Notable Alumni and Staff of The Berlinisches Gymnasium
- alumni
- Johann Crüger (1598–1662), composer
- Johann Gottfried Schadow, (1764–1850), architect
- Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, (1768–1834), theologian and philosopher
- Karl Friedrich Schinkel, (1781–1841), architect
- Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778–1852), "father of gymnastics"
- Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker (1788–1862), astronomer
- Johann Gustav Droysen (1808–1884), German historian
- Carl Mayet (1810–1868) chess master
- Hermann Lebert (1813–1878), German physician, pathologist
- Hermann Bonitz (1814–1888), German scholar
- Johann Georg Halske (1814–1890), mechanic and entrepreneur (Siemens & Halske)
- Heinrich Ernst Beyrich (1815–1896), geologist
- Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), German statesman
- Wilhelm Stieber (1818–1882), secret agent
- Emil Rathenau (1838–1915), entrepreneur
- Franz Hilgendorf (1839–1904), zoologist
- Paul Langerhans (1847–1888), pathologist
- Henri James Simon (1851–1932), entrepreneur
- Theodor Simon Flatau (1860–1937), physician
- Paul Hirsch (1868–1940), politician
- Eduard Spranger (1882–1963), philosopher
- Carlheinz Neumann (1905–1983), rower
- Franz/François Willi Wendt (1909-1970), painter
- Edward Ullendorff (* 1920), German-British academic
- Hans Georg Dehmelt (* 1922), physicist (Nobel Prize in Physics 1989)
- Hermann Prey (1929–1998), baritone
- Lothar de Maizière (* 1940), politician
- staff
- Johann Joachim Bellermann (1754–1842), Hebraist
- Karl Philipp Moritz (1757–1793), author
- Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (1768–1834), theologian
- Johann Gustav Droysen (1808–1884), historian
- Heinrich Bellermann (1832−1903), music theorist
- Anton Friedrich Büsching (1724–1793), geographer, headmaster from 1766
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