List of Famous people born in Bavaria, Germany

Franz Xaver Kroetz is a German author, playwright, actor and film director. His plays have been translated and performed internationally.

Joe Kaeser is the current CEO of Siemens AG, Berlin & Munich, a role he has been in since August 1, 2013.

Robert Ritter von Greim was a German Field Marshal and First World War flying ace. In April 1945, in the last days of World War II, Adolf Hitler appointed Greim commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe after Hermann Göring had been dismissed for treason. He is the last person ever promoted to Field Marshal in the German armed forces. After the surrender of Nazi Germany in May 1945, Greim was captured by the Allies. He committed suicide in an American-controlled prison on 24 May 1945.

Heinrich Hoffmann was Adolf Hitler's official photographer, and a Nazi politician and publisher, who was a member of Hitler's intimate circle. Hoffmann's photographs were a significant part of Hitler's propaganda campaign to present himself and the Nazi Party as a significant mass phenomenon. He received royalties from all uses of Hitler's image, even on postage stamps, which made him a millionaire over the course of Hitler's rule. After the Second World War he was tried and sentenced to four years in prison for war profiteering. He was classified by the Allies' Art Looting Investigators to be a "major offender" in Nazi art plundering of Jews, as both art dealer and collector and his art collection, which contained many artworks looted from Jews, was ordered confiscated by the Allies. He recovered the art in 1956 by order of the Bavarian State.

Deniz Aytekin is a German football referee. He referees for TSV Altenberg of the Bavarian Football Association. He is a FIFA referee, and is ranked as a UEFA elite category referee.

Michaela May is a German film and television actress.

Lina van de Mars is a German TV moderator, motor athlete and drummer.

Hans B. Schmidt was a German Roman Catholic priest convicted of murder, and the only priest to be executed in the United States.

Stephan Beckenbauer was a German footballer who played as a defender.

Max Eberl is a German former professional footballer who works as Borussia Mönchengladbach's director of sport.