List of Famous people born in Germany

Ayọ is a Nigerian-German singer-songwriter and actress. She uses the Yoruba translation Ayọ or Ayo. of her first name Joy.

Holger Geschwindner is a German former professional basketball player. He is known as the long-time coach and mentor of ex-Dallas Mavericks player Dirk Nowitzki. Geschwindner first met Nowitzki when the future basketball superstar was 16 years old.

Imke Susann Onnen is a German athlete specialising in the high jump. She won a bronze medal at the 2019 Summer Universiade.

Kurt Julian Weill was a German composer, active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht. With Brecht, he developed productions such as his best-known work The Threepenny Opera, which included the ballad "Mack the Knife". Weill held the ideal of writing music that served a socially useful purpose. He also wrote several works for the concert hall. He became a United States citizen on August 27, 1943.

Matthias Wissmann is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as the president of the German Automobile Industry Association (VdA) from 2007 until 2018.

Hans Hugo Harold Faltermeier, known professionally as Harold Faltermeyer, is a German musician, composer and record producer.

Simone Kermes is a German coloratura soprano, especially known for her virtuoso voice, suited to the opera seria genre of the Baroque and early Classical period.

Mehmet Ekici is a Turkish footballer who most recently played as a midfielder for Fenerbahçe.

Dietrich Weise was a German footballer and football manager.

Tolgay Ali Arslan is a German-Turkish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Udinese.