List of Famous people born in Bavaria, Germany

Achim Beierlorzer is a German football coach, who last managed Mainz 05. He is the younger brother of Bertram Beierlorzer.

Mario Götze is a German professional footballer who plays for Eredivisie club PSV Eindhoven. Although his favoured position is that of a playmaker, Götze has also played as a false nine or as an emergency striker.

Ludwig II was King of Bavaria from 1864 until his death in 1886. He is sometimes called the Swan King or der Märchenkönig. He also held the titles of Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria, Duke of Franconia, and Duke in Swabia.

Gustl Ferdinand Mollath is a German man who was acquitted during a criminal trial in 2006 on the basis of diminished criminal responsibility; he was committed to a high-security psychiatric hospital, as the court deemed him a danger to the public and declared him insane based on expert diagnoses of paranoid personality disorder. Mollath's forensic incarceration for seven years and the surrounding legal judgments became the basis of a public controversy in Bavaria and the whole of Germany when at least some underlying elements of his supposedly fabricated paranoid story about money-laundering activities at a major bank turned out to be true after all. Mollath himself had consistently claimed there was a conspiracy to have him locked up in a psychiatric care ward because of his incriminating knowledge; evidence that turned up in 2012 made his claims appear plausible.

Bettina Jarasch is a German politician and member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin since 2016, representing Alliance 90/The Greens. She has served as party spokesperson for integration and refugees since 2016. She was previously leader of the Berlin branch of from 2011 to 2016, and a member of the federal party executive from 2013 to 2018. She is the Greens' lead candidate for the 2021 Berlin state election.

Franz Josef Strauss was a German politician. He was the long-time chairman of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) from 1961 until 1988, member of the federal cabinet in different positions between 1953 and 1969 and minister-president of the state of Bavaria from 1978 until 1988. Strauss is also credited as a co-founder of European aerospace conglomerate Airbus.

Florian David Fitz is a German actor, screenwriter and film director.

Werner Herzog is a German film director, screenwriter, writer, actor, and opera director. Herzog is considered a figure of the New German Cinema. His films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals who are in conflict with nature.

Uschi Glas, sometimes credited as Ursula Glas, is a German actress in film, television and on stage, and a singer.

Volker Bruch is a German television and film actor. He is best known internationally for his leading roles as Wilhelm Winter in the television drama Generation War (2013) and as Inspector Gereon Rath in the TV series Babylon Berlin (2017–present).