This article provides a list of people from the city of Bremen. Bremen is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany, which belongs to the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (also called just "Bremen" for short), a federal state of Germany.
Early times to 1800
Adam of Bremen (fl. 1066), author of chronicles and histories of Germany and Scandinavia. Johann Rode von Wale (c.1445–1511), Catholic cleric; Doctor of Canon and Civil Law; chronicler; long-serving government official (1468–1497); as John III, was Prince-Archbishop of Bremen, 1497–1511 Arnoldus Clapmarius (1574–1604), German academic, jurist, humanist, known for his writings on statecraft Johannes Cocceius (1603–1669), Dutch theologian born in Bremen. Frans Banninck Cocq (1605–1655), Mayor of Amsterdam, central figure in Rembrandt's masterpiece The Night Watch Riksfriherre Sir Johan Fredrik von Friesendorff, 1st Baronet (1617–1669), Swedish diplomat born in Bremen Henry Oldenburg (1619–1677), secretary of the Royal Society Franz Wulfhagen (c. 1624–1670), German Baroque painter and engraver Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve, Count of Laurvig (1638–1704), general in Norway during the Scanian War; illegitimate son of King Frederick III of Denmark and Norway Heinrich von Cocceji (1644–1719), professor of natural and international law at the Heidelberg University Joachim Neander (1650–1680), rector, pastor, hymn writer. Johann Baring (1697–1748), name later anglicised to John Baring, German-British merchant; founder of Barings Bank Hermanus Meyer (1733–1791), clergyman of the Dutch Reformed Church in America Johann Peter Berg (1737–1800), German Protestant theologian, historian and orientalist Wilhelm Olbers (1758–1840), physician and astronomer. Blasius Merrem (1761–1824), naturalist, zoologist, ornithologist, mathematician, and herpetologist Albertus Henricus Wiese (1761–1810), Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, 1805–1808 Gerhard Ludvig Lahde (1765–1833), Prussian-born Danish printmaker and publisher Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (1776–1837), naturalist and botanist, discovered the intercellular space in a plant's parenchyma. Hermann Ernst Freund (1786–1840), German-born Danish sculptor of figures from Nordic mythology
1800 to 1850
Hermann Heinrich Winter (1805–1884), farmer, local official, member of Wisconsin State Assembly Johann Georg Kohl (1808–1878), travel writer, historian, geographer and librarian
Friedrich Wagenfeld (1810–1846), German philologist and author
Henry Bohlen (1810–1862), American Civil War Union Brigadier General
Carl Johann Steinhäuser (1813–1879), German sculptor in the classical style
Nicolaus Delius (1813–1888), German philologist and student of Shakespeare. Gustav Hartlaub (1814–1900), German physician and ornithologist Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Henzen (1816–1887), German philologist and epigraphist Julie Schwabe (1818–1896), socialite, education activist and philanthropist, lived in Manchester, UK Carl Wilhelm von Zehender (1819–1916), ophthalmologist, pioneer of ophthalmic microsurgery Wilhelm Paul Corssen (1820–1875), German philologist; worked on Latin and Etruscan topics. Frederick L. Schmersahl (1825-c.1905), German-American merchant and eleventh Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey Adolf Bastian (1826–1905), polymath ethnography and anthropologist. Charles Henry Nimitz (1826–1911), in 1852 built the Nimitz Hotel in Fredericksburg, Texas Amalie Murtfeldt (1828-1888), German painter Arnold Huchting (1828–1901), member of the Wisconsin State Assembly Frederick Halterman (1831-1907), U.S. Congressman Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs (1831–1896), geographer, explorer, author and adventurer. Henry Timken (1831–1909), inventor, founded the Timken Roller Bearing Company Hermann Ottomar Herzog (1832–1932), European and American artist of landscapes, from the Düsseldorf school of painting August Wilmanns (1833–1917), classical scholar and librarian
Franz Adolf Eduard Lüderitz (1834–1886), merchant and colonist in South West Africa. Johann Georg Poppe (1837–1915), prominent architect during the German Gründerzeit and interior designer of ocean liners for Norddeutscher Lloyd Frederick Charles Winkler (1838–1921), American Civil War Union brigadier general John Henry Niemeyer (1839–1932), German-born painter, taught drawing at Yale University Heinrich Averbeck (1844–1889), physiotherapist