Editing Wismar (section)

==Notable people==
*[[Klaus Störtebeker]] (c. 1360–1401), privateer
*[[Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow]] (1557–1631), queen of [[List of Danish royal consorts|Denmark]] and [[List of Norwegian royal consorts|Norway]]
*[[Daniel Georg Morhof]] (1639–1691), writer, scholar and historian<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle=Morhof, Daniel Georg |volume=18 |page=836 |short=1}}</ref>
*[[Johan Henrik Scheffel]] (1690–1781), Swedish painter
*[[Johan Carl Wilcke]] (1732–1796), physicist
*[[Henricus Christophorus Christianus Wegener]] (1757–1799), lawyer
*[[Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann]] (1785–1860), historian, statesman.<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle=Dahlmann, Friedrich Christoph |last=Luckwaldt |first=Friedrich |author-link= |volume=7 |pages=732–733 |short=1}}</ref>
*[[Heinrich Keil]] (1822–1894), philologist
*[[Theodor Martens]] (1822–1884), architectural and landscape painter
*[[Friedrich Bernhard Christian Maassen]] (1823–1900), law professor<ref>{{CathEncy|wstitle=Friedrich Bernard Christian Maassen |volume=9 |last=Schlager |first=Patricius |author-link= |short=1}}</ref>
*[[Gottlob Frege]] (1848–1925), mathematician, logician and philosopher
*[[Hermann Ritter]] (1849–1926), viola player, composer and music historian
*[[Guglielmo Plüschow]] (1852–1930), a German photographer of male nudes in Italy
*[[Marie Musaeus Higgins]] (1855–1926), founder of [[Musaeus College]], [[Colombo]]
*[[Franz Ziehl]] (1857–1926), bacteriologist
*[[Elisabeth Krämer-Bannow]] (1874–1945), ethnologist, explored the [[Polynesia|islands of the South Pacific]].
*[[Gustav Neckel]] (1878–1940), Germanist and Scandinavist
*[[Anton von Hohberg und Buchwald]] (1885–1934), Reichswehr and SS officer
*[[Helmuth Wohlthat]] (1893–1982), civil servant and diplomat
*[[Harald Weinrich]] (born 1927), classical scholar; scholar of Romance philology and philosopher
*[[Uwe Holmer]] (1929–2023), pastor, author and theologian; housed [[Erich Honecker]] and his [[Margot Honecker|wife]]
*[[Gunter Pleuger]] (born 1941), diplomat and politician
*[[Klaus Grünberg]] (born 1941), actor
*[[Simone Oldenburg]] (born 1969), politician, local Deputy Minister-President since 2021
*[[Thomas Wiegand]] (born 1970), electrical engineer; substantially contributed to [[video coding format]]s

=== Sport ===
*[[Heino Kleiminger]] (1939–2015), footballer
*[[Peter Sykora (footballer)|Peter Sykora]] (born 1946), footballer, played over 270 pro games
*[[Joachim Streich]] (1951–2022), football player and coach, played 378 games and 98 for [[East Germany national football team|East Germany]]
*[[Marita Koch]] (born 1957), track and field athlete of the GDR and [[1980 Summer Olympics]] champion
*[[Roswitha Eberl]] (born 1958), canoeist
*[[Kerstin Brandt]] (born 1961), high jumper
*[[Andreas Zachhuber]] (born 1962), football player and coach
*[[Kathrin Haacker]] (born 1967), [[1988 Summer Olympics]] champion in rowing
*[[Fiete Sykora]] (born 1982), footballer, played over 430 pro games
*[[Robert Tesche]] (born 1987), footballer, played over 400 pro games