List of Famous people born in Brandenburg, Germany

Prince Alexander Ferdinand Albrecht Achilles Wilhelm Joseph Viktor Karl Feodor of Prussia was the only son of Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia and his wife Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.

Corona Elisabeth Wilhelmine Schröter was a German musician best known as a singer. She also composed songs, setting texts by Friedrich Schiller and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to music.

George Moritz, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Altenburg, was the last head of the ducal house of Saxe-Altenburg and nominal Duke of Saxe-Altenburg. He devoted much of his life to promote anthroposophy.

Karl Hermann Heinrich Benda, was a German violinist and composer of Bohemian origin.

Erwin Wickert was a German diplomat who, during the 1970s, served as the ambassador to Romania and China.

Sten Nadolny is a German novelist. His parents, Burkhard and Isabella Nadolny, were also writers.

Moritz Hermann or Boris Semyonovich (von) Jacobi was a Prussian and Russian Imperial engineer and physicist of Jewish descent. Jacobi worked mainly in the Russian Empire. He furthered progress in galvanoplastics, electric motors, and wire telegraphy.

Udo Beyer is a former East German track and field athlete who competed in the shot put. Beyer has admitted to knowingly taking part in doping while he competed for East Germany. He was a Stasi informer under the codename "Kapitän".