List of Famous people born in Bavaria, Germany

Arno Allan Penzias is an American physicist, radio astronomer and Nobel laureate in physics. Along with Robert Woodrow Wilson, he discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation, which helped establish the Big Bang theory of cosmology.

Christian II of Anhalt-Bernburg, was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Bernburg.

Amalie Auguste was a Princess of Bavaria and Queen of Saxony.

Natalie Grams is a German physician and author. Formerly a practicing homeopath, she became known throughout Germany as a whistleblower for her 2015 debut book Homeopathy Reconsidered — What Really Helps Patients in which she criticized homeopathy. In 2016 she joined the Science Council of the Society for the Scientific Investigation of Parasciences. From January 2017 to April 2020 she served as Communications Manager for the GWUP. She also serves on the advisory board of the humanist Giordano Bruno Foundation since May 2017, and as vice president of the Humanist Press Foundation in Germany since October 2017. In October 2017 her second book, Gesundheit — A Book Not Without Side Effects, was published. It was followed by her third book, What really Works - Compass through the World of Gentle Medicine, in February 2020.

Waltrude Ketterer Schleyer was the widow of Hanns Martin Schleyer, a high-ranking German business executive who was murdered by the Red Army Faction in 1977.

Sophie of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach was a princess of Brandenburg-Ansbach and was by marriage Duchess of Legnica.

Wolfgang Bernhard is a former member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG. He served as the former President and COO of Chrysler from 2000 to 2004.

Eduard Buchner was a German chemist and zymologist, awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on fermentation.

David Berger is a German theologian, author and gay activist.