List of personalities from Pomerania
Important people who come from the Pomeranian area are listed alphabetically here. You can find more information about the people in the corresponding article.
A.
- Adalbert of Pomerania (12th century), first bishop of Pomerania
- Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860), writer and politician
B.
- Rudolf Baier (1818–1907), museum director
- Heinrich Bandlow (1855–1933), writer
- Richard Bartz (1880–1955), local writer
- Hermann Bendix (1859–1935), pedagogue, cantor and composer
- Theodor Billroth (1829-1894), doctor
- Lothar Bisky (1941–2013), politician
- Otto Bruchwitz (1877–1956), local history researcher
- Elisabeth Büchsel (1867–1957), painter
- Johannes Büchsel (1849–1920), Protestant clergyman and general superintendent of Pomerania
- Johann Bugenhagen (1485–1558), Pomeranian reformer
- Oswald Bumke (1877–1950), psychiatrist and neurologist
- Hermann Burmeister (1807-1892), naturalist
- Julius von Bohlen-Bohlendorf , historian
- Hans Bredow (1879–1959), high frequency technician
- Erika von Brockdorff (1911–1943), resistance fighter against the Nazis
C.
- Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius (1822–1888), physicist
- Christian Andreas Friedrich von Cothenius (1708–1789), doctor
D.
- Monika Dahlberg (* 1936), actress and singer
- Paul Dahlke (1904–1984), actor
- Johannes Carl Dähnert (1719–1785), scholar
- Jobst von Dewitz (1491–1542), Pomeranian statesman
- Felix Anton Dohrn (1840–1909), zoologist
- Johann Friedrich Droysen (1770-1814), mathematician and astronomer
- Johann Gustav Droysen (1808-1884), historian
E.
- Jürgen Echternach (1937–2006), Federal Minister
- Valentin von Eickstedt (1527–1579), Pomeranian Chancellor
- Elisabeth of Pomerania (1347–1393), wife of Emperor Charles IV.
F.
- Hans Fallada (1893-1947), writer
- Zbigniew Frączkiewicz (* 1946), sculptor
- Hermann Freese (1819–1871), painter
- Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, b. Plötz (1874-1927), Dadaist
- Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), painter
G
- Heinrich George (1893–1946), actor
- Friedrich Gilly (1772–1800), master builder
- Caspar Otto von Glasenapp (1664–1747), Prussian Field Marshal General
- Erdmann von Glasenapp (1660–1721), Prussian major general
- Johann Friedrich Eosander Freiherr von Göthe (1669–1728), master builder
- Klaus Granzow (1927–1986), writer and actor
H
- Albrecht von Hagen (1904–1944), lawyer and resistance fighter against the Nazis
- Ulrich von Hassell (1881–1944), resistance fighter against the Nazis
- Conrad Heese (1872–1945), lawyer and counselor
- Curt Hoffmann (1897–1961), politician
- David Hollaz (1648-1713), theologian
- Alexander von Homeyer (1834–1903), ornithologist
- Eugen Ferdinand von Homeyer (1809–1889), ornithologist
K
- Ernst Bogislav von Kameke (1674–1726), Prussian Minister of State and General Post Director.
- Catherine II (1729–1796), Tsarina of the Russian Empire
- Ewald Christian von Kleist (1715–1759), poet
- Ewald Georg von Kleist (1700–1748), lawyer and natural scientist
- Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin (1890–1945), politician, resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Ruth von Kleist-Retzow (1867–1945), landowner, resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Wolfgang Koeppen (1906–1996), writer
- Peter Kreeft (19th century), inventor
- Egon Krenz (* 1937), Chairman of the State Council
- Christian Graf von Krockow (1927–2002), political scientist, historian and writer
L.
- Hedwig Lachmann (1865–1918), writer, poet and translator
- Heidi Lambert-Lang (1937–1981), judge at the Federal Court of Justice
- Heinrich Lengerich (1790–1865), history and portrait painter
- Fritz Lenz (1887–1976), “race hygienist” and human geneticist
- Egbert von Lepel (1881–1941), radio technician
- Gustav Lilienthal (1849–1933), architect and inventor
- Otto Lilienthal (1848–1896), aviation pioneer
- Helmut Losch (1947–2005), athlete
- Christine Lucyga (* 1944), member of the Bundestag
- Molly Luft (1944-2010), prostitute
- Kurt Lütgen (1911–1992), writer
M.
- Theodor Marsson (1816–1892), pharmacist and botanist
- Albert Marth (1828-1897), astronomer
- Franz Mehring (1846–1919), publicist, historian and politician
- Christian Meier (* 1929), historian
- Johann Heinrich Ludwig Meierotto (1742–1800), educator and geographer
- Eberhard Mellies (1929–2019), actor, radio play and voice actor, director
- Otto Mellies (1931–2020), actor, radio play and voice actor
- Hans-Joachim von Merkatz (1905–1982), Federal Minister
- Hilbert Meyer (* 1941), Professor of School Education
- Hans Modrow (* 1928), Prime Minister
- Ludwig Most (1807–1883), Biedermeier painter
- Martha Müller-Grählert (1876–1939), poet
N
- Margarete Neumann (1917–2002), poet
- Salomon Neumann (1819–1908), doctor, city councilor in Berlin and statistician
- Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow (1860–1940), technician and inventor
- Bernt Notke (around 1435–1509), painter, carver and workshop manager
O
- Walter Ohm (1915–1997), radio play and theater director
P
- Oskar Picht (1871–1945), inventor
- Gustav Adolf Pompe (1831–1889), poet
- Robert Prutz (1816–1872), writer
Q
- August von Quistorp (1786–1849), landowner and officer
- Bernhard Friedrich Quistorp (1718–1788), general superintendent and professor of theology
- Johannes Quistorp (1822–1899), major entrepreneur and patron
- Johann Gottfried Quistorp (1755–1835), architect, painter and university professor of German Romanticism
- Wernher von Quistorp (1856–1908), landowner and politician, Dr. jur.
- Wilhelm Quistorp (1824–1887), clergyman and champion of diakonia
R.
- Karl Wilhelm Ramler (1725–1798), poet and philosopher
- Paul Rée (1849–1901), philosopher and doctor
- Gustav Reichardt (1797–1884), music teacher and composer
- Johann David von Reichenbach , enlightener and reformer
- Heinrich Rempel (1901–1978), prehistoric
- Hans Werner Richter (1908–1993), writer
- Walter Robert-tornow (1852–1895), translator
- Karl Rodbertus (1805–1875), political economist
- Heinrich Rubenow (approx. 1400–1462), mayor
- Arnold Ruge (1802-1880), writer
- David Ruhnken (1723–1798), scholar and librarian
- Philipp Otto Runge (1777–1810), painter
S.
- Edward Sapir (1884–1939), ethnologist and linguist
- Bartholomäus Sastrow (1520–1603), mayor
- Karsten Sarnow (14th century), mayor
- Günter Schabowski (1929–2015), politician
- Ulrich Schaffer (* 1942), writer and photographer
- Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786), chemist
- Hans Schlange-Schöningen (1886–1960), politician
- Marie Schlei (1919–1983), Federal Minister
- Carl Ludwig Schleich (1859–1922), doctor and writer
- Roderich Schmidt (1925–2011), historian
- Gottlieb Heinrich Schmückert (1790–1862), General Postal Director
- Ulrich von Schwerin (1500–1575), ducal grand courtier
- Johann Joachim Spalding (1714–1804), philosopher
- Carola Stern (1925–2006), publicist and journalist
- Manfred Stolpe (1936–2019), Federal Minister
- Bartholomaeus Suawe (1494–1566), Protestant theologian, reformer
T
- Friedrich Bogislav Count von Tauentzien (1710–1791), Prussian general
- Franziska Tiburtius (1843–1927), doctor
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Tigerström (1803–1868), legal scholar
- Carlo von Tiedemann (* 1943), actor and presenter
- Harry Tisch (1927–1995), Minister
V
- Siegfried Vergin (1933–2012), member of the Bundestag
- Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902), doctor and politician
- Horst Völz (* 1930), German physicist and information scientist
- Charles Voss (1815–1882), pianist, music teacher and composer
W.
- Adolf Wallenberg (1862–1949), internist and neurologist
- Christian Ehrenfried Weigel (1748–1831), chemist, botanist and mineralogist
- Georg Wertheim (1857–1939), entrepreneur
- Valentin von Winther (1578–1623), annalist and ducal counselor
- Fritz Worm (1863–1931), teacher and local poet
- Bertram Wulflam († 1393), mayor
- Klausjürgen Wussow (1929–2007), actor
- Alwine Wuthenow (1820–1908), Low German poet
Z
- Jacob von Zitzewitz (1507–1572), Pomeranian Chancellor