People on Luxembourg's street signs

Michel Rodange

19 Michel Rodange was a Luxembourgish writer and poet, best known for writing Luxembourg's national epic, Reynard|Renert [full original title: Renert oder de Fuuß am Frack an a Ma'nsgrëßt].

Edmond de la Fontaine

14 Edmond de la Fontaine, better known by his pen name of Dicks, was a Luxembourgish jurist, poet, and lyricist, known for his work in the Luxembourgish language. He is considered the national poet of...

Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg

13 Charlotte was Grand Duchess of Luxembourg from 14 January 1919 until her abdication on 12 November 1964. Her reign is the longest of any Luxembourgish monarch since 1815 when the country was elevated...

John F. Kennedy

11 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president, at 43 years,...

Michel Lentz

11 Michel Lentz was a Luxembourgish poet. He is best known for having written Ons Heemecht, the national anthem of Luxembourg. He was a civil servant by profession.

Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

10 Henri is a member of the grand ducal family of Luxembourg who reigned as Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 2000 until his abdication in 2025.

George S. Patton

8 George Smith Patton Jr. was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, then the Third Army in France and Germany after the Allied...

Pierre Krier

8 Pierre Krier was a Luxembourgish politician.                                                       

Josy Barthel

8 Joseph "Josy" Barthel was a Luxembourgish athlete and politician. He was the surprise winner of the Men's 1500 metres at the 1952 Summer Olympics, and the only athlete representing Luxembourg to have...

Batty Weber

8 Jean-Baptiste "Batty" Weber (1860–1940) is considered to have been one of Luxembourg's most influential journalists and authors, contributing much to the development of the country's national...

Hubert of Liège

8 Hubert of Liège was a Christian saint who became the first bishop of Liège in 708 A.D. He is a patron saint of hunters, mathematicians, opticians and metalworkers. Known as the "Apostle of the...

Pierre Dupong

7 Pierre Dupong was a Luxembourgish politician and statesman. He served as prime minister of Luxembourg for sixteen years, from 5 November 1937 until his death, on 23 December 1953, and was also...

Saint Nicholas

7 Saint Nicholas of Myra, also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of Greek descent from the maritime city of Patara in Anatolia during the time of the Roman Empire. Because of the...

Aloyse Kayser

6 Den Aloyse Kayser, gebuer den 29. Januar 1874 zu Rolleng bei Miersch, a gestuerwen de 6. Mäerz 1926 an der Stad Lëtzebuerg, war e lëtzebuergesche Politiker a Gewerkschaftler (FNCTTFEL).

Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg

6 Marie-Adélaïde, was Grand Duchess of Luxembourg from 1912 until her abdication in 1919. She was the first Grand Duchess regnant of Luxembourg, its first female monarch since Duchess Maria Theresa and...

Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium

6 Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium was Grand Duchess of Luxembourg as the wife of Grand Duke Jean. She was the first child of King Leopold III of Belgium, and sister of the late King Baudouin...

Michel Welter

6 Dr. Michel Welter was a Luxembourgish politician and former leader of the Socialist Party. A member of Luxembourg's Chamber of Deputies, he served as the Director-General for Agriculture, Commerce,...

Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

6 Jean was Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1964 until his abdication in 2000. He was the first Grand Duke of Luxembourg of French agnatic descent.

Robert Schuman

6 Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman was a Luxembourg-born French statesman. Schuman was a Christian democratic political thinker and activist. Twice Prime Minister of France, a reformist Minister of...

William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

5 William IV was Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 17 November 1905 until his death in 1912. He succeeded his father, Adolphe. Like his father, William did not participate in politics, despite being vested...

Émile Mayrisch

5 Jacob Émile Albert Mayrisch was a Luxembourgish industrialist and businessman. He served as president of Arbed.

Henry Dunant

5 Henry Dunant, also known as Henri Dunant, was a Swiss humanitarian, businessman, social activist, and co-founder of the Red Cross. His humanitarian efforts won him the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901.

Caspar Mathias Spoo

5 Caspar Mathias Spoo was a Luxembourgish industrialist and politician.                               

Prince Jean of Luxembourg

5 Prince Jean of Luxembourg is the second son of Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg and Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium. He is the twin brother of Princess Margaretha. He frequently goes by the...

Paul Eyschen

5 Paul Eyschen was a Luxembourgish politician, statesman, lawyer, and diplomat. He was the longest-serving prime minister of Luxembourg, serving for twenty-seven years, from 1888 until his death in...

Jean Antoine Zinnen

5 Jean Antoine Zinnen was a Luxembourgish composer, best known for the Luxembourgish national anthem, Ons Heemecht.

Victor Hugo

4 Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.

Louis Pasteur

4 Louis Pasteur was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was...

Gabriel Lippmann

4 Gabriel Lippmann was a French applied physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1908 for his invention of the Lippmann plate, a method of photographically reproducing colours based on the...

Nicolas Biever

4 Nicolas "Nic" Biever was a Luxembourgish politician.                                               

Auguste Liesch

4 Jean-Baptiste Auguste Liesch was a Luxembourgish liberal politician, writer, and civil servant.   

Henry VII of England

4 Henry VII, also known as Henry Tudor, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from his seizure of the crown on 22 August 1485 until his death in 1509. He was the first monarch of the House of Tudor.

Pierre Frieden

4 Pierre Frieden was a Luxembourgish politician and writer. He was prime minister of Luxembourg, serving for eleven months, from 29 March 1958 until his death, on 23 February 1959. He also served as...

Edward Steichen

3 Edward Jean Steichen was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter and curator and a pioneer of fashion photography. His gown images for the magazine Art et Décoration in 1911 were the first...

Jean Jaurès

3 Auguste Marie Joseph Jean Léon Jaurès, commonly referred to as Jean Jaurès, was a French socialist leader. Initially a Moderate Republican, he later became a social democrat and one of the first...

Jean Wolter

3 Jean Wolter was a Luxembourgish journalist and politician.                                         

Léon Kauffman

3 Léon Kauffman was a Luxembourgish politician. He was prime minister of Luxembourg, serving for one year, from 18 June 1917 until 28 September 1918.

Emmanuel Servais

3 Lambert Joseph Emmanuel Servais was a Luxembourgish politician. He held numerous offices of national importance, foremost amongst which was in serving as prime minister of Luxembourg for seven years,...

John of Bohemia

3 John of Bohemia, also called the Blind or of Luxembourg, was the Count of Luxembourg from 1313 and King of Bohemia from 1310 and titular King of Poland. He is well known for having died while...

Saint Joseph

3 According to the canonical Gospels, Joseph was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus.

Nelson Mandela

3 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid activist and statesman who was the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first Black head of state and...

Nik Welter

3 Nikolaus “Nik” Welter was a Luxembourgish writer, playwright, poet, professor, literary critic, and statesman. He wrote predominantly in German. He also served as a Minister for Education in the...

Raoul Follereau

3 Raoul Follereau, né le 17 août 1903 à Nevers et mort le 6 décembre 1977 dans le 16e arrondissement de Paris, est un écrivain et journaliste français. Il s'engage publiquement à l'extrême-droite...

Thomas Edison

3 Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which...

Lou Hemmer

3 De Louis ("Lou") Hemmer, gebuer den 1. Dezember 1904 an der Stad Lëtzebuerg, och do gestuerwen den 23. Mee 1987, war e lëtzebuergesche Pilot a Pionéier vun der lëtzebuergescher Aviatioun. Säi ganzt...

Saint Barbara

3 Saint Barbara, known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara, was an early Christian Syrian Greek saint and martyr.

Gaston Thorn

3 Gaston Egmond Thorn was a Luxembourgish politician who served in a number of high-profile positions, both domestically and internationally. He most prominently served as prime minister of Luxembourg...

Charles de Gaulle

3 Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany and Vichy France in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of...

Marie Thérèse of France

3 Marie-Thérèse was the eldest child of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette of France, and their only child to reach adulthood. In 1799, she married her cousin Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême,...

Michel Lentz

3 De Michel Lentz, gebuer den 21. Mee 1820 an der Stad Lëtzebuerg, an do gestuerwen de 7. September 1893, war e Lëtzebuerger Schrëftsteller, deen als Nationaldichter bezeechent gëtt. Hien huet virun...

Henry Bessemer

3 Sir Henry Bessemer was an English inventor, whose steel-making process was the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century for almost one hundred years. He played a...

Lucien Wercollier

3 Lucien Wercollier was a sculptor from Luxembourg. While he worked primarily in bronze and marble, some of his work is sculpted in wood, alabaster, stone and onyx. His public monuments in bronze and...

André Duchscher

2 André Duchscher war ein Autor von Kaméidistécker und Iechternacher Mondaart sowie ein sozialdenkender Industrieller.

Émile Metz

2 Émile Metz was a Luxembourgish politician, industrialist and engineer. He was the eldest son of Norbert Metz.

François-Xavier Wurth-Paquet

2 François-Xavier Wurth-Paquet was a Luxembourgish politician, jurist, and archaeologist.             

Alphonse Munchen

2 Jean-Pierre Alphonse Munchen was a Luxembourgish engineer and politician. He served as the Mayor of Luxembourg City between 24 July 1904 and 14 February 1915.

William Justin Kroll

2 William Justin Kroll was a Luxembourgish metallurgist, born in Esch-sur-Alzette. He is best known for inventing the Kroll process in 1940, which is used commercially to extract metallic titanium from...

Dominique Lang

2 Dominique Lang (1874–1919) is considered to be Luxembourg's most important Impressionist painter. He painted both portraits and landscapes although he was employed as a high-school teacher.

Xavier Brasseur

2 François Xavier Brasseur was a Luxembourgish politician and jurist.                                 

Jean Origer

2 Jean Origer was a Luxembourgish cleric and director of the newspaper Luxemburger Wort. Jean Origer was born in Esch-Alzette and later became a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg. During...

Michael (archangel)

2 Michael, also called Archangel Michael or Michael the Taxiarch, is an archangel and the warrior of God in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam while additionally being a saint in Christianity. The...

Charly Gaul

2 Charly Gaul was a Luxembourgish professional cyclist. He was a national cyclo-cross champion, an accomplished time triallist and superb climber. His ability earned him the nickname of Angel of the...

Franklin D. Roosevelt

2 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the US, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving US president and the only one to have served more...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

2 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on literary, political,...

Saint Christopher

2 Saint Christopher is venerated by several Christian denominations. According to these traditions, he was a martyr killed in the reign of the 3rd-century Roman emperor Decius, or alternatively under...

Hubert Clément

2 Hubert Clément was a Luxembourgish journalist and politician. He served as the Mayor of Esch-sur-Alzette, as a member of the Council of State, as a member of the Chamber of Deputies. He was a...

Mathias Koener

2 De Mathias Koener, gebuer de 15. November 1883 zu Waasserbëlleg, a gestuerwen den 8. Mäerz 1943 an der Stad, war Direkter vun Arbed-Schëffleng.

Winston Churchill

2 Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from...

Léon Weirich

2 De Léon Weirich, gebuer den 20. Mäerz 1878 zu Weiler zum Tuer, a gestuerwen den 31. Januar 1942 zu Dachau, war e lëtzebuergesche Biergaarbechter, Gewerkschaftler a Politiker.

Zénon Bernard

2 Johann Zénon Bernard was a Luxembourgish communist politician. He led the Communist Party of Luxembourg during its first two decades of existence, and was the first communist elected to the Chamber...

Norbert Metz

2 Jean-Joseph Norbert Metz was a Luxembourgish politician and engineer. With his two brothers, members of the powerful Metz family, Charles and Auguste, Metz defined political and economic life in...

Marie Curie

2 Maria Salomea Skłodowska Curie, better known as Marie Curie, was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist. She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie "for...

Alexander Fleming

2 Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish physician and microbiologist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain "for the discovery of penicillin and its...

Marie-Paule Molitor-Peffer

2 D'Marie-Paule Molitor-Peffer, gebuer de 7. Oktober 1929 an der Stad Lëtzebuerg, a gestuerwen den 9. September 1999 bei Loriol, war eng lëtzebuergesch Fraendoktesch.

Saint Roch

2 Roch, also called Rock in English, was a Majorcan Catholic confessor whose death is commemorated on 16 August and 9 September in Italy; he was especially invoked against the plague. He has the...

Sosthène Weis

2 Sosthène Weis was a Luxembourgish artist and architect who painted over 5,000 watercolors, mostly of Luxembourg City and its surroundings.

Willy Goergen

2 De Guillaume ("Willy") Goergen, gebuer den 30. Abrëll 1867 zu Steesel a gestuerwen de 6. Juni 1942 an der Stad Lëtzebuerg, war e lëtzebuergesche Schrëftsteller.

Nicolas Adames

2 Nicolas Adames was the first Bishop of Luxembourg.                                                 

Anne Beffort

2 Anne Beffort was a Luxembourgish educator, literary writer and biographer. She is remembered for her works on Victor Hugo and Alexandre Soumet and for her support of French culture in Luxembourg.

Albert Simon

2 Albert Simon was a Luxembourgish cartoonist and caricaturist.                                       

Ernest Feltgen

2 De Georges Ernest Feltgen, gebuer de 26. Mee 1867 zu Bierschbech, a gestuerwen de 6. Mäerz 1950 an der Stad Lëtzebuerg, war e lëtzebuergeschen Dokter.

Albert Einstein

2 Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum theory. His mass–energy equivalence...

Marcel Reuland

2 De Marcel Reuland, gebuer de 16. Mäerz 1905 zu Iechternach, a gestuerwen an der Stad den 21. Oktober 1956, war e lëtzebuergesche Schrëftsteller.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

2 Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th president of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961. Earlier, during World War II, he became a General of the Army, and was Supreme Commander of the...

Nicolas Margue

2 Nicolas Margue was a Luxembourgish professor and politician in the Christian Social People's Party. 

Michel Rasquin

2 Michel Rasquin was a Luxembourgish journalist and socialist politician, and European Commissioner. 

Marcel Noppeney

2 De Marcel Noppeney, gebuer de 24. Abrëll 1877 zu Lëtzebuerg, do gestuerwen de 5. Abrëll 1966, war e lëtzebuergesche Schrëftsteller an Editeur.

Jean-Pierre Erpelding

2 De Jean-Pierre Erpelding, och: Johann Peter Erpelding oder J.P. Erpelding, gebuer den 8. Juli 1884 zu Bierg, a gestuerwen den 13. November 1977 an der Stad, war e lëtzebuergesche Schrëftsteller.

Napoleon

2 Napoleon I was Emperor of the French from 18 May 1804 until his first abdication in 1814, with a brief restoration during the Hundred Days in 1815. He rose to prominence as a general during the...

Karl Marx

2 Karl Marx was a German philosopher, social and political theorist, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He is best-known for the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto, and his...

Jean-Pierre Beckius

2 De Jean-Pierre Beckius, gebuer als Johann Peter Beckius de 4. August 1899 zu Mäertert, an och do, a senger Villa gestuerwen den 11. Dezember 1946, war e lëtzebuergesche Moler.

Irmina of Oeren

2 Irmina of Oeren was a saint, founder and abbess of a convent in Oeren, near Trier (Trèves), and co-founder of a convent in Echternach. Hagiographer Basil Watkins states that Irmina's 12th century...

Paul Noesen

2 De Paul Noesen, gebuer den 28. Juni 1891 zu Ierpeldeng bei Bous, a gestuerwen de 27. September 1960 an der Stad Lëtzebuerg, war e lëtzebuergesche Schoulmeeschter a Schrëftsteller. De Paul Noesen,...

Nico Klopp

2 Nico Klopp (1894–1930) was a Luxembourgish painter remembered above all for his post-impressionist paintings of scenes on the Moselle river where he lived.

Pierre Federspiel

2 De Pierre Federspiel, gebuer den 20. September 1864 a Clausen, gestuerwen den 19. Abrëll 1924 an der Stad Lëtzebuerg, war e lëtzebuergesche Sculpteur a Medailleur.

Fernand Gravey

2 Fernand Gravey, also known as Fernand Gravet in the United States, was a Belgian-born French actor. 

Aline Mayrisch de Saint-Hubert

2 Aline Mayrisch de Saint-Hubert née de Saint-Hubert was a Luxembourgish women's rights campaigner, socialite, philanthropist. Mayrisch established many non-governmental organisations and was...

Théodore de Wacquant

2 Den Théodore Willibrord de Wacquant, gebuer den 22. Juli 1815 zu Féiz, a gestuerwen de 14. Dezember 1896 zu Lëtzebuerg, war e lëtzebuergeschen Deputéierten an Dokter zu Féiz.

Louis Braille

2 Louis Braille was a French educator and the inventor of a reading and writing system named after him, braille, intended for use by visually impaired people. His system is used worldwide and remains...

Albert Schweitzer

2 Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer was a German polymath from Alsace. He was a theologian, organist, musicologist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. As a Lutheran minister, Schweitzer...