List of people from Berlin
The following is a list of notable people who were born in Berlin, Germany.
Statesmen
- Eduard Bernstein (1850–1932), politician (SPD), member of the Reichstag
- Eberhard Diepgen (born 1941), politician (CDU)
- Kurt Eisner (1867–1919), politician (SPD, USPD)
- Frederick the Great (1712 – 1786), King of Prussia from 1740 until 1786
- 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 and federal minister of transport, building and housing
- Hans Luther (1879–1962), Chancellor in the Weimar Republic
- David McAllister (born 1971), politician (CDU), former Prime Minister of (Niedersachsen)
- Erich Mielke (1907–2000), head of the Stasi
- Hugo Preuss (1860–1925), lawyer and "father of the Weimar Constitution"
- 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
- Paul Singer (1844–1911), SPD co-founder, whose chairman and Reichstag, producer
- Willi Stoph (1914–1999), politician (SED), Chairman of the State Council (the East German leader)
- Gustav Stresemann (1878–1929), politician (DVP), chancellor and foreign minister in the time of the Weimar Republic, Nobel Peace Prize carrier in 1926
- 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) and from 2001 to 2014 Governing Mayor of Berlin
Entrepreneurs
- Alexander Duncker (1813–1897), publisher and bookseller
- Albert Göring (1895–1966), engineer and business manager
- Gustav Langenscheidt (1832 – 1895), language teacher, book publisher, and the founder of Langenscheidt Publishing Group.
- Ernst Litfaß (1816–1874), publisher, inventor of the Litfaßsäule n
- Harald Quandt (1921–1967), industrialist
- Hasso Plattner (born in 1944), co-founder of SAP SE software company
- Emil Rathenau (1838–1915), industrialist and founder of the AEG
- Wolf Jobst Siedler (1926–2013), publisher and publicist
- Carl Friedrich von Siemens (1872–1941), industrialist
Officers
- Hans-Rudolf Boehmer (born 1938), Vice Admiral A.D. the German Navy, inspector of the navy (1995–1998)
- Heinz Brandt (1907–1944), General Staff Officer
- Leo von Caprivi (1831–1899), Vice Admiral of the Imperial German Navy, politicians, Chancellor as a successor Bismarck
- Karl Dönitz (1891–1980), naval officer and commander of the German Navy in Second World War
- Erich von Manstein (1887–1973), Field Marshal
- Henry of Prussia (1726–1802), 13 child king Frederick William. I in Prussia, the Prussian commander army
- Alfred von Schlieffen (1833–1913), Field Marshal
Scientists
- Hermann von Helmholtz
- Alexander von Humboldt (1769 – 1859), geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science.
- Bernhard Hermann Neumann
- Alfred Wegener
- Konrad Zuse (1910 – 1995), civil engineer, inventor and computer pioneer
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
- 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
Scholars
- Bernd-Rainer Barth (born 1957), historian and publicist
- Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), philosopher
- Ludwig Borchardt (1863–1938), Egyptologist
- Heinrich Brugsch (1827–1894), an Egyptologist
- Georg Ebers (1837–1898), an 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
- Hans Gustav Güterbock (1908–2000), Hittitologist
- Hans von Hentig (1887–1974), criminologist
- Gerald Holton (born 1922), science historian and physicist
- Robert Jungk (1913–1994), writer, journalist and futurist
- Klemens von Klemperer (1916–2012), historian
- Luise Kraushaar (1905–1989), historian
- Bernhard von Kugler (1837–1898), historian
- Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979), German - American philosopher, political scientist and sociologist
- Erich Maschke (1900–1982), historian and professor of history
- Georg Simmel
Artists
- Ken Adam
- Nadja Auermann (born in 1971), supermodel
- Horst Buchholz
- Marlene Dietrich (1901 – 1992)), singer and actress
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
- Alexander Fehling
- Walter Gropius
- Nina Hagen
- Wolfgang Kohlhaase
- Hildegard Knef
- Hardy Krüger (born in 1928), actor
- Max Liebermann (1847 - 1935), painter
- Ernst Lubitsch (1892 – 1947), film director, producer, writer, and actor
- Helmut Newton (born Helmut Neustädter) (1920 – 2004), photographer
- Leni Riefenstahl (1902 – 2003), film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, photographer and actress
- Jürgen Prochnow
- Kurt Tucholsky
Sportspeople
- Jérôme Boateng (born 3 September 1988), footballer and 2014 FIFA World Cup winner
- Thomas Häßler (born 30 May 1966), footballer and 1990 FIFA World Cup winner
- Claudia Pechstein
- Jochen Schümann
- Katarina Witt
- Franziska van Almsick
- Ulf Timmermann
See also
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