List of Famous people born in Bavaria, Germany

Georg Ratzinger PA was a German Catholic priest and musician, known for his work as the conductor of the Regensburger Domspatzen, the cathedral choir of Regensburg. He was the elder brother of Pope Benedict XVI. His great-uncle was the German politician Georg Ratzinger.

Peter Gojowczyk is a German professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 39 in June 2018.

Helmut Krauss was a German voice actor, actor and audiobook narrator.

Michael Ande is a German actor, best-known for his role as Gerd Heymann in the West German crime-drama television series The Old Fox which he played between 1977 and 2016.

Jakob Fugger of the Lily, also known as Jakob Fugger the Rich or sometimes Jakob II, was a major German merchant, mining entrepreneur, and banker. He was a descendant of the Fugger merchant family located in the Free Imperial City of Augsburg, where he was born and later also elevated through marriage to Grand Burgher of Augsburg. Within a few decades he expanded the family firm to a business operating in all of Europe. He began his education at the age of 14 in Venice, which also remained his main residence until 1487. At the same time he was a cleric and held several prebendaries, even though he never lived in a monastery. Fugger is held to be one of the wealthiest individuals in modern history, alongside the early 20th century industrialists John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie.

Georg Nüßlein is a German politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2002.

Dietmar Beiersdorfer is a former footballer and coach who works as a director for Hamburger SV. He began his coaching career with Hamburger SV in 2003 and served as sporting director of the Austrian team Red Bull Salzburg between 2010 and April 2011.

Elmar Wepper is a German actor best known for dubbing Mel Gibson's voice since the 1980s.

Ludwig Stumpfegger was a German doctor who served in the SS of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was Adolf Hitler's personal surgeon from 1944 to 1945. Stumpfegger was present in the Führerbunker in Berlin in late April 1945.

Martin Walser is a German writer.