List of Famous people born in Germany
Nelson Piquet Jr.
Nelson Angelo Tamsma Piquet Souto Maior, also known as Nelson Piquet Junior or Nelsinho Piquet, is a Brazilian stock car racing driver and former Formula One and Formula E driver where he was champion in the 2014–15 season, and also races a Rebellion R-One LMP1 in the FIA World Endurance Championship.
Werner von Haeften
Werner Karl Otto Theodor von Haeften was an Oberleutnant in the Wehrmacht who took part in the military-based conspiracy against Adolf Hitler known as the 20 July plot.
Hans Möser
Hans Karl Moeser was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era who served at the Neuengamme, Auschwitz and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps. He was captured at the end of the war and tried by the United States Military Government Court. The only one among 19 defendants at the Dora Trial sentenced to death, Möser was executed at Landsberg Prison in 1948.
Mambo Kurt
Mambo Kurt is a German comedy and novelty act who performs covers of mainstream and classic rock hits.
Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen
Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen is a German politician, lawyer and administrative officer. Since June 30, 2017, she has been serving as State Minister of Culture and Science in the government of Minister-President Armin Laschet of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Vanessa Struhler
Vanessa Struhler, better known as Vanessa S., is a German singer and songwriter who came to fame as a finalist of the first season of the television show Deutschland sucht den SuperStar, the German version of Pop Idol.
Duchess Marie Thérèse of Württemberg
Duchess Marie Thérèse of Württemberg known as Duchess of Montpensier, is a German-born aristocrat. A daughter of the claimant to the royal throne of Württemberg, abolished in 1918, she was the first wife of Prince Henri, Count of Clermont. Duchess Marie Thérèse is the mother of Prince Jean, Duke of Vendôme, head of the House of Orléans and Orléanist claimant to the French throne.
Alexander Leipold
Alexander Leipold is a German former freestyle wrestler who won the German Championships eleven times, the European Championships three times, the World Championships in 1994, and won the tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics but was later stripped of his gold medal for doping.
Jürgen Vollmer
Jürgen Vollmer, with Astrid Kirchherr and Klaus Voormann, befriended the Beatles during the band's time in Hamburg in the early 1960s. The son of a professional army officer who died during World War II, Vollmer was attending Hamburg's Institute of Fashion at the time he met the Beatles, who at the time included drummer Pete Best and bassist Stu Sutcliffe. Vollmer quickly became one of the group's photographers, and was responsible for some of their most iconic images in their leather-clad days prior to Brian Epstein. John Lennon was particularly impressed with Vollmer's photos, and used one of his favourites on the cover of his 1975 album Rock 'n' Roll. During the time Vollmer lived in the US, he worked as a set photographer in several Hollywood film productions.
Dragutin Horvat
Dragutin Horvat is a German darts player of Croatian origin currently playing in Professional Darts Corporation events.