Adalbert Endert: bishop, Andreas Fack: composer and author of the Rhönlied, Otto Feick: inventor of the Rhön wheel, Adalbert Geheeb: botanist, Moritz Goldschmidt: biologist, Franz Kaspar Lieblein: botanist, Ludwig Nüdling: local poet, Johann Heinrich Valentin Paul: Rhön Paulus, Christian Schreiber: philosopher and poet, Karl Straub: writer, Erwin Sturm: local historian, Joseph Vonderau: local historian