List of Famous people born in Berlin, Germany

Karl Dönitz

First Name Karl
Last Name Dönitz
Born on September 16, 1891
Died on December 24, 1980 (aged 89)
Born in Germany, Berlin

Karl Dönitz was a German admiral during the Nazi era who briefly succeeded Adolf Hitler as the German head of state in 1945. As Supreme Commander of the Navy since 1943, he played a major role in the naval history of World War II. He was convicted of war crimes at the Nuremberg trials in 1946.

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Jaecki Schwarz

First Name Jaecki
Born on February 26, 1946 (age 80)
Born in Germany, Berlin

Jaecki Schwarz is a German actor. With around 120 film and television roles throughout his career, he worked prolifically with DEFA, the East German state-owned film studio, as well as Deutscher Fernsehfunk (DFF), the state television broadcaster in the GDR. Since the reunification of Germany, he has been known for his roles in the long-running detective television series Polizeiruf 110 as well as the crime series Ein starkes Team.

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AnNa R.

First Name AnNa
Last Name R.
Born on December 25, 1969 (age 56)
Born in Germany, Berlin

Andrea Neuenhofen, better known by her stage name AnNa R., is a German singer and songwriter who provides the lead vocals for German pop group Gleis 8. She was previously the main vocalist of Rosenstolz, a German pop duo that was active between 1991 and 2012 and had chart hits in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

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Nelly Sachs

Leonie Sachs
First Name Nelly
Born on December 10, 1891
Died on May 12, 1970 (aged 78)
Born in Germany, Berlin

Nelly Sachs was a German-Swedish poet and playwright. Her experiences resulting from the rise of the Nazis in World War II Europe transformed her into a poignant spokesperson for the grief and yearnings of her fellow Jews. Her best-known play is Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels (1950); other works include the poems "Zeichen im Sand" (1962), "Verzauberung" (1970), and the collections of poetry In den Wohnungen des Todes (1947), Flucht und Verwandlung (1959), Fahrt ins Staublose (1961), and Suche nach Lebenden (1971). She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1966.

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Michael Gwisdek

First Name Michael
Last Name Gwisdek
Born on January 14, 1942
Died on September 22, 2020 (aged 78)
Born in Germany, Berlin

Michael Gwisdek was a German actor and film director.

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Christiane Paul

First Name Christiane
Born on March 8, 1974 (age 52)
Born in Germany, Berlin

Christiane Paul is a German film, television and stage actress.

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Harald Quandt

First Name Harald
Born on November 1, 1921
Died on September 22, 1967 (aged 45)
Born in Germany

Harald Quandt was a German industrialist, the son of industrialist Günther Quandt and Magda Behrend Rietschel. His parents divorced and his mother was later married to Joseph Goebbels. After World War II, Quandt and his older half-brother Herbert Quandt ran the industrial empire that was left to them by their father and that continues today, the family owning a stake in Germany's luxury car manufacturer BMW.

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Albert Göring

Albert Günther Göring
First Name Albert
Last Name Göring
Born on March 9, 1895
Died on December 20, 1966 (aged 71)
Born in Germany, Berlin

Albert Günther Göring was a German engineer and businessman and the younger brother of Hermann Göring. In contrast to his brother, Albert was opposed to Nazism, and he helped Jews and others who were persecuted in Nazi Germany. He was shunned in post-war Germany because of his family name, and he died without any public recognition and received very little attention for his humanitarian efforts until decades after his death.

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Cansel Kızıltepe

First Name Cansel
Last Name Kızıltepe
Born on October 8, 1975 (age 50)
Born in Germany, Berlin

Cansel Kiziltepe is a German economist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Berlin since 2013.

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Hoimar von Ditfurth

First Name Hoimar
Born on October 15, 1921
Died on November 1, 1989 (aged 68)
Born in Germany, Berlin

Hoimar von Ditfurth was a German physician and scientific journalist. He was the father of Christian von Ditfurth, a historian, and Jutta Ditfurth, a writer and journalist.

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