List of people from Berlin

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

Politicians and statesmen

 * Friedrich Ancillon (1767–1837), Prussian historian and statesman.
 * Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg (1803–1868), statesman and politician
 * Eduard Bernstein (1850–1932), politician (SPD), member of the Reichstag
 * Berthold von Bernstorff (1842–1917), politician and owner of Schiermonnikoog.
 * 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
 * Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1828–1885), brother of future German emperor William I.
 * 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)
 * Käte Selbmann (1906–1962), teacher and politician (KPD/SED/DFD)
 * 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.
 * Wilhelmine of Prussia (1709–1758), Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth.
 * Klaus Wowereit (born 1953), politician (SPD), Governing Mayor of Berlin from 2001 to 2014

Entrepreneurs

 * Ellen Allien, musician, DJ, founder of music label BPitch Control
 * Heinz Berggruen (1914–2007), art dealer
 * Ernst Dümmler (1830–1902), bookseller and historian.
 * 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 and 1952 respectively), business people and the initiators of the Buddy Bears
 * Günter Herlitz (1913-2010), business people
 * Bernhard Koehler (1849-1927), industrialist and art collector
 * 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.
 * Franz Oppenheim (1852-1929), industrialist and chemist
 * 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
 * Arnold von Siemens (1853-1918), entrepreneur and industrialist
 * Carl Friedrich von Siemens (1872–1941), industrialist
 * Georg Wilhelm von Siemens (1855-1919), industrialist
 * Georg Solmssen (1869-1957), German banker
 * Joachim Heinrich Wilhelm Wagener (1782-1861), German banker and patron of the arts

Military officers

 * Hans-Rudolf Boehmer (born 1938), Vice Admiral A.D. the German Navy, inspector of the navy (1995–1998)
 * Karl von Bülow (1846–1921), Prussian field marshal
 * Heinz Brandt (1907–1944), General Staff officer
 * Adolf von Brauchitsch (1876-1935), German major general
 * Walther von Brauchitsch (1881-1948), German field marshal
 * Leo von Caprivi (1831–1899), Vice Admiral of the Imperial German Navy, politicians, Chancellor as a successor Bismarck.
 * Karl Dönitz (1891–1980), Grand admiral and commander of the German Navy in WWII
 * Maximilian von Edelsheim (1897-1994), general
 * Max von Fabeck (1854–1916), Prussian general
 * Maximilian Vogel von Falckenstein (1839–1917), Prussian general
 * Friedrich Wilhelm Quirin von Forcade de Biaix (1699–1765), Prussian general
 * Georg Freiherr von Gayl (1850–1927), Prussian general
 * Ludwig Friedrich Leopold von Gerlach (1790–1861), Prussian general
 * Karl von Grolman (1777–1843), Prussian general.
 * Friedrich Wilhelm von Grumbkow (1678–1739), Prussian field marshal
 * Wilhelm von Hahnke (1833–1912), Prussian field marshal
 * Henning von Holtzendorff (1853–1919), German admiral
 * Ludwig Karl von Kalckstein (1725–1800), Prussian field marshal
 * Otto von Knobelsdorff (1886-1966), German general
 * Christian Nicolaus von Linger (1669–1755), Prussian general
 * Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow (1782–1834), Prussian lieutenant general
 * Erich von Manstein (1887–1973), German field marshal
 * Alexander von Monts (1832–1888), Prussian and German Imperial Navy officer
 * Elhard von Morozowicz (1893–1934), Der Stahlhelm official and SA General
 * Friedrich Graf Kleist von Nollendorf (1762–1823), Prussian field marshal
 * Jürgen Oesten (1913–2010), German Korvettenkapitän in the Kriegsmarine
 * Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski (1899–1966), German general
 * Alexander August Wilhelm von Pape (1813–1895), Prussian field marshal
 * Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia (1730–1813), Prussian general
 * Adalbert of Prussia (1811–1873), Prussian admiral
 * Albert of Prussia (1837–1906), Prussian general field marshal
 * Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1828-1873), Prussian field marshal
 * Henry of Prussia (1726–1802), 13 child king Frederick William. I in Prussia, the Prussian commander army
 * Albert von Rauch (1829–1901), Prussian general
 * Fedor von Rauch (1822-1892), cavalry officer in the Prussian Army
 * Friedrich von Rauch (1855–1935), Prussian general
 * Gustav Waldemar von Rauch (1819–1890), Prussian general
 * Nikolaus von Rauch (1851–1904), Prussian colonel
 * Klaus Reinhardt (1941–2021), German general
 * August Otto Rühle von Lilienstern (1780–1848), Prussian lieutenant general
 * Sigismund von Schlichting (1829–1909), Prussian general
 * Alfred von Schlieffen (1833–1913), Prussian field marshal
 * Samuel von Schmettau (1682–1751), Prussian field marshal
 * Rudolf Schmidt (1886–1957), German general
 * Friedrich von Sohr (1775–1845), Prussian colonel
 * Christoph Ludwig von Stille (1696–1752), Prussian general
 * Günther Tamaschke (1896–1959), Nazi SS concentration camp commandant
 * Carl Friedrich Heinrich, Graf von Wylich und Lottum (1767–1841), Prussian general

Scientists

 * Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (1806–1886), mineralogist and geologist.
 * Franz Karl Achard (1753–1821), chemist, geoscientist, physicist and biologist.
 * Michael Albeck (born 1934), Israeli chemist; President of Bar-Ilan University
 * Friedrich Eduard Beneke (1798 – ca.1854), psychologist and philosopher.
 * Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818–1896), physiologist and public intellectual.
 * Max Delbrück (1906–1981), biophysicist
 * Paul Erman (1764–1851), a Huguenot physicist.
 * Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894), philosopher, 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.
 * Julius Klaproth (1783–1835), orientalist, explorer, historian and ethnographer.
 * Edmund Landau (1877–1938), mathematician
 * Paul Langerhans (1847–1888), pathologist, physiologist, and biologist
 * Johann Nathanael Lieberkühn (1711-1756), physician
 * Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (1709–1782), chemist.
 * Bernhard Hermann Neumann (1909–2002), mathematician
 * Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811), naturalist, botanist and zoologist.
 * Wolf-Dieter Schneider (born 1942), German metallurgist and university professor
 * 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

Judges and lawyers

 * Heinz Drossel (1916–2008), judge, was honored as Righteous Among the Nations
 * Eduard Gans (1797–1839), jurist.
 * Rudolf von Gneist (1816–1895), jurist and politician.
 * Wilhelm Heinrich von Grolman (1781–1856), lawyer, Berlin Court of Appeal president (the "righteous judge")
 * Fritz Oppenheimer (1898–1968), lawyer
 * 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 and philosophers

 * Achim von Arnim (1781–1831), author, poet and novelist.
 * Gisela von Arnim (1827–1889), author
 * Bernd-Rainer Barth (born 1957), historian and publicist
 * Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714–1762), philosopher.
 * Heinrich Becker (1770–1822), actor.
 * Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), philosopher
 * Ludwig Borchardt (1863–1938), Egyptologist
 * Adolf Brand (1874-1945), writer
 * Gottfried Gabriel Bredow (1773–1814), historian.
 * 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 (1935–2023), 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
 * Hildegard Maria Nickel (born 1948), sociologist specializing in gender studies
 * 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
 * Ludwig Tieck (1773–1853), poet, translator, editor, novelist.
 * Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935), journalist and writer
 * Rahel Varnhagen (1771–1833), writer and prominent salon host.
 * Theodor Wolff (1868-1943), journalist and writer

Actors, architects, artists, comedians, directors and singers

 * Ken Adam (1921–2016) set designer
 * Nadja Auermann (born 1971), supermodel
 * Die Ärzte band members, Farin Urlaub and Bela B
 * Peer Augustinski (1940–2014), actor
 * Hugo Egon Balder (born 1950), actor and comedian
 * Mario Barth (born 1972), comedian
 * Karl Becker (1820-1900), painter
 * Reinhold Begas (1831–1911), sculptor.
 * Michael Ballhaus (1935–2017), cinematographer
 * Tim Bendzko (born 1985), singer-songwriter
 * Dagmar Berghoff (born 1943), actress, radio and television presenter
 * Folker Bohnet (1937–2020), actor, theatre director and playwright
 * Horst Buchholz (1933–2003), actor
 * Buddy, singer
 * Karl August Devrient (1797–1872), stage actor.
 * Ludwig Devrient (1784–1832), actor.
 * Marlene Dietrich (1901–1992), singer and actress
 * Christoph von Dohnányi (born 1929), conductor
 * Angelica Domröse (born 1941), actress
 * Caroline Fischer (born 1984), pianist
 * Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925–2012)
 * Klaus Doldinger (born 1936), saxophonist
 * Elton (born 1971), comedian and television presenter
 * Alexander Fehling (born 1981), actor
 * Hansjörg Felmy (1931–2007), actor
 * Julia Franck (born 1970), writer
 * Naomi Frankel (1918–2009), novelist
 * Peter Frankenfeld (1913–1979), comedian, radio and television personality
 * Liv Lisa Fries (born 1990), actress
 * Claus Theo Gärtner (born 1943), actor
 * Bonaventura Genelli (1798–1868), painter.
 * Götz George (1938–2016), actor
 * Kurt Gerron (1897-1944), actor
 * Valeska Gert (1892–1978), dancer and cabaret artist
 * Walter Gronostay (1906-1937), composer
 * Walter Gropius (1883–1961), architect
 * Georg Grosz (1893–1959), painter
 * Nina Hagen (born 1955), singer
 * Karoline Herfurth (born 1984), actress
 * Judith Hermann (born 1970), writer
 * Paul Heyse (1830–1914), writer, novelist, dramatist and poet.
 * Martina Hill (born 1974), actress
 * Margot Hielscher (1919–2017), actress
 * Alfred Hirschmeier (1931-1996), film production designer
 * Marta Husemann (1913-1960), actress, communist and resistance fighter
 * Harald Juhnke (1929–2005) actor, singer, comedian and entertainer
 * Roland Kaiser (born 1952), singer
 * Nastassja Kinski (born 1961), actress
 * Johanna von Koczian (1933–2024), actress
 * Wolfgang Kohlhaase (1931–2022), screenwriter and film director
 * Hildegard Knef (1925–2002) singer and actress
 * Asuman Krause (born 1976) German-Turkish singer, model and TV personality
 * Hardy Krüger (1928–2022), actor
 * Fritz Kühn (1910-1967), visual artist
 * Peer Kusmagk (born 1975), actor
 * Paul Landers (born 1964), musician of band Rammstein
 * Maria Landrock (1923-1992), actress
 * Kevyn Lettau (born 1959), singer jazz
 * Max Liebermann (1847–1935), painter.
 * Paul Lincke (1866–1946), composer and theatre conductor
 * Christian Lorenz (born 1966), musician of band Rammstein
 * Albert Lortzing (1801–1851), composer, librettist, actor and singer.
 * Ernst Lubitsch (1892–1947), film director, producer, writer, and actor
 * Florian Lukas (born 1973), actor
 * Markus Majowski (born 1964), actor and comedian
 * Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864), an opera composer.
 * Inge Meysel (1910–2004), actress
 * Helmut Newton (born Helmut Neustädter) (1920–2004), photographer
 * Désirée Nick (born 1956), actress and writer
 * Erik Ode (1910-1983), actor and film director
 * Gerd Oswald (1919-1989), film director
 * Kerstin Ott (born 1982), singer
 * Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667–1752), composer, lived in England.
 * Oliver Petszokat (born 1978), singer
 * Günter Pfitzmann (1924–2003), actor
 * Hans Poelzig (1864–1936), architect
 * André Previn (1929–2019), pianist, conductor and composer
 * Jürgen Prochnow (born 1941), actor
 * Rammstein band members, Paul Landers, bassist Oliver Riedel, drummer and keyboardist Christian Lorenz
 * Ivan Rebroff (1931-2008), singer
 * Leni Riefenstahl (1902–2003), photographer, film director, producer, screenwriter and editor
 * Marianne Rosenberg (born 1955), singer
 * Hans Rosenthal (1925–1987), radio editor, director, and radio and television host
 * Erna Sack (1898-1972), soprano singer
 * Tom Schilling (born 1982), actor
 * Wilhelm Schirmer (1802–1866), painter.
 * Cornelia Schleime (born 1953), painter, performer, filmmaker and author
 * Jörn Schlönvoigt (born 1986), actor and singer
 * Christoph Schneider (born 1966), musician of Band Rammstein
 * Louis Schneider (1805–1878), actor and author.
 * Klaus Schulze (1947–2022), electronic music pioneer, composer and musician
 * Tomer Sisley (born 1974), Israeli humorist, actor, screenwriter, comedian, and film director
 * Max Skladanowsky (1863-1939), early filmmaker and co-inventor of Bioscop
 * Elke Sommer (born 1940), actor
 * Detlef Soost (born 1970), dancer, choreograph and TV-presenter
 * Ingrid Steeger (1947–2023), actress and comedian
 * Carl Steffeck (1818-1890), painter
 * Hermann Struck (1876-1944), painter
 * Katrin Lea Tag (born 1972), scenic designer and costume designer
 * Katharina Thalbach (born 1954), actress
 * Christian Thielemann (born 1959),conductor
 * Sophia Thomalla (born 1989), actress
 * Nora Tschirner (born 1981), actress
 * Kurt Tucholsky, (1890–1935), writer
 * Michael Verhoeven (born 1938), actor
 * Otto Wallburg (1889-1944), actor
 * Volker Wangenheim (1928–2014), conductor, composer and academic teacher
 * Jonathan Elias Weiske (born 1996), film and television actor, and voice actor
 * Dana Wynter (1931-2011), actress
 * Jing Xiang (born 1993), actress
 * Rolf Zacher (1941–2018), actor
 * Claus Theo Gärtner (born 1943), actor

Sportspeople

 * Rudi Ball (1911–1975), Olympic and Hall of Fame ice hockey player
 * Muhamed Bešić (born 1992), footballer who plays for the Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team.
 * Jérôme Boateng (born 1988), football player and 2014 FIFA World Cup winner
 * Kevin-Prince Boateng (born 1987), footballer
 * Guido Buchwald (born 1961), footballer
 * Karim Darwiche (born 1998), Lebanese international footballer
 * Sven Felski (born 1974), ice hockey coach
 * Gottfried Fuchs (1889–1972), German-Canadian Olympic soccer player
 * Niels Giffey (born 1991), basketball player, two-time NCAA champion and 2023 FIBA World Cup winner
 * Thomas Häßler (born 1966), footballer and 1990 FIFA World Cup winner
 * Robert Harting (born 1984), discus thrower
 * Heinz Henschel (1920–2006), German Ice Hockey Hall of Fame, and IIHF Hall of Fame inductee
 * Achim Hill (1935-2015), German rower
 * Robert Huth (born 1984), footballer
 * Gustav Jaenecke (1908–1985), Olympic ice hockey player
 * Patrick Jahn (born 1983), German footballer
 * 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), baseball player for the Minnesota Twins of the MLB
 * Henry Laskau (1916–2000), track and field athlete
 * Pierre Littbarski (born 1960), footballer
 * Laura Ludwig (born 1986), beach volleyballer
 * Ingeborg Mello (1919–2009), track and field athlete
 * Jonas Müller (born 1995), ice hockey player and silver medalist at the 2018 Winter Olympics
 * Hassan Oumari (born 1986), footballer
 * Joan Oumari (born 1988), footballer
 * Claudia Pechstein (born 1972), speed skater
 * 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
 * Nyara Sabally, WNBA player
 * Otto Scheff (1889–1956), Olympic swimmer
 * Gustav Scholz (1930–2000), boxer
 * Jochen Schümann (born 1959), sailor and Olympic champion
 * Amar Sejdić (born 1996), American soccer player for Atlanta United FC of the MLS
 * Hagen Stamm (born 1960), water polo player
 * Ulf Timmermann (born 1962), shot putter
 * Franziska van Almsick (born 1978), swimmer and sport journalist
 * Franz Wagner (born 2001), basketball player for the Orlando Magic and 2023 FIBA World Cup winner
 * Moritz Wagner (born 1997), basketball player for the Orlando Magic and 2023 FIBA World Cup winner
 * Katarina Witt (born 1965), figure skater and two-time Olympic champion
 * Christian Ziege (born 1972), footballer

Others

 * Erna Barschak (1888-1958), teacher and psychologist
 * Bärbel Bohley (1945-2010), opposition figure and artist
 * Harald Braem (born 1944), writer, designer and professor
 * Gabriele von Bülow (1802–1887), noblewoman
 * Margot Dreschel (1908–1945), Nazi concentration camp guard executed for war crimes
 * Käthe Niederkirchner (1909-1944), communist and resistance fighter
 * Horst Fischer (1912–1966), SS concentration camp doctor executed for war crimes
 * Heinz Kapelle (1913-1941), communist and resistance fighter
 * Elisabeth Lupka (1902–1949), Nazi concentration camp guard executed for war crimes
 * Lars Mittank (born 1986), man who went missing in Varna, Bulgaria in 2014
 * Rosalie von Rauch (1829-1879), German noblewoman
 * Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler (1918-2001), communist propagandist