List of sons and daughters of the city of Bremen

The following overview contains important personalities born in Bremen , regardless of their later sphere of activity. Under the section Other personalities , some people are named who worked in Bremen but were born elsewhere.

In each entry, only the person article should be linked to the person entered.

By 1700

• before 1316, Gerd Rinesberch , † 1406, vicar and chronicler
• around 1330, Herbord Schene , † June 21, 1413/14, canon and chronicler
• around 1358, Johann Hemeling , † March 27, 1428, Mayor of Bremen
• around 1390, Heinrich Tocke , † June 27, 1454 in Magdeburg, theologian
• 1512, June 22, Daniel von Büren the Younger , † July 10, 1593, statesman and mayor
• 1518, Johann Esich , † September 29, 1578 in Braunschweig, mayor
• 1528, Rudolf Clenck , † August 6, 1578 in Callenberg, theologian
• 1557, Johann Esich , † August 30, 1602, educator, preacher and historian
• before 1558, Heinrich Zobel , † after 1597, mayor
• 1562, October 5, Heinrich Krefting , † August 1, 1611, legal scholar and politician
• 1592, July 22nd, Johann Wachmann the Elder , † May 12th 1659, Syndicus of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and envoy in the negotiations for the Peace of Westphalia
• 1600, August 11, Matthaeus von Wesenbeck , † April 24, 1659 in Bremen, Brandenburg statesman, envoy in the negotiations for the Peace of Westphalia
• 1601, July 1, Gerhard Coccejus (actually: Gerhard Coch), † July 27, 1660, councilor and envoy of Bremen during the negotiations for the Peace of Westphalia
• 1603, August 9, Johannes Coccejus (actually: Johannes Coch), † November 5, 1669 in Leiden, Protestant theologian, one of the main representatives of federal theology
• 1604, Burchard Lösekanne , † May 12, 1654, businessman and parent-man of the merchants
• 1609, July 15, Heinrich Meier , † August 30, 1676, legal scholar, councilor, diplomat and from 1654 mayor of the city of Bremen
• 1611, September 16, Johann Wachmann the Younger , † February 15, 1685, legal scholar, diplomat, lawyer and envoy of the city of Bremen in the 17th century
• around 1618, Henry Oldenburg ; † September 5, 1677 in Charlton, diplomat and natural philosopher
• 1618, August 26, Burchard Eden , † September 16, 1689, Syndicus
• around 1620, Hinrich Mahlstede , † end of October 1700, chronicler of the Bremen Krameramt
• 1624, Franz Wulfhagen , † 1670, painter
• 1626, December 17, Paul Glandorp , † November 5, 1696 in Bremen, physician
• 1644, March 25, Heinrich von Cocceji , † August 18, 1719 in Frankfurt (Oder), professor of natural and international law at the University of Heidelberg
• 1649, Heinrich Woldt † 1723, merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
• 1650, Joachim Neander , † 1680, rector, pastor, hymn poet and composer (praise the gentleman, the mighty king of honors; open the beautiful gate to me; wonderful king). The Neandertal, in which the “Neanderthal” was later found, was named after him.
• 1664, July 10, Arnold Wesenfeld , † 8/12. October 1727 in Frankfurt (Oder), university professor and rector of the Viadrina University and mayor of the city of Frankfurt (Oder)
• 1680, Diedrich Baedeker , † 1716 in Bielefeld, printer and publisher
• 1688, April 17, Hermann Heeren , † May 10, 1745, Protestant clergyman and cathedral preacher
• 1689, December 25, Conrad Iken , † June 30, 1753, Protestant clergyman and rector of the grammar school
• 1690, October 6, Heinrich Bass , † March 5, 1754 in Halle (Saale), doctor
• 1693, October 3, Hermann Post , † November 13, 1762, lawyer and archivist
• 1696, December 20, Theophilus Wilhelm Frese , † 1763, sculptor
• 1697, November 15, Johann Baring , † 1748, businessman, emigrated to England, where his sons later founded the Barings Bank
• 1699, Martin Mushard , † October 20, 1770 in Geestendorf, pastor, prehistorian and archaeologist

18th century

• 1705, April 26, Volkhard Mindemann , † May 15, 1781, lawyer, councilor / senator and mayor
• 1707, October 31, Johann Philipp Cassel , † July 17, 1783, professor and scholar
• 1710, April 11, Heinrich Meene , † May 20, 1782 in Jever, Protestant theologian, consistorial councilor and superintendent
• 1710, April 25th, Andrew Grote , German-British merchant and banker
• 1723, May 2, Johann Wilhelm Hönert , † November 20, 1790 in Lilienthal, pastor and church historian
• 1725, January 5, Martin Crugot , † September 5, 1790, court preacher to Prince Hans Carl zu Carolath-Beuthen
• 1726, November 10th, Christian Adam Gondela , † June 12th, 1777 in Eutin, city physicist of Bremen as well as judiciary and personal physician of the bishop of Eutin
• 1745, 23 August, Georg Gröning , † 1 August 1825, councilor, senator and mayor
• 1748, February 18, Diederich Meier , † December 2, 1802, lawyer, Bremen councilor and mayor
• 1750, October 16: Johann Friedrich Gildemeister , † January 15, 1812, legal scholar
• 1752, January 4, Adolf Friedrich Furchau , † December 19, 1819 in Stralsund, educator
• 1752, April 22, Georg Joachim Göschen , † April 5, 1828 in Grimma, publisher
• 1753, September 11th Johann Gildemeister , † February 9th 1837, merchant and councilor
• 1758, October 11, Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers , † March 2, 1840, doctor and astronomer
• 1760, October 25, Arnold Heeren , † March 6, 1842 in Göttingen, historian
• 1761, February 4, Blasius Merrem , † February 23, 1824 in Marburg, zoologist
• 1761, October 26, Johann Heineken , † January 17, 1851, physician and city physician of Bremen.
• 1763, April 6, Daniel Schütte , † March 14, 1850, lawyer and theater director
• 1765, Ludwig Rullmann , † probably 1822 in Paris, painter, draftsman and lithographer
• 1766, July 19, Johann Heinrich Menken , † January 1, 1838, painter
• 1768, May 29, Gottfried Menken , † June 1, 1831, Protestant pastor, is considered to be the most important representative of the theology of revival in northwest Germany
• 1773, November 5, Johann Smidt , † May 7, 1857, politician and last mayor elected for life
• 1774, March 30, Gerhard Meyer , † 1855 in Bad Rehburg, businessman and Bremen builder at St. Petri Cathedral
• 1774, August 1, Ferdinand Beneke , † March 1, 1848 in Hamburg, lawyer and politician
• 1775, February 22, Johann Lange , † April 29, 1844 in Bremen-Vegesack, shipbuilder
• 1775, December 29, Nikolaus Meyer , † February 26, 1855 in Minden, doctor and writer
• 1776, February 4, Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus , † February 16, 1837, medic
• 1777, August 15, Isaak Altmann , † December 15, 1837, landscape gardener
• 1779, September 10, Ludolf Christian Treviranus , † May 6, 1864 in Bonn, botanist
• 1781, August 13, Betty Gleim , † March 27, 1827, teacher, school founder and writer
• 1782, May 22nd, Johann Andreas Harmssen , † January 29th, 1861, captain and two-time circumnavigator
• 1782, November 21, Martin Heinrich Wilkens , † May 8, 1869, master goldsmith
• 1785, March 6th, Gesche Gottfried , b. Timm, † April 21, 1831, executed by the sword, called "the angel of Bremen", was the most famous serial killer of her time
• 1787, June 23, Diederich Meier , † April 25, 1857, mayor
• 1788, January 12, Georg Treviranus , † 1868, Protestant theologian
• 1789, September 7, Carl Jakob Iken , † April 23, 1841 in Florence, neo-Greekist
• 1790, March 7, Ludwig Georg Treviranus , † November 7, 1869 in Brno, engineer and mechanic, was the construction of the steamship The Weser involved
• 1791, September 13, Karl Theodor Menke , † 1861 in Bad Pyrmont, doctor
• 1794, May 27, Heinrich Frese , † July 20, 1869, sculptor
• 1796, August 3, Anna Lühring , † August 25, 1866 in Hamburg, Prussian soldier
• 1798, May 15, Carl Theodor Gevekoht , † August 21, 1850, businessman and member of the Bremen National Assembly
• 1798, September 19, Stephan Messerer , † January 19, 1865, painter
• 1799, March 4, Gottfried Menken , † November 26, 1838, painter
• 1800, March 17, Johann David Schlichthorst , † March 29, 1843 in Padingbüttel, co-founder of the North German Mission Society

19th century

1801 to 1825

• 1802, January 27, Arnold Duckwitz , † March 19, 1881, Bremen Senator and Mayor and Reich Minister
• 1802, November 18, Johann Wilhelm Wendt , † June 6, 1847 in Bremen, captain, four-time circumnavigator, discoverer, inventor and entrepreneur
• 1803, February 22, Johann Georg Wermelskirch , † December 20, 1872, Lutheran theologian
• 1803, December 10, Reinhard Wilhelm Bädecker , † June 1, 1868, businessman and shipowner
• 1804, Gottfried Koch , founder of the gold and silversmith's workshop Koch & Bergfeld
• 1804, October 9, Johann Heinrich Volkmann , † March 28, 1865, theologian
• 1805, May 26, Jakob Frerichs , † October 24, 1970, theologian
• 1807, December 8, Heinrich Nikolaus Ulrichs , † December 10, 1843, philologist
• 1808, April 28, Johann Georg Kohl , † October 28, 1878, travel writer, geographer, historian and since 1863 Bremen city librarian
• 1808, October 30, Simon Loschen , † December 8, 1902, architect
• 1808, December 9, Marie Mindermann , † March 25, 1882 in Bremen, women's rights activist and writer
• 1809, Friedrich August Pflugfelder , † after 1856 in Düsseldorf, engraver
• 1809, October 16, Hermann Henrich Meier , † November 17, 1898 in Bremen, founder of "Norddeutscher Lloyd"
• 1810, January 3, Friedrich Wagenfeld , † August 26, 1846 in Bremen, philologist and writer of Bremen fairy tales
• 1810, December 31, Johann Karl Vietor , † January 17, 1870 in Bremen, businessman and entrepreneur
• 1811, February 19, Gustav Kulenkampff , † March 11, 1878 in Bremen, businessman and politician
• 1811, April 12, Johann Georg Walte , † September 9, 1890 in Bremen, painter and draftsman
• 1811, October 16, Friedrich Wilhelm Kohl , † September 18, 1864 in Norderney, painter
• 1812, February 15, Daniel Georg Volkmann , † March 28, 1892, banker
• 1812, June 15, Johann Andreas Deneys , † 1864, sculptor
• 1813, July 3, Carl Steinhäuser , † September 9, 1879 in Karlsruhe, sculptor
• 1813, January 30, Christian Heinrich Wätjen , † February 28, 1887, shipowner
• 1813, September 19, Nikolaus Delius , † November 18, 1888 in Bonn, English studies and Shakespeare researcher
• 1813, October 24, Carl Gerhard Poppe , † June 2, 1891 in Bremen, architect
• 1813, October 28, Johann Georg Meyer , † December 4, 1886 in Berlin, genre painter
• 1814, February 14, Hermann Alexander Müller , † May 27, 1894 Bremen, art historian
• 1814, July 25, Ida Kohl , † December 35, 1888 in Freiburg im Breisgau, writer
• 1814, October 31, Cornelius Rudolph Vietor , † February 8, 1897 in Bremen, theologian
• 1814, November 8, Gustav Hartlaub , † November 29, 1900 in Bremen, doctor and ornithologist
• 1815, December 21, Metta Cordes , † December 16, 1905 in Delmenhorst, Bremen city original known under the name Mudder Cordes
• 1816, January 24, Wilhelm Henzen , † January 27, 1887 in Rome, epigraphist
• 1816, September 21, Johann Friedrich Rohr , † unknown, typesetter and editor of the Norddeutsche Volkszeitung
• 1819, August 26, Addig Jaburg , † December 28, 1875, room and portrait painter
• 1820, March 12, Christian Lahusen , † May 25, 1898 in Bremen, founder of the North German wool combing & worsted spinning mill
• 1821, May 15, Ludwig Knoop , † August 16, 1894 in Bremen, entrepreneur (textile)
• 1823, March 13, Otto Gildemeister , † August 25, 1902, writer and Mayor of Bremen
• 1824, December 15, Diedrich Samuel Kropp , † May 15, 1913 in Bremen, sculptor
• 1825, August 21, Johann Heinrich Theodor Claussen , † January 13, 1908 in Bremen, businessman, politician and president of the Bremen citizenship

1826 to 1850

• 1826, June 26, Adolf Bastian , † February 2, 1905 in Trinidad and Tobago, ethnologist and founder of the Museum of Ethnology in Berlin
• 1827, March 19, August von Kaven , † May 19, 1891 in Aachen, civil engineer and first rector of RWTH Aachen
• 1827, June 17, Heinrich Rohlfs , † May 5, 1898 in Wiesbaden, physician and writer
• 1828, February 19, Eduard Mohr , † December 26, 1876 in Malange, Angola, Africa explorer
• 1828, March 22, Amalie Murtfeldt , † June 28, 1888, painter
• 1828, May 24, Joseph Johannes Arnold Hachez , † January 4, 1901, businessman
• 1830, June 20, Friedrich Nobbe , † September 15, 1922 in Tharandt, agricultural chemist, botanist and important seed researcher
• 1830, October 22, Johann Eggers , † March 17, 1881 in Bremen, businessman and president of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce
• 1831, April 14, Gerhard Rohlfs , † June 2, 1896 in Rüngsdorf near Bad Godesberg, Africa traveler and writer
• 1832, November 15, Hermann Ottomar Herzog , † February 6, 1932 in Philadelphia (USA), landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School
• 1833, March 25, August Wilmanns , † October 27, 1917 in Berlin, classical philologist and librarian
• 1834, Gustav von der Heyde , † June 29, 1891 in Sydney, Australia, German-New Zealand businessman and politician
• 1834, July 16, Adolf Lüderitz , † October 30, 1886 in the Oranje River in South West Africa, wholesale merchant and founder of the colony of German South West Africa
• 1835, April 12, Heinrich Hartmann , † January 3, 1909 in Bremen, politician
• 1835, April 18, Heini Holtenbeen , origin. Heinrich Jürgen Keberle, † September 13, 1909 in Bremen, Bremen city original
• 1835, July 14, Ottilie Hoffmann , † December 20, 1925 in Bremen, teacher and social politician
• 1836, June 27, Johann Christoph Eduard Dubbers , † August 25, 1909 in Bremen, businessman and from 1865 first Danish honorary consul
• 1836, July 24, Johann Christoph Achelis , † November 18, 1913, businessman and senator
• 1836, November 21, Franz Ernst Schütte , † February 11, 1911 in Bremen, businessman, oil importer and important patron, brother of Carl Schütte
• 1837, September 12, Johann Georg Poppe , † August 18, 1915 in Lesum, architect
• 1837, October 6, Elard Hugo Meyer , † February 11, 1908 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Indo-Europeanist
• 1837, October 15, Johann Friedrich Iken , † December 21, 1902 in Bremen, theologian and church historian
• 1838, January 13, Ernst Christian Achelis , † April 10, 1912, theologian
• 1838, August 6, August Lüderitz , † December 15, 1922, colonial pioneer
• 1838, September 13, Diederich Volkmann , † July 13, 1903 in Tabarz, classical philologist and rector of the Fürstenschule Schulpforta for 20 years
• 1839, January 2, Carl Schütte , † February 11, 1917, entrepreneur, brother of Franz Ernst Schütte
• 1839, November 25, Christoph Hellwig Papendieck , † November 17, 1891 in Territet in Switzerland, merchant
• 1840, March 3, Friedrich "Fritz" Ludwig Tilman Achelis , † May 20, 1917, businessman and politician
• 1842, January 25, Johann Heinrich Volkmann , † May 13, 1916, businessman
• 1842, August 28, Fanny Meyer , † December 23, 1909 in Bremen, painter
• 1843, January 31, Carsten Dreßler , † July 19, 1929 in Bremen, brewery owner
• 1844, August 6, Marie Eggers-Smidt , † December 29, 1923 in Bremen, women's rights activist
• 1844, August 13, Heinrich Averbeck , † February 2, 1889 in Bad Laubbach b. Koblenz, Dr. med., general practitioner and founder of physical healing methods and their combination
• 1844, September 25, Wilhelm Hasselmann , † February 25, 1916 in New York, USA, socialist politician of the forerunner parties of the SPD (ADAV and SAP), member of the Reichstag, expelled from the party in 1880 due to social revolutionary anarchist ambitions, emigrated to the USA
• 1848, March 4, Frederick Sander , † December 23, 1920 in Bruges, German-English botanist
• 1848, February 14, Carl Georg Barkhausen , † November 5, 1917, mayor
• 1848, June 8, Johann Focke , † December 10, 1922 in Bremen, Syndicus of the Bremen Senate and founder and director of the Focke Museum in Bremen named after him
• 1848, November 3, Eduard Sonnenburg , † May 25, 1915 in Bad Wildung, doctor
• 1849, October 26, Heinrich Bulthaupt , † August 20, 1905 in Bremen, author and city librarian in Bremen
• 1850, May 3, Hedwig Heyl , † January 23, 1934, women's rights activist and social politician

1851 to 1875

• 1852, January 18, Martin Donandt , † January 23, 1937, Senator and Mayor of Bremen
• 1852, July 26th, Johann Heinrich Burchard , † September 6th, 1912 in Hamburg, Mayor of Hamburg
• 1852, November 30, Hermann Gollancz , † October 15, 1930 in London, rabbi and Hebraist
• 1853, November 20, Clemens Carl Buff , † February 23, 1940 there, Senator and Mayor of Bremen
• 1855, December 15, John Volkmann , † September 16, 1928, businessman and inventor, founder of the Volkmann, Stollwerck & Co. company in New York
• 1856, August 30, Carl Runge , † January 3, 1927 in Göttingen, mathematician
• 1857, June 8, Albrecht Poppe , † February 17, 1907, zoologist and writer
• 1857, July 22nd, Otto Bollweg , † November 25th 1927 in Hanover, architect
• 1858, March 23, Ludwig Quidde , † March 4, 1941 in Geneva, historian, publicist, politician, Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1927 and pacifist
• 1858, August 18, Carl Lahusen , † June 25, 1921 Löhnhorst, 1888–1921 head of the North German wool combing and worsted spinning mill
• 1859, September 5, Heinrich Vater , † February 10, 1930 in Dresden, soil and forest scientist
• 1860, March 30, Heinrich Lahmann , † June 1, 1905, doctor and natural healer
• 1860, October 11, Luise Agnes Koch , † March 14, 1934 in Bremen, educator, politician (DDP) and women's rights activist
• 1861, September 25, Stephan von Gröning , † May 7, 1944 in Potsdam, District President of the Stralsund district
• 1861, December 9, Johann Beyer , † December 19, 1923, poet and teacher
• 1862, June 29, Gustav Krüger , † March 13, 1940 in Gießen, Protestant theologian, church historian and university professor
• 1862, November 26, Joseph Emil Hachez , † December 24, 1933, businessman and chocolatier
• 1863, February 11, Cornelius Osten (also Cornelio Osten ), † September 6, 1936 in Montevideo, businessman and botanist
• 1863, July 18, Wilhelm Everding , † December 20, 1928 in Bremen, sculptor
• 1863, August 28, Carl Vinnen , † April 16, 1922 in Munich, painter
• 1863, October 2, Cornelius Rudolf Vietor , † July 14, 1932 in Hude (Oldenburg), Protestant clergyman and writer
• 1863, October 16, Friedrich Nebelthau , † March 14, 1947 in Bremen, lawyer, lawyer and Senator from Bremen
• 1864, May 3, Eduard Achelis , † August 28, 1939, businessman
• 1864, August 15, Julius Arnold Koch , † February 10, 1956 in Pittsburgh, German-American chemist and university professor
• 1865, January 6, Bodo Ebhardt , † February 13, 1945 in Braubach, architect, architectural historian and castle researcher
• 1865, March 7, Adolf Schmidt , † November 11, 1918 in Halle (Saale), founder of the Medical Faculty Conference
• 1865, March 16, Hans Georg Achelis , † February 25, 1937 in Leipzig, theologian, church historian, Christian archaeologist and university professor
• 1865, July 20, Johannes Hoops , † April 14, 1949 in Heidelberg, Anglist
• 1866, February 2, Gustav Pauli , † July 8, 1938 in Munich, art historian, director of the Kunsthalle Bremen
• 1866, February 11, Christian Krollmann , † July 19, 1944 in Königsberg, philologist, librarian and archivist
• 1866, June 7, Ernst Henrici , † February 11, 1926 in Bremen, lawyer and senator of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
• 1866, August 5th Verena Rodewald , † December 4th 1937 in Bremen, women's rights activist and politician
• 1867, May 25, Hermann Krose , † September 26, 1949 in Cologne, Catholic theologian and statistician
• 1867, July 10, Heinrich Hoops , † October 29, 1946 in Bremen-Oberneuland, pastor and local historian
• 1867, July 22nd, Auguste Henke , † February 4th 1951 in Göttingen, politician (DVP)
• 1867, October 26, Hermann Rhein , † August 10, 1960 in Bremen, Bremen politician (SPD) and senator
• 1867, November 17, Anna Feldhusen , † June 12, 1951, painter and etcher
• 1867, December 11, Heinrich Bulle , † April 6, 1945 in Bad Kohlgrub, archaeologist
• 1868, April 19, Adolf Vinnen , † May 11, 1926, shipowner and entrepreneur
• 1869, February 3, Karl Hampe , † February 14, 1936 in Heidelberg, historian
• 1869, May 20, Johann Jacobs , † February 21, 1958, businessman and coffee roaster
• 1869, September 15, Fritz Overbeck , actually August Friedrich Overbeck, † June 7, 1909 in Bröcken near Vegesack, painter
• 1869, October 12, Carl Hartlaub , † May 17, 1929, chess player
• 1869, November 4, Fritz Schumacher , † November 5, 1947, architect and urban planner
• 1869, November 12, Heinrich Meyer , † December 13, 1942 in Bremen, entrepreneur and shipyard director
• 1869, November 24, Heinrich Rodewald , † December 11, 1939 in Reetz, Neumark, Protestant theologian and church historian
• 1870, May 4, Hermann Böse , † July 17, 1943, music teacher, communist, victim of National Socialism
• 1870, July 11, Julius Koch , † November 9, 1948 in Bremen, businessman and writer
• 1871, July 26, Natalie Häpke , † September 11, 1923, classical philologist
• 1871, April 9, Friedrich (Fritz) Gansberg , † February 12, 1950 in Bremen, educator and writer
• 1871, November 11, Heinrich Friedrich Meyer , † November 27, 1917 in Bremen, lawyer, politician, member of the Bremen Senate
• 1871, December 1, Heinrich Scharrelmann , † August 8, 1940 in Leipzig, educator and writer
• 1872, January 9, Friedrich Karl Biermann , † May 16, 1963, businessman and senator
• 1872, July 13, Agnes Heineken , † July 5, 1954 in Bremen, women's rights activist and politician (DDP), Member of the Bundestag
• 1872, September 12, Heinrich Schulz , † September 4, 1932 in Berlin, politician
• 1872, December 12, Heinrich Vogeler , † June 14, 1942 in the Budjonny Kolkhoz near Kornejewka (Kazakhstan), painter
• 1873, January 5th, Dr. jur. Theodor Spitta , † January 24, 1969, Senator and Mayor
• 1873, February 8, Hans Höppner , † April 24, 1946 in Krefeld, biologist, botanist and entomologist
• 1873, August 13, Georg Bitter , † July 30, 1927, botanist and university professor
• 1873, September 12, Theodore Garbade , † January 26, 1961, businessman, banker, President of the Association of Cigar Manufacturers of Cuba
• 1874, August 3, Fritz Entholt , businessman and politician, † November 25, 1953
• 1874, May 22, Anton Kippenberg , † September 21, 1950 in Lucerne, Switzerland; Publisher and Goethe collector
• 1874, June 2, Ludwig Roselius , † May 15, 1943 in Berlin, coffee merchant and founder of the Kaffee HAG company, inventor of decaffeinated coffee
• 1874, July 2, Bernhard Averbeck , † October 17, 1930 in Jena, Dr. jur. utr., manufacturer and President of the German Cement Association (DZB)
• 1874, November 30, Bernard Meyer , † September 10, 1958 in Bremen, worker and politician, member of the Bremen citizenship
• 1875, March 31, Hans Osten , † March 29, 1936 in Montevideo, businessman and astronomer
• 1875, July 28, Louis Krages , † May 15, 1955, entrepreneur in the timber trade
• 1875, September 3, Wilhelm Scharrelmann , † April 18, 1950 in Worpswede, teacher and writer
• 1875, November 4, Magdalene Pauli , † August 5, 1970 in Hamburg, pseudonym Marga Berck, writer
• 1875, November 27, Julius Grober , † November 10, 1971 in Bonn, internist and university professor

1876 ​​to 1900

• 1876, May 11, Armin von Lossow , † March 28, 1945 in Berlin-Zehlendorf, district administrator
• 1876, November 30, Bernhard Adelung , † 24./25. February 1943 in Darmstadt, Prime Minister of Hesse 1928–1933
• 1877, January 2, Walter Bertelsmann , † February 11, 1963 in Worpswede, landscape painter
• 1877, March 27, Margarethe von Reinken , † January 20, 1962, painter
• 1877, May 3, Karl Abraham , † December 25, 1925 in Berlin, psychoanalyst ("Dream and Myth", 1909)
• 1877, July 5, Marie Stumpe , † December 16, 1946 in the USA, painter
• 1877, July 30, Hans Meyer , † April 11, 1964 in Marburg, physician, radiologist and editor of a specialist journal
• 1877, December 23, Anton Albers the Younger , † December 23, 1915 in Dünaburg, Latvia, painter
• 1878, January 26th, Rudolf Alexander Schröder , † August 22nd, 1962 in Bad Wiessee, interior designer, painter, poet (We believe God in the highest throne; it may be that everything falls; evening was, night is coming soon)
• 1878, July 2, Johannes Daniel Volkmann , † July 20, 1944, businessman and President of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce
• 1878, July 26, Ernst Hoppenberg , † September 29, 1937, swimmer
• 1878, September 21, Clara Westhoff , † March 9, 1954 in Fischerhude, sculptor
• 1878, November 26, Detmar Heinrich Sarnetzki , † August 24, 1961, journalist and writer
• 1879, September 17, Otto Blendermann , † 1944, architect
• 1880, April 26, Franz Fromme , † May 29, 1960, author, journalist and translator
• 1880, October 7, Conrad Albrecht , † August 18, 1969; Naval officer, most recently Admiral General in World War II
• 1880, December 15, Emil Waldmann , † March 17, 1945 (death declaration) in Würzburg, art historian, director of the Kunsthalle Bremen
• 1881, May 7, Johann Rickmers , † November 9, 1923, Hitler putschist
• 1881, June 16, Dora Bromberger , † July 18, 1942 in the Maly Trostinez extermination camp, painter
• 1881, October 8, Gustav Wilmanns , † January 14, 1965 in Schönberg / Taunus, chemist and developer of multi-layer color film
• 1881, December 2, Heinrich Barkhausen , † February 20, 1956 in Dresden, physicist
• 1882, May 21, Carl Weidemeyer , † April 18, 1976 in Ascona, artist and architect
• 1882, August 9, Karl Stoevesandt , † July 4, 1977, Prof. D.Dr. med., physician and theologian
• 1882, August 24, Henriette Bromberger , † July 18, 1942 in the Maly Trostinez extermination camp, pianist and music teacher
• 1883, February 21, Walther Kulenkampff † September 29, 1929 in Magdeburg, entrepreneur and politician, member of the Reichstag
• 1883, March 19, Hans Lehmkuhl , † February 24, 1969, painter, restorer
• 1883, December 26, Carl Ahues , † December 31, 1968 in Hamburg, chess player
• 1884, March 12, Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub , † April 30, 1963 in Heidelberg, art historian and director of the Kunsthalle Mannheim
• 1884, April 11, August Kaufhold , † June 6, 1955 in Dötlingen, painter
• 1884, June 20, Wilhelm Finke , † November 7, 1950, physicist and astronomer, founding members of the Olbers Society
• 1884, October 19, Max Nemetz , † July 2, 1971 in Bad Herrenalb, actor
• 1885, March 4, Walter Görig , † April 7, 1974, architect and master builder in Bremen
• 1886, June 28, Richard Duckwitz , † November 30, 1972, politician (DDP, NSDAP, DP and GDP) and mayor of Bremen
• 1886, July 4, Herbert von Böckmann , † March 10, 1974 in Baden-Baden, General of the Infantry
• 1887, February 21, Erna Rieckmann , † unknown, politician (USPD)
• 1887, April 7, Wilhelm Deisen , † February 23, 1962 in Bremen, communist politician
• 1887, May 9, Fritz von Waldthausen , † December 12, 1957 in Essen, banker
• 1887, June 23, Ernst Rowohlt , † December 1, 1960 in Hamburg, publisher
• 1887, August 12, Heinz Baden , † August 25, 1954 in Bremen-St. Magnus, painter
• 1887, December 23, Thomas Otto Achelis , † July 14, 1967 in Kiel, grammar school teacher, historian and author
• 1888, Agnes Sander-Plump , † December 23, 1980 in Lilienthal near Bremen, painter
• 1888, April 24, Hermann Mester , † July 7, 1973, Bremen politician and senator (SPD)
• 1888, June 25, Tami Oelfken , actually Maria Wilhelmine Oelfken, † April 7, 1957 in Munich, writer and reform pedagogue
• 1888, August 2, August Hagedorn , † December 24, 1969 in Bremen, politician (SPD), president of the citizenry
• 1889, August 16, Carl Rotermund , † December 6, 1976 in Bremen, architect
• 1890, October 8, Henrich Focke , † February 25, 1979 in Bremen, aircraft designer (founder of Focke-Wulf AG)
• 1891, March 7th Helmuth Westhoff , † August 16, 1977 in Fischerhude, painter
• 1891, March 8, Hans Heyse , † October 19, 1976 in Göttingen, philosophy professor
• 1891, March 14, Hermann Wenhold , March 15, 1976, businessman, politician (FDP) and Senator from Bremen
• 1892, March 18, Friedrich Prüser , † August 27, 1974, State Archives Director Bremen, author
• 1892, July 23, Emil Theil , † December 27, 1968, Bremen politician (SPD) and senator
• 1892, October 16, Adolf Ziegler , † September 18, 1959 in Varnhalt, painter, President of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts
• 1893, January 11th Georg Meyer , † September 25th 1926, successful fighter pilot in World War I and head of the air shipping company pilot school in Magdeburg
• 1893, September 20, Hans Scharoun , † November 25, 1972 in Berlin, architect
• 1894, April 15, Frank Wohlfahrt , † October 3, 1971 in Hamburg, musician, composer, music teacher and music critic
• 1894, September 12, Friedrich Ebert , † December 4, 1979 in East Berlin, member of the Reichstag (SPD), politician (SED), Lord Mayor of East Berlin
• 1895, January 4, Fritz Fullriede , † November 3, 1969 in Bad Oldesloe, major general
• 1895, February 1, Christian Fette , † October 26, 1971 in Benrath-Much / Siegkreis, Chairman of the German Federation of Trade Unions (DGB) 1951–1952
• 1895, February 28, Herbert Bellmer , † January 5, 1950 in Lübeck, teacher and writer
• 1895, April 14, Alfred Kühne , † October 16, 1981 in Lenzerheide / Switzerland, long-time director of Kuehne + Nagel, son of the founder, founder of the Kühne Foundation
• 1895, May 17, Georg Wulf , † September 29, 1927 in Bremen, aviation pioneer and aircraft manufacturer (Focke-Wulf)
• 1895, August 11, Friedrich Forster , † March 1, 1958, writer, screenwriter, actor and dramaturge
• 1895, December 5, Helmuth Kulenkampff , † June 12, 1971, physicist
• 1896, February 2, Hermann Beenken , † April 6, 1952 in Madrid, art historian
• 1896, March 22, Karl Dannemann , † May 4, 1945 in Werder (Havel), painter and film actor
• 1896, May 19, Emil Trinkler , † April 19, 1931, Asian researcher
• 1896, September 4, Wilhelm Haas , † January 11, 1981 in Bremen, diplomat in the Weimar Republic and ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany.
• 1896, September 15, Hilda Heinemann , † May 5, 1979, wife of Federal President Gustav Heinemann
• 1896, October 26, Wilhelm Krüger , † August 24, 1970, politician (SPD) and member of the Bremen citizenship
• 1897, January 6, Heinz Meyer , † October 14, 1959 in Bremen, politician (SPD), member of the Bremen citizenship, member of the Bundestag
• 1897, March 9, Johann Heinrich Kühn , † May 8, 1945 in Bergen-Belsen, party functionary (SPD) and victim of National Socialism
• 1897, July 24th Wilhelm Eildermann , † October 16, 1988, communist politician (KPD / SED), journalist and university professor
• 1897, September 7th Edwin Lauprecht , † July 7th 1987, animal breeding scientist
• 1897, November 21, Heinrich Bunge , † December 8, 1968, politician (DP, NPD)
• 1898, January 4, Friedrich Lindemann , † February 11, 1950, writer and journalist
• 1898, January 6, Wilhelm Knapp , † April 4, 1984 in Rostock, party functionary (KPD, SED) and resistance fighter against National Socialism
• 1898, January 23, Georg Kulenkampff , † October 5, 1948 in Zurich, violinist
• 1898, February 21, Adolf Ehlers , † May 20, 1978, politician (KPD, KPO, SAPD, SPD), Bremen senator 1946–1963 and mayor 1959–1963
• 1898, May 7, Stephan von Gröning (officer) , † 1982, Abwehr officer
• 1899, December 4, Friedo Lampe , † May 2, 1945 in Kleinmachnow, librarian and writer
• 1899, December 28, Arthur Pieck , † January 13, 1970 in Berlin-Biesdorf, politician
• 1900, Rudolf Koch-Riehl , † September 2, 1956 in Bonn, actor, director and radio play speaker
• 1900, January 20, Wilhelm Melchers , † November 18, 1971 in Freiburg im Breisgau, diplomat and ambassador
• 1900, April 15, Wilhelm Wagenfeld , † May 28, 1990 in Stuttgart, utility designer and Bauhaus student

20th century

1901 to 1910

• 1901, March 2, Grete Hermann , † April 15, 1984, mathematician, physicist, philosopher and educator
• 1901, March 11, Karl Hoffmann , † July 17, 1981, economist, entrepreneur and politician
• 1902, January 8, Hermann Rudolf Meyer , † July 4, 1979 in Bremen, newspaper publisher of the Weser-Kurier
• 1902, March 12, Gottfried Hasenkamp , † September 2, 1990 in Münster (Westphalia), writer
• 1902, August 2, Hela Gruel , † October 23, 1991 in Wedel, actress and voice actress
• 1902, December 18, Hans Biebow , † June 23, 1947 in Łódź, head of the National Socialist German administration of the Litzmannstadt ghetto in Łódź
• 1903, October 5, Walter Spitta , † January 26, 1945 in Nakel, Protestant pastor and member of the Confessing Church
• 1904, May 24, Herbert Koch , † September 3, 1967, chemist, namesake of the Koch reaction
• 1904, June 12, John Newmark , † October 14, 1991 in Montreal, Canadian pianist
• 1904, July 2, Ernst Roselius , † March 3, 1941 in Bad Rothenfelde, communications scientist and author
• 1904, August 16, Robert Stampa alias Robert Dorsay, † October 29, 1943, executed in Berlin-Plötzensee, cabaret artist and actor
• 1904, September 29, Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz , † February 16, 1973, diplomat, helped save 7,000 Danish Jews
• 1904, October 11, Alexander Piorkowski , † October 22, 1948 in Landsberg am Lech, SS-Sturmbannführer and camp commandant of the Dachau concentration camp
• 1905, Friedrich Schumacher , † 1993 in Bremen, architect and master builder of the Bremen cathedral
• 1905, January 19, Gottlieb Pot d'Or , † March 26, 1978 in Schweringen, painter
• 1905, October 24, Charlotte Fera , † May 10, 1998, Hamburg politician (CDU)
• 1906, April 14th, Eleonore Staimer , b. Pieck, † November 7, 1998 in Berlin, diplomat, envoy of the GDR, later ambassador to Yugoslavia (1958-69)
• 1906, April 16, Ludwig Hackerott , † August 2, 1997, author
• 1906, June 6, Franz Löbert , † June 10, 1975, Mayor of Bremen-Huchting, Bremen politician (SPD) and senator
• 1906, October 30, Alexander Gode , † August 10, 1970 in Mount Kisco, creator of the planned language Interlingua
• 1906, December 28, Leni Schmidt , † November 11, 1985, sprinter
• 1906, December 31, Johann Wempe , † May 29, 1980, astronomer
• 1907, February 15, Käthe Popall , † May 23, 1984, politician (KPD) and senator
• 1907, March 17, Walther J. Jacobs , † June 4, 1998, coffee merchant and sponsor of horse racing
• 1907, October 24, Albert Hoffmann , † August 26, 1972 in Heiligenrode (Stuhr) near Bremen, entrepreneur and Nazi Gauleiter Westphalia-South during the Third Reich
• 1908, Tilly Lüssen , † 2000 in Bremen, opera singer (soprano)
• 1908, June 16, Jules Eberhard Noltenius , † August 7, 1976, Bremen politician (CDU), senator and mayor
• 1908, June 25, Klaus Bücking , + December 4, 1980, resistance fighter, sculptor
• 1909, February 9 in the Blumenthal district, Harald Genzmer , † December 16, 2007 in Munich, composer (orchestral, choral and organ works)
• 1909, February 22, Lotte Meyer , † June 7, 1991 in Dresden, actress
• 1909, August 3, Eduard Hundt , † July 22, 2002, football player
• 1909, September 9, Otto Volkmann , † November 20, 1936 near Madrid, Spain fighter
• 1909, December 21, Hermann Heemsoth , † January 20, 2006, correspondence chess grandmaster
• 1909, June 13, Diedrich Wattenberg , † November 26, 1996 in Berlin, astronomer and publicist
• 1910, April 4, Selma Grieme , † September 27, 1999, athlete
• 1910, May 25, Hermann Wolters , † October 24, 1974, politician and senator in Bremen
• 1910, June 22nd, Gerda Krüger-Nieland , † September 21st, 2000 in Karlsruhe, lawyer and first President of the Senate at the Federal Court of Justice
• 1910, September 10, Bernard Adolf Schriever , † June 20, 2005 in Washington, DC, General of the US Air Force, developed the US ICBM program

1911 to 1920

• 1911, March 8, Herbert Abel , † June 17, 1994, geographer and museum director in Bremen
• 1911, March 11, Karl Weßling , † August 18, 1968, trade unionist and politician (SPD)
• 1911, September 25, Heinz Meyer , † October 23, 1986 in Bremen, local office manager and politician (SPD)
• 1911, September 25, Hans Puvogel , † June 11, 1999, lawyer and politician (CDU), from 1963 to 1978 MdL Lower Saxony and from 1976 to 1978 Lower Saxony Minister of Justice
• 1911, December 11, Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock , † April 18, 1986, submarine commander in World War II and known as the "old man" in the book and film Das Boot
• 1912, January 19, Wilhelm Dettmering , † February 18, 1999, German engineer and VDI chairman
• 1912, January 30, Jutta Hübinger , † November 13, 1991 in Bonn, writer
• 1912, May 31, Otto Kurth , † December 13, 1996, actor and director
• 1912, August 18, Volker Gwinner , † May 7, 2004, composer and organist
• 1912, October 1, Eduard Hesse , † December 10, 2011 in Bielefeld, Protestant clergyman of the Confessing Church
• 1913, January 5, Wilma Landwehr , † 1981, Bremen politician (KPD, SPD)
• 1913, January 9, Hans Meyer , † after 1979, politician (KPD)
• 1913, February 18, Jürgen Bertelsmann , † May 1942 in Russia, painter and graphic artist
• 1913, March 18, Reinhard Hardegen , † June 9, 2018, submarine commander and Member of the Bundestag
• 1913, June 17, Felix Hartlaub , † April / May 1945 in Berlin, writer
• 1913, November 18, Max Hermann von Freeden , † April 20, 2001 in Würzburg, art historian and museum director
• 1914, January 24, Gustav Böhrnsen , † June 21, 1998, politician and resistance fighter
• 1914, March 1, Karin Stilke , † May 2, 2013, photo model
• 1914, April 26, Rudolf Jacobs , † November 3, 1944 in Sarzana, partisan in Italy
• 1914, July 20, Hermann Uhde , opera singer (bass baritone); † October 10, 1965 in Copenhagen
• 1914, October 24, Annemarie Mevissen , † July 13, 2006, Senator and Mayor of Bremen
• 1914, November 18, Hans Möller , † October 11, 2001 near Neustadt in Holstein, painter, graphic artist and illustrator
• 1914, December 14, Karl Carstens , † May 30, 1992 in Meckenheim, Federal President (1979–84), President of the Bundestag (1976–79), Chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag (1973–76), State Secretary and Head of the Federal Chancellery (1967-69)
• 1915, February 2, Albert Müller , † September 22, 1991, Bremen politician (SPD) and senator
• 1915, February 16, Hans-Rudolf Wiedemann , † 2006 in Kiel, pediatrician and autograph collector
• 1915, March 5, Friedrich Meyer alias Bert Oltmann, † August 20, 1993, composer (for two groschen of music)
• 1915, October 27, Lenelotte von Bothmer , † June 19, 1997, politician (SPD) and writer
• 1916, September 25, Friedrich Thielen , † June 11, 1993, politician (CDU, DP, GDP, NPD), Member of the Bundestag, NPD Federal Chairman (1964–1967)
• 1916, October 13, Christian Modersohn , † December 24, 2009, painter, son of Otto Modersohn
• 1916, December 3, Hermann Meyer , † October 9, 1999, administrative officer, politician (CDU), member of the Bremen citizenship
• 1917, March 14, Gerhard Müller-Menckens , † August 13, 2007, architect
• 1917, March 17, Herbert V. Guenther , † March 11, 2006, orientalist, Tibetologist and Buddhist researcher
• 1917, June 24th, Dr. Hans-Hermann Sieling , † February 6, 1991, Bremen politician (CDU)
• 1918, July 25, Annemarie Cordes , † April 8, 1998, actress
• 1918, November 20, Dora Ratjen, (actually Heinrich Ratjen ), † April 22, 2008, athlete who took part in the 1936 Olympic Games in the women's high jump competition
• 1919, March 8, Erika Rumsfeld , † July 20, 1998, Low German folk actress
• 1919, September 18, Marga Petersen , b. Kalensee, † September 22, 2002 in Ottersberg, track and field athlete and Olympic participant
• 1919, October 14, Herbert Schwarzwälder , † September 11, 2011 in Bremen, historian
• 1920, May 7th, Eberhard Freudenberg , † 1977, radio play director and radio editor at Radio Bremen
• 1920, June 23, Gerry Wolff , † February 16, 2005 in Oranienburg, actor, voice actor
• 1920, November 14th, Cato Bontjes van Beek , † August 5th, 1943 executed in Berlin-Plötzensee, resistance fighter

1921 to 1930

• 1921, Robert Last , † 1986, drummer
• 1921, January 16, Otmar Leist , † December 10, 2012 in Bremen, writer
• 1921, March 2, Heinz-Otto Müller-Erbach , † June 14, 1984 in Erbach (Odenwald), painter
• 1921, March 16, Bernd Schirrmacher , † February 13, 2015 in Lahnau, communications engineer
• 1921, April 27, Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff , † August 14, 1998 in Seeham, Austria; Actor, Quizmaster (One Will Win)
• 1921, May 18, Herbert Oelschläger , † June 2, 2006, pharmacologist
• 1921, May 24, Walter Alexander Bauer , † November 18, 2011, writer
• 1921, December 12, Harro Fromme , † July 21, 2008 in Bremerhaven, opera singer, film director and painter
• 1922, February 6, Carl Lahusen , diplomat
• 1922, August 28, Wolfgang Hinrichs , † September 3, 2010 in Bremen, businessman and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag and Member of the Bundestag
• 1922, October 22, Eugen Dietrich Graue , † August 20, 2006, lawyer and university professor
• 1923, August 19, Magdalene Ehlers , † November 10, 2016 in Bremen-Lesum, Low German poet and writer
• 1923, September 12, Harald Kruse , † August 3, 1988 in Bremen, pianist and composer
• 1923, October 22, Bert Trautmann , † July 19, 2013 in La Llosa / Spain, football player (goalkeeper)
• 1924, February 29, Joachim Stoermer , † August 20, 2002 in Essen, pediatric cardiologist and university professor in Göttingen and Essen
• 1924, November 1, Ernst Diekmann , † January 9, 2020 in Bremen, Chief of Police in Bremen
• 1924, December 9, Rolf Dannenbring , † January 26, 1998, legal scholar, historian and university professor
• 1925, July 5, Hans OE Gronau , † April 8, 2001 in Siedenburg, author, painter, graphic artist and photographer
• 1925, August 25th, Hilmar Hoffmann , chairman of the Hessian culture commission and chairman of the administrative board of the German Film Institute
• 1925, December 13, Joachim Ditzen-Blanke , † August 29, 2019 in Bremerhaven, newspaper publisher
• 1926, January 19, Hans Dieter Zeidler , † October 25, 1998 in Zurich, actor and voice actor
• 1926, February 9, Carl Theodor Hütterott , school musician and composer
• 1926, June 11, Günter Meinardus , † June 11, 2007, mathematician
• 1926, October 27, Kai Warner alias Werner Last, † August 9, 1982 in Hamburg, composer and band leader (so-called "Phillysound")
• 1927, January 28, Hans Stefan Seifriz , politician (SPD), member of the Bundestag and Senator from Bremen
• 1927, June 20, Georg Arfmann , † August 9, 2015, sculptor
• 1927, August 5, Harald Halgardt , † January 19, 2019, actor and voice actor
• 1927, November 6, Detlef Hegemann , † August 23, 2011, entrepreneur, managing partner of the Hegemann Group
• 1928, September 17th, Peter Zinkann , entrepreneur (Miele), honorary citizen of Gütersloh
• 1928, October 24, Otti Wilmanns , botanist
• 1928, December 11, Karl-Heinz Cammann , † November 22, 2011, journalist, honorary chairman of the Association of German Sports Journalists
• 1929, Hilde Sinapius , painter and poet
• 1929, February 20, Helmut Stange , † January 1, 2018 in Munich, actor
• 1929, April 2, Hans Koschnick , † April 21, 2016, Bremen politician (SPD) and President of the Senate
• 1929, April 17, James Last , † June 9, 2015, composer, band leader
• 1930, March 10, Ronny , † August 18, 2011, pop singer (Little Anabel; Let the sun shine again)
• 1930, April 15, Helmut König , music editor and songwriter
• 1930, April 24th, Karsten Vilmar , surgeon, honorary president of the German Medical Association
• 1930, August 28, Dietz-Otto Edzard , † June 2, 2004, ancient orientalist
• 1930, August 30, Manfred Straßburg , † December 6, 2014, Professor of Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine

1931 to 1940

• 1931, February 4, Ursel Kerstein (née Ursula Fascher), † November 10, 2013 in Bremen, politician (SPD), member of the Bremen citizenship and first women's representative of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
• 1931, March 29, Ingrid Busboom , politician (SPD) and member of the Bremen citizenship
• 1931, April 18, Hermann Cordes , † December 3, 2014 in Bremen, botanist, professor at the University of Bremen and nature conservation activist
• 1931, April 28, Horst Stäcker , † May 13, 2015 in Bremen, politician (SPD) and member of the Bremen citizenship
• 1931, May 2, Heinz Manchen , † March 20, 1978 in Bremen, rower
• 1931, May 8th, Arend Vollers , tea merchant and experienced tea connoisseur
• 1931, May 29, Egon Ditt , † July 4, 2005 in Bremen, chess player and administrative specialist
• 1931, August 6, Ewald Launspach , † April 24, 2015 in Bremen, politician (SPD) and member of the Bremen citizenship
• 1932, March 29, Gerd Baltus , † December 13, 2019 in Hamburg, actor
• 1932, June 27th Heinz Janssen , † March 12th 2019, politician (SPD)
• 1933, Helmut Stelljes , author and photographer ("Ambassador Worpswedes")
• 1933, January 25, Claus Homfeld , † October 9, 2019, sculptor and medalist
• 1933, February 22nd, Peter Dauelsberg , cellist
• 1933, May 4, Marie-Luise Gansberg , † February 3, 2003, literary scholar
• 1933, October 19, Harald Scherf , † November 30, 2008 in Hamburg, economist and university professor
• 1934, April 6th, Thomas Röpke , doctor
• 1934, July 8, Hinrich Schwenker , † April 18, 2005, handball player
• 1935, January 19, Arnold "Pico" Schütz , † April 14, 2015, football player
• 1935, February 13, Karl-Ernst Behre , archaeobotanist
• 1935, February 15, George Alexander Albrecht , conductor
• 1935, April 5, Claus Grobecker , † February 6, 2018, politician (SPD)
• 1935, April 20, Peter Willers , environmental activist and politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Member of the Bundestag
• 1935, August 7, Thomas Schiestl , † April 21, 2017 in Worpswede, actor
• 1936, Karl Grobe-Hagel , journalist and author
• 1936, March 16, Hans G. Trüper , † March 9, 2016 in Bonn, microbiologist and historian
• 1936, April 21, Gert-Ulrich Buurman , † February 23, 2013 in Marburg, teacher and boarding school director
• 1936, June 8, Friedrich Meckseper , † June 5, 2019, painter, graphic artist, draftsman and designer
• 1936, December 3rd, Klaus Johann Jacobs , entrepreneur and patron
• 1937, Heinrich Dietrich Carl Upmann, owner of the tobacco trade H. Upmann & Co. Bremen, former tobacco company with shipping company and bank
• 1937, April 20, Fritz Tepperwien , † June 3, 2014, politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
• 1937, June 7th, Claus Peymann , theater maker
• 1937, October 13th Uwe Hollweg , entrepreneur, politician (CDU), patron of the arts, member of the Seafaring House, honorary citizen of the city
• 1937, November 2, Rudolf Wille , † January 22, 2017 in Bickenbach (Bergstrasse), mathematician and university professor
• 1937, November 22nd, Burghard Rieger , university professor, computer linguist
• 1938, April 8th, Ulrich Hartmann , politician, member of the Hamburg parliament
• 1938, July 9, Frank Crüsemann , theologian
• 1938, September 27, Ulrich Denkhaus , † January 1, 2013 in Wetzlar, theologian and physicist
• 1938, October 31, Henning Scherf , Bremen politician (SPD), Senator, Mayor and President of the Senate
• 1939, February 16, Volker Spengler , † February 8, 2020 in Berlin, actor at the theater and in film
• 1939, April 12, Wilfried Podriech , graphic artist
• 1939, May 15, Heiner Greten , internist
• 1939, June 17, Hanna Johansen , writer
• 1939, August 9, Peter Stahrenberg , † April 9, 2020 in Braunschweig, architect
• 1939, August 12, Claus Wilcke , actor and voice actor
• 1939, August 18, Marita Lorenz , † August 31, 2019 in Oberhausen, secret agent
• 1939, August 19, Max Lorenz , national soccer player, German cup winner 1961, German champion 1965 with SV Werder Bremen, vice world champion 1966
• 1940, Rolf Kunkel , journalist and Kisch Prize winner
• 1940, February 8, Wolfgang Vogel , † October 2, 1996, mathematician
• 1940, December 27th, Klaus-Dieter Fischer , football official, President of SV Werder Bremen

1941 to 1950

• 1941, May 4th, Volker Ernsting , caricaturist and illustrator
• 1942, May 10, Hartmut Bitomsky , author and filmmaker, since January 2006 director of the German Film and Television Academy Berlin
• 1942, June 15, Jan Störmer , architect in Hamburg
• 1942, October 2, Manfred Zapatka , actor
• 1943, July 5th, Bringfriede Kahrs , politician (SPD)
• 1943, December 14th, Lydia Huber , singer (Mei Glück is a Hütterl)
• 1944, May 9, Petra Roth , politician (CDU), Lord Mayor of Frankfurt am Main
• 1944, June 14th, Dieter Ficken , German-American football player and coach
• 1945, March 25, Sabine Uhl Social Policy Officer (SPD)
• 1945, July 26th, Horst Königstein , † May 12th 2013, television and theater director and screenwriter
• 1945, August 13th, Fredy Meyer , teacher, historian and specialist author
• 1945, November 25, Peter Gloystein , politician (CDU)
• 1946, Wolf Burbat , jazz musician and composer
• 1946, Gisela Fox-Düvell , painter and graphic artist
• 1946, Gotthart Kuppel , playwright and object artist
• 1946, January 6, Frank Lutz , † August 19, 2001 in Bremen, lawyer and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
• 1946, May 5, Herbert Mehrtens , science and mathematics historian
• 1946, May 18, Bernd Meyer , teacher and politician, member of the Bremen citizenship
• 1947, August 19, Wolfgang Rose , politician (SPD) and trade unionist
• 1948, January 16, Ulrich Tilgner , journalist and foreign correspondent
• 1948, January 17th, Hella Eckert , writer
• 1948, March 5, Elisabeth Störmer-Hemmelgarn , painter; Lives and works in Berlin
• 1948, June 4th, Helga Grubitzsch, literary scholar, university lecturer in Bremen and Paderborn
• 1948, June 12, Herbert Meyer , football player
• 1949, Wolfgang Zach , painter and object artist
• 1949, April 15, Walter Quintus , † February 5, 2017, musician, composer, sound engineer and music producer
• 1949, April 29, Norbert Schwontkowski , † June 14, 2013, painter
• 1949, May 16, Wolfgang Grotheer , politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
• 1949, May 16, Wolfgang Schrörs , † November 17, 2019, politician (CDU)
• 1949, June 12th, Jens Böhrnsen , President of the Senate and Mayor
• 1949, August 2, Louis Krages , † January 11, 2001 in Atlanta, racing car driver and businessman
• 1950, Egmont Robert Koch , film journalist and author
• 1950, January 16, Gerhard Gäde , Catholic theologian and author
• 1950, February 2, Barbara Sukowa , actress (Rosa Luxemburg and Hildegard von Bingen)
• 1950, February 24, Peter Braun , entrepreneur and politician (FDP)
• 1950, June 17th, Hartmut Wagner , architect and manager
• 1950, November 23, Norbert Braun , entrepreneur
• 1950, November 26th, Dieter Burdenski , soccer goalkeeper
• 1950, November 28th, Hans Strothoff , † August 11th, 2020, family entrepreneur and founder and CEO of the MHK Group AG
• 1950, December 4th, Ingo Wegener , † November 26th 2008 in Bielefeld, computer scientist, winner of the Konrad-Zuse-Medal for services to computer science

1951 to 1960

• 1951, Wilfried Langosz , organist and church music director
• 1951, Heiner Minssen , sociologist and university professor
• 1951, January 5th, Manfred Oppermann , politician (SPD)
• 1951, February 5, Horst Frehe , politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens)
• 1951, May 10, Wolfgang Apel , † February 4, 2017 in Bremen, President of the German Animal Welfare Association
• 1951, August 11, Werner Nickel , football player and coach
• 1951, December 8th, Elfi Eschke , German-Austrian actress
• 1952, Jürgen Happe , musician
• 1952, January 29, Klaus Osterloh , trumpeter
• 1952, August 15, Johann-Günther König , writer
• 1952, August 18, Robert Bücking , politician (Bündnis90 / Die Grünen)
• 1952, August 22, Andreas Kunze , actor
• 1952, August 31, Gerhard Meyer , psychologist and university professor
• 1952, September 14th, Rüdiger Bormann , † January 13th 2013 in Cologne, President of the University of Bayreuth (plagiarism affair surrounding Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg's doctoral thesis)
• 1952, October 6th, Axel Petermann , criminalist and author
• 1952, October 19, Heike Wilms-Kegel , politician
• 1952, December 24th, Siegfried Zademack , painter
• 1953, January 26th, Heinfried Schumacher , politician (SPD), from 1998 to 2003 MdL Lower Saxony
• 1953, June 10, Edith Beleites , writer
• 1953, July 12, Peter Ulrich , Protestant theologian, cathedral preacher and author
• 1953, July 24th, Ingelore Rosenkötter , politician (SPD)
• 1953, July 28, Krista Sager , politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens)
• 1953, December 29, Jürgen Pohlmann , politician (SPD)
• 1954, July 25, Jürgen Trittin , Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (1998–2005)
• 1955, Peter Kurz , publisher and author
• 1955, February 13, Andreas Rumler , poet, non-fiction author, literary critic
• 1955, May 15, Andreas Roloff , forest scientist
• 1955, November 28, Mechthild Podzeit-Lütjen , German-Austrian writer
• 1955, December 16, Eddy Steinblock , † November 9, 2017, wrestler and actor
• 1956, Christoph Hörstel , journalist and political advisor
• 1956, Matthias Keller , music journalist
• 1956, peer meter , writer
• 1956, February 19, Annedore Windler , politician (CDU) and member of the Bremen Parliament
• 1956, March 16, Torsten Conradi , shipbuilding engineer, regatta and touring sailor
• 1956, April 29, Renke Brahms , pastor, secretary of the Bremen Evangelical Church
• 1956, September 18, Uwe Woltemath , politician (until 2010 FDP)
• 1957, January 12, Barbara Thomaß , media scientist and university lecturer
• 1957, June 11, Detlev Gross , lawyer and non-fiction author
• 1957, August 28, Jens Görtz , politician (SPD) and member of the Bremen citizenship
• 1957, September 7th, Jörg Vollmer , General of the Bundeswehr
• 1957, October 1, Will Gmehling , children's and youth author
• 1957, November 6, Klaus Kleinfeld , former CEO of Siemens AG
• 1957, December 20, Piet Klocke , musician, cabaret artist, author and actor
• 1958, June 18, Gert Postel , impostor
• 1959, Christian von der Goltz , jazz musician
• 1959, Katharina Krieger , politician (Die Linke)
• 1959, Michael Lüders , political and Islamic scholar
• 1959, Bettina Sokol , data protection expert, President of the Court of Auditors of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
• 1959, January 17, Peter-Christof Blomeyer , diplomat
• 1959, January 30th, Michael Has , human rights activist and physicist
• 1959, February 14th, Lutz Bachmann , molecular biologist and university professor
• 1959, February 27, Winfried Hammelmann , radio editor, television presenter, film actor and writer
• 1959, March 24th, Uwe Schwenker , national handball player and managing director of THW Kiel
• 1959, May 8th, Carsten Maschmeyer , former board member and co-owner of the companies AWD and Swiss-Life
• 1959, July 30, Silvia Schön , politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen)
• 1959, October 19, Ralf Lau , grandmaster in chess
• 1959, December 2nd, Praxedis Möhring , judge at the Federal Court of Justice
• 1960, Jens Ahrends , politician (AfD)
• 1960, Guido Hoffmann , game designer and illustrator
• 1960, April 23, Arne Heise , professor of finance
• 1960, May 4, Birgit Dressel , † April 10, 1987 in Mainz, athlete in heptathlon
• 1960, August 20, Bernd Steinhardt , writer
• 1960, September 8, Dieter Burdorf , Germanist and university professor
• 1960, September 28, Matthias Pulte , Catholic theologian
• 1960, October 11, Joachim Eibach , historian
• 1960, October 28, Susanne Grobien , politician (CDU)
• 1960, December 13th, Joachim Pfannschmidt , surgeon and adjunct professor

1961 to 1970

• 1961, Jan Bemmann , archaeologist
• 1961, January 1st, Sven Regener , musician and writer
• 1961, March 27th, Marvin Entholt , journalist and documentary writer
• 1961, March 30th, Carsten Meyer-Heder , politician (CDU) and IT entrepreneur
• 1961, June 26th, Thomas vom Bruch , politician (CDU)
• 1961, July 15, Hendrik Schwolow , trumpeter, orchestra conductor and arranger
• 1961, July 17th, Henning Lohner , film composer
• 1961, July 30th, Christoph Plass , cancer researcher and human geneticist
• 1961, October 31, Uwe Becker , Protestant theologian and university professor
• 1961, December 30th, Tom Spieß , film producer
• 1962, Uwe Birnstein , theologian
• 1962, Jens Bommert , painter
• 1962, Georg Ready , historian
• 1962, Till Warwas , painter
• 1962, February 10, Jens Maier , politician (AfD)
• 1962, February 26th, Axel Balkausky , sports journalist and television editor
• 1962, March 4th, Carmen Emigholz , politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
• 1962, April 20, Thomas Rohde , oboist
• 1962, June 18, Torsten Marold , game designer
• 1963, February 7th, Torsten Staffeldt , mechanical engineer and politician (FDP)
• 1963, March 5th, Oliver Herrmann , photographer, film and theater director
• 1963, May 25, Torsten Albig , politician (SPD)
• 1963, June 11th, Gitta Kahle , jazz musician
• 1963, June 14th, Arne Körtzinger , chemist, marine researcher and university professor
• 1963, July 8th, Ulrike Grote , actress, director and speaker
• 1963, September 15, Johannes Kahrs , politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
• 1963, December 1st, Udo Baron , historian and political scientist
• 1963, December 16, Bärbel Schäfer , television presenter
• 1963, December 29, Astrid Brandt , † September 26, 2019, artist
• 1964, Michael Landsky , organist and church musician
• 1964, January 3, Dirk Lellek , † April 22, 2016 in Ahlhorn, football player and coach
• 1964, February 4th, Volker Dehs , literary scholar and journalist
• 1964, July 6th, Uwe Harttgen , soccer player and official
• 1964, September 14th, Magnus Kaminiarz , † 2019, architect
• 1964, September 18, Jörg Kastendiek , † 2019, politician
• 1964, November 12, Barbara Stühlmeyer , scientist, author
• 1964, December 16, Sabine Akkermann , politician (CDU, FDP), Member of the Bundestag
• 1964, December 19, Ben Becker , actor
• 1965, Johannes Kahrs , artist
• 1965, February 2, Piet Leidreiter , politician (AfD)
• 1965, February 8th, Ingo Günther , musician, composer and actor
• 1965, March 12, Volker Bach , physicist, mathematician and university professor
• 1965, June 26th, Andreas Erfurth , actor and theater director
• 1965, July 7th, Arnd Zeigler , moderator, journalist, author and singer
• 1965, July 18, Martin Breutigam , chess player and journalist
• 1965, August 3, Stefan Maaß , actor
• 1965, September 24, Sabine Schiffner , writer
• 1965, September 25th, Christine Frai , soccer referee
• 1965, November 4th, Susanne Szell , actress
• 1965, December 10, Jörg Jäger , politician (CDU)
• 1965, December 23, Andreas Kappes , † July 31, 2018, racing cyclist
• 1966, Peter Beck , politician (AfD)
• 1966, Claudia Garde , director and screenwriter
• 1966, January 7th, Jens Eckhoff , politician (CDU)
• 1966, January 20, Peter Tschentscher , politician (SPD), Senator for Finance and First Mayor of Hamburg
• 1966, March 27th, Kai-Uwe Hollweg, entrepreneur, Swedish Honorary Consul of the State of Bremen, member of the House of Seafaring
• 1966, May 4th, Magnus Kleine-Tebbe , sculptor
• 1966, July 5, Alexander Koch , † January 17, 2019 in Berlin, historian and foundation president
• 1966, December 13th, David Safier , screenwriter and writer
• 1967, Irene Albers , Romance studies
• 1967, Christof Knoche , jazz musician
• 1967, Katharina Voss , † February 26, 2018, theater actress
• 1967, January 13, Magnus Buhlert , politician (FDP)
• 1967, May 24th, Julia Bremermann , actress
• 1967, July 31, Björn Tschöpe , politician (SPD)
• 1967, August 9, Sven Strüver , professional golfer
• 1967, August 15, Mattias Kumm , lawyer and university professor
• 1967, September 16, Astrid Böger , Americanist
• 1967, September 17, Enno Bahrs , agricultural economist
• 1967, December 13, Markus Liske , writer
• 1968, Thomas Armbrüster , economist
• 1968, June 1st, Thorsten Benkenstein , jazz musician
• 1968, June 9th, Peter Gagelmann , soccer referee
• 1968, June 30th, Mark Scheibe , musician, singer, composer and songwriter
• 1968, August 5, Lutz Büchner , † March 11, 2016 in Tokyo, jazz musician
• 1968, August 8th, Christian Keßler , film critic, author and film producer
• 1968, August 17th, André Erkau , film director and screenwriter
• 1968, September 27, Hans Pietsch , † January 16, 2003, Go player
• 1968, November 20, Julia Hentschel , actress
• 1968, December 8th, Anne Schierenbeck , politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens)
• 1969, Marc Becker , theater director and author
• 1969, Karolin Klimek , fashion designer, illustrator and university lecturer
• 1969, January 15, Meret Becker , actress
• 1969, September 11th, Alexander Malchow , football player
• 1969, November 29th, Alana Bock , actress
• 1969, November 27th Julia Grimpe , actress
• 1970, Sandra Günter , sports and cultural scientist, university lecturer
• 1970, Melanie Jäger-Waldau , church musician, cathedral cantor in Überlingen
• 1970, January 7th, Markus Naewie , tennis player
• 1970, July 20, Tobias Esch , neurobiologist and university professor
• 1970, September 19, Ingo Steinwart , mathematician and university professor
• 1970, October 10th, Corinna May , singer, participant in the Eurovision Song Contest
• around 1970 , Sabine Pamperrien , journalist, literary scholar, reviewer and non-fiction author

1971 to 1980

• 1971, Kerstin von Lingen , historian
• 1971, January 16, Henrike von Platen , business economist and women's rights activist
• 1971, May 9th, Ignaz Dinné , jazz musician
• 1971, December 19, Axel Brüggemann , journalist and publicist
• 1972, April 13th, Thomas Schumacher , producer of electronic dance music
• 1972, May 6th, Andree Welge , dart player
• 1972, July 19, Bettina Hornhues , politician (CDU)
• 1972, December 27th, Malin Schwerdtfeger , writer
• 1973, February 8th, Swantje Hartmann , politician, member of the Lower Saxony state parliament
• 1973, July 14th, Daniela Haak , alias Lady Danii, singer of Mr. President
• 1973, September 21, Moritz Zielke , actor
• 1973, November 2, Carsten Burhop , historian
• 1974, March 27, Sandra Ahrens , politician (CDU)
• 1974, February 18th, Mark Tavassol , bassist of the music group Wir sind Helden
• 1974, April 13th, Susanne Menzel , jazz singer
• 1974, May 21, Claudia Müller , soccer player
• 1974, July 12, Björn Schierenbeck , football player
• 1974, December 31st, Bas Böttcher , poet and media artist
• 1975, Katalyn Hühnerfeld , cabaret artist, actress and speaker
• 1975, January 27, Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre , writer
• 1975, March 25th, Lars Figura , 400 meter runner
• 1975, April 19, Michael Bartels , politician (CDU)
• 1975, June 6th, Malin Büttner , presenter
• 1975, September 23, FlowinImmO , musician
• 1976, Malte Henk , journalist
• 1976, Hans Löw , actor
• 1976, June 10th, Georg Friedrich Prince of Prussia , head of the House of Hohenzollern
• 1976, June 19, Nikola Richter , writer
• 1976, October 26th, Judith Hinkelmann alias J. Hildebrandt alias T-Seven , singer for Mr. President and radio presenter
• 1976, October 26th, Arnd Lauber , chess player
• 1977, March 23, Roman Fricke , high jumper
• 1977, April 11, Dirk Ehnts , Professor
• 1977, May 30th, Marco da Silva , choreographer, singer and dancer
• 1977, June 29th, Julia Theres Held , television journalist
• 1977, August 24, Kristina Herbst , Ministerial Officer
• 1978, Nils Mönkemeyer , violist
• 1978, David Voss , film director and screenwriter
• 1978, September 6, Christina Jantz-Herrmann , politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
• 1978, December 9th, Neele Vollmar , film director
• 1979, Flo Mega , soul singer
• 1979, Alexander Schubert , musician
• 1979, March 28, Kim Adler , television presenter
• 1980, Reyhan Şahin , rapper, actress and radio presenter
• 1980, March 10th, Johannes Strate , singer of the rock band Revolverheld
• 1980, October 17th, Martje Saljé , keeper
• 1980, November 14th, Nina Müller , handball player

1981 to 1990

• 1981, John-Dennis Renken , jazz and improvisation musician
• 1981, February 23, Jan Böhmermann , radio and television presenter, satirist, film producer and author
• 1981, September 22nd, Janne Drücker , actress
• 1982, Saygin Yalcin , entrepreneur
• 1982, March 17th, Mario Neunaber , soccer player
• 1982, March 19, Murat Kurnaz , Guantánamo prisoner
• 1982, November 12, Mark Runge , politician (AfD)
• 1983, Sven Stockrahm , journalist
• 1983, January 16, Benyamin Sönmez , † November 30, 2011 in Istanbul, Turkish cellist
• 1983, January 25, Sarah Günther-Werlein , soccer player
• 1984, Birte Schnöink , actress
• 1984, March 17th, Jens Crueger , politician
• 1984, January 22nd, Josef Çınar , football player
• 1984, October 13th, Kathrin Fricke aka Coldmirror , video and network artist
• 1984, November 5th, Shiml , rapper and producer
• 1985, September 6, Lencke Wischhusen , entrepreneur and politician (FDP)
• 1987, May 18, Jaana Ehmcke , swimmer
• 1988, January 18, Angelique Kerber , tennis player
• 1988, December 30th, Jan Nolte , politician (AfD)
• 1989, February 8th, Christian Groß , soccer player
• 1989, February 26th, Laura Wontorra , sports presenter
• 1990, April 8th, Rabea Neßlage , handball player

1991 to 2000

• 1991, February 3, Kevin Behrens , soccer player
• 1991, February 16, Terrence Boyd , German-American soccer player
• 1991, September 23, Fabian Burdenski , football player
• 1992, February 3, Malte Grashoff , football player
• 1992, April 30th, Finn Lemke , handball player
• 1992, May 13th, Julia Engelmann , actress and poetry slammer
• 1992, May 31, Jonathan Schmude , football player
• 1993, January 7th, Nico Santos , singer-songwriter
• 1994, February 14th, Julian von Haacke , soccer player
• 1994, March 17th, Tobias Schwede , soccer player
• 1994, October 8th, Leart Paqarada , German-Albanian soccer player
• 1995, February 1st, Maik Łukowicz , German-Polish soccer player
• 1995, March 25, Gerrit Holtmann , football player
• 1996, April 2nd, Stefan Babinsky , Austrian ski racer
• 1996, May 2, Julian Brandt , soccer player
• 1996, November 21, Maximilian Rolka , Polish-German handball player
• 1997, January 9th, Ole Käuper , soccer player
• 1997, November 13th, Pia-Sophie Wolter , soccer player
• 1998, July 9th, Katharina Meier , handball player
• 1998, September 29th, Okan Erdoğan , football player
• 1999, August 13th, Dmitrij Kollars , chess player
• 2000, March 10, Luca Plogmann , soccer goalkeeper

21st century

• 2002, February 14th, Nick Woltemade , soccer player

Other personalities

Other people related to Bremen:

• Doris Achelwilm (* 1976), journalist and politician (Die Linke)
• Adam von Bremen (11th century), cathedral scholast and author
• Detlev Albers (1943–2008), political scientist, university professor and SPD state chairman in Bremen
• Kaspar Altenaich (1527–1605), legal scholar
• Lale Andersen (1905–1972), singer and actress
• Hermann Apelt (1876–1960), Bremen politician (DVP, FDP / BDV) and senator
• Johann Christoph Bachmann (1748–1814), businessman and entrepreneur, founder of the trading company JH Bachmann
• Johann Hinrich Bachmann (? –1832), businessman and entrepreneur, owner of the trading company JH Bachmann in the second generation
• Julius Bamberger (1880–1951), businessman and entrepreneur, owner of the Julius Bamberger department store , Jewish Nazi victim
• Steve Barton (1954–2001), musical performer, died in Bremen
• Heinrich Beck (1832–1881), brewer and co-founder of Beck's brewery
• Uli Beckerhoff (* 1947), jazz musician in Germany
• Fritz Becker (1892–1967), lieutenant general and last combat commander of Bremen in World War II
• Karim Bellarabi (* 1990), football player
• Hans Walter Berg (1916–2003), journalist, among others with the Weser-Kurier; ARD's first Asia correspondent
• Jobst von Berg (* 1962), artist
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784–1846), astronomer and mathematician
• Markus Beyer (1971–2018), world champion boxing super middleweight according to WBC 2003–2006
• Dolf Bissinger (* 1944), Austrian architect and painter, city planner from 1970 to 1987, freelance painter in Bremen since 1991
• Marco Bode (* 1969), soccer player, record scorer and honorary captain of SV Werder Bremen, European champion 1996, German. Master 1993, 3 × Ger. Cup winner, European cup winner 1992
• Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Borgward (1890–1963), engineer and car designer
• David Bromberger (1853–1930), music professor, composer, pianist, conductor and choir director
• Carl Carls (1880–1958), chess master, co-founder and later director of Bremer Creditbank
• Rudi Carrell (1934-2006), Dutch show master who shaped German television entertainment
• Dorothee Colberg-Tjadens (1922–2004), ceramicist, university professor and politician (SPD)
• Coldmirror , bourgeois: Kathrin Fricke (* 1984), video blogger
• Eduard Crüsemann (1826–1869), co-founder of North German Lloyd
• Willy Dehnkamp (1903–1985), Bremen politician (SPD), President of the Senate and Mayor (1965–1967)
• Karl Deichmann (1863–1940), member of the Reichstag (SPD), Bremen senator and mayor
• Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz (1904–1973), diplomat, most recently State Secretary in the Foreign Office, who helped save 7,000 Danish Jews from being transported to the extermination camps
• Johann Christoph Dubbers († 19th century), businessman and entrepreneur, owner JH Bachmann, Member of the Bundestag
• Friedrich Ebert (1871–1925), politician (SPD), first Reich President of the Weimar Republic
• Hermann Engel (1899–1975), mayor from 1966 to 1970
• Osman Engin (* 1960), satirist
• Johannes Ewich (1525–1588), city physicist and first professor of medicine at the grammar school illustrious
• Jürgen Feder (* 1960), qualified engineer for land management, flora and vegetation science, author, chief plant mapper, planned and maintained nature reserves
• Ludwig Franzius (1832–1903), as chief building director, planned and carried out the Weser correction
• Paul Freye (1869–1958), first horticultural director in Bremen, designer of the Osterholz cemetery
• Manfred Fuchs (1938–2014), aerospace engineer and entrepreneur
• Hans-Dietrich Genscher (1927–2016), trainee lawyer and lawyer in Bremen, politician (FDP), former Federal Minister. D.
• Matthias Glandorp (1595–1636), physician, city physician in Bremen and personal physician to the Archbishop of Bremen
• Ernst Glässel (1878–1950) shipping company director of North German Lloyd
• Martha Goldberg (1873–1938), socially committed woman and Jewish Nazi victim of the Reichspogromnacht
• Frauke von der Haar (* 1960), folklorist and art historian, director of the Focke Museum in Bremen since 2008
• Heinrich Hannover (* 1925), lawyer and author
• Hans Hee (1924–2009), successful lyricist, long-time chairman of the German Lyricists Association and GEMA supervisory board
• Arthur Heidenhain (1862–1941), German historian, librarian and founding director of the reading hall in Bremen from 1901 to 1933
• Christian Abraham Heineken (1752–1818), Mayor of Bremen
• Hans Heintze (1911–2003), church musician, organist and cathedral cantor in Bremen
• Rudolf Hengstenberg (1894–1974), painter and graphic artist, lived in Bremen from 1943
• Otthein Herzog (* 1944), German computer scientist, professor at the University of Bremen
• Wilhelm Friedrich Hombergk zu Vach (1713–1784), German lawyer, drafted a Bremen church order and a renewed Cantzlei order for the imperial city of Bremen
• Horst-Dieter Höttges (* 1943), national soccer player, honorary captain of SV Werder Bremen, record player with 420 Bundesliga appearances for Werder, Dt. Champion 1965 with Werder, European Champion 1972, World Champion 1974
• Ricarda Huch (1864–1947), teacher, librarian, writer, who lived in Bremen in 1896/1897
• Kurt Hübner (1916–2007), influential director of the Bremen Theater (1962–1973)
• Wilhelm Theodor Hundiker (1786–1828), reform pedagogue and philologist
• Helmut Jagielski (1934–2002), football player, first libero in the Bundesliga, German. Cup winner 1961, Ger. Champion 1965 with SV Werder Bremen
• Walter Jokisch (1914–1984), actor, lived and worked mainly in Bremen
• Wilhelm Kaisen (1887–1979), politician (SPD), President of the Senate and Mayor of Bremen (1945–1965)
• Lennard Kämna (* 1996), cyclist, with RRG Bremen from 2007 to 2010
• Stephan-Andreas Kaulvers (* 1956), bank manager and CEO of Bremer Landesbank
• Lothar Klimek (1921–2013), photo artist, non-fiction author and university professor
• Adolph Knigge (1752–1796), author of the well-known work On Dealing with People (1788)
• Dorthe Kollo (* 1947), singer, radio presenter NDR 1 with her own program Bi uns to Huus
• Johann Kresnik (1939–2019), Austrian dancer, choreographer and theater director, ballet director at the Bremen theater
• Friedrich Adolf Krummacher (1767–1845), Reformed theologian and pastor at the St. Ansgarii Church, parabolic and hymn poet
• Herbert Kubicek (* 1946), Professor of Applied Computer Science in Bremen since 1988
• Wolfgang Kulenkampff (* 1941), manager and managing director of JH Bachmann
• Klaus Lage (* 1950), singer, composer, ambassador for the sea rescuers
• G. Carl Lahusen (1888–1973), 1921–31 head of the North German wool combing and worsted spinning mill
• Volker Lechtenbrink (* 1944), actor, voice actor, director, artistic director, copywriter and pop singer
• Willi Lemke (* 1946), long-time manager of the Werder Bremen football club, Bremen Senator (SPD)
• Friedrich Ludwig Mallet (1792–1865), reformed clergyman in Bremen, contemporary of Oncken
• Victor Marcus (1849–1911), Senator, Mayor and founder of the first reading room in Bremen
• Barbara Massing (1960–2017), captain
• Gerhard von Mastricht (1639–1721), legal scholar and Syndicus von Bremen
• Rudolf Matzner (1930–2019), local historian, speaker and author
• Otto Meier (1903–1996), ceramist
• Eduard Nebelthau (1902–1971), businessman and entrepreneur, partner JH Bachmann, President of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce
• Vladimír Neff (1909–1983), Czech writer, translator, screenwriter
• Uschi Nerke (* 1944), architect and presenter of the Beat Club and the music store
• Hans Günther Oesterreich (1910–1990), founder of Radio Bremen after the Second World War
• Johann Gerhard Oncken (1800–1884), founder of the German Baptist congregations (1st half of the 19th century)
• Hans Otte (1926–2007), composer and pianist
• Josef Piontek (* 1940), football player and coach, German. Cup winner 1961, Ger. Champion 1965 with SV Werder Bremen
• Ernst Pündter (1884–1929), actor, theater director, radio play speaker and director, as well as broadcasting director of the Bremen branch of the Nordischen Rundfunk AG (NORAG)
• Otto Reckstat (1898–1983), symbolic figure of the workers' uprising on June 17, 1953 in Nordhausen, eight years imprisonment, lived and died in Bremen
• Otto Rehhagel (* 1938), soccer player and coach, record coach of the Bundesliga, 14 years uninterrupted coach at SV Werder Bremen, Dt. Master 1988, 1993, Ger. Cup winner 1991, 1994, European cup winner 1992
• Robert Rickmers (1864–1948), businessman, Gut Hodenberg Foundation
• Thomas Schaaf (* 1961), football player, coach, honorary member of SV Werder Bremen, 3 × German. Master, 5 × Ger. Cup winners, European Cup winners' Cup winners
• Hugo Schauinsland (1857–1937), director of the Bremen Überseemuseum
• Sören Seidel (* 1972), football player
• Gisela Scherzer-Rening (1925–2004), actress and opera soprano
• Manfred Schmidt (1913–1999), humorous travel writer and comic artist, inventor of Nick Knatterton
• Sven Schomacker (* 1973), politician (Pirate Party)
• Johannes K. Soyener (1945–2018), chemical engineer and writer of historical and documentary novels
• Johanna Spyri (1827–1901), youth writer and creator of Heidi
• Ingo Timm (* 1973), computer scientist, professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main
• Hermann Dietrich Upmann (1816–1894), founder of the tobacco brand H. Upmann and the banking house H. Upmann & Co, shipowner and banker
• Hans D. Voss (1926–1980), artist, representative of abstract art and Informel in Germany
• Diedrich Heinrich Wätjen (1785–1858), merchant, shipowner and senator in Bremen
• Klaus Wedemeier (* 1944 in Hof), politician, mayor and President of the Senate 1985–1995 (SPD)
• Heinrich (Heinz) Weidemann (1895–1976), Protestant theologian, regional bishop in Bremen
• Martin Welzel (* 1972), organist, musicologist and music teacher; former student of the Bremen cathedral organist Käte van Tricht
• Manjou Wilde (* 1995), soccer player, Bremen's first German national player
• Peter Johann Willatzen (1824–1898), teacher, translator and poet, teacher at the Bremen secondary school
• Elisabeth Wischeropp (* 1961), sculptor, lives and works in Bremen
• Michael Wüstenberg (* 1954), emeritus Roman Catholic Bishop of Aliwal in South Africa; was a chaplain and pastor in Bremen
• Leopold Ziegenbein (1874–1950), won the Blue Ribbon as a commodore of Bremen at North German Lloyd
• Heinrich von Zütphen (around 1488 - 1524), prior, reformer and evangelical martyr

See also

• List of members of the Bundestag in Bremen