Germany
People of this nationality
Richard Wilhelm
1888 – 1917
racewalker
Eugen Jahnke
1863 – 1921
mathematician
Eduard Hauser
1895 – 1961
military personnel
Johannes Guter
1882 – 1962
film director
Markus Klaer
1968 – 2020
politician
Peggy Sonntag
b. 1999
swimmer
Rainer Podlesch
b. 1944
sport cyclist
Erich Förste
1892 – 1963
Marineoffizier
Karl von Gerber
1823 – 1891
politician
Alfred Sormann
1861 – 1913
composer
Hermann Michel
1912 – 1984
nurse
Wilhelm Bendow
1884 – 1950
stage actor
Otto Brenner
1907 – 1972
politician
Willem Canter
1542 – 1575
translator
Otto II of Nassau-Siegen
1305 – 1350
count
Norbert Walter
b. 1979
volleyball player
Hilde Purwin
1919 – 2010
journalist
Eberhard Knobloch
b. 1943
mathematician
Tanja Börzel
b. 1970
university teacher
Gerard Heinz
1904 – 1972
actor
Andreas Dräger
b. 1980
bioinformatician
John Christopher of Westerstetten
1563 – 1637
Catholic priest
Olaf von Wrangel
1928 – 2009
journalist
Josef Bachmeier
1908 – 1971
Rebecca Robisch
b. 1988
triathlete
Joseph Hermann Mohr
1834 – 1892
composer
Erich Suhrbier
b. 1938
canoeist
Paul Voell
1935 – 2004
swimmer
Margret Rey
1906 – 1996
writer
Ludwig Haas
1933 – 2021
actor
Bibiana Steinhaus
b. 1979
association football referee
Ayesha Kapur
b. 1994
actor
Hans Holbein the Elder
1465 – 1524
painter
Ela Aydin
b. 1999
taekwondo athlete
Andreas Bachmann
b. 1974
journalist
Marina Wallner
b. 1994
alpine skier
Jürgen Sobieray
1950 – 2021
association football player
Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
1676 – 1732
regent
Umut Sönmez
b. 1993
association football player
Ernst Bloch
1885 – 1977
philosopher
Milena Tscharntke
b. 1996
actor
Yury Kharchenko
b. 1986
painter
Christina Schultheiss
1918 – 2016
civil engineer
Suat Serdar
b. 1997
association football player
Gebhard Flatz
1800 – 1881
painter
Rolf Thieme
1944 – 2010
field hockey player
Hans Meiser
1946 – 2023
television presenter
Matthias Stingl
b. 1998
association football player
Markus Herbrand
b. 1971
politician
Georg Miske
1928 – 2009
weightlifter
Marie Burchard
b. 1982
actor
Janina Brünjes
b. 1996
politician
John VII of Werle
1375 – 1414
Edina Müller
b. 1983
basketball player
Gjergji Kasneci
b. 1980
computer scientist
Irmela Mensah-Schramm
b. 1945
masonry
Wolfgang Plath
1930 – 1995
musicologist
August Klostermann
1837 – 1915
university teacher
Ewald Bartel
1910 – 1986
captain
Hans-Jürgen Walter
b. 1944
psychologist
Jutta Bauer
1955 – 2025
illustrator
Ferdinand Auth
1914 – 1995
politician
Marc Fielmann
b. 1989
manager
Ulrich Marten
b. 1956
tennis player
H. W. J. Thiersch
1817 – 1885
linguist
Michail Paweletz
b. 1965
television presenter
Renate Mayntz
b. 1929
sociologist
Helen Langehanenberg
b. 1982
dressage rider
John Louis of Elderen
1620 – 1694
Catholic priest
Hannes Baumann
b. 1982
sailor
Hans Schmidt
1895 – 1971
military personnel
Rudolf Klicks
1917 – 1997
actor
Alexandra Röseler
pianist
Dietrich von Choltitz
1894 – 1966
military officer
Hans Eisenmann
1923 – 1987
politician
Wilhelm List
1880 – 1971
military officer
Walter Weizel
1901 – 1982
physicist
Erich Clar
1902 – 1987
chemist
Carsten Linnemann
b. 1977
economist
Paul Talalay
1923 – 2019
molecular biologist
Günther Nickel
b. 1946
athletics competitor
Kavita Lorenz
b. 1995
ice dancer
Gerhard Schröder
1910 – 1989
politician
Ernst Leitz junior
1871 – 1956
entrepreneur
Robert Rauschenberg
1925 – 2008
photographer
Heinrich Hencky
1885 – 1951
engineer
Jan Niklas
b. 1947
actor
Manfred Schukowski
1928 – 2025
historian of technology
Marcus Baur
b. 1971
sailor
Patrick Vollrath
b. 1985
film director
Gerhard Bonnier
1778 – 1862
bookseller
Bruno Erhard Abegg
1803 – 1848
politician
Robert Michaelis von Olshausen
1835 – 1915
gynecologist
Tobias Meinhart
b. 1983
saxophonist
Wilhelm Hofmeister
1824 – 1877
biologist
Olaf Heß
b. 1968
sport shooter
John Frederick of Holstein-Gottorp
1579 – 1634
archbishop
Jens Brandenburg
b. 1986
politician
Steven Nador
b. 2002
association football player
William Beier
b. 1982
figure skater