Famous People Born In Germany

• Dr. Ruth Westheimer

  Media Personality

  Bavaria, Germany

• Johann Christian Bach

  Musician

  Saxony, Germany

• Mesut Özil

  Sportsman

  North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

• Franz von Papen

  Politician

  North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

• F.W. Murnau

  Director

  Ostwestfalen-Lippe, Germany

• John Augustus Roebling

  Engineer

  Thuringia, Germany

• Peter Minuit

  Explorer

  North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

• Karen Horney

  Academic

  Hamburg, Germany

• Jacques Offenbach

  Songwriter

  North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

• Reinhard Heydrich

  Criminal

  Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

• Bruno Ludke

  Murderer

  Germany

• Johannes Gutenberg

  Inventor

  Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

• Hermann Hesse

  Author

  Baden-Württemberg, Germany

• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosopher

  Baden-Württemberg, Germany

• Anselm Kiefer

  Painter

  Baden-Württemberg, Germany

• Friedrich von Schelling

  Philosopher

  Baden-Württemberg, Germany

• John Nicolay

  Government Official

  Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

• Alois Alzheimer

  Doctor

  Bavaria, Germany

• Wim Wenders

  Director

  North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

• Jackson Browne

  Singer

  Baden-Württemberg, Germany

• Birgit Prinz

  Sportswoman

  Hesse, Germany

• Albert Kahn

  Architect

  Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

• Joseph Goebbels

  War Criminal

  Monchengladbach, Germany

• Ernst Haeckel

  Biologist

  Brandenburg, Germany

• Walter Gropius

  Architect

  Berlin, Germany

• Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

  Mathematician

  Brandenburg, Germany

• Heinrich Schütz

  Composer

  Thuringia, Germany

• Otto Heinrich Warburg

  Physiologist

  Baden-Württemberg, Germany

• Albrecht Kossel

  Biochemist

  Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

• Ilse Koch

  Nazi

  Saxony, Germany

• Hans Georg Dehmelt

  Physicist

  Saxony, Germany

• Clara Wieck Schumann

  Musician Composer

  Saxony, Germany

• Henry Koster

  Director

  Berlin, Germany

• Franz Beckenbauer

  Sportsman

  Bavaria, Germany

• Carl Bosch

  Chemist

  North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

• Julius Streicher

  German Army

  Dinkelscherben, Germany

• Sir Bernard Katz

  Biophysicist

  Saxony, Germany

• Christoph Willibald Gluck

  Composer

  Bavaria, Germany

• William Dieterle

  Actor

  Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

• Hartmut Michel

  Biochemist

  Baden-Württemberg, Germany