List of Famous people born in Germany

Guido Kratschmer is a retired West German decathlete. His sports club was the USC Mainz.

Daniel Axt is a German actor. He is known for portraying Nick in Disney's film Rock It!.

Eberhard Diepgen is a German politician of the CDU.

Karl Arnold was a German politician. He was Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1947 to 1956.

Maximilian "Maxi" Kleber is a German professional basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Standing at 2.08 m, he plays at the power forward or center position.

Adrienne McQueen (1983) is a German-American actress.

Thomas Wolf, also known under the alias of David van Dyk, is a German criminal and was, until capture in May 2009, one of the most wanted fugitives in Germany for nine years.

Philipp Petzschner is a retired German professional tennis player. He was known for his hard-hitting forehand and bursts of speed around the court. He reached a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 9, which he achieved in April 2011.

René Schnitzler is a German football player, he plays for 1. FC Bettrath.

Oliver Stuenkel is a German-Brazilian political scientist, writer and Associate Professor at FGV's School of International Relations in São Paulo, Brazil. In addition to several books written on emerging powers and global politics — such as BRICS and the Future of Global Order (2015) and Post-Western World (2016), he is a columnist for EL PAÍS and Americas Quarterly and a frequent commentator in the national and international media on topics related to Brazilian politics and foreign policy, US-China relations and political risk. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Global Times, among others. Besides that, he is a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC, a non-resident fellow at the German think-tank Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), based in Berlin. He has earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Valencia, and he also holds a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University. He has obtained his PhD at the University of Duisburg-Essen.