World War II; authored the [[Severity Order]]
* [[Otto Wagener]] (1888–1971), SA-''[[Stabschef]]'', Nazi economic specialist and a ''[[Generalmajor]]'' in the ''[[Wehrmacht]]''
*brothers [[Maximilian Fretter-Pico]] (1892–1984), & [[Otto Fretter-Pico]] (1893–1966), WW2 generals 
* [[Reinhold Frank]] (1896–1945), lawyer who worked for the [[German resistance to Nazism|resistance]] in Nazi Germany. helped the [[20 July plot]]
* [[Hans Frank]] (1900–1946), [[War crime|war criminal]] Obergruppenführer SA, [[Gauleiter]] and governor-general of Nazi-occupied Poland; hanged at Nuremberg for his war crimes during [[World War&nbsp;II]]
* [[Siegfried Buback]] (1920–1977), then-[[Attorney General of Germany|Attorney General of West Germany]], victim of the [[Rote Armee Fraktion]]
* [[Werner Nachmann]] (1925–1988), entrepreneur and politician
* [[Harry L. Ettlinger]] (1926–2018), US Army private who assisted the [[Monuments Men and Women Foundation|MFAA]] in the recovery of art looted by the Nazis. He was the last Jewish boy to celebrate his [[bar mitzvah]] in Karlsruhe's Kronenstrasse Synagogue
* [[Ingo Wellenreuther]] (born 1959), former judge; politician, (CDU), member of the Bundestag, 2002 to 2021.
* [[Dirk Jens Nonnenmacher]] (born 1963), [[mathematician]] and bank CEO and chairman
* [[Joachim Nagel]] (born 1966), economist, President of the [[Deutsche Bundesbank|Bundesbank]] since 2022.
* [[Frank-Jürgen Richter]] (born 1967), entrepreneur and former director of the [[World Economic Forum]].
* [[Ulrich Arnswald]] (born 1970), German philosopher, economist and political scientist
* [[Diana Stöcker]] (born 1970), politician (CDU)

[[File:Karoline von guenderode.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Karoline von Günderrode]]]]
[[File:Rihm Wolfgang Philharmonie koeln 0806 2007 - cropped.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Wolfgang Rihm]], 2007]]
[[File:2013-01-20-niedersachsenwahl-146.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Susanne Stichler]], 2013]]