List of Famous people born in Brandenburg, Germany

Hans Richter was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1931 and 1984, mostly in supporting roles. He was born in Brandenburg, Germany and died in Heppenheim, Germany.

Prince Wilhelm Eitel Friedrich Christian Karl of Prussia was the second son of Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany by his first wife, Princess Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. He was born and died in Potsdam, Germany.

Marie Christiane Eleonore Prochaska was a German woman soldier who fought in the Prussian army against Napoleon during the War of the Sixth Coalition.

Thomas Gumpert was a German actor who was best known for his role of Johannes von Lahnstein in the daily soap Verbotene Liebe.

Werner Otto was a German entrepreneur. In 1949, he founded Otto GmbH, which eventually became the world's largest mail order group. He was married three times and had five children.

Roland Ernst Wolf Kaiser was a German film actor. Kaiser appeared in twenty-seven films and television series between 1954 and 1997. He also worked as a voice actor, dubbing foreign films for release in Germany.

Herbert Werner Quandt was a German industrialist who is regarded as having saved BMW when it was at the point of bankruptcy and made a huge profit in doing so.

René Monse was a German heavyweight boxer best known for having won a bronze medal at the world championships in 1995.

Daniel Stendel is a German professional football manager and former player. Stendel played as a striker in his native Germany, spending most of his playing career with Hannover 96, who he later managed. He then had a stint as manager of Barnsley, helping them win promotion to the Championship in his only full season before he was sacked in October 2019. He was appointed manager of Scottish club Heart of Midlothian in December 2019. Hearts were relegated after the curtailed 2019–20 season, and Stendel was replaced as manager in June 2020.

Jörg Schönbohm was a German politician (CDU) and a retired Lieutenant General. He was the first commander of the Bundeswehr Eastern Command in 1990, which supervised the absorption of the East German National People's Army into the Federal German armed forces. In 1991 he became the Inspector of the Army, the highest-ranking officer in the German Army; he was retired in 1992 to become Undersecretary for Security Policy in the Federal Ministry of Defence. From 1996 to 1998 Schönbohm was Senator of the Interior for the city of Berlin, and from 1999 to 2009 he held the same office as Interior Minister for the state of Brandenburg.