List of Famous people born in Germany

Lena Petermann is a German football striker, currently playing for Montpellier in the Division 1 Feminine.

Sigmund Rascher was a German SS doctor. He conducted deadly experiments on humans pertaining to high altitude, freezing and blood coagulation under the patronage of SS leader Heinrich Himmler, to whom his wife Karoline "Nini" Diehl had direct connections. When police investigations uncovered that the couple had defrauded the public with their supernatural fertility by 'hiring' and kidnapping babies, she and Rascher were arrested in April 1944. He was accused of financial irregularities, murder of his former lab assistant, and scientific fraud, and brought to Buchenwald and Dachau before being executed. After his death, the Nuremberg Trials judged his experiments as inhumane and criminal.

Moritz Leitner is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Championship club Norwich City. He has previously played for Borussia Dortmund, 1860 Munich, FC Augsburg and Lazio. He has been capped at youth international level by Germany and Austria.

Andreas Stenschke, is a German actor and director.

Thomas Röwekamp is a German politician (CDU). Since 2007 he is chairman of CDU-faction in Bremen Senat. In the government of Henning Scherf, Röwekamp was Senator and under the government of Jens Böhrnsen vice-major of Bremen.

Dieter Gerald Janecek is a German politician of the Green Party who has been serving as a member of the German Parliament since 2013. From 2008 to 2014 Janecek was chairman of the Bavarian Green Party.

Karlheinz Helmut Förster is a former German footballer who played as a central defender.

Rolf Steiner is a retired professional German mercenary. He began his military career as a French Foreign Legion paratrooper and saw combat in Vietnam, Egypt, and Algeria. Steiner rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel commanding the 4th Commando Brigade in the Biafran Army during the Nigerian Civil War, and later fought with the Anyanya rebels in southern Sudan.

Oliver Schröm is one of Germany's acknowledged investigative journalists. He is the founder and head of the Investigative Reporting Team at the Stern magazine. Since November 2011 he is the chairman of the German association of investigative journalists, Netzwerk Recherche.

Jochen Ott is a German teacher and politician of the Social Democrats (SPD) who has been serving as member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2010.