List of Famous people born in Bavaria, Germany

Diana Damrau is a German soprano. She has been successful in coloratura soprano roles, especially admired as the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute and Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos. She has gradually proceeded into 19th-century Italian bel canto repertoire, singing roles such as Violetta in La traviata and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor. Damrau is also known as a lieder singer.

Margot Hellwig is a German volksmusik singer.

Florian Niederlechner is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward for Bundesliga club FC Augsburg.

Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold was a German physician, botanist and traveler. He achieved prominence by his studies of Japanese flora and fauna and the introduction of Western medicine in Japan. He was the father of the first female Japanese doctor educated in Western medicine, Kusumoto Ine.

Dieter Oesterhelt is a German biochemist. From 1980 until 2008, he was director of the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried.

Willigis Jäger was a German Catholic priest and Benedictine monk. He was a Zen master who trained and taught in the Sanbo Kyodan tradition. Jäger founded a centre of Zen and contemplation at the Münsterschwarzach Abbey in 1983, and his own Benediktushof, an inter-faith centre of meditation and awareness, in 2003.

Heinz Braun was a German autodidact painter and occasional actor.

Jakob Schmid was a German janitor of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU). On 18 February 1943, he turned in the siblings Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl, members of the resistance group White Rose, when they gave out pamphlets against Nazi Germany.

Thomas Huber is a German climber and mountaineer. He lives in Berchtesgaden with his family. His brother and climbing partner is Alexander Huber and the two are called "Huberbuam" (Huberboys) in Bavarian dialect. They were the subject of the 2007 film To the Limit.

Carsten Lichtlein is a German handball player and goalkeeper. He is a World champion from 2007 with the German national team, a European champion from 2004 and participated on the German team that finished 4th at the 2008 European Men's Handball Championship.