List of Famous people born in Germany
Philipp Kohlschreiber
Philipp Eberhard Hermann Kohlschreiber is a German professional tennis player. The right-hander has won eight singles and seven doubles titles on the ATP World Tour and made the quarterfinals at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking of world No. 16 in July 2012.
Martin Harnik
Martin Harnik is an Austrian professional footballer who plays for German fifth-tier club TuS Dassendorf. He represented the Austrian national football team in the past. He plays as a forward or as a right winger.
Vinzenz Kiefer
Vinzenz Kiefer is a German actor. He is known for playing the role of police detective Alexander Brandt in the crime series Alarm für Cobra 11, as well as that of Christian Dassault in Jason Bourne. His older sister Dorkas Kiefer is an actress.
Katja Leikert
Katja Isabel Leikert is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2013, representing the Hanau electoral district. Within the CDU/CSU Bundestag Group, parliamentary colleagues elected her one of the alliance's eleven Bundestag deputy chairpersons in January 2018.
Elli Barczatis
Helene "Elli" Barczatis was a typist-secretary who worked between April 1950 and January 1953 as the head secretary of the East German prime minister, Otto Grotewohl. Convicted of espionage, she and her lover Karl Laurenz were guillotined on 23 November 1955.
René Pape
René Pape is a German operatic bass.
Mariana Iris Harder-Kühnel
Mariana Harder-Kühnel is a German politician (AfD). Since 24 October 2017 she has served as member of the Bundestag.
Annette Humpe
Annette Humpe is a German singer, songwriter, and record producer. Her band Ideal was one of the most important and seminal representatives of the Neue Deutsche Welle. In 2004, she returned as a singer with the project Ich + Ich after a longer break.
Dirk Brockmann
Dirk Brockmann is a German physicist and Professor at the Institute for Biology at Humboldt University of Berlin and the Robert Koch Institute, Berlin. Brockmann is known for his work in complex systems, complex networks, computational epidemiology, human mobility and anomalous diffusion.
Reinhard Marx
Reinhard Marx is a German cardinal of the Catholic Church. He serves as the Archbishop of Munich and Freising. Pope Benedict XVI elevated Marx to the cardinalate in a consistory in 2010.