This is a list of notable Baltic Germans.
Art and literature
Architects Alfred Aschenkampff (1858–1914), architect (Latvia) Paul Max Bertschy (1840–1911), city architect of Liepāja (Latvia) Bernhard Bielenstein (1877–1959), architect (Latvia) Wilhelm Bockslaff (1858–1945), architect (Latvia) Johann Felsko (1813–1902), architect (Latvia) Karl Felsko, (1844–1918), architect (Latvia) Christoph Haberland (1750–1803), architect (Latvia) Otto Pius Hippius (1826–1883), architect (Estonia) Erich Jacoby (1885–1941), architect (Estonia) Paul Mandelstamm (1872–1941), architect (Latvia) Robert Natus (1890–1950), architect (Estonia) Robert Pflug (1832–1885), architect (Latvia) August Reinberg (1860–1908), architect (Latvia) Jacques Rosenbaum (1878–1944), architect (Estonia) Alfred Rosenberg (1893–1946), politician, Nazi ideologist and architect (Germany) Max Scherwinsky (1859–1909), architect and designer (Latvia) Edmund von Trompowsky (1851–1919), architect (Latvia)
Artists Christian Ackermann (died 1710), wood carver and sculptor (Estonia) Johann Heinrich Baumann (1753–1832), painter (Latvia) Friedrich Hartmann Barisien (1724–1796), painter (Latvia) Karl Hans Bernewitz (1858–1934), sculptor (Latvia) Gregor von Bochmann (1850–1930), painter (Estonia) Bernhard Borchert (1863–1945), artist (Latvia) Mikhail Clodt (1832–1902), painter (Russia) Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg (1805–1867), sculptor (Russia) Franz Burchard Dörbeck (1799–1835), graphic artist and caricaturist (Estonia) Jacob Heinrich Elbfas (c. 1600–1664), painter (Sweden) Eduard von Gebhardt (1838–1925), painter (Estonia) Wilhelm August Golicke (1802–1848), painter (Russia) Eduard Hau (1807–1888), painter (Estonia / Russia) Woldemar Hau (1816–1896), painter (Estonia / Russia) August Matthias Hagen (1794–1878), painter (Estonia / Russia) Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz (1824–1902), painter, daughter of the above (Estonia / Russia) Vasily Helmersen (1873–1893), artist and book illustrator (Russia) Carl von Hoffman (1889–1982), soldier, adventurer, author, and photographer (United States) Franz Hoppenstätt (died 1657/1658), wood carver (Estonia) George Hoyningen-Huene (1900–1968), fashion photographer (Russia) Alexander Julius Klünder, (1802–1875), portrait painter (Estonia) Alexander von Kotzebue (1815–1889), painter (Germany) Gerhard von Kügelgen (1772–1820), portrait and history painter (Germany) Karl von Kügelgen (1772–1832), landscape and history painter (Germany) Konstantin von Kügelgen (1810–1880), landscape painter (Germany) Otto Friedrich Theodor von Möller (1812–1874), painter (Russia) Carl Timoleon von Neff (1804–1877), painter (Estonia) August Georg Wilhelm Pezold (1794–1859), painter and lithographer (Estonia) Nikolaus Roerich (1874–1947), painter and philosopher (Russia) Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (1786–1837), archaeologist, writer, art historian and painter (Estonia / Russia) Egon von Vietinghoff (1903–1994), painter and philosopher (Germany / Switzerland) Gottlieb Welté (1745/49–1792), etcher and landscape painter (Germany / Estonia)
Authors and writers Friedrich Amelung (1842–1909), chess player, endgame composer, and journalist Werner Bergengruen (1892–1964), novelist Lovisa von Burghausen (1698–1733), slave and memoirist (Sweden) Anton Delvig (1798–1831), poet and journalist (Russia) Helene von Engelhardt (1850–1910) Nikolai Erdman (1900–1970), poet and playwright (Soviet Union) Carl Friedrich Glasenapp (1847–1915), biographer Julie Hausmann (1826–1901), poet Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), poet, novelist, and painter (Germany) Eduard von Keyserling (1855–1918), writer and playwright August von Kotzebue (1761–1819), playwright (Germany) Wilhelm Küchelbecker (1797–1846), poet and Decembrist (Russia) Anatol Lieven (born 1960), author, journalist, and policy analyst (United Kingdom) Garlieb Merkel (1769–1850), writer and public activist Elisa von der Recke (1754–1833), writer and poet Gleb Struve (1898–1985), poet and literary historian (United States) Frank Thiess (1890–1977), writer (Germany) Jakob von Uexkull (born 1944), writer and politician (Germany) Peter Ernst Wilde (1732–1785), physician and journalist (Estonia) Gero von Wilpert (1933–2009), writer and literary scientist Hilda Vīka (1887–1963), writer and artist
Entertainment
Actors and actresses Heinz Erhardt (1909–1979), comedian, musician, entertainer, actor and poet (Livonia / Germany) Irene von Meyendorff (1916–2001), film actress (Germany) Ornella Muti (born 1955), film actress (Italy) Naike Rivelli (born 1974), actress and singer (Italy) Marie Seebach (1830–1897), actress (Germany)
Musicians Karl Ferdinand Amenda (1771–1836), music teacher (Latvia) John Christian Bechler (1784–1857), Moravian bishop and composer (United States, Russia) Eduard Erdmann (1896–1958), pianist, composer, professor (Germany) Heinz Erhardt (1909–1979), comedian, musician, entertainer, actor and poet (Latvia) Eduard Mertke (1833–1895), composer and music teacher (Latvia) Lena Meyer-Landrut (born 1991), singer (Germany) Carl David Stegmann (1751–1826), tenor and composer (Germany) Raimund von zur-Mühlen (1854–1931), tenor and music educator (Livonia / Estonia}
Entrepreneurs James Martin Eder (1838–1921), pioneer of sugar industry in Colombia (Lithuania} Johann Friedrich Hartknoch (1740–1789), book publisher {Prussia} Karl Otto Georg von Meck (1821–1876), businessman (Silesia / Poland} Matthew Shiffner (c. 1690-1756), merchant (UK) Baron Nils Taube, (1928–2008), Britain's longest serving fund manager, colleague of George Soros and advisor to Lord Rothschild (UK)
Explorers Reinhold von Anrep-Elmpt (1834–1888), explorer Karl Ernst von Baer (1792–1876), biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, founder of embryology Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (1778–1852), explorer (Russia) Alexander von Bunge (1803–1890), botanist and expeditionist (Russia) Karl von Ditmar (1822–1892), geologist and explorer (Russia) Karl Eichwald (1795–1876), geologist and physician (Russia) Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz (1793–1831), biologist, physician and explorer (Russia) Johann Anton Güldenstädt (1745–1781), naturalist and explorer Ludwig von Hagemeister (1780–1833), seafarer and explorer (Russia) Carl von Hoffman (1889–1982), soldier, adventurer, author, and photographer (United States) Alexander von Kaulbars (1844–1925) military commander and explorer (Russia) Otto von Kotzebue (1787–1846), explorer (Russia) Adam Johann von Krusenstern (1770–1846), explorer (Russia). Friedrich von Lütke (1797–1898), navigator and geographer (Russia) Richard Maack (1825–1886), biologist, geographer and explorer (Russia) Alexander von Middendorff (1815–1894), zoologist and explorer Michael von Reinken (1801–1859), vice-admiral and hydrographer (Russia) Otto Schmidt (1891–1956), mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist (Soviet Union) Alexander von Schrenk (1816–1876), mineralogist, botanist and expeditionist (Russia) Leopold von Schrenck (1826–1894), zoologist, geographer and ethnographer (Russia) Georg August Schweinfurth (1836–1925), botanist and explorer Eduard von Toll (1858–1902), geologist and explorer (Russia) Ferdinand von Wrangel (1797–1870), explorer (Russia).
Military Alexander of Courland (1658–1686), prince and military commander (Prussia) Władysław Anders (1892–1970), military commander and politician (Poland) Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (1761–1818), military commander (Russia). Alexander von Benckendorff (1783–1844), military commander (Russia) Konstantin von Benckendorff (1785–1828), military commander and diplomat (Russia) Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg (1793–1874), military commander (Russia) Karl Ludwig von Budberg (1775–1829), military commander (Russia) Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden (1750–1811), military commander (Russia) Jacob von Eggers (1704–1773), military engineer (Sweden, Electorate of Saxony) Magnus Gustav von Essen (1759–1813), military commander (Russia) Nikolai von Essen (1860–1915), admiral (Russia) Peter Kirillovich Essen (1772–1844), military commander (Russia) Jürgen von Farensbach (1551–1602), military commander (Livonia) William Fermor (1702–1771), military commander (Russia) Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven (1899–1944), colonel and member of the Widerstand (Germany) Adrian von Fölkersahm (1914–1945), military commander (Nazi Germany) Dmitry Gustavovich von Fölkersahm (1846–1905), admiral (Russia) Maksimas Katche (1879–1933), military commander (Russia, Lithuania) Alexander von Kaulbars (1844–1925) military commander and explorer (Russia) Pavel Fyodorovich Keller (1883–1980), military officer (Russia/Romania) Paul Demetrius von Kotzebue (1801–1884), military officer (Russia) Ernst Gideon von Laudon (1717–1790), military commander (Livonia / Austria) Christoph von Lieven (1774–1839), military commander, politician and diplomat (Russia) Eugen Ludwig Müller (1867–1939), military commander (Russia) Burkhard Christoph von Münnich (1683–1767), military commander (Russia) Fabian Gottlieb von der Osten-Sacken (1752–1837), field marshal (Russia) Johann Patkul (1660–1707), politician and military commander (Sweden, Poland, Russia) Wolter von Plettenberg (1450–1535), Master of Livonian Order Paul von Rennenkampf (1854–1918), military commander (Russia) Ernst von Stackelberg (1813–1870), diplomat and military figure (Russia) Georg von Stackelberg (1851–1913), cavalry general (Russia) Eduard von Totleben (1818–1884), engineer-general (Russia) Roman von Ungern-Sternberg (1885–1921), military commander (Russia) Viktor von Wahl (1840–1915), military commander and politician (Russia) Carl Gustaf Wrangel (1613–1676), military commander and statesman (Sweden) Carl Henrik Wrangel (1681–1755), military commander (Sweden) Herman Wrangel (1587–1643), military commander and statesman (Sweden) Pyotr Nikolayevich von Wrangel (1878–1928), military commander (Russia)
Philosophers Johann Eduard Erdmann (1805–1892), pastor, historian of philosophy (Latvia) Nicolai Hartmann (1882–1950), philosopher (Germany) Hermann Graf Keyserling (1880–1946), philosopher (Livonia / Estonia) Alfred Rosenberg (1893–1946), politician, Nazi ideologist and architect (Germany) Egon von Vietinghoff (1903–1994), painter and philosopher (Germany, Switzerland)
Politicians and diplomats Ernst Johann von Biron (1690–1772), Duke of Courland Peter von Biron (1724–1800), Duke of Courland Andreas von Budberg-Bönninghausen (1750–1812), diplomat and politician (Russia) Andreas von Budberg-Bönninghausen (1817–1881), diplomat (Russia) Sophie von Buxhoeveden (1883–1956), lady in waiting to Tsarina Alexandra of Russia Balthasar von Campenhausen (1772–1823), politician (Russia) Karl Robert von Nesselrode (1780–1862), diplomat (Russia) Stanisław Ernest Denhoff (1673–1728), noble and statesman (Poland) Kasper Doenhoff (1587–1645), courtier and diplomat (Poland) Ernst Magnus Dönhoff (1581–1642), noble and diplomat Princess Dorothea of Courland (1793–1862), noblewoman Hans Reinhold von Fersen (1683–1736), military commander and politician (Sweden) Reinhold Johan von Fersen (1646–1716), county governor (Sweden) Siim Kallas (born 1948), former Prime Minister of Estonia Ferdinand Kettler (1655–1737), Duke of Courland Friedrich Kettler (1569–1642), Duke of Courland Frederick William Kettler (1692–1711), Duke of Courland Frederick Casimir Kettler (1650–1698), Duke of Courland Gotthard Kettler (1517–1587), last Master of the Livonian Order and the first Duke of Courland Jacob Kettler (1610–1682), Duke of Courland Wilhelm Kettler (1574–1640), Duke of Courland Andreas Meyer-Landrut (born 1929), diplomat (Germany) Egils Levits (born 1955), former president of Latvia Christoph von Lieven (1774–1839), military commander, politician and diplomat (Russia) Dorothea von Lieven (1785–1857), noblewoman and diplomat (Russia) Christoph Johann von Medem (1763–1838), courtier (Russia) Dorothea von Medem (1761–1821), last Duchess of Courland Karl Robert von Nesselrode (1780–1862), diplomat (Russia)