Notable People
- Johannes Agnoli, political scientist (Professor)
- Elmar Altvater, political scientist (Professor)
- Arnulf Baring, historian, political scientist (Professor)
- Ernst Benda, Minister of the Interior of Germany (1968 to 1969); 4th president of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (1971–1983) (Alumnus)
- Peter Bieri, philosopher and writer (Professor)
- Volkmar Braunbehrens, musicologist (Alumnus)
- Reinhold Brinkmann, musicologist (Alumnus)
- Dieter Claessens, sociologist and anthropologist (Professor)
- Christopher Clark, historian (Alumnus)
- Gordon A. Craig, historian and writer (Professor)
- Herta Däubler-Gmelin, Justice Minister of Germany (1998–2002) (Professor)
- Eberhard Diepgen, Mayor of (West) Berlin (1984–1989, 1991–2001) (Alumnus)
- Rudi Dutschke, spokesperson of the German student movement in the 1960s (Alumnus)
- Hans Eichel, German Minister of Finance (1999–2005) (Alumnus)
- Gudrun Ensslin, Terrorist (Alumnus)
- Gerhard Ertl, physicist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2007) (Professor)
- Günter Faltin, economist (Professor)
- Paul Feyerabend, philosopher (Professor)
- Andrea Fischer, Federal Minister for Health (1998–2001) (Alumnus)
- Ernst Fraenkel, political scientist (Professor)
- Jonathan Franzen, novelist (Alumnus)
- Reinhard Furrer, scienitst and astronaut (Alumnus / Professor)
- Edwin Gentzler, American Germanist and translation scholar (Alumnus)
- Klaus Hänsch, President of the European Parliament (1994–1997) (Alumnus / Scientific Assistant)
- Roman Herzog, President of Germany (1994–1999) (Professor)
- Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Japanologist and winner of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (1992) (Professor)
- Ōe Kenzaburō, novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature (1994) (Professor)
- Jürgen Kocka, Historian (Professor)
- Renate Künast, Minister of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture (2001–2005) (Alumnus)
- Helga Zepp-LaRouche, German political activist, wife of American political activist Lyndon LaRouche (Alumnus)
- Jutta Limbach, president of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (1994–2002), president of Goethe-Instituts (2002–2008) (Alumnus / Professor)
- Herbert Marcuse, sociologist (Professor)
- Friedrich Meinecke, historian (Professor)
- Walter Momper, Mayor of (West Berlin) (1989–1991) (Alumnus)
- Herta Müller, novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature (2009) (Professor)
- Ernst Nolte, historian (Professor)
- Hans-Jürgen Papier, Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (2002–2010) (Alumnus)
- Günter Rexrodt, Economics Minister of Germany (1993–1998) (Alumnus)
- Thomas Risse, political scientist (Professor)
- Raúl Rojas, Computer scientist (Professor)
- Ernst Ruska, physicist and Winner of Nobel Prize in Physics (1986) (Professor)
- Otto Schily, Federal Ministry of the Interior (1998–2005) (Alumnus)
- Gesine Schwan, political scientist and candidate for the German presidential election (2004) (Professor)
- Reinhard Selten, economist and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1994) (Professor)
- Vassilios Skouris, President of the Court of Justice of the European Communities (since 2003) (Alumnus)
- Amity Shlaes, Senior fellow in economic history at the Council on Foreign Relations and syndicated columnist
- Péter Szondi, literary scholar (Professor)
- Klaus Wowereit, Mayor of Berlin (since 2001) (Alumnus)
- Georges Tamer, Islamic studies scholar (Professor & Alumnus)
- Jacob Taubes, sociologist of religion, philosopher, and scholar of Judaism (Professor)
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