List of Famous people born in Bavaria, Germany
Sascha Hupmann
Sascha Hupmann was a German professional basketball player. From Munich, He played college basketball for the Evansville Purple Aces before turning professional; he also played for the German national team.
Hans Staininger
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Lutz Götz
Lutz Götz was a German stage and film actor.
Sarah Straub
Sarah Straub, married name Anderl-Straub, is a German singer, songwriter, musician, and psychologist. From a family of musicians, she followed in the footsteps of her father Helmut, a conductor and instrument teacher. At the age of six, she began playing the piano, then from the age of eight she studied clarinet and saxophone. At the age of twelve, Straub wrote her first songs. She was educated at St. Bonaventura Gymnasium in Dillingen a.d. Donau, a diocesan high school in the Franciscan tradition. From there she continued her studies at the University of Regensburg, graduating with a Bachelor's degree in Psychology in 2011, obtaining her doctorate in 2015 from the University of Ulm.
Dhurata Dora
Dhurata Dora is a Kosovo-Albanian singer and songwriter.
Christian Geistdörfer
Christian Geistdörfer is a German former rally co-driver. His career in motorsport lasted from 1975 to 1990. From 1977 to 1987, he co-drove to German rally driver Walter Röhrl, winning the World Rally Championship drivers' title in 1980 and 1982. The pair also won the Monte Carlo Rally four times. After Röhrl retired from the WRC, Geistdörfer co-drove to Hannu Mikkola in eight events in 1988 and 1989.
Gert Boyle
Gertrude Boyle was a German-born American businesswoman in the U.S. state of Oregon. After her family fled Nazi Germany, her father founded the business that would become Columbia Sportswear, where in 1970, she became company president. She remained president until 1988 and additionally, served as chairwoman of the company's board of directors from 1983 until her death in 2019. Starting in the 1980s, she appeared in a series of advertisements for Columbia Sportswear alongside her son Timothy Boyle, often humorously testing the quality and durability of their products. She was also a philanthropist and memoirist.
Anna Schaffelhuber
Anna Katharina Schaffelhuber is a German para-alpine skier. At the 2014 Winter Paralympics she won five gold medals, becoming only the second athlete to sweep the alpine skiing events.
Josef Ferstl
Josef "Sprite" Ferstl is a German World Cup alpine ski racer, focusing on the speed events of Downhill and Super-G. He has competed in three World Championships and the 2018 Winter Olympics. Ferstl made his World Cup debut in 2007 and has two victories, both in Super-G.
Albert Ganzenmüller
Albert Ganzenmüller was a German Nazi and, as the Under-secretary of State at the Reich Transport Ministry (Reichsverkehrsministerium), was involved in the deportation of German Jews.