List of Famous people born in Germany
Moritz Fürste
Moritz Fürste is a German field hockey player. He was a member of the Men's National Team that won the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics as well as at the 2006 World Cup. He played at the Uhlenhorster Hockey Club in Hamburg from 1989 till 2012. He was captain of the team. He has guided his team to success in the Euro Hockey League on three occasions, winning the title in 2007–08, 2009–10 and 2011–12. Fürste also helped his team to a second-place finish in the competition in the 2008–09 Season, when they were defeated by HC Bloemendaal of The Netherlands. Since 2012 he is playing at Spanish Club de Campo Villa de Madrid. After retiring after season 2018-2019 he just signed a new deal with Royal Beerschot THC in Belgium for 1 season.
Winfried Schäfer
Winfried "Winnie" Schäfer is a German football manager and former player who is the head coach of Qatari club Al-Khor.
Mark Ehrenfried
Mark Christopher Paul Ehrenfried is a German pianist and composer. He has published five albums and performed concerts worldwide. In Germany, he is especially known for his childhood TV appearances, for his collaborations with pop-music producer Jack White, as well as for touring with the East-German rock band The Puhdys. Recently, Ehrenfried performs piano music of the Norwegian Romantic composer Christian Sinding. Ehrenfried also holds speeches about Christianity, music, values and culture. He describes himself as a Christian conservative.
Philipp Max
Philipp Martin Max is a German footballer who plays as a left back for PSV Eindhoven.
Andreas Toba
Andreas Toba is a German gymnast. He competed for the national team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Men's artistic team all-around. He also competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Francesco Friedrich
Francesco Friedrich is a German bobsledder who has been active since 2006. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, he and brakeman Thorsten Margis tied with Canada's Justin Kripps and Alexander Kopacz for the gold medal in the two-man competition. Friedrich also won gold outright in the four-man event alongside Margis, Candy Bauer and Martin Grothkopp, making Friedrich the fifth German pilot to win two-man and four-man golds at the same Games, after Andreas Ostler in 1952, Meinhard Nehmer in 1976, Wolfgang Hoppe in 1984 and André Lange in 2006. Friedrich previously competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the doubles and fours and finished in eighth and tenth place, respectively.
Marcel Goc
Marcel Goc is a former professional German professional ice hockey player.
Jens Keller
Jens Keller is a German football former defender and current manager, who last coached 1. FC Nürnberg.
Prince Christian of Hanover
Prince Christian of Hanover is a German noble, the younger son of Ernst August, Prince of Hanover, and his first wife, Chantal Hochuli.
Peter Boehringer
Peter Boehringer is a German politician for the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) and since 2017 member of the Bundestag, the federal legislative body. Since 2018 he is Chairman of the Budgetary Committee of the German Bundestag.