This is a list of people from Aachen, alternatively known as Bad Aachen and Aix-la-Chapelle, arranged by date.

Pre 13th century

• Charlemagne (748–814), also known as Charles the Great, moved to Aachen and made it the capital of his empire
• Æthelwulf (–858), king of Wessex, and father of Alfred the Great, was born in Aachen^{[citation needed]}

13th–17th century

• Theobald Craschel (1511–1587), auxiliary bishop in Cologne

18th century

• Isabelle Brunelle (1724–1805), refugee and philanthropist
• Johann Joseph Couven (1701–1763), architect and builder

1800–1820

• Adam Eberle (1804–1832), history painter and lithographer of the romance
• Friedrich Thyssen (1804–1877), banker
• Johannes Theodor Laurent (1804–1884), Apostolic Vicar of Luxemburg
• Alfred von Reumont (1808–1887), statesman and historian
• Henri Victor Regnault (1810–1878), French physicist and chemist
• Arnold Foerster (1810–1884), botanist and entomologist
• Peter Ludwig Kuhnen (1812–1877), landscape painter of the Romantic
• Mary Frances Schervier (1819–1876), founder of the Poor Sisters of St. Francis

1821–1840

• Joseph Hubert Reinkens (1821–1896), Old Catholic Church bishop and theologian
• Franz Bock (1823–1899), canon and art historian
• Adolph von Hansemann (1826–1903), entrepreneur and banker
• Adolph Sutro (1830–1898), mayor of San Francisco
• Adam Bock (1832–1912), politician^{[citation needed]}
• Albert Baur (1835–1906), German painter
• Anton Anno (1838–1893), German theatre actor, theatre director, and playwright

1841–1860

• Ludwig von Pastor (1854–1928), historian and Austrian diplomat

1861–1880

• Arthur Kampf (1864–1950), history painter and university professor
• Arthur Eichengrün (1867–1949), chemist and university lecturer
• Friedrich Pützer (1871–1922), architect, Protestant church architect and university lecturer
• Gottfried Hinze (1873–1953), 1st Chairman of the German Football Association
• Heinrich Hubert Houben (1875–1935), literary critic and journalist

1881–1900

• Ilse Essers (1898–1994), aeronautical engineer
• Wilhelm Worringer (1881–1965), art historian
• Hugo Werner-Kahle (1882–1961), actor
• Hanns Bolz (1885–1918), painter, sculptor and illustrator
• Emil Fahrenkamp (1885–1966), architect, university professor and director of Düsseldorf Art Academy
• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), architect
• Adam Kuckhoff (1887–1943), writer and resistance fighter against Nazism
• Walter Grotrian (1890–1954), astronomer and astrophysicist
• Walter Hasenclever (1890–1940), writer
• Hans Freiherr von Funck (1891–1979), an officer
• Edgar André (1894–1936), politician
• Alfred Gottschalk (1894–1973), biochemist
• Heinrich Maria Davringhausen (1894–1970), painter
• Hans Croon (1896–1977), a textile manufacturer and president of the IHK Aachen
• Edith Frank (1900–1945), mother to Anne Frank, was born in Aachen

1901–1910

• Robert Ritter (1901–1951), Nazi racial theorist
• Leonhard Drach (1903–1996), jurist and war criminal
• Carl Schneider (1905–1975), painter and university professor
• Helmuth Gericke (1909–2007), mathematician and historian of mathematics
• Hans Ernst Schneider alias Hans Schwerte (1909/10–1999), SS-Hauptsturmführer and literary scholar

1911–1920

• Friedrich Hendrix (1911–1941), athlete
• Bert Heller (1912–1970), painter
• Fredy Hirsch (1916–1944) German Jewish youth movement leader known for helping children during the Holocaust
• Karl Otto Götz (b. 1914), the main representative of abstract art and Informel in Germany

1921–1930

• Claus Helmut Drese (1922–2011), opera and theatre director, writer
• Max Imdahl (1925–1988), art historian
• Otto Graf Lambsdorff (1926–2009), politician (FDP)

1931–1940

• Heiner Ruland (1934–2017), composer and music therapist
• Gerd Heinz (born 1940), stage, film and television actor, stage director and theatre manager
• Horst H. Baumann (1934–2019), artist, designer and photographer
• Kurt Malangré (1934–2018), politician
• Paul Theissen (born 1937), pianist, conductor and choirmaster
• Wolf Kahlen (born 1940), video pioneer and performance, object and media artist

1941–1950

• Manfred Schell (born 1943), trade unionist and politician
• Raymund Havenith (1947–1993), pianist and university lecturer
• Paul Lovens (born 1949), drummer
• Ulla Schmidt (born 1949), politician
• Franz Josef Radermacher (born 1950), professor of computer science

1951–1960

• Udo Dahmen (born 1951), drummer, managing director of the Pop Academy Baden-Württemberg and music lecturer
• Léo Apotheker (born 1953), manager, SAP
• Matthias Frings (born 1953), journalist, television presenter and writer
• Karl Del'Haye (born 1955), football player
• Bascha Mika (born 1954) is a German journalist and publicist
• Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen (born 1954), politician
• Thomas Springel (born 1959), handball player
• Sabine Wils (born 1959), politician

1960-2000

• Sabina Classen (born 1963), thrash metal singer of the band Holy Moses, was born in Aachen
• Michael Reisch (born 1964), artist and photographer, was born in Aachen
• Uli Kusch (born 1967), a worldwide recognized metal drummer, was born in Aachen
• Kool Savas (born 1975), musician and rapper
• David Garrett (born 1980), a world-famous violinist, was born in Aachen.
• Katrin Heß (born 1985), actress and model
• Kai Havertz (born 1999), German professional footballer who plays for Premier League club Arsenal F.C. and the Germany national team.