List of Famous people born in Berlin, Germany
Prince Waldemar of Prussia
Prince Joachim Friedrich Ernst Waldemar of Prussia was the sixth child and youngest son of German Crown Prince Friedrich, and Victoria, Princess Royal, the eldest daughter of the British Queen Victoria.
Sophie of Brandenburg
Elisabeth Magdalene von Brandenburg
Max Reichpietsch
Max Reichpietsch was a German sailor executed in 1917 for socialist agitation in the Imperial German Navy.
Heinz Brandt
Heinz Brandt was a German officer during World War II who served as an aide to General Adolf Heusinger, the head of the operations unit of the General Staff. He may have inadvertently saved Adolf Hitler's life, at the cost of his own, by moving the 20 July plot bomb planted by Claus von Stauffenberg.
Margot Wölk
Margot Wölk was a German secretary who was among 15 young women who, in 1942, were selected to taste German leader Adolf Hitler's food at the Wolf's Lair in East Prussia for two-and-a-half years to confirm that it was safe. She was the only one of the 15 to survive World War II, and her background as Hitler's food taster was not revealed until a newspaper interview on her 95th birthday in December 2012.
Princess Dorothea of Courland
Dorothea von Biron, Princess of Courland, Duchess of Dino, Duchess of Talleyrand and Duchess of Sagan, known as Dorothée de Courlande or Dorothée de Dino, was a Baltic German noblewoman. Her mother was Dorothea von Medem, Duchess of Courland, and although her mother's husband, Duke Peter von Biron, acknowledged her as his own, her true father may have been the Polish statesman Count Aleksander Batowski. For a long time, she accompanied the French statesman Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord; she was the separated wife of his nephew, Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord.
Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia
Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, was a Prussian prince and a soldier in the Napoleonic Wars.
Eberhard Kinzel
Eberhard Kinzel was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II who commanded several divisions. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
Maria Matray
Maria Matray was a German screenwriter and film actress. Matray became a star of late Weimar cinema. Following the Nazi takeover in 1933, Matray, who was Jewish, went into exile – initially in France and Britain before moving to the United States. She developed a new career as a choreographer and writer. She later returned to Germany after the Second World War, where she died in 1993.