List of Famous people born in Germany

Elke Heidenreich is a German author, TV presenter, literary critic and journalist. She has written audio plays, a magazine column, scripts for television plays and books. Heidenreich is known as the Kabarettist who created a character, Else Stratmann. She is a literary critic in the television Literaturclub of the Schweizer Fernsehen.

Timo Werner is a German professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Chelsea and the Germany national team.

Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach, formerly known professionally as Pia Romero, is a Filipino-German model, actress and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 2015. She is one of the four Filipinas to have won the Miss Universe. Previously, she was crowned Miss Universe Philippines 2015.

Peter Andreas Thiel is a German-American billionaire entrepreneur and venture capitalist. A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Facebook. He was ranked No. 4 on the Forbes Midas List of 2014, with a net worth of $2.2 billion, and No. 391 on the Forbes 400 in 2020, with a net worth of $2.1 billion. In 2016, Thiel confirmed that he had funded Hulk Hogan in the Bollea v. Gawker lawsuit because Gawker had previously outed him as gay and he sought revenge for this embarrassment. The lawsuit eventually bankrupted Gawker.

Marten Laciny, better known by his stage name Marteria, is a German rapper. He has met with success in Germany and the single Verstrahlt, featuring Yasha, was included in the video game FIFA 12.

Matthias Josef Maurer is a German European Space Agency astronaut and materials scientist, who was selected in 2015 to take part in space training.

Mario Gómez García is a German former professional footballer who played as a striker. He represented the Germany national team over a period of 11 years between 2007 and 2018.

Dennis Schröder is a German professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has previously played for SG Braunschweig and Phantoms Braunschweig in Germany, before spending his first five seasons in the NBA with the Atlanta Hawks and two years with the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Rita Süssmuth is a German politician and a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

Linda Zervakis is a German-Greek television presenter as well as newsreader and journalist in the editorship of ARD-Aktuell in Hamburg. She is the first Tagesschau presenter with an immigrant background.