List of Famous people born in Bavaria, Germany
Fred Stillkrauth
Fred Stillkrauth was a German actor, perhaps best known for his work in Sam Peckinpah's Cross of Iron.
Alice Sara Ott
Alice Sara Ott is a German classical pianist.
Theo Waigel
Theodor "Theo" Waigel is a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU).
Flula Borg
Flula Borg is a German actor, musician, comedian, YouTube personality, and DJ who is also known simply as Flula or DJ Flula. He lives in Los Angeles, California. Borg has acted in several feature films, including Pitch Perfect 2, and a number of popular TV shows, including Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Good Place. He has made multiple appearances on Conan and has participated in a number of other projects with Conan O'Brien. Across a wide variety of projects, he has collaborated with well-known YouTuber personalities such as Rhett and Link, Miranda Sings, and Smosh, as well as mainstream celebrities including Sir Mix-A-Lot, Ed Helms, and Dirk Nowitzki. In 2015, he was named one of The Hollywood Reporter's Top 25 Digital Stars as well as one of Variety's 10 Comics to Watch.
Rudolf Vogel
Rudolf Vogel was a German film and television actor. He was the father of Peter Vogel, the father-in-law of Austrian actress Gertraud Jesserer and the grandfather of actor-journalist Nikolas Vogel. Died from cancer.
Dietmar Hamann
Dietmar Johann Wolfgang "Didi" Hamann is a German professional football coach, former player and media personality.
Dieter Kronzucker
Hans-Dieter Kronzucker is a German journalist and television presenter.
Lutz Pfannenstiel
Lutz Pfannenstiel is a German former professional football goalkeeper and current football board member. He is the first footballer in the world to belong to a professional football club in each of the six recognised continental associations. From 2010 to 2018, he was an expert on various television channels – including ZDF, BBC, CNN, ORF, SRF, DAZN and Eurosport. Pfannenstiel was appointed sporting director for MLS side St. Louis City SC ahead of their entry to the league in 2023.
Willibald Pirckheimer
Willibald Pirckheimer was a German Renaissance lawyer, author and Renaissance humanist, a wealthy and prominent figure in Nuremberg in the 16th century, and a member of the governing City Council for two periods. He was the closest friend of the artist Albrecht Dürer, who made a number of portraits of him, and a close friend of the great humanist and theologian Erasmus.
Gedeon Burkhard
Gedeon Burkhard is a German film and television actor. Although he has appeared in numerous films and TV series in both Europe and the US, he is probably best recognised for his role as Alexander Brandtner in the Austrian/German television series Kommissar Rex (1997–2001), which has been aired on television in numerous countries around the world, or as Corporal Wilhelm Wicki in the 2009 film Inglourious Basterds. He is also well recognised for his role as Chris Ritter in the long-running series Alarm für Cobra 11.