List of Famous people born in Germany

Christian Gentner is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Union Berlin. He won the Bundesliga twice, with VfB Stuttgart in 2007 and VfL Wolfsburg in 2009. He was also called up five times to the senior Germany national team.

Benedict Wells is a German-Swiss novelist.

Jorinde Voigt is a German artist, best-known for large-scale drawings that develop complex notation systems derived from music, philosophy, and phenomenology. She is a professor of painting and drawing at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg. Voigt lives and works in Berlin.

Monika Maron is a German author, formerly of the German Democratic Republic.

Simon Rolfes is a retired German footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.

Philipp Poisel is a German singer-songwriter.

Diana Damrau is a German soprano. She has been successful in coloratura soprano roles, especially admired as the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute and Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos. She has gradually proceeded into 19th-century Italian bel canto repertoire, singing roles such as Violetta in La traviata and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor. Damrau is also known as a lieder singer.

Pascal Behrenbruch is a German decathlete. He is a member of the Eintracht Frankfurt athletics team and placed tenth at the 2012 Olympic Games.

Florian Niederlechner is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward for Bundesliga club FC Augsburg.

Reinhold Würth is a German billionaire businessman and art collector. He took over his father's tiny wholesale screw business at age 19 and built it into the Adolf Würth Group, which posted $13 billion in sales in 2013.