List of Famous people born in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Elmar Degenhart
Elmar Walter Degenhart is a German manager and chairman of the Board of Continental AG since 12 August 2009.
Philip Heintz
Philip Heintz is a German swimmer. He competed in the 200 m individual medley event at the 2012 Summer Olympics and was eliminated after the qualifying heats. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, he competed in the 200 m individual medley. He finished in 6th place with a time of 1:57.48.
Tonio Hölscher
Daniel Schuhmacher
Daniel Schuhmacher is a German singer and songwriter. In 2009, he rose to fame after winning the sixth season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar, the German edition of Pop Idol. His debut album The Album was released later in the same year and topped the German and Austrian Albums Charts, going gold. It spawned the hit single "Anything but Love", his coronation song, which became a number-one hit Austria, Germany, and Switzerland and was also certified gold.
Steffen Deibler
Steffen Deibler is a German former competitive swimmer from Biberach an der Riß. From 2009 to 2018 he was the world record holder for the 50 m butterfly.
Normann Stadler
Normann Stadler is a retired professional triathlete from Germany. He is the winner of the 2004 and 2006 Ironman Triathlon World Championship in Hawaii.
Ralf Matzka
Ralf Matzka is a German former professional cyclist, who rode professionally between 2008 and 2016.
Nico Denz
Nico Denz is a German professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team DSM. He was named in the startlist for the 2017 Vuelta a España. In May 2018, he was named in the startlist for the 2018 Giro d'Italia.
Alexander Waibel
Alexander Waibel is a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Waibel's research interests focus on speech recognition and translation and human communication signals and systems. Waibel is known for the time delay neural network (TDNN), which he developed. It is the first convolutional neural network (CNN) trained by gradient descent, using the backpropagation algorithm. Alex Waibel introduced the TDNN 1987 at ATR in Japan.
Jasha Sütterlin
Jasha Sütterlin is a German cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team DSM. He was named in the start list for the 2016 Giro d'Italia. In June 2017, he was named in the startlist for the 2017 Tour de France. In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2020 Vuelta a España.