List of Famous people born in Altona, Germany

Heinz Lieven is a German actor.

Hark Bohm is a German actor, screenwriter, film director, playwright and former professor for cinema studies. He was born in Hamburg-Othmarschen and grew up on the island Amrum. His younger brother was the actor Marquard Bohm, who starred in some of his early films. He is most notable for his long-time collaboration with Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Elisabeth Ida Marie Flickenschildt was a German actress, producer and author. She appeared in dozens of German language films and television productions between 1935–1976.

Birgit Breuel is a German politician, representative of the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU). She is the former President of the Treuhand Agency, and Commissioner General of the Expo 2000 in Hannover, and later worked in several honorary positions.

Max Julius Friedrich Brauer was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the first elected First Mayor of Hamburg after World War II.

Bernhard Heinrich Karl Martin von Bülow, created Fürst von Bülow in 1905, was a German statesman who served as Foreign Minister for three years and then as Chancellor of the German Empire from 1900 to 1909. A fervent supporter of Weltpolitik, Bülow single-mindedly devoted his chancellorship to making Germany a leading power on the world stage. Despite presiding over sustained economic growth and technological advancement within his country, his government's foreign policy did much to antagonize the international community and significantly contributed to the outbreak of the First World War.

Paul Nevermann was a German politician, member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and First Mayor of Hamburg.

Wilhelm August Rudolf Lehmann was a German-English portraitist and author. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1866.