List of Famous people born in Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Paul Zanker is the Professor of Storia dell’Arte Antica at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. Previously he was Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Munich (1976–2002) and the University of Göttingen (1972–1976). He is a noted expert on Roman art and archaeology and a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, of the Academia Europaea, of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, the Pontifical Academy of Archaeology and of the German Archaeological Institute. 1990/91 he was the Sather Professor of the University of California at Berkeley. Zanker is head of the German Commission for the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum.

Rolf Schübel is a German film director and screenwriter.

Maylin Wende is a German pair skater. With husband and partner Daniel Wende, she is the 2010 Trophée Eric Bompard bronze medalist, the 2013 Nebelhorn Trophy silver medalist, and a two-time German national champion. They have competed twice at the Winter Olympics and have placed as high as sixth at the European Championships.

Claus E. Rolfs is a German experimental physicist, known for his laboratory research related to nuclear astrophysics.

Despina Vandi, born as Despina Malea on 22 July 1969, is a Greek singer. Born in Tübingen near Stuttgart, Germany, Vandi's family returned to Kavala, Greece when she was six years old.