List of Famous people born in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Dominik Moll
Dominik Moll is a German-born French film director and screenwriter. He was born in Bühl, West Germany.
Alfred Delp
Alfred Delp was a German Jesuit priest and philosopher of the German Resistance. A member of the inner Kreisau Circle resistance group, he is considered a significant figure in Catholic resistance to Nazism. Falsely implicated in the failed 1944 July Plot to overthrow Adolf Hitler, Delp was arrested and sentenced to death. He was executed in 1945.
Sudabeh Mortezai
Sudabeh Mortezai, is an Austrian–Iranian filmmaker and producer. She is best known as the director of critically acclaimed films Macondo and Joy which won several international awards at film festivals.
Sung Yu-ri
Sung Yu-ri is a South Korean actress and singer. She made her entertainment debut in 1998 as a member of the now-defunct K-pop group Fin.K.L. Sung turned to acting in 2002, starring in television dramas such as Thousand Years of Love (2003), The Snow Queen (2006), Hong Gil-dong (2008), and Feast of the Gods (2010).
Lukas Rupp
Lukas Peter Rupp is a German professional footballer who plays for Championship club Norwich City as a midfielder.
Edmund Heckler
Edmund Heckler was a German engineer & weapons manufacturer, born in Tuttlingen, Germany. After completing his apprenticeship at the Mauser company in the city of Oberndorf, he attended the Württemberg State Higher Mechanical Engineering School in Esslingen from 1925. was employed by Hugo Schneider AG (HASAG), a metal processing and armaments company with approximately 50,000 employees. Heckler, who initially worked as a senior engineer, soon became one of the company's authorized officers and was given the task of setting up branch plants in Leipzig, Berlin, Taucha and Altenburg. He later worked in the three latter plants during WWII. On December 28, 1949, together with two other Mauser engineers Theodor Koch and Alex Seidel, he founded Heckler & Koch which later developed into one of the most important German arms manufacturers in the post-war period.
Eberhard Weber
Eberhard Weber is a German double bassist and composer. As a bass player, he is known for his highly distinctive tone and phrasing. Weber's compositions blend chamber jazz, European classical music, minimalism and ambient music, and are regarded as characteristic examples of the ECM Records sound.
Nikolai Goc
Nikolai Goc is a German professional ice hockey defenceman who is currently playing with the Bietigheim Steelers in the DEL2. He previously played with Adler Mannheim in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). He participated at the 2010 IIHF World Championship as a member of the German National men's ice hockey team.
Ingrid Nestle
Ingrid Nestle is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been a member of the Bundestag, the German parliament, from 2009 to 2012 and since 2017.
Steffen Klusmann
Steffen Klusmann is a German journalist and editor-in-chief of Hamburg magazine Der Spiegel. Since November 2013 he has been editor-in-chief of the Manager Magazin.