# List of people from Szczecin
## Famous residents of Szczecin
### Before 1800

* Philipp Dulichius (1562–1631), German composer
* Catherine the Great (1729–1796), empress of Russia
* Franz Kasimir von Kleist (1736–1808), Prussian general
* Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg (1759–1828), the second wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia
* Friedrich von Adelung (1768–1843), linguist, historian and bibliographer
* Friedrich Gilly (1772–1800), architect
* Henryka Beyer (1782–1855) painter
* Friedrich Graf von Wrangel (1784–1877), Prussian Field Marshal
* Carl Loewe (1796–1869) composer, lived in Stettin
* Heinrich Philipp August Damerow (1798–1866), psychiatrist
* Karl Loeillot (1798–1864), painter and lithographer

### 1800–1850

* Theodor Hildebrandt (1804–1874) painter
* Carl August Dohrn (1806–1892), entomologist
* Franz Theodor Kugler (1808–1858) art historian
* Carl Gustav Friedrich Hasselbach (1809–1882), mayor of Magdeburg
* Hermann Günther Grassmann (1809–1877) mathematician, physicist and linguist
* Robert Prutz (1816–1872) poet
* Franz San Galli (1824–1908), inventor of radiator (central heating system)
* Hermann Julius Grüneberg (1827–1894), chemist
* Felicita Vestvali (1831-1880), opera singer and actress
* A. F. Marx (1838–1904), publisher
* Anton Dohrn (1840–1909) first director of the Stazione Zoologica, Naples, Italy
* Otto von Gierke (1841–1921) historian
* Oscar Hammerstein I (1847–1919), composer

### 1850–1900

* Ernst Zitelmann (1852 -1923) jurist
* Carl Ludwig Schleich (1859–1922), author
* Max Berg (1870–1947) architect
* Leon Jessel (1871–1942), composer
* Wolfgang Wegener (1875–1956), officer in the Imperial German Navy
* Alfred Döblin (1878–1957), writer
* Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich (1880–1949), religious parapsychologist and philosopher
* Fritz Gerlich (1883–1934) journalist
* Rudolf Olden (1885–1940), journalist and lawyer
* Johannes Theodor Baargeld (1892–1927) painter and poet
* Heinrich George (1893–1946), actor
* Erich Böhlke (1895–1979), conductor and componist
* Karl Weinbacher (1898–1946), German manager and war criminal
* Hans Heinrich von Twardowski (1898–1958) film actor
* Heinrich Pick (1882-1947) jurist

### 1900–1945

* Hans Kammler (1901–1945), German general
* Werner Seelenbinder (1904–1944) politician
* Gustav Gerneth (1905-2019) the world's oldest living man
* Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński (1905–1953), poet
* Erwin Ackerknecht (1906–1988), historian
* Dita Parlo (1906–1971) film actress
* Kurt Kuhnke (1910—1969), motorcyclist
* Ernst Bader (1914–1999) actor and songwriter
* Jürgen Dethloff (1924–2002), inventor
* Helga Deen (1925–1943) Dutch prison camp diarist
* Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928–2014), Christian theologian
* Thomas Geve (1929–2024), engineer, author and Jewish Holocaust survivor
* Ellen Schwiers (1930–2019), actress of stage, film, and television
* Rudi Strahl (1931–2001), playwright, novelist and lyricist.
* Manfred Stolpe (1936–2019), former Prime Minister of Brandenburg
* Christian Tomuschat (born 1936), expert in international law, professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin
* Wolfgang Weber (born 1939), classical cellist
* Knut Kiesewetter (1941–2016) musician
* Michael Bürsch (1942–2012) politician
* Michael Holm (born 1943) singer-songwriter

### After 1945

* Chava Alberstein (born 1947), Israeli female singer and composer of songs
* Piotr Andrejew (born 1947), Polish screenwriter and film director, born in Szczecin
* Franciszek Białous (1901–1980), Polish microbiologist, settled in Szczecin in 1946
* Ryszard Kotla (born 1947) historian, travel writer, journalist, engineer, born in Szczecin-Dąbie
* Inka Dowlasz (born 1949) Polish theater director, playwright, screenwriter, psychologist and teacher
* Jerzy Zielinski (born 1950) Polish cinematographer active in Hollywood
* Krzysztof Warlikowski (born 1962), Polish theatre director
* Aneta Kreglicka (born 1965), First runner-up Miss International 1989 and Miss World 1989
* Kasia Nosowska (born 1971), singer of Szczecin-based rock band Hey
* Agata Kulesza (born 1971), Polish actress
* Radosław Majdan (born 1972) Poland national goalkeeper
* Grzegorz Napieralski (born 1974), Polish left-wing politician
* Ilona Ostrowska (born 1974), Polish actress
* Maciej Jewtuszko (born 1981) Mixed Martial Artist, currently competes in WEC.
* Cleo, (born 1983), singer who represented Poland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014
* Marek Kowal (born 1985), Polish footballer
* Paul Ziemiak (born 1985), German politician (CDU)
* Izuagbe Ugonoh (born 1986), Polish-Nigerian mixed martial artist and boxer
* Marcin Lewandowski (born 1987), Polish middle-distance runner
* Klaudia Ungerman (born 1988), Miss Poland 2008
* Kamil Grosicki (born 1988), Polish footballer
* Rafał Janicki (born 1992), Polish footballer
* Bartosz Zmarzlik (born, 1995), Polish motorcycle speedway rider
* Young Leosia (born, 1998), Polish singer, rapper, songwriter and DJ
* Blanka Stajkow (born, 1999), Polish singer, fashion model