List of Famous people born in Germany

Renat Dadashov is an Azerbaijani professional footballer who plays as a striker for Grasshopper on loan from Premier League side Wolverhampton Wanderers and the Azerbaijan national team.

Lea Rosh is a German television journalist, publicist, entrepreneur and political activist. Rosh was the first female journalist to manage a public broadcasting service in Germany and in the 1970s the first anchorwoman of Kennzeichen D, a major political television program. She has been a member of the SPD since 1968.

Jack Philip Barsky is a German-American author, IT specialist and former sleeper agent of the KGB who spied on the United States from 1978 to 1988. Exposed after the Cold War, Barsky became a resource for U.S. counterintelligence agencies and was allowed to remain in the United States. His autobiography, Deep Undercover, was published in 2017, and he frequently speaks on his experiences and as an expert on espionage.

Ingrid Klimke is a German eventing rider. She appeared at five Olympics from 2000 to 2016. With her horse Abraxxas, she won two gold medals in team eventing at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she won a team silver with Hale-Bob.

Karl Plagge, originally an engineer was a German Army officer, who rescued Jews during the Holocaust in Lithuania by issuing work permits to non-essential workers. A partially disabled veteran of World War I, Plagge studied engineering and joined the Nazi Party in 1931 in hopes of helping Germany rebuild from the economic collapse caused by the draconian terms of the Treaty of Versailles. After being dismissed from the position of lecturer for being unwilling to teach racism, and his opposition to Nazi racist policies, he stopped participating in party activities in 1935 and left the party when the war broke out.

Walter Kreye is a German actor.

Burkhard Jung is a German politician, of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been the 21st lord mayor (Oberbürgermeister) of Leipzig (Saxony) since March 29, 2006. In addition, he has been serving as president of the Association of German Cities since 2019; he is the first representative of an East German city in that office.

Christian Ude is a German politician who served as mayor of Munich from 1993 to 2014. He is a member of the German Social Democratic Party.

Diego Demme is a German professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Serie A club Napoli and the Germany national team.

Carolin Reiber is a German television presenter.