List of Famous people born in Germany

Beate Heinemann is a German particle physicist who has held positions at universities in Europe and the USA. She currently holds a joint appointment at two German institutions, Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg and the DESY laboratory in Hamburg.

Joachim Streich is a German former footballer, who won the bronze medal with East Germany at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.

Mareike Miller is a 4.5 point wheelchair basketball player, who played for the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in the United States. She also plays for the German national team, with which she won two European titles, was runner-up at 2010 and 2014 World Championships, won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London and won a silver medal at the Rio 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro. President Joachim Gauck awarded the team Germany's highest sporting honour, the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt, twice.

Rainer Koch is a German jurist and football official. From November 2015 to April 2016, he was the acting president of the German Football Association along with Reinhard Rauball.

Cinta Laura Kiehl, better known as Cinta Laura, is a Indonesian-German actress, electropop singer and model in Indonesia. She was recently appointed ambassador of anti-violence against women and children by the Indonesian Ministry of Women Empowerment and Child Protection.

Hendrik von Bültzingslöwen is a German actor.

Alfred Helmut Naujocks, alias Hans Müller, Alfred Bonsen, and Rudolf Möbert, was a German SS functionary during the Third Reich. He took part in the staged Gleiwitz incident, a false flag intended to provide the justification for the attack on Poland by Nazi Germany, starting the Second World War in Europe.

Hans Fritz Scholl was, along with Alexander Schmorell, one of the two founding members of the White Rose resistance movement in Nazi Germany. The principal author of the resistance movement's literature, he was found guilty of high treason for distributing anti-Nazi material and was executed by the Nazi regime in 1943 during World War II.

Vilmos Tamás "Willi" Orbán is a Hungarian professional footballer who plays for Bundesliga club RB Leipzig and the Hungary national team as a centre back.

Tatjana Lofamakanda Pinto is a German athlete who competes as a sprinter.