List of Famous people born in Germany

Dirk Werner Nowitzki is a German former professional basketball player. Listed at 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m), he is widely regarded as one of the best power forwards of all time and is considered by many to be the greatest European player of all time.

Oliver Wnuk is a German actor. He is best known for his performance as Ulf Steinke in the TV series Stromberg.

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a playwright in Munich and moved to Berlin in 1924, where he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Kurt Weill and began a lifelong collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, he wrote didactic Lehrstücke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre and the so-called V-effect.

Reinhold "Reiner" Calmund is a German retired football executive. He was the managing director of Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen from 1976 to 2004.

Armin Meiwes is a German former computer repair technician who achieved international notoriety for killing and eating a voluntary victim in 2001, whom he had found via the Internet. After Meiwes and the victim jointly attempted to eat the victim's severed penis, Meiwes killed his victim and proceeded to eat a large amount of his flesh. He was arrested in December 2002. In January 2004, Meiwes was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to eight years and six months in prison. In a retrial in May 2006, he was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. Because of his acts, Meiwes is also known as the Rotenburg Cannibal or Der Metzgermeister.

Bjarne Mädel is a German actor.

Elisabeth Pähtz has been the strongest German female chess player since her youth. In 2002 Pähtz became the World Youth Champion of the girls' under-18 age group, and in 2005 the World Junior Girls Champion. She won the 2018 European Women's Championship in rapid chess. In 2021 she scored her third grandmaster norm; if confirmed she will become the first German woman to earn the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM).

Svenja Schulze is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from Münster in Westphalia.

Dino Toppmöller is a German football manager and former player who is currently unemployed after most recently managing Belgian side R.E. Virton. He is the son of Klaus Toppmöller.

Wolke Alma Hegenbarth is a German actress, best known for starring in the sitcom Mein Leben & Ich. She is related to illustrator Hannes Hegen and the painter Josef Hegenbarth.