List of Famous people born in Germany
Florian Pronold
Florian Pronold is a German lawyer and politician of the SPD who has been serving as member of the German Bundestag since 2002. From 11 July 2009 to 20 May 2017, he was state chairman of the SPD Bavaria. Since 17 December 2013, Pronold has been Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Isabel Marie Gose
Isabel Marie Gose is a German swimmer. She competed in the women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay event at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships, winning the bronze medal.
Arvid Schenk
Arvid Schenk is a German retired professional football player who played as a goalkeeper.
Lars Rudolph
Lars Rudolph is a German actor and musician. He appeared in more than ninety films since 1984. He won the Max-Ophüls-Preis in 1997.
Vanessa Jung
Vanessa Jung is a German actress.
Hans-Jürgen Ripp
Hans-Jürgen Ripp was a German professional footballer who played as a defender. He spent nine seasons in the Bundesliga with Hamburger SV. In August 2017, he was the player with the fourth most number of Bundesliga appearances without scoring a goal.
Makana Baku
Makana Nsimba Baku is a German-Congolese professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Warta Poznań on loan from Holstein Kiel.
Christina Haferkamp
Christina Haverkamp is a German-based human rights activist with special focus on the Yanomami people living in Venezuela and Brazil. She founded the non-profit organization Yanomami-Hilfe e.V. in 2006 to help the indigenous people there. This was after she revoked her association and membership at the Society of Threatened Peoples with the argument that the Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) organization had embezzled money and enriched itself by collecting donations meant to help the Yanomami but were not paid out for the allocated Yanomami projects. She gives lectures in schools and universities about human rights and environment.
Antje Schmidt
Antje Schmidt is a German actress. She appeared in more than sixty films since 1989.
Eberhard Weber
Eberhard Weber is a German double bassist and composer. As a bass player, he is known for his highly distinctive tone and phrasing. Weber's compositions blend chamber jazz, European classical music, minimalism and ambient music, and are regarded as characteristic examples of the ECM Records sound.