List of personalities of the city of Demmin
A list of important personalities in the West Pomeranian Hanseatic city of Demmin .
sons and daughters of the town
To 1900
- Valentin Wudrian (1584–1625), Lutheran theologian
- Alexander Christiani (1587–1637), Lutheran theologian and mathematician
- Heinrich Giesebert (1604 – after 1677), legal scholar
- Joachim Lütkemann (1608–1655), pastor and writer
- Heinrich von Podewils (1615–1696), French field marshal
- Adam von Podewils (1617–1697), councilor and president of the chamber
- Jacob Schimmelmann (1712–1778), Lutheran theologian, first translator of the Edda into High German
- Heinrich Carl von Schimmelmann (1724–1782), merchant, financier and slave trader
- Wilhelm Julius von Plotho (1728–1802), Prussian major general
- Ernst Peter von Podewils (1737–1791), Prussian captain and district administrator
- Carl von Cardell (1764–1821), Swedish general field master, reorganizer of the Swedish artillery
- Friedrich Philipp von Cardell (1773–1834), Prussian general of the infantry
- Peter Heinrich von Podewils (1780–1838), Prussian administrative officer and officer
- Heinrich Ludwig Lobeck (1787–1855), businessman and insurance company
- Carl Friedrich von Both (1789–1875), lawyer and Vice Chancellor of the University of Rostock
- Karl Friedrich Frisch (1808–1874), geographer and translator
- Waldemar Kopp (1825–1881), high school teacher, writer and textbook author
- Julius Friedrich Cohnheim (1839-1884), pathologist
- Ludwig Kotelmann (1839–1908), theologian, ophthalmologist and medical historian
- Richard Dittmer (1840–1925), rear admiral and naval writer
- Richard Cohnheim (1843–1901), businessman, member of the Hamburg parliament
- Eugen Gebeschus (1855–1936), Lord Mayor of Hanau
- Paul Jörs (1856–1925), legal historian and papyrologist
- Albert August Wilhelm von Puttkamer (1861–1931), Prussian administrative officer, district president in Colmar
- Paul Eduard Hartmann (1863–1914), Prussian district administrator
- Wilhelm Gesellius (1872–1935), publisher
- Hans Friedrichs (1875–1962), Lord Mayor of Potsdam
- Erich Kaufmann (1880–1972), lawyer and international lawyer
- Alfred Huhnhäuser (1885–1950), educator and ministerial official
- Hansjoachim von Rohr (1888–1971), manor owner and politician
- Otto Waterstradt (1888–1972), Mayor of Franzburg and Grimmen
- Willy Schulz-Demmin (1892–1974), landscape and portrait painter
- Friedrich Schildt (1893–1960), master watchmaker and chief designer at Gebrüder Thiel GmbH / watches and machine factory Ruhla / Thuringia
- Hans Ehrke (1898–1975), writer
- Ulrich von Lübenow (1900–1995), legal scholar
From 1901
- Hans-Adolf Asbach (1904–1976), politician (GB / BHE)
- Hermann-Gerhard Gruß (1904–1971), lawyer
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Goldenbogen (1914–1982), politician (CDU)
- Gerhard Flügge (1914–1972), writer, biographer and editor
- Otto Miehlke (1920–2008), physicist
- Roderich Schmidt (1925–2011), historian
- Karl Namokel (1927–1988), chairman of the FDJ (1955–1959)
- Willy Marlow (1928–2007), SED politician
- Manfred Gehmert (1931–2020), Lieutenant General of the NVA
- Hugo Jahns (1931–2015), musician and choir director
- Hans Voss (1931–2016), diplomat and ambassador of the GDR in Romania, Italy and Malta
- Olaf Sievert (* 1933), economist
- Horst Niebisch (* 1934), hammer thrower
- Karl Schlösser (1934–2018), painter and writer
- Norbert Buske (* 1936), Protestant theologian and politician (CDU)
- Tom Crepon (born 1938), writer
- Martin Brick (* 1939), veterinarian and politician (CDU)
- Klaus Pohl (* 1941), wrestler
- Rainer Haedrich (1943–1998), politician (CDU), district administrator
- Wolfgang H. Pleger (* 1944), philosopher, professor of philosophy at the University of Koblenz-Landau
- Paul Freiherr von Maltzahn (1945–2018), diplomat and German ambassador to Indonesia
- Elke Windisch (* 1951), journalist and documentary filmmaker
- Matthias Flügge (* 1952), art historian
- Ilona Slupianek (* 1956), track and field athlete and Olympic champion
- Jürgen Landt (* 1957), writer
- Ellen Fiedler (* 1958), track and field athlete
- Tilo Werner (* 1962), actor
- Axel Wegner (* 1963), marksman, Olympic champion in skeet 1988
- Torsten Krentz (* 1966), canoeist
- Thomas Krüger (* 1969), Member of the State Parliament (SPD)
- Michael Sack (* 1973), politician (CDU), district administrator
- Sven Oldenburg (* 1973), soccer player
- Stefan Uteß (* 1974), canoeist
- Kathleen Gutjahr (* 1975), heptathlete
- Marcel Schlutt (* 1977), actor, erotic actor, presenter and photographer
- Susanne Hennig (* 1977), politician (Die Linke)
- Heike Fischer (* 1982), water diver
- Marcel Effenberger (* 1983), handball player
- Martin Miotk (* 1984), stage designer and theater director
- Paul-Max Walther (* 1987), soccer player
- Martin Waschul (* 1988), handball player
- Patrick Müller (* 1996), athlete
- Jo Ellen Look (* 1996), track cyclist
- Maximilian Nowatzki (* 1999), handball player
Personalities who have worked in the city
- Wilhelm Karl Stolle (1704–1779), pastor and chronicler of the city
- Karl Heinrich Friedrich von Raumer (1757–1831), Prussian major general
- Christian Wilhelm Ahlwardt (1760–1830), teacher and philologist
- Alexander von François (1813–1861), district administrator
- Gustav Adolf Pompe (1831–1889), theologian and poet
- John Martens (1875-1936), architect
- Paul Thielscher (1881–1962), philologist
- Ilse von Heyden-Linden (1883–1949), painter
- Dietrich von Heyden-Linden (1898–1986), physicist
- Willi Finger-Hain (1895–1970), writer
- Max Bruhn (1902–1987), teacher and local researcher