List of Famous people born in Brandenburg, Germany
Rico Freimuth
Rico Freimuth is a German athlete who specialises in the decathlon. He won two medals at World Championships, bronze in 2015 and silver in 2017.
Klaus Schwarzkopf
Klaus Schwarzkopf was a German actor. From 1971 until 1978 he starred in the Norddeutscher Rundfunk version of the popular television crime series Tatort. He was also known as a respected stage actor and for being the German synchronisation voice of Peter Falk as Columbo during the 1970s.
Fabian Wiede
Fabian Wiede is a German handball player for Füchse Berlin and the German national team.
Günther Quandt
Günther Quandt was a German industrialist who founded an industrial empire that today includes BMW and Altana (chemicals).
Rudolf Teschner
Rudolf Teschner was a German chess master and writer.
Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen
Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen was born at Potsdam, the only child of Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and his wife, Princess Charlotte of Prussia. Feodora was the first great-grandchild of Queen Victoria.
Martin Schindler
Martin Schindler is a German professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events.
Adam von Trott zu Solz
Friedrich Adam von Trott zu Solz was a German lawyer and diplomat who was involved in the conservative resistance to Nazism. A declared opponent of the Nazi regime from the beginning, he actively participated in the Kreisau Circle of Helmuth James Graf von Moltke and Peter Yorck von Wartenburg. Together with Claus von Stauffenberg and Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg he conspired in the 20 July plot, and was supposed to be appointed Secretary of State in the Foreign Office and lead negotiator with the Western Allies if the plot had succeeded.
Günter Kießling
Günter Kießling was a German general in the Bundeswehr, who became famous as the subject of what became known as the Kießling Affair.
Anke Domscheit-Berg
Anke Domscheit-Berg is a German politician and activist. She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2017, when she was elected on the party list of The Left, without being a party member. Previously, she was a member of the Pirate Party Germany and the Greens. She is married to Daniel Domscheit-Berg. In 2010 she received the Berliner Frauenpreis.