List of Famous people born in Germany
Wolfgang Joop
Wolfgang Joop is a German fashion designer. He is the founder of the fashion and cosmetics company JOOP! as well as of fashion brand Wunderkind. He is the father of fashion and jewel designer Jette Joop and of writer and painter Florentine Joop.
Kai Pflaume
Kai Pflaume is a German television presenter and game show host.
Arnd Peiffer
Arnd Peiffer is a German biathlete. His greatest successes so far are the victories in the 2018 Winter Olympics and the Biathlon World Championships 2011 in the sprint. In addition, he won as a relay member three more World Cup gold medals.
Holger Obermann
Holger Obermann was a German former (semi-) professional football player and football manager, journalist and ARD television reporter. From 1971 to 1984 he was one of the moderators of the sports program.
Nino de Angelo
Domenico Gerhard Gorgoglione, known professionally as Nino de Angelo, is a German singer of Italian descent known for his 1983 chart-topper "Jenseits von Eden", and who participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 1989 with the song, "Flieger", written by Dieter Bohlen and Joachim Horn-Bernges.
Heinz Fassmann
Heinz Faßmann is an Austrian politician and professor of human geography and land-use planning at the University of Vienna. He is serving as the Minister of Education in the Second Kurz cabinet in the government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and served in the same capacity from December 2017 to June 2019. Faßmann is considered to be aligned with the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) but holds no formal party membership or affiliation.
Nazan Eckes
Nazan Eckes is a German television personality.
Janine Chang
Janine Chang or Chang Chun-ning is a Taiwanese actress. Chang attended National Taipei University and obtained a bachelor's degree in law. In June 2010, Chang graduated from the Institute of Industrial Economics at National Central University with a master's degree.
Joachim Gauck
Joachim Wilhelm Gauck is a German politician and civil rights activist who served as President of Germany from 2012 to 2017. A former Lutheran pastor, he came to prominence as an anti-communist civil rights activist in East Germany.
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg
Karl-Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Franz Joseph Sylvester Buhl-Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg is a German businessman and politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU). He served as a member of the Bundestag from 2002 to 2011, as Secretary-General of the CSU from 2008 to 2009, as Federal Minister for Economics and Technology in 2009 and as Federal Minister of Defence from 2009 to 2011.