This list includes people who were born in or lived in Breslau before 1945. For a list of famous residents after 1945, see List of notable people from Wrocław. * Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915) a psychiatrist and neuropathologist, discovered Alzheimer's disease * Paul Amman (1634–1691), German physician and botanist. * Günther Anders (1902–1992) a German-Austrian Jewish émigré, philosopher, essayist and journalist. * Adolf Anderssen (1818–1879) a German chess master. * Đorđe Andrejević-Kun (1904–1964), a Serbian painter and academic. * Heinz Arndt (1915–2002), an Australian economist * Leopold Auerbach (1828–1897), a German anatomist and neuropathologist * Joannes Aurifaber Vratislaviensis (1517–1568), a Lutheran theologian and Protestant reformer. * Bertha Badt-Strauss (1885–1970), a