List of Famous people born in Brandenburg, Germany

Haindling is a German band founded in 1983 by Hans-Jürgen Buchner. The band specializes in Bavarian world music, a mixture of different musical styles such as pop, rock, folk, ambient, jazz and classical music. Most of the songs are written in Bavarian language. Haindling is famous for instrumentals and film scores composed by Buchner. The name of the band derives from the small village Haindling within the town of Geiselhöring in Lower Bavaria.

Werner Heyde was a German psychiatrist. He was one of the main organizers of Nazi Germany's T-4 Euthanasia Program.

Angelika Waller is a German actress. She appeared in more than fifty films since 1962. Her first leading role was in the 1965 film The Rabbit Is Me, a film which was banned in East Germany and released only in 1989.

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann was a German serial killer, sexual predator, and cannibal who cannibalized his victims. He committed suicide while awaiting the end of the main trial without giving a full confession, leaving the extent of his crimes and motives largely unknown.

Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz was a German physicist and physician who made significant contributions in several scientific fields. The largest German association of research institutions, the Helmholtz Association, is named after him.

Alexey Vasiliyevich Gordeyev is a Russian politician who served as Member and Deputy Speaker of the State Duma. Previously he was the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia from 2000 to 2004 and from 2018 to 2020, Governor of Voronezh Oblast from 2009 to 2017 and Agriculture Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2009.

Jörg Heinrich is a German professional football manager and former player. A highly versatile player, he was employed in a variety of positions in defense and midfield. He is currently the assistant manager of Borussia Dortmund.

Manfred Wuttich was a German footballer. He spent two seasons in the Bundesliga with Eintracht Braunschweig.

Peter Ulrich Weiss was a German writer, painter, graphic artist, and experimental filmmaker of adopted Swedish nationality. He is particularly known for his plays Marat/Sade and The Investigation and his novel The Aesthetics of Resistance.

Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel was a German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist, and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including ecology, phylum, phylogeny, and Protista. Haeckel promoted and popularised Charles Darwin's work in Germany and developed the influential but no longer widely held recapitulation theory claiming that an individual organism's biological development, or ontogeny, parallels and summarises its species' evolutionary development, or phylogeny.