List of Famous people born in Germany
Hagen Reinhold
Hagen Reinhold is a German politician. Born in Wismar, he represents the Free Democratic Party (FDP). Reinhold has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern since 2017.
Nadja Michael
Nadja Michael is a German opera singer with an active international career singing leading soprano roles. Her mother's great-aunt was the soprano Erna Sack.
Eberhard Schoener
Eberhard Schoener is a German musician, composer, conductor, and arranger. His activities combine many styles and formats. Originally a classical violinist and conductor of chamber music and opera, he was one of the early adopters and popularizers of the Moog synthesizer in Europe. In the 1970s he traveled to Indonesia and incorporated musical elements from Asia into his own work. He has collaborated with rock musicians such as Jon Lord and The Police and also with Electronic Music German Pioneer band Tangerine Dream on an orchestral arrangement for the "Mojave Plan" track for a live performance on a German TV show. He has composed film scores, videos, music for television, and an opera to be broadcast via the Internet. He has won numerous awards, including the 1975 Schwabing Art Prize for music, the 1992 Bambi Award for creativity and a lifetime achievement award at the Soundtrack Cologne Festival of Music and Sound in Film and the Media in November, 2014.
Marga von Etzdorf
Margarete (Marga) von Etzdorf was a German aircraft pilot, notable for being the first woman hired to fly for an airline, and the first woman to fly solo across Siberia, from Germany to Tokyo, Japan.
Christian Mikolajczak
Christian Mikolajczak is a German retired footballer who played as a midfielder.
Franz Oppenhoff
Franz Oppenhoff was a German lawyer who was appointed mayor of the city of Aachen by Allied forces and subsequently murdered on the order of Heinrich Himmler.
Arifin Putra
Putra Arifin Scheunemann, known professionally as Arifin Putra, is a German-born Indonesian actor. His international recognition is largely attributed to his role in the Indonesian action film The Raid 2: Berandal, which was released in the United States and other major markets around the world. He also starred in the 2009 Indonesian horror film, Rumah Dara.
Georg Milbradt
Georg Milbradt is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Minister-President of Saxony from 2002 to 2008.
Janni Serra
Janni-Luca Serra is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward for Holstein Kiel.
Max Hartung
Maximilian Hartung is a German sabre fencer and athlete activist. He is a four-time European Champion, team World Champion and two-time Olympic participant. He is chairman of the Athletes Commission in the DOSB and founding president of Athleten Deutschland e.V. He was a member of the Sporthilfe supervisory board for four years, four years in the board of the German Fencing Federation and two years in the board of the German Olympic Comitee as the voice of the athletes. He completed his studies in politics, sociology and economics at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen and the Universteit Gent.