List of Famous people born in Bavaria, Germany

Paul Rosche was a German engineer known for his work at BMW. He is notable for designing the engines of a number of BMW's high-performance models, including the M31 found in the BMW 2002 Turbo, the S14 for the E30 M3, the M12 for the 320i Turbo and the Brabham BT52, the M88 in the M1 and the S70/2 found in the V12 LMR and the McLaren F1.

Michael Brandner is a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films since 1988. He is co-founder and 1st chairman of the Deutsche Akademie für Fernsehen based in Munich and Cologne.

Thea Gabriele von Harbou was a German screenwriter, novelist, film director, and actress. She is remembered as the screenwriter of the science fiction film classic Metropolis (1927) and the story on which it was based. Harbou collaborated as a screenwriter with film director Fritz Lang, her husband, during the period of transition from silent to sound films.

Werner Johannes Krauss was a German stage and film actor. Krauss dominated the German stage of the early 20th century. However, his participation in the antisemitic propaganda film Jud Süß and his collaboration with the Nazis made him a controversial figure.

Silke Nowitzki is a German former international basketball player. She is the manager of her brother Dirk Nowitzki.

Julia Thurnau is a French-German actress and artist. She grew up in a village close to Cannes, later moved to Munich where she did acting studies at the Schauspielstudio München, then actors training at the Ernst Busch acting school Berlin.

Johannes Geis is a German professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder, for 1. FC Nürnberg.

Oliver Zeidler is a German rower and former swimmer. He is the reigning world champion in the men's single scull won at the 2019 World Rowing Championships and the current World Games champion in indoor rowing in the open men's 2000 m class.

Felix Finkbeiner is a German environmentalist and the founder of the international tree-planting and environmental advocacy organization Plant-for-the-Planet.

Alfons Mitgutsch, known as Ali Mitgutsch is a German author of picture books and a professional advertising Illustrator. He is known as father of the Wimmelbilder books.