Notable Residents
- Arno Breker, sculptor
- Wilhelm Busch (clergyman), Lutheran minister
- Werner Eggerath, East German politician
- Karl Germer, Outer Head of the Ordo Templi Orientis (1947-1962)
- Will Glahé, accordionist, composer, and bandleader.
- Carl Grossberg, artist
- Walter Kaufmann (physicist), physicist
- Hans Knappertsbusch, conductor
- Erich Koch, NSDAP Gauleiter of East Prussia, Reichskommissar of Ukraine
- Johann Peter Lange, Protestant theologian
- Else Lasker-Schüler, poet
- Julius Pluecker, mathematician and physicist
- Sigurd Raschèr, saxophonist
- Sir Hans Wolfgang Singer, economist
- Horst Stein, conductor
- Horst Tappert, actor
- Günter Wand, Conductor
- Carl Wirths, politician
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