List of Famous people born in Germany

Simon Lorenz is a German professional footballer who plays as a defender for 2. Bundesliga club Holstein Kiel.

Niklas Wilson Sommer is a German professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Dunajská Streda.

Dieter Frey is a German former footballer who played as a defender or midfielder.

Fritz Walter is a German former professional footballer who played as a striker, and who was nicknamed "Little Fritz". Born in Mannheim, he is of no relation to German legend of the same name Fritz Walter.

Christian Neidhart is a former German footballer and current football manager of Rot-Weiss Essen. He is the father of fellow footballer Nico Neidhart.

Jürgen Schmidhuber is a computer scientist most noted for his work in the field of artificial intelligence, deep learning and artificial neural networks. He is a co-director of the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research in Lugano, in Ticino in southern Switzerland. Following Google Scholar, from 2016 to 2021 he has received more than 100,000 scientific citations. He has been referred to as "father of modern AI," "father of AI," "dad of mature AI," "Papa" of famous AI products, "Godfather," and "father of deep learning."

Anne Zohra Berrached is a German film director and screenwriter.

Marco Werner is a professional racer from Germany.

Marcus Urban is a former German football player. He played with the East German national youth football team and in the second division club Rot-Weiß Erfurt in the 1980s and early 1990s. Several years afterwards he came out as a gay man. He has spoken publicly about the difficulties that gay footballers experience, and he is now a spokesperson and campaigner on diversity issues in sport and the workplace.

Benjamin Ebrahimzadeh is Iranian-German tennis player who competed for the Iran Davis Cup team in 2008. Currently, he is the coach of Cedrik-Marcel Stebe and Natalia Vikhlyantseva. He was the coach of Angelique Kerber between 2012 and February 2015.