List of Famous people born in Germany

Karen Duve is a German author. After secondary school, she worked as a proof-reader and taxi driver in Hamburg. Since 1990 she has been a freelance writer.

Selina Freitag is a German ski jumper. She won the overall ranking of the 2016–17 FIS Ski Jumping Alpen Cup, and has competed at World Cup level since the 2018–19 season. Her best individual result is 13th place in Ramsau on 18 December 2020. At the 2019 Nordic Junior World Ski Championships, she won a silver medal in the team event and a bronze medal in the mixed-team event.

Frank Mertens, is a German musician. He is a former member of the German synth-pop group Alphaville. Personality wise, he was a shy and quiet person who doesn't like to talk.

Neele Eckhardt is a German triple jumper. She competed in the women's triple jump at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics.

Mehmet Yozgatlı is a Turkish former footballer who played as a winger and currently an assistant manager of Fenerbahçe.

Sascha Paeth is a German guitarist, bassist, musical producer, and mixer known for working with heavy metal bands such as Avantasia, Edguy, Angra, Shaaman, Rhapsody of Fire, Kamelot, After Forever and Epica. He owns the "Gate Studios", Wolfsburg previously used for recordings with his former band Heavens Gate.

Harald Grohs is a race driver and team owner from Essen, Germany.

Philipp Laux is a German former footballer, now sports psychologist of VfB Stuttgart.

Olaf Ludwig is a former German racing cyclist. His career began at the SG Dynamo Gera / Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo. As an East German, he raced as an amateur until reunification of Germany allowed him to become professional with Panasonic team. As a sprinter, the highlight of his career was winning the points classification in the 1990 Tour de France. Other highlights include the Olympic road race in Seoul in 1988, a record 38 stage victories in the Peace Race, winning the Amstel Gold Race in 1992, and podium placings in the Paris–Roubaix. He also won the 1992 UCI Road World Cup. His sprinting rivals included Mario Cipollini, Wilfried Nelissen and Djamolidine Abdoujaparov.

Ute Vogt is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from 1994 until 2005 and since 2009.