List of people from Berlin

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

Berlin

Politicians and statesmen

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Frederick II of Prussia, Frederick the Great
 
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, 1902
 
Wilhelmine of Prussia, circa 1745
 
Klaus Wowereit, 2009

Entrepreneurs

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Hasso Plattner, 2006
 
Carl Friedrich von Siemens, before 1916

Military officers

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Karl von Bülow, ca.1915
 
Leo Graf von Caprivi, 1880
 
Karl Dönitz, 1943
 
Manfred von Richthofen, 1917

Scientists

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Alexander von Humboldt, 1843
 
Statue of Konrad Zuse in Bad Hersfeld

Judges and lawyers

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Theologians

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Authors, historians, journalists, scholars and philosophers

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Walter Benjamin, 1928
 
Statue of Wilhelm von Humboldt, Humboldt University, Berlin
 
Herbert Marcuse, 1955
 
Portrait of Ludwig Tieck

Actors, architects, artists, comedians, directors and singers

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Portrait of Reinhold Begas, before 1911
 
Marlene Dietrich, 1951
 
Portrait of Bonaventura Genelli, 1860
 
Walter Gropius, 1919
 
Nastassja Kinski, 2017
 
Giacomo Meyerbeer, 1865
 
Johann Christoph Pepusch
 
André Previn, 1973
 
Elke Sommer, 1965

Sportspeople

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Jérôme Boateng, 2009
 
Claudia Pechstein, 2018
 
Achim Hill, 1962
 
Katarina Witt, 1988

Others

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Gabriele von Bülow, aged 7 (right), and her sister Adelheid, ca. 1800

See also

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References

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