List of Baltic Germans

Art and literature

Architects

• Alfred Aschenkampff, architect
• Paul Max Bertschy, city architect of Liepāja
• Bernhard Bielenstein, architect
• Wilhelm Bockslaff, architect
• Johann Felsko, architect
• Karl Felsko,, architect
• Christoph Haberland, architect
• Otto Pius Hippius, architect
• Erich Jacoby, architect
• Paul Mandelstamm, architect
• Robert Natus, architect
• Robert Pflug, architect
• August Reinberg, architect
• Jacques Rosenbaum, architect
• Alfred Rosenberg, politician, Nazi ideologist and architect
• Max Scherwinsky, architect and designer
• Edmund von Trompowsky, architect

  Artists

• Christian Ackermann, wood carver and sculptor
• Johann Heinrich Baumann, painter
• Gregor von Bochmann, painter
• Bernhard Borchert, artist
• Mikhail Clodt, painter
• Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg, sculptor
• Franz Burchard Dörbeck, graphic artist and caricaturist
• Jacob Heinrich Elbfas, painter
• Eduard von Gebhardt, painter
• Wilhelm August Golicke, painter
• Eduard Hau, painter
• Woldemar Hau, painter
• August Matthias Hagen, painter
• Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz, painter, daughter of the above
• Vasily Helmersen, artist and book illustrator
• Carl von Hoffman, soldier, adventurer, author, and photographer
• Franz Hoppenstätt, wood carver
• George Hoyningen-Huene, fashion photographer
• Alexander Julius Klünder,, portrait painter
• Alexander Kotzebue, painter
• Gerhard von Kügelgen, portrait and history painter
• Karl von Kügelgen, landscape and history painter
• Konstantin von Kügelgen, landscape painter
• Otto Friedrich Theodor von Möller, painter
• Carl Timoleon von Neff, painter
• August Georg Wilhelm Pezold, painter and lithographer
• Nikolaus Roerich, painter and philosopher
• Otto Magnus von Stackelberg, archaeologist, writer, art historian and painter
• Egon von Vietinghoff, painter and philosopher
• Gottlieb Welté, etcher and landscape painter

  Authors and writers

• Friedrich Amelung, chess player, endgame composer, and journalist
• Werner Bergengruen, novelist
• Lovisa von Burghausen, slave and memoirist
• Anton Delvig, poet and journalist
• Helene von Engelhardt
• Nikolai Erdman, poet and playwright
• Julie Hausmann, poet
• Hermann Hesse, poet, novelist, and painter
• Eduard von Keyserling, writer and playwright
• August von Kotzebue, playwright
• Wilhelm Küchelbecker, poet and Decembrist
• Anatol Lieven, author, journalist, and policy analyst
• Garlieb Merkel, writer and public activist
• Elisa von der Recke, writer and poet
• Gleb Struve, poet and literary historian
• Frank Thiess, writer
• Jakob von Uexkull, writer and politician
• Peter Ernst Wilde, physician and journalist
• Gero von Wilpert, writer and literary scientist

  Entertainment

Actors and actresses

• Heinz Erhardt, comedian, musician, entertainer, actor and poet
• Irene von Meyendorff, film actress
• Marie Seebach, actress

  Musicians

• John Christian Bechler, Moravian bishop and composer
• Eduard Erdmann, pianist, composer, professor
• Heinz Erhardt, comedian, musician, entertainer, actor and poet
• Eduard Mertke, composer and music teacher
• Lena Meyer-Landrut, singer
• Carl David Stegmann, tenor and composer
• Raimund von zur-Mühlen, tenor and music educator

  Entrepreneurs

• James Martin Eder, pioneer of sugar industry in Colombia
• Karl Otto Georg von Meck, businessman
• Baron Nils Taube,, Britain's longest serving fund manager, colleague of George Soros and advisor to Lord Rothschild.

  Explorers

• Reinhold von Anrep-Elmpt, explorer
• Karl Ernst von Baer, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, founder of embryology
• Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, explorer
• Alexander von Bunge, botanist and expeditionist
• Karl von Ditmar, geologist and explorer
• Karl Eichwald, geologist and physician
• Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, biologist, physician and explorer
• Johann Anton Güldenstädt, naturalist and explorer
• Ludwig von Hagemeister, seafarer and explorer
• Carl von Hoffman, soldier, adventurer, author, and photographer
• Alexander von Kaulbars military commander and explorer
• Otto von Kotzebue, explorer
• Adam Johann von Krusenstern, explorer
• Friedrich von Lütke, navigator and geographer
• Richard Maack, biologist, geographer and explorer
• Alexander von Middendorff, zoologist and explorer
• Michael von Reinken, vice-admiral and hydrographer
• Otto Schmidt, mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist
• Alexander von Schrenk, mineralogist, botanist and expeditionist
• Leopold von Schrenck, zoologist, geographer and ethnographer
• Georg August Schweinfurth, botanist and explorer
• Eduard von Toll, geologist and explorer
• Ferdinand von Wrangel, explorer

  Military

• Alexander of Courland, prince and military commander
• Władysław Anders, military commander and politician
• Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, military commander
• Alexander von Benckendorff, military commander
• Konstantin von Benckendorff, military commander and diplomat
• Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg, military commander
• Karl Ludwig von Budberg, military commander
• Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden, military commander
• Magnus Gustav von Essen, military commander
• Eduard von Totleben, engineer-general
• Nikolai von Essen, admiral
• Peter Kirillovich Essen, military commander
• Jürgen von Farensbach, military commander
• William Fermor, military commander
• Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven, colonel and member of the Widerstand
• Adrian von Fölkersahm, military commander
• Dmitry Gustavovich von Fölkersahm, admiral
• Maksimas Katche, military commander
• Alexander von Kaulbars military commander and explorer
• Paul Demetrius von Kotzebue, military officer
• Ernst Gideon von Laudon, military commander
• Christoph von Lieven, military commander, politician and diplomat
• Eugen Ludwig Müller, military commander
• Burkhard Christoph von Münnich, military commander
• Fabian Gottlieb von der Osten-Sacken, field marshal
• Johann Patkul, politician and military commander
• Wolter von Plettenberg, Master of Livonian Order
• Paul von Rennenkampf, military commander
• Ernst von Stackelberg, diplomat and military figure
• Georg von Stackelberg, cavalry general
• Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, military commander
• Viktor von Wahl, military commander and politician
• Carl Gustaf Wrangel, military commander and statesman
• Carl Henrik Wrangel, military commander
• Herman Wrangel, military commander and statesman
• Pyotr Nikolayevich von Wrangel, military commander

  Philosophers

• Johann Eduard Erdmann, pastor, historian of philosophy
• Nicolai Hartmann, philosopher
• Immanuel Kant, philosopher
• Hermann Graf Keyserling, philosopher
• Alfred Rosenberg, politician, Nazi ideologist and architect
• Egon von Vietinghoff, painter and philosopher

  Politicians and diplomats

• Ernst Johann von Biron, Duke of Courland
• Peter von Biron, Duke of Courland
• Otto Braun, Prime Minister of Prussia
• Andreas von Budberg-Bönninghausen, diplomat and politician
• Andreas von Budberg-Bönninghausen, diplomat
• Sophie von Buxhoeveden, lady in waiting to Tsarina Alexandra of Russia
• Balthasar von Campenhausen, politician
• Karl Robert von Nesselrode, diplomat
• Stanisław Ernest Denhoff, noble and statesman
• Kasper Doenhoff, courtier and diplomat
• Ernst Magnus Dönhoff, noble and diplomat
• Princess Dorothea of Courland, noblewoman
• Hans Reinhold von Fersen, military commander and politician
• Reinhold Johan von Fersen, county governor
• Ferdinand Kettler, Duke of Courland
• Friedrich Kettler, Duke of Courland
• Frederick William Kettler, Duke of Courland
• Frederick Casimir Kettler, Duke of Courland
• Gotthard Kettler, the last Master of the Livonian Order and the first Duke of Courland
• Jacob Kettler, Duke of Courland
• Wilhelm Kettler, Duke of Courland
• Andreas Meyer-Landrut, diplomat
• Christoph von Lieven, military commander, politician and diplomat
• Dorothea von Lieven, noblewoman and diplomat
• Christoph Johann von Medem, courtier
• Dorothea von Medem, last Duchess of Courland
• Karl Robert von Nesselrode, diplomat
• Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen,, military Governor of St. Petersburg from 1798 to 1801, played pivotal role in the assassination of Emperor Paul.
• Johann Patkul, politician and military commander
• Adolf Pilar von Pilchau, politician, regent of the United Baltic Duchy
• Wolter von Plettenberg, Master of Livonian Order
• Alfred Rosenberg, politician, Nazi ideologist and architect, and convicted war criminal
• Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter, politician
• Jacob von Sievers, politician
• Ernest Stackelberg, diplomat and military figure
• Gustav Ernst von Stackelberg, diplomat
• Otto Magnus von Stackelberg, diplomat
• Karl von Struve, politician and diplomat
• Jakob von Uexkull, writer and politician
• Victor von Wahl, military commander and politician
• Princess Wilhelmine, noble and the Duchess of Sagan
• Carl Gustaf Wrangel, military commander and statesman
• Herman Wrangel, military commander and statesman

  Religion

• Albert of Riga, Bishop of Riga
• Alexy II of Moscow, Patriarch of Moscow
• John Christian Bechler, Moravian bishop and composer
• Anna Hedvig Büll, Christian missionary
• Reinhold von Buxhoeveden, Bishop of Ösel-Wiek
• Hermann of Dorpat, first Bishop of Dorpat
• Oscar von Gebhardt, Lutheran theologian
• Barbara von Krüdener, mystic
• Hermann Wesel, ecclesiastic and the last Bishop of Dorpat
• Adolf von Harnack, Lutheran theologian and church historian

  Scientists

Astronomers and cosmologists

• Wilhelm Anderson, astrophysicist
• Magnus Georg Paucker, astronomer and mathematician
• Otto Schmidt, mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist
• Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, astronomer
• Georg Hermann Struve, astronomer
• Hermann Struve, astronomer
• Ludwig Struve, astronomer
• Otto Struve, astronomer
• Otto Wilhelm von Struve, astronomer
• Wilfried Struve, astronomer
• Gustav Andreas Tammann, astronomer

  Biologists and paleontologists

• Hermann Martin Asmuss, paleozoologist
• Karl Ernst von Baer, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, founder of embryology
• Theodor Friedrich Julius Basiner, botanist
• Friedrich Bidder, physiologist and anatomist
• Theophil Joachim Heinrich Bienert, botanist
• Alexander von Bunge, botanist
• Karl Ernst Claus, chemist and naturalist
• Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, biologist, physician and explorer
• Gustav Flor, zoologist
• Peter von Glehn, botanist
• Alexander von Keyserling, geologist and paleontologist
• Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer, anatomist
• Carl Friedrich von Ledebour, botanist
• Harald von Loudon, ornithologist
• Johann Marcusen, ichthyologist
• Friedrich Johann Graf von Medem, zoologist
• Alexander von Middendorff, zoologist and explorer
• Wilhelm Ostwald, chemist, winner of the Nobel prize in Chemistry
• Wolfgang Ostwald, chemist and biologist
• Heinz Christian Pander, biologist, embryologist and paleontologist
• Friedrich Parrot, biologist and medical scientist
• Christian Nikolai Richard Pohle, botanist
• Alexander von Schrenk, mineralogist, botanist and expeditionist
• Leopold von Schrenck, zoologist, geographer and ethnographer
• Jakob von Uexküll, biologist and semiotician

  Chemists and material scientists

• Andreas von Antropoff, chemist, postulated neutronium
• Karl Ernst Claus, chemist and naturalist
• Germain Henri Hess, chemist
• Wilhelm Ostwald, chemist and Nobel laureate
• Wolfgang Ostwald, chemist and biologist
• Carl Schmidt, chemist
• Heinrich Wilhelm von Struve, chemist
• Gustav Tammann, chemist
• Peter P. von Weymarn, chemist
• Margarete von Wrangell, agricultural chemist and the first female full professor at a German university

  Earth scientists

• Karl Ernst von Baer, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, founder of embryology
• Karl von Ditmar, geologist and explorer
• Karl Eichwald, geologist and physician
• Gregor von Helmersen, geologist
• Carl Hiekisch, geographer
• Alexander Keyserling, geologist and paleontologist
• Fyodor Litke, navigator and geographer
• Otto Schmidt, mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist
• Alexander von Schrenk, mineralogist, botanist and expeditionist
• Leopold von Schrenck, zoologist, geographer and ethnographer
• Georg August Schweinfurth, botanist and explorer
• Eduard von Toll, geologist and explorer

  Economists and sociologists

• August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, linguist, folklorist, ethnographer and theologian
• Dominic Lieven, political scientist
• Paul von Lilienfeld, social scientist
• Heinrich Freiherr von Stackelberg, economist

  Historians and archeologists

• Georg Dehio, art historian
• Paul Einhorn, historian
• Gustav von Ewers, legal historian and scholar
• Jean Baptiste Holzmayer, teacher, archeologist and folklorist
• Otto Magnus von Stackelberg, archaeologist, writer, art historian and painter
• Kurt Zoege von Manteuffel, art historian
• Richard Otto Zöpffel, theologist and church historian

  Linguists and ethnographers

• Nikolai Anderson, philologist
• Walter Anderson, folklorist
• August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, linguist, folklorist, ethnographer and theologian
• Peter A. Boodberg, sinologist
• Emil Bretschneider, sinologist
• Johann Christoph Brotze, pedagogue and ethnographer
• Elena Lieven, psycholinguist and cognitive scientist
• Leopold von Schrenck, zoologist, geographer and ethnographer
• Alexander von Staël-Holstein, orientalist, sinologist, sanskritologist
• Vasily Vasilievich Struve, orientalist
• Jakob von Uexküll, biologist and semiotician
• Thure von Uexküll, semiotician
• Alexander Vostokov, philologist
• Edgar de Wahl, linguist
• Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, linguist
• Gero von Wilpert, writer and literary scientist

  Mathematicians

• Oskar Anderson, mathematician and statistician
• Georg Cantor, mathematician
• Edgar Krahn, mathematician
• Theodor Molien, mathematician
• Magnus Georg Paucker, astronomer and mathematician
• Erhard Schmidt, mathematician
• Otto Schmidt, mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist

  Physicians and psychologists

• Ernst von Bergmann, surgeon
• Eugen Bostroem, pathologist
• Arthur Böttcher, pathologist and anatomist
• Isidorus Brennsohn, doctor of medicine and biographer
• Karl Gottfried Konstantin Dehio, internist and pathologist
• Karl Eichwald, geologist and physician
• Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, biologist, physician and explorer
• Woldemar Kernig, physician
• Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer, anatomist
• Elena Lieven, psycholinguist and cognitive scientist
• Werner Zoege von Manteuffel, medical surgeon
• Georg von Oettingen, ophthalmologist
• Friedrich Parrot, biologist and medical scientist
• Zacharias Stopius, doctor and astronomer
• Thure von Uexküll, semiotician
• Eduard Georg von Wahl, surgeon
• Justus Heinrich Wigand, obstetrician
• Peter Ernst Wilde, physician and journalist

  Physicists

• Heinrich Lenz, physicist
• Arthur von Oettingen, physicist, meteorologist and music theorist
• Georg Wilhelm Richmann, physicist
• Thomas Johann Seebeck, physicist

  Theologians

• August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, linguist, folklorist, ethnographer and theologian
• Georg Caspari, theologian
• Alexander von Oettingen, theologian
• Richard Otto Zöpffel, theologist and historian

  Other scientists and engineers

• Jean Alexander Heinrich Clapier de Colongue, marine engineer and naval architect
• Bernhard Schmidt, optician, inventor
• Amand Struve, military engineer and bridge specialist
• Friedrich Zander, rocket scientist
• Walter Zapp, inventor

  Sports

• Ursula Donath, runner

  Chess players

• Friedrich Amelung, cultural historian, businessman and endgame composer
• Andreas Ascharin, chess master
• Bernhard Gregory, chess master
• Lionel Kieseritzky, chess master
• R.K. Kieseritzky, chess master
• Theodor Molien, mathematician and chess problemist
• Paul Felix Schmidt, chess master
• Wilhelm von Stamm, chess master

  Other

• Johann Burchart, pharmacist
• Gustav Fabergé, jeweller
• Nikolai von Glehn, landowner and public figure, founder of Nõmme
• Vasiliy Ulrikh, judge, Great Purge perpetrator
• Janis Lipke, rescuer of Jews during World War II