List of Famous people born in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

Maria Feodorovna

First Name Maria
Last Name Feodorovna
Born on October 14, 1759
Died on November 5, 1828 (aged 69)

Maria Feodorovna was Empress consort of Russia as the second wife of Tsar Paul I. She was the founder of the Office of the Institutions of Empress Maria.

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Eric of Pomerania

First Name Eric
Last Name Pomerania
Born on January 1, 1381
Died on May 3, 1459 (aged 78)

Eric of Pomerania was the ruler of the Kalmar Union from 1396 until 1439, succeeding his grandaunt, Queen Margaret I. He is numbered Eric III as King of Norway (1389–1442), Eric VII as King of Denmark (1396–1439) and Eric XIII as King of Sweden. Later, in all three countries he became more commonly known as Erik av Pommern, a pejorative intended to point out that he belonged elsewhere. Pomerania is a historic region on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in Central Europe. Eric was ultimately deposed from all three kingdoms of the union, but in 1449 he inherited one of the partitions of the Duchy of Pomerania and ruled it as duke until his death.

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Magnus Hirschfeld

First Name Magnus
Last Name Hirschfeld
Born on May 14, 1868
Died on May 14, 1935 (aged 67)

Magnus Hirschfeld was a German physician and sexologist educated primarily in Germany; he based his practice in Berlin-Charlottenburg during the Weimar period. An outspoken advocate for sexual minorities, Hirschfeld founded the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee. Historian Dustin Goltz characterized this group as having carried out "the first advocacy for homosexual and transgender rights". "Hirschfeld's radical ideas changed the way Germans thought about sexuality." Hirschfeld was targeted by Nazis for being Jewish and gay, he was beaten up by völkisch activists in 1920, and in 1933 his Institut für Sexualwissenschaft was sacked and had its books burned by Nazis. He was forced into exile in France, where he died in 1935.

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Ellen Schwiers

First Name Ellen
Last Name Schwiers
Born on June 11, 1930
Died on April 26, 2019 (aged 88)

Ellen Schwiers was a German actress of stage, film, and television. She was featured in world premieres of plays by Dürrenmatt and Frisch at the Schauspielhaus Zürich, and appeared as Buhlschaft in Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival. In a career from 1949 to 2015, she also appeared in more than 200 films and television shows, including popular series such as Tatort. She also directed plays, founded a touring theatre company in 1982, and was Intendant of a festival from 1984.

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Gustav Kleikamp

First Name Gustav
Born on March 8, 1896
Died on September 13, 1952 (aged 56)

Gustav Kleikamp was a German naval officer, and a Vizeadmiral in Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine.

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Claus Biederstaedt

First Name Claus
Last Name Biederstaedt
Born on June 28, 1928 (age 95)

Claus Biederstaedt was a German actor and voice actor. He studied in Hamburg and began his career working with Joseph Offenbach. Among the actors for whom he dubbed were Yves Montand, Peter Falk, Marlon Brando, Vittorio Gassman, and James Garner.

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Gustav Gerneth

First Name Gustav
Born on October 15, 1905
Died on October 22, 2019 (aged 114)

German supercentenarians are citizens, residents or emigrants from Germany who have attained or surpassed 110 years of age. As of January 2015, the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 59 German supercentenarians, being 49 residents and 10 emigrants. There are currently at least 6 Germans known to be alive over age 110. The oldest of them is Josefine Ollmann, born 11 November 1908, aged 112 years, 227 days and living in Schleswig-Holstein. Augusta Holtz, an emigrant to the United States, remains the oldest German citizen whose age has been validated: she lived 115 years and 79 days, from 1871 to 1986.

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Margaret

Małgorzata Jamroży, known professionally as Margaret, is a Polish singer and songwriter. She rose to prominence in her native country in 2013, and achieved moderate chart success in some European territories with her singles "Thank You Very Much" (2013) and "Cool Me Down" (2016). After signing an international record deal with Warner Music in 2016, she became particularly successful in Sweden, and participated in the country's music competition Melodifestivalen in two consecutive years with the songs "In My Cabana" and "Tempo", respectively.

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Heinrich George

Georg August Friedrich Hermann Schulz
First Name Heinrich
Last Name George
Born on October 9, 1893
Died on September 25, 1946 (aged 52)

Georg August Friedrich Hermann Schulz, better known as Heinrich George, was a German stage and film actor.

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Waldemar Kita

Waldemar Kita is a Polish millionaire businessman residing in France.

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