List of Famous people born in Brandenburg, Germany

Erich Priebke was a German mid-level SS commander in the SS police force (SiPo) of Nazi Germany. In 1996, he was convicted of war crimes in Italy, for commanding the unit which was responsible for the Ardeatine massacre in Rome on 24 March 1944 in which 335 Italian civilians were killed in retaliation for a partisan attack that killed 33 men of the German SS Police Regiment Bozen. Priebke was one of the men held responsible for this mass execution. After the defeat of Nazi Germany, he fled to Argentina where he lived for almost 50 years.

Günter Schröter was a German footballer and coach who appeared in 39 matches for East Germany. He played as a forward for SG Dynamo Dresden from 1950–1954 then played for SC Dynamo Berlin from 1954–1963. After retiring from his career, Günter was hired as the assistant manager for SC Dynamo Berlin from 1963–1965. In 1969 he became the assistant manager for BFC Dynamo until 1972 when he was promoted to manager. He served as manager for one year before assisting again from 1973–1981.

Fanny Fischer is a German sprint canoer who has been competing since 1996 and on the senior circuit since 2006. She won a gold in the women's K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and finished fourth in the K-2 500 m event at those same games.

Prince Wilhelm of Prussia was the eldest child of Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany and Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. At his birth, he was second in line to the German throne and was expected to succeed to the throne after the deaths of his grandfather and father, both of whom, however, outlived him.

Dieter Krause was a German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s. He won a gold medal in the K-1 4×500 m event at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.

Claudine Vita is a German athlete competing in the discus throw and shot put. She won a gold medal at the 2017 European U23 Championships.

Karl August Wilhelm Frenzel was an SS non-commissioned officer in Sobibor extermination camp. After World War II, he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes, but was ultimately released, having served 16 years in prison.

Danilo Hondo is a former German professional road bicycle racer. He won the German National Road Race in 2002. He competed in the men's team pursuit at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt, known as Ludwig Leichhardt, was a German explorer and naturalist, most famous for his exploration of northern and central Australia.

Günter Kochan was a German composer. He studied with Boris Blacher and was a master student for composition with Hanns Eisler. From 1967 until his retirement in 1991, he worked as professor for musical composition at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler". He taught master classes in composition at the Academy of Music and the Academy of Arts, Berlin. He was also secretary of the Music Section of the Academy of Arts from 1972 to 1974 and vice-president of the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR from 1977 to 1982. Kochan is one of eleven laureates to have been awarded the National Prize of the GDR four times. In addition, he received composition prizes in the US and Eastern Europe. He became internationally known in particular for his Symphonies as well as the cantata Die Asche von Birkenau (1965) and his Music for Orchestra No. 2 (1987). His versatile oeuvre included orchestral works, chamber music, choral works, mass songs and film music and is situated between socialist realism and avant-garde.