List of Famous people born in Bavaria, Germany

Ludwig Hartmann is a German politician and communication designer. He is, along with Katharina Schulze, one of the two leading candidates of his party in the 2018 Bavarian state election.

Josef Ferstl Sr., known as Sepp Ferstl, is a retired German World Cup alpine ski racer who won the Hahnenkamm, the world's most prestigious downhill race, in consecutive years (1978, 1979). He made his World Cup debut at the race in 1974 at age 19, and won a silver medal at the World Championships in 1978 in the combined.

Ernst Friedrich Christoph "Fritz" Sauckel was a German Nazi politician, Gauleiter of Gau Thuringia from 1927 and the General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment (Arbeitseinsatz) from March 1942 until the end of the Second World War. Sauckel was among the 24 persons accused in the Nuremberg Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal. He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and was sentenced to death by hanging.

Georg Hackl is a German former luger who was three time Olympic and World Champion. He is known affectionately as Hackl-Schorsch or as the Speeding Weißwurst a reference to what he looks like in his white bodysuit coming down the luge at fast speeds.

Gracia Arabella Baur is a German singer and songwriter. She rose to fame as a finalist on the debut season of the television series Deutschland sucht den Superstar, the German Idol series adaptation, placing fifth.

Stephanie Freifrau von und zu Guttenberg is a German activist against child abuse, and the former president of the German section of Innocence in Danger, a human rights NGO working to protect the rights of children on the Internet and working to restrict the spread of child pornography, and a co-author of a book about these topics.

Katharina Althaus is a German ski jumper who has competed at World Cup level since the 2011/12 season. She finished runner-up in the 2017/18 season overall standings, and won an individual silver medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Christian Lell is a German former professional footballer who played as a right-back.

Hedwig of Silesia, also Hedwig of Andechs, a member of the Bavarian comital House of Andechs, was Duchess of Silesia from 1201 and of Greater Poland from 1231 as well as High Duchess consort of Poland from 1232 until 1238. She was reported in the two-volume historical atlas of Herman Kinder and another author to have been great in war and defended from the Teutonic Knights. She was canonized by the Catholic Church in 1267 by Pope Clement IV.

Isolde Beidler was the third of the five stepchildren and children of the composer Richard Wagner and his wife, who is generally known as Cosima Wagner. Isolde herself married the Swiss-born conductor Franz Beidler (1872-1930) and was the mother of author Franz Wilhelm Beidler (1901-1981), celebrated at his birth as "Richard Wagner's first grandchild".