1. Statesmen

2. Entrepreneurs

3. Military officers

4. Scientists

5. Lawyers

6. Theologians

7. Scholars

8. Artists

9. Sportspeople

10. Others

11. See also

12. References

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
• Anna of Brandenburg (1487–1514), noblewoman and mother of Christian III (King of Denmark)
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

• Ellen Allien, musician, DJane, founder of music label BPitch Control
• Heinz Berggruen (1914–2007), art Dealer
• Alexander Duncker (1813–1897), publisher and bookseller
• Friedrich Karl Flick (1927—2006), industrialist and billionaire
• Albert Göring (1895–1966), engineer and business manager
• Klaus and Eva Herlitz (born 1947 respectively 1952), businesspeople and the initiators of the Buddy Bears
• Gustav Langenscheidt (1832–1895), language teacher, book publisher, and the founder of Langenscheidt Publishing Group
• Ernst Litfaß (1816–1874), publisher, inventor of the Litfaßsäule
• Joseph Mendelssohn (1770–1848), banker
• Harald Quandt (1921–1967), industrialist
• Hasso Plattner (born 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

Military 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
• Günther Tamaschke (1896–1959), Nazi SS concentration camp commandant
• Erich von Manstein (1887–1973), Field Marshal
• Alexander von Monts (1832-1888), Prussian and German Imperial Navy officer
• Friedrich Graf Kleist von Nollendorf (1762–1823), Prussian field marshal
• Henry of Prussia (1726–1802), 13 child king Frederick William. I in Prussia, the Prussian commander army
• Manfred von Richthofen
• Alfred von Schlieffen (1833–1913), Field Marshal

Scientists

• Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (1806–1886), mineralogist and geologist
• Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818–1896), physician and physiologist
• Max Delbrück (1906–1981), biophysicist
• Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894), physician
• 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
• Bernhard Hermann Neumann
• 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

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

Scholars

• Bernd-Rainer Barth (born 1957), historian and publicist
• Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), philosopher
• Ludwig Borchardt (1863–1938), Egyptologist
• Heinrich Brugsch (1827–1894), Egyptologist
• 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
• Hans Gustav Güterbock (1908–2000), Hittitologist
• Hans von Hentig (1887–1974), criminologist
• Gerald Holton (born 1922), science historian and physicist
• Gisela Kaplan (born 1944), sociologist and author
• 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
• Peter Rüchel (1937–2019), music journalist
• Georg Simmel (1858–1918), sociologist, philosopher

Artists

• Ken Adam (1921–2016) set designer
• Die Ärzte band members, Farin Urlaub and Bela B.
• Reinhold Begas (1831–1911), sculptor
• Michael Ballhaus (1935–2017)
• Horst Buchholz (1933–2003)
• Marlene Dietrich (1901–1992)), singer and actress
• Caroline Fischer, pianist
• Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925–2012)
• Klaus Doldinger (born 1936)
• Alexander Fehling, actor
• Hansjörg Felmy, actor
• Julia Franck (1970), writer
• Naomi Frankel (1918–2009), novelist
• Peter Frankenfeld (1913–1979), comedian, radio and television personality
• Götz George (1938–2016) actor
• Valeska Gert (1892–1978), dancer and cabaret artist
• Walter Gropius, architect
• Georg Grosz (1893–1959), painter
• Nina Hagen, singer
• Judith Hermann (born 1970), writer
• Martina Hill, actress
• Harald Juhnke (1929–2005) actor, singer, comedian and entertainer
• Roland Kaiser (born 1952), singer
• Nastassja Kinski, actress
• Wolfgang Kohlhaase
• Hildegard Knef (1925–2002) singer and actress
• Hardy Krüger (born 1928), actor
• Max Liebermann (1847–1935), painter
• Paul Lincke (1866-1946)
• Ernst Lubitsch (1892–1947), film director, producer, writer, and actor
• Helmut Newton (born Helmut Neustädter) (1920–2004), photographer
• Hans Poelzig (1864–1936), architect
• André Previn (1929–2019), pianist, conductor and composer
• Rammstein band members, Paul Landers, bassist Oliver Riedel, drummer and keyboardist Christian Lorenz
• Leni Riefenstahl (1902–2003), film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, photographer and actress
• Jürgen Prochnow, actor (born 1941)
• Klaus Schulze (born 1947)
• Elke Sommer, actor (born 1940)
• Ludwig Tieck (1773–1853), poet, translator, editor, novelist
• Kurt Tucholsky, writer (1890-1935)

Sportspeople

• Rudi Ball (1911–1975), Olympic and Hall of Fame ice hockey player
• Jérôme Boateng (born 1988), footballer and 2014 FIFA World Cup winner
• Guido Buchwald, footballer
• Sven Felski, ice hockey coach
• Gottfried Fuchs (1889–1972), German-Canadian Olympic soccer player
• Thomas Häßler (born 1966), footballer and 1990 FIFA World Cup winner
• Heinz Henschel (1920–2006), German Ice Hockey Hall of Fame, and IIHF Hall of Fame inductee
• Robert Huth, footballer
• Gustav Jaenecke (born 1908), Olympic ice hockey player
• Carsten Keller (born 1939), field hockey player and gold medalist at the 1972 Summer Olympics, father of Andreas Keller, Natascha Keller and Florian Keller
• Max Kepler (born 1993), is a baseball player for the Minnesota Twins of the MLB
• Henry Laskau (born 1916), track and field athlete
• Pierre Littbarski
• Laura Ludwig
• Ingeborg Mello (born 1919), track and field athlete
• Claudia Pechstein
• Ellen Preis (Ellen Müller-Preis) (1912–2007), German-born Austrian Olympic champion foil fencer
• Daniel Prenn (1904–1991), Russian-born German, Polish, and British world-top-ten tennis player
• Otto Scheff (born 1886), Olympic swimmer
• Gustav Scholz, boxer
• Jochen Schümann
• Hagen Stamm
• Ulf Timmermann
• Franziska van Almsick
• Muhamed Bešić, professional footballer who plays for the Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team.
• Katarina Witt
• Christian Ziege, footballer

Others

• Nadja Auermann (born 1971), supermodel
• Margot Dreschel (1908–1945), Nazi concentration camp guard executed for war crimes
• Horst Fischer (1912–1966), SS concentration camp doctor executed for war crimes
• Elisabeth Lupka (1902–1949), Nazi concentration camp guard executed for war crimes
• Rahel Varnhagen (1771–1833), salon host

See also

• Culture of Berlin
• Music in Berlin
• Sport in Berlin

References

• National Division One 2005-06
• National Division One 2006-07
• National Division One 2007-08
• National Division One 2008-09
• National Division Three North 2007-08
• National Division Three South 2006-07
• National Division Three South 2007-08
• National Division Three South 2008-09
• National Division Two 2005-06
• National Division Two 2006-07
• National Division Two 2007-08
• National Division Two 2008-09
• National dna database
• National Dock Labour Scheme
• National Docks and New Jersey Junction Connecting Railway
• National Docks Branch
• National Docks Railway
• National Docks Secondary
• National Doctor's Day
• National Doctors' Day
• National Dodgeball League
• National Dodgeball League rules
• National Dog Show
• National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit
• National Domestic Extremism Team