List of Famous people born in Germany

Thomas Fahrner is a former freestyle swimmer from Germany. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles Fahrner earned two medals bronze in the 200 m freestyle and silver in 4×200 m freestyle relay. He also set an Olympic record for the 400 m freestyle (3:50.91) in the B final. Four years later at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul he earned another medal this time a bronze medal in the 4×200 m freestyle relay.

Elisabeth Schroedter is a German politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament in the Alliance '90/The Greens from 1994 to 2014.

Bruno Jonas is a German Kabarett artist and actor.

Bertram Lutz Wilhelm Passmann, known by the stage name Bertram Engel, is a German rock drummer.

Erna Schlüter was a German operatic dramatic soprano.

Robby Schlund is a German politician for the populist Alternative for Germany and since 2017 member of the Bundestag, the federal legislative body.

Angelika Klüssendorf is a German writer. She was born in Ahrensburg and raised in Leipzig, both in the German Democratic Republic. In 1985, she fled to West Germany where she has lived ever since.

Laura Basuki is a Germany-born Indonesian model and actress of mixed Javanese, Chinese and Vietnamese descent.

Leon Seidel is a German actor. Is known for playing the role of Huckleberry Finn in the German film of 2011 Tom Sawyer.

Klaus Schulze is a German electronic music pioneer, composer and musician. He also used the alias Richard Wahnfried. He was briefly a member of the Krautrock bands Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, and The Cosmic Jokers before launching a solo career consisting of more than 60 albums released across five decades.