List of Famous people born in Germany
Christoph Harting
Christoph Harting is a German athlete specialising in the discus throw. He won the gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. He competed at the 2013 and 2015 World Championships, reaching the final on the second occasion.
Julian Weigl
Julian Weigl is a German professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Benfica and the Germany national football team.
Heiko Herrlich
Heiko Herrlich is a German football manager and former forward. He currently manages FC Augsburg.
Pierre Vogel
Pierre Vogel, also known as Abu Hamza is a German Islamist preacher and a former professional boxer.
Christine Theiss
Christine Anna Maria Theiss, maiden name Hennig, born February 22, 1980 in Greiz, Germany, is a German female kickboxer. Since 2007, she is the world champion in professional full contact kickboxing in the World Kickboxing Association (WKA). On December 7, 2012, she became the Super lightweight world champion in full contact kickboxing of the International Sport Karate Association (ISKA) and World Kickboxing and Karate Union (WKU). She lost her WKU championship in a title fight to Olga Stavrova on June 7, 2013, but regained the title on December 13, 2013 by defeating Olga Stavrova in a closely contested 10-round decision in what was announced to be her last fight.
Alligatoah
Lukas Strobel, better known by his stage name Alligatoah, is a German rapper, singer, producer and DJ signed to the independent German hip hop record label Trailerpark. He also publishes music for his two fictional characters Kaliba 69 (rapper) and DJ Deagle (producer) under his stage name. His albums Triebwerke and Musik ist keine Lösung were certified gold while the single "Willst du" was certified platinum.
Philipp Nawrath
Philipp Nawrath is a German biathlete. He competed at the Biathlon World Championships 2019.
Änis Ben-Hatira
Änis Ben-Hatira is a Tunisian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder who plays for Greek Super League club AEL. Between 2012 and 2016 he made 12 appearances for the Tunisia national team scoring one goal.
Reinhard Genzel
Reinhard Genzel is a German astrophysicist, co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, a professor at LMU and an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy", which he shared with Andrea Ghez and Roger Penrose.
Sandra Nasić
Sandra Nasić is a German singer best known as the vocalist of the rock band Guano Apes.