- Murat Kurnaz
Murat Kurnaz (born March 19, 1982 in Bremen, Germany) was held in extrajudicial detention and claims to have been tortured in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba for four years. Kurnaz, a Turkish citizen and legal resident of Germany, was in the process of becoming a German citizen when he was arrested in Pakistan in late 2001. His detainee ID number is 61. After being imprisoned for five years he was released and arrived in Germany August 24 2006.
- Adolf Lüderitz
Franz Adolf Eduard Lüderitz was a German merchant and founder of the first German colony in Southwest Africa. He was born in Bremen, where he engaged in the tobacco business with his father, who died in 1878. Adolf Lüderitz succeeded to the management of the business. He had traveled to the United States from 1854 to 1859. In 1881, he established a factory at Lagos, and in 1883, …
- Henning Scherf
Henning Scherf (born 31 October, 1938 in Bremen) is a German lawyer and politician. He was the Mayor of Bremen from 4 July 1995 to 8 November 2005. After studying law and social sciences from 1958 - 1962 in Berlin, Hamburg and Freiburg he worked for a protestant students association (Evangelisches Studentenwerk) until 1964. He has been a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany since 1963. In 1968 Scherf got his law doctorate from University of Hamburg.
- Jens Böhrnsen
Jens Böhrnsen (born June 12 1949 in Bremen) is a German politician of the SPD. He is the current mayor of Bremen, and ex officio the prime minister of the state of Bremen. Bremen's legislative assembly decided to elect Böhrnsen as mayor after he had won the Social Democrat primary for the mayoralty, which had become vacant after incumbent Henning Scherf announced on 28 September 2005 that he intended to resign in December.
- Karl Carstens
Karl Carstens (December 14, 1914 - May 30, 1992) was a German politician. He served as the fifth Federal President of West Germany
- Johann Smidt
Johann Smidt was an important Bremen politician, theologian, and founder of Bremerhaven. Smidt studied theology in Jena, and was one of the founders of the Gesellschaft der freien Männer (Community of free men). He then became Professor of History at the "Gymnasium illustre" in his hometown. He then became 'Syndikus' (company lawyer) for the Älterleute and in 1800 'Ratsherr' (councilman), …
- Henrich Focke
Henrich Focke (October 8, 1890 - February 25, 1979) was a German aviation pioneer from Bremen. He was a co-founder of Focke-Wulf. He built a glider in 1909, and his first motorised plane, the Kolthoff-Focke A III, a year later. The A III was too underpowered to be airworthy. His next model, the A IV allowed his first motorised flight in 1912. He then joined forces with Georg Wulf and in 1914 they built the Focke-Wulf A VI.
- Flowin Immo
Immo Wischhusen (born September 23, 1975 in Bremen), better known as Flowin Immo or short Immo, is a German rapper and is considered a veteran of German hip hop. Together with Ferris MC and DJ Pee, Immo founds the Freaks Association Bremen (FAB), which, in the fast-growing German hip hop scene, comes to success rather quickly. They perform at several events, festivals and on MTV and VIVA.
- Klaus Kleinfeld
Klaus Kleinfeld (born November 6 1957 in Bremen, Germany) was chief executive officer (CEO) of Siemens AG from 2005 till July 2007. On April 25, 2007, Siemens AG distributed a press release announcing that the supervisory board was not planning to renew Kleinfeld's contract, due to United States authorities' ongoing investigations of the Siemens corruption scandal. Displeased by this decision, Kleinfeld announced that he would leave his position by September 30, 2007.
- Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus
Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus was a German naturalist. He was a proponent of the theory of the transmutation of species, a theory of evolution held by some biologists prior to the work of Charles Darwin. He put forward this belief in the first volume of his "Biologie; oder die Philosophie der lebenden Natur", published in 1802, the same year similar opinions were expressed by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. Treviranus was born in Bremen and studied medicine at Göttingen, …
- Ernst Rowohlt
Ernst R. Rowohlt (born 23 June 1887 in Bremen; died 1 December 1960 in Hamburg) was a German publisher who founded the Rowohlt publishing house in 1908 and headed it and its successors until his death. In 1957 he married Maria Pierenkämper. Rowohlt had two sons, who were both illegitimate: Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt (1908–1992), who succeeded him as head of the publishing house, and Harry Rowohlt (born 1945), a writer. He also had one daughter.
- Andreas Kappes
Andreas Kappes (born December 23, 1965 in Bremen) is a retired road racing cyclist from Germany, who represented West Germany at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. A track specialist as well, he was professional from 1987 to 2001. Kappes competed in five Tour de Frances, and obtained a total number of 41 victories.
- Heinz Linge
Heinz Linge was a valet at German dictator Adolf Hitler's headquarters. Linge was born in Bremen. He worked as a valet at Wolfsschanze in Rastenburg and at Hitler's bunker in Berlin in the last days of the Führer's life, and was Hitler's personal ordinance officer. Linge delivered messages to Hitler and escorted people for whom Hitler had sent. He was one of many soldiers, servants, secretaries and officers who moved into the Reich Chancellery bunker in 1945.
- Adolf Bastian
Adolf Bastian was a 19th century polymath best remembered for his contributions to the development of ethnography and the development of anthropology as a discipline. Bastian was born in Bremen, German Confederation, into a prosperous bourgeois German family of merchants. His career at university was broad almost to the point of being eccentric. He studied law at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, and biology at what is today Humboldt University of Berlin, …
- Theodor Landscheidt
Theodor Landscheidt (born in 1927 in Bremen, Germany, died on May 20, 2004) was a German judge, astrologer and amateur climatologist. His work on solar cycles has been cited by global warming skeptics to argue that observed warming is not anthroprogenic and will soon be reversed. In 1983 he founded the Schroeter Institute for Research in Cycles of Solar Activity in Lilienthal, near Bremen.
- Georg Friedrich Prince of Prussia
Georg Friedrich Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (born June 10 1976 in Bremen) is the current head of the royal House of Hohenzollern and pretender to the German and Prussian thrones.
- Gert Postel
Gert Postel (born June 18, 1958 in Bremen) is a German impostor, best known for successfully applying as a medical doctor several times without ever having received medical education. Gert Postel went to Hauptschule and finished his training as a mail carrier. Postel himself said that his mother died because of a maladministered depression treatment and that he himself had briefly been in a juvenile ward.
- Adolf Butenandt
Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt (March 24, 1903 - January 18, 1995) was a German biochemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939 for his "work on sex hormones." He was initally forced by the Nazi government to decline the award, but accepted it in 1949 after World War II. (Source: "The Human Brain," Isaac Asimov) Born in Lehe, near Bremen, he started his studies at the University of Marburg.
- Reyhan Şahin
Reyhan Şahin (*1981 in Bremen, Germany), also known as "Lady (Bitch) Ray", is a German-speaking Hip Hop artist, and radio host.
- Henry Timken
Henry Timken (1831 - 1909) was an inventor who was born in Bremen, Germany. He founded the Timken Company in 1899, which is located in Canton, Ohio. Timken was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame on September 19, 1998. Henry Timkin was one of six inducted into the hall of fame at ceremonies done at the E J Thomas Hall in Akron, OH. William Robert Timken, Jr., Timken's great-grandson, the retired chairman and chief executive officer of The Timken Co, …
- Corinna Harney
Corinna Harney (born February 20, 1972) is an American model and actress of Cherokee-Irish decent. She was chosen as "Playboy"'s playmate of the month in August, 1991 and "Playboy's" Playmate of the Year 1992. Harney is sometimes credited as "Corina Harney", "Corinna Harney-Jones", or "Corinna Harney Jones". She is a sister of Dorinda Harney. Although born in Bremerhaven, Germany, Harney spent most of her childhood life in Las Vegas, …
- Friedrich Thielen
Friedrich-Georg (known as Fritz) Thielen (born 25 September 1916 in Bremen, died 11 June 1993) was a German politician with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the German Party, the Gesamtdeutsche Partei and the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD). After working as a sawmill operator in Germany and in brickyards in occupied Ukraine, Thielen became a soldier in 1943 until the end of the war.
- Carl Julius Bernhard Börner
Carl Julius Bernhard Börner was a German entomologist. Börner was born in Bremen and died in Naumburg. His collections of Collembola are located in the Natural History Museum, London and the Deutsches Entomologisches Institut in Müncheberg.
- Herbert V. Günther
Herbert V. Günther is a German contemporary Buddhist philosopher and academic. He is Professor and Head of the Department of Far Eastern Studies at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. He holds that position since he left India in 1964
- Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock
Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock (December 11 1911 - April 18 1986) was a German naval officer, and a submarine commander during World War II. He was among the top ten Aces of the Deep during the Second Battle of the Atlantic against the Allies, in terms of tonnage of merchant ships sunk. He commanded four subs, most notable and successful of which was his tour commanding the U-96, a Type VII U-boat, …
- Cato Bontjes van Beek
Cato Bontjes van Beek was a German member of the resistance against the Nazi régime.
- Princess Irina Of Prussia
Princess Irina of Prussia ("Irina Maria Nina Kira Caroline", born July 4, 1988), is a member of the House of Hohenzollern, the former Royal Family of Prussia and later the Imperial family of Germany. She was born in Bremen, the only daughter and second child of Prince Christian-Sigismund of Prussia and Countess Nina Helene Lydia Alexandra of Reventlow. She is the great-granddaughter of Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany.
- Bela Ewald Althans
Bela Ewald Althans, real name Bernd Althans, currently known as Bernd E. Althans (born 1966 in Bremen) is a former activist on the German neo-Nazi scene. Althans's extreme far-right tendencies became clear while he was still in school. To begin with he was a member, and protege, of Otto Ernst Remer's "Deutsche Freiheitsbewegung" ("German Freedom Movement").
- Lenz Grimmer
Lenz Grimmer is a member of the Community Relations team at MySQL AB. He lives in Hamburg, Germany and has worked for MySQL since April, 2002. Before joining the Community Relations team in December 2005, he was a member of the Release Engineering team that is in charge of creating the official release builds of the MySQL server. Prior to working for MySQL, Lenz was an engineer in the distribution development team of SuSE Linux in Nuremberg for four years.
- Wanda Balsley
I am married to Jason & I have 3 boys, Andrew 22, Mason 14, & Branden 5. I work for Collins & Co. Realtors in Bremen.
- Amanda Hochstetler
About me....Well i'm 18 years old.I'm a senior at LaVille Jr./Sr. High School. But anyways....I have dk. brown hair- maybe a little lighter, blue eyes, 5'3( yea i know I'm short.) um....I like to read sometimes, I love to party....hm....what else. Oh yeah I really like the outdoors and love to swim. I really love going to the dunes and lake michigan during the summer it is so so so much fun! But thats about it- Later:)
- Frederic
I dont like to talk about me...but im tall, im in the soccer team, im in the football team as a Kicker...and some poeple say im funny and some people like me and some dont! (-: Now u know everything about me...^^.
- Elena Sherwood
Well, 41, Divorced, Mother of 2, work for the german goverment, live in Germany, lived in the USA for 10 Years, both my daughters where born there, one in California and one in Kentucky, the last State I lived in was Texas, liked it there. One day I am moving back to the USA, dont like it here that much anymore. My best friend lives in Texas, since about 20 years, she keeps asking me when I am finally coming home.
- Tom
I like trapping people in bear traps when they try to leave magazines at my house. No template because ppl can't seem to get to my page without freezing their computers out sorry :/.
- Thomas
I'm Thomas and I live in the northern part of Germany. My city is the hometown of Beck's and Werder Bremen! Yes, Beck's the famous n tasty beer; and Werder the best soccer team ever! I really love to travel and discover the world. I have been to 15 different countries, and there is lots more to see! Anyway, my heart belongs to Australia and Germany.
- Johannes
..see on the side.. *~*~**~*~**~*~**~*~**~*~**~*~**~*~**~*~**~*~**~*~**~*~**~*~* Cause in my head there is a greyhound station Where I send my thoughts to far off destinations So they may have a chance of finding a place where they are far more suited than here *~*~**~*~**~*~**~*~**~*~**~*~**~*~**~*~**~*~**~*~**~*~**~*~* *~*~**~*~**~*~**~*~**~*~**~*~**~*~**~*~**~*~**~*~**~*~**~*~*.
- Anna Pilch
HypeMySpace.com - Glitter Graphics Maker.
- Haley
I just recently finished high school. My interests pretty much include movies and plays and music. My ALL-TIME favorite actress is Audrey Hepburn. Breakfast at Tiffany's is like the greatest movie ever! I love going to see movies and going to concerts. Right now my life pretty much work and play rehearsal.
- Max
ICQ: 171378178.
- Josh Hickey
Well I'm Josh...there's not a whole lot to say about me. I am in the process of joining the fire department. I have to go through all the training and everything but its well worth it. Something about helping others attracts me to it. Its been something I've wanted to do for years and finally it is happeneing. I'm really happy about it and my family and friends are supportive about it all. Things to do in my spare time...hmmm kinda hard.