List of Famous people born in Germany
Reyhan Şahin
Reyhan Şahin, also known as Lady "Bitch" Ray, is a German rapper, linguist and former radio host of Turkish ethnicity.
Georg Pazderski
Georg Pazderski is a retired German officer and politician for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
David Storl
David Storl is a German track and field athlete who specialises in the shot put. He was successful on the youth and junior athletics circuit, winning gold medals at the World Youth Championships and World Junior Championships. Storl won his first senior medal, a silver, at the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships.
Dirk Heidemann
Dirk Heidemann is a former professional ballroom dancer, fashion model, now author, dance sport coach and choreographer from Germany. He has several years of experience in the various fields of dancing.
Dirk von Lowtzow
Dirk von Lowtzow is a German musician. He has been the singer and guitarist with German rock band Tocotronic since 1994. Since 2001 he has also been active with the German electronic music project Phantom/Ghost. In 1997, he took part in the compilation disc Musik für junge Leute with the song Charlotte, which refers to a L'Âge d'or label employee by that name.
Andrej Holm
Andrej Holm is a German sociologist. He first came to public attention in 2007, when he was arrested and imprisoned for several weeks on terrorism charges; in 2010 the investigation of him was ended due to lack of evidence. For around one month in 2016/2017 he was under-secretary for housing in the local government of Berlin for the party Die Linke. In 2017 he was to be dismissed from his position as a research assistant at the Humboldt University of Berlin. On 9 February 2017 Holm acknowledged in a written statement that he had lied about his Stasi past and expressed his regret over his actions, both his service in the Stasi itself and his later untruthfulness about it. As a result, the university reduced its disciplinary action to a final warning and a suspension until the end of 2018.
Mike Hanke
Mike Hanke is a German former professional footballer who played the position of striker. He has been described as a player who "gives it his all in attack and is always dangerous in the opponent's penalty area."
Caro Cult
Caro Cult is a German actress. She gained popularity in 2020 by starring in the Netflix series Biohackers.
Paul Biedermann
Paul Biedermann is a German retired competitive swimmer, a 400 metre freestyle long course world champion, and former 200 metre freestyle long course world champion. He holds the long course and short course world records in the 200 meters freestyle, and the long course world record in the 400 meters freestyle.
Michael Schulz
Michael Schulz is a German former professional footballer who played as a central defender. He played 243 matches in the Bundesliga for Borussia Dortmund, Werder Bremen and 1. FC Kaiserslautern and scored eight goals.