List of Famous people born in Germany

Bernadette Heerwagen is a German actress. She began acting at the age of 16, and has since co-starred in the 1999 production Der Schandfleck, for which she was awarded the Bayerischer Fernsehpreis Sonderpreis in 2000. Heerwagen has gone on to star in a variety of leading and supporting roles in German and Austrian television, films, dramas and European cinema. In 2004 her leading performance in Grüße Aus Kaschmir took her to greater prominence within Germany and France.

Carsten Jens Maschmeyer is a German businessman, billionaire, investor, speaker, author and panel-member of the German version of the reality television series Shark Tank, "Die Höhle der Löwen". He is the founder and owner of the Maschmeyer Group which combines all of his current commercial activities. With ALSTIN, he invests growth capital in emerging industries and future markets with outstanding innovations in sectors like the Internet, technology, and life-science. Through Paladin Asset Management his team undertakes value-investments in publicly listed companies. With Seed & Speed, Maschmeyer provides seed investments to very early-stage companies.

Katrin Sass is a German actress. She became known internationally for playing the idealistic socialist mother Christiane Kerner in the 2003 tragicomedy Good Bye, Lenin!

Sophia Magdalena Scholl was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany.

Diana Kinnert is a German politician, political consultant, and publisher. In 2015 she became the youngest chief of staff in the history of the Bundestag when she ran the parliamentary office of Peter Hintze. She is a frequent media commentator on public policy in Germany, and is affiliated with a number of think tanks and advisory committees of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.

Melanie Brinkmann is a German virologist. Till 2019 she was probably best known in connection with her work on the Cytomegalovirus. During 2020 she has emerged as a much consulted expert-pundit for media commentators keen to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic. Brinkmann takes a robust public position in the campaign against pandemic misinformation: she has described the so-called "virus of false information" as "more deadly than the [COVID-19] virus itself".

Hans-Jürgen Hubert Dohrenkamp, better known by his stage name Jürgen von der Lippe, is a German television presenter, entertainer, actor and comedian. His stage name comes from the fact that he was born near the source of the river Lippe.

Martin Schneider, often just called "Maddin", is a German comedian, cabarettist and actor.

Dagmar Gabriele Wöhrl, born as Winkler is a German politician with the CSU.

Yury Aleksandrovich Dud is a Russian sports journalist and YouTuber. He was editor-in-chief of Sports.ru from 2011-2018 and since 2018, has been Deputy Director-General. In 2017, he launched his YouTube channel vDud where he interviews famous figures from Russia and other post-Soviet states.