People
- Burkhard von Schwanden, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order between 1283 and 1290
- Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky (1710–1775), manufacturer, diplomat, art trader
- Nathanael Matthaeus von Wolf (1724-)
- Johann Daniel Titius (1729–1796), astronomer, physicist, biologist
- Emil Albert Friedberg (1837–1910), jurist
- Rudolf Arnold Nieberding (1838–1912), jurist and politician
- Hartwig Cassel (1850–1929), journalist
- Heinrich Recke (1890–1943), Wehrmacht general
- Willi Apel (1893–1988), German-US musicologist; born here
Associated with the town
- Michał Kazimierz Radziwiłł, Polish-Lithuanian noble and magnate
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