List of personalities of the city of Hamburg
Hamburg personalities who are important for Hamburg and its history , who have had a significant impact here or whose person is closely associated with the name Hamburg , are listed below. At the end of the list there are other people who were born or died in Hamburg without having played a significant role here.
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- Hamburg chief pastors
- Hamburg Nobel Prize Winner
- Hamburg Police President
- Hamburg Secession
politics
- Harald Abatz (1893–1954), FDP politician
- Carl Eduard Abendroth (1804–1885), Hamburg merchant and member of the Hamburg Parliament
- Petra Adam-Ferger (* 1944), SPD politician, member of the Hamburg Parliament
- Kurt Adams (1889–1944), SPD politician
- Christoph Ahlhaus (* 1969), CDU politician, Interior Senator (2008–2010), First Mayor (2010–2011)
- Etkar André (1894–1936), KPD politician
- Niels Annen (* 1973), SPD politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Juso Chairman (2001-2004)
- Günter Apel (1927–2007), SPD politician, school senator (1971–1978, other departments until 1983)
- Hans Apel (1932–2011), SPD politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister of Finance and Defense
- Bernhard Bästlein (1894–1944), KPD politician, MdR, resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Christoph Anton Balzer (1818–1871), businessman and member of the Hamburg parliament
- Hermann Baumeister (1806–1877), politician and judge
- August Bebel (1840–1913), SPD politician, MdR
- Hellmut Becker (1913–1993), lawyer, education researcher and education politician
- Ksenija Bekeris (* 1978), politician (SPD)
- Ferdinand Beneke (1774–1848), lawyer and politician
- Sebastian von Bergen (1554–1623), lawyer and statesman
- Karl Wilhelm Berkhan (1915–1994), SPD politician, member of the Hamburg Parliament, Member of the Bundestag
- Achim-Helge von Beust (1917–2007), co-founder of the Hamburg CDU, district office manager in Wandsbek
- Ole von Beust (* 1955), CDU politician, First Mayor (2001-2010)
- Dieter Biallas (1936–2016), FDP politician, Senator for Science, Second Mayor (1974–1978)
- Adolf Biedermann (1881–1933), SPD politician, MdR
- Hans-Harder Biermann-Ratjen (1901–1969), FDP politician, Senator for Culture (1945, 1953–1966)
- Nicolaus Binder (1785–1865), First Mayor (several times between 1855 and 1861)
- Abelke Bleken († 1583), victim of witch persecution, honored with a memorial stone in 2015 in the presence of the second mayor of Hamburg, Katharina Fegebank
- Thea Bock (* 1938), politician (GAL, SPD)
- Arthur Böckenhauer (1899–1953), Member of the National Socialist Party (NSDAP)
- Wilhelm Boller (1904–1943), resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Olga Brandt-Knack (1885–1978), artist, SPD politician, member of the Hamburg Parliament
- Max Brauer (1887–1973), SPD politician, Member of the Bundestag, First Mayor of Hamburg, Lord Mayor of Altona
- Carl Brekelbaum (1863–1956), entrepreneur and politician (DNVP), MdR
- Johannes Büll (1878–1970), MdR, Senator (1946–1949, 1953–1957, various departments)
- Bernhard von Bülow (1849–1929), politician, statesman
- Johann Heinrich Burchard (1852–1912), lawyer, First Mayor (several times since 1904)
- Wilhelm Burchard-Motz (1878–1963), lawyer, Second Mayor (1933–1934), Senator (1925–1933)
- Ole Thorben Buschhüter (* 1976), SPD politician
- Ursula Caberta (* 1950), SPD politician, member of the Hamburg Parliament
- Bernd Capeletti (* 1950), CDU politician
- Wolfgang Curilla (* 1942), SPD politician, senator (1978–1993, various departments)
- Matthias Czech (* 1975), SPD politician
- Gustav Dahrendorf (1901–1954), SPD politician, MdR
- Ralf Dahrendorf (1929–2009), sociologist, FDP politician and publicist, member of the Landtag and Bundestag
- Herbert Dau (1911–2000), SPD politician, President of the Hamburg Parliament (1960–1978)
- Arnold Diestel (1857–1924), merchant, First Mayor (1920–1924)
- Alexandra Dinges-Dierig (* 1953), CDU politician, member of the Hamburg Parliament, Senator for Education and Sport (2004–2008)
- Klaus von Dohnanyi (* 1928), SPD politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister for Education and Research, First Mayor (1981–1988)
- Jörg Dräger (* 1968), physicist, independent politician, Senator for Science (2001-2008)
- Wilhelm Drexelius (1906–1974), SPD politician, school senator (1961–1970), second mayor
- Walter Dudek (1890–1976), SPD politician, Mayor of Harburg (1925–1933), Senator for Finance (1946–1953)
- Thomas Ebermann (* 1951), publicist, GAL politician, member of the Hamburg Parliament (1982–1984)
- Jürgen Echternach (1937–2006), CDU politician, member of the Hamburg Parliament (1966–1981)
- Heinrich Eisenbarth (1884–1950), SPD politician, senator (1925–1933, 1945–1950, various departments)
- Günter Elste (* 1949), SPD politician, member of the Hamburg Parliament (1985–1997), head of the Hamburger Hochbahn
- Helga Elstner (1924–2012), SPD politician, health senator, second mayor
- Edgar Engelhard (1917–1979), Senator (1953–1966, various departments), Second Mayor
- Andreas Ernst (* 1971), CDU politician, member of the Hamburg Parliament, Council of State
- Dirk Fischer (* 1943), CDU politician and state chairman, MP, member of the Hamburg Parliament (1970–1981)
- Michael Freytag (* 1958), CDU politician, Senator for Urban Development (2004–2007), Senator for Finance (2007–2010)
- Carsten Frigge (* 1963), CDU politician, Senator for Finance (2010)
- Norbert Frühauf (* 1958), lawyer, PRO politician and parliamentary group leader in the Hamburg Parliament
- Anke Fuchs (1937–2019), politician (SPD)
- Anna Gallina (* 1983), politician (Greens / Alliance 90)
- Stephan Gamm (* 1971), CDU politician
- Axel Gedaschko (* 1959), CDU politician, Senator for Urban Development (2007–2008), Senator for Economics (2008–2010)
- Dennis Gladiator (* 1981), CDU politician
- Horst Gobrecht (1936–2015), SPD politician, Member of the Bundestag, Senator for Finance (1984–1987)
- Christa Goetsch (* 1952), leader of the GAL parliamentary group (2002–2008), Senator for Education and Second Mayoress (2008–2010)
- Hermann Goßler (1802–1877), lawyer, First Mayor (1874)
- Reinhard Grindel (* 1961), CDU politician, Member of the Bundestag, DFB President (2016–2019)
- Joist Grolle (* 1932), SPD politician, school senator (1978–1987), historian
- Willy Grothe (1886–1959), NSDAP politician and SA leader, member of the Reichstag
- Norbert Hackbusch (* 1955), Left Party politician
- Gerhard Hachmann (1838–1904), lawyer, First Mayor (1900–1901, 1904)
- Otto Hackmack (1922–2016), trade union official, SPD politician, member of the Hamburg Parliament, Senator of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
- Werner Hackmann (1947–2007), SPD politician, interior senator (1988–1994), sports functionary
- Anja Hajduk (* 1963), GAL politician, member of parliament (1997–2002), Member of the Bundestag (2002–2008), Senator for Urban Development (2008–2010)
- Leonhard Hajen (* 1948), SPD politician, Senator for Science (1991–1997), economist
- Jörg Hamann (* 1965), CDU politician
- Nicolaus Ferdinand Haller (1805–1876), lawyer, First Mayor (several times between 1863 and 1873)
- Alfons Hartmann (1915–1943), communist resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Johann Gustav Heckscher (1797–1865), Reich Minister of Justice and Reich Foreign Minister
- Erich Heins (1907–1944), communist resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Roland Heintze (* 1973), CDU politician
- Helene Heyckendorf (1893–1945), communist resistance fighter and victim of National Socialism
- Max Heyckendorf (1896–1979), communist resistance fighter and victim of National Socialism
- Günther Heyenn (1936–2009), SPD politician
- Lida Gustava Heymann (1868–1943), women's rights activist, resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Johannes Hirsch (1861–1935), master turner, 1908–1928 chairman of the Hamburg trade association and member of the citizenship (Reich Party of German SMEs, later DVP), Hamburg Senator for Construction from 1928 to 1933
- Hermann Hoefer (1868–1945), educator, SPD politician, member of the Hamburg citizenship, communist resistance fighter and victim of National Socialism
- Martin Hieronymus Hudtwalcker (1787–1865), senator and police officer
- Georg Jarzembowski (* 1947), CDU politician, | MEP
- Martin Rücker Freiherr von Jenisch (1861–1924), diplomat
- Rudolf Kabel (1934–2019), administrative lawyer and director at the German Bundestag
- Johannes Kahrs (* 1963), SPD politician, Member of the Bundestag
- Annkathrin Kammeyer (* 1990), SPD politician
- Paula Karpinski (1897–2005), SPD politician, youth senator (1953–1957, 1957–1961)
- Karl Kaufmann (1900–1969), Gauleiter during National Socialism
- Heinrich Kellinghusen (1796–1879), lawyer, mayor (1843–1860)
- Helmuth Kern (1926–2016), SPD politician, Senator for Economics and Transport (1966–1976), Second Mayor (1971–1972)
- Jens Kerstan (* 1966), politician (Greens / Alliance 90)
- Elisabeth Kiausch (* 1933), SPD politician, President of the Citizenship (1991–1993)
- Dirk Kienscherf (* 1965), SPD politician
- Walther Leisler Kiep (1926–2016), CDU politician, Member of the Bundestag, Treasurer of the Federal Party and top candidate in the 1982 state elections
- Gustav Heinrich Kirchenpauer (1808–1887), lawyer, journalist and First Mayor (several times between 1869 and 1887)
- Thilo Kleibauer (* 1971), CDU politician
- Hans Klein (1904–1970), communist politician, police general in the GDR
- Hans-Ulrich Klose (* 1937), SPD politician, First Mayor (1974–1981)
- Rudolf Klug (1905–1944), communist educator, resistance fighter and victim of National Socialism
- Christian Koch (1878–1955), Member of Parliament (1908–1933), Head of Prison Authority, Second Mayor (1946–1950)
- Karl Kock (1908–1944), communist resistance fighter and victim of National Socialism
- Ditmar Koel (1500–1563), Mayor of Hamburg and pirate hunter
- Hellmut Körner (1904–1966), Member of the National Socialist Party (NSDAP) and regional farmer leader
- Martina Koeppen (* 1967), politician (SPD)
- Stefan Kraxner (* 1971), politician (CDU)
- Thomas Kreuzmann (* 1958), politician (CDU)
- Carl Vincent Krogmann (1889–1978), First Mayor during the National Socialist era
- Roger Kusch (* 1954), politician (including CDU), Senator for Justice (2001-2006)
- Helene Lange (1848–1930), DDP politician, member of the Hamburg parliament, educator and women's rights activist
- Rolf Lange (* 1942), SPD politician, Senator for the Interior (1984–1986)
- Rudolf Lange (* 1941), FDP politician, Senator for Education (2001–2003), ship commander, most recently rear admiral of the German Navy, military attaché in Washington, DC
- Johannes Christian Eugen Lehmann (1826–1901), lawyer, First Mayor (1895–1898, 1900)
- Melanie Leonhard (* 1977), SPD politician
- Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck (1870–1964), major general, put down the brawn riots
- Walter Leu (1908–1944), communist resistance fighter against National Socialism and victim of National Socialism
- Leo Lippmann (1881–1943), State Councilor, lawyer, victim of National Socialism
- Gertrud Lockmann (1895–1962), SPD politician, member of the Hamburg citizenship, resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Uwe Lohmann (* 1959), SPD politician
- Hans Mahle (1911–1999), KPD politician, child and youth functionary
- Willfried Maier (* 1942), GAL politician, Senator for Urban Development (1997-2001)
- Otto Marquardt (1893–1944), communist resistance fighter and victim of National Socialism
- Werner von Melle (1853–1937), lawyer, First Mayor (1919), previously Mayor (since 1915)
- Ernst Freiherr von Merck (1811–1863), member of the Frankfurt National Assembly , Reich Minister of Finance
- Mario Mettbach (* 1952), politician (including CDU), Senator for Building (2001-2004), Second Mayor (2003-2004)
- David Christopher Mettlerkamp (1774–1850), officer, politician
- Heinrich Adolph Meyer (1822–1889), Member of the Bundestag, manufacturer, marine researcher
- Thomas Mirow (* 1953), SPD politician, senator (1991–1997, various departments), top candidate in the 2004 state elections
- Amira Mohamed Ali (* 1980), politician (Die Linke); Member of the Bundestag, parliamentary group leader in the Bundestag since November 2019
- Carl Adolf Mönckeberg (1873–1939), lawyer, editor, author, publicist and local politician
- Johann Georg Mönckeberg (1839–1908), politician, First Mayor (several times since 1890)
- Ingo von Münch (* 1932), FDP politician, Senator for Science and Culture, Second Mayor (1987–1991)
- Udo Nagel (* 1951), Senator for the Interior (2004–2008), Police President (2002–2004)
- Michael Naumann (* 1941), journalist, publisher (Die Zeit), SPD politician, top candidate in the 2008 state election
- Michael Neumann (* 1970), chairman of the SPD parliamentary group (2004-2011), Senator for the Interior (2011-2016)
- Paul Nevermann (1902–1979), SPD politician, First Mayor (1961–1965)
- Dirk Niebel (* 1963), FDP General Secretary, Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development (2009–2013)
- Ralf Niedmers (* 1967), CDU politician
- Heike Niggemeyer (* 1961), doctor and SPD politician
- Arnold Nöldeke (1865–1945), judge, Senator of Justice (1919–1931)
- Manfred Overhaus (1939–2019), State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance
- Cansu Özdemir (* 1988), Left Party politician
- William Henry O'Swald (1832–1923), merchant, Second Mayor (1908–1910)
- Ute Pape (* 1949), SPD politician, senator for schools, youth and vocational training (2000–2001)
- Oswald Paulig (1922–2006), consumer cooperative and SPD politician
- Milan Pein (* 1974), SPD politician
- Tobias von Pein (* 1985), SPD politician, Member of the State Parliament in Schleswig-Holstein
- Wolfgang Peiner (* 1943), CDU politician, Finance Senator (2001-2006)
- Lore Maria Peschel-Gutzeit (* 1932), SPD politician, Justice Senator (1991–1993, 1997–2001)
- Carl Wilhelm Petersen (1868–1933), DDP chairman, Member of the Bundestag, First Mayor (1924–1929, 1932–1933)
- Carl Friedrich Petersen (1809-1892), lawyer, First Mayor (several times between 1876 and 1892)
- Mathias Petersen (* 1955), member of the Hamburg Parliament, state chairman of the SPD
- Rudolf Petersen (1878–1962), CDU politician, First Mayor (1945–1946)
- Wilhelm Petersen (1889–1968), union official
- Friedrich Philippi (1859–1938), member of the Hamburg parliament in the United Liberals parliamentary group, President of the Senate at the Higher Regional Court in Hamburg
- Christoph Ploß (* 1985), CDU politician, Member of the Bundestag
- Lars Pochnicht (* 1975), SPD politician
- Max Predöhl (1854–1923), lawyer, senator and first mayor
- August Quest (1886–1945), communist resistance fighter and victim of National Socialism
- Rosemarie Raab (* 1946), SPD politician, school senator (1987–2000)
- Ties Rabe (* 1960), SPD politician
- Frieda Radel (1869–1958), DDP politician, member of the Hamburg Parliament, journalist and women's rights activist
- Bernd Reinert (* 1951), MP, CDU parliamentary group leader
- Johanne Reitze (1878–1949), politician (SPD), member of the Reichstag
- Gabriel Riesser (1806–1863), lawyer, Hamburg notary, member and vice-president of the Frankfurt National Assembly , first Jewish judge in Germany
- Erhard Rittershaus (1931–2006), politician of the STATT party, Senator for Economics, Second Mayor (1993–1997)
- Berndt Röder (* 1948), CDU politician, Mayor President (2004–2010)
- Rudolf Ross (1872–1951), First Mayor (1931–1932)
- Curt Rothenberger (1896–1959), lawyer and NSDAP politician
- Andrea Rugbarth (* 1957), graduate engineer, SPD politician, member of the Hamburg Parliament
- Volker Rühe (* 1942), CDU politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister of Defense (1992–1998)
- Vincent Rumpff (1701–1781), mayor from 1765 to 1781
- Ortwin Runde (* 1944), SPD politician, First Mayor (1997–2001)
- Hans Saalfeld (1928–2019), trade unionist and politician (SPD)
- Krista Sager (* 1953), GAL politician, Senator for Science and Research and Second Mayor (1997–2001)
- Roland Salchow (* 1945), CDU politician, member of the Hamburg Parliament, 1991–2001 head of the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency
- Marc Schemmel (* 1975), SPD politician
- Ronald Schill (* 1958), Senator for the Interior (2001–2003) (Rule of Law Offensive Party), Second Mayor
- Karl Schiller (1911–1994), politician (SPD and CDU), Senator for Economics and Transport (1948–1953), Federal Minister of Economics (1966–1971)
- Georg Gottlieb Schirges (1811–1879), co-founder of the Hamburg labor movement
- Walter Schmedemann (1901–1976), SPD politician, member of the Hamburg Parliament, resistance fighter against National Socialism, health senator
- Hansjörg Schmidt (* 1974), SPD politician
- Helmut Schmidt (1918–2015), SPD politician, Member of the Bundestag, Hamburg Senator for the Interior, Federal Minister of Defense, Federal Chancellor
- Adolph Schönfelder (1875–1966), SPD politician, senior president of the Parliamentary Council, member of the Bundestag (1919–1933, 1945–1961)
- Birgit Schnieber-Jastram (* 1946), CDU politician, Senator for Social Affairs and Family (2001–2008), Second Mayor (2004–2008)
- Olaf Scholz (* 1958), SPD politician, Member of the Bundestag, Interior Senator (2001), Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs (2007–2009), Federal Minister of Finance and Vice Chancellor (since 2018), First Mayor (2011–2018)
- Max Schramm (1861–1928), lawyer, second mayor (1925–1928) and building senator (1920–1928)
- Markus Schreiber (* 1960), SPD politician
- Carl August Schröder (1855–1945), lawyer, First Mayor (several times between 1912 and 1916)
- Jacob Schuback (1726–1784), lawyer, Senate syndicate , and composer
- Nicolaus Schuback (1700–1783), lawyer and mayor
- Helga Schuchardt (* 1939), Senator for Culture (1983–1987)
- Sören Schumacher (* 1976), SPD politician
- Albert Schulte (1716–1786), Mayor of Hamburg
- Peter Schulz (1930–2013), SPD politician, First Mayor (1971–1974)
- Nico Semsrott (* 1986), a. a. Politician The Party, MEP (since 2019)
- Jakob Albrecht von Sienen , Senate Syndicate (1768–1837)
- Friedrich Sieveking , First Mayor (several times between 1861 and 1869)
- Kurt Sieveking (1897–1986), CDU politician, First Mayor (1953–1957)
- Hansjörg Sinn (* 1929), independent politician, Senator for Science (1978–1985), Rector and Vice President of the university, chemist
- Carsten Wilhelm Soltau (1767–1836), President of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, senior senior and deputy mayor (1813–1814)
- Heinrich Georg Stahmer (1892–1978), diplomat
- Johann Otto Stammann (1835–1909), lawyer, First Mayor (1907)
- Dorothee Stapelfeldt (* 1956), SPD politician, member of the Hamburg Parliament, art historian
- Günter Stegelmann (1909–1988), DP politician
- Olaf Steinbiß (* 1966), SPD politician
- Hjalmar Stemmann (* 1963), CDU politician and entrepreneur
- Sebastian Steineke (* 1973), CDU politician, Member of the Bundestag, lawyer
- Friedrich Sthamer (1856–1931), lawyer, First Mayor (1919–1920)
- Tim Stoberock (* 1977), SPD politician
- Birgit Stöver (* 1970), CDU politician
- Otto Stolten (1853–1928), Senator, Second Mayor (1919–1925)
- Käthe Tennigkeit (1903–1944), sports teacher and women's politician, social democratic resistance fighter and victim of National Socialism
- Ernst Thälmann (1886–1944), MdR, KPD chairman
- Dennis Thering (* 1984), CDU politician
- Juliane Timmermann (* 1976), SPD politician
- Sven Tode (* 1964), SPD politician
- Gunnar Uldall (1940–2017), CDU politician, Senator for Economics and Labor (2001–2008)
- Heino Vahldieck (* 1955), CDU politician, member of parliament, head of the Hamburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution
- Fritz Vahrenholt (* 1949), SPD politician, Senator for the Environment (1991–1997), industry manager
- Carola Veit (* 1973), SPD politician
- Johannes Versmann (1820–1899), First Mayor (several times between 1887 and 1897), lawyer
- Isabella Vértes-Schütter (* 1962), politician
- Hans Vieregg (born Hans Levy; 1911–2005), communist resistance fighter against National Socialism, after 1945 union official of the FDGB, labor director of a state-owned company (VEB)
- Henning Voscherau (1941–2016), SPD politician, First Mayor (1988–1997)
- Eugen Wagner (* 1942), SPD politician, building senator (1983-2001)
- Hermann Anthony Cornelius Weber (1822–1886), First Mayor (several times between 1879 and 1885)
- Markus Wegner (* 1953), politician of the STATT party
- Herbert Wehner (1906–1990), Federal Minister for All-German Issues, Chairman of the SPD parliamentary group
- Herbert Weichmann (1896–1983), SPD politician, First Mayor (1965–1971)
- Marcus Weinberg (* 1967), CDU politician
- Michael Weinreich (* 1973), SPD politician
- Christina Weiss (* 1953), non-party politician, Senator for Culture (1991–2001)
- Karin von Welck (* 1947), non-party politician, Senator for Culture (2004–2010)
- Ernst Weiß (1911–1998), SPD politician, Senator for Labor (1957–1978)
- Dietrich Wersich (* 1964), CDU politician
- Rainer Wiegard (* 1949), CDU politician, Minister in Schleswig-Holstein
- Martin Willich (* 1945), CDU politician, Mayor President (1982–1983, 1986–1987)
- Isaac Wolffson (1817–1895), politician and lawyer
- Lieselotte Wollny (1926–2019), civil rights activist and politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens)
- Alice Wosikowski (1886–1949), KPD politician and resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Hartmuth Wrocklage (* 1939), SPD politician, Senator for the Interior (1994–2001)
economy
- Amandus Augustus Abendroth (1767–1842), Senator, founder of the Hamburger Sparkasse
- Hans Jürgen Ahrens (* 1941), chairman of the Federal Association of General Local Health Insurance Funds
- Amsinck (family) , merchant family
- Albert Ballin (1857–1918), businessman and shipowner
- Willi Bartels (1914–2007), entrepreneur, "Kiez-König"
- Ludwig Wilhelm Gerhard Becker (1822–1896), businessman
- Paul Carl Beiersdorf (1836–1896), businessman and pharmacist ( Nivea )
- Otto Beit (1865–1930), British financier, philanthropist and art collector
- John von Berenberg-Gossler (1866–1943), banker, politician, senator
- Hermann Blohm (1848–1930), engineer, entrepreneur, co-founder of the shipyard
- Frederik Braun (* 1967), entrepreneur and founder of the Miniatur Wunderland
- Gerrit Braun (* 1967), entrepreneur and founder of the Miniatur Wunderland
- Jochen W. Braun (* 1942), businessman, author and co-founder of the Miniatur Wunderland
- Johann Georg Büsch (1728–1800), educator and journalist, co-founder of the commercial academy
- Julius Campe (1792–1867), publisher
- Carl Wilhelm Diehl (also: Carlos Guillermo Diehl-Bleer , 1824–1885), German-Argentine merchant and poet
- Rolf H. Dittmeyer (1921–2009), entrepreneur
- Conrad Hinrich Donner (1774–1854), banker, merchant
- Karl-Joachim Dreyer (* 1942), President of the Chamber of Commerce (since 2002), banker
- Jens Ehrhardt (* 1942), fund manager, asset manager and author
- Adolph von Elm (1857–1916), member of the cooperative, a founder and first board member of Volksfürsorge and the "Pro" ( consumer, construction and savings association "Production" )
- Alexander Falk (* 1969), entrepreneur
- Gerhard Falk (1922–1978), company founder, see Falk (Verlag)
- Uwe Franke (* 1949), CEO of Deutsche BP AG
- Otto Gellert (1929–2014), auditor, tax and management consultant
- Adolph Godeffroy (1814–1893), merchant and shipowner
- Johan Cesar Godeffroy (1813–1885), merchant
- Helmut Greve (1922–2016), entrepreneur and patron
- Hannelore Greve (* 1926), entrepreneur and patron
- Rüdiger Grube (* 1951), DASA manager, CEO of Deutsche Bahn
- Carl Hagenbeck (1844–1913), animal dealer, organizer of the Völkerschau and zoo director
- Johann Georg Halske (1814–1890), entrepreneur
- Salomon Heine (1767–1844), banker, patron
- Hans-Olaf Henkel (* 1940), business lobbyist
- Otto Hübener (1891–1945), founder and owner of the insurance broker Jauch & Hübener , resistance fighter
- Johann Michael Hudtwalcker (1747-1818), businessman
- Jürgen Hunke (* 1943), entrepreneur
- Walter Jauch (1888–1976), founder and owner of the insurance broker Jauch & Hübener
- Jenisch (family) , merchant family
- Martin Johann Jenisch the Elder (1760–1827), businessman and senator
- Martin Johann Jenisch the Younger (1793–1857), businessman, senator and patron
- Zimbert Jenisch (1587–1645), merchant
- Ernst Emil Jung (1896–1976), shipowner and patron
- Friedrich Jungheinrich (1899–1968), engineer, founder of the Jungheinrich company (forklifts)
- Tomislav Karajica (* 1976), entrepreneur and investor
- Zeljko Karajica (* 1970), manager and entrepreneur
- Heinrich Kauffmann (1864–1928), member of the consumer cooperative
- Kurt A. Körber (1909–1992), entrepreneur, patron
- Christian Kracht (1921–2011), journalist and manager
- Carl Laeisz (1828–1901), shipowner
- Ferdinand Laeisz (1801–1887), shipowner
- Corny Littmann (* 1952), LGBT activist
- Werner Marnette (* 1945), industrial manager and association official
- Heinrich Christian Meyer (1797–1848), entrepreneur
- Alwin Münchmeyer the Elder (1844–1895), businessman
- Alwin Münchmeyer the Younger (1908–1990), entrepreneur, banker
- Hans Hermann Münchmeyer (* 1941), businessman, banker, management consultant
- Hermann Münchmeyer the Elder (1815–1909), bank founder, member of the citizenship
- Hermann Münchmeyer the Younger (1875–1950), businessman
- Hans-Hendrik Neumann (1910–1994), SS-Standartenführer and from 1957 to 1975 managing director of Valvo GmbH - Components division of Philips GmbH - in Hamburg
- Friedrich Oetinger (1907–1986), publisher
- Heidi Oetinger (1908–2009), publisher
- Jürgen Oppermann (* 1961), entrepreneur and racing car driver
- Burim Osmani (* 1964), entrepreneur
- Michael Otto (* 1943), entrepreneur, CEO of Otto-Versand
- Werner Otto (1909–2011), founder of Otto-Versands , among others
- John Parish (1742–1829), merchant
- Friedrich Christoph Perthes (1772–1843), bookseller and publisher
- Richard Ritter von Raffay (1840–1926), businessman, founder of the Raffay car dealership
- Hermann Fürchtegott Reemtsma (1892–1961), entrepreneur
- Philipp Fürchtegott Reemtsma (1893–1959), entrepreneur
- Wilhelm Reinold (1895–1979), banker
- Wilhelm Anton Riedemann (1832–1920), businessman and entrepreneur
- Richard Roosen (1901–1980), mechanical engineer and director of the Henschel works in Kassel
- Ernst August Scherling (1859–1939), first managing director of the Großeinkaufs-Gesellschaft Deutscher Consumvereine mbH (GEG)
- Anton Diedrich Schröder (1779–1855), merchant and senior citizen
- Kurt Freiherr von Schröder (1889–1966), banker , NSDAP regional economic advisor and SS brigade leader
- Nikolaus W. Schües (* 1936), ship owner, President of the Chamber of Commerce (1996–2002)
- Abraham Philipp Schuldt (1807-1892), businessman, founded the Abraham Philipp Schuldt Foundation in 1896
- Georg Heinrich Sieveking (1751–1799), businessman
- Henry Brarens Sloman (1848–1931), merchant
- Robert Miles Sloman (1783–1867), shipowner
- Adolf Soetbeer (1814–1892), national economist
- Hans Jürgen Stöcker (1928–2004), manager and association official in shipping
- Nicolas Stürken (1812–1886), businessman, member of the city council
- Abraham Senior Teixeira (1581–1666), Portuguese-Jewish banker and merchant
- Isaac Chaim Senior Teixeira (1631–1705), banker and merchant
- Alfred Toepfer (1894–1993), businessman, farmer and honorary citizen, founder of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS
- Oscar Troplowitz (1863–1918), pharmacist, entrepreneur, patron of the arts
- Caspar Voght (1752–1839), businessman and social reformer
- Ernst Voss (1842–1920), ship designer, co-founder of the shipyard
- Eric M. Warburg (1900–1990), German-American banker, co-founder of the Atlantik-Brücke
- Max Warburg (1867–1946), banker, advisor to Wilhelm II.
- Katharina Winter (1901–2005), entrepreneur and supporter of the resistance fighters of July 20, 1944
- Adolph Woermann (1847–1911), businessman, shipowner and politician
- Carl Woermann (1813–1880), businessman, shipowner
- Marcus Wolter (* 1968), media manager
Science (chronological)
- Albert Krantz (≈1448–1517), humanist and historian
- Johann von Wowern (1574–1612) politician, classical philologist and lawyer
- Johann Adolf Tassius (1585–1654), mathematician
- Joachim Jungius (1587–1657), mathematician, physicist and philosopher
- Werner Rolfinck (1599–1673), doctor, natural scientist and botanist
- Paul Marquard Schlegel (1605–1653), physician and botanist
- Christoph Schelhammer (1620–1651), medic
- Peter Lambeck (1628–1680), rector of the Hamburg grammar school, later head of the imperial court library in Vienna
- Hennig Brand (≈1630–1692), pharmacist and alchemist, discoverer of phosphorus
- Rudolf Capell (1635–1684), educator, historian and philologist
- Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694–1768), high school professor for oriental languages
- Peter Carpser (1699–1759), physician and co-founder of the oldest German Masonic lodge
- Heinrich Gottlieb Schellhaffer (1707–1757), philosopher, poet and professor of practical philosophy
- Johann Bernhard Basedow (1724–1790), educator
- Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus (1729–1814), doctor and scientist
- Gerhard Philipp Heinrich Norrmann (1753–1837), German lawyer and faculty rector at the University of Rostock
- Abraham Mayer (1764-1817), medic
- Ami Boué (1794–1881), geologist and medic
- Johann Martin Lappenberg (1794–1865), historian
- Friedrich Clemens Gerke (1801–1888), pioneer of telegraphy, writer, journalist, musician
- Matthias Jacob Schleiden (1804–1881), botanist
- Gustav Moritz Redslob (1804–1882), philosopher, Hebraist and theologian
- Christian August Friedrich Peters (1806–1880), astronomer
- August Geyder (1808–1874), legal scholar and translator
- Karl Heinrich Ludwig Brinckmann (1809–1855), lawyer and university professor
- Ludwig Duncker (1810–1875), Protestant theologian and university professor
- Ferdinand Adolph Wilda (1812–1862), agricultural scientist and editor
- Otto Beneke (1812–1891), lawyer, archivist, historian, writer
- Heinrich Barth (1821–1865), geographer, ethnologist, linguist and Africa researcher
- George Rümker (1832–1900), astronomer, director of the Hamburg observatory
- Michael Bernays (1834–1897), philologist and literary historian
- Bernhard Tollens (1841–1918), chemist
- Karl Woermann (1844–1933), art historian
- Franz Engel (1850–1931), physician, leprosy doctor in Egypt
- Eduard Zacharias (1852–1911), botanist, director of the Hamburg State Botanical Institute
- Oskar Frankfurter (1852–1922), linguist and Thaiist
- Hermann Kümmell (1852–1937), surgeon
- Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894), physicist
- Lassar Cohn (1858-1922), chemist
- Wilhelm Sievers (1860–1921), geographer and explorer
- Axel de Chapeaurouge (1861–1941), doctor, animal breeding scholar and hippologist
- Max Mittelstein (1861–1927), judge, president of the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court
- Jakob Johann von Uexküll (1864–1944), zoologist
- Heinrich Albers-Schönberg (1865–1921), radiologist
- Aby Warburg (1866–1929), art historian, established iconology
- Alexander Tornquist (1868–1944), geologist and paleontologist
- Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945), philosopher
- Paul Busching (1877–1945), professor and housing reformer
- Max Dehn (1878–1952), mathematician and university professor
- Wilhelm Holzmann (1878–1949), neurologist and university professor and as a National Socialist member of the Hamburg Parliament in the Weimar Republic
- Agathe Lasch (1879–1942), Germanist
- Ernst Nottbohm (1879–1942), food chemist
- Ernst Fraenkel (1881–1957), linguist
- Fritz Lindenmaier (1881–1960), lawyer, judge at the Federal Court of Justice
- Otto Kröber (1882–1969), entomologist and university professor
- Wilhelm Westphal (1882–1978), physicist
- Siegfried Behn (1884–1970), philosopher and psychologist
- Walter A. Berendsohn (1884–1984), literary scholar, Scandinavia
- Julius Gebhard (1884–1966), educational scientist and university professor
- Hermann Aubin (1885–1969), national historian, later economic and social historian and medievalist
- Hermann Holthusen (1886–1971), radiologist and professor at the University of Hamburg
- Richard Becker (1887–1955), physicist and university professor
- Otto Stern (1888–1969), physicist
- Erwin Panofsky (1892–1968), art historian
- Johannes Hasebroek (1893–1957), ancient historian
- Hilde Lion (1893–1970), sociologist, founder of the Stoatley Rough School in Haslemere / Surrey
- Hans Schmalfuß (1894–1955), chemist and university professor
- Curt Bondy (1894-1972), psychologist
- Erna Mohr (1894–1968), zoologist
- Percy Ernst Schramm (1894–1970), historian
- Edgar WA Maass (1896–1964), chemist and writer
- Bruno Snell (1896–1986), classical philologist
- Egmont Zechlin (1896–1992), historian
- Hermann Zorn (1896–1983), chemist
- Magdalene Schoch (1897–1987), legal scholar
- Emil Artin (1898–1962), mathematician
- Gerhard Kreyenberg (1899–1996), psychiatrist; Deputy Director of the Alsterdorfer Anstalten at the time of National Socialism
- Paul Kimmelstiel (1900–1970), German-American pathologist and university professor
- Hans Amandus Münster (1901–1963), communication scientist, author and publicist
- Pascual Jordan (1902–1980), physicist
- Karl Schubert (1903–?), Administrative lawyer
- Erwin Bünning (1906–1990), biologist
- Hans Eggers (1907–1988), linguist and university professor
- Peter Emil Becker (1908–2000), neurologist, psychiatrist and human geneticist
- Fritz Fischer (1908–1999), historian
- Hans-Wilhelm Buchholz (1910–2002), surgeon and founder of the Endo Clinic
- Ernst Witt (1911–1991), mathematician
- Willibald Jentschke (1911–2002), physicist and founder of DESY
- Albert Dietrich (1912–2015), Arabist and university professor
- Jürgen von Hehn (1912–1983), historian, government director in Hamburg
- Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912–2007), physicist, philosopher, peace researcher
- Gerd-Günther Grau (1921–2016), philosopher and chemist
- Miriam Gillis-Carlebach (1922–2020), educational scientist
- Hardwin Jungclaussen (1923–2019), physicist and engineer
- Ernst-Werner Fuß (1924–1982), lawyer
- Thea Schönfelder (1925–2010), psychiatrist, medical director of the Eppendorf University Medical Center
- August Nitschke (1926–2019), historian and co-founder of historical anthropology
- Henry Makowski (* 1927), naturalist and wildlife filmmaker
- Lord Ralf Dahrendorf (1929–2009), sociologist and politician
- Helmut Plambeck (1929–2019), lawyer and judge
- Gundolf Ernst (1930–2002), geologist and university professor
- Klaus Hasselmann (* 1931), climate researcher and meteorologist
- Heinrich Wilhelm Kruse (1931–2019), lawyer and university professor
- Peter Fischer-Appelt (* 1932), theologian, long-time President of the University of Hamburg
- Marion Ehrhardt (1932–2011), Romance and Lusitanist
- Hans-Jürgen von Maydell (1932-2010), forest scientist
- Carsten Nicolaisen (1934–2017), church historian
- Hein Kötz (* 1935), lawyer, founding president of the Bucerius Law School
- Christian Becker-Carus (* 1936), Professor of Psychology
- Gert Eilenberger (1936–2010), physicist and university professor
- Karl-Peter Hadeler (1936–2017), mathematician and professor
- Jürgen Hauschildt (1936–2008), professor of business administration, innovation researcher
- Knut Radbruch (* 1936), professor of mathematics and its didactics
- Herbert Schnädelbach (* 1936), philosopher
- Jürgen Voss (* 1936), chemist and university professor
- Klaus Brunnstein (1937–2015), computer scientist, FDP politician
- Jürgen Deininger (1937–2017), ancient historian
- Karl Heinz Höhne (* 1937), physicist, medical IT specialist
- Manfred Lahnstein (* 1937), professor of culture and media management at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater, SPD politician
- Gert Roepstorff (* 1937), physicist
- Ulrich Karpen (* 1938), CDU politician, legal scholar
- Joachim Raschke (* 1938), political scientist
- Bernd Brinkmann (* 1939), forensic doctor
- Torsten Capelle (1939–2014), professor of prehistory and early history
- Rolf Knütel (1939–2019), legal scholar
- Karsten Schmidt (* 1939), President of the Bucerius Law School
- Maike Bruhns (* 1940), art historian, author, art collector
- Hartmut Grassl (* 1940), climate researcher
- Peter Schmidt (1940–2018), archaeologist
- Dietrich Schwanitz (1940–2004), English specialist, literary scholar, author
- Claus-Dieter Krohn (1941–2019), historian and professor at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- Jürgen Lüthje (* 1941), lawyer, President of the University (1991–2006)
- Horst W. Opaschowski (* 1941), educationalist and leisure researcher
- Frank Peters (* 1942), legal scholar
- Peter Reichel (* 1942), political scientist
- Rainer Walz (1942–2006), lawyer and professor at the University of Hamburg and the Bucerius Law School
- Günter Tidow (1943–2016), sports scientist
- Stephan von Wiese (* 1943), art historian and museum curator
- Max Miller (* 1944), sociologist
- Friedemann Schulz von Thun (* 1944), psychologist
- Hans-Werner Goetz (* 1947), historian
- Michael Th. Greven (1947–2012), political scientist
- Franklin Kopitzsch (* 1947), politician and historian
- Christian Köster (1947–2019), advertising film director and professor for advertising at the HFF Munich
- Rainer Schmidt (1947–2008), physicist and jazz musician
- Christian Wellmann (1948–2013), sociologist and peace researcher
- Claus PW Zebitz (* 1950), Professor of Phytomedicine
- Monika Auweter-Kurtz (* 1950), physicist, President of the University of Hamburg
- Gunther Gerhardt (* 1951), historian and archivist
- Axel Schildt (1951–2019), historian
- Bernd Streich (* 1951), computer scientist and spatial planner
- Christopher Habel (* 1952), computer scientist and language artist
- Jan Philipp Reemtsma (* 1952), literary scholar, essayist, patron
- Norbert Ehrhardt (* 1953), historian and university professor
- Karlheinz Meier (1955–2018), physicist and university professor
- Thomas Straubhaar (* 1957), economist, director of the Hamburg Institute of International Economics
- Frank Torsten Hufert (* 1958), doctor and university professor
- Meinhard Meuche-Mäker (* 1958), political scientist, head of the Hamburg regional office of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
- Rainer Hering (* 1961), archivist and historian
- Ralph Tuchtenhagen (* 1961), historian
- Christian Decker (* 1966), economist and university professor
- Andreas Fahr (* 1966), communication scientist
- Matthias Waskow (* 1968), lawyer, judge at the Federal Labor Court
- Phillip Hellwege (* 1971), law professor
- Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit (* 1979), virologist and professor at the University of Hamburg
Arts and Culture
Architecture (chronological)
- Johan van Valckenburgh (around 1575-1625)
- Ernst Georg Sonnin (1713–1794)
- Christian Frederik Hansen (1756-1845)
- Johann August Arens (1757-1806)
- Joseph Ramée (1764-1842)
- Carl Ludwig Wimmel (1786–1845)
- Franz Gustav Forsmann (1795–1878)
- Alexis de Chateauneuf (1799-1853)
- Franz Georg Stammann (1799–1871)
- Heinrich Hübbe (1803–1871)
- Carl Friedrich Reichardt (1803–1871)
- Gottfried Semper (1803–1879)
- William Lindley (1808-1900)
- George Gilbert Scott (1811-1878)
- Auguste de Meuron (1813–1898)
- Georg Luis (1816-1885)
- Arnold Güldenpfennig (1830–1908)
- Hugo Stammann (1831–1909), including town hall
- Carl Johann Christian Zimmermann (1831-1911)
- Martin Haller (1835-1925)
- Franz Andreas Meyer (1837–1901)
- Johannes Otzen (1839-1911)
- Bernhard Hanssen (1844-1911)
- Wilhelm Emil Meerwein (1844–1927)
- Gustav Zinnow (1846–1934), including town hall
- Friedrich Ruppel (1854–1937), architect
- Julius Faulwasser (1855–1944), numerous church buildings
- Wilhelm Jollasse (1856–1921)
- Ernst Paul Dorn (1857–1913), representative villas, social facilities and old crematorium in Alsterdorf
- Fernando Lorenzen (1859–1917), representative villas, church buildings, etc. St. Pauli Church of Grace, Hochkamp development
- Ludwig Raabe and Otto Wöhlecke (1862–1931 and 1872–1920)
- Semmy Engel (1864–1948)
- Peter Behrens (1868-1940)
- Otto Linne (1869–1937), garden and landscape architect
- Fritz Schumacher (1869–1947), architect, urban planner, senior construction director
- Johann Emil Schaudt (1871–1957)
- Hermann Distel (1875–1945)
- Emil Heynen (1877-1946)
- Fritz Höger (1877–1949)
- Carl Bensel (1878-1949)
- Paul August Reimund Frank (1878–1951)
- Gustav Oelsner (1879–1956)
- Hans and Oskar Gerson (1881–1931 and 1886–1966)
- Georg Kallmorgen (1882–1924), Altona building senator, Brahms office
- Friedrich Richard Ostermeyer (1884–1963)
- Rudolf Klophaus (1885–1957)
- Aby Warburg (1886–1929), art historian, art scholar
- Fritz Block (1889–1955)
- Karl Schneider (1892–1945)
- Hermann Schöne (1894–1982)
- Gerhard Langmaack (1898–1986), Church Buildings
- Werner Hebebrand (1899–1966)
- Arne Jacobsen (1902–1971)
- Konstanty Gutschow (1902–1978)
- Werner Kallmorgen (1902–1979)
- Bernhard Hermkes (1903-1995)
- Helmut Hentrich (1905-2001)
- Wilhelm Ohm (1905-1965)
- Caesar Pinnau (1906–1988)
- Godber Nissen (1906-1997)
- Ferdinand Streb (1907-1970)
- Gustav Lüttge (1909–1968), garden and landscape architect
- Fritz Leonhardt (1909–1999), Heinrich Hertz Tower
- Carl-Friedrich Fischer (1909-2001)
- Fritz Trautwein (1911–1993)
- Joachim Matthaei (1911–1999)
- Hubert Petschnigg (1913–1997)
- Oswald Mathias Ungers (1926–2007), Contemporary Gallery
- Walter Neuhäusser (* 1926)
- Horst von Bassewitz (* 1932)
- Meinhard von Gerkan (* 1935)
- Raimund Herms (1937–2014), son of the master gardener Hänse Herms . Garden and landscape architect in Hamburg and Berlin.
- Egbert Kossak (1936-2016)
- Volkwin Marg (* 1936)
- Jan Störmer (* 1942)
- Elke Pahl-Weber (* 1952), architect and urban planner
- Hadi Teherani (* 1954)
- Jörn Walter (* 1957), urban planner, chief construction director
- Stephen Williams (* 1963), British architect and interior designer who lives and works in Hamburg
Fine arts, design
- Tine Acke (* 1977), photographer and designer
- Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann (1883–1973), painter and director of the state art school
- Heinrich Jacob Aldenrath (1775–1844), painter and lithographer
- Christian Wilhelm Allers (1857–1915), painter and draftsman
- Rainer Arke (* 1947), painter and visualist
- Dieter Asmus (* 1939), painter
- Hans-Günther Baass (1909–1991), painter
- Karl Ballmer (1891–1958), painter
- Alma del Banco (1863–1943), painter
- Eduard Bargheer (1901–1979), painter, university professor
- Ernst Barlach (1870–1938), sculptor
- Raimund Bauer (* 1955), set designer; Professor at the University of Fine Arts
- Hermann Becker (1817–1885), painter and art historian
- Liebfriede Bernstiel (1915–1998), ceramicist
- Master Bertram (1340–1414), painter
- Emil Bieber (1878–1962), photographer
- Hermann Biow (1810–1850), photographer
- Clara Blumenfeld (1889–1978), painter and illustrator
- Wilhelm Bode (1830–1893), landscape painter
- August Bohnhorst (1849–1919), painter
- Hans Bornemann (rewritten 1448–1469), painter
- Hinrik Bornemann (≈1450–1499), painter
- Holger Börnsen (1931–2019), graphic artist, illustrator, draftsman
- Andreas Borum (1799–1853), painter and lithographer
- Bill Brandt (1904–1983), photographer
- Stefan Brandt (* 1976), cultural manager, managing director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle
- Emmy Brode (1890–1967), painter and art teacher
- Emma Budge (1852–1937), art collector, benefactor, patron
- Annette Caspar (1916–2008), painter, graphic artist, wall designer and ceramicist
- Rosemarie Clausen (1907–1990), theater photographer
- Doris Cordes-Vollert (* 1943), artist and author
- Helene Cramer (1844–1916), flower painter
- Molly Cramer (1852-1936), flower painter
- Carl Otto Czeschka (1878–1960), painter, graphic artist, professor at the State Art School
- Hanne Darboven (1941–2009), conceptual artist
- Thomas Darboven (* 1936), sculptor and architect
- Johanna Diehl (* 1977), artist and photographer
- Sabine von Diest-Brackenhausen (* 1931), sculptor and painter
- Horst Dietrich (1935–2014), painter and founder of the factory culture and communication center
- Reinhard Drenkhahn (1926–1959), painter, graphic artist, sculptor
- Rudolf Dührkoop (1848–1918), photographer
- Emma Gertrud Eckermann (1879–1967), painter, graphic artist and art teacher
- Heinrich Ehrich (1825–1909), painter, lithographer and drawing teacher
- Karl Heinz Engelin (1924–1986), sculptor
- Gisela Engelin-Hommes (1931–2017), sculptor
- Lore Feldberg-Eber (1895–1966), painter
- Albert Feser (1901–1993), painter
- Peter Fetthauer (* 1944), painter, sculptor, wood cutter
- Anke Feuchtenberger (* 1963), visual artist, cartoonist and professor at the HAW Hamburg
- Arnold Fiedler (1900–1985), painter and graphic artist
- Fritz Fleer (1921–1997), sculptor
- Fritz Flinte (1876–1963), painter
- Jochen Flinzer (* 1959), artist, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg
- Master Francke (around 1383–1436), painter
- Wilhelm Fritzel (1870–1943), painter
- Charles Fuchs (1803–1874), lithographer, photographer
- Karl Garbers (1864–1943), sculptor
- Günther Gensler (1803–1884), painter, etcher and draftsman
- Erich Gerer (* 1945), sculptor
- Till Gerhard (* 1971), painter
- Rolf Gith (* 1950), painter, draftsman and designer
- Arie Goral-Sternheim (1909–1996), painter, art educator, writer and chronicler of Jewish life on the Grindel
- Friedrich Wilhelm Graupenstein (1828–1897), painter and graphic artist
- Willem Grimm (1904–1986), painter, graphic artist, university professor
- Friedrich Carl Gröger (1766–1838), painter and lithographer
- Carl Gross (1903–1972), painter and graphic artist
- Barbara Haeger (1919–2004), sculptor
- Georg Haeselich (1806–1894), painter and lithographer
- Marcus Haeselich (1807–1856), painter and lithographer
- Hansen-Bahia , actually Karl-Heinz Hansen (1915–1976), painter and graphic artist
- Gerdt Hardorff the Elder (1769–1864), painter, graphic artist, art collector and drawing teacher
- Ivo Hauptmann (1886–1973), painter, university professor
- Gerhard Hausmann (1922–2015), painter, graphic artist and sculptor
- Franz Heesche (1806–1876), painter
- Emil Heilbut (1861–1921), art collector and mediator, publicist and art critic
- Carl Georg Heise (1890–1979), art historian, director of the Kunsthalle
- Fred Hendriok (1885–1942), commercial artist and illustrator
- Bernd Hering (painter) (1924–2013), painter and graphic artist
- Wilhelm Heuer (1813–1890), lithographer
- Volker Hinz (1947–2019), photographer
- Vollrath Hoeck (1890–1968), painter and graphic artist
- Tom Hops (1906–1976), painter and graphic artist
- Carl Ihrke (1921–1983), painter, graphic artist and sculptor
- Arthur Illies (1870–1952), painter and graphic artist
- Martin Irwahn (1898–1981), painter and sculptor
- Hella Jacobs (1905–1974), painter
- Maximilian Jahns (1887–1957), painter
- August Jancke (1810–1840), painter
- Adam Jankowski (* 1948), Austrian painter and professor. His studio is in St. Pauli.
- Horst Janssen (1929–1995), draftsman and graphic artist
- Jette Joop (* 1968), designer
- Wolfgang Joop (* 1944), designer
- Daniel Josefsohn (1961–2016), photographer
- Irmgard Kanold (1915–1976), sculptor
- Lore Kegel (1901–1980), art collector
- Adolph Diedrich Kindermann (1823–1892), painter and later photographer
- David Kindt (1580–1652), painter
- Astrid Kirchherr (1938–2020), photographer
- Carl Kitzerow (1799–1874), decorative painter and lithographer
- Karl Kluth (1898–1972), painter
- Johann Carl Koch (1806–1900), painter
- Dieter Kraemer (* 1937), painter and professor of fine arts
- Diether Kressel (1925–2015), painter, draftsman and graphic artist
- Carlo Kriete (1924–1989), painter and draftsman
- Klaus Kröger (1920–2010), painter
- Fritz Kronenberg (1901–1960), painter
- Gisela Kühler-Balcke (1913–1983), sculptor
- Richard Kuöhl (1880–1961), sculptor, "architectural sculptor"
- Erich Kux (1882–1977), painter and graphic artist
- Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019), fashion creator, designer, photographer and costume designer
- Carl Langhein (1872–1941), painter and graphic artist
- Leo Lehmann (1782-1859), painter
- Alfred Lichtwark (1852–1914), art historian, director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle
- Herbert List (1903–1975), photographer
- Kurt Löwengard (1895–1940), painter and graphic artist
- Carl Lohse (1895–1965), painter
- Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler (1899–1940), painter
- Sandro von Lorsch (1919–1992), painter
- Walter Lüden (1914–1996), photographer
- Richard Luksch (1872–1936), sculptor, ceramist, artisan
- Elena Luksch-Makowsky (1878–1967), painter and sculptor
- Arnold Lyongrün (1871–1935), painter, teacher at the Hamburg State School of Applied Arts, member of the Hamburg Art Association
- Emil Maetzel (1877–1955), painter, graphic artist and building director
- Dorothea Maetzel-Johannsen (1886–1930), painter
- Alfred Mahlau (1894–1967), painter, graphic artist, university professor
- Max Hermann Mahlmann (1912–2000), painter
- Gert Marcus (1914–2008), painter and sculptor
- Jonathan Meese (* 1970), painter
- Hugo Meier-Thur (1881–1943), graphic artist, teacher at the Hanseatic University of Fine Arts , victim of National Socialism
- Carl Julius Milde (1803–1875), drawing teacher at the Katharineum in Lübeck and painter, conservator and restorer
- Karl Josef Müller (1865–1942), painter
- Franz Mutzenbecher (1880–1968), painter
- Peter Nagel (* 1941), painter
- Rolf Nesch (1893–1975), painter
- Katinka Niederstrasser (* 1939), graphic designer, photographer, illustrator
- Werner Nöfer (* 1937), painter and graphic artist
- Franz Nölken (1884–1918), painter
- August Ohm (* 1943), painter and draftsman
- Wilhelm Ohm (1905–1965), painter, draftsman, sculptor and architect
- Julius Oldach (1804–1830), painter
- Anna Oppermann (1940–1993), conceptual artist
- Engelbert Peiffer (1830–1896), sculptor
- Gudrun Piper (1917–2016), painter and graphic artist
- Charlotte Popert (1848–1922), portrait and genre painter and etcher
- Alexandra Povòrina (1885–1963), painter
- Gerda Maria Raschke (* 1944), painter
- Werner Rebhuhn (1922–2001), graphic designer and artist
- Anita Rée (1885–1933), painter
- Mirko Reisser (DAIM) (* 1971), graffiti artist
- Rolf Retz-Schmidt (1928–2006), painter and graphic artist
- Daniel Richter (* 1962), painter
- Hermann Rieck (1850 - after 1917), landscape and genre painter
- Otto Rohse (1925–2016), wood engraver, illustrator, typographer, book designer
- Walter Alfred Rosam (1883–1916), painter
- Philipp Otto Runge (1777–1810), painter
- Hans Martin Ruwoldt (1891–1969), sculptor
- Armin Sandig (1929–2015), painter and graphic artist
- Rosa Schapire (1874–1954), art historian
- Ernst Scharstein (1877–1961), painter
- Jil Sander (* 1943), fashion designer and head of cosmetics company
- Gerhard Schack (1929–2007), art collector and patron
- Heinrich Schilinzky (1923–2009), German-Baltic painter and sculptor
- Franz Bernhard Schiller (1815–1857), sculptor
- Sebastian Vitus Schlupf (1761–1826), sculptor and drawing teacher with the Patriotic Society
- Gustav Berthold Schröter (1901–1992), graphic artist and relief artist
- Carl Schümann (1901–1974), sculptor
- Kurt Schulzke (1950–2017), pop art painter and musician
- Friedrich Schwinge (1852–1913), painter
- Edda Skibbe (* 1965), illustrator of children's and youth literature
- Hermann Wilhelm Soltau (1812–1861), painter, graphic artist
- Herbert Spangenberg (1907–1984), painter
- Erwin Speckter (1806–1835), painter
- Johannes Michael Speckter (1764–1845), lithographer, graphic collector
- Otto Speckter (1807–1871), painter and draftsman
- Hermann Steinfurth (1823–1880), painter, graphic artist
- Heinrich Steinhagen (1880–1948), painter
- Nikolaus Störtenbecker (* 1940), painter
- Paul Storm (1880–1951), painter
- Heinrich Stuhlmann (1803–1886), painter and graphic artist
- Cornelius Suhr (1781–1857), lithographer and draftsman
- Christoffer Suhr (1771–1842), painter, lithographer and draftsman
- Johann Georg Stuhr (around 1640 - 1721), painter
- Peter Suhr (1788–1857), lithographer and draftsman
- Karin Székessy (* 1938), photographer
- Ilse Tesdorpf-Edens (1892–1966), painter
- Otto Tetjus Tügel (1892–1973), painter
- Willy Thomsen (1898–1969), painter, draftsman, caricaturist, illustrator and graphic artist
- Franz Tymmermann (around 1515 - after 1540), painter
- Johannes Ufer (1912–1987), painter, sculptor and spatial and surface artist
- Ernst Gottfried Vivié (1823–1902), sculptor, 2nd Vice President of the Hamburg Parliament
- Adolph Friedrich Vollmer (1806–1875), painter and graphic artist
- Gustav Friedrich Waagen (1794–1868), art historian
- Petrus Wandrey (1939–2012), artist
- Mary Warburg (1866–1934), painter
- Friedrich Wasmann (1805–1886), painter
- Gustav Weidanz (1889–1970), sculptor and university professor
- Magnus Weidemann (1880–1967), pastor, painter, graphic artist, photographer and author
- Irma Weiland (1908–2003), painter, draftsman
- Max Weiss (1884–1954), painter and graphic artist
- Friedrich Wield (1880–1940), sculptor
- Karin Witte (* 1939), draftsman, painter and graphic artist
- Gretchen Wohlwill (1878–1962), painter
- Hans Wrage (1921–2012), painter
- Johann Christian Wraske (1817–1896), painter
- Adolf Wriggers (1896–1984), painter
- Johannes Wüsten (1896–1943), painter and writer
- Wilhelm Friedrich Wulff (1808–1882), painter
- Paul Wunderlich (1927–2010), painter, sculptor, graphic artist
- Werner Fritz Zganiacz (* 1938), time-critical draftsman and painter
music
- Gerd Albrecht (1935–2014), conductor, general music director in Hamburg (1988–1997)
- Walter Armbrust (1882–1941), organist
- Theodor Avé-Lallemant (1806–1890), music teacher, music critic and music writer
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788), composer
- Ulli Baum (* 1958), jazz singer
- Hermann Baumann (* 1934), horn player
- Carl Bay (1927–2014), opera singer (baritone) and actor
- Dietrich Becker (≈1623–1679), composer and violinist
- Hermann von Beckerath (1909–1964), cellist
- Johann Jacob Behrens (1788–?), Organist, composer and music teacher.
- Peter Beil (1937–2007), pop singer, trumpeter, composer and band leader
- Hermann Berens (1826–1880), pianist and composer
- Cisco Berndt (1942–2014), musician, founding member of Truck Stop
- Michael von Biel (* 1937), composer and cellist
- Rainer Bielfeldt (* 1964), singer and composer
- Rémon Biermann (* 1935), jazz and entertainment musician
- Wolf Biermann (* 1936), songwriter
- Hans-Jürgen Bock (1939–2006), jazz pianist
- Ursula Boese (1928–2016), opera singer
- Carsten Bohn (* 1948), musician; was the drummer for the band Frumpy , which was popular in the 1970s
- Beatrix Borchard (* 1950), musicologist
- Gottfried Böttger (1949–2017), pianist, founding member of the pensioners band
- Johannes Brahms (1833–1897), composer
- Thomas Brandis (1935–2017), violinist
- Walther Bullerdiek (1901–1971), composer, actor and radio play speaker
- Christoph Brüx (* 1965), composer, musician, music producer
- Klaus Büchner (* 1948), musician
- Hans von Bülow (1830–1894), conductor, pianist, composer
- Leslie Clio (* 1986), pop and soul singer
- Sarah Connor (* 1980), pop and soul singer
- Toni Cottura (* 1971), music producer, rapper and singer
- Ingolf Dahl (1912–1970), composer, pianist and conductor
- Joachim Decker (around 1565–1611), composer and organist
- Bertha Dehn (1881–1953), music teacher and violinist
- Jan Delay (bourgeois Jan Philipp Eißfeld) (* 1976), rapper and singer
- Samy Deluxe (bourgeois Samy Sorge) (* 1977), rapper
- Dendemann (bourgeois Daniel Ebel) (* 1974), former rapper with Eins Zwo and solo artist
- Anna Depenbusch (* 1977), singer
- Benni Dernhoff (* 1983), music producer
- Paul Dessau (1894–1979), composer
- Rica Déus (* 1937), actress and pop singer
- Wilken F. Dincklage (1942–1994), alias Willem , musician and actor, founding member of the pensioners band
- Digitalism , electro house duo
- Christoph von Dohnányi (* 1929), conductor, musical director at the Hamburg State Opera (1977–1984)
- Gesine Dreyer (* 1969), harpist
- Jakobus Durstewitz (* 1969), musician, singer and painter
- Horst Fascher (* 1936), manager and music promoter, co-founder and managing director of the Star Club
- Oscar Fetrás (1854–1931), composer and conductor (own band )
- Niels Frevert (* 1967), singer and songwriter / songwriter
- Pascal Fuhlbrügge (* 1965), musician
- Markus Gardeweg (* 1969), house DJ
- Alexander Geringas (* 1971), composer, songwriter and music producer
- David Geringas (* 1946), cellist and conductor
- Detlev Glanert (* 1960), composer
- Rodrigo González (* 1968), bassist of the punk band Die Ärzte , banjo player of the Golden Lemon
- Robin Grubert (* 1977), singer and songwriter
- Friedrich Wilhelm Grund (1791–1874), composer, conductor and music teacher, co-founder of the Hamburger Singakademie and the Philharmonic Society
- Michael Gundlach (* 1960), musician and arranger
- Stefan Gwildis (* 1958), singer and songwriter
- Gzuz (bourgeois Kristoffer Jonas Klauß) (* 1988), rapper
- Theodor Hagen (1823–1871), composer, temporary theater secretary of the Hamburg State Opera, member of the Union of Communists
- Georg Friedrich Handel (1685–1759), composer
- Kai Hansen (* 1963), musician, is considered the "forefather of German Power Metal "
- Keno Harriehausen (* 1988), jazz musician
- Chris Harms (* 1980), singer and guitarist of Lord of the Lost
- George Harrison (1943-2001), member of the Beatles; lived and worked in Hamburg in 1960 and 1961
- Peter Heppner (* 1967), singer
- Tony Holiday (1951–1990), pop singer and lyricist
- Abbi Hübner (bourgeois Albert Charles Otto Hübner) (* 1933), doctor, author and jazz musician
- Kristoffer Hünecke (* 1978), guitarist and composer in the band Revolverheld
- Les Humphries (1940-2007), founder of the Les Humphries Singers
- Alex Hyde (1898–1956), American violinist
- Karsten Jahnke (* 1937), concert and tour organizer
- Bernhard Jakschtat (1895–1965), including folk singer and radio artist
- Joco (Josepha Carl, * 1990 and Cosima Carl, * 1986), singing couple
- DJ Rabauke (* 1972; bourgeois Thomas Jensen), former DJ at Eins Zwo and tour DJ at Fettes Brot
- Sven Kacirek (* 1975), drummer, producer, author and lecturer
- Bert Kaempfert (1923–1980), orchestra conductor, music producer, arranger and composer
- Kazuo Kanemaki (* 1949), conductor living and working in Hamburg
- Carlo Karges (1951–2002), musician
- Rolf Kasparek (* 1961), musician
- Hardy Kayser (* 1962), musician and composer
- Reinhard Keizer (1674–1739), composer and opera producer
- Niels Klein (* 1978), jazz musician
- Hein Köllisch (1857–1901), Low German humorist and songwriter
- Nils Kopagh (1965–2012), musician, a. a. at Fink and Kid Kopphausen . Freelance artist under the pseudonym SAM
- Detlef Kraus (1919–2008), pianist
- Caspar Daniel Krohn (1736–1801), organist and composer
- Arnold Krug (1849–1904), composer
- Felicitas Kukuck (1914–2001), composer
- Pär Lammers (* 1982), jazz musician, composer and producer
- James Last (1929–2015), band leader, composer and arranger
- Boris Lauterbach (* 1974), musician
- Thomas L'Etienne (* 1956), jazz musician
- Vicky Leandros (* 1952), pop singer, has lived in Hamburg again since 2012
- Florian Leis-Bendorff (1969–2005), musician
- György Ligeti (1923–2006), composer, professor at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater
- Udo Lindenberg (* 1946), Panik President , musician, lyricist, composer, painter and actor
- Christian Kellersmann (* 1960), music producer, also musician and musicologist
- Dennis Lisk (born 1977), rapper
- Lonzo (1952–2001), bourgeois Lorenz Westphal, musician
- Lotto King Karl (* 1967), bourgeois Gerrit Heesemann, musician
- Annett Louisan (* 1977), singer and musician
- Lukas Loules (* 1972), songwriter, music producer and singer
- Vincent Lübeck (1654–1740), composer and organist
- Hans Lüdemann (* 1961), jazz pianist
- Jacob Wilhelm Lustig (1706–1791), Dutch composer, organist and music theorist
- Julian Maas (* 1975), musician, film composer
- Gustav Mahler (1860–1911), composer and conductor
- Liselotte Malkowsky (1913–1965), pop singer , actress and cabaret artist , lived and worked in Hamburg
- Wilhelmine Marstrand (1843–1903), pianist and teacher
- Johann Mattheson (1681–1764), composer
- Paul McCartney (* 1942), member of the Beatles, lived and worked in Hamburg in 1960 and 1961
- Paul Meisen (* 1933), flautist
- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847), Romantic composer
- Miss Menke (bourgeois Franziska Menke; * 1960), singer
- Jo Ment (1923–2002), band leader, musician, composer
- Albert Methfessel (1785–1869), composer and conductor
- Ingo Metzmacher (* 1957), conductor, general music director in Hamburg (1997-2005)
- Peter "Banjo" Meyer (* 1944), jazz musician, music producer and racing driver
- Wolf Moser (* 1937), musician and writer
- Karl Muck (1859–1940), conductor
- Heime Müller (* 1970), violinist and university professor
- Marius Müller-Westernhagen (* 1948), musician and actor
- Addi Münster (* 1935), jazz trombonist, long-time leader of the Old Merry Tale jazz band
- Britta Neander (1956–2004), musician
- Nena (* 1960), pop singer
- Lotar Olias (1913–1990), composer and lyricist
- Dörte Maria Packeiser (* 1957), organist, choir director, cantor and church music director
- Carsten Pape (* 1956), musician, composer
- Peter Petrel (* 1940), musician, founding member of the pensioners band
- Ferdinand Pfohl (1862–1949), music critic, writer and composer
- Hans Poser (1917–1970), composer (member of the "Free Academy of the Arts")
- Hieronymus Praetorius (1560–1629), composer and organist
- Hieronymus (III) Praetorius (1614–1629), composer and organist
- Johann Praetorius (1595–1660), composer and organist
- Jacob Praetorius the Younger (1586–1651), composer and organist
- Sonja Prunnbauer (* 1948), classical guitarist and university teacher
- Suzi Quatro (* 1950), American musician, has lived in England since 1971 and in the Sasel district of Hamburg .
- Freddy Quinn (* 1931), pop singer, lives in Hamburg
- Maxim Rad , singer, guitarist and composer
- Frank Ramond (* 1964), music producer
- Johann Adam Reincken (1643–1722), composer and organist
- Mense Reents (* 1970), musician
- Malte Refardt (* 1974), bassoonist
- Louise Caroline Reichardt (1779–1826), singer, composer, choir founder
- Achim Reichel (* 1944), lead singer of the Rattles and solo artist
- Ralph Arthur Roberts (1884–1940), composer and lyricist (on the Reeperbahn at night ...)
- Tim Rodig (* 1970), jazz musician
- Cyprian Friedrich Marianne Romberg (1807-1865), cellist
- Inga Rumpf (* 1946), singer, composer
- Kevin Russell (* 1964), singer in the rock band Böhse Onkelz
- Rocko Schamoni (* 1966), entertainer, musician, actor
- Heinrich Scheidemann (1596–1663), composer and organist
- Rainer Schmidt (1947–2008), jazz musician and physicist
- Rainer Schnelle (* 1951), jazz pianist
- Alfred Schnittke (1934–1998), composer, university professor
- Johann Schop (around 1590–1667), musician and composer
- Wolfgang-Andreas Schultz (* 1948), composer, university professor and writer
- Kurt Schulzke (1950–2017), musician, lyricist, composer, painter, Schulzke's scandal troop
- Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke (1767–1822), cantor (1788–1822) and composer
- Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke (1823–1896), organist and composer
- Johann Friedrich Schwencke (1792–1852), organist and composer
- Gerd Seifert (1931–2019), horn player
- Tony Sheridan (1940-2013), musician
- DJ Shog (* 1976), trance DJ and producer
- Jimi Siebels (* 1971), musician and DJ
- Special D. (* 1980), DJ
- Martin Spiegelberg (1955–2020), jazz musician and crime writer
- Manfred Stahnke (* 1951), composer and musicologist
- Nick St. Nicholas (* 1943), musician
- Philipp von Steinaecker (* 1972), cellist and conductor
- Jacob Steinfeldt (1788–1869), musician, co-founder of the Hamburger Singakademie
- Stefan Stoppok (* 1956), musician
- Matthias Strzoda (* 1962), drummer and musician
- Nils Sustrate (1931–1999), composer, musician and music teacher
- Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767), composer
- Ferdinand Heinrich Thieriot (1838–1919), composer
- Asmus Tietchens (* 1947), composer
- Katharina Thomsen (* 1981), jazz musician
- Henry Christian Timm (1811-1892), composer
- Gerhard Vohwinkel (* 1932), jazz musician
- Carl Voigt (1808–1879), founder and first conductor of the Hamburg Cäcilienverein
- Klaus Voormann (* 1938), bass player and producer, was part of the Beatles' circle of friends during their time in Hamburg. Also active as a graphic artist
- Raymond Voss (* 1952), musician
- Hannes Wader (* 1942), musician and songwriter; came to Hamburg in the early 1970s
- Jasmin Wagner (* 1980), singer
- Abi Wallenstein (* 1945), blues musician
- Vince Weber (1953–2020), blues and boogie pianist
- Matthias Weckmann (1616–1674), composer
- Susanne Weidinger (* 1977), jazz musician
- Giovanni Weiss (* 1980), jazz musician
- Edith Weiss-Mann (1885–1951), harpsichordist, piano teacher and music critic
- Joja Wendt (* 1964), pianist, composer
- Jochen Wiegandt (* 1947), musician, folk singer, songwriter, founding member of Liederjan
- Andreas Willscher (* 1955), church musician and composer
- Kai Wingenfelder (* 1959), singer and composer
- Thorsten Wingenfelder (* 1966), guitarist and composer
- Joachim Witt (* 1949), musician, actor
- Wolf brothers (Ludwig (1867–1955), Leopold (1869–1926) and James Isaac (1870–1943) Wolf), variety band (Jung mit'n Tüdelband)
- Lucius Wolter (* 1979), singer, actor and musical performer
- Felix Woyrsch (1860–1944), composer and music director in Altona
- Lisa-Rebecca Wulff (* 1990), jazz musician
- Simone Young (* 1961), conductor, general music director in Hamburg (2005–2015)
- Alexander Zuckowski (* 1974), composer, songwriter
- Rolf Zuckowski (* 1947), composer, musician
- Axel Zwingenberger (* 1955), boogie-woogie pianist, composer
- Torsten Zwingenberger (* 1959), (jazz) drummer
performing Arts
- Patrick Abozen (* 1985), actor
- Peter Ahrweiler (1915–2004), actor and theater director
- Fatih Akin (* 1973), director
- Hans Albers (1891–1960), actor
- Axel von Ambesser (1910–1988), actor, director, author
- Siegfried Arno (1895–1975), actor, comedian, singer and dancer
- Patrick Bach (* 1968), actor and voice actor
- Rudi Bach (1886 – unknown), actor, screenwriter and film director
- Felicitas Barg (1900–2002), reciter
- Eva Maria Bauer (1923–2006), actress
- Magda Bäumken (1890–1959), actress
- Susanne Beck (* 1947), actress, voice actress
- Patrick Becker (* 1970), ballet dancer and director
- Rolf Becker (* 1935), actor
- Rudolf Beiswanger (1903–1984), actor, radio broadcaster and theater director
- Fritz Benscher (1904–1970), actor, quiz master, presenter, radio play speaker and director
- Charlotte Bellmann (* 1991), actress
- Edgar Bessen (1933–2012), actor
- Lotte Betke (1905–2008), stage actress (and writer)
- Dirk Bielefeldt (* 1957), actor and cabaret artist
- Moritz Bleibtreu (* 1971), actor
- Hans-Peter Bögel (also Hans Peter Bögel; * 1941), actor, television and radio drama speaker and radio director
- Kay Böger (* 1971), actor
- Hark Bohm (* 1939), actor and director
- Uwe Bohm (* 1962), actor
- Hans-Robert Bortfeldt (1905–1955), director, actor and dramaturge
- Ingrid von Bothmer (1918–2003), actress
- Nina Bott (* 1978), actress
- Hans Böttcher (1898–1936), radio pioneer, radio play director and speaker
- Adam Bousdoukos (born 1974), actor
- Tim Braeutigam (* 1989), actor
- Nadine Brandt (* 1975), actress
- Aglaja Brix (* 1990), actress and model
- Andreas Brucker (* 1963), actor
- Walther Bullerdiek (1901–1971), actor, radio play speaker and composer
- Gustav Burmester (1904–1978), director and actor
- Aline Bussmann (1889–1968); Actress, radio play speaker and publicist
- Jessika Cardinahl (* 1965), actress
- Tatjana Clasing (* 1964), actress
- Till Demtrøder (* 1967), actor
- Klara Deutschmann (* 1989), actress
- Marthe Lola Deutschmann (* 1991), actress
- Olli Dittrich (* 1956), actor, musician, composer and comedian
- Emil von Dollen (1884–1937), actor
- Stephen Dürr (* 1974), actor
- Angélique Duvier (* 1958), actress
- Wilfried Dziallas (* 1944), actor, director, radio play speaker
- Harald Eggers (1927–1993), actor and radio play speaker
- Ida Ehre (1900–1989), artistic director and theater actress
- Conrad Ekhof (1720–1778), actor
- Erich Engel (1891–1966), film and theater director
- Marlies Engel (* 1943), actress
- Thomas Engel (1922–2015), director and screenwriter
- Hans Epskamp (1903–1992), actor
- Heinz Erhardt (1909–1979), comedian, musician, entertainer, actor, poet
- Marek Erhardt (* 1969), actor
- Jan Fedder (1955–2019), popular actor
- Helga Feddersen (1930–1990), popular actress
- Henrike Fehrs (* 1984), actress
- Vijessna Ferkic (* 1987), actress
- Milka Loff Fernandes (* 1980), television presenter and actress
- Hans Fitze (1903–1998), actor, radio play speaker, director and theater manager
- Elisabeth Flickenschildt (1905–1977), actress
- Jürgen Flimm (* 1941), theater director
- Giulia Follina (born 1950), actress
- Hans Freundt (1892–1953), actor, radio play director, radio broadcaster and author
- Uwe Friedrichsen (1934–2016), actor
- Anna Führing (1866–1929), actress
- Walter E. Fuß (1921–1996), actor
- Johanna Gastdorf (* 1959), actress
- Clemens Gerhard (* 1967), actor, dubbing actor and dubbing director
- Sven Gielnik (* 1994), actor, screenwriter and director
- Herbert Giffei (1908–1995), pedagogue, Germanist, historian, philosopher, theater pedagogue and publicist
- Gerda Gmelin (1919–2003), actress and theater director
- Helmuth Gmelin (1891–1959), actor and theater director
- Boy Gobert (1925–1986), actor, director and artistic director
- Meike Gottschalk (* 1970), actress
- Ernst Grabbe (1926–2006), actor
- Oliver Graf (* 1981), cultural manager and actor
- Jenny Gröllmann (1947–2006), actress
- Gustaf Gründgens (1899–1963), artistic director and theater actor
- Evelyn Hamann (1942–2007), actress
- Fabian Harloff (* 1970), actor
- Marek Harloff (* 1971), actor
- Raimund Harmstorf (1939–1998), actor
- Karl-Heinz von Hassel (1939–2016), actor
- Julia Heinemann (* 1968), actress
- Oliver Hirschbiegel (* 1957), director
- Hannelore Hoger (* 1942), actress
- Nina Hoger (* 1961), actress
- Claudia Holldack (* 1943), director, author
- Erkki Hopf (* 1964), actor
- Mirjam Horwitz (1882–1967), principal of the Hamburger Kammerspiele, actress
- Max Jacob (1888–1967), founder of the Hohnstein puppet shows
- Heidi Kabel (1914–2010), popular actress
- Heini Kaufeld (1920–1996), popular actor
- Sibel Kekilli (born 1980), actress
- Ulrich Khuon (* 1951), theater director
- Heinz Klevenow (1908–1975), actor
- Herma Koehn (* 1944), popular actress and radio play speaker
- Féréba Koné (* 1990), actress
- Hans Peter Korff (* 1942), actor
- Charlotte Kramm (1900–1971), actress
- Karl-Heinz Kreienbaum (1915–2002), popular actor
- Diether Krebs (1947-2000), actor
- Mike Krüger (* 1951), comedian, actor, cabaret artist and singer; grew up in Hamburg
- Regine Lamster (* 1954), actress
- Hans Langmaack (1870–1949), actor, radio play speaker, director, reciter and acting teacher
- Heinz Lanker (1916–1978), popular actor
- Volker Lechtenbrink (* 1944), actor, voice actor, director, artistic director, copywriter and singer
- Jürgen Lederer (* 1943), actor, festival director and director
- Fritz Lichtenhahn (1932–2017), actor and radio play speaker
- Rolf Liebermann (1910–1999), director of the State Opera
- Erwin Linder (1903–1968), actor ( Hamburger Kammerspiele )
- Loriot (1923–2011), actor, cartoonist and author
- Susanne Lothar (1960–2012), actress
- Günter Lüdke (1930–2011), popular actor
- Otto Lüthje (1902–1977), folk actor, radio play speaker and director
- Reinhold Lütjohann (1881–1958), actor and radio play speaker
- Kai Maertens (* 1958), actor
- Michael Maertens (* 1963), actor
- Miriam Maertens (* 1970), actress (including Thalia Theater)
- Peter Maertens (1931-2020), actor (Thalia Theater)
- Willy Maertens (1893–1967), actor, theater director and theater manager (Thalia Theater)
- Hans Mahler (1900–1970), popular actor and theater manager (Ohnsorg Theater)
- Heidi Mahler (* 1944), popular actress
- Rolf Mares (1930–2002), director at the Schauspielhaus , the Thalia Theater and the State Opera
- Eduard Marks (1901–1981), actor, drama teacher and radio play speaker
- Annemarie Marks-Rocke (1901–2004), actress, acting teacher and radio play speaker
- Hendrik Martz (* 1968), actor
- Lotte Mende (1834-1891), actress
- Karl-Ulrich Meves (* 1928), actor and voice actor
- Ludwig Meybert (1893–1961), actor, theater director and radio play speaker
- Hans-Werner Meyer (* 1964), actor
- Joachim Meyerhoff (* 1967), actor, director and writer
- Inge Meysel (1910–2004), actress
- Tetje Mierendorf (* 1972), comedian and actor
- Petra Verena Milchert (* 1957), actress
- Eberhard Möbius (1926–2020), cabaret artist, actor, director, theater director and author
- Benjamin Morik (* 1968), actor
- Nele Mueller-Stöfen (* 1967), actress
- Addi Münster (1902–1990), humorist and singer
- Jona Mues (* 1981), actor
- Wanja Mues (* 1973), actor
- Ivan Nagel (1931–2012), theater director
- Rolf Nagel (* 1929), actor, former head of the acting department at the University of Music and Theater
- Sandra Nettelbeck (* 1966), film director and screenwriter
- Ruth Niehaus (1925–1994), actress and director
- John Neumeier (* 1939), ballet dancer and choreographer
- Richard Ohnsorg (1876–1947), popular actor, theater founder and artistic director
- Christoph M. Ohrt (* 1960), actor
- Georg Pahl (1893–1957), actor and radio play speaker
- Jörg Pfennigwerth (1945–2008), actor and musician
- Jörg Michael Pilawa (* 1965), TV presenter
- Jürgen Pooch (1943–1998), actor and author
- Trude Possehl (1900–1994), popular actress
- Markus Prinz (* 1976), actor
- Friedhelm Ptok (* 1933), actor
- Karl Pündter (1883–1975), German actor, director, radio play speaker and, after 1945, head of the school radio department at NWDR in Hamburg
- Sandra Quadflieg (* 1979), actress
- Will Quadflieg (1914–2003), stage actor
- Kurt Raeck (1903–1981), theater director, actor, theater director, film director and dramaturge
- Erna Raupach-Petersen (1904–1997), popular actress
- Ernie Reinhardt (* 1955), alias Lilo Wanders , actor and travesty artist
- Kurt Reiss (1903–1960), director and author
- Utz Richter (1927–2015), actor
- Lisa Riecken (* 1949), actress
- Werner Riepel (1922–2012), popular actor
- Claudia Rieschel (* 1950), actress
- Christian Rode (1936–2018), actor and voice actor
- Lola Rogge (1908–1990), dancer, choreographer and teacher
- Paul Edwin Roth (1918–1985), actor
- Niels-Peter Rudolph (* 1940), director and theater manager
- Sig Ruman (1884–1967), stage and film actor and director
- Kay Sabban (1952–1992), actor
- Jens Scheiblich (1942–2010), actor
- Hans Scheibner (* 1936), satirist, songwriter and cabaret artist
- Walter Scherau (1903–1962), popular actor
- Stephan Schiffers (* 1975), film director and screenwriter
- Matthias Schloo (* 1977), actor
- Burkhard Schmeer (* 1964), actor
- Annemarie Schradiek (1907–1993), actress
- Erica Schramm (1919–2012), actress
- Arthur Schröder (1892–1986), stage and film actor
- Fritz Schröder-Jahn (1908–1980), actor and director
- Karin Schubert (* 1944), actress
- Michael Schumacher (* 1982), actor
- Jannik Schümann (* 1992), actor , musical actor and voice actor
- Anja Schüte (* 1964), actress
- Friedrich Schütter (1921–1995), actor, radio play and voice actor, theater director
- Ilse Seemann (* 1934), actress, radio play speaker, radio presenter and author
- Hilde Sicks (1920–2007), popular actress
- Bastian Sierich (* 1976), actor
- Hartwig Sievers (1902–1970), actor and radio play speaker
- Inge Sievers (1941–2018), actress and author
- Douglas Sirk (1897–1987), film director
- Susan Sideropoulos (* 1980), actress and singer
- Marco Soumikh (* 1985), actor and musician
- Carsten Spengemann (* 1972), actor and television presenter
- Manfred Steffen (1916–2009), actor, news and radio drama speaker
- Ruth Stephan (1925–1975), film and stage actress
- Jessica Stockmann (* 1967), actress
- Wolfgang Stumpf (1909–1983), actor
- Luisa Taraz (* 1978), actress
- Nathalie Thiede (* 1987), actress
- Freya Trampert (* 1968), actress
- Gyula Trebitsch (1914–2005), film producer
- Hans Tügel (1894–1984), actor, radio play speaker, director and author
- Ulrich Tukur (* 1957), actor and musician
- Kostja Ullmann (* 1984), actor
- Kira-Theresa Underberg (* 1985), actress and voice actress
- Henry Vahl (1897–1977), actor
- Henning Venske (* 1939), actor, cabaret artist, presenter, director and writer
- Harald Vock (1925–1998), director, screenwriter, radio play author, producer and journalist
- Margret Völker (* 1966), film and theater actress
- Jürgen Vogel (* 1968), actor
- Jana Voosen (* 1976), actress
- Otto Waalkes (* 1948), comedian, cartoonist, singer, actor
- SO Wagner (1902–1975), actor, author, radio play speaker, radio play and theater director
- Viola Wahlen (1917–2018), actress and voice actress
- Thando Walbaum (* 1985), actor and musician
- Dieter Wedel (* 1942), director
- Christa Wehling (1928–1996), popular actress
- Jacob Weigert (born 1981 in Berlin, grew up in Hamburg), film / television and theater actor, dubbing and audio book / speaker
- Erich Weiher (1893–1972), actor and radio play speaker
- Wim Wenders (* 1945), director, photographer and university professor
- Gisela Wessel (* 1926), popular actress
- Kai Wessel (* 1961), director
- Pit Weyrich (* 1948), television presenter and director
- Armin Wick (1914–2008), actor
- Erwin Wirschaz (1923–2011), actor
- Nele Woydt (* 1971), actress and singer
- Hans Zander (1937–1991), actor and theater director
- Erich Ziegel (1876–1950), general manager, director a. actor
writer
- Wilhelm Ernst Asbeck (1881–1947), writer
- Rosa Maria Assing (1783–1840), writer, silhouette artist, founder of a literary salon
- Ottilie Assing (1819–1884), publicist, translator, champion of abolitionism
- Ludmilla Assing (1821–1880), writer and biographer
- Jacob Audorf (1835–1898), poet, editor and activist of the labor movement
- Elise Averdieck (1808–1907), writer
- Heinrich Behnken (1880–1960), author primarily in Low German
- Sophie Beier (1870–1917), writer
- Kristine Bilkau (* 1974), journalist and writer
- Kirsten Boie (* 1950), children's book author
- Wolfgang Borchert (1921–1947), poet
- Hinrich Borkenstein (1705–1777), comedy poet
- Bettina Braun (* 1969), author and director
- Willi Bredel (1901–1964), working-class writer, newspaper editor
- Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680–1747), poet
- Minna Burgarth (1877–1965), writer
- Matthias Claudius (1740–1815), poet, journalist
- Claudius Crönert (* 1961), journalist and author
- Wolf-Ulrich Cropp (* 1941), writer
- Felix Dahn (1834–1912), writer, legal scholar
- Bernhard Christoph d'Arien (1754–1793), playwright and librettist
- Ida Dehmel (1870–1942), writer, women's rights activist
- Richard Dehmel (1863–1920), writer
- Heinrich Deiters (1882–1971), freelance writer and journalist
- Liane Dirks (* 1955), writer, presenter and journalist
- Heike Doutiné (* 1945), author (novels, poems)
- Elisabeth Dreisbach (1904–1996), writer, educator, missionary
- Leberecht Dreves (1816–1870), poet, translator, church historian and lawyer
- Karen Duve (* 1961), writer
- Willi Eggers (1911–1979), author and poet of Low German
- Christoph Ernst (* 1958), writer and artist
- Otto Ernst (1862–1926), writer and playwright
- Barthold Feind (1678–1721), writer
- Hubert Fichte (1935–1986), writer
- Christine Finke (* 1966), English scholar, journalist, blogger and children's book author
- Katarina Fischer (* 1982), writer
- Susanne Fischer (* 1960), writer, journalist and editor
- Ilse Frapan (1849–1908), children's author, writer, women's rights activist
- Christian Geissler (1928–2008), writer
- Fredrika Gers (1959–2019), author and copywriter
- Ralph Giordano (1923–2014), journalist, writer and director
- Susette Gontard (1769–1802, née Borkenstein), the Diotima in the works of Friedrich Hölderlin
- Arie Goral-Sternheim (1909–1996), painter, art educator, writer and chronicler of Jewish life on the Grindel
- Georg Greflinger (1618–1677), poet
- Johann Diederich Gries (1775–1842), poet and translator
- Matthias TJ Grimme (* 1953), non-fiction author and publisher
- Kübra Gümüşay (* 1988), journalist, blogger and author
- Angelika Gundlach (1950–2019), translator
- Jan Haarmeyer (* 1957), journalist
- Friedrich von Hagedorn (1708–1754), poet
- Ulla Hahn (* 1945), writer
- Cornelius Hartz (* 1973), writer and translator
- Irmgard Heilmann (1919–1993), publisher and writer
- Sylvia Heinlein (* 1962), children's book author and journalist
- Finn-Ole Heinrich (* 1982), author of books for children and young people
- Rolf Hennig (1928–2016), non-fiction author
- Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916–1991), German-Jewish writer and painter
- Marianne Holberg (* 1939), translator
- Hans Henning Holm (1908–1977), writer, playwright and radio play writer
- Andreas Hopf (1940–2000), publisher and writer
- Heino Jaeger (1938–1997), poet, cabaret artist, painter
- Hans Henny Jahnn (1894–1959), poet
- Micaela Jary (* 1956), writer
- Otmar Jenner (* 1958), journalist, writer, healer
- Walter Jens (1923–2013), literary scholar, critic, writer
- Florentine Joop (* 1973), children's book illustrator, painter and author
- Ludwig Jürgens (1893–1966), writer
- Hermann Kant (1926–2016), writer, member of the Central Committee of the SED
- Ute Keil (* 1946), children's book author
- Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803), poet
- Margareta Klopstock (1728–1758), writer
- Karen Köhler (* 1974), writer
- Brigitte Kronauer (1940–2019), poet, essayist
- Gabriel Laub (1928–1998), journalist, satirist and aphorist
- Hans Leip (1893–1983), poet and writer
- Siegfried Lenz (1926–2014), writer
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), poet of the Enlightenment
- Hulda von Levetzow (1863-1947), author
- Detlev von Liliencron (1844–1909), poet, prose and playwright
- Sylvia List (* 1941), translator
- Heinrich August Theodor Ludolphi (1811–1848), writer
- Erwin Magnus (1881–1947), writer and translator
- Albert Mähl (1893–1970), writer and journalist
- Hans-Jürgen Massaquoi (1926–2013), journalist, writer
- Svende Merian (* 1955), writer
- Maralde Meyer-Minnemann (* 1943), translator
- Dagmar Missfeldt (* 1964), translator
- Paul Möhring (1890–1976), editor, playwright and theater historian
- Vilma Mönckeberg-Kollmar (1892–1985), reciter, literary scholar
- Wolf Moser (* 1937), musician and writer
- Johann Gottwerth Müller (1743–1828), writer and educator
- Bruno Nelissen-Haken (1901–1975), writer
- Natias Neutert (1947), essayist, poet, translator, publisher
- Hans Erich Nossack (1901–1977), writer
- Dietrich Oldenburg (* 1933), writer, 1975–1986 director of the Hamburg employment office
- Carl von Ossietzky (1889–1938), journalist (Nobel Peace Prize 1935)
- Werner Peterich (* 1929), translator
- Christian Heinrich Postel (1658–1705), writer
- Francois Maher Presley (* 1961), German-Syrian author, essayist, photographer, exhibition organizer, art critic and philanthropist
- Hermann Quistorf (1884–1969), writer, translator and teacher
- Fritz Raab (1925–2010), writer and radio editor
- Birgit Rabisch (* 1953), writer
- Hennie Raché (1876–1906), writer
- Fritz J. Raddatz (1931–2015), journalist and writer
- Elise Reimarus (1735–1805), writer
- Uwe Reimer (1948–2004), author
- Kurt Reiss (1903–1960), author and director
- Werner Riegel (1925–1956), writer, essayist
- Helmut Ries (1920–2009), doctor, author and co-founder of the Glücksburg Historical Society
- Erwin Rosen (1876–1923), writer and journalist
- Harry Rowohlt (1945–2015), writer, columnist, translator, reciter and actor
- Paul Rosenhayn (1877–1929), writer
- Peter Rühmkorf (1929–2008), poet, writer and essayist
- Anna Rüling (1880–1953), author and journalist
- Emil Sandt (1864–1938), customs officer and writer
- Ingo Sax (1940–2019), author of plays, fairy tale plays and radio plays
- Heinrich Schacht (1817–1863), writer and worker poet
- Kurt Scheel (1948–2018), cultural journalist
- Daniel Schiebeler (1741–1771), writer
- Tania Schlie (* 1961), writer and editor
- Arno Schmidt (1914–1979), writer
- Amalie Schoppe (1791–1858), writer
- Herbert Schuldt (* 1941), poet, translator and artist
- Frank Schulz (* 1957), writer
- Paul Schurek (1890–1962), writer, playwright and radio play writer
- Leona Siebenschön (1933–2001), journalist and writer
- Fritz Stavenhagen (1876–1906), Low German poet, playwright and writer
- Margret Steenfatt (* 1935), writer of youth literature
- Lola Stein (1885–1959), writer
- Heinz Strunk (* 1962), entertainer, author and politician
- Hans Tügel (1894–1984), actor, radio play speaker, director and author
- Ludwig Tügel (1889–1972), writer
- Tina Uebel (* 1969), writer
- Elke Vesper (* 1949), writer
- Klaus Voswinckel (* 1943), writer and filmmaker
- SO Wagner (1902–1975), actor, author, radio play speaker, radio play and theater director
- Johannes Wedde (1843–1890), poet, member of the SDAP during the time of the Socialist Law
- Michael Weins (* 1971), writer
- Engel Christine Westphalen (1758–1840), writer
- Rudolf Wittkopf (1933–1997), writer and translator
- Adolf Woderich (1906–1963), writer, playwright and dialect poet
- Hinrich Wriede (1882–1958), writer
- Heinz Zache (* 1916), writer
- Philipp von Zesen (1619–1689), poet
religion
- Johannes Aepinus (1499–1553), theologian and ecclesiastical reformer
- Julius Gustav Alberti (1723–1772), Evangelical Lutheran theologian and enlightener
- Eberhard Anckelmann (1641–1703), Protestant theologian, linguist and orientalist
- Ansgar (801–865), missionary, bishop
- Ludwig Averkamp (1927–2013), Catholic theologian, former Archbishop of Hamburg and Osnabrück
- Klaus Baltzer (1928–2017), Protestant theologian and university professor
- Jürgen Becker (* 1934), Protestant theologian and university professor
- Hans-Jürgen Benedict (* 1941), Lutheran theologian, peace researcher, author and university professor
- Johannes Beutler (* 1933), Roman Catholic theologian
- Heinz-Georg Binder (1929–2009), Protestant theologian and military bishop
- Margarete Braun (1893–1966), theologian
- Walter Bülck (1891–1952), theologian and university member, including professor of religious history at the University of Hamburg
- Julius Carlebach (1922–2001), German-British rabbi and university professor
- Joseph Carlebach (1883–1942), chief rabbi in Hamburg, victim of the Holocaust
- David Clodius (1644–1684), Orientalist and Protestant theologian
- Sigurd Martin Daecke (* 1932), Protestant theologian
- Brandanus Daetrius (1607–1688), Lutheran theologian, superintendent, court preacher in Braunschweig, abbot in Riddagshausen
- Paul von Eitzen (1521–1598), theologian and church political reformer
- Helmut Echternach (1907–1988), pastor, Protestant theologian (dogmatist) and bishop
- Johann Frisch (1636–1692), pastor, writer and publicist
- Christine Gerber (* 1963), Protestant theologian and professor
- Johann Melchior Goeze (1717–1786), Protestant theologian
- Heinrich Grassmüller (1632–1683), Lutheran clergyman, archdeacon to St. Michaelis
- Friedrich Hammer (1908–1997), theologian, publicist and local researcher
- Erich Hessing (1906–1996), Protestant clergyman and book author
- Hans-Jochen Jaschke (* 1941), Roman Catholic theologian and auxiliary bishop
- Maria Jepsen (* 1945), Hamburg bishop, Germany's first Protestant bishop
- Johann John (1797–1865), theologian and clergyman
- Bernhard Klefeker (1760–1825), senior pastor, Lutheran theologian
- Gottfried Wilhelm Lehmann (1799–1882), co-founder of the German Baptist congregations
- Eduard Lohse (1924–2015), New Testament scholar and former regional bishop of Hanover
- Carl Malsch (1916–2001), Protestant pastor
- Bernhard Walther Marperger (1682–1746), Lutheran theologian
- Paul de Mathies (1868–1924), son of a major shipping company, ennobled, Catholic priest and writer
- Friedrich Johann Lorenz Meyer (1760–1844), president of the cathedral chapter and last canon at Hamburg's Mariendom
- Heinrich Moller (1530–1589), Protestant theologian
- Carl Mönckeberg (1807–1886), Lutheran theologian
- Johann Gerhard Oncken (1800–1884), founder of the first German Baptist congregation, nucleus of most of the continental European Baptist churches
- Silke Petersen (* 1965), Protestant theologian and adjunct professor
- Reinhard Scheerer (* 1953), Protestant theologian, publicist and alternative practitioner for psychotherapy
- Monika Scheidler (* 1962), Roman Catholic theologian
- Peter Schmidt-Eppendorf (* 1931), Roman Catholic theologian and canon lawyer
- Tobias Heinrich Schubart (1699–1747), theologian and spiritual poet
- Nicolaus Staphorst (1679–1731), church historian; wrote a multi-volume Hamburg church history based on documents that have been partially lost today
- Johann Otto Thiess (1762–1810), Lutheran theologian
- Werner Thissen (* 1938), Roman Catholic theologian, Archbishop of Hamburg
- Raban Tilmann (1940–2017), Roman Catholic clergyman, former Vicar General of Limburg
- Johann Hinrich Wichern (1808–1881), Protestant theologian, founded the Inner Mission
- Ulrich Wilckens (* 1928), New Testament scholar and former regional bishop of Lübeck
- Otto Wolters (1796–1874), theologian and senior pastor of the Katharinenkirche
- Peter Zorn (1682–1746), Lutheran theologian, historian, Graecist and Hebrew
Welfare
- August Abendroth (1796–1867), lawyer, businessman and philanthropist
- Albertine Assor (1863–1953), deaconess and founder of the Albertinen Hospital in Hamburg-Schnelsen, which was later named after her
- Auguste Jauch (1822–1902), Hamburg philanthropist
- Charlotte Paulsen (1797–1862), social reformer and women's rights activist
- Katrin Rohde (* 1948), founder of orphanages in Burkina Faso
- Arnold Schuback (1762–1826), private scholar and patron
- Heinrich Matthias Sengelmann (1821–1899), theologian, founder of the Alsterdorfer Anstalten
- Amalie Sieveking (1794–1859), philanthropist, co-founder of organized diaconia in Germany
- Birte Toepfer (1945–2010), patron and chairwoman of the foundation board
- Jakob von Uexküll (* 1944), founder of the World Future Council based in Hamburg and founder of the Right Livelihood Award
- Emilie Wüstenfeld (1817–1874), women's rights activist, founder of the vocational school for girls
seafaring
- Erich Bey (1898–1943), Rear Admiral
- Hans Hofmann (* 1933), Vice Admiral
- Klaus Hympendahl (1939–2016), circumnavigator
- Berend Jacob Karpfanger (1622–1683), Hamburg admiral
- Arnold Kludas (* 1929), shipping historian, librarian and non-fiction author
- Ditmar Koel (1500–1563), captain, later mayor of Hamburg
- Harry Mündel (1876–1946), Rear Admiral
- Johann Theodor Reinke (1749–1825), sewer construction director
- Hellmuth von Ruckteschell (1890–1948), naval officer
- Felix Scheffler (1915–1986), rear admiral
- Klaus Störtebeker (around 1370–1401), pirate, beheaded on Grasbrook
- Simon of Utrecht († 1437), ship's captain
military
- Franz Maximilian Freiherr Jahnus von Eberstädt (1711–1772), Austrian field marshal lieutenant and from 1763 city commander of Hamburg
- Adolf von Bülow (1850–1897), Prussian general
- Harry William Hugh Armytage (1890–1967), British city commander from 1945 to 1946
- Alfred Martin (1915-after 1969), officer , most recently Colonel i. G. the Bundeswehr and informant in the Spiegel affair
- Horst Krüger (1916–1989), major general in the Bundeswehr
- Otto Kumm (1909–2004), SS brigade leader and major general of the Waffen SS
- Herbert Trebesch (1915–2007), Vice Admiral of the German Navy, Military Representative in the NATO Military Committee
media
- Nadja Abd el Farrag (* 1965), TV presenter
- Lily Abegg (1901–1974), Swiss journalist and author
- Rudolf Augstein (1923–2002), journalist, editor of the news magazine Der Spiegel
- Franziska Augstein (* 1964), journalist
- Stefan Aust (* 1946), journalist, editor-in-chief of the news magazine Der Spiegel (since 1994)
- Kristiane Backer (* 1965), television journalist
- Heinz Bauer (* 1939), publisher
- Reinhold Beckmann (* 1956), TV presenter, lives in Hamburg
- Dagmar Berghoff (* 1943), chief spokeswoman for the Tagesschau , presenter
- Karl-Heinz Betz (* 1946), biologist, journalist, editor-in-chief
- Nils Bomhoff (* 1980), television presenter
- Nina Bovensiepen (* 1972), journalist
- Jo Brauner (* 1937), chief spokesman for the Tagesschau
- Gerd Bucerius (1906–1995), publisher ( Die Zeit ), CDU politician
- Werner Burkhardt (1928–2008), theater and music critic
- Vera Cordes (* 1961), journalist and television presenter (visit)
- Marion Countess Dönhoff (1909–2002), journalist for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit (1946–2002)
- Laura Dünnwald (* 1974), spokeswoman for the Tagesschau
- Axel Eggebrecht (1899–1991), radio journalist, writer
- Kurt Emmerich (1930–2006), sports reporter
- Lovelyn Enebechi (* 1996), winner of the 8th season of Germany's Next Topmodel
- Karl Fleischer (1915–2002), news anchor for Tagesschau and NDR
- Jan Fleischhauer (* 1962), journalist and author
- Hanns Joachim Friedrichs (1927–1995), television presenter
- Singa Gätgens (* 1975), presenter and actress
- Oliver Geissen (* 1969), television presenter
- Heidrun von Goessel (* 1945), TV announcer
- Henry Goverts (1892–1988), publisher
- Pamela Großer (* 1977), TV presenter and actress
- Nikolaus Hansen (* 1951), publisher
- Dieter Thomas Heck (1937–2018), presenter, actor, singer; grew up in Hamburg
- Ulrike Herrmann (* 1964), journalist and author
- Jürgen Heuer (1961–2018), television journalist for NDR
- Jan Hofer (* 1952), chief spokesman for the Tagesschau, journalist, presenter
- Claus Jacobi (1927-2013), journalist
- Alexander Jahr (1940–2006), publisher
- Angelika Jahr-Stilcken (* 1941), journalist, editor-in-chief, editor and publisher
- John Jahr senior (1900–1991), publisher
- John Jahr junior (1933-2006), publisher
- Karl-Heinz Köpcke (1922–1991), spokesman for the Tagesschau from 1959 to 1987
- Johannes B. Kerner (* 1964), TV presenter, lives in Hamburg
- Claus Kühn (1924–2016), journalist
- Bernd Kundrun (* 1957), publishing manager
- Dimitri Ladischensky (* 1972), journalist and author
- Monica Lierhaus (* 1970), television presenter
- Ivar Lissner (1909–1967), editor-in-chief of Illustrierte Kristall , writer
- Tim Mälzer (* 1971), cook and television presenter
- Patrick Mayer (* 1988), web video producer (known as "Paluten")
- Otto Meissner (1819–1902), publisher and bookseller
- John Ment (* 1963), radio presenter
- Ernst Naumann (1921–2004), publisher
- Frank Otto (* 1957), media entrepreneur ( Hamburg 1 , Hamburger Morgenpost )
- Jörg Pilawa (* 1965), television presenter
- Verona Pooth (* 1968), entertainer, entrepreneur
- Karl Pündter (1883–1975), German actor, director, radio play speaker and, after 1945, head of the school radio department at NWDR in Hamburg
- Judith Rakers (* 1976), spokeswoman for the Tagesschau, presenter for the NDR
- Eduard Rhein (1900–1993), founding editor of the Hörzu , writer, inventor
- Jürgen Roland (1925–2007), feature film and television director and television pioneer
- Gerd Ruge (* 1928), journalist
- Klaus-Peter Siegloch (* 1946), news anchor for NDR and ZDF
- Sven Simon (1941–1980), alias Axel Springer junior, journalist and photographer
- Elef Sossidi (1913–1992), radio journalist
- Rut Speer (1936–2019), journalist and television presenter
- Gerd Spiekermann (* 1952), radio presenter, journalist, editor, author, Low German comedy
- Axel Springer (1912–1985), publisher
- Peter Tamm (1928–2016), journalist and manager, museum founder
- Bettina Tietjen (* 1960), TV presenter
- Christian Ulmen (* 1975), presenter, entertainer, satirist as well as producer, actor, publicist, director and media entrepreneur
- Collien Ulmen-Fernandes (* 1981), TV presenter and model
- Hanni Vanhaiden (* 1942), NDR TV announcer
- Werner Veigel (1928–1995), spokesman for the Tagesschau
- Victoria Voncampe (* 1941), television presenter
- Wilhelm Wieben (1935–2019), spokesman for Tagesschau, presenter for NDR, actor
- Johannes Wimmer (* 1983), doctor and television presenter
- Tarek Youzbachi (* 1971), spokesman for the Tagesschau
- Alfred Zahn (1903–1972), journalist, university professor and politician
- Peter von Zahn (1913–2001), radio journalist
- Linda Zervakis (* 1975), German-Greek presenter, news anchor and journalist
Sports
basketball
- Patrick Femerling (* 1975)
- Katharina Kühn (* 1980)
- Jan Lipke (* 1983)
Boxing
- Dieter Kottysch (1943–2017), amateur boxer and 1972 Olympic champion
- Max Schmeling (1905-2005)
- Kalle Schwensen (* 1953), boxer and Hamburg neighborhood great
- Hein ten Hoff (1919-2003)
Soccer
- Edmund Adamkiewicz (1920–1991)
- Otto Addo (* 1975), German-Ghanaian soccer player
- Holger Aden (* 1965)
- Yusuf-Muri Adewunmi (* 1982)
- Kassim Aidara (* 1987), French-Senegalese football player
- Mohamed Aidara (* 1989), French-Senegalese football player
- Erhan Albayrak (* 1977), German-Turkish soccer player
- Stephan Ambrosius (* 1998)
- Marcel Andrijanic (* 1992)
- Bentley Baxter Railway (* 1992)
- Zlatan Bajramović (* 1979), German-Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- Walter Baresel (1913–1998), football official
- Deniz Barış (* 1977), German-Turkish soccer player
- Albert Beier (1900–1972)
- Marinus Bester (* 1969)
- Frank Böse (* 1969), soccer goalkeeper
- Christopher Braun (* 1991)
- Andreas Brehme (* 1960), soccer world champion 1990
- Svend Brodersen (* 1997)
- Daniel Brückner (* 1981)
- Florian Brügmann (* 1991)
- Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting (* 1989), German-Cameroonian football player
- Christian Conteh (* 1999)
- Sirlord Conteh (* 1996)
- Dennis Daube (* 1989)
- Jonas David (* 2000)
- Jürgen Degen (* 1967)
- Horst Dehn (1937-2005)
- Yannick Deichmann (* 1994)
- Ermedin Demirović (* 1998)
- Bernd Dörfel (* 1944)
- Gert Dörfel (* 1939)
- Serdar Dursun (* 1991), German-Turkish soccer player
- Jens Duve (* 1962)
- Davidson Eden (* 1988), German-Ghanaian soccer player
- Stefan Effenberg (* 1968), soccer player and coach
- Marc Fascher (* 1968), football coach
- Petar Filipovic (* 1990), German-Croatian soccer player
- André Golke (* 1964)
- Ashton Götz (* 1993)
- Fabian Graudenz (* 1992)
- Jürgen Gronau (* 1962)
- Karim Guédé (* 1985), German-Togolese-Slovak soccer player
- Kevin Hansen (* 1979)
- Martin Harnik (* 1987), German-Austrian soccer player
- Levon Hayrapetyan (* 1989), German-Armenian soccer player
- Holger Hieronymus (* 1959), football player and official
- Kevin Ingreso (* 1993), German-Filipino soccer player
- Patrick Ittrich (* 1979), DFB referee
- Adolf Jäger (1889–1944)
- Walter Junghans (* 1958)
- Jan-Philipp Kalla (* 1986)
- Manfred Kaltz (* 1953)
- Jeremy Karikari (* 1987)
- George Kelbel (* 1992)
- Ivan Klasnić (* 1980), German-Croatian football player
- Michael Koch (* 1969)
- Umut Koçin (* 1988), German-Turkish soccer player
- Derrick Köhn (* 1999)
- Brian Koglin (born 1997)
- Kreso Kovacec (* 1969)
- Marijan Kovačević (* 1973), German-Croatian football player
- Benjamin Kruse (* 1978)
- Okan Kurt (* 1995), German-Turkish soccer player
- Kusi Kwame (* 1989), German-Ghanaian soccer player
- Alexander Laas (* 1984)
- Zhi Gin Lam (* 1991)
- Alexander Laukart (* 1998)
- Steven Lewerenz (* 1991)
- Maurice Litka (* 1996)
- Angelina Lübcke (* 1991)
- Marcus Marin (* 1966)
- Manija Mir (* 1997)
- Florian Mohr (* 1984)
- Philipp Müller (* 1995)
- Tibor Nadj (* 1973)
- Klaus Neisner (* 1936)
- Frank Neubarth (* 1962)
- Fabian Nürnberger (* 1999)
- Evans Nyarko (* 1992), German-Ghanaian soccer player
- Reagy Ofosu (* 1991)
- Aaron Opoku (* 1999)
- Elard Ostermann (* 1968), soccer player and coach
- Patrick Owomoyela (* 1979)
- Levin Öztunali (* 1996)
- Patric Pfeiffer (* 1999)
- Nils Pichinot (* 1989)
- Benedikt Pliquett (* 1984), soccer goalkeeper
- Gerrit Pressel (* 1990)
- Willi Reimann (* 1949), soccer player and coach
- Christian Rahn (* 1979)
- Frank Ronstadt (* 1997)
- Dennis Rosin (* 1996)
- Mariam Ruhin (* 1993)
- Shebnam Ruhin (* 1991)
- Jens Scharping (* 1974)
- Kingsley Schindler (* 1993)
- Lasse Schlueter (* 1992)
- Antonia Schmale (* 1980)
- Frank Schmöller (* 1966)
- Volker Schmidt (* 1978)
- Jan-Marc Schneider (* 1994)
- Jörn Schwinkendorf (* 1971)
- Dieter Seeler (1931–1979)
- Erwin Seeler (1910–1997)
- Uwe Seeler (* 1936)
- Eren Şen (* 1984)
- Feiz Shamsin (* 1992), German-Lebanese soccer player
- Amir Shapourzadeh (* 1982), German-Iranian soccer player
- Stefan Siedschlag (* 1977)
- Ömer Şişmanoğlu (* 1989), German-Turkish soccer player
- Lennard Sowah (* 1992)
- Holger Stanislawski (* 1969), soccer player and coach
- Ulrich Stein (* 1954), soccer goalkeeper
- Matti Steinmann (* 1995)
- Marco Stier (* 1984)
- Jonathan Tah (* 1996)
- Tunay Torun (* 1990), German-Turkish soccer player
- Piotr Trochowski (* 1984), football player of Polish origin
- André Trulsen (* 1965), soccer player and coach
- Josha Vagnoman (* 2000)
- Tanja Vreden (* 1977)
- Stephan Vujcic (* 1986)
- Carsten Wehlmann (* 1972), soccer goalkeeper
- Denis-Danso Weidlich (* 1986), German-Ghanaian soccer player
- Kevin Weidlich (* 1989)
- Heinz Weisener (1928–2005), architect and football official
- Thomas Wolter (* 1963)
- Kwasi Okyere Wriedt (* 1994), German-Ghanaian soccer player
- John Yeboah (* 2000)
- Mahmut Yilmaz (* 1979), German-Turkish soccer player
- Dirk Zander (* 1965)
Handball
- Fritz Bahrdt (* 1939)
- Tim-Oliver Brauer (* 1992)
- Friederike Gubernatis (* 1988)
- Kevin Herbst (* 1994)
- Dennis Klockmann (* 1982), handball goalkeeper
- Otto Maychrzak (1927-2002)
- Stefanie Melbeck (* 1977)
- Christian Scheffler (* 1972)
- Jan Schult (* 1986)
- Hans Theilig (1914–1976)
- Werner Vick (1920–2000), handball player and coach
- Adrian Wagner (* 1978), handball player and coach
- Kai Wandschneider (* 1959), handball player and trainer
hockey
- Sebastian Biederlack (* 1981), field hockey player and world champion, 2008 Olympic champion
- Christian "Büdi" Blunck (* 1968), national hockey player, Olympic champion in 1992
- Florian Fuchs (* 1991), field hockey player, Olympic champion 2012
- Moritz Fürste (* 1984), field hockey player, 2006 world champion, 2008 Olympic champion, 2012
- Oskar Deecke (* 1986), field hockey player, Olympic champion 2012
- Tobias Hauke (* 1987), field hockey player, Olympic champion 2008, 2012
- Julia Müller (* 1985), field hockey player
- Janne Müller-Wieland (* 1986), field hockey player
- Kristina Reynolds (* 1984), hockey player
- Philip Witte (* 1984), field hockey player, 2008 Olympic champion
athletics
- Marion Becker (* 1950), javelin thrower, silver medal 1976 in Montreal
- Manfred Bock (1941-2010), decathlete
- Inge Bödding (* 1947), 400 m runner
- Willi Boltze (1904–1937), German medium and long distance runner
- Rolf Danneberg (* 1953), discus thrower, Olympic champion
- Stefan Drews (* 1979), decathlete
- Antje Gleichfeld (* 1938), 400 and 800 m runner, Olympic participant
- Karl Hein (1908–1982), hammer thrower and Olympic champion
- Anni Holdmann (1900–1960), sprinter and Olympic medalist
- Bianca Kappler (* 1977), long jumper
- Richard Krebs (1906–1996), 400 m runner
- Jürgen Kühl (* 1934), 400 m runner
- Hans Liesche (1891–1979), high jumper and Olympic medalist
- Paula Mollenhauer (1908–1988), discus thrower
- Carolin Nytra (* 1985), hurdler
- Hans Scheele (1908–1941), 400 m and 400 m hurdler
- Egon Schein (1912–1977), 100, 200 and 400 m runner and Olympic participant
- Jana Sussmann (* 1990), German champion over 3000 meters obstacle
- Eva-Maria Westphal (1918–1996), first German female record holder in the 100 km run
Motorsport
- Manfred von Brauchitsch (1905–2003), racing car driver
- Roald Goethe (* 1960), entrepreneur and racing car driver
- Ilse Thouret (1897–1969), motorcycle and automobile racing driver, athlete and sports journalist
- Marcel Tiemann (* 1974), racing car driver
poker
- Ismael Bojang (* 1988)
- Niklas Heinecker (* 1984)
- Jan-Peter Jachtmann (* 1968)
- Sebastian Ruthenberg (* 1984)
Equestrian sport
- Hein Bollow (1920-2020), jockey
- Andreas Dibowski (* 1966), eventing rider
- Claus Erhorn (* 1959), eventing rider
- Johannes Frömming (1910–1996), trotting athlete
- Nicola Ströh (* 1980), vaulting expert, world champion
rowing
- Max Ammermann (1878– ??), helmsman
- Maren Derlien (* 1975), oar oars
- Alexander Gleichmann von Oven (1879–1969), helmsman
- Ernst Jencquel (1879–1939)
- Torben Johannesen (* 1994), Riemenruderer ( Germany eighth )
- Peter-Michael Kolbe (* 1953), Sportsman of the Year 1975
- Horst Meyer (1941–2020), 1968 Olympic champion with the eighth
- Iris Völkner (* 1960)
- Arthur Warncke (1880-19 ??)
chess
- Jan Gustafsson (* 1979), chess grandmaster
- Paul Heuäcker (1899–1969), chess study composer
- Niclas Huschenbeth (* 1992)
- Karsten Müller (* 1970), chess grandmaster
- Heinrich Wagner (1888–1959)
Swimming and diving
- Günther Haase (* 1925), water diver, 1952 Olympic bronze medal in high diving
- Stefan Pfeiffer (* 1965), swimmer
- Sandra Völker (* 1974), swimmer, Olympic champion, European champion, world champion
- Albert Zürner (1890–1920), water diver and Olympic champion
sailing
- Edgar Behr (1910–1985)
- Fritz Kopperschmidt (1939–2011)
- Werner Krogmann (1901–1954)
- Florian Spalteholz (* 1977)
tennis
- Andy Fahlke (* 1979)
- Tommy Haas (* 1978)
- Hugo Hardy (1877-1936)
- Jörn Renzenbrink (* 1972)
- Friedrich Adolf Traun (1876–1908)
- Alexander Zverev (* 1997)
- Mischa Zverev (* 1987)
Table tennis
- Heinz Benthien (1917–1981)
- Paul Benthien (1914–1982), table tennis player and president of Hamburger SV
Volleyball and beach volleyball
- Margareta Kozuch (* 1986), volleyball player
- Anika Krebs (* 1993), volleyball and beach volleyball player
- Frank Mackerodt (* 1963), volleyball and beach volleyball player
Others
- Berend Breitenstein (* 1964), bodybuilder
- Lucas Carstensen (* 1994), cyclist
- Kasim Edebali (born 1989), American football player
- Heinz Huth (1908–1996), glider pilot and world champion
- Andreas Jenike (* 1988), ice hockey goalkeeper
- Peter Krohn (* 1932), former President of Hamburger SV
- Karin Krüger (* 1958), judoka, vice world champion, European champion
- Rafael Nickel (* 1958), fencer and Olympic champion
- André Pollehn (* 1969), speedway and long-track racing driver
- Hermann Rieger (1941–2014), physiotherapist
- Kerstin Ubben (* 1968), badminton player
- Dorothee Vieth (* 1960), handbiker
- Arthur Vollstedt (1892–1969), speed skater
crime
- Susanne Albrecht (* 1951), terrorist in the Red Army faction
- Mohammed Atta (1968–2001), terrorist and member of the Hamburg terror cell , lived in Hamburg for 4 years
- Friedrich Engel (1909–2006), SS member
- Otto "Tull" Harder (1892–1956), soccer player, concentration camp guard
- Fritz Honka (1935–1998), prostitute murderer
- Ronald "Blacky" Miehling (* 1950), cocaine dealer
- Robert Mulka (1895–1969), deputy commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp
- Julius Adolf Petersen (1882–1933), criminal "Lord von Barmbeck"
- Werner "Mucki" Pinzner (1947–1986), murderer
- Bruno Linienbach (1902–1977), Gestapo chief in Hamburg
Others
- Aale-Dieter (* 1939), fishmonger
- Fips Asmussen (1938–2020), comedian and solo entertainer
- Johann Wilhelm Bentz (1787–1854), famous water carrier, to whom the exclamation “Hummel, Hummel - Mors, Mors!” Goes back
- Johann Martin Dase (1824–1861), quick calculator and arithmetic artist
- Caro Daur (* 1995), blogger
- Heinrich Leopold Grein (1882–1952), reform pedagogue
- Reinhard Kopp (1914-2001), NS - intelligence officer and Nazi smugglers
- Henriette Johanne Marie Müller (1841–1916), called Zitronenjette (Hamburg original)
- Karl-Peter Naumann (* 1950), honorary chairman of the Pro Bahn passenger association, federal chairman 1996–2012
- Oskar vom Pferdemarkt (1902–1969), alias Fritz Krüger, Hamburg city original
- Oz (1950–2014), actually Josef Walter Fischer, graffiti sprayer
- Hilde Rosenberg (1928–2019), fortune teller and original at the cathedral, lived and died in Hamburg
- Waltraut Rubien (1927–2017), educator, lived and worked in Hamburg for almost 70 years
- Hannelore "Loki" Schmidt (1919–2010), teacher, honorary professor at the university, wife of Helmut Schmidt
- Arp Schnitger (1648–1719), organ builder
- Erna Stahl (1900–1980), reform pedagogue
- Fritz Valentin (1897–1984), judge ("three-mark judgment")
Other people born in Hamburg
- Sefa Aksoy (* 1989), Turkish football player
- Jochen Amme (1935–2016), author and lawyer
- Käte Alving (1896–1974), theater and film actress
- Manfred von Ardenne (1907–1997), natural scientist
- Gabriele von Arnim (* 1946), journalist and writer
- Elsa Arnold (1903–1986), resistance fighter against National Socialism in the Résistance
- Kurt Asche (1909–1998), SS-Obersturmführer
- Wanda Badwal (* 1985), photo model, musical artist and actress
- Axel Bärendorf (* 1957), Mayor of Reinbek
- Stefan Bauer (* 1969), Mayor of Henstedt-Ulzburg
- Wilma Bayer (1909–1977), politician, member of the Lower Saxony state parliament
- Peter Becker (* 1946), master baker, association official in the bakery trade
- Sabina Began (* 1974), actress, works in Italy
- Erna Behling (1884–1945), resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Almuth von Below-Neufeldt (* 1954), politician
- Ottilie Bercht (1856–1913), writer and singer
- Karl-Heinz Betz (* 1946), biologist and journalist
- Hans-Jürgen Beug (* 1932), botanist
- Johann Elert Bode (1747–1826), astronomer (Titius Bode series)
- Carl-Georg Böhne (* 1937), historian and Germanist
- Nina Bovensiepen (* 1972), journalist
- Georg Freiherr von Brandis (* 1948), General
- Alfred Brandt (1846–1899), engineer and inventor
- Birgit Breuel (* 1937), politician (CDU), state minister in Lower Saxony
- Woldemar Brinkmann (1890–1959), architect
- Emil Bruns (1915–1997), building contractor
- Vanja Budde (* 1967), radio journalist
- Lars Bünning (* 1998), soccer player
- Matthias Buschkühl (1953–1997), librarian
- Hans-Jürgen Butt (* 1961), physicist
- Peter Heinrich Carstens (* 1937), General
- Armin Chodzinski (* 1970), artist
- Netti Christensen (1914–2006) as Netti Davidsohn, resistance fighter against National Socialism and preschool teacher
- Bernhard Cramer (* 1965), geologist
- Wolfram Dahms (* 1938), architect and university professor
- Josef Friedrich August Darbes (1747–1810), portrait painter
- Hieronymus Dathe (1667–1707), Lutheran theologian
- Barbara Dauner-Lieb (* 1955), legal scholar
- Rafael de Sousa Albuquerque (* 1992), Brazilian soccer goalkeeper
- Bernhard Dessau (1861–1923), violinist and composer
- Moritz Diehl (* 1971), engineering scientist and university professor
- Otto Diels (1876–1954), chemist (Nobel Prize 1950)
- Jeremy Dudziak (born 1995), football player
- Anna Duque y González de Durana (* 1976), German-Spanish art historian
- Serra Durugönül (* 1962), Turkish classical archaeologist
- Johann Arnold Ebert (1723–1795), writer and translator
- Jürgen Ehlers (* 1948), geographer and writer
- Lucille Eichengreen (1925-2020), Holocaust survivor and author
- Rolf-Bernhard Essig (* 1963), literary scholar
- Thomas Fettback (* 1959), politician (SPD), 1994–2012 Lord Mayor of Biberach an der Riss in Baden-Württemberg
- Elisabeth Flügge (1895–1983), teacher and Righteous Among the Nations
- James Franck (1882–1964), physicist (Nobel Prize 1925)
- Wilhelm Frankl (1893–1917), German-Jewish fighter pilot in the First World War and knight of the Pour le Mérite order
- Carl Manfred Frommel (1884–1938), student union leader and publicist
- Toni Garrn (* 1992), model
- Gego (1912–1994), artist
- Johannes Gehrts (1855–1921), painter, book illustrator and costume designer
- Hartwig H. Geiger (* 1939), university professor for plant breeding, especially population genetics
- Richard Geith (1900–1945), agricultural scientist
- Johann Heinrich Kaspar Gerdau (1849–1917), German-Brazilian entrepreneur
- Kay Germann (* 1966), handball player and coach
- Edgar Giesenberg (1851-1892), architect
- Michael Göttsche (1934–2013), draftsman, painter and sculptor
- Hermann Grimm (1860–1931), genre painter from the Düsseldorf School
- Jenny Gröllmann (1947–2006), actress
- Bernhard Gutmann (1869–1936), German-American landscape, figure and still life painter as well as illustrator and art teacher
- Karin Hausen (* 1938), historian and women's researcher
- Valentin Heins (1894–1971), lawyer
- Gustav Helrich (* 1878), architect working in Moscow
- Wolfgang Herrndorf (1965–2013), writer, painter and illustrator
- Gustav Hertz (1887–1975), physicist (Nobel Prize 1925)
- Gerd Herzberg (* 1950), lawyer and trade unionist
- Gerhard Herzberg (1904–1999), chemist (Nobel Prize 1971)
- Eva Hesse (1936–1970), artist
- Wilfried Hinsch (* 1956), philosopher and university professor
- Jürgen Hinz (1939–2018), politician (SPD)
- Helmut Hitzigrath (1891–1950), parish priest in Berlin
- Franz Heinrich Höltich (1643–1676), lawyer and syndic (born in Bergedorf, today Hamburg-Bergedorf)
- Paul-Werner Hozzel (1910–1997), General
- Iris Hundertmark (* 1974), pharmacist
- Ilse Ibach (1921–2002), writer
- Vitaly Janelt (* 1998), football player
- Björn Jansen (* 1958), entrepreneur and manager
- Johnny Jebsen (1917–1945), German-British playboy and double agent
- Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen (1907–1973), physicist (Nobel Prize 1963)
- Pelle Jensen (* 1992), football player
- Alfred Jepsen (1900–1979), Lutheran theologian and historian of religion
- Erwin Jollasse (1892–1987), Lieutenant General in World War II
- Natalja Joselewitsch (* 1991), theater and film actress
- Lydia Kahmke (* 1968), German-Australian handball player
- Max-Jonas Karpa (* 1994), volleyball and beach volleyball player
- Hasan Kaya (* 1995), soccer player
- Max Kayser (* 1918), violinist
- Ina Kersten (* 1946), mathematician
- Niels Klein (* 1978), jazz musician
- Josef Klemann (1871–1960), Vicar Apostolic of Greater Namaland
- Niklot Klüßendorf (* 1944), numismatist
- Jobst Knigge (* 1944), journalist and historian
- Felix zu Knyphausen (* 1969), actor and screenwriter
- Mats Köhlert (* 1998), soccer player and actor
- Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Königslöw (1745–1833), organist and composer
- Helmut Koester (1926–2016), German-American theologian and New Testament scholar
- Werner Köster (1896–1989), German chemist and metal researcher
- Hermann Krabbo (1875–1928), historian, archivist and university professor
- Michael Krohn (* 1943), pharmacist general in the Bundeswehr
- Peter Kultzen (* 1962), translator
- Jakob Sebastian Lauremberg (1619–1668), historian and lawyer
- Detlef Lehnert (* 1955), political scientist
- Horst Lerche (1938–2017), painter and sculptor
- Nikolaus Listenius (1510–?), Music theorist
- Peter Leibing (1941–2008), press photographer
- Hans Lorenz-Meyer (1861–1947), civil engineer
- Dirk Luther (* 1970), chef with two stars in the Michelin guide awarded
- Gerhard Mammen (1947–2012), economist, professor and president of the Ansbach University of Applied Sciences
- Walther Manshard (* 1923), geographer
- Jenö Marton (1905–1958), Swiss writer
- Moje Menhardt (* 1934), Austrian painter
- Angela Merkel (* 1954), politician (CDU), Federal Chancellor
- Wilhelm Hildemar Mielck (1840–1896), pharmacist and Low German linguist
- Brigitte Mira (1910–2005), actress, cabaret artist and chanson singer
- Björn Mirow (* 1938), retired general practitioner D. the Bundeswehr
- Fabian Monasterios (* 1977), actor
- Lisel Mueller (1924–2020), German-American poet
- Torsten Müller (* 1957), jazz double bass player
- Lorenz Niebuhr (around 1540 - 1588), lawyer, rector of the University of Rostock
- Lukas Nmecha (* 1998), soccer player
- Felix Nmecha (* 2000), soccer player
- Rolf Nobel (* 1950), photographer
- Karin Nohr (* 1950), writer
- Theodor Nölting (1811–1890), educator and classical philologist
- Martin Ohst (* 1957), Protestant theologian
- Rolf Olderog (* 1937), politician (CDU)
- Sebastian Opderbeck (* 1986), handball player
- Alfons Pannek (1907–1995), Gestapo agent
- John Parish von Senftenberg (1774–1858), businessman and amateur astronomer
- Dana Penno (* 1985), basketball player
- Horst Petermann (* 1944), Swiss chef of German origin
- Roy Petermann (* 1957), cook
- Dirk Pette (* 1933), biochemist
- Werner Potzernheim (1927–2014), cyclist
- Günter Powalla (1919–2019), patron and entrepreneur
- Otto Rahm (1904–1994), painter and sculptor
- Anselm Ramelow (* 1964), Dominican and philosopher
- Bernd Ramm (* 1940), medical physicist and non-fiction author
- Werner Ranck (1904–1989), Lieutenant General in World War II
- Konny Reimann (* 1955), entrepreneur and television personality
- Rik Reinking (* 1976), art collector, art dealer and curator
- Julian Reister (* 1986), tennis player
- Tim Rohrmann (* 1963), psychologist
- Betty Roose (1778–1808), actress
- August Roterberg (1867–1928 or 1939), magician, trick inventor, author
- Hans-Georg Rudolph (1908–1987), actor and film director
- Reginald Rudorf (1929–2008), political scientist and author
- Johann Rump (1871–1941), Protestant clergyman and writer
- Theo Saevecke (1911–2000), SS officer and police officer
- Dirk Sager (1940–2014), journalist
- Ernest H. Sanders (1918–2018), music historian
- Ralph Sauer (* 1928), theologian
- Gottfried Skull (* after 1680 in Wandsbek † 1752 in Kiev), Baroque architect in St. Petersburg
- Heinrich Carl Scheel (1829–1909), German-Baltic architect in Riga
- Gerhart Scheuer (* 1935), administrative officer and member of the state parliament of the CDU in Baden-Württemberg
- Jeffrey Schlupp (* 1992), English-Ghanaian soccer player
- Christian Johann Heinrich Schmidt (1810–1885), engine driver
- Arthur Schmidt (1895–1987), Lieutenant General in World War II
- Astrid Schmitt (* 1959), politician (SPD)
- Katja Schneider (* 1953), art historian
- Henry Schradieck (1846–1918), composer, violinist and music teacher
- Albrecht Schreiber (* 1938), journalist, author and publisher
- Susanne Schütz (* 1966), teacher and politician, Member of the Bundestag (FDP)
- Sirka Schwartz-Uppendieck (* 1965), organist and pianist, church music director in Fürth
- Alexander Seggelke (* 1979), basketball player
- Severin Walther Slüter (1646–1697), general superintendent of Lauenburg
- Gustav Spangenberg (1828–1891), painter
- Herbert Spiro (1924–2010), German-American political scientist, diplomat and politician
- Herbert Stadelmaier (1916–2009), union official
- Marec Béla Steffens (* 1964), economist, manager, author and librettist
- Peer Steinbrück (* 1947), Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia (2002–2005), Federal Minister of Finance (2005–2009)
- Edda Stelck (1939–2014), co-founder of Third World Shops and the Heinrich Böll Foundation
- Tom Stonier (1927–1999), biologist, philosopher, information scientist
- Kurt Struve (1902–1986), lawyer and senior administrative officer in Hamburg, was involved in child euthanasia
- Julius Thole (* 1997), volleyball and beach volleyball player
- Uwe Timm (* 1940), writer
- Klaus Tonner (* 1947), lawyer
- Peter Uebersax (1925–2011), Swiss journalist
- Karl Ulmer (1915–1981), philosopher
- Friedrich Vellguth (1905–1989), architect
- Hedwig Voegt (1903–1988), literary scholar and university lecturer in Leipzig
- Fabian Vogler (* 1977), artist
- Kurt Vogler (1893–1963), landscape painter
- Katrin Vohland (* 1968), biologist and politician
- Michael Vollstedt (1942–2020), major general in the Bundeswehr
- Kerstin von der Betten (* 1968), lawyer, professor for international and European law
- Wilhelm Waetzoldt (1880–1945), art historian
- Hauke Wahl (* 1994), soccer player
- Hans-Christoph Wagner (* 1963), Dutch politician
- Hajo Wandschneider (1925–2017), criminal defense attorney
- Bodo Wartke (* 1977), cabaret artist and pianist
- Stephan Weil (* 1958), politician (SPD) and Prime Minister of Lower Saxony (since 2013)
- Milan Weißbach (* 1989), handball player
- Hans-Joachim Werner (* 1950), chemist
- Uwe Wesel (* 1933), legal scholar and legal historian
- Dagmar Westberg (1914–2017), patron
- Arved Ludwig Wieler (1858–1943), botanist and university professor
- Ulrich Wille (1848–1925), Swiss commander in chief during the First World War
- Alexander Williams (* 1996), handball player
- Max Wilson (* 1972), Brazilian racing driver
- Bernhard Woldenga (1901–1999), officer, most recently colonel in World War II
- Hanne Wickop (1939–2018), painter and writer
- Christian Zahn (* 1948), trade unionist
- Olaf Zehe (* 1966), handball player
- Martin Zwierlein (* 1977), physicist
- Ekhard Zinke (* 1954), lawyer
- Peter Zorn (1682–1746), theologian and university professor in Kiel
- Luis Vernet (1791–1871), merchant and island commander in the Falkland Islands
Other people who died in Hamburg
- Benedict V († 965 or 966), Pope
- Jürgen Fehling (1885–1968), theater director and actor
- Frederick VIII (1843–1912), King of Denmark
- Götz George (1938–2016), actor
- Otto von Guericke (1602–1686), councilor, mayor, diplomat, natural scientist and inventor
- Felix Schelle (1867–1927), holder of the Pour-le-Mèrite order
- Fritz Mehrlein (1874–1945), Hamburg civil service and until 1933 senator in Lübeck
- Hans Segelken (1897–1982), lawyer and judge of the Reich judge
- Gustav Adolf Scheel (1907–1979), doctor and functionary (1936–1945) during the Nazi era
- Stuart Sutcliffe (1940–1962), bassist for the Beatles during their time in Hamburg
literature
- Hamburg pictures of life in representations and personal testimonies. Association for Hamburg History, Hamburg 1989 ff .; since 2000 Ed. Temmen, Bremen. So far 23 volumes on subjects and people (as of 2015).
- Franklin Kopitzsch , Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . 6 volumes, Hamburg 2001, 2003, Göttingen 2006–2012. (Volume 2 books.google.de )
Web links
- Hamburg personalities from 801 to 2017 - online encyclopedia (Museum for Hamburg History and Society Harmony from 1789)
- Rita Bake , memory of the city. Streets, squares and bridges in Hamburg named after women and men