List of Famous people born in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Martina Strutz is a German pole vaulter.

Chris Gueffroy was the last person to be shot and the second-last to die in an escape attempt while trying to escape from East Berlin to West Berlin across the Berlin Wall.

Andreas Raelert is a German triathlete. His younger brother, Michael Raelert, is also a triathlete.

Maik Machulla is a German retired handball player and current coach of SG Flensburg-Handewitt.

Astrid Kumbernuss is a former German female shot putter and discus thrower.

Sibylla Schwarz, also known as Sibylle Schwartz was a German poet of the Baroque era.

Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin was prince consort of the Netherlands as the husband of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands. He was the longest-serving consort of the Netherlands.

Fritz Reuter was a novelist from Northern Germany who was a prominent contributor to Low German literature.

Evelyn Zupke is a specialist care and social worker who came to prominence in the German Democratic Republic during the 1980s as a democracy activist.

Gustav Lilienthal was a German social reformer, a pioneer in building and construction technology, inventor of different Construction sets and involved in the pioneering work of his brother, Otto Lilienthal in aviation.