List of Famous people born in Bavaria, Germany

Tatunca Nara, born Hans Günther Hauck, is a German-Brazilian jungle guide and self-styled Indian chieftain, best known for inventing the stories of the lost city of Akakor.

Maximilian II reigned as King of Bavaria between 1848 and 1864.

Heide Schmidt is an Austrian politician.

Oskar Roehler is a German film director, screenwriter and journalist. He was born in Starnberg as the son of writer Gisela Elsner and the writer Klaus Roehler. Since the mid-1980s he has been working as a screenwriter, for, among others, Niklaus Schilling, Christoph Schlingensief and Mark Schlichter. Since the early 1990s he has also been working as a film director. For his film No Place to Go he won the Deutscher Filmpreis. His 2010 film Jew Suss: Rise and Fall was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.

Constantin Schmid is a German ski jumper.

Captain Karl Mayr was a German General Staff officer and Adolf Hitler's immediate superior in an army Intelligence Division in the Reichswehr, 1919–1920. Mayr was particularly known as the man who introduced Hitler to politics. In 1919, Mayr directed Hitler to write the Gemlich letter, in which Hitler first expressed his anti-semitic views in writing.

Horst Kummeth is a German television actor, writer and director.

Selina Jörg is a German snowboarder.

Arthur Brauss is a German actor, perhaps best known for his work in Sam Peckinpah's Cross of Iron.

Martin May is a German actor best known for his portrayal as "Midshipman Ullmann" in the submarine war classic Das Boot as well as several years of voice acting, including voicing Diesel in the German dub of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends. His live action work after Das Boot included mostly German television films.