List of Famous people born in Germany
Aron Strobel
Aron Strobel is best known as the lead guitarist for Münchener Freiheit, who had several big hits throughout Europe.
Irene Epple-Waigel
Irene Epple-Waigel is a German former alpine skier. She won a total of 11 Alpine Skiing World Cup races and two World Cups, in giant slalom and combined. She also won a silver medal at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in giant slalom. In the 1978 FIS Alpine Skiing World Championships at Garmisch-Partenkirchen she won the silver medal in the downhill. On 9 January 1983 she won the first women's World Cup Super-G race, held in Verbier.
Tobias Schweinsteiger
Tobias Schweinsteiger is a retired German footballer. As player he was deployed as a midfielder or forward. He is the older brother of former German international Bastian Schweinsteiger.
Vanessa Hinz
Vanessa Hinz is a German biathlete and former cross-country skier. Hinz started in her first world cup races at the end of the 2012/13-season. At the 2013 European Championships she won a gold medal with the German relay team. In 2014, she participated in the Winter Olympics in Sochi. She was officially nominated by the DOSB on 23 January 2014, but not taken with the team to Russia. So she had to wait at home as stand-by reserve.
Sarah Lesch
Sarah Lesch is a German singer-songwriter who performs with a guitar and ukulele.
Achim Petry
Achim Petry is a German singer and musician.
Fahrettin Altun
Fahrettin Altun is a Turkish politician, researcher, academic, member of the Justice and Development Party and head of media and communications in the Turkish presidency.
Alexander Nübel
Alexander Nübel is a German footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for FC Bayern Munich.
Andreas Geisel
Andreas Geisel is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He has been serving as the State Minister of the Interior of Berlin (Senator) since December 2016. Prior to this he was State Minister of Urban Development and Environment of Berlin from 2014 until 2016.
Martin Kaymer
Martin Kaymer is a German professional golfer. A winner of two major championships, he was also the No. 1 ranked golfer in the Official World Golf Ranking for eight weeks in 2011.