List of Famous people born in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Kurt Schröder (1888–1962) was a German composer and conductor. Schröder composed a number of film scores. During the 1930s he worked in Britain for Alexander Korda's London Film Productions, and scored the company's breakthrough hit The Private Life of Henry VIII in 1933.

Rudolph Karstadt was a German entrepreneur.

Z7 Hermann Schoemann was a Type 1934A-class destroyer built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine in the mid-1930s. The ship was plagued by machinery problems for most of her life and was under repair when World War 2 began in September 1939. She covered her sister ships over the next few months as they laid offensive minefields in English waters in late 1939–early 1940. Hermann Schoemann played a minor role in the Norwegian Campaign as engine problems limited her availability throughout 1940 and for most of 1941.

Hermann Lietz was a German educational progressive and theologian who founded the German Landerziehungsheime für Jungen.

Alice Hechy was a German stage and film actress and singer (soprano).

Paul Friedrich Wolfgang Mederow was a German stage and film actor.