This is a list of notable

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. Persons of mixed heritage have their respective ancestries credited.

Architects

Walter Gropius Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-American architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in conne ...

(1883–1969), architect *

Carl Ludvig Engel Carl Ludvig Engel, or Johann Carl Ludwig Engel (3 July 1778 – 14 May 1840), was a German architect whose most noted work can be found in Helsinki, which he helped rebuild. His works include most of the buildings around the capital's monumental ...

(1778–1840), architect *

Leo von Klenze Leo von Klenze (Franz Karl Leopold von Klenze; 29 February 1784, Buchladen (Bockelah / Bocla) near Schladen – 26 January 1864, Munich) was a German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer. Court architect of Bavarian King Ludwig I, Leo ...

(1784–1864), architect *

Balthasar Neumann Johann Balthasar Neumann (; 27 January 1687 (?) – 19 August 1753), usually known as Balthasar Neumann, was a German architect and military artillery engineer who developed a refined brand of Baroque architecture, fusing Austrian, Bohemian, Ita ...

(1687–1753), architect and engineer *

Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann (1662–1736) was a German master builder and architect who helped to rebuild Dresden after the fire of 1685. His most famous work is the Zwinger Palace. Life Pöppelmann was born in Herford in Westphalia on 3 ...

(1662–1736), architect *

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ( ; ; born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect. He was commonly referred to as Mies, his surname. Along with Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd ...

(1886–1969), architect *

Karl Friedrich Schinkel Karl Friedrich Schinkel (13 March 1781 – 9 October 1841) was a Prussian architect, city planner and painter who also designed furniture and stage sets. Schinkel was one of the most prominent architects of Germany and designed both neoclassica ...

(1781–1841), architect and painter *

Johann Conrad Schlaun Johann Conrad Schlaun (June 5, 1695 in Nörde now Warburg – October 21, 1773 in Münster) was a German architect. He is an important architect of the Westphalian Baroque architectural style. His designs include the Erbdrostenhof and Schloss, ...

(1695–1773), architect *

Gottfried Semper Gottfried Semper (; 29 November 1803 – 15 May 1879) was a German architect, art critic, and professor of architecture who designed and built the Semper Opera House in Dresden between 1838 and 1841. In 1849 he took part in the May Uprising in ...

(1803–1879), architect *

Albert Speer Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (; ; 19 March 1905 – 1 September 1981) was a German architect who served as the Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II. A close ally of Adolf Hitler, he ...

(1905–1981), architect *

Wilhelm Kreis Wilhelm Kreis (17 March 1873 – 13 August 1955) was a prominent German architect and professor of architecture, active through four political systems in German history: the Wilhelmine era, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, and the founda ...

(1873–1955), architect

Artists

Johann Gottlieb Hantzsch - Häusliche Szene, 1831

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Hans von Aachen Hans von Aachen (1552 – 4 March 1615) was a German painter who was one of the leading representatives of Northern Mannerism. Hans von Aachen was a versatile and productive artist who worked in many genres. He was successful as a painter of pr ...

(1552–1615),

mannerist Mannerism, which may also be known as Late Renaissance, is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, ...

painter *

Albrecht Altdorfer Albrecht Altdorfer (12 February 1538) was a German painter, engraver and architect of the Renaissance working in Regensburg, Bavaria. Along with Lucas Cranach the Elder and Wolf Huber he is regarded to be the main representative of the Danube Sc ...

(1480–1538), painter *

Gertrud Arndt Gertrud Arndt (''née'' Hantschk; 20 September 1903 – 10 July 2000) was a German photographer and designer associated with the Bauhaus movement. She is remembered for her pioneering series of self-portraits from around 1930. Biography Born Ger ...

(1903–2000), photographer; pioneering self-portraiture *

Ernst Barlach Ernst Heinrich Barlach (2 January 1870 – 24 October 1938) was a German expressionist sculptor, medallist, printmaker and writer. Although he was a supporter of the war in the years leading to World War I, his participation in the war made him c ...

(1870–1938), sculptor and writer *

Günther Behnisch Günther, Guenther, Ginther, Gunther, and the variants Günter, Guenter, Guenther, Ginter, and Gunter, are Germanic names derived from ''Gunthere, Gunthari'', composed of '' *gunþiz'' "battle" (Old Norse ''gunnr'') and ''heri, hari'' "army". Gund ...

(1922–2010), architect *

Peter Behrens Peter Behrens (14 April 1868 – 27 February 1940) was a leading German architect, graphic and industrial designer, best known for his early pioneering AEG Turbine Hall in Berlin in 1909. He had a long career, designing objects, typefaces, and i ...

(1868–1940), architect *

Sibylle Bergemann Sibylle Bergemann (29 August 1941 – 1 November 2010) was a German photographer. In 1990, she co-founded the Ostkreuz photographers agency. She is remembered for documenting developments in East Berlin during the Communist era and for her inter ...

(1941–2010), photographer *

Joseph Beuys Joseph Heinrich Beuys ( , ; 12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German artist, teacher, performance artist, and art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism, sociology, and anthroposophy. He was a founder of a provocative art mov ...

(1921–1986), artist * Hermann Biow (1804–1850), photographer *

Elisabeth Böhm Elisabeth Böhm née Haggenmüller (18 June 1921, in Mindelheim – 6 September 2012 in Cologne) was a German architect. Frequently working together with her husband, Gottfried Böhm, she participated in the design of numerous projects, especial ...

(1921–2012), architect * Gottfried Böhm (1920–2021), architect *

Arno Breker Arno Breker (19 July 1900 – 13 February 1991) was a German architect and sculptor who is best known for his public works in Nazi Germany, where they were endorsed by the authorities as the antithesis of degenerate art. He was made official ...

(1900–1991), sculptor * Lovis Corinth (1858–1925), painter *

Lucas Cranach the Elder Lucas Cranach the Elder (german: Lucas Cranach der Ältere ; – 16 October 1553) was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career, and is know ...

(1472–1553), painter * Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515–1586), painter * Yitzhak Danziger (1916–1977), Berlin-born Israeli sculptor * Otto Dix (1891–1969), painter * Leon Draisaitl (born 1995), ice hockey player of the Edmonton Oilers *

Albrecht Dürer Albrecht Dürer (; ; hu, Ajtósi Adalbert; 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528),Müller, Peter O. (1993) ''Substantiv-Derivation in Den Schriften Albrecht Dürers'', Walter de Gruyter. . sometimes spelled in English as Durer (without an umlaut) or Due ...

(1471–1528), painter * Egon Eiermann (1904–1970), architect and designer * Max Ernst (1891–1976), surrealist painter * Carl Eytel (1862–1925), painter of desert landscapes in the American Southwest *

Caspar David Friedrich Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscape ...

(1774–1840), painter *

Dörte Gatermann Dörte Gatermann (born 1956, Hamburg) is a German architect who is best known for designing the Triangle Tower in Cologne. Early life Dörte Gatermann's was born in 1956 in Hamburg, Germany.

(born 1956), architect * Willi Glasauer (born 1938), artist *

(1883–1969), architect *

George Grosz George Grosz (; born Georg Ehrenfried Groß; July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objec ...

(1893–1959), artist * Matthias Grünewald (c. 1470 – 1528),

German Renaissance The German Renaissance, part of the Northern Renaissance, was a cultural and artistic movement that spread among Germany, German thinkers in the 15th and 16th centuries, which developed from the Italian Renaissance. Many areas of the arts and ...

painter *

Johann Gottlieb Hantzsch Johann Gottlieb Hantzsch (19 March 1794 – 3 April 1848) was a German genre painter. Life and work Hantzsch was the son of a bricklayer. He attended the Art Academy in Dresden from 1811 to 1822. Initially he devoted himself to painting milit ...

(1794–1848), painter ( genre works) * Bettina Heinen-Ayech (1937–2020), painter * Hannah Höch (1889–1978), artist * Hans Holbein the Elder (c. 1465 – 1524), painter *

Hans Holbein the Younger Hans Holbein the Younger ( , ; german: Hans Holbein der Jüngere; – between 7 October and 29 November 1543) was a Germans, German-Swiss people, Swiss painter and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style, and is considered o ...

(c. 1497 – 1543), illustrator and painter *

Jörg Immendorff Jörg Immendorff (14 June 1945 – 28 May 2007) was a German painter, sculptor, stage designer and art professor. He was a member of the art movement ''Neue Wilde''. Early life and education Immendorff was born in Bleckede, Lower Saxony, ne ...

, painter * Helmut Jahn (1940–2021), architect and designer *

Horst Janssen Horst Janssen (14 November 192931 August 1995) was a German draftsman, printmaker, poster artist and illustrator. He had a prolific output of drawings, etchings, woodcuts, lithographs and wood engravings. Janssen was a student of Alfred Mahla ...

(1929–1995), draftsman, graphic artist, woodcutter, watercolour painter, writer *

Ulli Kampelmann Ulli Kampelmann is a professional artist from Germany, currently based in Florida. Ulli develops innovative means and ways to bring images from the inner world into being. She gathers wavelengths of color, shape and light and conveys them into an a ...

(born 1952), sculptor and painter *

Anselm Kiefer Anselm Kiefer (born 8 March 1945) is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Peter Dreher and Horst Antes at the end of the 1960s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac. The poems of Paul Celan hav ...

(born 1945), painter * Martin Kippenberger (1953–1997), painter * Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938), painter *

(1784–1864), architect * Hans Kollhoff (born 1946), architect * Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), painter *

Christian Lemmerz Christian Lemmerz (born January 30, 1959) is a German-Danish Sculpture, sculptor and Visual arts, visual artist who attended the Accademia di Belle Arti in Carrara, Italy, from 1978 to 1982 and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1983 to 198 ...

(born 1959), sculptor and scenographer * Max Liebermann, painter * Markus Lüpertz (born 1941), painter and sculptor *

August Macke August Robert Ludwig Macke (3 January 1887 – 26 September 1914) was a German Expressionist painter. He was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). He lived during a particularly act ...

(1887–1914), painter *

Harro Magnussen Harro Magnussen (14 May 1861 – 3 November 1908) was a German sculptor. Life Magnussen was born in Hamm, Hamburg, Hamm, and received his first lessons in drawing, modelling and carving wood from his father, the painter Christian Carl Mag ...

(1861–1908), sculptor *

Franz Marc Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc (8 February 1880 – 4 March 1916) was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of German Expressionism. He was a founding member of ''Der Blaue Reiter'' (The Blue Rider), a journal whose name later b ...

(1880–1916), painter * Hans Memling (c. 1430 – 1494), painter *

(1886–1969), architect and designer * Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907), painter * Georg Muche (1895–1987), painter, printmaker, architect, author and teacher

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Helmut Newton Helmut Newton (born Helmut Neustädter; 31 October 192023 January 2004) was a German-Australian photographer. The ''New York Times'' described him as a "prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-a ...

(1920–2004), photographer * Frei Otto (1925–2015), architect and research scientist * Max Pechstein (1881–1955), painter * Sigmar Polke (1941–2010), painter * Gerhard Richter (born 1932), painter *

Julius Runge Julius Ludwig Friedrich Runge (28 June 1843, Röbel – 14 March 1922, Lindau) was a German landscape painter. Born in Röbel in northern Germany, he studied under Hans Gude and Gustav Schönleber. He painted in Munich, Karlsruhe, Hamburg and Lind ...

(1843–1922), marine painter *

, architect and painter * Oskar Schlemmer (1888–1943), choreographer, painter, sculptor and stage designer * Eberhard Schlotter (1921–2014), painter * Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884–1976), painter * Kurt Schwitters, painter and poet * Fritz Schumacher (1869–1947), architect and urban designer * Max Slevogt, painter * Carl Spitzweg (1808–1885), painter *

Birgit Stauch Birgit Stauch (Born in Baden-Baden, (Germany), December 11, 1961) is a contemporary German sculptor who works in bronzes, sculptures, sketches and portraits. Life Stauch was born in Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, daughter of artist and sculp ...

(born 1961), sculptor *

Fritz Stoltenberg Fritz Stoltenberg (7 April 1855 -13 November 1921) was a German landscape and marine painter. After a summer with the Skagen Painters in 1884, he returned to Kiel where he painted and sketched the old town and the harbor, publishing many of ...

(1855–1921), landscape artist and marine painter * Franz Stuck, painter * Yigal Tumarkin (1933–2021), Israeli painter and sculptor * Wolf Vostell (1932–1998), artist *

Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann (25 January 1815 – 6 December 1901) was a German photographer. She appears to have been Germany's first professional female photographer, and was possibly also the first professional female photographer in the world, bein ...

(1815–1901), pioneering female photographer *

Emilie Winkelmann Emilie Winkelmann (May 8, 1875 in Aken, Germany - August 1952 Hovedissen near Bielefeld) was the first freelance architect in Germany that ran an independent architecture practice. She also worked in Berlin, Dortmund and Bochum in different architec ...

(1875–1951), architect

Company founders

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* Karl Albrecht (1920–2014) and Theo Albrecht (1922–2010), founder of Aldi * Ludwig Bamberger (1823–1899), co-founder of Deutsche Bank * John Jacob Bausch (1830–1926), co-founder of Bausch & Lomb, makers of contact lenses and

Ray-Ban Ray-Ban is an American-Italian brand of luxury sunglasses and eyeglasses created in 1936 by Bausch & Lomb. The brand is known for its Wayfarer and Aviator lines of sunglasses. In 1999, Bausch & Lomb sold the brand to Italian eyewear conglomerate ...

sunglasses * Friedrich Bayer (1825–1880), founder of what would become

Bayer Bayer AG (, commonly pronounced ; ) is a German multinational corporation, multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. Headquartered in Leverkusen, Bayer's areas of busi ...

, a chemical and pharmaceutical company * Hans Beck (1929–2009), founder of Playmobil *

Paul Beiersdorf Paul Carl Beiersdorf (26 March 1836 – 17 December 1896) was a German pharmacist from Neuruppin, Brandenburg. He was founder of Beiersdorf AG in Hamburg. Life In 1880 he founded the Beiersdorf Company, a Hamburg pharmaceutical operation where ...

(1836–1896), founded

Beiersdorf AG Beiersdorf AG is a German multinational company that manufactures and retails personal-care products and pressure-sensitive adhesives. Its brands include Elastoplast, Eucerin (makers of Aquaphor), Labello, La Prairie, Nivea, Tesa SE (Tesa ta ...

, manufacturers of Nivea,

Eucerin Eucerin is a trademarked brand of Beiersdorf AG. In addition to body and face care products, Eucerin offers sun protectant and cleansing products. History In 1900, Isaac Lifschütz manufactured a non-perishable and sleek ointment base consi ...

* Melitta Bentz (1873–1950), invented the coffee filter and started Melitta, manufacturers of coffee, paper coffee filters and coffee makers * Karl Benz (1844–1929), inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile; co-founder of the automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz * Maximilian Delphinius Berlitz (1852–1921), founder of Berlitz Language Schools * Carl Bertelsmann (1791–1850), founder of

Bertelsmann Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA () is a German private multinational conglomerate corporation based in Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is one of the world's largest media conglomerates, and is also active in the service sector and ...

AG, subsidiaries include Random House and

BMG BMG may refer to: Organizations * Music publishing companies: ** Bertelsmann Music Group, a 1987–2008 division of Bertelsmann that was purchased by Sony on October 1, 2008 *** Sony BMG, a 2004–2008 joint venture of Bertelsmann and Sony that wa ...

* Johann Adam Birkenstock, in 1774 founded Birkenstock shoe company * Hermann Blohm (1848–1930), in 1877, co-founder of Blohm+Voss, manufacturer of ships *

Carl F. W. Borgward Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Borgward (November 10, 1890 in Altona, Hamburg – July 28, 1963 in Bremen (city), Bremen) was a German engineer and designer and the creator of the Borgward group, based in Bremen. Biography He was of modest origin, ...

(1890–1963), founder of

Borgward The former Borgward car manufacturing company, based in Bremen, Germany, was founded by Carl F. W. Borgward (1890–1963). It produced cars of four brands, which were sold to a diversified international customer base: Borgward, Hansa, Go ...

August Borsig Johann Karl Friedrich August Borsig (23 June 1804 – 6 July 1854) was a German businessman who founded the ''Borsig-Werke'' factory. Borsig was born in Breslau (Wrocław), the son of cuirassier and carpenter foreman Johann George Borsig. After ...

(1804–1854), founder of Borsig Werke * Robert Bosch (1861–1942), industrialist, engineer and inventor; founder of

Robert Bosch GmbH Robert Bosch GmbH (; ), commonly known as Bosch and stylized as BOSCH, is a German multinational engineering and technology company headquartered in Gerlingen, Germany. The company was founded by Robert Bosch in Stuttgart in 1886. Bosch is 9 ...

* Hugo Boss (1885–1948), fashion designer, founder of

Hugo Boss AG Hugo Boss AG, often styled as BOSS, is a luxury fashion house headquartered in Metzingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The company sells clothing, accessories, footwear, and fragrances. Hugo Boss is one of the largest German clothing companies, ...

* Max Braun (1883–1967), founder of Braun GmbH, makers of personal care appliances, coffee makers and other home appliances * Adolphus Busch (1839–1913), co-founder of Anheuser-Busch brewing company * Adolph Coors (1847–1929), founder of the

Adolph Coors Company The Adolph Coors Company was formerly a holding company in Golden, Colorado controlled by the heirs of founder Adolph Coors. Its principal subsidiary was the Coors Brewing Company. The brewery was founded in 1873. In 2005, Adolph Coors Co. merge ...

brewery, now part of MillerCoors * Gottlieb Daimler (1834–1900), inventor and engineer; founder of Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft, now

Daimler-Benz AG The Mercedes-Benz Group AG (previously named Daimler-Benz, DaimlerChrysler and Daimler) is a German multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is one of the world's leading car manufacture ...

* Adolf Dassler (1900–1978), founder of sportswear company

Adidas Adidas AG (; stylized as adidas since 1949) is a German multinational corporation, founded and headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, that designs and manufactures shoes, clothing and accessories. It is the largest sportswear manufactur ...

* Rudolf Dassler (1898–1974), founder of sportwear company

Puma Puma or PUMA may refer to: Animals * ''Puma'' (genus), a genus in the family Felidae ** Puma (species) or cougar, a large cat Businesses and organisations * Puma (brand), a multinational shoe and sportswear company * Puma Energy, a mid- and d ...

Adelbert Delbrück Gottlieb Adelbert Delbrück (; January 16, 1822 in Magdeburg – May 26, 1890 in Kreuzlingen) was a German banker and businessman. Early life His father Gottlied Delbrück (1777–1842) worked in Magdeburg. The ''Delbrück'' family was a pr ...

(1822–1899), co-founder of Deutsche Bank * Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck (1830–1916), founder of company Schlesische AG für Bergbau und Zinkhüttenbetrieb * Claude Dornier (1884–1969), founder of

Dornier Flugzeugwerke Dornier Flugzeugwerke was a German aircraft manufacturer founded in Friedrichshafen in 1914 by Claude Dornier. Over the course of its long lifespan, the company produced many designs for both the civil and military markets. History Originally ...

Friedrich Engelhorn Friedrich Engelhorn (17 July 1821 – 11 March 1902) was a German industrialist and founder of BASF in Ludwigshafen. Curriculum Vitae Friedrich Engelhorn was born on 17 July 1821 in Mannheim, where his father was a brewery master and pub ow ...

(1821–1902), founder of the chemical company BASF * Kaspar Faber (1730–1784), founder of

Faber-Castell Faber-Castell AG is a manufacturer of pens, pencils, other office supplies (e.g., staplers, slide rules, erasers, rulers)Faber-Castell InternationalOffice Products and art supplies,Faber-Castell InternationalProducts for FineArts and FineWriting ...

, manufacturers of office supplies, art supplies, writing instruments and leather goods * Günther Fielmann (born 1939), founder of

Fielmann Fielmann AG is a German eye-wear company. The Fielmann stock is listed in the German SDAX index and at the northern German regional HASPAX index. With 5% of all optical stores, Fielmann achieved a 22% sales market share and a 53% market share ...

* Wilhelm von Finck (1848–1924), co-founder of Munich Re and

Allianz Allianz ( , ) is a German multinational financial services company headquartered in Munich, Germany. Its core businesses are insurance and asset management. The company is one of the world's largest insurers and financial services groups. The ...

Eduard Fresenius Eduard Fresenius (November 17 1874, Frankfurt am Main – February 10, 1946, Bad Homburg) was a German entrepreneur and pharmacist. In 1912, Eduard Fresenius founded German company Fresenius. Eduard Fresenius was married. Else Fernau, Eduard's ...

(1874–1946), founder of

Fresenius Fresenius is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818–1897), German chemist * Christian Fresenius (1749-1811), German Jurist and writer * Eduard Fresenius ( (1874–1946), German businessman, fou ...

* Jakob Fugger the Elder (1368–1469), founder of

Fugger The House of Fugger () is a German upper bourgeois family that was historically a prominent group of European bankers, members of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century mercantile patriciate of Augsburg, international mercantile bankers, and vent ...

bank * Marcus Goldman (1821–1904), co-founder of

Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs () is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is headquartered at 200 West Street in Lower Manhattan, with regional headquarters in London, Warsaw, Bangalore, H ...

* Max Grundig (1908–1989), founder of Grundig *

Max Herz Max Herz (born as Herz Miksa (Ottlaka, Hungary (today Grăniceri, Romania), 19 May 1856 – Zurich, Switzerland, 5 May 1919) Hungarian architect, conservator, museum director and architectural historian, active in Egypt. Life Max Herz was born i ...

(1905–1965), co-founder of Tchibo * Ernst Heinkel (1888–1958), founder of

Heinkel Heinkel Flugzeugwerke () was a German aircraft manufacturing company founded by and named after Ernst Heinkel. It is noted for producing bomber aircraft for the Luftwaffe in World War II and for important contributions to high-speed flight, with ...

, manufacturer of airplanes * Richard Hellmann (1876–1971), founder of

Hellmann's Mayonnaise Hellmann's and Best Foods are American brand names that are used for the same line of mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard, sauce, salad dressing, condiments and other food products. They have been owned by the British multinational company Unilev ...

Friedrich Karl Henkel Friedrich ("Fritz") Karl Henkel (* March 20, 1848 in Vöhl; † March 1, 1930 in Rengsdorf) was a German entrepreneur and founder of the Henkel Group. Early life Fritz Henkel was born as the fifth child of his parents, the teacher Johann Jost ...

(1848–1930), founder of

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, commonly known as Henkel, is a German multinational chemical and consumer goods company headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany. It is active in both the consumer and industrial sectors. Founded in 1876, the DAX company is organi ...

J.A. Henckels Zwilling J. A. Henckels AG is a German knife-maker based in Solingen, Germany. It is one of the largest and oldest manufacturers of kitchen knives for domestic and professional use, having been founded in June 1731 by Peter Henckels. It is also ...

, manufacturers of kitchen knives, scissors, cookware and flatware *

August Horch August Horch (12 October 1868 – 3 February 1951) was a German engineer and automobile pioneer, the founder of the manufacturing giant which would eventually become Audi. Beginnings Horch was born in Winningen, Rhenish Prussia. His init ...

(1868–1951), founder of Audi automobile company in 1909 * Helmut Horten (1909–1987), founder of Horten AG *

August Howaldt August Ferdinand Howaldt (23 October 1809 – 4 August 1883) was a German engineer and ship builder. The German sculptor Georg Ferdinand Howaldt was his brother. Biography Born in Braunschweig, the son of the silversmith David Ferdinand Howal ...

(1809–1883), founder of Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft in 1835 * Hugo Junkers (1859–1935) founder of

Junkers Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG (JFM, earlier JCO or JKO in World War I, English: Junkers Aircraft and Motor Works) more commonly Junkers , was a major German aircraft and aircraft engine manufacturer. It was founded there in Dessau, Germ ...

, manufacturer of airplanes in 1895 * Rudolph Karstadt (1856–1944), founder of Karstadt * Ernst Keil (1816–1878), founder and publisher of '' Die Gartenlaube'' * Carl Kellner, founder of Ernst Leitz GmbH, which later became

Leica Camera Leica Camera AG () is a German company that manufactures cameras, optical lenses, photographic lenses, binoculars, Telescopic sight, rifle scopes and microscopes. The company was founded by Ernst Leitz in 1869 (Ernst Leitz Wetzlar), in Wetz ...

AG, Leica Geosystems AG, and Leica Microsystems AG, producing cameras, geosurvey equipment and microscopes * Carl Heinrich Theodor Knorr (1800–1875) founder of Knorr * Friedrich Krupp (1787–1826), steel manufacturer and founder of the steel producers ThyssenKrupp AG *

Heinrich Lanz Heinrich Lanz (9 March 1838, in Friedrichshafen – 1 February 1905, in Mannheim) was a German entrepreneur and engineer. He founded Heinrich Lanz AG, a manufacturer of agricultural machinery and stationary steam engines and locomotives exporte ...

(1838–1905), founder of Heinrich Lanz AG * Henry Lehman (1822–1855), Emanuel Lehman (1827–1907) and Mayer Lehman (1830–1897), German-born bankers, co-founders of Lehman Brothers * Carl von Linde (1842–1934), founder of The Linde Group *

Henry Lomb Henry Lomb ( – ) was a German-American optician who co-founded Bausch & Lomb (with John Jacob Bausch) and led a group of businessmen to found The Mechanics Institute, the forerunner of Rochester Institute of Technology. Biography Lomb was bo ...

(1828–1908), co-founder of Bausch & Lomb * Friedrich Lürssen (1851–1916), founder of Lürssen in 1875, manufacturers of ships *

Oscar Ferdinand Mayer Oscar Ferdinand Mayer (March 29, 1859 – March 11, 1955) was a German American who founded the processed-meat firm Oscar Mayer that bears his name. Early life and career Mayer was born in Kösingen (now part of Neresheim), in the Kingdom of ...

(1859–1955), founder of the processed-meat firm Oscar Mayer *

Joseph Mendelssohn Joseph Mendelssohn (11 August 1770 – 24 November 1848) was a German Jewish banker. He was the oldest son of the influential philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. In 1795, he founded his own banking house. In 1804, his younger brother, Abraham Mend ...

(1770–1848), founder of former bank Mendelssohn & Co. *

Friedrich Jacob Merck Friedrich Jacob Merck (18 February 1621—1678) was a German pharmacist and a member of the Merck family. He was the founder of the world's oldest pharmaceutical company, now known as the Merck Group, which was established in 1668.Merck KGaA (Edi ...

(1621–1678), founder of Merck KGaA (''Engel-Apotheke'' in Darmstadt) * George Merck (1867–1926), founder of Merck & Co. * Willy Messerschmitt (1875–1978), founder of

Messerschmitt Messerschmitt AG () was a German share-ownership limited, aircraft manufacturing corporation named after its chief designer Willy Messerschmitt from mid-July 1938 onwards, and known primarily for its World War II fighter aircraft, in partic ...

, airplane manufacturer * Heinrich Meyerfreund, founder of Garoto, a chocolate company in Brazil * Carl Miele (1869–1938), founder of Miele, a manufacturer of domestic appliances * Frederick Miller (born as Friedrich Eduard Johannes Müller) (1824–1888), founder of the Miller Brewing Company in 1855 Paul Emil Gabel - Dr August Oetker

August Thyssen, Captain-General of German industry

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* Josef Neckermann (1912–1992), founder of the company Neckermann * August Oetker (1862–1918), founder of the company

Dr Oetker Dr. Oetker () is a German multinational company that produces baking powder, cake mixes, frozen pizza, pudding, cake decoration, cornflakes, party candles, and various other products. The company is a wholly owned branch of the Oetker Gro ...

* Adam Opel (1837–1895), founder of the automobile company Adam Opel AG * Salomon Oppenheim (1772–1828), founder of bank

Sal. Oppenheim Sal. Oppenheim was a German private bank founded in 1789 and headquartered in Cologne, Germany. It provided asset management solutions for wealthy individual clients and institutional investors. In 2009, the bank became a subsidiary of Deutsche Ba ...

* Ernest Oppenheimer (1880–1957), diamond and gold mining entrepreneur, financier and philanthropist, who controlled

De Beers De Beers Group is an international corporation that specializes in diamond mining, diamond exploitation, diamond retail, diamond trading and industrial diamond manufacturing sectors. The company is active in open-pit, large-scale alluvial and c ...

and founded the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa * Werner Otto (1909–2011), founder of

Otto GmbH Otto GmbH & Co KG ( doing business as Otto Group, stylized as otto group, formerly Otto Versand) is a German mail order company and one of the world's biggest e-commerce companies. Based in Hamburg, it operates in more than twenty countries. ...

, now Otto Group, a mail order company * Ferdinand Porsche (1875–1951), designer and founder of

Porsche Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, usually shortened to Porsche (; see #Pronunciation, below), is a German automobile manufacturer specializing in high-performance sports cars, SUVs and sedans, headquartered in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany ...

* Günther Quandt (1881–1954), industrial, entrepreneur of different companies (today includes BMW AG and Altana) *

Karl Friedrich Rapp Karl Friedrich Rapp (24 September 1882 in Ehingen (Danube) – 26 May 1962 in Locarno) was a German founder and owner of the Rapp Motorenwerke GmbH in Munich. In time this company became BMW AG. He is acknowledged by BMW AG as an indirect ...

(1882–1962), co-founder of Rapp Motorenwerke GmbH, which later became BMW AG * Emil Rathenau (1838–1915), founder of

AEG Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft AG (AEG; ) was a German producer of electrical equipment founded in Berlin as the ''Deutsche Edison-Gesellschaft für angewandte Elektricität'' in 1883 by Emil Rathenau. During the Second World War, AEG ...

* Paul Reuter (1816–1899), pioneer of telegraphy and news reporting; founder of Reuters news agency * Hans Riegel, Sr. (1893–1945), founder of Haribo, the manufacturer of gummy and jelly sweets *

Nathan Mayer Rothschild Nathan Mayer Rothschild (16 September 1777 – 28 July 1836) was an English-German banker, businessman and financier. Born in Frankfurt am Main in Germany, he was the third of the five sons of Gutle (Schnapper) and Mayer Amschel Rothschild, an ...

(1777–1836), founder of British company

N M Rothschild & Sons Rothschild & Co is a multinational Investment banking, investment bank and financial services company, and the flagship of the Rothschild banking group controlled by the French and British branches of the Rothschild family. The banking business o ...

Ernst Christian Friedrich Schering Ernst Christian Friedrich Schering (31 May 1824 – 27 December 1889) was a German apothecary and industrialist who created the Schering Corporation. The company split into Schering AG and Schering-Plough after US assets were seized during W ...

(1824–1889), founder of the pharmaceutical company Schering AG * Gustav Schickedanz (1895–1977), founder of Quelle * Anton Schlecker (born 1944), founder of Schlecker * Ernst Schmidt and

Wilhelm Schmidt-Ruthenbeck Wilhelm Schmidt-Ruthenbeck (1906-1988) was a German entrepreneur, the co-founder of the retail chain Metro AG. Life His father was Karl Schmidt, who founded in 1923 in Duisburg, the company ''Karl Schmidt OGH''. In 1963, Schmidt-Ruthenbeck fou ...

(1906–1988), founders of

Metro AG Metro AG is a German multinational company based in Düsseldorf which operates business membership only cash and carry stores primarily under the Metro brand. Until 2020 it was also active in general retail business through Real division, wh ...

* Fritz Sennheiser (1912–2010), founder of Sennheiser Electronic GmbH & Co. KG, specializing in high fidelity products * Georg von Siemens (1839–1901), co-founder of Deutsche Bank * Werner von Siemens (1816–1892), inventor, founder of

Siemens Siemens AG ( ) is a German multinational conglomerate corporation and the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe headquartered in Munich with branch offices abroad. The principal divisions of the corporation are ''Industry'', '' ...

, the electronics and electrical engineering company *

J.S. Staedtler JS or js may refer to: Computing * JavaScript, a high-level, just-in-time compiled, object-oriented programming language * JScript, Microsoft's dialect of the ECMAScript standard used in Internet Explorer Businesses and organizations * Jonge Soc ...

, in 1835 founded

Staedtler Staedtler Mars GmbH & Co. KG () is a German multinational stationery manufacturing company based in Nuremberg. The firm was founded by J.S. Staedtler (1800–1872) in 1835 and produces a large variety of stationery products, such as writing implem ...

Mars GmbH & Co. KG, suppliers of writing, artist, and engineering drawing instruments * Bruno Steinhoff (born 1937), founder of

Steinhoff Steinhoff is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bruno Steinhoff (born 1937), German billionaire businessman, founder of Steinhoff International * Ernst Steinhoff (1908-1987), German rocket scientist * Fritz Steinhoff (1897 ...

Henry E. Steinway Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, anglicized name Henry Engelhard Steinway, (February 22, 1797 – February 7, 1871)B ...

(1797–1871), founder of the piano company

Steinway & Sons Steinway & Sons, also known as Steinway (), is a German-American piano company, founded in 1853 in Manhattan by German piano builder Henry E. Steinway, Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg (later known as Henry E. Steinway). The company's growth led to ...

* Hugo Stinnes (1870–1924), co-founder of Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG * August Storck-Oberwelland, in 1903 founder of Werther's Sugar Confectionery Factory, now August Storck AG * Franz Ströher (born c. 1854–1936), in 1880 founded cosmetics company

Wella AG Wella AG is a German hair care company headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. Founded in 1880 by Franz Ströher, it specialises in hair care, styling and colorants sold to individuals as well as hairdressers and was controlled by Procter & Gamb ...

* Carl Tchilinghiryan (1910–1987), co-founder of Tchibo *

Carl von Thieme Carl von Thieme (born 30 April 1844, Erfurt – died 10 October 1924, Munich) was a German banker. His father was the director of German insurance company ''Thuringia''. In 1880, he founded together with Wilhelm von Finck and Theodor von Cramer- ...

(1844–1924), founder of

Allianz AG Allianz ( , ) is a German multinational financial services company headquartered in Munich, Germany. Its core businesses are insurance and asset management. The company is one of the world's largest insurers and financial services groups. The ...

, a financial services company *

August Thyssen August Thyssen (; Eschweiler, 17 May 1842 – Landsberg Castle, Ratingen, near Kettwig, 4 April 1926) was a German industrialist. Career and marriage After he had completed his studies at the RWTH Aachen University, University of Karlsruhe and ...

(1842–1926), founder of ''Walzwerk Thyssen & Co.'' in Mülheim an der Ruhr * Friedrich Thyssen (1804–1877), founder of ''Draht-Fabrik-Compagnie'' in Aachen * Hermann Tietz (1837–1907), founder of Hertie, a department store * Leopold Ullstein (1826–1899), founder of publishing company Ullstein Verlag *

Ernst Voss Ernst Voss (January 12, 1842 in Fockbek – August 1, 1920 in Hamburg) was a German shipbuilder and co-company founder of German company Blohm+Voss. Life Since 1863 Voss studied in Zürich, Switzerland engineering. After his university studie ...

(1842–1920), in 1877, co-founder of Blohm+Voss, manufacturer of ships *

Carl Walther Carl Wilhelm Freund Walther (22 November 1858 – 9 July 1915) was a German gunsmith from Zella-Mehlis, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (german: Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha), or Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (german: Sachsen-Coburg-Go ...

(1858–1915), founder of Walther *

Moses Marcus Warburg Moses hbo, מֹשֶׁה, Mōše; also known as Moshe or Moshe Rabbeinu (Mishnaic Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה רַבֵּינוּ, ); syr, ܡܘܫܐ, Mūše; ar, موسى, Mūsā; grc, Mωϋσῆς, Mōÿsēs () is considered the most important pro ...

(1763–1820) and

Gershon Warburg According to the Torah, Gershon ( he, גֵּרְשׁוֹן ''Gērǝšôn'') was the eldest of the sons of Levi, and the patriarchal founder of the Gershonites, one of the four main divisions among the Levites in biblical times. The Gershonites were ...

(1765–1826), co-founder of M. M. Warburg & Co., German bank * Siegmund Warburg, founder of S. G. Warburg & Co., British bank * Bartholomeus V. Welser (1484–1561), Welser brothers bank * Georg Wertheim (1857–1939), founder of Wertheim, a department store * Stef Wertheimer (born 1926), German-born Israeli industrialist, investor, philanthropist, billionaire, and former Member of the Knesset * Aloys Wobben (1952–2021), founder of Enercon * Reinhold Würth (born 1935), company Würth * Carl Zeiss (1816–1888), founder of Carl Zeiss AG, a maker of optical instruments * Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838–1917), inventor of the Zeppelin; founder of the

Zeppelin Airship A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship named after the German inventor Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin () who pioneered rigid airship development at the beginning of the 20th century. Zeppelin's notions were first formulated in 1874Eckener 1938, pp ...

company

Fashion models

* Johanna Acs (born 1992), model * Nadja Auermann (born 1971), supermodel *

Eugen Bauder Eugen Bauder (born 5 March 1986) is a German model and actor. Early life Bauder was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan on 5 March 1986. He moved to Germany at the age of five with his mother. He has live in various locations around Germany. After high ...

(born 1986) *

Charlott Cordes Charlott Cordes (born 6 December 1988) FMD - profile of Charlott Cordes is a German fashion model from Hamburg, Germany. She was co-winner (along with Jeanna Krichel)Charlott Cordes, Fashion Model Directory, retrieved on 3-7-08. of the Elite Mo ...

(born 1988) *

Zohre Esmaeli Zohre Esmaeli (born 1 July 1985) is a model, designer and author from Afghanistan. She lives in Berlin, Germany. She was said to be the only international top model from Afghanistan in 2014. Biography Early years Zohre Esmaeli was born on Jul ...

(born 1985 in Afghanistan), model, author, designer *

Toni Garrn Antonia Pettyfer ( née Garrn; ; born 7 July 1992) is a German fashion model and actress. She rose to prominence in the fashion industry after signing an exclusive contract with Calvin Klein in 2008. In October 2020, Garrn married British acto ...

(born 1992) *

Stefanie Giesinger Stefanie Giesinger (born 27 August 1996) is a German model. She was the winner of the ninth season of the modeling-competition ''Germany's Next Topmodel'', and was on the cover of the German '' ''Cosmopolitan' in June 2014. Early life Giesi ...

(born 1996), model * Lena Gercke (born 1988), winner of 2006 '' Germany's Next Topmodel'' * Jennifer Hof (born 1991), winner of 2008 ''Germany's Next Topmodel'' *

Alexandra Kamp Alexandra Kamp-Groeneveld (born 29 December 1966) is a German model and actress. Biography She was born in Karlsruhe to Peter Kamp and his wife and grew up in Baden-Baden. She visited drama schools in New York, Los Angeles and Paris before s ...

(born 1966) *

Heidi Klum Heidi Klum (; born 1 June 1973) is a German-American model, television host, producer, and businesswoman. She appeared on the cover of the ''Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue'' in 1998 and was the first German model to become a Victoria's Secre ...

(born 1973), model and host of '' Project Runway'' and ''Germany's Next Topmodel'' * Diane Kruger (born 1976), model and actress *

Barbara Meier Barbara Meier (born 25 July 1986) is a German fashion model and actress. She is best known as the winner of the second season of ''Germany's Next Topmodel''. Early life Born in the small Bavarian town of Amberg, Meier did not originally aspi ...

(born 1986), winner of 2007 ''Germany's Next Topmodel'' * Uschi Obermaier (born 1946), model and actress *

Eva Padberg Eva Padberg (born 27 January 1980) is a German fashion model, singer, and actress. Early life Padberg was born in Bad Frankenhausen and grew up in Rottleben, Germany. In 1995, she applied for ''Bravos ''Boy & Girl'' contest; she made it among ...

(born 1980) * Nico (1938–1988), model, singer and actress * Tatjana Patitz (born 1966), supermodel * Claudia Schiffer (born 1970), supermodel * Julia Stegner (born 1984) Karl Lagerfeld Cannes

Fashionmakers

* Hugo Boss (1885–1948), fashion designer * Wolfgang Joop (born 1944), fashion designer * Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019), fashion designer * Michael Michalsky (born 1967), fashion designer

Film and theatre

Actresses and actors

ROMY 2012 Michael Bully Herbig (cropped)

A–M

Inga Abel Inga Abel (7 July 1946 – 27 May 2000) was a German actress. She studied ballet and figure skating from the time she was eight. From the ages of 17 to 19 she was the second soloist in the Vienna Ice Revue. After that, she took acting lessons in ...

(1946–2000), actress * Mario Adorf (born 1930), actor and writer *

Hans Albers Hans Philipp August Albers (22 September 1891 – 24 July 1960) was a German actor and singer. He was the biggest male movie star in Germany between 1930 and 1960 and one of the most popular German actors of the twentieth century. Early life ...

(1891–1960), actor * Iris Berben (born 1950), actress * Moritz Bleibtreu (born 1971), actor *

Grit Boettcher Grit Boettcher (; born 10 August 1938) is a German actress. Early life In 1938, Boettcher was born in Berlin, Germany. Career Boettcher is an actress in various films on German TV and in stage productions. Boettcher is sometimes credited ...

(born 1938), actress * Eric Braeden (born Hans Gudegast, 1941), actor * Daniel Brühl (born 1978), actor * Horst Buchholz (1933–2003), actor * Vicco von Bülow (also known as Loriot), actor and comedian * Zazie Beetz (born 1991), German born American actress * Hans Clarin (1930–2005), actor *

August Diehl August Diehl (; born 4 January 1976) is a German actor, primarily known to international audiences for playing Gestapo major Dieter Hellstrom in Quentin Tarantino's ''Inglourious Basterds'' and Michael "Mike" Krause, Evelyn Salt's husband, in the ...

(born 1976), actor * Marlene Dietrich (1901–1992), actress * George Dzundza (born 1945), actor *

Heinz Erhardt Heinz Erhardt (; 20 February 1909 – 5 June 1979) was a German comedian, musician, entertainer, actor, and poet. Life Heinz Erhardt was born in Riga, the son of Baltic German Kapellmeister Gustav Erhardt. He lived most of his childhood at his g ...

(1909–1979), actor and comedian * Veronica Ferres (born 1965), actress *

Gert Fröbe Karl Gerhart "Gert" Fröbe (; 25 February 1913 – 5 September 1988) was a German actor. He was best known in English-speaking countries for his work as Auric Goldfinger in the James Bond film '' Goldfinger'', as Peachum in ''The Threepenny Oper ...

(1913–1988), actor * Cornelia Froboess (born 1943), actress * Martina Gedeck (born 1961), actress * Götz George (1938–2016), actor * Heinrich George (1893–1946), actor * Gustaf Gründgens (1899–1963), actor * Eva Habermann (born 1976), actress and model * Evelyn Hamann (1942–2007), actress * Brigitte Helm (1908–1996), actress * Henriette Hendel-Schütz (1772–1849), stage actress, mimoplastic performer * Michael Herbig (born 1968), actor, director and comedian * Emil Jannings (1884–1950), actor * Harald Juhnke (1929–2005), actor and comedian * Heidi Kabel (1914–2010), actress *

Klaus Kinski Klaus Kinski (, born Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski 18 October 1926 – 23 November 1991) was a German actor, equally renowned for his intense performance style and notorious for his volatile personality. He appeared in over 130 film roles in a c ...

(1926–1991), actor; Polish-German father, German mother * Nastassja Kinski (born 1959), actress; daughter of actor

(born 1973), model and actress * Hildegard Knef (1925–2002), actress, singer and writer *

Sebastian Koch Sebastian Koch (born 31 May 1962) is a German television and film actor. He is known for roles in the 2007 Academy Award-winning film '' The Lives of Others'', in Steven Spielberg's '' Bridge of Spies'', and as Otto Düring in the fifth season o ...

(born 1962), actor * Thomas Kretschmann (born 1962), actor and model * Diane Kruger (born 1976), actress and model * Alexandra Maria Lara (born 1978), actress * Siegfried Lowitz (1914–1999),actor * Heike Makatsch (born 1971), actress * Hanna Maron (1923–2014), Israeli actress * Inge Meysel (1910–2004), actress * Brigitte Mira (1910–2005), actress * Willy Millowitsch (1909–1999), actor * Ulrich Mühe (1953–2007), actor * Armin Mueller-Stahl (born 1930), actor

N–Z

Luise Neumann Luise Neumann (7 December 1818 – 17 October 1905) was a German actress, the daughter of the actress Amalie Haizinger. Her younger sister, , was also an esteemed actress of the period. She made her debut at the age of 16 in a performance ...

(1818–1905) * Uwe Ochsenknecht (born 1956), actor *

Christian Oliver Christian Oliver (born 3 March 1975) is a German actor. Oliver was born in Celle and grew up in Frankfurt am Main. He relocated to the United States to work as a model and subsequently took acting lessons in New York and Los Angeles. From 20 ...

, actor * Lilli Palmer (1914–1986), actress * Franka Potente (born 1974), actress * Jürgen Prochnow (born 1941), actor * Luise Rainer (1910–2014), actress *

Heinz Rühmann Heinrich Wilhelm "Heinz" Rühmann (; 7 March 1902 – 3 October 1994) was a German film actor who appeared in over 100 films between 1926 and 1993. He is one of the most famous and popular German actors of the 20th century, and is considered a Ge ...

(1902–1994), actor * Otto Sander (1941–2013), actor * Claudia Schiffer (born 1970), actress and supermodel * Romy Schneider (1938–1982), actress * Jessica Schwarz (born 1977), actress * Til Schweiger (born 1963), actor * Matthias Schweighöfer (born 1981), actor * Hanna Schygulla (born 1943), actress * Xenia Seeberg (born 1972), actress and model * Tomer Sisley (born 1974), Israeli humorist, actor, screenwriter, comedian, and film director * Kristina Söderbaum (1912–2001), actress and photographer * Günter Strack (1929–1999), actor * Barbara Sukowa (born 1950), actress * Horst Tappert (1923–2008), actor * Katharina Thalbach (born 1954), actress * Nora Tschirner (born 1981), actress * Ulrich Tukur (born 1957), actor *

Nadja Uhl Nadja Uhl (; born 23 May 1972, in Stralsund) is a German actress. Uhl grew up near Stralsund, in the town of Franzburg. She lived with her mother in a three-generation house, shared with aunts and her grandparents, who had moved in shortly ...

(born 1972), actress * Wolfgang Völz (1930-2018), actor * Fritz Wepper (born 1941), actor *

Luise del Zopp Luise del Zopp, birth name Aloisia Theresia Johanna Luksch, also Louise Lingg, (1871 – after 1946) was a German actress, opera singer and screenwriter. Biography Born on 16 June 1871 in Brünn (now Brno) in Austro-Hungarian Moravia, del Zopp f ...

(1871–1946), actress, opera singer, screenwriter Werner Herzog Venice Film Festival 2009

Filmmakers

* Uwe Boll, film director *

Andreas Deja Andreas Deja is a Polish-born German-American character animator, most noted for his work at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Deja's work includes serving as supervising animator on characters in several Disney animated films, including the Disney ...

, animator *

Doris Dörrie Doris Dörrie (; born 26 May 1955) is a German film director, producer and author. Biography Born in Hanover, Dörrie completed her secondary education there in 1973. The same year, she began a two-year attendance in film studies in the drama de ...

, female film director *

Bernd Eichinger Bernd Eichinger (; 11 April 194924 January 2011) was a German film producer, director, and screenwriter. Life and career Eichinger was born in Neuburg an der Donau. He attended the University of Television and Film Munich in the 1970s and bou ...

(1949–2011), film producer * Roland Emmerich (born 1955), film director (''

Stargate ''Stargate'' (often stylized in all caps) is a military science fiction media franchise based on the Stargate (film), film directed by Roland Emmerich, which he co-wrote with producer Dean Devlin. The franchise is based on the idea of an alien E ...

'', ''

Independence Day An independence day is an annual event commemorating the anniversary of a nation's independence or statehood, usually after ceasing to be a group or part of another nation or state, or more rarely after the end of a military occupation. Man ...

'', '' Godzilla'', '' The Day After Tomorrow'') * Harun Farocki (1944–2014), film director * Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945–1982), film director * Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, film director; Academy Award winner * Werner Herzog (born 1942), film director * Oliver Hirschbiegel, film director * Alexander Kluge (born 1932), film director * Carl Koch (1892–1963), film director and writer * Fritz Lang (1890–1976), film director * Ernst Lubitsch (1892–1947), film director *

F.W. Murnau Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (born Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe; December 28, 1888March 11, 1931) was a German film director, producer and screenwriter. He was greatly influenced by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Shakespeare and Ibsen plays he had seen at t ...

(1888–1931), film director * Wolfgang Petersen (1941–2022), film director *

Ashwin Raman Ashwin Raman (born 18 June 1946) is a German journalist and documentary filmmaker of Indian descent. Raman is notable for a number of prize-winning documentaries which have garnered him the Grimme Prize (2017), the Robert Geisendörfer Prize (20 ...

(born 1946), documentary filmmaker * Leni Riefenstahl (1902–2003), female film director * Helma Sanders-Brahms (1940–2014), film director * Peter Schamoni (1934–2011), film director * Volker Schlöndorff (born 1939), film director *

Andreas Schnaas Andreas Schnaas (born 1 April 1968) is a German director and actor working exclusively in the horror film, horror genre. Since he first appeared on the film scene in 1989, he has become a leader in Germany's ultra-violent German underground horr ...

(born 1968), film director * Hans-Jürgen Syberberg (born 1935), film director * Tom Tykwer (born 1965), film director * Margarethe von Trotta (born 1942), film director *

Robert Wiene Robert Wiene (; 27 April 1873 – 17 July 1938) was a film director of the silent era of German cinema. He is particularly known for directing the German silent film ''The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' and a succession of other German Expressionism, ...

, film director *

Wim Wenders Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (; born 14 August 1945) is a German filmmaker, playwright, author, and photographer. He is a major figure in New German Cinema. Among many honors, he has received three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Docum ...

(born 1945), film director

Literature

Friedrich Schiller by Ludovike Simanowiz

Classic

* Adam of Bremen (c. 1050 – c. 1085), medieval

chronicle A chronicle ( la, chronica, from Greek ''chroniká'', from , ''chrónos'' – "time") is a historical account of events arranged in chronological order, as in a timeline. Typically, equal weight is given for historically important events and lo ...

r *

Joseph von Auffenberg Joseph von Auffenberg (25 August 1798 Freiburg – 25 December 1857 Freiburg) was a German dramatist. Biography After studying law in the Freiburg University, he entered the army, where he attained the rank of lieutenant of the horse guards. Seve ...

(1798–1857), dramatist * Heinrich Böll (1917–1985), author *

Bertolt Brecht Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a pl ...

(1898–1956), playwright and poet * Clemens Brentano (1778–1842), poet and novelist * Georg Büchner, dramatist and author * Charles Bukowski (1920–1994), German-born American poet, novelist, and short story writer * Wilhelm Busch (1832–1908), poet and satirist * Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797–1848), poet * Joseph von Eichendorff (1788–1857), poet * Theodor Fontane (1819–1898), novelist and poet * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), author and poet * Brothers Grimm, collectors of fairy tales *

Heinrich Heine Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (; born Harry Heine; 13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) was a German poet, writer and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of '' Lied ...

(1797–1856), poet *

Johann Gottfried Herder Johann Gottfried von Herder ( , ; 25 August 174418 December 1803) was a German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic. He is associated with the Enlightenment, ''Sturm und Drang'', and Weimar Classicism. Biography Born in Mohrun ...

(1744–1803), essayist and poet * Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), author *

E.T.A. Hoffmann Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (born Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann; 24 January 1776 – 25 June 1822) was a German Romantic author of fantasy and Gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist. Penrith Goff, "E.T.A. Hoffmann" in E ...

(1776–1822), author * Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843), poet * Ernst Jünger (1895–1998), writer and novelist *

Erich Kästner Emil Erich Kästner (; 23 February 1899 – 29 July 1974) was a German writer, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known primarily for his humorous, socially astute poems and for children's books including '' Emil and the Detectives''. He received ...

(1899–1974), novelist * Heinrich von Kleist (1777–1811), poet, dramatist and novelist * Gotthold Lessing (1729–1781), writer * Heinrich Mann (1871–1950), author (brother of Thomas Mann) * Thomas Mann (1875–1955), author (brother of Heinrich Mann) * Karl May (1842–1912), author * Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903), '' A history of Rome'' * Christian Morgenstern (1871–1914), poet * Novalis (1772–1801), poet and novelist * Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970), novelist *

Friedrich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (, short: ; 10 November 17599 May 1805) was a German playwright, poet, and philosopher. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller developed a productive, if complicated, friends ...

(1759–1805), poet and playwright * Arno Schmidt (1914–1979), writer * Theodor Storm (1817–1888), author * Kurt Tucholsky (1890–1935), writer and satirist *

Walter von der Vogelweide Walther von der Vogelweide (c. 1170c. 1230) was a Minnesinger, Minnesänger who composed and performed love-songs and political songs ("Spruchdichtung, Sprüche") in Middle High German. Walther has been described as the greatest German lyrical p ...

(c. 1170 – c. 1230), poet * Christa Wolf (1929–2011), novelist and essayist * Wolfram von Eschenbach (died 1220), poet

Major

* Yehuda Amichai (born Ludwig Pfeuffer; 1924–2000), German-born Israeli poet * Ernst Moritz Arndt, poet, songwriter and patriot * Achim von Arnim (1781–1831), poet * Bettina von Arnim (1785–1859), writer and novelist * Ezriel Carlebach (1909–1956), Israeli journalist and editorial writer * Matthias Claudius (1740–1815), poet and writer * Michael Ende (1929–1995), author of fantasy novels and children's books *

Erik Erikson Erik Homburger Erikson (born Erik Salomonsen; 15 June 1902 – 12 May 1994) was a German-American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on psychological development of human beings. He coined the phrase identity cr ...

(1902–1994), German-American writer, developmental psychologist and

psychoanalyst PsychoanalysisFrom Greek language, Greek: + . is a set of Theory, theories and Therapy, therapeutic techniques"What is psychoanalysis? Of course, one is supposed to answer that it is many things — a theory, a research method, a therapy, a bo ...

* Anne Frank (1929–1945), diarist and victim of the Holocaust * Paul Gerhardt (c. 1606 – 1676), hymn writer * Leah Goldberg (1911–1970), Israeli poet * Joseph Görres (1776–1848), essayist * Wilhelm Hauff (1802–1827), writer * Paul Heyse (1830–1914), writer and translator * Janosch (born 1931), author of artist and children's books *

Friedrich Kellner August Friedrich Kellner (1 February 1885 – 4 November 1970) was a German mid-level official and diarist who worked as a justice inspector in Laubach from 1933 to 1945. Kellner was an infantryman in a Hessian regiment during the First Worl ...

(1885–1970), diarist of '' My Opposition'' * Golo Mann (1909–1994), author and historian (second-oldest son of Thomas Mann) *

Klaus Mann Klaus Heinrich Thomas Mann (18 November 1906 – 21 May 1949) was a German writer and dissident. He was the son of Thomas Mann, a nephew of Heinrich Mann and brother of Erika Mann, with whom he maintained a lifelong close relationship, and Golo ...

(1906–1949), author (oldest son of Thomas Mann) * Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1777–1843), writer *

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(1785–1871), writer and landscape gardener * Otfried Preussler (1923–2013), author of children's books * Wilhelm Raabe (1831–1910), novelist * Peter Rühmkorf (1929–2008), poet * Nelly Sachs (1891–1970), poet * Leopold Schefer (1784–1861), writer, poet and composer * August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767–1845), poet and translator * Ludwig Tieck (1773–1853), poet, editor and novelist * Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862), poet, writer and playwright * Gero von Wilpert (1933–2009), essayist

Contemporary

* Hans Magnus Enzensberger (born 1929), essayist and poet *

Günter Grass Günter Wilhelm Grass (born Graß; ; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in the Free City of Da ...

(1927–2015), author; recipient, 1999

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* Peter Härtling (1933–2017), author * Rolf Hochhuth (1931–2020), playwright * Wladimir Kaminer (born 1967), short story writer * Daniel Kehlmann (born 1975), novelist * Siegfried Lenz (1926–2014), author * Ferdinand von Schirach (born 1964), author, screenwriter and lawyer * Bernhard Schlink (born 1944), author and professor of law * Patrick Süskind (born 1949), author and screenwriter * Rudolf von Waldenfels (born 1965), author * Martin Walser (born 1927), playwright and novelist

Humorists, cabaret performers and comedians

* Dieter Hildebrandt (1927–2013), cabaret performer *

Bruno Jonas Bruno Jonas (born in Passau, Germany, on 3 December 1952) is a German Kabarett artist and actor. Education Many people predicted he would become a priest, but he prefers to pray from the Kabarett stage. Between 1975 and 1982, he studied German, ...

(born 1952), cabaret performer * Michael Mittermeier (born 1966), comedian *

Georg Schramm Georg Schramm (born 11 March 1949) is a German Kabarett artist. He was a host of the Kabarett shows '' Scheibenwischer'' and ''Neues aus der Anstalt''. Biography Schramm was born in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe. His father was a member of the Soc ...

(born 1949), cabaret performer *

Mathias Richling Mathias Richling (born 24 March 1953 in Waiblingen) is a German actor, author, comedian and Kabarett artist. Richling studied literature, music and theatre. From 1989 to 1996 he had a program called ''Jetzt schlägt's Richling'' on the German TV ...

(born 1953), cabaret performer *

Richard Rogler Richard Rogler (born 19 September 1949, in Selb) is a German Kabarett artist and professor of Kabarett at the University of the Arts in Berlin. Early life Rogler studied French and sport at the University of Würzburg. From 1974 to 1978 he was a ...

(born 1949), cabaret performer * Daniel Tosh (born 1975), comedian

Journalists

* Rudolf Augstein (1923–2002), journalist * Peter Limbourg (born 1960), journalist *

Marion Dönhoff Marion Hedda Ilse Gräfin von Dönhoff (2 December 1909 – 11 March 2002) was a German journalist and publisher who participated in the resistance against Nazism, along with Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, and C ...

(1909–2002), journalist * Günther Jauch (born 1956), journalist * Axel Springer (1912–1985), journalist * Sabine Christiansen (born 1957), journalist * Maybrit Illner (born 1965), journalist * Anne Will (born 1966), journalist * Sandra Maischberger (born 1966), journalist

Mathematicians

* Wilhelm Ackermann (1896–1962), mathematician * Georg Cantor (1845–1918), mathematician *

Richard Dedekind Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind (6 October 1831 – 12 February 1916) was a German mathematician who made important contributions to number theory, abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), and the axiomatic foundations of arithmetic. His ...

(1831–1916), mathematician * Walther von Dyck (1856–1934), mathematician * Albert Einstein (1879–1955), mathematician, physicist * Gottlob Frege (1848–1925), mathematician * Philipp Furtwängler (1869–1940), mathematician * Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855), mathematician * Ernst Hellinger (1883–1950), mathematician *

David Hilbert David Hilbert (; ; 23 January 1862 – 14 February 1943) was a German mathematician, one of the most influential mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Hilbert discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in many a ...

(1862–1943), mathematician * Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804–1851), mathematician * Erich Kähler (1906–2000), mathematician *

Johannes Kepler Johannes Kepler (; ; 27 December 1571 – 15 November 1630) was a German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and writer on music. He is a key figure in the 17th-century Scientific Revolution, best known for his laws ...

(1571–1630), mathematician and astronomer *

Felix Christian Klein Christian Felix Klein (; 25 April 1849 – 22 June 1925) was a German mathematician and mathematics educator, known for his work with group theory, complex analysis, non-Euclidean geometry, and on the associations between geometry and group ...

(1849–1925), mathematician * Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl (1885–1955), mathematician * Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), mathematician * Kurt Mendelssohn (1906–1980), mathematician *

Hermann Minkowski Hermann Minkowski (; ; 22 June 1864 – 12 January 1909) was a German mathematician and professor at Königsberg, Zürich and Göttingen. He created and developed the geometry of numbers and used geometrical methods to solve problems in number t ...

(1864–1909), mathematician * August Ferdinand Möbius (1790–1868), mathematician, theoretical astronomer *

Carl Neumann Carl Gottfried Neumann (also Karl; 7 May 1832 – 27 March 1925) was a German mathematician. Biography Neumann was born in Königsberg, Prussia, as the son of the mineralogist, physicist and mathematician Franz Ernst Neumann (1798–1895), who w ...

(1832–1925), mathematician * Emmy Noether (1882–1935), mathematician * Georg Ohm (1789–1854), mathematician * Carl Adam Petri (1926–2010), mathematician, computer scientist * Julius Plücker (1801–1868), mathematician *

Bernhard Riemann Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (; 17 September 1826 – 20 July 1866) was a German mathematician who made contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry. In the field of real analysis, he is mostly known for the first rig ...

(1826–1866), mathematician * Adam Ries (1492–1559), mathematician, physicist, archeologist *

Gustav Roch Gustav Adolph Roch (; 9 December 1839 – 21 November 1866) was a German mathematician who made significant contributions to the theory of Riemann surfaces. His promising career was cut short by untimely death at the age of 26. Biography Bor ...

(1839–1866) mathematician * Eric Reissner (1913–1996), mathematician, engineer *

Carl David Tolmé Runge Carl David Tolmé Runge (; 30 August 1856 – 3 January 1927) was a German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist. He was co-developer and co-eponym of the Runge–Kutta method (German pronunciation: ), in the field of what is today known a ...

(1856–1927), mathematician, physicist, spectroscopist *

Heinrich Scherk Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk (27 October 1798 – 4 October 1885) was a German mathematician notable for his work on minimal surfaces and the distribution of prime number A prime number (or a prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that ...

(1798–1885), mathematician * Herman Schwarz (1843–1921), mathematician * Carl Ludwig Siegel (1896–1981), mathematician *

Roland Sprague Roland Percival Sprague (11 July 1894, Unterliederbach – 1 August 1967) was a German mathematician, known for the Sprague–Grundy theorem and for being the first mathematician to find a perfect squared square. Biography With two mathematicia ...

(1894–1967), mathematician *

Heinrich Martin Weber Heinrich Martin Weber (5 March 1842, Heidelberg, Germany – 17 May 1913, Straßburg, Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire, now Strasbourg, France) was a German mathematician. Weber's main work was in algebra, number theory, and analysis. He is ...

(1842–1913), mathematician * Karl Weierstrass (1815–1897), mathematician *

Max Zorn Max August Zorn (; June 6, 1906 – March 9, 1993) was a German mathematician. He was an algebraist, group theorist, and numerical analyst. He is best known for Zorn's lemma, a method used in set theory that is applicable to a wide range of ...

(1906–1993), mathematician General Erich Ludendorff

Military

* Heinrich Bürkle de la Camp (1895–1974), general who specialized as a medic and army doctor * Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831), Prussian professional soldier, military historian, and influential military theorist * Erich von Falkenhayn (1861–1922), general, Prussian Minister of War (1913–1915) and

Chief of General Staff The Chief of the General Staff (CGS) is a post in many armed forces ( militaries), the head of the military staff. List * Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (United States) * Chief of the General Staff (Abkhazia) * Chief of General Staff (Af ...

(1914–1916) * August von Gneisenau (1760–1831), Prussian field marshal and chief of the Prussian General Staff (1813–1814) * Heinz Guderian (1888–1954), military theorist and innovative general (1907–1945) * Erich Hartmann (1922–1993), fighter pilot and air ace (1941–1970) * Alfred Jodl (1890–1946), general, operations chief of the OKW * Günther von Kluge (1882–1944), field marshal and commander of the 4th Army (Wehrmacht), Fourth Army (1939–1941) and Army Group Center (1941–43) * Erich Ludendorff (1865–1937), general and Quartermaster General (1916–1918) * Erich von Manstein (1887–1973), field marshal and professional soldier (1906–1944) * Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (1800–1891), field marshal, chief of staff of the Prussian Army for thirty years * Friedrich Paulus (1890–1957), general and commander of the 6th Army (Wehrmacht), German Sixth Army, later promoted to Field Marshal (1910–1943) * Günther Rall (1918–2009), third highest scoring fighter ace in history with 275 confirmed kills while serving as a pilot in the Luftwaffe in World War II * Manfred von Richthofen, also known as the Red Baron (1892–1918), fighter pilot and air ace * Erwin Rommel (1891–1944), field marshal and commander of Afrika Korps (1942–1943) and Army Group B (1944) * Albrecht von Roon (1803–1879), field marshal, Minister of War from (1859–1873) * Hans-Ulrich Rudel (1916–1982), Stuka dive-bomber pilot and air ace (1936–1945) * Gerd von Rundstedt (1875–1953), field marshal and commander (1892–1945) * Alfred von Schlieffen (1833–1913), field marshal, Strategist and

(1891–1905) * Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755–1813), general and Prussian Minister of War (1808–1810) * Michael Wittmann (1914–1944), SS captain and tank ace (1934–1944)

Music

Composers

* Carl Friedrich Abel (1725–1787), composer * Martin Agricola (1466–1506), composer * Siegfried Alkan (1858–1941), composer * Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788), composer; son of Johann Sebastian Bach * Johann Christian Bach (1735–1782), composer; son of Johann Sebastian Bach * Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), composer * Klaus Badelt (born 1967), film composer (''Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl'', ''Miami Vice (film), Miami Vice'', ''Ultraviolet (film), Ultraviolet'', 2008 Summer Olympics closing ceremony in Beijing) * Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), composer * Martin Böttcher (1927–2019), film composer (Karl May film adaptations) * Johannes Brahms (1833–1897), composer * Max Bruch (1838–1920), composer * Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637/39–1707), Danish-German organist and composer of the Baroque music, Baroque period * Hanns Eisler (1898–1962), composer * Friedrich von Flotow (1812–1883), composer * Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787), composer * George Frideric Handel, Georg Friedrich Händel (1685–1759), composer, opera composer * Fanny Hensel (1805-1847), composer * Paul Hindemith (1895–1963), composer * Engelbert Humperdinck (composer), Engelbert Humperdinck (1854–1921), composer * Albert Lortzing (1801–1851), composer * Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864), composer * Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847), composer * Leopold Mozart (1719–1787), composer, conductor, teacher, and violinist; father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart * Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880), composer * Carl Orff (1895–1982), composer * Johann Pachelbel (1653–1706), composer * Hans Pfitzner (1869–1949), composer * Max Reger (1873–1916), composer * Wolfgang Rihm (born 1952), composer * Leopold Schefer (1784–1862), writer and composer * Clara Schumann (1819–1896), composer * Robert Schumann (1810–1856), composer and songwriter * Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672), composer * Charlotte Seither (born 1965), classical composer, pianist and music educator * Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007), modern composer * Richard Strauss (1864–1949), composer, opera composer * Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767), composer * Richard Wagner (1813–1883), composer * Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826), composer * Kurt Weill (1900–1950), composer (''The Threepenny Opera'', "September Song") * Hans Zimmer (born 1957), film composer (''The Lion King'', ''Crimson Tide (film), Crimson Tide'', ''Gladiator (2000 film), Gladiator'', ''The Dark Knight (film), The Dark Knight'', ''Inception'', ''Dune (2021 film), Dune'')

Conductors, instrumentalists and singers

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A–M

(1891–1960), singer and actor * Thomas Anders (born 1963), singer * Lale Andersen (1905–1972), singer * Lou Bega (born 1975), singer * Andrea Berg (born 1966), singer-songwriter * Wolf Biermann (born 1936), singer-songwriter and East German dissident * Dieter Bohlen (born 1954), music producer * Andreas Bourani (born 1983), singer-songwriter * Hans-Jürgen Buchner (born 1944), founder, composer, songwriter of the band Haindling * Fritz Busch (1890–1951), conductor * Bushido (rapper), Bushido (born 1978), rapper * Campino (singer), Campino (born 1962), lead singer of the band Die Toten Hosen * Yvonne Catterfeld (born 1979), singer * Sarah Connor (singer), Sarah Connor (born 1980), pop and soul singer * Michael Cretu, Michael and Sandra Cretu, founders and performers of the musical project Enigma (German band), Enigma and the group Sandra (group), Sandra * Diana Damrau, coloratura soprano opera singer * Marlene Dietrich (1901–1992), singer * Herbert Dreilich (1942–2004), singer of the Band Karat (band), Karat * Jürgen Drews (born 1945), singer * Katja Ebstein (born 1945), singer * Fancy (singer), Fancy (born 1946), singer * Frank Farian (born 1941), German record producer and songwriter * Helene Fischer (born 1984), singer * Gertrude Förstel (1880–1950), operatic soprano, voice teacher * Peter Fox (musician), Peter Fox (born 1971), singer * Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886–1954), conductor and composer * Rex Gildo (1936–1999), singer * Bernd Heinrich Graf, lead singer of the Band Unheilig * Antye Greie (born 1969), vocalist, musician and composer * Herbert Grönemeyer (born 1956), singer * Gudrun Gut (born 1957), electronic musician * Nina Hagen (born 1955), singer * Heino (born 1938), pop singer * Willy Hess (violinist), Willy Hess (1859–1939), violinist * Natalie Horler (born 1981), member of the band Cascada * Annette Humpe (born 1950), singer of the bands Ideal (German band), Ideal and Ich + Ich * Matthias Jabs (born 1955), guitarist of the band Scorpions (band), Scorpions * Roland Kaiser (born 1952), singer * Bill Kaulitz (born 1989), lead singer of the band Tokio Hotel * John Kay (musician) (born 1944), German–Canadian musician * Gershon Kingsley (1922–2019), composer * Alexander Klaws (born 1983), singer * Hildegard Knef (1925–2002), singer * Peter Kraus (born 1939), singer * Mike Kogel, lead singer of the band Los Bravos * Rolf Köhler (1951–2007), singer, musician and record producer * Paul Kuhn (band leader), Paul Kuhn (1928–2013), band leader and singer * LaFee (born 1990), singer * Ute Lemper (born 1963), singer * Udo Lindenberg (born 1946), singer * Michail Lifits (born 1982), concert pianist * Till Lindemann (born 1963), lead singer of the band Rammstein * Georg Listing, bassist of the band Tokio Hotel * Frida Lyngstad, lead singer of the pop group ABBA * Peter Maffay (born 1949), singer * Klaus Meine, vocalist of the band Scorpions (band), Scorpions * Reinhard Mey (born 1942) * Lena Meyer-Landrut (born 1991), singer * Marius Müller-Westernhagen (born 1948), singer * Karl Münchinger (1915–1990), conductor * Anne-Sophie Mutter (born 1963), violinist Sido - Global Citizen Festival Hamburg 04

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N–Z

* Xavier Naidoo (born 1971) * Meshell Ndegeocello (born 1969), born of American parents in Germany * Nena (born 1960) * Nicole (German singer), Nicole (born 1964), singer * Klaus Nomi (1944–1983) * Lisa Otto (1919–2013), opera singer * Hedwig Reicher-Kindermann (1853–1883), opera singer * Martin Rich (1905–2000), conductor and pianist * Marianne Rosenberg (born 1955), singer and songwriter * Anneliese Rothenberger (1924–2010), singer * Sandra (singer), Sandra (born 1962), singer * Kool Savas (born 1975), half German, half Turkish singer * Gustav Schäfer (drummer), Gustav Schäfer, drummer of the band Tokio Hotel * Michael Schenker (born 1955), guitar player of band UFO (band), UFO and solo career * Rudolf Schenker (born 1948), guitarist of the band Scorpions (band), Scorpions; brother of Michael Schenker * Peter Schilling (born 1956), singer * Sido (rapper), Sido (born 1980), rapper * Cassandra Steen (born 1980), German-American singer, songwriter, and voice actress, * Farin Urlaub (born 1963), lead singer of the band Die Ärzte * Lena Valaitis (born 1943), singer * Paul van Dyk (born 1971), DJ, musician and record producer. * Hannes Wader (born 1943), singer-songwriter * Claire Waldoff (1884–1957), singer * Bruno Walter (1876–1962), conductor and composer * Konstantin Wecker (born 1947), singer-songwriter

Philosophy

Classic

* Theodor Adorno (1903–1969), philosopher, sociologist and composer * Albertus Magnus (c. 1193 – 1280), medieval philosopher and theologian * Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), political theorist * Walter Benjamin (1892–1943) * Ernst Bloch (1885–1977) * Jakob Böhme (1575–1624), mystic philosopher * Franz Brentano (1838–1917), philosopher and psychologist * Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970), philosopher * Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945) * Wilhelm Dilthey (1833–1911), philosopher, historian, psychologist * Ludwig Feuerbach (1804–1872), philosopher * Gottlieb Fichte, Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814), philosopher * Gottlob Frege (1848–1925), mathematician, logician and philosopher * Eduard von Hartmann (1842–1906), philosopher * Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), philosopher * Martin Heidegger (1889–1976), philosopher * Max Horkheimer (1895–1973) * Edmund Husserl (1859–1938), philosopher * Karl Jaspers (1883–1969), philosopher * Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), philosopher * Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716), physicist, philosopher * Karl Marx (1818–1883), philosopher and sociologist * Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786), philosopher * Lorenz Christoph Mizler (1711–78), philosopher active in Poland * Nikolaus Cusanus (1401–1462), philosopher, theologian, mathematician * Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), early existentialism, existentialist philosopher * Friedrich Schelling (1775–1854), philosopher * Moritz Schlick (1882–1936), philosopher * Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), philosopher * Christian Wolff (philosopher), Christian Wolff (1679-1754), philosopher Erich Fromm 1974

Major

* Bruno Bauer (1809–1882), political theorist and philosopher * Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), philosopher, political economist * Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1846–1926), philosopher * Erich Fromm (1900–1980) * Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002), philosopher * Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835), philosopher, linguist, government functionary, diplomat; brother of Alexander von Humboldt * Ludwig Klages (1872–1956), philosopher * Leo Löwenthal (1900–1993) * Karl Löwith (1897–1973) * Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979) * Samuel von Pufendorf (1632–1694), moral and political philosopher * Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz (1805–1879) * Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929) * Max Scheler (1874–1928), philosopher * Carl Schmitt (1888–1985), political theorist * Georg Simmel (1859–1918), philosopher and sociologist * Max Stirner (1806–1856), philosopher * Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912–2007), philosopher and physicist

Contemporary

* Hans Albert (born 1921), philosopher * Kurt Flasch (born 1930), philosopher * Jürgen Habermas (born 1929), philosopher, social theorist * Dieter Henrich (1927–2022), philosopher * Odo Marquard (1928–2015), philosopher * Julian Nida-Rümelin (born 1954), philosopher and political theorist * Konrad Ott (born 1959), moral philosopher and environmentalist * Peter Sloterdijk (born 1947), philosopher and television host * Robert Spaemann (1927–2018), philosopher * Oswald Spengler (1880–1936), philosopher of history; best known for his book "The Decline of the West" ''(Der Untergang des Abendlandes)'' * Ernst Tugendhat (born 1930), philosopher

Politicians

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Miscellaneous

* Arminius (18/17 BC – AD 21) * Rainer Barzel (1924–2006), leader of the party Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) * August Bebel (1840–1913), co-founder of the Social Democratic Party of Germany * Rudolf von Bennigsen (1824–1902), founder of the National Liberal Party (Germany), National Liberal Party * Eduard Bernstein (1850–1932), Social Democratic leader * Heinrich von Brentano (1904–1964), Foreign Minister Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) * Julius Curtius (1877–1948), Foreign Minister (German People's Party) * Matthias Erzberger (1875–1921), Catholic Center party leader * Joschka Fischer (born 1948), Foreign Minister and vice chancellor 1998–2005 (German Green Party, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) * Hans-Dietrich Genscher (1927–2016), former minister for foreign affairs (FDP) * Jakob Grimm (1785–1863), parliamentarian * Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859), parliamentarian * Gregor Gysi (born 1948), former leader of the Party of Democratic Socialism (Germany), Party of Democratic Socialism * Georg Hornstein (1900–1942), resistance fighter during the period of National Socialism (Nazism) * Alfred Hugenberg (1865–1951), leader of the German National People's Party * Johann Jacoby (1805–1877), radical democrat in Prussia * Luise Kähler (1869–1955), trade union leader, founding member of Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) * Karl Kautsky (1854–1938), Social Democratic leader and theoretician * Petra Kelly (1947–1992), co-founder of the German Green Party * Roland Koch (born 1958), Minister-President of Hesse * Oskar Lafontaine (born 1943), socialist, former minister for finance * Ferdinand Lassalle (1825–1864), democrat and socialist * Karl Liebknecht (1871–1919), socialist * Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826–1900), co-founder of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) * Rosa Luxemburg (1870–1919), left-wing Social Democratic leader * Jakob Maria Mierscheid (born 1933), ''virtual'' parliamentarian (SPD) * Hans Modrow (born 1928), former leader of GDR, honorary chairman of PDS * Hermann Müller (politician), Hermann Müller (1876–1931), Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (SPD) * Erich Ollenhauer (1901–1963), leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) * Antonie Pfülf, Antonie "Toni" Pfülf (1877–1933), female socialist (SPD) * Walther Rathenau (1867–1922), foreign minister (DDP) * Eugen Richter (1838–1906), liberal politician * Wolfgang Schäuble (born 1942), Christian politician, financial minister (CDU) * Carlo Schmid (German politician), Carlo Schmid (1896–1979), politician who had vast influence on the content of the Grundgesetz, German Basic Law after World War II * Gerhard Schröder (CDU), Gerhard Schröder (1910–1989), foreign minister, minister of the Interior (CDU) * Kurt Schumacher (1895–1952), leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany in the early years of the FRG * Baron Heinrich vom Stein (1757–1831) * Edmund Stoiber (born 1941), party leader of the CSU and former minister president of Bavaria * Franz Josef Strauss (1915–1988), Bavarian politician (CSU) * Ernst Thälmann (1886–1944), leader of the Communist Party of Germany during the Weimar period * Hans-Jochen Vogel (1926–2020), leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), federal minister of justice * Otto Wels (1873–1939), leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) * Guido Westerwelle (1961–2016), party leader of the liberal party (FDP) * Klaus Wowereit (born 1953), social democrat politician (SPD) * Clara Zetkin (1857–1933), socialist and fighter for women's rights Gustav Stresemann 2

Chancellors of Germany 1871–1945

* Gustav Bauer (1870–1944), chancellor of the Weimar Republic (SPD) * Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg (1856–1921), Imperial Chancellor * Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), Imperial Chancellor * Heinrich Brüning (1885–1970), Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (Catholic Centre Party, Centre Party) * Bernhard von Bülow (1849–1929), Imperial Chancellor * Leo von Caprivi (1831–1899), Imperial Chancellor * Wilhelm Cuno (1876–1933), Chancellor of the Weimar Republic * Konstantin Fehrenbach (1852–1926), Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (Centre Party (Germany), Centre) * Georg von Hertling (1843–1919), Imperial Chancellor * Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), Leader of Nazi Germany, combining legally the offices of President and Chancellor ("Führer und Reichskanzler") (1933–1945) * Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1819–1901), Imperial Chancellor * Hans Luther (1885–1962), Chancellor of the Weimar Republic * Wilhelm Marx (1863–1946), Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (Centre Party (Germany), Centre) * Prince Maximilian of Baden (1867–1929), Last Imperial Chancellor * Georg Michaelis (1857–1936), Imperial Chancellor * Franz von Papen (1879–1969), Chancellor of the Weimar Republic * Philipp Scheidemann (1865–1939), Chancellor of Weimar Republic (SPD) * Kurt von Schleicher (1882–1934), last Chancellor of the Weimar Republic * Gustav Stresemann (1878–1929), Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (DVP) * Joseph Wirth (1879–1956), Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (Centre Party (Germany), Centre) Konrad Adenauer - 7

Chancellors of Germany (after World War II)

''(in chronological order)'' * Konrad Adenauer (1876–1967), first democratically elected Federal Chancellor in West Germany, Western Germany (after World War II) from 1949 to 1963 (Christian-Democratic Union, CDU) * Ludwig Erhard (1897–1977), Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic), Federal Chancellor from 1963 to 1966 (CDU) * Kurt Georg Kiesinger (1904–1988), Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic), Federal Chancellor from 1966 to 1969 (CDU) * Willy Brandt (1913–1992), Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic), Federal Chancellor from 1969 to 1974 (Social Democratic Party, SPD) * Helmut Schmidt (1918–2015), Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic), Federal Chancellor from 1974 to 1982 (SPD) * Helmut Kohl (1930–2017), Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic), Federal Chancellor from 1982 to 1998 (CDU) * Gerhard Schröder (born 1944), Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic), Federal Chancellor from 1998 to 2005 (SPD) * Angela Merkel (born 1954), Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic), Federal Chancellor from 2005 to 2021 (CDU) * Olaf Scholz (born 1958), Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic), Federal Chancellor since 2021 (SPD) Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1983-098-20a, Heuss

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Presidents of Germany

''(in chronological order)'' * Friedrich Ebert (1871–1925), first president of the Weimar Republic (SPD) 1919–25 * Paul von Hindenburg (1847–1934), field marshal, president 1925–34 * Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), combining legally both offices, president and chancellor ("''Führer und Reichskanzler''") 1933–45 * Karl Dönitz (1891–1980), Admiral of the Fleet, after Hitler's death, president for 22 days, 1945 Presidents of the Federal Republic of Germany since 1949:
''(in chronological order)'' * Theodor Heuss (1884–1963), Federal President 1949–59 (Liberal-Democratic Party, FDP) * Heinrich Lübke (1894–1972), Federal President 1959–69 (CDU) * Gustav Heinemann (1899–1976), Federal President 1969–74 (SPD) * Walter Scheel (1919–2016), Federal President 1974–79 (FDP) * Karl Carstens (1914–1992), Federal President 1979–84 (CDU) * Richard von Weizsäcker (1920–2015), Federal President 1984–94 (CDU) * Roman Herzog (1934–2017), Federal President 1994–99 (CDU) * Johannes Rau (1931–2006), Federal President 1999–2004 (SPD) * Horst Köhler (born 1943), Federal President 2004–10 (CDU) * Jens Böhrnsen (born 1949), acting president since resignation of Köhler in 2010 (SPD) * Christian Wulff (born 1959), Federal President 2010–12 (CDU) * Horst Seehofer (born 1949), acting president since resignation of Wulff in 2012 (CDU) * Joachim Gauck (born 1940), Federal President 2012–2017 (Independent) * Frank-Walter Steinmeier (born 1956) Federal President since 19 March 2017 (SPD) Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R1220-401, Erich Honecker

Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R1220-401, Erich Honecker

Politicians of the East German Communist Party and regime

* Otto Grotewohl (1894–1964), minister president of the GDR * Erich Honecker (1912–1994), leader of the GDR until 1989 * Egon Krenz (born 1937), leader of the GDR after Honecker * Erich Mielke (1907–2000), head of the Stasi * Wilhelm Pieck (1876–1960), first president of the GDR * Heinrich Rau (1899–1961), chairman of the German Economic Commission (predecessor of the East German government) * Günter Schabowski (1929–2015), member of politburo * Willy Stoph (1914–1999), premier of the GDR * Walter Ulbricht (1893–1973), leader of the GDR Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1968-101-20A, Joseph Goebbels

Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1968-101-20A, Joseph Goebbels

Personalities of the Nazism, Nazi Party and regime

* Artur Axmann (1913–1996), Hitler Youth leader (1940–1945) * Klaus Barbie (1913–1991), the "Butcher of Lyon" * Fedor von Bock (1880–1945), Generalfeldmarschall, field marshal * Martin Bormann (1900–1945), Nazi leader * Eva Braun (1912–1945), Hitler's mistress and finally his wife * Wilhelm Canaris (1887–1945), admiral and chief of ''Abwehr, the Abwehr'' * Karl Dönitz (1891–1980), Admiral of the Fleet, briefly Hitler's successor as President * Anton Drexler (1884–1942), founder of German Workers' Party, which became the NSDAP * Adolf Eichmann (1906–1962), Nazi Germany, Nazi Schutzstaffel, SS-''Obersturmbannführer'' (lieutenant colonel) * Hans Frank (1900–1946), Governor-General of Poland * Roland Freisler (1893–1945), Nazi judge * Wilhelm Frick (1877–1946), Minister of the Interior * Walther Funk (1890–1960), Minister of Economics * Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945), Chancellor, Chancellor of Germany, propaganda chief for the Nazis * Hermann Göring (1893–1946), Nazi, Reich Marshal and chief of Luftwaffe * Rudolf Hess (1894–1987), Hitler's private secretary, later Deputy Führer * Reinhard Heydrich (1904–1942), Nazi officer, head of the Sicherheitsdienst and RSHA * Heinrich Himmler (1900–1945), Nazism, Nazi head of the SS * Rudolf Höss (1900–1947), commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, Auschwitz * Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903–1946), Heydrich's successor at the RSHA * Hans Kammler (1901 – c. 1945), author and organiser of first Death Camps * Wilhelm Keitel (1882–1946), field marshal, head of the OKW (1939–1945) * Karl Otto Koch (1897–1945), German first commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp * Robert Ley (1890–1945), head of the German Labour Front * Erich von Manstein (1885–1973), field marshal and commander of the 11th Army (Wehrmacht), Eleventh Army (1941–1942), Army Group Don (1942–43), and Army Group South (1943–1944) * Josef Mengele (1911–1979), German SS officer and a physician in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz * Erhard Milch (1892–1972), Göring's second-in-command, Air Inspector General * Walter Model (1891–1945), Generalfeldmarschall, field marshal * Heinrich Müller (Gestapo), Heinrich Müller (1900–1945?), head of the Gestapo (1939–1945) * Konstantin von Neurath (1873–1956), Foreign Minister in the early years of the regime * Franz von Papen (1879–1969), Deputy Chancellor in Hitler's first cabinet * Erich Raeder (1876–1960), Admiral of the Fleet * Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893–1946), Nazi foreign minister * Ernst Röhm (1887–1934), first Stabschef of the Sturmabteilung, SA * Erwin Rommel (1891–1944), Commander of the 7th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht), 7th Panzer Division and the Afrika Korps * Alfred Rosenberg (1893–1946), Nazi ideologist * Gerd von Rundstedt (1875–1953), field marshal, Commander-in-Chief East (1939–40), commander of Army Group South (1939–1941), Commander-in-Chief West (1942–1945) * Hjalmar Schacht, Minister of Finance * Baldur von Schirach (1907–1974), first Hitler Youth leader *

(1905–1981), "Hitler's architect", Minister of Armaments * Gregor Strasser (1892–1934), left-wing Nazi leader * Julius Streicher (1885–1946), Nazi Party leader in Franconia Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany

Frederick II of Prussia Coloured drawing

Royalty

* Alix of Hesse and Rhine (1872–1918), German princess by birth before marrying Tsar Nicholas II to become a Russian tsarina * Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1819–1861), Victoria of the United Kingdom, Queen Victoria's husband and consort * Albert, King of Saxony, Albert (1828–1902), King of Saxony (1873–1902) * Anne of Cleves (1515–1557), List of English consorts, Queen of England from 6 January to 9 July 1540 as the fourth Wives of Henry VIII, wife of Henry VIII of England, King Henry VIII * Anthony Clement of Saxony, Anton (1755–1836), King of Saxony (1827–1836) * Carol I of Romania, Carol I of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1839–1914), Prince (1867–1881) and King (1881–1914) of Romania * Catherine the Great (1729–1796), Empress of Russia * Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV (1316–1378), King of Germany 1346, Holy Roman Emperor 1355–78 * Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V (1500–1558), King of Spain 1516, King of Germany 1519, Holy Roman Emperor 1530–56 * Charles, King of Württemberg, Charles (1823–1891), King of Württemberg (1823–1891) * Claus von Amsberg (1926–2002), diplomat and husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands * Ferdinand of Romania, Ferdinand of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1865–1927), King of Romania (1924–1927) * Ferdinand of Bulgaria, Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1861–1948), Prince of Bulgaria (1887–1908), King (or Tsar) of the Bulgarians (1908–1918) * Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick I Barbarossa (1122–1190), King of Germany 1152, Holy Roman Emperor 1155–90 * Frederick I of Prussia (1657–1713), Elector of Brandenburg (1688–1713), King in Prussia (1701–1713) * Frederick I of Württemberg (1754–1816), Duke (1797–1803), Elector (1803–1806), and King (1806–1816) of Württemberg * Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (1194–1250), Holy Roman Emperor and King of Jerusalem * Frederick II of Prussia (1712–1786), King of Prussia (1740–1786) * Friedrich III of Germany (Hohenzollern), Friedrich III (1831–1888), German Emperor and King of Prussia (1888) * Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, Frederick Augustus I (1750–1827), Elector (1763–1806) and King (1806–1827) of Saxony * Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, Frederick Augustus II (1797–1854), King of Saxony (1836–1854) * Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, Frederick Augustus III (1865–1932), King of Saxony (1904–1918) * Frederick William I of Prussia, Frederick William I (1688–1740), King of Prussia (1713–1740) * Frederick William II of Prussia, Frederick William II (1744–1797), King of Prussia (1786–1797) * Frederick William III of Prussia, Frederick William III (1770–1840), King of Prussia (1797–1840) * Frederick William IV of Prussia, Frederick William IV (1795–1861), King of Prussia (1840–1861) * George of Saxony, George (1832–1904), King of Saxony (1902–1904) * George V of Hanover, George V (1819–1878), King of Hanover (1851–1866) * Henry the Fowler, Henry I the Fowler (876–936), King of Germany 919 * Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor, Henry II (972–1024), King of Germany 1002, Holy Roman Emperor 1014–24 * Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor, Henry III (1017–1056), King of Germany 1039, Holy Roman Emperor 1046–56 * Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, Henry IV (1050–1106), King of Germany 1056, Holy Roman Emperor 1084–1106 * Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, Henry V (1081–1125), King of Germany 1106, Holy Roman Emperor 1111–25 * Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor, Henry VI (1165–1197), King of Germany 1190, Holy Roman Emperor 1191–97 * John of Saxony, John (1801–1873), King of Saxony (1854–1873) * Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, Louis IV (1281–1347), King of Germany 1314, Holy Roman Emperor 1328–47 * Ludwig I of Bavaria, Ludwig I (1786–1868), King of Bavaria (1825–1848) * Ludwig II of Bavaria, Ludwig II (1845–1886), King of Bavaria (1864–1886) * Ludwig III of Bavaria, Ludwig III (1845–1921), King of Bavaria (1913–1918) * Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian I (1459–1519), King of Germany 1486, Holy Roman Emperor 1508–19 * Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, Maximilian I (1756–1825), Elector (1799–1805) and King (1805–1825) of Bavaria * Maximilian II of Bavaria, Maximilian II (1811–1864), King of Bavaria (1848–1864) * Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, Otto I the Great (912–973), King of Germany 936, Holy Roman Emperor 962–973 * Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor, Otto II (955–983), Holy Roman Emperor 973–983 * Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor, Otto III (980–1002), King of Germany 983, Holy Roman Emperor 996–1002 * Otto of Greece King of Bavaria (1815–1867), King of the Hellenes (1833–1862) * Otto, King of Bavaria, Otto of Bavaria (1848–1916), King of Bavaria (1886–1913) * Wilhelm I of Germany, Wilhelm I (1797–1888), German Emperor (1871–1888) and King of Prussia (1861–1888) * Wilhelm II of Germany, Wilhelm II (1859–1941), German Emperor and King of Prussia (1888–1918) * William I of Württemberg, William I (1781–1864), King of Württemberg (1816–1864) * William II of Württemberg, William II (1848–1921), King of Württemberg (1891–1918)

Scientists and engineers

A–G

* Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (1806–1886), mineralogist, geologist *Michael Albeck (born 1934), Israeli chemist; President of Bar-Ilan University * Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915), psychiatrist and neuropathologist * Peter Apian (1495–1552), mathematician, astronomer and cartographer * Manfred von Ardenne (1907–1997), physicist * Anton de Bary (1831–1888), surgeon, botanist, microbiologist * Johann Bayer (1572–1625), astronomer * Henning Behrens (born 1940), economist and political scientist * Georg Bednorz (born 1950), physicist Nobel Prize for Physics * Emil von Behring (1854–1917), physician * Karl Benz (1844–1929), inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile * Friedrich Bessel (1784–1846), mathematician * Hans Bethe (1906–2005), physicist * Hennig Brand (c. 1630 c.1692 or c. 1710), alchemist; discoverer of phosphorus * Max Born (1882–1970), physicist * Robert Bosch (1861–1942), industrialist *

(1890–1963), engineer * Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850–1918), physicist * Wernher von Braun (1912–1977), space engineer, rocket scientist * Eduard Buchner (1860–1917), biochemist; recipient 1907 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the discovery of enzymes * Robert Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1811–1899), chemist * Alfred Buntru (1887–1974), hydraulic engineer and SS officer * Georg Cantor (1845–1918), mathematician * Conrad of Leonberg (1460–1511), humanist scholar * Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543), Prussia (region), Prussian astronomer who wrote and spoke German; he is also often considered as a Pole * Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt, neuropathologist * Adolf Daimler (1871–1913), mechanical engineer * Gottlieb Daimler (1834–1900), inventor and engineer * Gertrud Dorka (1893–1976), archaeologist, prehistorian and museum director * Carl Duisberg (1861–1935), chemist and industrialist * Rudolf Diesel (1858–1913), inventor of the Diesel engine * Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915), physician * Albert Einstein (1879–1955), physicist * Gerhard Ertl (born 1936), physicist * Hans Jürgen Eysenck (1916–1997), psychologist * Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736), physicist, engineer, and glass blower * Adolf Eugen Fick (1829–1901), inventor of contact lenses * Wolfgang Finkelnburg (1905–1967), physicist * Hermann Emil Fischer (1852–1919), chemist and List of Nobel laureates in Chemistry, 1902 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry * Friederike Fless (born 1964), president of the German Archaeological Institute * Elvira Fölzer (1868–1928), early female archaeologist * Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787–1826), physicist * Gottlob Frege (1848–1925), mathematician and logicist * Wilhelm Siegmund Frei (1885–1943), dermatologist * Erich Fromm (1900–1980), psychologist * Klaus Fuchs (1911–1988), physicist and spy * Hans Geiger (1882–1945), physicist * Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855), mathematician * Otto von Guericke (1602–1682), scientist * Johannes Gutenberg (1398–1468), inventor of modern bookprinting

H–J

* Fritz Haber (1868–1934), chemist * Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919), physician * Otto Hahn (1879–1968), chemist * Theodor W. Hänsch (born 1941), physicist * Bernhard Hantzsch (1875–1911), ornithologist * Georg Hartmann (geographer), Georg Hartmann (1865–1946), geographer * Felix Hausdorff (1868–1942), mathematician * Robert Havemann (1910–1982), chemist * Ernst Heinkel (1888–1958), aircraft engineer * Werner Heisenberg, Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901–1976), physicist * Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935), physician, sexologist, founder of the first ever committee for LGBTQ+ rights * Hermann Helmholtz, physicist * Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857–1894), physicist * Johannes Hevelius (1611–1687), astronomer *

(1862–1943), mathematician * Johann Homann (1664–1724), geographer * Erich Hückel, Erich Hueckel (1896–1980), physicist * Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), explorer * Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804–1851), mathematician * Alfons Maria Jakob (1884–1931), neurologist * Hugo Junkers (1859–1935), aircraft engineer

K–L

* Theodor Kaluza (1885–1954), mathematician, theoretical physicist * Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz (1829–1896), chemist *

(1571–1630), astronomer * Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (1824–1887), physicist * Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743–1817), chemist * Felix Klein (1849–1925), mathematician * Klaus von Klitzing (born 1943), physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics * Wolfgang Franz von Kobell (1803–1882), mineralogist * Robert Koch (1843–1910), physician * Walter Karl Koch (1880–1962), surgeon * Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe (1818–1884), chemist * Leopold Kronecker (1823–1891), mathematician * Ernst Eduard Kummer (1810–1893), mathematician * Edmund Landau (1877–1938), mathematician * Hermann Lattemann (1852–1894), balloon pilot and parachutist * Max von Laue (1879–1960), physicist * Gottfried Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), mathematician * Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard (1862–1947), physicist * Rudolph Lennhoff (1866–1933), public health doctor * August Leskien (1840–1916), linguist * Justus von Liebig (1803–1873), chemist * Otto Lilienthal (1848–1896), aviation pioneer * Ferdinand von Lindemann (1852–1939), mathematician * Alexander Lippisch (1894–1976), aerodynamicist * Friedrich Loeffler (1852–1915), bacteriologist * Johann Josef Loschmidt (1821–1895), physicist, chemist * Cornelia Lüdecke (born 1954), polar researcher, historian * Reimar Lüst (1923–2020), astrophysicist

M–R

* (Albertus Magnus ''see'' "A") * Ludwig Immanuel Magnus, mathematician * Siegfried Marcus (1831–1898), automobile pioneer * Wilhelm Maybach (1846–1929), car-engine and automobile constructor * Willy Messerschmitt, Wilhelm Messerschmitt (1898–1978), aircraft engineer * Lothar Meyer (1830–1895), chemist * Franz Mertens (1840–1927), mathematician * August Ferdinand Möbius (1790–1868), mathematician, theoretical astronomer * Johannes Peter Müller, Johannes Müller (1801–1858), physiologist * Walther Nernst (1864–1941), physicist * Carl Gottfried Neumann (1832–1925), mathematician * Franz Ernst Neumann (1798–1895), mathematician * :de:Claus Noé, Claus Noé (1938–2008), economist * Emmy Noether (1882–1935), mathematician * Georg Ohm (1789–1854), physicist * Wilhelm Ostwald, chemist; recipient 1909 Nobel Prize in Chemistry * Nicolaus Otto (1832–1891), coinventor of the Otto cycle * Bernhard Philberth (1927–2010), physicist, engineer, philosopher, theologian * Max Planck (1858–1947), physicist * Jesco von Puttkamer (1933–2012), space scientist (NASA manager), engineer and author *

(1826–1866), mathematician * Adam Ries (1492–1559), mathematician * Wilhelm Röntgen (1845–1923), physicist; inventor of x-rays Werner von Siemens (1816-1892), ca

S–V

* Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786), chemist * Matthias Jakob Schleiden (1804–1881), botanist * Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890), archaeologist * Christian Friedrich Schonbein (1799–1868), chemist * Friedrich Hermann Schottky (1851–1935), mathematician * Theodor Schwann (1810–1882), physiologist * Hermann Amandus Schwarz (1843–1921), mathematician * Karl Schwarzschild (1873–1916), physicist * Carl Semper (1832–1893), ecologist * Cynthia Sharma (born 1979), infectious disease researcher, biologist * Werner von Siemens (1816–1892), inventor, industrialist * Rolf Singer (1906–1994), mycologist * Arnold Sommerfeld (1868–1951), physicist * Eduard Adolf Strasburger (1844–1912), German-Polish professor; one of the most famous botanists of the 19th century * Georg Steller (1709–1746), naturalist * William Stern (psychologist), William Stern (1871–1938), psychologist, philosopher * Alfred Stock (1876–1946), chemist * Levi Strauss (1829–1902), jeans * Max Vasmer (1886–1962), linguist * Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902), pioneer of medicine

W–Z

* Otto Wallach, physicist * Hellmuth Walter (1900–1980), propulsion * Felix Wankel (1902–1988), inventor of the Wankel engine * Alfred Wegener (1880–1930), geologist, meteorologist * Karl Weierstrass (1815–1897), mathematician * August Weismann (1834–1914), biologist * Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912–2007), physicist * Hermann Weyl (1885–1955), mathematician * Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied (1782–1867), zoologist * Wilhelm Wien (1864–1928), physicist * Heinrich Wohlwill (1874–1943), electrical engineer * Mieczysław Wolfke (1883–1947), Polish physicist of German descent * Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920), physiologist, psychologist * Christian Zeller (1822–1899, Rektor), mathematician * Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838–1917), inventor of the Zeppelin, founded the Zeppelin Airship company * Ernst Zermelo (1871–1953), mathematician * Konrad Zuse (1910–1995), computer pioneer

Sportspeople

A–G

* Franziska van Almsick (born 1978), swimmer * Adolf Anderssen (1818–1879), chess grandmaster * Tobias Arlt (born 1987), luger * Rudi Ball (1911–1975), Hall of Fame ice hockey player, Olympic bronze 1932, World runner-up 1930, bronze 1934 * Michael Ballack (born 1976), football player * Karin Balzer (1938–2019), hurdler * Marcel Barthel (born 1990), professional wrestler * Dieter Baumann (born 1965), athlete * Franz Beckenbauer (born 1945), football player * Boris Becker (born 1967), tennis player * Ludger Beerbaum (born 1963), equestrian; four-time Olympic Gold medalist * Elly Beinhorn (1907–2007), aviator * Valery Belenky (born 1969), Soviet/Azerbaijan/German Olympic gymnastics champion (team combined exercises), bronze (individual combined exercises) * Isaac Bonga, NBA player * Stefan Bellof (1957–1985), race car driver * Gretel Bergmann (1914–2017), internationally renowned high jumper of the 1930s was excluded from the 1936 Olympic team due to being Jewish. * Frank Biela (born 1964), race car driver * Oliver Bierhoff (born 1968), football player * Jérôme Boateng (born 1988), football player * Timo Boll, table tennis player * Kathrin Boron (born 1969), sculling, scmomuller; four-time Olympic gold medallist * Daryl Boyle (born 1987), ice hockey player for Germany * Andreas Brehme (born 1960), football player and coach * Paul Breitner (born 1951), football player * Kai Budde (born 1979), professional ''Magic: The Gathering'' player * Bettina Bunge (born 1963), tennis player * Rudolf Caracciola (1901–1959), race car driver * Rolf Decker, German-born American, football midfielder (US national team) * Uschi Disl (born 1970), biathlete * Heike Drechsler (born 1964), athlete * Mathew Dumba (born 1994), ice hockey player * Stefan Effenberg (born 1968), football player * Christian Ehrhoff (born 1982), Olympian and National Hockey League hockey player; plays for the Buffalo Sabres *David Elsner (born 1992), ice hockey forward * Erich Gottlieb Eliskases (1913–1997), leading chess player of the 1930s–40s, represented Austria, Germany and Argentina in international competition * Kornelia Ender (born 1958), swimmer; became the first woman swimmer to win four gold medals at a single Olympic Games (1976 Summer Olympics, in 1976), all in world record times * Karin Enke (born 1961), speed skater; one of the most dominant of the 1980s * Jürgen Fanghänel (born 1951), boxer * Rudi Fink (born 1958), boxer * Birgit Fischer (born 1962), kayaker * Sven Fischer (born 1971), biathlete * Theodor Fischer (fencer), Theodor Fischer, Olympic épée and foil fencer * Alfred Flatow (1869–1942), gymnast, three-time Olympic champion (parallel bars, team parallel bars, team horizontal bar), silver (horizontal bar) * Gustav Flatow, Gustav Felix Flatow (1875–1945), two-time Olympic champion (team parallel bars, team horizontal bar) * Heinz-Harald Frentzen (born 1967), racing driver * Torsten Frings (born 1976), football player * Gottfried Fuchs (1889–1972), Olympic football player * Erika Geisen, IFBB professional bodybuilder * Natalie Geisenberger (born 1988), luger * Marcel Goc, German Olympian and NHL hockey player; plays for the Nashville Predators * Harold Goldsmith, born Hans Goldschmidt (1930–2004), American Olympic foil and épée fencer * Mario Gómez (born 1985), football player * Steffi Graf (born 1969), tennis player * Michael Greis (born 1976), biathlete * Michael Gross (swimmer), Michael Gross (born 1964), swimmer * Ricco Groß (born 1970), biathlete * Jan Gustafsson (born 1979), chess grandmaster and Janistan head of state * Ludwig Guttmann (1899–1980), founder of the Paralympics

H–M

* Tommy Haas (born 1978), tennis player * Georg Hackl (born 1966), luger * Hans Halberstadt (1885–1966), German-born American Olympic fencer * Dietmar Hamann (born 1973), football player * Sven Hannawald (born 1974), ski jumper * Armin Hary (born 1937), athlete * Thomas Häßler (born 1966), football player * Nico Hülkenberg (born 1987), racing driver * Nick Heidfeld (born 1977), racing driver * Lilli Henoch (1899–1942), world records in discus, shot put, and 4x100-m relay; shot by the Nazis in Latvia * Jupp Heynckes (born 1945), retired footballer and current manager of FC Bayern Munich * Julius Hirsch (1892–1945), Olympian football player and first Jewish member of the Germany national football team, national team, two-time Germany team champion, awarded the Iron Cross during World War I, murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp. * Ottmar Hitzfeld (born 1949), football player and manager * Leah Horowitz (runner), Leah Horowitz (1933–1956), Israeli Olympic hurdler * Mats Hummels (born 1988), football player * Peter Hussing (1948–2012), boxer * Robert Hübner (born 1948), chess grandmaster * Reinhold Joest (born 1937), race car driver and racing team owner * Klaus Junge (1924–1945), one of the youngest German chess grandmasters * Enriko Kehl (born 1992), muay thai kickboxing * Oliver Kahn (born 1969), football player * Andy Kapp (born 1967), curler * Fritz Keller (born 1957), football administrator * Udo Kiessling (born 1955), first ice hockey player to compete at List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games, five Olympics * Herbert Klein (swimmer), Herbert Klein (1923–2001), Olympic bronze (200-m breaststroke); three world records * Ralph Klein (basketball), Ralph Klein (1931–2008), Berlin-born Israeli basketball player and coach * Jutta Kleinschmidt, rally driver * Reiner Klimke (1936–1999), equestrian; won six gold and two bronze medals in dressage at the Summer Olympics * Jürgen Klinsmann (born 1964), football player and manager * Jürgen Klopp (born 1967), Liverpool football manager * Miroslav Klose (born 1978), football player * Georg Koch (born 1972), football player * Marita Koch (born 1957), Sprint (running), sprint track and field athlete who collected 30 List of world records in athletics, world records * Olaf Kölzig (born 1970), German Olympian and National Hockey League goaltender, goalie; plays for the Tampa Bay Lightning * Andreas Köpke (born 1962), football player (goalkeeper) * Louis Krages (1949–2001), racing driver who raced under the pseudonym of "John Winter" * Ingrid Krämer (born 1943), Diving (sport), diver and Olympic champion * Toni Kroos (born 1990), football player * Uwe Krupp (born 1965), ice hockey player and coach; won the Stanley Cup and played in an NHL All-Star Game * Erich Kühnhackl (born 1950), ice hockey player; named Germany's ice hockey player of the 20th century and member of the IIHF Hall of Fame * Kevin Kuske (born 1979), bobsledder; most successful Olympic athlete in bobsledding, winning four gold medals and two silver medals * Philipp Lahm (born 1983), football player * André Lange, bobsledding champion * Hermann Lang (1909–1987), champion race car driver * Bernhard Langer (born 1957), golfer * Henry Laskau (1916–2000), racewalker; won 42 national titles; Pan American Games champion; four-time Maccabiah champion * Emanuel Lasker (1868–1941), the second World Chess Champion (1894–1921) * Jens Lehmann (born 1969), football player (goalkeeper) * Ellen Lohr, racing driver * Joachim Löw (born 1960), football player and manager of Germany national football team, Germany * Klaus Ludwig, racing driver * Marion Lüttge (born 1941), javelin thrower * Brooks Macek (born 1992), ice hockey player for Germany * Felix Magath (born 1953), football player and manager * Sepp Maier (born 1944), football player * Jan Martín (born 1984), German-Israeli-Spanish basketball player * Henry Maske (born 1964), boxer * Jochen Mass, racing driver * Lothar Matthäus (born 1961), football player * Roland Matthes (1950–2019), swimmer and the most successful backstroke swimmer of all times * Helene Mayer (1910–1953), foil fencer, Olympic champion * Georg Meier (1910–1999), motorcycle racer * Yona Melnik (born 1949), Israeli Olympic judoka * Markus Merk (born 1962), top-level Referee (association football), football referee * Christoph Metzelder (born 1980), football player * Ulrike Meyfarth (born 1956), high jumper * Rosi Mittermaier (born 1950), alpine ski champion * Andreas Möller (born 1967), football player * Gerd Müller (born 1945), football player * Jörg Müller (born 1969), race car driver * Petra Müller (born 1965), athlete * Thomas Müller (born 1989), football player

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* Patricia Neske (born 1966), figure skater * Günter Netzer (born 1944), football player * Manuel Neuer (born 1986), football player (goalkeeper) * Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann (born 1966), speed skater * Aron Nimzowitsch (1886–1935), Latvian-Danish German chess master and chess writer * Dirk Nowitzki (born 1978), National Basketball Association player * Kristin Otto (born 1966), Olympic swimming champion * Sylke Otto (born 1969), luger * Mesut Özil (born 1988), football player * Claudia Pechstein (born 1972), speed skater * Uta Pippig (born 1965), athlete * Lukas Podolski (born 1985), football player * Sarah Poewe (born 1983), swimmer, Olympic bronze (4 × 100 medley relay) * Ellen Preis (Ellen Müller-Preis) (1912–2007), German-born Austrian Olympic champion foil fencer * Daniel Prenn (1904–1991), tennis player, highest world ranking # 6 * Birgit Prinz (born 1977), football player * Lina Radke (1903–1983), athlete * Teodor Regedziński (also known as Theodor Reger) (1894–1954), Polish chess master of German origin; father's name was Reger * Otto Rehhagel (born 1938), football player and manager * Annegret Richter (born 1950), athlete * Lars Riedel (born 1967), athlete * Maria Höfl-Riesch (born 1984), FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, World Cup Alpine skiing, alpine ski racer * Jochen Rindt (1942–1970), German-born racing driver who represented Austria during his career (one-time World Champion) * Walter Röhrl, rally and racing driver (two-time Rally World Champion) * Nico Rosberg (born 1985), former German–Finnish Formula One driver (one-time World Champion) * Bernd Rosemeyer (1909–1938), racing driver * Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (born 1955), football player

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* Matthias Sammer (born 1967), football player and manager who won the Ballon d'Or (1956–2009), 1996 Ballon d'Or * Thomas Schaaf (born 1961), football player and manager * Max Schmeling (1905–2005), World Heavyweight Boxing Champion * Paul Felix Schmidt (1916–1984), Estonian–German chess master * Martin Schmitt (born 1978), ski jumper * Bernd Schneider (footballer), Bernd Schneider, football player * Bernd Schneider (racing driver), Bernd Schneider, racing driver * Mehmet Scholl (born 1970), football player * Anja Schreiner, IFBB professional bodybuilder * Detlef Schrempf (born 1963), former NBA player * Carl Schuhmann (1869–1946), won four Olympic titles in gymnastics and wrestling at the 1896 Summer Olympics; becoming the most successful athlete at the inaugural Olympics of the modern era * Harald Schumacher (born 1954), football player * Michael Schumacher (born 1969), racing driver (seven-time Formula One World Champion) * Ralf Schumacher (born 1975), racing driver; brother of Michael Schumacher * Dennis Schröder, NBA player * Ralf Schumann (born 1962), pistol shooter * Bernd Schuster (born 1959), football player and manager * Rainer Schüttler, tennis player * Armin Schwarz (born 1963), racing driver * Bastian Schweinsteiger (born 1984), football player * Werner Seelenbinder (1904–1944), wrestler * Uwe Seeler (born 1936), football player * Dennis Seidenberg (born 1981), ice hockey player * Katja Seizinger, alpine ski champion * Wolfgang Stark (born 1969), football referee * Renate Stecher (born 1950), athlete * Britta Steffen (born 1983), swimmer; three-time Olympic medalist * Michael Stich (born 1968), tennis player * Rolf Stommelen (1943–1983), racing driver * Hans Stuck (1900–1978), racing driver * Hans-Joachim Stuck, racing driver and son of Hans * Marco Sturm (born 1978), ice hockey player and coach; one-time NHL All-Star Game, NHL All-Star (1999 NHL All-Star Game, 1999) * Siegbert Tarrasch (1862–1934), chess grandmaster * Joseph Taussig (1877–1947), German-born American football quarterback * Axel Teichmann (born 1979), cross-country skier * Richard Teichmann (1868–1925), leading German chess player, easily of grandmaster strength * Alexander Wolfe (wrestler), Axel Tischer (born 1986), professional wrestler * Toni Turek (1919–1984), football player * Jan Ullrich (born 1973), cyclist * Wolfgang Unzicker (1925–2006), chess grandmaster * Nicole Uphoff (born 1967), equestrian * Sebastian Vettel, Formula One driver (four-time World Champion) * Berti Vogts, football player and manager * Johannes Voigtmann (born 1992), basketball player * Rudi Völler (born 1960), football player * Sebastian Vollmer (born 1984), American football player, first German NFL draft pick; plays for the New England Patriots * Katrin Wagner-Augustin (born 1977), Canoe sprint, sprint canoer * Ralf Waldmann, motorcycle racer * Fritz Walter (footballer, 1920), Fritz Walter (1920–2002), football player * Fritz Walter (footballer, 1960), Fritz Walter (born 1960), football player * Ulrich Wehling (born 1952), won the nordic combined event in the Winter Olympics three consecutive times, in 1972 Winter Olympics, 1972, 1976 Winter Olympics, 1976, and 1980 Winter Olympics, 1980 * Jens Weißflog (born 1964), ski jumper * Tobias Wendl (born 1987), luger *Moritz Wagner (basketball), Moritz Wagner, NBA player for the Los Angeles Lakers * Isabell Werth (born 1969), equestrian and world champion in dressage; holds the record for the most Olympic medals won by any equestrian athlete * Kati Wilhelm (born 1976), biathlete * Joachim Winkelhock, racing driver * Manfred Winkelhock (1951–1985), racing driver; brother of Joachim Winkelhock * Hans Günter Winkler (1926–2018), show jumping rider * Katarina Witt (born 1965), figure skater * Bärbel Wöckel (born 1955), Sprint (running), sprinter * Sigrun Wodars (born 1965), athlete * Jenny Wolf (born 1979), speed skater * Erik Zabel (born 1970), cyclist * Christian Ziege (born 1972), football player and manager * Johannes Zukertort (1842–1888), German Polish-Jewish chessmaster

Theologians, saints and beatified persons

* Heinrich Abeken (1809–1872), theologian * Johannes Agricola (1494–1566), Protestant reformer * Albertus Magnus, medieval philosopher and theologian * Eusebius Amort (1692–1775) * Pope Benedict XVI (also known as Joseph Ratzinger) (born 1927) * Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), theologian * Johannes Bugenhagen (1485–1558), Protestant reformer of Pomerania and Denmark; theologian * Rudolf Bultmann (1884–1976) * Pope Clement II (1005–1047) * Pope Damasus II (?–1048) * Alfred Delp (1907–1945) * Eugen Drewermann (born 1940) * Johann Eck (1486–1543) * Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774–1824) * Matthias Faber (1586–1653) * Pope Gregory V (c. 972–999) * Adolf Harnack (1851–1930) * Saint Hedwig of Andechs, Hedwig of Andech (1174–1243) *

, poet, translator, philosopher and theologian * Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889–1977) * Clemens August Graf von Galen, beatified, cardinal * Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380 – 1471), canon regular * Adolph Kolping (1813–1865), beatified, priest * Hans Küng (1928–2021) * Karl Lehmann (1936–2018) * Pope Leo IX (1002–1054) * Martin Luther (1483–1546), Protestant Reformation * Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560), Protestant Reformation * Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) * Jürgen Moltmann (born 1926), theologian * Bernhard Philberth (1927–2010), physicist, engineer, philosopher, theologian * Karl Rahner (1904–1989), theologian * Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834), theologian, philosopher * Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965), musician, physician, pastor, philosopher and theologian * Dorothee Sölle (1929–2003) * Edith Stein (1891–1942), saint, nun, victim of the Holocaust * Johann Tetzel (1465–1519), monk * Carsten Peter Thiede (1952–2004), theologian, New Testament historian, chaplain * Helmut Thielicke (1908–1986), theologian * Paul Tillich (1886–1965), theologian, philosopher * Pope Victor II (c. 1018 – 1057)

Militants

* Sophie Scholl (1921–1943), member of the German resistance in World War II *Linda Wenzel, ISIS bride

Others

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* Michael Baumgardt (born 1966), web designer * Thomas Bach (born 1953), lawyer, former fencer * Franz Borkenau (1900–1957), social scientist * Gottfried Gabriel Bredow (1773–1814), historian * Moritz Brosch (1829–1907), historian * Dieter Claessens (1921–1997), sociologist * Thomas Druyen (born 1957), sociologist * Shlomo Eckstein (1929–2020), Israeli economist and president of Bar-Ilan University * Gudrun Ensslin (1940–1977), terrorist * Michael Fassbender (born 1977), actor * Siegfried Fischbacher (1939–2021), magician, conservationist * Reinhard Furrer (1940–1995), astronaut * Andreas Gaill (1526–1587), jurist * Margarete Gütschow (1871–1951), archaeologist * Herschel Grynszpan (1921–1944), Polish-Jewish refugee turned assassin * Kerstin Günther (born 1967), business executive * Johann Gutenberg (c. 1390s – 1468), printer * Hildegard of Bingen, Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179), abbess, mystic * Roy Horn (1944–2020), magician, conservationist * Karen Horney, psychoanalyst * Heribert Illig (born 1947), historian * Peter Hoffmann (historian), Peter Hoffmann, awarded outstanding historian * Sigmund Jähn (1937–2019), first German in space * Bruno Kahl (born 1962), intelligence administrative lawyer * Erhart Kirfel, businessman, finance controller of the SPD * René König (1906–1992), sociologist * Siegfried Kracauer * Christian Frederick Martin (1796–1867), inventor of the steel-string guitar * Ulrike Meinhof (1934–1976), journalist and terrorist * Ulf Merbold (born 1941), astronaut * Carl von Ossietzky (1889–1938), journalist and pacifism, pacifist * Ferdinand Porsche (1875–1951), designer and founder of

* Ferry Porsche (1909–1998), automobile designer and son of Ferdinand Porsche * Ferdinand Alexander Porsche (1935–2012), designer and member of the Porsche family * Ferdinand Oliver Porsche (born 1961), lawyer, executive and family member of Porsche * Ludwig Quidde (1858–1941), historian and pacifist * Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886), historian * Paul Reuter (1816–1899), entrepreneur, pioneer of telegraphy and news reporting *Dora Richter (1891–presumed 1933), first known woman to undergo sex reassignment surgery * Margarete Rosenberg (Holocaust survivor), Margarete Rosenberg (1910–1985), lesbian Holocaust survivor * Mathias Rust (born 1968), aviator who landed on Moscow's Red Square in 1987 * Helmut Schelsky (1912–1984), sociologist * Oskar Schindler (1908–1974), industrialist; credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust * Hannelore Schmatz, mountaineer * Heffa Schücking, environmentalist * Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965), physician, humanitarian * Henry Shultz (1776–1851), emigrant to the United States, entrepreneur * Ell Smula (1914–1943), Ravensbrück concentration camp victim * Guy Spier, author and investor * Claus von Stauffenberg (1907–1944), ''Operation Valkyrie'' * Ilse Totzke (1913–1987), Holocaust survivor * Frederick Trump (1869–1918), businessman, patriarch of the Trump family * Hans-Hasso von Veltheim (1885–1956) Indologist, Anthroposophist * Ulrich Walter (born 1954), astronaut * Alfred Weber, sociologist * Max Weber, sociologist * Diedrich Hermann Westermann (1875–1956), linguist * Ruth Westheimer (born 1928), German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, Doctor of Education, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper. * William the Silent (1533–1584), German-born main leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs * Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768), art historian and archaeologist * Karl Witte (1800–1883), jurist and scholar of Dante Alighieri * Friedrich Heinrich Zinckgraf (1878–1954), gallery owner

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