List of Famous people born in Germany
Jennifer Oeser
Jennifer Oeser is a retired German heptathlete.
Valentin Baus
Valentin Baus is a German para table tennis player who competes in international level events. He is a double European champion and has won most team titles with Selcuk Cetin and Jan Gürtler.
Monika Woytowicz
Monika Woytowicz is a German stage, film and television actress. She studied at the Theaterhochschule Leipzig.
Jumbo Schreiner
Thomas "Jumbo" Schreiner is a German actor and presenter.
Anne Weber
Anne Weber is a German-French author, translator and self-translator. Since 1983 Anne Weber has lived in Paris. She studied in Paris and worked for several editors. Anne Weber started writing and publishing in French, but immediately translated her first book Ida invente la poudre into German Ida erfindet das Schießpulver. Since then she writes each of her books in French and German. Her self-translations are often published at the same time in France and Germany. In 2005 she received the 3Sat award at the Festival of German-Language Literature. For her translation of Pierre Michon she received a European translation award, the Europäischer Übersetzerpreis Offenburg. She was awarded the 2020 German Book Prize.
Dietrich Thurau
Dietrich ("Didi") Thurau is a retired German professional road bicycle racer. His biggest career achievements include winning the one-day classic, Liège–Bastogne–Liège, his home country's Deutschland Tour and surprising the field at the 1977 Tour de France by capturing four stages and holding the yellow jersey as leader of the general classification from the prologue for 15 days. Thurau did win the young rider classification although he lost the overall lead to eventual winner Bernard Thévenet.
Thomas Linke
Thomas Linke is a retired German professional footballer who played as a central defender who last worked as the director of football of FC Ingolstadt 04.
Julian Weber
Julian Weber is a German track and field athlete who competes in the javelin throw. He won the European Junior Championship in 2013.
Michael Seidenbecher
Michael Seidenbecher is a German track cyclist, riding for the national team. He competed at the 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2010 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.
Daniel Weiss
Daniel Weiss is a German former competitive figure skater who competed in men's singles. He is the 1989 Skate Canada International bronze medalist, the 1991 Nations Cup bronze medalist, and a two-time German national champion, winning the title in 1990 and 1991. He finished fifth at the 1989 European Championships and competed at three World Championships. After retiring from competition in 1992, Weiss skated professionally and worked as a television commentator. He also organizes ice shows.