List of people from Berlin

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The following is a list of notable people who were born in Berlin, Germany.

Politicians and Statesmen[]

Frederick the Great
Wilhelm II, German Emperor
  • Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg (1803–1868), statesman and politician
  • Eduard Bernstein (1850–1932), politician (SPD), member of the Reichstag
  • Anna of Brandenburg (1487–1514), noblewoman and mother of Christian III (King of Denmark)
  • Rudy Boschwitz (born 1930), U.S. Senator from Minnesota and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, born to a Jewish family in Berlin.
  • Rainer Brüderle (born 1945), politician (FDP)
  • Sawsan Chebli (born 1978), politician (SPD)
  • Eberhard Diepgen (born 1941), politician (CDU), Governing Mayor of Berlin
  • Kurt Eisner (1867–1919), politician (SPD, USPD)
  • Frederick the Great (1712–1786), King of Prussia from 1740 until 1786
  • Frederick William (1620–1688), Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia from 1640 until 1688
  • Frederick William I (1688–1740), King in Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg from 1713 until 1740
  • Frederick William II (1744–1797), King of Prussia from 1786 until 1797
  • Stefan Gelbhaar (born 1976), politician (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
  • Ernst Ludwig von Gerlach (1795–1877), judge, politician and journalist
  • George V of Hanover (1819—1878), King of Hanover from 1851 until 1866
  • Gregor Gysi (born 1948), politician (The Left)
  • Klaus Gysi (1912–1999), Minister of Culture and state secretary for church affairs of GDR
  • Reinhard Klimmt (born 1942), politician (SPD), Prime Minister of Saarland
  • Hans Luther (1879–1962), Chancellor in the Weimar Republic
  • David McAllister (born 1971), politician (CDU), Prime Minister of Niedersachsen
  • Erich Mielke (1907–2000), head of the Stasi
  • Petra Pau (born 1963), politician (The Left)
  • Hugo Preuss (1860–1925), lawyer and "father of the Weimar Constitution"
  • Jesko von Puttkamer (1855–1917), colonial military chief, and nine times governor of Cameroon
  • Walther Rathenau (1867–1922), industrialist, politician (DDP) and Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic
  • Baldur von Schirach (1907–1974), leader of the Hitlerjugend 1931-1940, Reich governor in Vienna
  • Rupert Scholz (born 1937), politician (CDU)
  • Paul Singer (1844–1911), SPD co-founder, whose chairman and Reichstag, producer
  • Willi Stoph (1914–1999), politician (SED), Chairman of the State Council
  • Gustav Stresemann (1878–1929), politician (DVP), chancellor and foreign minister of the Weimar Republic, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
  • Otto Wels (1873–1939), politician (SPD)
  • William I, German Emperor (1797–1888), German Emperor
  • Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859–1941), German Emperor
  • Klaus Wowereit (born 1953), politician (SPD), Governing Mayor of Berlin from 2001 to 2014

Entrepreneurs[]

Hasso Plattner
Carl Friedrich von Siemens

Military officers[]

Scientists[]

Alexander von Humboldt
Statue of Konrad Zuse
  • Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811), botanist and zoologist
  • Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (1806–1886), mineralogist and geologist
  • Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818–1896), physiologist and public intellectual
  • Max Delbrück (1906–1981), biophysicist
  • Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894), physiologist and physicist
  • Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (1921–2015), Dutch astronomer
  • Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science
  • Edmund Landau (1877–1938), mathematician
  • Paul Langerhans (1847–1888), pathologist, physiologist, and biologist
  • Johann Nathanael Lieberkühn (1711-1756), physician
  • Bernhard Hermann Neumann (1909–2002), mathematician
  • Alfred Wegener (1880–1930), polar researcher, geophysicist and meteorologist
  • Adolf Windaus (1876–1959), chemist who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1928
  • Carl Gustav Witt (1866–1946), astronomer and discover of two asteroids
  • Konrad Zuse (1910–1995), civil engineer, inventor and computer pioneer
  • Michael Albeck (born 1934), Israeli chemist; President of Bar-Ilan University

Judges and Lawyers[]

  • Heinz Drossel (1916–2008), judge, was honored as Righteous Among the Nations
  • Wilhelm Heinrich von Grolman (1781–1856), lawyer, Berlin Court of Appeal president (the "righteous judge")
  • Jutta Limbach (1934–2016), President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany from 1994 to 2002, as the first woman in this office
  • Hans-Jürgen Papier (born 1943), President of the Federal Constitutional Court s 2002–2010

Theologians[]

  • Kurt Aland (1915–1994), theologian
  • Albrecht of Brandenburg (1490–1545), archbishop of Magdeburg and Elector of Mainz, Lord Chancellor of Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation
  • Otto Dibelius (1880–1967), leading member of the Confessing Church, bishop of Berlin, Chairman of the Council of Evangelical Church, president of Ecumenical Council
  • Regina Jonas (1902–1944), first woman in history to be ordained as a rabbi

Authors, Historians, Journalists, Scholars, Philosophers[]

Herbert Marcuse
Walter Benjamin
  • Achim von Arnim (1781–1831), author, poet and novelist
  • Gisela von Arnim (1827–1889), author
  • Bernd-Rainer Barth (born 1957), historian and publicist
  • Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), philosopher
  • Ludwig Borchardt (1863–1938), Egyptologist
  • Adolf Brand (1874-1945), writer
  • Heinrich Brugsch (1827–1894), Egyptologist
  • Friedrich von Canitz (1654-1699), poet and diplomat
  • Hoimar von Ditfurth (1921–1989), physician, writer and journalist
  • Georg Ebers (1837–1898), Egyptologist
  • Ernst Ehrlich (1921–2007), German-Swiss Judaic scholar and historian
  • Joachim Fest (1926–2006), historian, journalist and author
  • Paul Friedlander (1882–1968), philologist and writer
  • Kurt Großmann (1897-1972, journalist
  • Hans Gustav Güterbock (1908–2000), Hittitologist
  • Hans von Hentig (1887–1974), criminologist
  • Kurt Hiller (1885-1972), writer, journalist and essayist
  • Gerald Holton (born 1922), science historian and physicist
  • Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835), philosopher, linguist, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the Humboldt University of Berlin
  • Maybrit Illner (born 1965), journalist
  • Robert Jungk (1913–1994), writer, journalist and futurist
  • Manuela Kay (born 1964), journalist and writer
  • Klemens von Klemperer (1916–2012), historian
  • Luise Kraushaar (1905–1989), historian
  • Bernhard von Kugler (1837–1898), historian
  • Günther von Lojewski (born 1935), journalist
  • Wolf von Lojewski (born 1937), journalist
  • Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979), German-American philosopher, political scientist and sociologist
  • Erich Maschke (1900–1982), historian and professor of history
  • Franz Oppenheimer (1864–1943), sociologist and economist
  • Iris Radisch (born 1959), journalist
  • Peter Rüchel (1937–2019), music journalist
  • Hajo Seppelt (born 1963), journalist
  • Georg Simmel (1858–1918), sociologist, philosopher
  • Gabor Steingart (born 1962), journalist and author
  • Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935), journalist and writer
  • Theodor Wolff (1868-1943), journalist and writer

Actors, Architects, Artists, Comedians, Directors and Singers[]

Marlene Dietrich

Sportspeople[]

Katarina Witt
Jérôme Boateng

Others[]

See also[]

References[]

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