List of Famous people born in Germany

Brigitte Grothum is a German film actress. She has appeared in 50 films since 1955. She was born in Dessau, Germany.

Stephan Musiol, known professionally as Dero Goi, is a German singer, musician, songwriter, and poet. He is best known as the lead vocalist, drummer and founding member of Neue Deutsche Härte band Oomph!.

Charlotte Salomon was a German-Jewish artist born in Berlin. She is primarily remembered as the creator of an autobiographical series of paintings Leben? oder Theater?: Ein Singspiel consisting of 769 individual works painted between 1941 and 1943 in the south of France, while Salomon was in hiding from the Nazis. In October 1943 she was captured and deported to Auschwitz, where she and her unborn child were gassed to death by the Nazis soon after her arrival. In 2015, a stunning nineteen-page confession by Salomon to the fatal poisoning of her grandfather, kept secret for decades, was released by a Parisian publisher.

Francis Fulton-Smith is a British-German television actor.

Susanne Wolff is a German actress. Her credits include the television series Morgen hör ich auf and the films Styx and Das Fremde in mir.

Gesine Schwan is a German political science professor and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. The party has nominated her twice as a candidate for the federal presidential elections. On 23 May 2004, she was defeated by the Christian Democrat Horst Köhler. On 23 May 2009, Köhler beat her again to win his second term.

Niyazi Serhat Akın is a retired Turkish footballer who played as a striker.

Joachim Deckarm is a former West German handball player who played for VfL Gummersbach and the German national handball team. After surviving a horrific sports accident in 1979, he is physically handicapped.

Bernd Michael Lade is a German actor and director. A native of Berlin, he is perhaps best known to audiences outside Germany for his role opposite Peter Sodann in several series of the crime drama Tatort. Lade's wife is the actress Maria Simon, with whom he has three children.

Martin Schmitt is a German former ski jumper who competed from 1997 to 2014. He is one of Germany's most successful ski jumpers, having won the World Cup twice; a gold medal at the Winter Olympics; four gold medals at the World Championships; and a ski flying world record. His and his countryman Sven Hannawald's success further popularized ski jumping in Germany, and with particular help from cable TV station RTL, their coverage received great acclaim in the late 1990s and early 2000s.