Notable interments at Dorotheenstadt Cemetery

144 notable figures are documented at Dorotheenstadt Cemetery in Wikidata's burial records, each with a Wikipedia article and a recorded place of burial. Listed alphabetically.

• Albert Hetterle (1918–2006), actor, stage actor, theatre manager
• Alexander Kluge (1932–2026), actor, screenwriter, writer
• Alexandra Kluge (1937–2017), actor, physician, film actor
• Amalia von Helvig (1776–1831), writer, salonnière, literary critic
• Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721–1782), artist, painter
• Anna Seghers (1900–1983), writer, resistance fighter, novelist
• Annemarie Bostroem (1922–2015), writer, poet, playwright
• Antoine de Rivarol (1753–1801), writer, poet, translator
• Arno Fischer (1927–2011), photographer, university teacher, fashion photographer
• Arno Wyzniewski (1938–1997), actor, musician, stage actor
• Arnold Zweig (1887–1968), writer, politician, playwright
• August Bach (1897–1966), politician, historian, journalist
• August Böckh (1785–1867), university teacher, classical philologist, historian of classical antiquity
• August Borsig (1804–1854), entrepreneur, mechanical engineer, industrialist
• August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818–1892), chemist, university teacher
• Bärbel Bohley (1945–2010), politician, printer, civil rights advocate
• Benno Besson (1922–2006), actor, screenwriter, translator
• Bernhard Minetti (1905–1998), actor, singer, musician
• Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), screenwriter, actor, writer
• Bodo Uhse (1904–1963), screenwriter, writer, politician
• Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen (1778–1851), composer, conductor, choir director
• Christa Mühl (1947–2019), screenwriter, television director, film director
• Christa Wolf (1929–2011), screenwriter, writer, politician
• Christian Daniel Rauch (1777–1857), sculptor, art historian, visual artist
• Christian Konrad Sprengel (1750–1816), botanist, classical philologist
• Christian Peter Wilhelm Beuth (1781–1853), politician, ministry official, beamter
• Christine Bonhoeffer (1903–1965)
• Christoph Meckel (1935–2020), screenwriter, writer, poet
• Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (1762–1836), physician, chief physician, personal physician
• Claus Peymann (1937–2025), theatre manager, film director, theatre director
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), poet, pastor, resistance fighter
• Dietrich Stobbe (1938–2011), politician
• Eberhard Rebling (1911–2008), politician, musician, pianist
• Edgar Hilsenrath (1926–2018), writer, poet, novelist
• Eduard Gans (1798–1839), historian, jurist, university teacher
• Eduard Gans (1798–1839), historian, jurist, university teacher
• Eduard Hitzig (1838–1907), physician, psychiatrist, university teacher
• Eduard Magnus (1799–1872), painter, university teacher
• Egon Bahr (1922–2015), writer, politician, television presenter
• Ekkehard Schall (1930–2005), actor
• Elfriede Brüning (1910–2014), screenwriter, writer, resistance fighter
• Elisabeth Hauptmann (1897–1973), writer, singer, translator
• Erich Arendt (1903–1984), writer, translator, journalist
• Erich Engel (1891–1966), actor, screenwriter, dramaturge
• Ernst Litfaß (1816–1874), actor, printer, inventor
• Ernst Schumacher (1921–2012), writer, poet, university teacher
• Erwin Geschonneck (1906–2008), actor, musician, stage actor
• Frank Beyer (1932–2006), screenwriter, film director, director
• Franz Krüger (1797–1857), artist, painter, cartoonist
• Franz Krüger (1797–1857), artist, painter, cartoonist
• Friedel von Wangenheim (1939–2001), actor, writer, playwright
• Friedrich Accum (1769–1838), chemist
• Friedrich August Stüler (1800–1865), architect
• Friedrich Hitzig (1811–1881), architect
• Friedrich Kittler (1943–2011), historian, university teacher, philosopher
• Fritz Erpenbeck (1897–1975), writer
• Fritz Teufel (1943–2010), political activist
• Georg Christian Unger (1743–1799), architect
• Georg Ludwig Hartig (1764–1837), writer, university teacher, forester
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), writer, university teacher, philosopher
• George Tabori (1914–2007), screenwriter, actor, writer
• Gerald Götting (1923–2015), writer, politician, political scientist
• Gisela May (1924–2016), actor, singer, musician
• Günter Gaus (1929–2004), actor, politician, diplomat
• Günter Gaus (1929–2004), actor, politician, diplomat
• Günther Simon (1925–1972), actor, stage actor, voice actor
• Gustav Bläser (1813–1874), sculptor
• Hanne Hiob (1923–2009), screenwriter, actor, stage actor
• Hanns Eisler (1898–1962), screenwriter, composer, film score composer
• Hanns Eisler (1898–1962), screenwriter, composer, film score composer
• Hans José Rehfisch (1891–1960), screenwriter, writer, jurist
• Hans Loch (1898–1960), politician, jurist, primator
• Hans Mayer (1907–2001), writer, teacher, jurist
• Hans Modrow (1928–2023), politician, economist, mechanical technician
• Hans von Dohnányi (1902–1945), judge, jurist, resistance fighter
• Hans-Peter Minetti (1926–2006), actor, singer, musician
• Hans-Peter Reinecke (1941–2005), actor, stage actor, film actor
• Harun Farocki (1944–2014), screenwriter, photographer, teacher
• Hedda Zinner (1904–1994), screenwriter, actor, writer
• Hedda Zinner (1904–1994), screenwriter, actor, writer
• Heiner Müller (1929–1995), writer, poet, playwright
• Heinrich Abeken (1809–1872), politician, diplomat, theologian
• Heinrich Gustav Magnus (1802–1870), physicist, chemist, university teacher
• Heinrich Mann (1871–1950), screenwriter, writer, poet
• Heinrich Strack (1805–1880), architect
• Heinrich Strack (1805–1880), architect
• Helene Weigel (1900–1971), actor, politician, singer
• Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979), university teacher, political scientist, sociologist
• Hermann Schievelbein (1817–1867), sculptor, visual artist
• Inge Keller (1923–2017), actor, stage actor, film actor
• Inge von Wangenheim (1912–1993), actor, writer, painter
• Joachim Sauter (1959–2021), artist, sculptor, university teacher
• Johann Erich Biester (1749–1816), writer, librarian, jurist
• Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764–1850), illustrator, painter, sculptor
• Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814), writer, university teacher, philosopher
• Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814), writer, university teacher, philosopher
• Johann Lorenz Schmidt (1900–1978), writer, economist, university teacher
• Johannes Dieckmann (1893–1969), politician, journalist
• Johannes R. Becher (1891–1958), writer, poet, politician
• Johannes Rau (1931–2006), politician, bookseller, philatelist
• John Heartfield (1891–1968), photographer, artist, poster artist
• Julius Eduard Hitzig (1780–1849), writer, jurist, biographer
• Jürgen Kuczynski (1904–1997), politician, economist, historian
• Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841), architect, urban planner, general contractor
• Klaus Bonhoeffer (1901–1945), lawyer, jurist, resistance fighter
• Kurt Maetzig (1911–2012), writer, screenwriter, chemist
• Leo Spies (1899–1965), composer, conductor, musician
• Leonie Ossowski (1925–2019), screenwriter, writer
• Lin Jaldati (1912–1988), actor, singer, resistance fighter
• Lothar Bisky (1941–2013), politician, university teacher
• Lothar Bolz (1903–1986), lawyer, politician, resistance fighter
• Louis Victor Robert Schwartzkopff (1825–1892), entrepreneur, inventor, mechanical engineer
• Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743–1817), scientist, pharmacist, inventor
• Michael Ruetz (1940–2024), photographer, university teacher, journalist
• Monika Hansen (1942–2025), actor
• Nathan Notowicz (1911–1968), composer, audio engineer, pianist
• Otmar Suitner (1922–2010), conductor, pianist, music director
• Otto Nuschke (1883–1957), politician, editing staff, journalist
• Otto Nuschke (1883–1957), politician, editing staff, journalist
• Otto Sander (1941–2013), screenwriter, actor, singer
• Paul Dessau (1894–1979), composer, conductor, musician
• Peter Palitzsch (1918–2004), screenwriter, dramaturge, film director
• Philipp Karl Buttmann (1764–1829), librarian, docent, pedagogue
• Q85938 (1941–2010), photographer
• Q85938 (1941–2010), photographer
• Roger Melis (1940–2009), photographer, fashion photographer
• Rudi Strahl (1931–2001), screenwriter, writer, poet
• Rudolf Bahro (1935–1997), writer, politician, journalist
• Rudolf von Delbrück (1817–1903), politician
• Rudolf Wagner-Régeny (1903–1969), composer, conductor, pianist
• Ruth Berghaus (1927–1996), musician, choreographer, director
• Ruth Berlau (1906–1974), actor, writer, photographer
• Slatan Dudow (1903–1963), screenwriter, writer, film director
• Stephan Hermlin (1915–1997), screenwriter, writer, translator
• Theodor Brugsch (1878–1963), physician, politician, university teacher
• Thomas Brasch (1945–2001), screenwriter, writer, poet
• Tomas Schmit (1943–2006), writer, artist, performance artist
• Werner Körte (1853–1937), physician, surgeon
• Wieland Herzfelde (1896–1988), actor, writer, poet
• Wilhelmine Schirmer-Pröscher (1889–1992), teacher, politician, druggist
• Wolfgang Herrndorf (1965–2013), writer, illustrator, painter
• Wolfgang Hilbig (1941–2007), writer, poet, artisan
• Wolfgang Langhoff (1901–1966), actor, writer, politician
• Wolfgang Steinitz (1905–1967), politician, folklorist, anthropologist