List of Famous people born in Bavaria, Germany
Sophia of Bavaria
Sophia of Bavaria was a Queen of Bohemia and the spouse of Wenceslaus, King of Bohemia and King of the Romans. She was briefly interim regent of Bohemia after the death of Wenceslaus in 1419.
Elisabeth of Bavaria
Elisabeth of Bavaria was a member of the House of Wittelsbach and, by marriage, Electress of the Palatinate. After her father's death, she was also Duchess of Bavaria-Landshut.
Carl, 3rd Prince of Leiningen
Karl, Prince of Leiningen, KG was the third Prince of Leiningen and maternal half-brother of Queen Victoria. Leiningen served as a Bavarian lieutenant general, before he briefly played an important role in German politics as the first Prime Minister of the Provisorische Zentralgewalt government formed by the Frankfurt Parliament in 1848.
Hans von Euler-Chelpin
Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin was a German-born Swedish biochemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929 with Arthur Harden for their investigations on the fermentation of sugar and enzymes. He was a professor of general and organic chemistry at Stockholm University (1906–1941) and the director of its Institute for organic-chemical research (1938–1948). Euler-Chelpin married Astrid Cleve, the daughter of the Uppsala chemist Per Teodor Cleve and was distantly related to Leonhard Euler. In 1970, his son Ulf von Euler, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Johann Ludwig von Pfalz-Sulzbach
Margarethe Carl
Margarethe Carl was the stage name of Margarethe Bernbrunn, a German soprano and actress.
George Frederick II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
George Frederick II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, known as George Frederick the Younger, the third son of John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach by his first wife the Margravine Joanna Elisabeth of Baden-Durlach, succeeded his elder brother as Margrave of Ansbach in 1692.
Raphaela Ackermann
Princess Lucia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
Prince Ferdinand Pius, Duke of Castro, was head of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and pretender to the throne of the extinct Kingdom of the Two Sicilies from 1934 to 1960.
Wolfgang Kilian
Wolfgang Kilian (1581–1662) was a German engraver and member of the Kilian family of engravers in Augsburg.