List of Famous people born in Bavaria, Germany

Efkan Bekiroğlu is a German footballer who plays as a midfielder for Alanyaspor.

Albert III the Pious of Bavaria-Munich, since 1438 Duke of Bavaria-Munich. He was born in Wolfratshausen to Ernest, Duke of Bavaria and Elisabetta Visconti, daughter of Bernabò Visconti.

Klaus Wolfermann is a former West German javelin thrower. He won a gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and set a world record in 1973.

Ludwig Ganghofer was a German writer who became famous for his homeland novels.

Andreas Benedikt Ostler, known as "Anderl", was a German bobsledder who competed in the early 1950s.

Iris Hanika is a German writer. She was born in Würzburg, grew up in Bad Königshofen and has lived in Berlin since 1979. She was a regular contributor to German periodicals like Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Merkur. She won the LiteraTour Nord prize and the EU Prize for Literature for her novel Das Eigentliche.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger is a German author, poet, translator and editor. He has also written under the pseudonym Andreas Thalmayr.

Dr. Rainer Stadelmann was a German Egyptologist. He was considered an expert on the archaeology of the Giza Plateau.

Johannes Huber is a German politician for the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) and since 2017 member of the Bundestag.

Julius Schreck was an early senior Nazi official and close confidant of Adolf Hitler.