List of Famous people born in Berlin, Germany
Sven Ottke
Sven Ottke is a German former professional boxer who competed from 1997 to 2004. He was a unified super-middleweight world champion, having held the IBF title from 1998 to 2004, and the WBA (Super) title from 2003 to 2004. With 21 successful title defences, Ottke was the third European boxer to retire as an undefeated world champion, after Terry Marsh and Michael Loewe; Joe Calzaghe later became the fourth. Ottke defended the title against 20 boxers, a record in the super-middleweight division shared with Joe Calzaghe. As an amateur, Ottke won a bronze medal in the middleweight division at the 1989 World Championships.
Detlef Soost
Detlef Soost, also using the name D!, most often called Detlef D! Soost, is a German dancer, choreographer, and TV presenter.
Wolfgang Kieling
Wolfgang Kieling was a German actor.
Horst Kasner
Horst Kasner was a German Protestant theologian and father of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Inge Meysel
Inge Meysel was a German actress. From the early 1960s until her death, Meysel was one of Germany's most popular actresses. She had a successful stage career and played more than 100 roles in film and on television.
Bruno Lüdke
Bruno Lüdke was a German alleged serial killer. Police officials connected him to at least 51 murder victims, mainly women, killed in a 15-year period, which began in 1928 and ended with his arrest in 1943. He was never given a trial, and some historians consider him innocent.
Nina Scheer
Nina Scheer is a German lawyer and politician of the SPD. She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2013. She is the daughter of Hermann Scheer.
Fritz Fischer
Fritz Ernst Fischer was a German medical doctor who, under the Nazi regime, participated in medical experiments conducted on inmates of the Ravensbrück concentration camp.
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Gustav Heinrich Ernst Martin Wilhelm Furtwängler was a German conductor and composer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest symphonic and operatic conductors of the 20th century. He was a major influence for many later conductors, and his name is often mentioned when discussing their interpretative styles.
Hedwig Porschütz
Hedwig Porschütz was active in the German resistance to Nazism. She was recognised posthumously as Righteous Among the Nations for aiding and rescuing Jews during the Holocaust.