List of Famous people born in Germany
Carsten Jancker
Carsten Jancker is a German football coach and former player who played as a striker between 1993 and 2009 for various teams including FC Köln, Rapid Wien, FC Bayern Munich, Udinese Calcio, FC Kaiserslautern, Shanghai Shenhua F.C., and SV Mattersburg, as well as the German national team. He is currently the manager of FC Marchfeld Donauauen.
Guido Wolf
Guido Wolf is a German politician. He is a member of the CDU party. Since 2006 he is an MP of the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg. In 2015 he was elected faction leader of the CDU Baden-Württemberg and leading candidate for the 2016 Baden-Württemberg state elections. On 15 March 2016 he was re-elected as parliamentary group leader. Wolf also was county councillor (Landrat) from 2003 to 2011 in the district of Tuttlingen. From 2011 to 2015 he was president of the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg. Since May 2016, Wolf is Minister of Justice and European Affairs in Baden-Württemberg in the Cabinet Kretschmann II.
Kira Weidle
Kira Weidle is a German World Cup alpine ski racer, specializing in the speed events of Downhill and Super-G. She made her World Cup debut in January 2016 and attained her first podium in November 2018.
Regina Halmich
Regina Halmich is a German boxer. She is among the most successful female boxers of all time and helped popularise female boxing in Europe.
Margarethe von Trotta
Margarethe von Trotta is a German film director who has been referred to as a "leading force" of the New German Cinema movement. Von Trotta's extensive body of work has won awards internationally. She was married to and collaborated with director Volker Schlöndorff. Although they made a successful team, von Trotta felt she was seen as secondary to Schlöndorff. Subsequently, she established a solo career for herself and became "Germany's foremost female film director, who has offered the most sustained and successful female variant of Autorenkino in postwar German film history". Certain aspects of von Trotta's work have been compared to Ingmar Bergman's features from the 1960s and 1970s.
Silke Maier-Witt
Silke Maier-Witt is a German former trauma psychologist and welfare organiser. During 2000 she was recruited to work in Kosovo by Germany's Civil Peace Service in the aftermath of the Kosovo War. She subsequently settled in Macedonia.
Oliver Zipse
Oliver Zipse is a German manager who has been serving as Chairman of the Board of Management (CEO) of BMW since 16 August 2019.
Klaus Doldinger
Klaus Doldinger is a German saxophonist known for his work in jazz and as a film music composer. He was the recipient of 1997's Bavarian Film Awards.
Dieter Hertrampf
Dieter "Quaster" Hertrampf is a German guitarist and singer. He is a founding member of the rock band Puhdys.
Florian Stetter
Florian Stetter is a German actor.