Tübingen is known as the 'City of Knowledge', due to the famous scholars who have studied in this beautiful town. People such as:

· Friedrich Hoelderlin who lived in the famous Hoelderlin Tower.
· Ludwig Uhland, a famous German poet.
· Alois Alzheimer from whom Alzheimer's disease takes its name.
· Wilhelm Schickard, who developed the first mechanical computer was born in nearby Herrenberg.
· Friedrich Miescher was the first to discover DNA.
· Joseph Alois Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) was professor of theology at the University.
· Dieter Baumann, winner of the 5000m at the 1992 Summer Olympics. · Ernst Bloch, philosopher.
· Hans Küng, Theologian.
· Walter Jens, famous author.
· Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, a Nobel laureate for medicine.
· Hermann Hesse, worked in Tübingen as a bookseller trainee from 1895 to 1899. ¹ .