List of Famous people born in Germany

Sebastian Polter is a German professional footballer who plays as a striker for Fortuna Sittard.

Christiane Sadlo is a German screenwriter, dramaturge, and journalist. She is best known by her pseudonym Inga Lindström. She is married to sculptor Karl Halt Trossbach, with whom she has a daughter.

Dominik Stehle is a German alpine ski racer.

Christian Petzold is a German film director.

Sebastian Thrun is an entrepreneur, educator, and computer scientist from Germany. He is CEO of Kitty Hawk Corporation, and chairman and co-founder of Udacity. Before that, he was a Google VP and Fellow, a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, and before that at Carnegie Mellon University. At Google, he founded Google X and Google's self-driving car team. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University and at Georgia Tech.

Hans Leyendecker is a German journalist. He writes for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and is one of Germany's best known investigative journalists.

Emily Atef is a French-Iranian director, screenwriter and producer based in Berlin.

Katja Eichinger is a German author and film producer.

Kevin Vogt is a German professional footballer who plays as a centre back and midfielder for 1899 Hoffenheim.

Wolf-Dieter Storl is a German-American cultural anthropologist, ethnobotanist and book author.