List of sons and daughters of Stendal

Significant personalities born in the Hanseatic city of Stendal in the order of their year of birth:

13th to 18th centuries

Bartholomäus I Schönebeck

Johann Joachim Winckelmann

Rudolph Dulon

Gerd Mehl

Hans-Jürgen Rückborn

Inka Müller

• Herebord von Bismarck (around 1200–1280), the first demonstrable representative of the von Bismarck family
• Dietrich Kagelwit (around 1300–1367), Archbishop of Magdeburg
• Nikolaus von Bismarck (1307–1377), Stendal patrician
• Reyner von Calven (around 1350–1421), Lübeck councilor
• Thomas Sagittarius (1577–1621), philologist, philosophical logician and educator
• Bartholomäus Schönebeck (1548–1605), merchant and councilor in Stendal
• Benedikt Schönebeck (1597–1665), Mayor of Stendal
• Christoph Schönebeck (1601–1662), lawyer, Electoral Privy Councilor and archivist
• Christian Luidtke (1621–1686), Mayor of Stendal
• Christoph Praetorius (1631–1713), lawyer, librarian, chamberlain and hymn writer
• Lucas Heinrich Thering (1648–1722), theologian
• Germanus Lüdke (1683–1735), deacon at the cathedral in Stendal
• Samuel Lenz (1686–1776), historian, lawyer and university professor
• Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768), archaeologist and art scholar
• Johann Christian Dieterich (1722–1800), publisher
• Heinrich Julius von Goldbeck (1733-1818), Prussian Minister of Justice
• Dietrich Wilhelm von Schultz (1733–1803), major general
• Johann Karl August von Schultz (1737–1800), major general
• Konrad Friedrich Uden (1754–1823), physician
• Friedrich August Göring (1771–1840), educator
• Heinrich Falckenberg (1771–1845), administrative officer
• Martin Friedrich Rabe (1775–1856), master builder
• Karl Friedrich Friccius (1779–1856), General Auditor of the Prussian Army
• Ludwig Dietrich Eugen von Gayl (1785-1853), Lieutenant General
• Karl von Froreich (1790–1867), major general
• Joachim Friedrich Christian Dieterichs (1792–1858), veterinarian

19th century

• Emil von Bornstedt (1804–1885), Prussian lieutenant general
• Rudolph Dulon (1807–1870), theologian and revolutionary
• Adelbert von Bornstedt (1807–1851), publicist and 1848 revolutionary
• Friedrich Loeffler (1815–1874), military doctor
• Amand von Ruville (1816–1884), Major General
• Franz von Voss (1816–1907), Prussian politician
• Friedrich Hermann Haacke (1824–1899), doctor, honorary citizen of Stendal
• Hermann Fliege (1829–1907), composer
• Johannes Streccius (1831–1889), linguist, Prussian officer, most recently lieutenant general
• Rudolf Baxmann (1832–1869), Protestant theologian and author
• Hans Fritsche (1832–1898), local politician
• Felix Streccius (1833–1889), Prussian officer, most recently major general
• Werner Nolopp (1835–1903), teacher, conductor, choir director and composer
• Leo August Pochhammer (1841–1920), mathematician
• Max Treu (1842–1915), Byzantinist
• Otto Schoetensack (1850–1912), paleoanthropologist
• Richard Zeckwer (1850–1922), composer
• Emil Döblin (1853–1918), trade unionist
• Thilo von Westernhagen (1853–1920), General of the Infantry
• Adolf Trenckmann (1856–1932), politician, mayor of Neuruppin
• Frieda Menshausen-Labriola (1861–1939), miniature and portrait painter
• Ernst Grosse (1862–1927), ethnologist and art collector
• Franz Lusensky (1862–1924), ministerial official
• Max Immelmann (1864–1923), doctor and radiologist
• Wilm von Stein-Liebenstein (1869–1954), politician (DNVP)
• Otto Borngräber (1874–1916), writer, playwright and dramaturge
• Max Ebert (1879–1929), prehistory, professor in Königsberg, Riga and Berlin
• Wilhelm Bonatz (1883–?), Police officer and Gestapo employee
• Gustav Köhler (1885–1952), politician (KPD)
• Ernst Pörner (1886–1965), educator and local researcher
• Elsbeth Heise (1892–1977), nurse
• Alfred Ernst (1895–1953), member of the NSDAP Reichstag
• Friedrich Wilhelm Elchlepp (1897–1956), curator
• Oscar Dieling (1898–1971), journalist and politician (DDP, FDP)
• Ludwig Turek (1898–1975), KPD member and writer

20th century

1901 to 1950

• Anne-Gudrun Meier-Scherling (1906–2002), lawyer
• Heinz Assmann (1904–1954), naval officer
• Gerhard Schröder (1908–1944), historian
• Hans Jütting (1909–1999), manager and founder of the foundation, honorary citizen of Stendal
• Freidank Kuchenbuch (1910–1942), prehistoric
• Gerd Rinck (1910–2007), lawyer and politician (CDU)
• Fritz Wittenbecher (1910–?), Soccer player and coach
• Otto Hanebuth (1911–1988), sports scientist
• Herbert von Buttlar (1912–1976), classical archaeologist
• Hans Cain (1919–1983), medic
• Gerd Mehl (1922–2001), sports reporter
• Paul-Friedrich Strauss (* 1922), General in the Bundeswehr
• Irina Korschunow (1925–2013), writer
• Erich Stockmann (1926–2003), ethnomusicologist
• Werner Zöhl (1926–2012), painter
• Rudolf Wiechert (1928–2013), chemist
• Joachim Rohlfes (* 1929), history didactician and historian
• Gerhard Geise (1930–2010), mathematician
• Hansi Alpert (* 1932), football player
• Günter Matthias (1934–2015), table tennis player
• Anette Brandhorst (1936–1999), art collector
• Peter Kittelmann (1936–2003), politician (CDU)
• Kurt Liebrecht (* 1936), football player
• Wilfried Klingbiel (* 1939), soccer player
• Hans-Dieter Neidel (* 1939), boxer
• Hans-Jürgen Rückborn (* 1940), track and field athlete and Olympic participant
• Wolfgang Eschker (* 1941), Slavist, writer and translator
• Karl-Heinz Kago (* 1941), entrepreneur
• Thomas Schmidt (1942–2008), actor and doctor
• Fredrik Vahle (* 1942), Germanist, translator and songwriter
• Gerd Gies (* 1943), veterinarian, after 1990 first Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt
• Michael Stoeber (* 1943), art historian
• Heinz-Ulrich Walther (* 1943), figure skater and judge
• Eckhard Erxleben (* 1944), poet
• Gisela Graichen (* 1944), television journalist
• Dieter M. Weidenbach (* 1945), painter and graphic artist
• Horst Stottmeister (* 1948), wrestler
• Rainer Eigendorff (* 1949), theater director
• Gudrun "Gigi" Meixner (* around 1950), decorator and art collector, married to US musician Herbie Hancock since 1968 , lives in Los Angeles

1951 to 2000

• Gerd Schlaak (* 1952), politician (CDU)
• Eberhard Tiefensee (* 1952), professor of philosophy
• Bernd Zorn (* 1952), engineer and master mechanic
• Detlev Lehmann (* 1954), politician (SPD)
• Wolfgang Weiß (* 1954), politician (Die Linke)
• Klaus Martin Kopitz (* 1955), musicologist and composer
• Detlef Müller (* 1955), politician (SPD)
• Andreas Crusius (* 1956), President of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Medical Association
• Lothar Mittag (* 1956), restorer
• Rainer Karlsch (* 1957), economic historian
• Arnulf Wenning (* 1957), pop singer
• Ilse Wischer (* 1959), linguist
• Niko Schlenker (* 1960), composer
• Ramona Nique (* 1961), politician (FDJ)
• Hardy Güssau (* 1962), member of the state parliament
• Carola Hornig (* 1962), rower
• Andrea Jennert (* 1962), writer
• Kerstin Werner (* 1968), radio presenter
• Elmar Harbrecht (* 1969), volleyball player
• Kathrin Rösel (* 1970), politician (CDU)
• Dominik Marks (* 1975), soccer referee
• Anke Wichmann (* 1975), racing cyclist
• Aimée Gneist (* 1976), actress
• Inka Müller (* 1976), soccer referee
• Aline Staskowiak (* 1976), actress and voice actress
• Nora Jokhosha (* 1977), actress
• Torsten Schemmel (* 1979), actor
• Dominik Bliefert (* 1981), actor
• Marten Krebs (born 1981), actor
• Marcus Faber (* 1984), politician (FDP)
• Christopher Lamprecht (* 1985), football player
• Matthias Büttner (* 1990), politician (AfD)