List of Famous people born in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Erika Dunkelmann was a German film and television actress. Based in East Germany, she worked regularly for the state-controlled DEFA studios.

Hans-Jürgen Syberberg is a German film director, whose best known film is his lengthy feature Hitler: A Film from Germany.

Karl Matthias Friedrich Magnus Kraepelin was a German naturalist who specialised in the study of scorpions, centipedes, spiders and solfugids, and was noted for his monograph Scorpiones und Pedipalpi (Berlin) in 1899, which was an exhaustive survey of the taxonomy of the Order Scorpiones. From 1889 to 1914, he served as the Director of the Naturhistorisches Museum Hamburg, which was destroyed during World War II, and worked on myriapods from 1901 to 1916.

Mite Kremnitz, born Marie von Bardeleben, was a German writer.

Harry Tisch was an East German politician and trade unionist who served as Chairman of the Free German Trade Union Federation between 1975 and 1989. He was also a member of the State Council from 1976 until he was forced to resign in November 1989.

Günther Schumacher is a retired track cyclist and road bicycle racer born in East Germany, who was a professional rider from 1977 to 1984. He twice represented West Germany at the Summer Olympics, and won the gold medal on both occasions in the Men's Team Pursuit.

Harry Lehmann was a German physicist.

Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse was a German book-binder, calligrapher and typographer.