List of Famous people born in Bavaria, Germany

Steffen Bilger is a German politician (CDU) and member of the Bundestag for the constituency of Ludwigsburg. Since 14 March 2018 he is Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure in the Fourth Merkel cabinet.

Alexander Schmidt is a German former footballer and manager, who currently manages Dynamo Dresden.

Andreas "Anderl" Heckmair was a German mountain climber and guide who led the first successful ascent of the Eiger north face in July 1938.

Dennis Endras is a German professional ice hockey goaltender. He is currently playing with Adler Mannheim of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga.

Steffen Hofmann is a German football coach and a former player, who played most of his career for SK Rapid Wien of the Austrian Bundesliga. He played as an attacking midfielder. He is the caretaker manager for Rapid Wien II.

Ulrich Ensingen was a medieval German architect. He conceived the plans for the main spire of the Ulm Minster and was among the architects of Strasbourg Cathedral.

Heidi Mittermaier is a German alpine skier. She competed in two events at the 1964 Winter Olympics.

Susanne Maria von Sandrart was a German artist and engraver. She was the daughter of engraver Jacob von Sandrart, and most of her work was produced for his workshop. At a young age, Von Sandrart began to learn different means of graphic art, producing artwork from her father's home studio.

Leonhard Frank was a German expressionist writer. He studied painting and graphic art in Munich, and gained acclaim with his first novel The Robber Band. When a Berlin journalist celebrated in a famous café about news of the loss of the ship RMS Lusitania, torpedoed by a German submarine, Frank was upset – and slapped the man in his face. That is why he went into exile in Switzerland (1915–18), where he wrote a series of pacifist short-stories published under the title Man is Good. He returned to Germany, but after the Nazis gained power in 1933 Frank had to emigrate a second time. He lived in Switzerland again, moved to London, then Paris and finally fled under adventurous conditions to the United States in 1940, returning to Munich in 1950. His best-known novels were In the Last Coach and Carl and Anna, which he dramatized in 1929. In 1947 MGM made a movie titled Desire Me out of this story.

Thomas Lurz is a German swimmer who specializes in long-distance freestyle swimming, especially open water swimming. Lurz lives in Gerbrunn and swims for the SV Würzburg 05 sports club.