List of Famous people born in Germany

Kirsten Bruhn is a former German female Paralympic swimmer. She learnt to swim when she was three. She began competing at ten before an accident in 1991. She was hurt during a holiday motorcycle trip on the island of Kos leaving her partially paralysed. She has since become an expert in social insurance.

Horst Sachtleben is a German actor and director. Born in Berlin where he also studied theory of drama, Germanic philology and history of art.

Elias Kachunga is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Championship club Sheffield Wednesday. He represented Germany at youth level, and DR Congo at senior level.

Hans-Joachim Frey is a German cultural manager. From 1997 to 2007 he was Artistic Director of Operations and Director of Opera at the Semperoper in Dresden from 2007 to 2010 and general director at the Theater Bremen. In January 2013 he was responsible in the European Capital of Culture in Linz / Austria as a board director and artistic director of Liva, where he was also on the Bruckner House, the International Bruckner Festival and the clouds of sound.

Sabine Bätzing-Lichtenthäler is a German politician and member of the SPD.

Jennifer Teege is a German writer. Her maternal grandfather was Austrian Nazi concentration camp commander and war criminal Amon Göth. Her 2015 book My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past was a New York Times bestseller.

Helmut Recknagel is an East German former ski jumper who was active in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Fabian Böhm is a German handball player for TSV Hannover-Burgdorf and the German national team.

Akif Çağatay Kılıç is a Turkish educator, politician, an MP for Samsun Province of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), and the current Minister of Youth and Sports of Turkey.

Björn Kircheisen is a German former nordic combined skier. He won four 4 x 5 km team medals at the Winter Olympics with three silvers and a bronze (2010).