Germany
People of this nationality
Rolf Agop
1908 – 1998
conductor
William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg
1516 – 1592
aristocrat
Nadja Nadgornaja
b. 1988
handball player
Nikolaus Müller
1892 – 1980
politician
Gottfried Arnold
1665 – 1714
historian
Gerd Althoff
b. 1943
medievalist
Heinrich IV
1539 – 1606
Cathedral dean
Angela Tillmann
1957 – 2025
politician
Gisela Medefindt
b. 1957
rower
Udo von Nellenburg
1030 – 1078
Catholic priest
Theo Gries
b. 1961
association football player
Andrea Berg
b. 1981
volleyball player
Friedrich Bayer
1887 – 1953
military personnel
Samuel Adler
1809 – 1891
rabbi
Malte Beermann
b. 1992
association football player
Gerhardt Alois Westrick
1889 – 1957
lawyer
Wilhelm Suhren
b. 1927
field hockey player
Georgios Kalpakidis
b. 1978
Journalist
Michael Obst
b. 1955
composer
Raif Adam
b. 2005
association football player
Erich Ponto
1884 – 1957
stage actor
Karl Wilhelm Ernst Waldenfels
1772 – 1807
Anne Cibis
b. 1985
athletics competitor
Fabian Wiede
b. 1994
handball player
Theo Shall
1894 – 1955
stage actor
Wilhelm Philipps
1894 – 1971
military officer
Christopher Lenz
b. 1994
association football player
Friedhelm Döhl
1936 – 2018
composer
Tami Oelfken
1888 – 1957
writer
Gottfried Fischer
1944 – 2013
psychologist
Nevio Passaro
b. 1980
singer-songwriter
Hans-Jürgen Bombach
b. 1945
athletics competitor
Ignatz Wiemeler
1895 – 1952
university teacher
Elisabeth Wilms
1905 – 1981
film director
Wolfgang Zeller
1893 – 1967
composer
Ernst von Treskow
1844 – 1915
diplomat
Karl-Hans Kern
1932 – 2014
politician
Willy Massoth
1911 – 1978
politician
Margarethe Siems
1879 – 1952
opera singer
Nadine Angerer
b. 1978
association football player
Ulrich Commerçon
b. 1968
politician
Luisa Görlich
b. 1998
ski jumper
Hedwig
b. 778
abbess
Reinhold Muchow
1905 – 1933
politician
Werner Zeyer
1929 – 2000
politician
Ingrid Noll
b. 1935
writer
Michael Schopper
b. 1942
opera singer
Saskia Lettmaier
b. 1979
university teacher
Martin Schongauer
1445 – 1491
painter
Karl Atzenroth
1895 – 1995
entrepreneur
Hermann Stövesand
1906 – 1992
stage actor
Regina Becker-Schmidt
1937 – 2024
university teacher
Franz Boll
1805 – 1875
regional historian
Christian Friedrich Penzel
1737 – 1801
composer
Karl Bodenschatz
1890 – 1979
military personnel
Hartmut Becker
1938 – 2022
voice actor
Gerhard von Malberg
1200 – 1246
Gottfried von Bismarck
1962 – 2007
businessperson
Johann Schröder
1925 – 2007
mathematician
Carl Ludvig Engel
1778 – 1840
architect
Hermann Weinbuch
b. 1960
Nordic combined skier
Karl Heinzen
1809 – 1880
poet
Madelaine Böhme
b. 1967
paleontologist
Evi Kent
b. 1939
actor
Birgit Cramon Daiber
b. 1944
politician
Cathleen Rund
b. 1977
swimmer
Wiebke Kethorn
b. 1985
handball player
Wolfgang Staudinger
b. 1963
luger
Hans-Ulrich Thomale
b. 1944
association football player
Hans Heyer
b. 1943
Formula One driver
Adam Remmele
1877 – 1951
politician
Ferdinand Grammel
1878 – 1951
sport cyclist
Karl-Rudi Griesbach
1916 – 2000
composer
Jie Schöpp
b. 1968
table tennis player
Dietmar Wolter
1941 – 2026
entrepreneur
Günter Eich
1907 – 1972
translator
Steffen Seibert
b. 1960
journalist
Robert Pferdmenges
1880 – 1962
politician
Max Hildebrand
1839 – 1910
entrepreneur
Katharina Treutler
b. 1985
pianist
Walter Rheiner
1895 – 1925
physician writer
Michael Brandner
b. 1951
stage actor
Wolf Rüdiger Hess
1937 – 2001
architect
August von Haxthausen
1792 – 1866
agronomist
Giacomo Meyerbeer
1791 – 1864
composer
Meike Holländer
b. 1965
rower
Margret Steckel
b. 1934
writer
Maria Schilder
1898 – 1975
naturalist
Gerald Götting
1923 – 2015
politician
Karl Jatho
1873 – 1933
inventor
Hans-Emil Schuster
1934 – 2024
astronomer
Erich Ohser
1903 – 1944
cartoonist
Annemarie Biechl
b. 1949
politician
Kathrin Henneberger
b. 1987
politician
Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg
1484 – 1535
ruler
Gino Gerhardi
b. 1988
bobsledder
Max Grün
b. 1987
association football player
Dietmar Danner
b. 1950
association football player
Siegmund Weltlinger
1886 – 1974
politician
Joseph Mendelssohn
1770 – 1848
banker