List of Famous people born in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Ludwig Bölkow was one of the aeronautical pioneers of Germany.

Christa Luft is a German economist and politician of the SED/PDS. Luft joined the SED in 1958. From 18 November 1989 to 18 March 1990 she was economy minister in the Modrow government. From 1994 to 2002 she was member of the Bundestag for the PDS.

Maria Bard was a German stage actress, who made a handful of films in the silent era for Rimax, her first husband Wilhelm Graaff's company.

Ernst Wilhelm Theodor Trendelenburg was a German physiologist known for his work in physiological optics.

Peter Lauremberg was a writer, professor and rector at the University of Rostock in the seventeenth century.

Johann Karl Rodbertus , also known as Karl Rodbertus-Jagetzow, was a German economist and socialist and a leading member of the Linkes Zentrum (centre-left) in the Prussian national assembly. He defended the labor theory of value as well as the view, as an inference from that, that interest or profit is theft. He believed that capitalist economies tend toward overproduction.