Category
page 1People from Hamburg

Gottfried Semper
German architect (1803–1879)

Klaus Störtebeker
leader of privateers
Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff, Sr.
Philadelphia typesetter said to have had the longest name ever used (1914–1997)
Holger Meins
German revolutionary (1941-1974)
Petra Schelm
(1950-1971) political militant, member of Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF)
Johann Hinrich Wichern
German theologian and welfare reformer (1808–1881)
Margarethe Lenore Selenka
German paleontologist, anthropologist and feminist (1860-1923)
Heinrich Albers-Schönberg
German radiologist (1865-1921)
Max Nonne
German neurologist (1861–1959)
Franz Stuhlmann
German colonial administrator and zoologist (1863-1928)
Cornelius Gurlitt
German art collector (1932-2014), son of Hitler's art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt
Bernhard Bästlein
German Communist and German Resistance fighter (1894-1944)
Hartwig Fischer
German art historian, director Dresden Museums and British Museum
Amalie Sieveking
German philanthropist and social reformer (1794-1859)
Domenica Niehoff
German dominatrix, prostitute and activist (1945–2009)
Johann Christoph Wolf
German Christian Hebraist, polyhistor, and collector of books (1683-1739)
Clara Gertrud Wichmann
German pundit and anarcho-syndicalist, editor (1885–1922)
Albert Kirchner
French photographer and filmmaker (1860-1902)
Dora Mayer
Peruvian writer, activist, intellectual

Carlos Grethe
Uruguayan painter (1864-1913)

Gerd Althoff
German medievalist and historian
Carl Wilhelm Petersen
German politician (1868-1933)
Klein Henszlein
German pirate
Johannes Fallati
German statistician and economist (1809-1855)
Schwester Selma
Head nurse, Shaare Zedek Hospital
Gustav Dahrendorf
German politician (1901-1954)
Rose Girone
Polish-born American supercentenarian
Johnny Jebsen
Double agent for the British in World War II
Barbara Engel
German fashion designer

Friderich Martens
German explorer
Thede Kahl
German ethnographer and ethnolinguist
Paul Hambruch
German ethnologist (1882-1933)

Emma Budge
German Jewish art collector (1852-1937)
Ernst-Volker Staub
German criminal, Red Army Faction member
Ágúst Ólafur Ágústsson
Icelandic politician
Daniela Schwarzer
German political scientist and member of the Bertelsmann Stiftung executive board
Paul Langhans
German geographer (1867–1952)
Guido Maria Dreves
German priest and musicologist (1854–1909)
Mary Pünjer
German lesbian saleswoman and victim of the Holocaust
Karl Scheffler
German art historian (1869-1951)
Elisabeth Flügge
German teacher (1895-1983)
Peter Kadiru
German boxer
Frederick Franklin Schrader
American journalist (1857–1943)
Johann Heinrich Wohlien
organ builder
Hieronymus Albrecht Hass
harpsichord maker
Julia Draganović
German curator and cultural manager

Klaus Keil
American mineralogist (1934–2022)
Johann von Wowern
Flemish philologist (1574-1612)

Silke Maier-Witt
German terrorist
Alex Hai
first female gondola rower (prior to transitioning to male)