List of Famous people born in Bavaria, Germany

Marco Johann Sturm is a German professional ice hockey coach and former winger who played in the National Hockey League and Deutsche Eishockey Liga. He is currently an assistant coach of the Los Angeles Kings.

Francis Fulton-Smith is a British-German television actor.

Werner Stocker was a German actor. He studied acting at the Neue Münchner Schauspielschule and at the Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts.

Hans Bauer was a German footballer. Most of his career was spent with Bayern Munich, where he played as a defender and won the DFB-Pokal in 1957.

Armin Dassler was the son of Rudolf Dassler, German founder of the sportswear company Puma and nephew of Adidas founder, Adolf "Adi" Dassler.

Helmut Jahn is a Chicago-based German-American architect, known for designs such as the Sony Center on the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany; the Messeturm in Frankfurt, Germany; the One Liberty Place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; and the Suvarnabhumi Airport, an international airport in Bangkok, Thailand. Recent projects include a residential tower in New York City, 50 West St in 2016 and the ThyssenKrupp Test Tower in Rottweil, Germany in 2017.

Philipp Eberhard Hermann Kohlschreiber is a German professional tennis player. The right-hander has won eight singles and seven doubles titles on the ATP World Tour and made the quarterfinals at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking of world No. 16 in July 2012.

Karl Friedrich Alfred Heinrich Ferdinand Maria Graf Eckbrecht von Dürckheim-Montmartin was a German diplomat, psychotherapist and Zen master. A veteran of World War I, he was introduced to Zen Buddhism early in life. After obtaining a doctorate in psychology, he became an avid supporter of the Nazi Party. Following World War II he was imprisoned in Japan which transformed him spiritually. Upon returning to Germany he became a leading proponent of the Western esoteric spiritual tradition, synthesizing teachings from Christian Mysticism, Depth Psychology and Zen Buddhism.

Helene "Néné" Caroline Therese, Duchess in Bavaria of the House of Wittelsbach was a Bavarian princess and, through marriage, temporarily the head of the Thurn and Taxis family.

Claus Strunz is a German journalist and television host.