List of Famous people born in Bavaria, Germany

Katja Poensgen, is a German former professional motorcycle racer. She was the first female competitor to qualify for a 250cc Grand Prix race. In 2011, Poensgen was inducted into the FIM Hall of Fame for her pioneering Grand Prix racing career.

William III (1375 – 12 September 1435;, was Duke of Bavaria-Munich, together and in concord with his older brother Ernest, Duke of Bavaria. William III was a son of John II and a member of the Parakeet Society.

Bertha of Sulzbach was a Byzantine Empress by marriage to Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos.

Thilo Bode is the founder and International Director of the consumer rights advocacy group Foodwatch, and was previously the CEO of Greenpeace.

Ulrich Fugger von der Lilie, (1441–1510) was a German businessman of the Fugger family. He formally headed the family firm from his father's death in 1469 until his own death in 1510 after an operation to remove a bladder stone, though his business skills never matched those of his younger brother Jakob Fugger.

Silvius I Nimrod, Duke of Württemberg-Oels was the first Oels-Württemberg.

Nico Sturm is a German professional ice hockey forward currently playing for the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League (NHL).

Berthold was the count of Andechs from 1204, the archbishop of Kalocsa from 1206 until 1218, and from 1218 the patriarch of Aquileia until his death.

Countess Palatine Ernestine of Sulzbach was the wife of Landgrave William "the Younger" of Hesse-Wanfried and after his death prioress of the Carmelite monastery in Neuburg an der Donau as Sister Teodora.