List of Famous people born in Bavaria, Germany

Johann Friedrich Hohenberger OAM, also known as John Friedrich, was executive director of the National Safety Council of Australia during the 1980s. He was the subject of Victoria's biggest fraud case and known as "Australia's greatest conman".

Willy Harlander (1931–2000) was a German film and television actor. A regular on West German television, he also appeared in several Bavarian sex comedies during the 1970s.

Gustav Ritter von Kahr was a German right-wing politician, active in the state of Bavaria. He helped turn post World War I Bavaria into Germany's center of radical-nationalism, but was then instrumental in the collapse and suppression of Adolf Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch in 1923. In revenge for the latter, he was murdered later in the 1934 Night of the Long Knives.

Robert Müller was a German professional ice hockey goaltender.

Murad Wilfried Hofmann was a German diplomat and author. He wrote several books on Islam, including Journey to Makkah (ISBN 0-915957-85-X) and Islam: The Alternative (ISBN 0-915957-71-X). Many of his books and essays focused on Islam's place in the West and, after 11 September, in particular, in the United States. He was one of the signatories of A Common Word Between Us and You, an open letter by Islamic scholars to Christian leaders, calling for peace and understanding.

Gerd Anthoff is a German theatre and television actor.

Claudia Bär was a German slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 1995 to 2013.

Hans Joachim "John" Schellnhuber is a German atmospheric physicist, climatologist and founding director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and former chair of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU).

Philipp Graf von und zu Lerchenfeld was a German politician for the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU). He was a member of the Landtag of Bavaria from 2003 to 2013, and then served as a member of the Bundestag from 2013 to 2017. He was elected to the local council of Köfering in 1990, and the district council of Regensburg in 2002. Outside of politics, he was a farmer, accountant and tax consultant.

Veronika Aryana Neugebauer was a German actress and voice actress.