List of Famous people born in Bavaria, Germany

Thomas Tuchel

First Name Thomas
Last Name Tuchel
Born on August 29, 1973 (age 49)
Born in Germany, Bavaria
Height 190 cm | 6'3

Thomas Tuchel is a German professional football coach and former player who is the current head coach at Premier League club Chelsea. Revered for his tactical knowledge and style of play, Tuchel's coaching career has also been characterized by his fractious relationships with his employers.

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Gil Ofarim

First Name Gil
Last Name Ofarim
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Gil Doron Reichstadt Ofarim is a German singer, songwriter, and actor, also known as the lead singer of the bands Zoo Army and Acht.

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Josef Mengele

First Name Josef
Last Name Mengele
Born on March 16, 1911
Died on February 7, 1979 (aged 67)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Josef Mengele, also known as the Angel of Death was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and physician during World War II. He is mainly remembered for his actions at the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he performed deadly experiments on prisoners, and was a member of the team of doctors who selected victims to be killed in the gas chambers and was one of the doctors who administered the gas. With Red Army troops sweeping through Poland, Mengele was transferred 280 kilometres (170 mi) from Auschwitz to the Gross-Rosen concentration camp on 17 January 1945, just 10 days before the arrival of the Soviet forces at Auschwitz.

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Thomas Gottschalk

First Name Thomas
Last Name Gottschalk
Born on May 18, 1950 (age 73)
Born in Germany, Bavaria
Height 192 cm | 6'4

Thomas Johannes Gottschalk is a German radio and television host and entertainer. He is best known for hosting Wetten, dass..?, for many years Europe's biggest television show, which he led to a huge success in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and South Tyrol between 1987 and 2011. Until 2015, he was also the testimonial personality in television advertisements for Haribo confectionery.

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Thomas Müller

First Name Thomas
Last Name Müller
Born on September 13, 1989 (age 33)
Born in Germany, Bavaria
Height 186 cm | 6'1

Thomas Müller is a German professional footballer who plays for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and the Germany national team. A versatile player, Müller plays as a midfielder or forward, and has been deployed in a variety of attacking roles – as an attacking midfielder, second striker, centre forward and on either wing.

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Julian Nagelsmann

First Name Julian
Last Name Nagelsmann
Born on July 23, 1987 (age 35)
Born in Germany, Bavaria
Height 189 cm | 6'2

Julian Nagelsmann is a German professional football coach who is the manager of Bundesliga club RB Leipzig.

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Anton Hofreiter

First Name Anton
Last Name Hofreiter
Born on February 2, 1970 (age 53)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Anton "Toni" Hofreiter is a German biologist and politician.

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Markus Söder

First Name Markus
Last Name Söder
Born on January 5, 1967 (age 56)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Markus Thomas Theodor Söder is a German politician serving as Minister President of Bavaria since 2018 and Leader of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) since 2019.

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Benedict XVI

Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger
First Name Benedict
Last Name XVI
Born on April 16, 1927 (age 96)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Pope Benedict XVI is a retired prelate of the Catholic Church who served as head of the Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2005 until his resignation in 2013. Benedict's election as pope occurred in the 2005 papal conclave that followed the death of Pope John Paul II. Benedict chose to be known by the title "pope emeritus" upon his resignation.

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Albert, Prince Consort

First Name Albert,
Last Name Consort
Born on August 26, 1819
Died on December 14, 1861 (aged 42)
Born in Germany, Bavaria, Coburg

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the husband of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Elyas M'Barek

First Name Elyas
Born on May 29, 1982 (age 41)
Born in Germany, Bavaria
Height 175 cm | 5'9

Elyas M'Barek is a German-speaking actor of Austrian and Tunisian descent who lives and grew up in Germany.

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Hermann Göring

Hermann Wilhelm Göring
First Name Hermann
Last Name Göring
Born on January 12, 1893
Died on October 15, 1946 (aged 53)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Hermann Wilhelm Göring was a German political and military leader and a convicted war criminal. Göring was one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party, which ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945.

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Peter Kraus

Peter Siegfried Krausenecker
First Name Peter
Last Name Kraus
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Peter Kraus is a German-Austrian singer and actor.

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Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler
First Name Heinrich
Last Name Himmler
Born on October 7, 1900
Died on May 23, 1945 (aged 44)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel, and a leading member of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) of Germany. Himmler was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and a main architect of the Holocaust.

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Gudrun Burwitz

Gudrun Margarete Elfriede Emma Anna Himmler
First Name Gudrun
Born on August 8, 1929
Died on May 24, 2018 (aged 88)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Gudrun Margarete Elfriede Emma Anna Burwitz was the daughter of Heinrich Himmler and Margarete Himmler. Her father, as Reichsführer-SS, was a leading member of the Nazi Party, and chief architect of the Final Solution. After the Allied victory, she was arrested and made to testify at the Nuremberg trials. Never renouncing Nazi ideology, she consistently fought to defend her father's reputation and became closely involved in Neo-Nazi groups that give support to ex-members of the SS. She married Wulf Dieter Burwitz, an official of the extremist NPD.

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Ruth Moschner

First Name Ruth
Last Name Moschner
Born on April 11, 1976 (age 47)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Ruth Isabel Moschner is a German TV presenter and actress. She was a judge in the first season of the German talent show Das Supertalent, but was replaced by Sylvie van der Vaart in the second season. She also appeared in Big Brother Germany and the comedy show Freitag Nacht News. In 2006, she won a German version of the Dancing on Ice. She has twice been nominated for the Deutschen Comedy-Preis.

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Bastian Schweinsteiger

First Name Bastian
Last Name Schweinsteiger
Born on August 1, 1984 (age 38)
Born in Germany, Bavaria
Height 183 cm | 6'0

Bastian Schweinsteiger is a German former professional footballer who usually played as a central midfielder. Earlier in his career, he primarily played as a wide midfielder. Schweinsteiger is regarded as one of the greatest midfielders of all time, due to his tactical awareness, positioning, passing, tackling ability and also due to his ability to read and control the flow of the game. German coach Joachim Löw has referred to Schweinsteiger as one of the greatest players Germany has ever produced.

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Philipp Lahm

First Name Philipp
Last Name Lahm
Born on November 11, 1983 (age 39)
Born in Germany, Bavaria
Height 170 cm | 5'7

Philipp Lahm is a German retired professional footballer who played as a right back or defensive midfielder and spent much of his early career playing left back. He was the captain of Bayern Munich, having led them to numerous honours including the 2013 UEFA Champions League as part of the Treble. He is also a former captain of his national team, which he led to win the 2014 FIFA World Cup, before retiring from international football.

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Andrea Sawatzki

First Name Andrea
Last Name Sawatzki
Born on February 23, 1963 (age 60)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Andrea Sawatzki is a German actress. From 2002 to 2010 she starred in the Hessischer Rundfunk version of the popular television crime series Tatort as police inspector Charlotte Sänger.

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Bettina Gaus

First Name Bettina
Born on December 5, 1956 (age 66)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Bettina Gaus is a German journalist.

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