- Germany Berlin
- Guido Westerwelle
Dr. iur. Guido Westerwelle (born December 27, 1961) is a German politician and leader of the center right party Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP), sometimes called the liberal party, meaning the party is for liberalization of markets. As such he is also the current Leader of the Opposition within the German parliament.
- Joseph Weizenbaum
Joseph Weizenbaum (Berlin, January 8, 1923) is a professor emeritus of computer science at MIT. Born in Berlin to Jewish parents, he escaped Nazi Germany in 1936, emigrating with his family to the United States. He started studying mathematics in 1941 in the US, but his studies were interrupted by the war, during which he served in the military. Around 1950 he worked on analog computers, and helped create a digital computer for Wayne State University.
- Christopher Abraham
I am a PR and marketing guy by day and a river rat by night.
- Klaus Wowereit
Klaus Wowereit (born October 1, 1953 in Berlin) is a German politician, member of the SPD (Social Democratic Party), and has been the mayor of Berlin since the 2001 state elections. He served as President of the Bundesrat in 2001/02. His SPD-led coalition was re-elected in the 2006 elections. He is also sometimes mentioned as a possible SPD candidate for the Chancellorship of Germany ("Kanzlerkandidat"), …
- Guido Buchwald
Guido Buchwald (born January 24, 1961) is a German former football defender and manager. The best game of Buchwald's career was probably the final of the 1990 FIFA World Cup when he effectively stopped the arguably best soccer player at the time, Diego Maradona, earning him the nickname 'Diego'. He was also part of Germany's disappointing 1994 FIFA World Cup squad. Buchwald began his professional soccer career in 1983 with VfB Stuttgart.
- Walther Rathenau
Walther Rathenau was a German industrialist, politician, writer, and statesman who served as Foreign Minister of Germany during the Weimar Republic.
- Bruno Walter
Bruno Walter (Bruno Walter Schlesinger) (September 15, 1876 - February 17, 1962) was a German-born conductor and composer. He was born in Berlin, but moved to several countries between 1933 and 1939, finally settling in the United States in 1939. He began using Walter as his surname in 1896, and officially upon naturalising to Austria in 1911.
- Oktay Urkal
Oktay Urkal (born January 15, 1970 in Berlin) is a Turkish-German professional welterweight. He is currently ranked 8th in the world among welterweights by Ring Magazine<sup></sup>;.
- Joachim Fest
Joachim Clemens Fest (December 8, 1926-September 11, 2006), German historian, journalist, critic and editor, is best known for his writings and public commentary on Nazi Germany, including an important biography of Adolf Hitler and books about Albert Speer and the German Resistance. He was a leading figure in debate among German historians about the Nazi period.
- Gustav Stresemann
Gustav Stresemann (May 10, 1878 - October 3, 1929) was a German liberal politician and statesman who served as Chancellor and Foreign Secretary during the Weimar Republic. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926.
- Antje Buschschulte
Antje Buschschulte (born 27 December 1978 in Berlin) is a German swimmer. Her best disciplines are the short distance freestyle and backstroke races. Buschschulte swims for the sporting club SC Magdeburg. Up to now, she has won 24 German championships.
- Magda Goebbels
Johanna Maria Magdalena Goebbels, (November 11, 1901 - May 1, 1945) was the wife of Nazi Germany's Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. As Berlin was being overrun by the Red Army at the end of World War II, she killed their six children and then committed suicide. (Her oldest child by another marriage was not present at this event; he was a Luftwaffe pilot who survived the war.)
- Pierre Littbarski
Pierre Littbarski (born April 16, 1960) is a German football manager and former player, and was a FIFA World Cup winner with West Germany in 1990. He was also runner up twice in 1982 and 1986 with West Germany. He was born in Berlin.
- Paul Leni
Paul Leni born Paul Josef Levi was a German filmmaker and a key figure in German Expressionist filmmaking, making his most popular contributions with "Backstairs" ("Hintertreppe") and "Waxworks" in Germany, and "The Man Who Laughs" and "The Cat and the Canary" in the U.S. A native of Berlin, Leni became an avant-garde painter at age 15 and then began working as a set designer for theater, …
- Lars Conrad
Lars Conrad (born June 1, 1976 in Berlin) is a freestyle swimmer from Germany, who competed in two consequentive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 2000. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, he won the silver medal in the 4x100 Medley Relay, alongside Steffen Driesen, Jens Kruppa, and Thomas Rupprath.
- Meshell Ndegeocello
Meshell Ndegeocello is an American singer, rapper, bassist, and multi-instrumentalist. She has been hailed in the music press as a redeemer of soul music. Her music incorporates funk, soul, hip-hop, reggae, R&B, rock and jazz. She has been nominated for 9 Grammy Awards.
- Anton Saefkow
Anton Emil Hermann Saefkow was a German Communist and a resistance fighter against the Nazi régime. Anton Saefkow came from a socialist working-class family and in 1920, as a metalworker's apprentice, joined the Communist Youth League to whose Berlin leadership he rose in 1922. In 1927 he became KPD secretary in Berlin, then in Dresden.
- Arnold Dreyblatt
Arnold Dreyblatt (b. New York City, 1953) is an American composer and visual artist. He studied with Pauline Oliveros, La Monte Young, and Alvin Lucier and has been based in Berlin, Germany since 1984. His compositions are based on harmonics, and thus just intonation, played either through a bowing technique he developed for his modified bass, a children's piano he specially tuned, or conventional instruments.
- Carl Hans Lody
Carl Hans Lody (January 20, 1877 - November 6, 1914) was executed as a German spy by Great Britain at the Tower of London soon after the outbreak of World War I. Born in Berlin, Lody was shot at the Tower's rifle range by an eight-man firing squad drawn from the 3rd Battalion, The Scots Guards. He was the first person to be incarcerated at the Tower for almost a century, and the first executed there in over 150 years.
- Thomas Ulrich
Thomas Ulrich (born July 11, 1975 in Berlin) is a German boxer. Ulrich won the light heavyweight bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics, just like he did a year before at the 1995 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Berlin. Ulrich turned pro 1997 and began his career 20-0 before getting stopped in the 6th round by future titlist Glen Johnson. He then won his next eight bouts, setting up a shot at WBC Light Heavyweight Title holder Tomasz Adamek in 2005.
- Henry Koster
Henry Koster (May 1, 1905 - September 21, 1988) was born Herman Kosterlitz in Berlin, Germany. He became a film director and later moved to Hollywood. Koster's father, a salesman, left home when Henry was a young man. Koster still managed to finish gymnasium (high school) in Berlin while working as short story writer and cartoonist. Koster was introduced to cinema about 1910 when his uncle opened a very early movie theater in Berlin.
- Malik Fathi
Malik Fathi (born October 29, 1983 in Berlin) is a German football player. His father is Turkish and his mother is German. Since 2001 he has played as a defender for Hertha BSC Berlin. Before beginning his football career he played tennis for Hertha Zehlendorf Berlin and for Borussia Berlin. He also plays basketball in his spare time. He represented Germany Under-20 team at the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship, …
- Uwe Peschel
Uwe Peschel (born 4 November 1968 in Berlin) is a German professional road bicycle racer and a time trialist. At the 1992 Summer Olympics, Peschel along with Bernd Dittert, Christian Meyer and Michael Rich, captured the gold medal in the Men's Team Road Race.
- Cathleen Rund
Cathleen Rund (born November 3, 1977 in Berlin) is a former backstroke and medley swimmer from Germany, who competed at two consecutive Summer Olympics for her native country, starting in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia. There she won the bronze medal in the 200m Backstroke. Rund retired from international competition after the Sydney Olympics in 2000.
- Rudy Boschwitz
Rudolph Ely "Rudy" Boschwitz is a former Independent-Republican United States Senator from Minnesota. He served in the Senate from December 1978 to January 1991, in the 96th, 97th, 98th, 99th, 100th, and 101st congresses. He was then defeated by Paul Wellstone. Boschwitz was born in Berlin, Germany, November 7, 1930. Though in 1933, when he was only three years old, his family fled Nazi Germany. They settled in New Rochelle, New York, where he grew up.
- Otto Wels
Otto Wels (September 15 1873 - September 16 1939) was the chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 1919 and a member of parliament from 1920 to 1930. On March 23, 1933 the Berlin-born Wels was the only member of the Reichstag to speak against Adolf Hitler's Enabling Act (the "Law for Removing the Distress of People and Reich"). The vote took place during the last official session of the Reichstag, on March 23, 1933.
- Helmut Hamann
Helmut Hamann was a German athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres. Hamann competed for Germany in the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, Germany in the 4 x 400 metre relay where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Friedrich von Stülpnagel, Harry Voigt and Rudolf Harbig. Hamann was killed in Siedliszeze in the Soviet Union during fighting on the Eastern Front of World War II.
- Erich von Manstein
Erich von Manstein (November 24, 1887-June 10 1973) served the German military as a lifelong professional soldier. He became one of the most prominent commanders of Nazi Germany's armed forces ("Wehrmacht"). During World War II he attained the rank of Field Marshal ("Generalfeldmarschall") and was held in high esteem by his fellow officers as one of the Wehrmacht's best military minds.
- Karl-Friedrich Haas
Karl-Friedrich Haas was a West German athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres. He competed for West Germany in the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland where he won the bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metre relay with his team mates Hans Geister, Günther Steines and Heinz Ulzheimer. Four years later he competed for the United Team of Germany in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia and won a silver in the individual 400 metres.
- Erik Zabel
Erik Zabel is a German professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour Team Milram. With 193 career wins he is considered to be one of the greatest German cyclists and best sprinters of cycling history. Zabel has won a record nine points classification titles at Grand Tours including wearing the final green jersey in the Tour de France a record six consecutive years between 1996 through 2001 and the points jersey at the Vuelta a España in 2002, 2003 and 2004.
- Sarah Kuttner
Sarah Kuttner is a German presenter from Berlin. Her father is famed radio host Jürgen Kuttner. She has regularly appeared on the music television channel VIVA since November 2001 after being selected out of 1500 other participants in a casting held in summer of that year. Her popularity increased rapidly and in August 2004 she started to host her own show called "Sarah Kuttner - Die Show", a variation on the popular late show concept with comedy, …
- Lars Kober
Lars Kober is a German flatwater canoer. He won an Olympic bronze medal in the C-2 1000 m event in 2000 together with Stefan Uteß.
- Robert Huth
Robert Huth (born 18 August 1984 in Berlin, Germany) is a German footballer who currently plays for Middlesbrough. He was signed for Chelsea from the youth system of German club Union Berlin in 2001 by then Chelsea manager Claudio Ranieri. He is often referred to as "The Unstoppable Force".
- Willi Stoph
Willi Stoph (9 July 1914 - 13 April 1999) was an East German politician. He served as Prime Minister (Chairman of the Council of Ministers) of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from 1964 to 1973, and again from 1976 until 1989.
- Manuela Stellmach
Manuela Stellmach (born February 22, 1970 in Berlin) is a former freestyle swimmer from East Germany, who was a member of the Women's Relay Team that won the gold medal in the 4x100m Freestyle Relay at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. At the same tournament she captured the bronze medal in the individual 200m Freestyle. Four years later, when Barcelona, Spain hosted the Summer Olympics, …
- Marko Rehmer
Marko Rehmer (born 29 April 1972 in East Berlin) is a German soccer player, who is currently a free agent. He plays as a defender. In his youth Rehmer played for 1. FC Union Berlin. Later he went on to play for Hansa Rostock in 1997. From 1999 until 2005 he played for Hertha BSC Berlin, before moving to Eintracht Frankfurt in July 2005. He left Frankfurt two years later. Rehmer got 35 caps for Germany between 1998 and 2003, scoring 4 times.
- Hans Luther
Hans Luther was a German politician and Chancellor of Germany. Born in Berlin, Luther started in politics in 1907 by becoming the town councillor in Magdeburg. He continued on becoming secretary of the German Städtetag in 1913 and then mayor of Essen in 1918. In December 1922, Chancellor Wilhelm Cuno appointed Luther minister of Food and Agriculture. He kept his position in 1924 when Wilhelm Marx become Chancellor. In 1925, he was appointed Chancellor of Germany, …
- Maike Nollen
Maike Nollen (born 15 November 1977 in Berlin) is a German flatwater canoer. She won a gold medal in the K-4 500 metres event at the 2004 Summer Olympics together with teammates Birgit Fischer, Katrin Wagner and Carolin Leonhardt.
- Ellen Braumüller
Ellen Braumüller was a track and field athlete from Germany, who competed mainly in the javelin. She competed for her native country at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, USA, where she won the silver medal in the javelin.