Germany
People of this nationality
Henning von Gierke
b. 1947
painter
Alfred Götze
1865 – 1948
archaeologist
Adam Gumpeltzhaimer
1559 – 1625
composer
Walter Simon
1857 – 1920
banker
Alberto Sterz
1350 – 1366
condottiero
Hans Pössenbacher
1895 – 1979
voice actor
Curt Courant
1899 – 1968
cinematographer
Johann Philipp Franz von Schönborn
1673 – 1724
Catholic priest
Erich Kellerhals
1939 – 2017
entrepreneur
Gunild Lattmann-Kretschmer
1936 – 2024
politician
Olaf Hilmer
b. 1972
politician
Susanne von Caemmerer
b. 1953
university teacher
Wolfgang Reinhardt
1943 – 2011
athletics competitor
Marcus Mann
b. 1984
association football player
Peter Hintze
1950 – 2016
politician
Karl von Enhuber
1811 – 1867
painter
Christian Samuel Theodor Bernd
1775 – 1854
heraldist
Alfred Bayer
1933 – 2026
politician
Stephen Arigbabu
b. 1972
basketball player
Heinrich Küster
1870 – 1956
architect
Caspar Cruciger the Younger
1525 – 1597
theologian
Friedrich Oltmanns
1860 – 1945
botanist
Kunz von Kaufungen
1410 – 1455
jockey
Wilhelm Beer
1797 – 1850
selenographer
Johann Jacob Baier
1677 – 1735
naturalist
Marcus Jastrow
1829 – 1903
lexicographer
Maria Görres
1823 – 1882
writer
Anton Biersack
1927 – 2007
ice hockey player
Michael Riedel
b. 1972
artist
Dora Schaul
1913 – 1999
resistance fighter
Elisabeth Wendt
1906 – 1980
actor
Alfred Baum
b. 1952
canoeist
Peter Behrens
1947 – 2016
musician
Christoph Friedrich Schmahl
1739 – 1814
organ builder
Bruno Bartholome
1927 – 1994
athletics competitor
Josias Kumpf
1925 – 2009
military personnel
Heribert Prantl
b. 1953
editor-in-chief
Christoph Heusgen
b. 1955
diplomat
Otto Dimroth
1872 – 1940
chemist
Walter Schulz
1912 – 2000
philosopher
Melika Foroutan
b. 1976
actor
Philip, Prince of Eulenburg
1847 – 1921
diplomat
Karl Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel
1779 – 1819
poet
Franz Josef Kallmann
1897 – 1965
psychiatrist
Herbert Schmitz
1947 – 2019
motocross rider
Frieda Kwast-Hodapp
1880 – 1949
pianist
Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler
1899 – 1940
painter
Georg Wilhelm von Siemens
1855 – 1919
entrepreneur
Karl-Heinz Wolf
b. 1951
biathlete
Kathinka Heinefetter
1819 – 1858
opera singer
Jan-Martin Bröer
b. 1982
rower
Rudolf Klimke
1890 – 1986
fighter pilot
Viola Brand
b. 1994
cyclist
Johann Michael Fischer
1692 – 1766
architect
Harald Schering
1880 – 1959
physicist
Luise Marie of the Palatinate
1647 – 1679
aristocrat
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
b. 1955
historian of Modern Age
Thomas Weller
b. 1980
association football player
Melanie Bernstein
b. 1976
politician
Philipp Eggersglüß
b. 1995
association football player
Kurt Schwitters
1887 – 1948
painter
Fabian Aupperle
b. 1986
association football player
Angela Kerek
b. 1972
tennis player
Gunther Schmidt
b. 1939
computer scientist
Margarete Teschemacher
1903 – 1959
opera singer
Reinhard Hardegen
1913 – 2018
military personnel
Fritz Soot
1878 – 1965
opera singer
Edward Theodore Compton
1849 – 1921
painter
Lotte Specht
1911 – 2002
association football player
Helge Burggrabe
b. 1973
composer
Reinhard Brandl
b. 1977
politician
Constance of Babenberg
1212 – 1243
Maxl Koch
b. 1959
sailor
Kurt Jung
1925 – 1989
politician
Ursel Barkey
b. 1941
figure skater
Heinz Ludwig Arnold
1940 – 2011
journalist
Loretta Lux
b. 1969
photographer
Jacob Gildor
b. 1948
painter
Horus Engels
1914 – 1991
illustrator
Rainer Kraft
b. 1962
association football player
Caroline Stein
b. 1965
singer
Johann Christian Georg Bodenschatz
1717 – 1797
orientalist
Roland Klick
b. 1939
film director
Leopold Kny
1841 – 1916
botanist
Heinz Bonatz
1897 – 1981
military personnel
Benjamin Calau
1724 – 1785
court painter
Martin Schymainski
b. 1986
ice hockey player
Franz Schmid
1905 – 1992
mountaineer
Stefan Schwarzmann
b. 1965
drummer
Ernst B. Haas
1924 – 2003
political scientist
Otto Zink
1925 – 2008
politician
Kristin Otto
b. 1966
swimmer
Lissy Arna
1900 – 1964
stage actor
William III, Duke of Jülich-Berg
1455 – 1511
aristocrat
Irene Runge
b. 1942
opinion journalist
Jörg Kunze
b. 1968
handball player
Herbert von Petersdorff
1882 – 1917
swimmer
Hurly Long
b. 1995
golfer
Georg Günther
b. 1988
politician
Artur Hennings
1940 – 2003
chess player