List of people from Berlin

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Berlin

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

Politicians and statesmen[edit]

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

Entrepreneurs[edit]

Hasso Plattner, 2006
Carl Friedrich von Siemens, before 1916

Military officers[edit]

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

Scientists[edit]

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

Judges and lawyers[edit]

Theologians[edit]

Authors, historians, journalists, scholars and philosophers[edit]

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[edit]

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
Leni Riefenstahl, ca.1937
Elke Sommer, 1965

Sportspeople[edit]

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

Others[edit]

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

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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