List of Famous people born in Germany

Boris Herrmann is a German yachtsman.

Christian Schmidt is a German politician of the centre-right Christian Social Union (CSU).

Davie Selke is a German professional footballer who plays as a striker for Werder Bremen, on loan from Hertha BSC.

Matthias Lukas Ginter is a German professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach and the Germany national team.

Markus Weinzierl is a German football coach and former player who last managed VfB Stuttgart.

Werner Haase was a professor of medicine and SS member during the Nazi era. He was one of Adolf Hitler's personal physicians. After the war ended, Haase was made a Soviet prisoner of war. He died while in captivity in 1950.

Alexander Kluge is a German author, philosopher, academic and film director.

Anton ("Toni") Mang is a former five-time world champion in Grand Prix motorcycle racing from Germany.

Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German filmmaker, playwright, author, and photographer. He is a major figure in New German Cinema. Among many honors, he has received three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature: for Buena Vista Social Club (1999), about Cuban music culture; Pina (2011), about the contemporary dance choreographer Pina Bausch; and The Salt of the Earth (2014), about Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado.

Ludger Pistor is a German actor born in Recklinghausen.