List of Famous people born in Germany
Blutonium Boy
Dirk Adamiak, better known by his stage name Blutonium Boy, is a hardstyle producer and DJ from Germany. He started playing as a DJ in 1988.
Franz Jung
Franz Jung is a German Roman Catholic bishop.
Angela Denoke
Angela Denoke is a German opera singer (soprano).
Fancy
Manfred Alois Segieth, known by his stage name Fancy, is a German singer, songwriter, musician and record producer.
Uta Pippig
Uta Pippig is a retired German Long-distance runner, and the first woman to officially win the Boston Marathon three consecutive times (1994–1996). She also won the Berlin Marathon three times ; the 1993 New York City Marathon; represented Germany at the Olympic Games in 1992 and 1996, and won a bronze medal at the 1991 World 15km Road Race Championship. Her marathon best of 2:21:45 set in Boston in 1994, made her the third-fastest female marathon runner in history at that time. She is a dual citizen of Germany and the United States.
LaToya Pringle
LaToya Antoinette Pringle, a.k.a. LaToya Antoinette Sanders or Lara Sanders, is an American-Turkish professional basketball player for the Washington Mystics of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Sanders is undersized forward/center that is not fazed by trash talking. Sanders played college basketball at the University of North Carolina before getting drafted by the Phoenix Mercury in the 2008 WNBA Draft. Currently, she also plays for Kayseri Kaski S.K. in Turkey.
Tina Lutz
Tina Lutz is a German sailor who has competed in the Optimist and 49er FX categories. Along with Susann Beucke, she won a gold medal at the 2017 and 2020 49er & 49er FX European Championships., having won a gold medal at the 2005 Optimist World Championships. Beucke and Lutz qualified to represent Germany at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, competing in 49er FX.
Andreas Thom
Andreas Thom is a former German professional footballer who played as a forward for BFC Dynamo, Bayer Leverkusen, Celtic and Hertha BSC. He played 51 times for East Germany throughout the 1980s and played 10 times for the unified German national team in the early 1990s. He is now retired from playing and works as a youth coach at Hertha BSC.
Carl Hahn
Carl Horst Hahn is a German businessman and former head of the Volkswagen Group from 1982 to 1993. He served as the chairman of the board of management of the parent company, Volkswagen AG. During his tenure, the group's car production increased from two million units in 1982 to 3.5 million a decade later.
Rüdiger Vollborn
Rüdiger Vollborn is a German retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper.