List of Famous people born in Germany

Manfred Bender is a German football manager and former player. He last managed Austria Klagenfurt. Between 1989 and 1999 he played for FC Bayern Munich, Karlsruher SC and 1860 Munich. In total Bender played 229 games in the Bundesliga, scoring 42 goals. Bender is most fondly remembered for a goal scored against Oliver Kahn and Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga.

Marvin Compper is a German retired footballer who played as a centre back.

Sebastian Edathy is a former German politician. He is a prominent member of the Social Democratic Party and became the chairman of a key committee in January 2012 at the Parliament, which was investigating failures of police and intelligence units in the serial murders of nine immigrants by the far-right German terrorist group National Socialist Underground (NSU) from 2000 to 2007. The NSU committee questioned various officials from Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office during 2012 and 2013. His alleged possession of child porn material sparked the Edathy-Affäre.

Mia Florentine Weiss is a German conceptual and performance artist. Her work encompasses various artistic disciplines such as performance, text, blood, installation, sculpture, objets trouvés, photography and film.

Mathias Richling is a German actor, author, comedian and Kabarett artist.

Countess Walburga Habsburg Douglas is a German-born Swedish lawyer and politician, who served as a member of the Riksdag of Sweden for the Moderate Party from 2006 to 2014. She is the vice-president of the Paneuropean Union and a board member of the Institute for Information on the Crimes of Communism.

Andreas Krieger is a German former shot putter who competed on the women's East German athletics team at SC Dynamo Berlin as Heidi Krieger.

Tyron Zeuge is a German professional boxer who held the WBA (Regular) super-middleweight title from 2016 to 2018.

Lara-Isabelle Rentinck is a German film and television actress and model.

Julia Shaw is a German-Canadian psychologist and popular science writer who specialises in false memories.