List of Famous people born in Bavaria, Germany
Engelbert Siebler
Engelbert Siebler was a German Roman Catholic bishop.
Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria
Karl-Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, was a member of the House of Wittelsbach and a professional oculist. He was the favorite brother of the Empress Elisabeth of Austria, and father of Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians.
Marcus H. Rosenmüller
Marcus H. Rosenmüller is a German film director and screenwriter. He wrote and directed the films Wer früher stirbt ist länger tot, Die Perlmutterfarbe and directed Sommer in Orange, Schwere Jungs and Beste Gegend.
Oswald Rothaug
Oswald Rothaug was a Nazi jurist.
Alf Mintzel
Alf Mintzel is a German former professional footballer who played as a left-back or midfielder.
Wilfried Klaus
Wilfried Klaus is a German television actor best known for playing Kriminalhauptkommissar Horst Schickl in the police procedural SOKO München from 1978 to 2008.
Werner Asam
Werner Asam is a German television actor, director, and writer.
Wieland Wagner
Wieland Wagner was a German opera director, grandson of Richard Wagner. As co-director of the Bayreuth Festival when it re-opened after World War II, he was noted for innovative new stagings of the operas, departing from the naturalistic scenery and lighting of the originals. His wartime involvement in the development of the V-2 rocket was kept secret for many years.
Karl Freiherr Michel von Tüßling
Karl Richard Freiherr Michel von Tüßling was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer who served in the Nazi government of dictator Adolf Hitler, in the staff of the Reichsführer SS and in the staff of the SS Main Office. From 1936 onwards, he also was the personal adjutant of Reichsleiter and SS-Obergruppenführer Philipp Bouhler, who was in charge of Hitler's Chancellery, head of the euthanasia programme Aktion T4, as well as co-initiator of Aktion 14f13. In 1947 Tüßling provided an affidavit in defence of war criminal Viktor Brack who was sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials.
Conrad Roland
Conrad Roland was a German architect and pioneer of the construction of spacenets, which primarily are to be found as rope climbing frames on playgrounds. In 1978 he designed and constructed the biggest spacenet of the world until today, the Super Four Mast Spacenet, for the Federal Horticultural Show (BUGA).