Individuals associated with the island thumb|150px|Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher around 1815 Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prince Wahlstatt (1742–1819), Prussian Field Marshal, spent his youth on the Venz estate. Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), painter, stayed several times on visits by relatives of Pomerania and was inspired mainly by the chalk cliffs Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten (1758–1818), theologian, pastor, professor and poet, pastor of the parish Altenkirchen at Rügen Joachim Nicolas Eggert (1779–1813), composer and musical director, member of the Royal Swedish Musical Academy Maximilian Kaller (1880–1947), Bishop of Warmia in Prussia, began his first pastorate as mission pastor of St. Boniface parish at Rügen Angela Merkel (born 1954), German Chancellor (CDU), represented the constituency of Vorpommern-Rügen – Vorpommern-Greifswald I between 1990 and 2021; she therefore represented the island of Rügen in the Bundestag.
Individuals associated with the island thumb|150px|Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher around 1815 Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prince Wahlstatt (1742–1819), Prussian Field Marshal, spent his youth on the Venz estate. Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), painter, stayed several times on visits by relatives of Pomerania and was inspired mainly by the chalk cliffs Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten (1758–1818), theologian, pastor, professor and poet, pastor of the parish Altenkirchen at Rügen Joachim Nicolas Eggert (1779–1813), composer and musical director, member of the Royal Swedish Musical Academy Maximilian Kaller (1880–1947), Bishop of Warmia in Prussia, began his first pastorate as mission pastor of St. Boniface parish at Rügen Angela Merkel (born 1954), German Chancellor (CDU), represented the constituency of Vorpommern-Rügen – Vorpommern-Greifswald I between 1990 and 2021; she therefore represented the island of Rügen in the Bundestag.