List of Famous people born in Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Germany

Gerd Baltus was a German television actor.

Finn Lemke is a German handball player for MT Melsungen and the German national team.

Georg Friedrich Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia is a German businessman who is the current head of the Prussian branch of the princely House of Hohenzollern, the former ruling dynasty of the German Empire and of the Kingdom of Prussia. He is the great-great-grandson and historic heir of Wilhelm II, the last German Emperor and King of Prussia, who abdicated and went into exile upon Germany's defeat in World War I in 1918.

Ilona Marita Lorenz was a German-born American woman who had an affair with Fidel Castro in 1959 and in January 1960 was involved in an assassination attempt by the CIA on Castro's life.

Heinz Linge was an SS officer who served as a valet for German Fuehrer Adolf Hitler. Linge was present in the Führerbunker on 30 April 1945, when Hitler committed suicide.

Saygin Yalcin is a Dubai-based German entrepreneur and academic lecturer of Turkish origin. His businesses are mainly in marketing and online merchandising, including sukar.com, which was acquired by Souq.com, which was then acquired by Amazon for $580 million.

James Last, also known as Hansi, was a German composer and big band leader of the James Last Orchestra. Initially a jazz bassist, his trademark "happy music" made his numerous albums best-sellers in Germany and the United Kingdom, with 65 of his albums reaching the charts in the UK alone. His composition "Happy Heart" became an international success in interpretations by Andy Williams and Petula Clark.

Murat Kurnaz is a Turkish citizen and legal resident of Germany who was held in extrajudicial detention by the United States at its military base in Kandahar, Afghanistan and in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba beginning in December 2001. He was tortured in both places. By early 2002, intelligence officials of the United States and Germany had concluded that accusations against Kurnaz were groundless.

Tomas Seyler, nicknamed "Shorty", is a German former professional darts player.

Korvettenkapitän Reinhard Hardegen was a German U-boat commander during World War II. He was the 24th-most-successful German submarine commander of the war, credited with the having sunk 115,656 gross register tons (GRT). After the war, he spent a year and a half as a British prisoner-of-war before starting a successful oil trading business and serving as a member of Bremen's city council for over 32 years.