- Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms (May 7, 1833 - April 3, 1897) was a German composer of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, he eventually settled in Vienna, Austria.
- Felix Mendelssohn
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born and known generally as Felix Mendelssohn (February 3, 1809 - November 4, 1847) was a German composer and conductor of the early Romantic period. Born to a notable Jewish family, being the grandson of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. His work includes symphonies, concertos, oratorios, piano and chamber music. After a long period of relative denigration due to changing musical tastes in the late 19th century, …
- Helmut Schmidt
Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt (born December 23, 1918) is a German Social Democratic politician. He was the Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982, as well as Minister of Defence and Minister of Finance. He also served briefly as Minister of Economics and as acting Foreign Minister.
- Bert Kaempfert
Bert Kaempfert was a German orchestra leader and songwriter. He made easy listening and jazz-oriented records, and wrote the music for a number of well-known songs, such as "Strangers in the Night" (originally recorded by Ivo Robić) and "Spanish Eyes". He was born in Hamburg, Germany, and studied at the School of Music there. A multi-instrumentalist, he was hired by Hans Busch to play with his orchestra before serving as a bandsman in the German Navy during World War II.
- Ole von Beust
Ole von Beust was born in Hamburg in 1955. Von Beust studied jurisprudence from 1975 to 1980 in Hamburg and completed his studies in 1983 with the 2nd state examination in law. As of 1983 has practised law as a self-employed lawyer. Since 1971 von Beust has been member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU). As of 1978 he has been member of Hamburgs Parliament, the House of Burgesses (Hamburgische Burgerschaft).
- Karl Lagerfeld
Karl Lagerfeld is widely recognized as one of the more influential fashion designers of the late 20th century. He has collaborated with a variety of different fashion labels, with Chloé, Fendi and Chanel the most notable. But with contracts with companies internationally, throughout his career, he has probably built the most complicated resume of any designer. Furthermore, he has his own labels, which he launched in the early 1980s, including perfume and clothing.
- Tommy Haas
Thomas Mario Haas (born April 3, 1978) is a German tennis player. He is 187 cm tall and plays right-handed. He is currently ranked #10 in the world. He reached a career-high ranking of World No. 2 in May 2002. Haas is particularly well-known for his strong forehand.
- Sascha Konietzko
Sascha Konietzko, also known as Sascha K and Käpt'n K, is the frontman of the industrial music band KMFDM, having founded the group in 1984. He is the only member of KMFDM to appear on every album. He has formed a number of side-projects, such as Excessive Force in 1990, MDFMK in 1999 with Lucia Cifarelli and Tim Skold, and Schwein in 2000. Konietzko and Cifarelli married in 2005. He has resided in the United States since 1992, …
- Uwe Seeler
Uwe Seeler (born November 5 1936 in Hamburg) is a German football manager and retired football player. He played for Hamburger SV and also made 72 appearances for the West German national team.
- Blümchen
Jasmin Wagner better known as Blümchen, is a multi-platinum selling pop and dance music singer, aspiring actress, model/spokesperson and a vegetarian. Although she releases her English albums under the name Blossom, her German stage name "Blümchen" actually translates to "floret" or "small flower".
- Max Schmeling
Maximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling (September 28, 1905 - February 2, 2005) was a German boxer whose two fights with Joe Louis transcended boxing and became worldwide social events because of their national associations. Despite his supposed associations with nazism, it became known long after the Second World War that Schmeling had risked his own life to save the lives of two Jewish children in 1938.
- Aby Warburg
Aby Moritz Warburg (13 June 1866 - 26 October 1929) was an influential art historian. He was born in Hamburg to the famous Warburg banking family. However, he had little interest in the family business and chose instead to devote himself to academic studies. He studied in Bonn, Munich, and in Strasbourg, focussing on archeology and art history, but also medicine, psychology, and the history of religion.
- Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (February 22, 1857 - January 1, 1894) was the German physicist and mechanician for whom the hertz, an SI unit, is named. In 1888, he was the first to satisfactorily demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic radiation by building an apparatus to produce and detect UHF radio waves. Another of his important contributions was to the field of contact deformation and mechanics.
- Ralf Dahrendorf
Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, KBE, (born May 1, 1929) is a German-British sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and politician. He was born in Hamburg, the son of Lina and the late Gustav Dahrendorf, a social democrat member of the German Parliament. He studied philosophy, classical philology and sociology at Hamburg University between 1947 and 1952, became a doctor of philosophy and classics (Dr. phil.) in 1952.
- Andreas Brehme
Andreas "Andy" Brehme (born November 9, 1960) is a German football coach and former football defender. He is best known for scoring the winning goal for Germany in the 1990 FIFA world cup finals against Argentina on a controversial 85th minute penalty kick.
- Dirk von Lowtzow
Dirk von Lowtzow is a german musician. He has been singer and guitarist with the german rock band Tocotronic since 1994. Since 2001 he is also active in the german electronic music project Phantom/Ghost. In the year 1997 he took part in the compilation disc Musik für junge Leute by Various Artists with the song "Charlotte", which probably refers to the german TV presenter Charlotte Roche.
- Stefan Effenberg
Stefan Effenberg (born 2 August 1968 in Hamburg, West Germany) is a former German soccer player. He was an all-round player and leader, possessing great vision, tackling and a hard shot.
- Axel Zwingenberger
Axel Zwingenberger (born May 7, 1955 in Hamburg) is a German blues and boogie-woogie pianist. He began with study of classical piano, but began playing blues by the 1970s. In 1975 he received his first recording contract. He has gone on to work with greats in the genre like Big Joe Turner, and also tours. He is also known for his photographs of steam locomotives, including some taken from within the machinery itself.
- Peer Steinbrück
Peer Steinbrück is a German SPD politician. He currently serves as Minister of Finance in the cabinet of Angela Merkel. He was Minister President ("Ministerpräsident") of North Rhine-Westphalia from November 2002 to June 2005. On the state election on May 22 2005 Steinbrück failed to be reelected as Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia. His successor is Jürgen Rüttgers (CDU). From November 2005 he is finance minister of Germany and Vice chief of SPD
- Michael Stich
Michael Stich (born October 18, 1968, in Pinneberg, Germany) is a former professional tennis player from Germany. He is best remembered for winning the men's singles title at Wimbledon in 1991. He also won the men's doubles titles at both Wimbledon and the Olympic Games, and was a singles runner-up at the US Open and the French Open.
- Max Warburg
Max M. Warburg (5 June 1867 - 26 December 1946) was a Jewish-German-American banker and was, from 1910 until 1938, director of M. M. Warburg & Co. in Hamburg, Germany. Prior to his directing of the Warburg banking company, he developed apprenticeships in Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Paris, and London. As head of that important firm, he advised Kaiser Wilhelm II prior to World War I. In the 1930s, despite the rise of the Nazi Party, …
- Horst Fascher
Horst Fascher (born 1936, Hamburg) was a German nightclub bouncer, and a friend of The Beatles during their days playing in Hamburg, Germany. A onetime professional boxer whose career was cut short (he had unintentionally killed a sailor in a street fight), Fascher found work in clubs along the Reeperbahn in Hamburg. When the Beatles (including original drummer Pete Best and bassist Stuart Sutcliffe) made their first trip to Germany in August 1960, …
- Erich Raeder
Erich Johann Albert Raeder was a naval leader in Germany before and during World War II. Raeder attained the highest possible naval rank – that of "Großadmiral" (Grand Admiral) – in 1939, becoming the first person to hold that rank since Alfred von Tirpitz. Raeder led the "Kriegsmarine" (German Navy) for the first half of World War II, but resigned in 1943 and was replaced by Karl Dönitz. He was sentenced to life in prison at the Nuremberg Trials, …
- Alexander Laas
Alexander Laas (b. May 5, 1984 in Hamburg-Niendorf) is a German attacking midfielder for Hamburger SV. He's been at HSV since July 2000. Before then he played for Niendorfer SV and Hamburger SV A-Jugend *Bundesliga matches: 9 *Bundesliga goals: 0 *Shirt no: 27 *Position: Midfield *Height: 1,75 cm *Weight: 73 kg *Marital status: Single
- Peter Behrens
Peter Behrens (April 14, 1868-February 27, 1940) was a German architect and designer.
- Helmuth Hübener
Helmuth Hübener. On 11 August 1942, Hübener's case was tried at the "Volksgerichtshof" in Berlin, and on 27 October, at the age of 17, he was beheaded at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin. His two friends, Schnibbe and Wobbe, who had also been arrested, were given lengthy prison sentences of 5 and 10 years respectively. As it says in the proclamation (at right), …
- Dagmar Krause
Dagmar Krause (born 4 June 1950) is a German singer, best known for her work with avant-garde rock groups like Slapp Happy, Henry Cow and Art Bears. She is also noted for her coverage of songs by Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler. Her unusual singing style makes her voice instantly recognisable and has defined the sound of many of the bands she has worked with.
- Max Nonne
Max Nonne (born January 13 1861, Hamburg - died 1959) was a German neurologist. Max Nonne studied in Heidelberg, Freiburg, and Berlin, receiving his doctorate at Hamburg University in 1884. He was assistant physician in the medical clinic in Heidelberg under Wilhelm Heinrich Erb, in the surgical clinic in Kiel under Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch and in 1889 settled in Hamburg as a neurologist.
- Gustav Ludwig Hertz
Gustav Ludwig Hertz (July 22 1887, Hamburg - October 30 1975, Berlin) was a German physicist, and a nephew of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz. Hertz won a Nobel Prize in 1925 for studies in cooperation with James Franck of electrons passing through gas. The Franck-Hertz experiment was an early physics experiment that provided support for the Bohr model of the atom, a precursor to quantum mechanics. In 1914, an experiment probe of the energy levels of the atom was conducted.
- Johann Bernhard Basedow
Johann Bernhard Basedow was a German educational reformer. He was born as the son of a hairdresser. He was educated at the Johanneum in that town, where he came under the influence of the rationalist H.S. Reimarus (1694-1768), author of the famous "Wolfenbütteler Fragmente", published by Lessing. In 1744 he went to Leipzig as a student of theology, but gave himself up entirely to the study of philosophy.
- Arno Schmidt
Arno Schmidt (January 18, 1914 - June 3, 1979) was a German author and translator.
- Uwe Friedrichsen
Uwe Friedrichsen (b. May 27, 1934 in Hamburg, Germany) is a German television actor.
- Emil Artin
Emil Artin was an Austrian mathematician. His father, also Emil Artin, was an art-dealer, and his mother was the opera singer Emma Laura-Artin. He grew up in Reichenberg (today Liberec) in Bohemia, where German was the primary language. He left school in 1916, and one year later went to the University of Vienna. Artin spent his career in Germany (mainly in Hamburg) until the Nazi threat when he emigrated to the USA in 1937. He was at Indiana University from 1938 to 1946, …
- Helmut Griem
Helmut Griem was a German actor. Griem was primarily a German-speaking stage actor, appearing at the Thalia-Theater in Hamburg, the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, the Burgtheater in Vienna, the Staatliches Schauspielbühnen in Berlin, in the Munich Kammerspiele, and finally in the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, also in Munich. Among his many film and TV appearances, the Oscar-winning film Cabaret (1972), …
- Carsten Bohn
Carsten Bohn b. 18 August, 1948 is a musician from Hamburg, Germany with a long career on the German music scene. He is known for his earlier works as a bandleader and composer with the "Kraut Rock" band "Frumpy", and also under his pseudonym of 'Bert Brac'. He has recorded with Peter Baumann (ex-Tangerine Dream) and played as Drummer with the Jan Hammer Band
- James H. Schmitz
James Henry Schmitz was an American writer born in Hamburg, Germany of American parents. Aside from two years at business school in Chicago, Schmitz lived in Germany until 1938, leaving before World War II broke out in Europe in 1939. During World War II, Schmitz served as an aerial photographer in the Pacific for the United States Army Air Corps. After the war, he and his brother-in-law ran a business which manufactured trailers until they broke up the business in 1949.
- Ami Boué
Ami Boué, Austrian geologist, was born at Hamburg, and received his early education there and in Geneva and Paris. Proceeding to Edinburgh to study medicine at the university, he came under the influence of Robert Jameson, whose teachings in geology and mineralogy inspired his future career. Boué was thus led to make geological expeditions to various parts of Scotland and the Hebrides, and after taking his degree of M.D. in 1817 he settled for some years in Paris.
- Hannelore Hoger
Hannelore Hoger (b. August 20, 1941 in Hamburg, Germany) is a German actress and director.
- Michael Westphal
Michael Westphal (February 19, 1965 in Pinneberg - June 20 1991 in Hamburg) was a tennis player from West Germany, who participated for his native country in the 1984 Summer Olympics, making it as far as the quarterfinals. The righthander reached his highest singles ATP ranking on March 17, 1986, coming in at number 49 in the world. He died of complications from AIDS on June 20 1991.
- Ricki Osterthun
Ricki Osterthun (born May 2, 1964 in Hamburg) is a former tennis player from Germany, who won one single title (1985, Hilversum) during his professional career. The righthander reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on October 19, 1987, when he became the number 58 of the world.