- Isaiah Berlin
Sir Isaiah Berlin, OM (June 6 1909 – November 5 1997), was a political philosopher and historian of ideas, regarded as one of the leading liberal thinkers of the 20th century. Born in Riga, then part of the Russian Empire, he was the first Jew to be elected to a prize fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford. From 1957 to 1967, he was Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at the University of Oxford.
- Rick Berlin
Rick Berlin (born Richard Gustave Kinscherf III, in Sioux City, Iowa in 1945) is a Boston-based singer-songwriter, formerly the frontman of Orchestra Luna, Luna, Berlin Airlift, Rick Berlin: The Movie, and The Shelley Winters Project. A Yale graduate, Berlin has been writing and performing a distinctly theatrical form of rock and roll since the early 1970s. He achieved much of his early success with Orchestra Luna, whose eponymous debut was released on Epic Records in 1974.
- Violet Berlin
Violet Berlin is a television presenter, writer and producer. She is best known for hosting the popular video gaming show "Gamepad", which originally aired on the Bravo satellite channel between 2001 and 2004. The show ran for four series, and was produced by the company Berlin runs with her partner Gareth Jones, "WhizzBang TV". Before this, Violet had previously hosted a number of terrestrial shows, including "WildBunch", …
- Jeff Berlin
Jeff Berlin (born January 17, 1953) is an American electric bass player. Since the mid-1970s, he has been known for his virtuosic jazz fusion and prog rock bass playing. Some consider him to be among the top living electric bass players.
- Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin (May 11, 1888 - September 22, 1989) was an American composer and lyricist, one of the most prodigious and famous American songwriters in history. Berlin was one of the few Tin Pan Alley/Broadway songwriters who wrote both lyrics and music for his songs. Although he never learned to read music beyond a rudimentary level, he composed over 3,000 songs, many of which ("God Bless America", "White Christmas", "Alexander's Ragtime Band", …
- Chaim Berlin
Chaim Berlin (Hebrew: חיים ברלין) was an Orthodox rabbi and chief rabbi of Moscow from 1865. He was the son of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, and his younger half-brother (from his father's second marriage) was Rabbi Meir Bar-Ilan (choosing "Bar-Ilan" as the Hebraized version of "Berlin"). From 1889-1892 he lived in Volozhin, where he was a head of a rabbinical court.
- Brock Berlin
Brock Berlin (born July 4, 1981 in Shreveport, Louisiana) is an American football quarterback for the St. Louis Rams of the NFL. He attended the University of Miami after transferring from the University of Florida. He also played for the Hamburg Sea Devils of NFL Europa in 2006
- Jeannie Berlin
Jeannie Berlin (born November 1, 1949) is an Oscar-nominated American actress. Berlin was born in Los Angeles, California to screenwriter/playwright Elaine May. May directed her daughter in the 1972 film "The Heartbreak Kid", which garnered Berlin Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. She made her Broadway theatre debut in May's play "After the Night and the Music" in 2005.
- Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin
Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin was the Rosh yeshiva of the Volozhin yeshiva and author if several works of rabbinic literature in Lithuania. His name is commonly abbreviated by its consonants as Netziv (נציב which can also mean "pillar").
- Lucia Berlin
Lucia Berlin was a major American short story writer of the late 20th Century. She was (born November 12, 1936) and died on her 68th birthday in 2004.
- Peter Berlin
Peter Berlin (born 1934) is a photographer, artist, filmmaker, model, and gay sex symbol. In the early to mid-1970s, Berlin created some of the most recognizable gay male erotic imagery of his time. Serving as his own photographer, model, and fashion designer, Berlin redefined self-portraiture and became an international sensation. His two films, "Nights in Black Leather" (1973) and "That Boy" (1974), played to packed houses for years and, …
- William M. Berlin
William Markle Berlin (March 29, 1880-October 14, 1962) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. William M. Berlin was born on a farm near Delmont, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Laird Institute at Murrysville, Pennsylvania, in 1896, and moved to Greensburg, Pennsylvania, in 1916. He was engaged as an automobile distributor, in the wholesale oil and gas business, and in coal mining.
- Leslie Berlin
Leslie Berlin is the Project Historian for the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University. Her research interests include the history of the semiconductor industry in Silicon Valley and the role of leadership in high-tech business. She received her Ph.D. in History from Stanford in 2001 and also holds a B.A. from Yale. She attended Holland Hall School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she grew up. Berlin's first book, …
- Steve Berlin
Steve Berlin (born 14 September 1955 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American saxophonist, keyboardist and record producer, best known as a member of the rock group Los Lobos and, before that, The Blasters. In 1986, he also appeared on Paul Simon's landmark CD, "Graceland". Steve Berlin joined Tuatara as a side project in 1998 on their second album, "Trading With The Enemy". As either a session musician or producer, Berlin has worked with Beat Farmers, …
- James A. Berlin
James A. Berlin was a theorist in the field of composition studies who typically takes historical and rhetorical perspectives. His philosophy is Marxist. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in Victorian literature in 1975. He served as a professor of English at Purdue University. Berlin died in the 1990s.
- Brent Berlin
Brent Berlin is an American anthropologist. He is most famous for his work with linguist Paul Kay on colour: "Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution" (1969) ISBN 1575861623.
- Daniel Berlin
Daniel "Bella" Berlin is a Swedish Bandy player who currently plays for Sandvikens AIK as a half back. Daniel was brought up by IK Sirius but moved when he was still young. Daniel has played for the Swedish under-19 team. Daniel has played for three different clubs. His list of clubs are as follows- : IK Sirius : Söderfors GIF (2004) : Sandvikens AIK (2004-)
- H. A. Berlin
H. A. Berlin is an American neuroscientist focusing on brain-behavior relationships affecting the prevention and treatment of psychiatric disorders.
- Ira Berlin
Ira Berlin is an American historian, a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, and a past President of the Organization of American Historians. Berlin is the author of such books as "Many Thousands Gone" and "Generations of Captivity". He has written extensively on American history and the larger Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Berlin has focused in particular on the history of slavery.
- Brigid Berlin
Brigid Berlin (also known as Brigid Polk born September 6, 1939) is an artist and former Warhol superstar.
- Eddie Berlin
Edward Walton Berlin (born January 14, 1978 in Urbandale, Iowa) is an American football wide receiver, currently a free agent the NFL. He was originally drafted by the Tennessee Titans in the fifth round of the 2001 NFL Draft out of the University of Northern Iowa. He played for the Chicago Bears in 2005.
- 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.
- Heinrich von Kleist
Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist (October 18, 1777 Frankfurt an der Oder, Prussia – November 21, 1811 Wannsee, near Berlin) was a German poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer. The Kleist Prize, a prestigious prize for German literature, is named after him.
- Dieter Kosslick
Dieter Kosslick (born May 30 1948 in Pforzheim) is the director of the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale). He has held this post been since May 1 2001
- Max Bill
Swiss artist, architect, designer, typographer, and theorist Max Bill (1908-94) was one of the most important exponents of concrete and constructive art and a key figure in European applied arts and design history. Educated by such prominent teachers as Paul Klee , Wassily Kandisky, and Walter Gropius at the Bauhaus, at the start of his career in the 1930s.
- Carsten Nicolai
Carsten Nicolai is an artist based in Berlin. Nicolai was born in Karl-Marx Stadt, Germany, also known as Noto or Alva Noto, is an artist who is very active as a musician in the field of glitch music and a co-founder of the renowned German record label Raster-Noton. He has created music from overlooked sounds – the noises of modems and telephones for example. Carsten Nicolai is also working as a visual artist.
- 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.
- Torsten Amft
Torsten Amft (born 14 January 1971) is a German fashion designer who lives in Berlin. He studied fashion design in Zurich (Switzerland) and started the masterwork by Ernesto Aligieri in Rome (Italy). In 2000 Amft won the "Lexton" fashion award in New York City. Many celebrities (such as Montell Jordan, Holly Johnson or Bryan Adams) like his clothes and style. Torsten Amft founded the style of "Elitist Futurism" and produced or created its worldwide presence.
- Michel Majerus
Michel Majerus (b. 1967 in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, d. 2002) was a key figure amongst a new generation of painters, and was included in a number of solo and group exhibitions in Europe and North America. Majerus lived and worked in Berlin until his death in an airplane crash in Luxembourg in 2002. His work has been seen in the realm of revival of painting of the mid-1990s, though specifically his painting is in relationship with electronic civility and digital media.
- Carl Heinrich Graun
Carl Heinrich Graun (May 7, 1704 - August 8, 1759) was a German composer and tenor singer. Along with Johann Adolf Hasse, he is considered to be the most important German composer of Italian opera of his time.
- Wladimir Vogel
Wladimir Rudolfowitsch Vogel was a Swiss composer, whose father was German and mother Russian.
- Arnold Reisman
Arnold Reisman (born August 2, 1934) is an American engineer, historian and author living in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Arnold Reisman was born in Lodz, Poland, in 1934. He came to the United States after World War II and graduated from New York's Stuyvesant Height School of Math and Science in 1951. He received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in engineering from University of California, Los Angeles. He is a registered Professional Engineer in California, Wisconsin, and Ohio, …
- Ben Kamprath
Building better experiences through engaging design. We make it curve with style...
- Berlin Ndebe-Nlome
Berlin Ndebe-Nlome is a Cameroonian footballer, currently playing for Portsmouth. He is somewhat of an enigma around Portsmouth, playing in numerous pre-season friendlies with only his name known to players and fans. Despite this he scored a delicate lob against Torquay United in a pre-season friendly and this was enough to convince Harry Redknapp to sign the young African.
- 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"), …
- Friedrich Karl Flick
Friedrich Karl Flick (February 3, 1927 in Berlin - October 5, 2006 in Auen on the Wörthersee, Austria) was a German-Austrian industrialist and billionaire. He was born the youngest of the sons of Friedrich Flick and Marie Schuss. After his studies, he worked in his father's company. In 1972, when his father died, he ("FKF") inherited the major part of the family business, which had made massive use of concentration camp laborers.
- 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.
- Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich was a German-born actress, singer, and entertainer. Throughout her long career, starting as a cabaret singer, chorus girl and film actress in 1920s Berlin, Hollywood movie star in the 1930s, World War II frontline entertainer during the 1940s, and finally as an international stage show performer from the 1950s to the 1970s, Dietrich constantly re-invented herself and eventually became one of the entertainment icons of the 20th century.
- Christian Lorenz
Christian "Flake" Lorenz [pronounced Lor-ents] (b. 16 November, 1966, sometimes called "Doktor Lorenz") is a German musician, most notable as the keyboardist for the German Tanz-Metall ("Dance metal") band Rammstein. He is also known for his role in the band "Feeling B".