List of Famous people born in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Otto Ernst Remer
Otto Ernst Remer was a German Wehrmacht officer in World War II who played a major role in stopping the 20 July plot in 1944 against Adolf Hitler. In his later years he became a politician and far right activist. He co-founded the Socialist Reich Party in West Germany in the 1950s, and is considered an influential figure in post-war neo-Fascist politics in Germany.
Tim Borowski
Tim Borowski is a German football assistant manager of SV Werder Bremen and a former professional midfielder who played from 2002 to 2008 for the German national team.
Hans-Uwe Bauer
Hans-Uwe Bauer is a German actor. He appeared in more than ninety films since 1979.
Otto Weidt
Otto Weidt was the owner of a workshop in Berlin for blind and deaf. During the Holocaust, he fought to protect his Jewish workers against deportation and he has been recognised for his work as one of the Righteous Men of the World's Nations. The Museum of Otto Weidt's Workshop for the Blind remains on the original site of the factory and is dedicated to his life.
Daniel Müller
Joachim Daniel Andreas Müller was a Swedish gardener and writer. Following frontier changes when he was 3, he grew up not in Sweden, but in Prussia.
Verena Schott
Verena Schott is a German paraswimmer and Paralympic medal winner.
Torsten Voss
Torsten Voss is an East German-German track and field athlete and bobsledder who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s.
HA Schult
HA Schult, born Hans-Jürgen Schult on 24 June 1939 in Parchim, Mecklenburg is a German installation, happening and conceptual artist known primarily for his object and performance art and more specifically his work with garbage. He is one of the first artists to deal with the world's ecological imbalance in his work and has therefore been called an "eco-art pioneer". His best known works include the touring work, Trash People, which exhibited on all continents, and the Save The Beach hotel, a building made of garbage.
Sigrid Alegría
Sigrid Alegría Conrads is a Chilean film and television actress.
Johannes Sellin
Johannes Sellin is a German handball player for MT Melsungen and the German national team.