List of Famous people born in Germany

Carlo Thränhardt is a retired German high jumper. He excelled at indoor competitions, setting the world indoor record on three occasions between 1984 and 1988. His best mark of 2.42 meters ranks him second on the indoor all-time list one-centimetre behind world record holder Javier Sotomayor of Cuba. The only superior outdoor performances are Sotomayor's world record of 2.45, and Mutaz Essa Barshim's clearance of 2.43 in 2014. Like all modern high jumpers, Thränhardt used the Fosbury Flop style, but of the 16 men in history to have cleared 2.40 meters or higher, he was only the second to do so jumping off his right leg. The first was Igor Paklin. At the European Indoor Championships, he won a gold medal in 1983 and four silver medals. Outdoors, his best championship result was winning a bronze medal at the 1986 European Championships. He also reached the Olympic finals in 1984 and 1988.

Thomas Ehrhorn is a German politician for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and since 2017 member of the Bundestag, the federal legislative body.

Torsten Albig is a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany. From 2012 until 2017 he served as the 13th Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein.

Sylvia Pantel is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2013.

Matthias Fornoff is a German television journalist.

Richard Gutjahr is a German TV presenter and blogger. He is known for covering the terror attacks in Nice and Munich in mid-2016 with a mobile phone, and he "explained how basic mobile technology allowed him to cover the two attacks".

Lennard Kämna is a German professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Bora–Hansgrohe. He rode with Team Stölting in 2015, before his team and Cult Energy Pro Cycling merged for the 2016 season.

Faris al-Sultan is a former German triathlete who is now active as a coach. In 2005, he was the third German to win the Ironman Hawaii. He is listed in the best list of German triathletes on the Ironman distance.

Martin Werner Walter Horn is a German politician. In 2018 he became mayor (Oberbürgermeister) of Freiburg im Breisgau.

Gina Alice Stiebitz is a German actress. She is best known for portraying Franziska Doppler in the Netflix show Dark. She has also appeared in a number of stage productions, primarily at the Friedrichstadt-Palast theatre in Berlin.