List of Famous people born in Germany

Nina Scheer is a German lawyer and politician of the SPD. She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2013. She is the daughter of Hermann Scheer.

Felix von Jascheroff is a German singer, actor and voice actor, best known for his role as John Bachmann in the German soap opera Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten.

Katja Kraus is a German former football player and official. She was the first German woman to be a board member of a Fußball-Bundesliga club, Hamburger SV.

Joachim Philipp Maria Meyerhoff is a German actor, director, and writer.

Christina Schwanitz is a German shot putter. Her personal best is 20.77 metres, achieved on 20 May 2015 at World Challenge meeting in Beijing. She has 20.05 m on the indoor track, achieved on 2 February 2014 in Rochlitz.

Christoph Letkowski is a German actor. He appeared in more than forty films since 2006.

Patrick Wiencek is a German handballer for THW Kiel and the German national team.

Lutz Pfannenstiel is a German former professional football goalkeeper and current football board member. He is the first footballer in the world to belong to a professional football club in each of the six recognised continental associations. From 2010 to 2018, he was an expert on various television channels – including ZDF, BBC, CNN, ORF, SRF, DAZN and Eurosport. Pfannenstiel was appointed sporting director for MLS side St. Louis City SC ahead of their entry to the league in 2023.

Stefan Ortega Moreno is a German professional footballer who plays for Arminia Bielefeld as a goalkeeper.

Rainer "Rai" Weiss is an American physicist, known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. He is a professor of physics emeritus at MIT and an adjunct professor at LSU. He is best known for inventing the laser interferometric technique which is the basic operation of LIGO. He was Chair of the COBE Science Working Group.