List of Famous people born in Germany

Hilde Mangold was a German embryologist who was best known for her 1923 dissertation which was the foundation for her mentor, Hans Spemann's, 1935 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the embryonic organizer, "one of the very few doctoral theses in biology that have directly resulted in the awarding of a Nobel Prize". The general effect she demonstrated is known as embryonic induction, that is, the capacity of some cells to direct the developmental trajectory of other cells. Induction remains a fundamental concept and area of ongoing research in the field.

Carola Alexandra Veit is a German politician who has been president of the Hamburg Parliament since 23 March 2011.

Ernst Welteke is a German economist and politician. He was the president of Deutsche Bundesbank from September 1999 until he resigned in 2004.

Dirk Becker is a German politician and member of the SPD.

Yvonne Ploetz is a German politician and member of The Left. On 1 February 2010, she became a member of the German Parliament when she succeeded Oskar Lafontaine.

Michael Diekmann is a German manager who served as the CEO of Allianz in between 2003 and 2015.