List of Famous people born in Germany
Frank Otto
Frank Otto is a German media entrepreneur and pioneer in the field of private radio and private television in Germany. About the Frank Otto Medien Beteiligungs GmbH & Co.KG he is involved in various radio and TV stations.
Corinna Harfouch
Corinna Harfouch is a German actress.
Jonas Nay
Jonas Nay is a German actor and musician known for starring as Martin Rauch in Deutschland 83 and its sequels, Deutschland 86 and Deutschland 89.
Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg was a German army officer best known for his failed attempt on 20 July 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the Wolf's Lair and remove the Nazi Party from power. Along with Henning von Tresckow and Hans Oster, he was one of the central figures of the German resistance to Nazism within the Wehrmacht. For his involvement in the movement, he was executed by firing squad shortly after Operation Valkyrie.
Gerda Taro
Gerta Pohorylle, known professionally as Gerda Taro, was a German Jewish war photographer active during the Spanish Civil War. She is regarded as the first woman photojournalist to have died while covering the frontline in a war.
Tamera Mowry
Tamera Darvette Mowry-Housley is an American actress and television personality. She first gained fame for her teen role as Tamera Campbell on the ABC/WB sitcom Sister, Sister. She has also starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie Twitches and its sequel, Twitches Too, and she played Dr. Kayla Thornton on the medical drama Strong Medicine.
Julia Stoschek
Julia Stoschek is a German socialite and art collector.
Mark Waschke
Mark Waschke is a German theatre, film, and television actor who has been appearing in German films since 2005.
Peri Baumeister
Peri Baumeister is a German TV and film actress best known in the UK for her role as "Lady Gisela" in series 2 and 3 of The Last Kingdom and as Sara in the 2019 Netflix television series Skylines.
Alexander S. Kekulé
Alexander S. Kekulé is a German doctor and biochemist. Since 1999 he has held the chair for Medical Microbiology and Virology of the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg and Director of the Institute for Medical Microbiology of the Universitätsklinikum Halle.