List of Famous people born in Germany
Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim
Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim is a German chemist, science communicator, television presenter and YouTuber. As of June 2020, she is a member of the senate of the Max Planck Society.
Udo Lindenberg
Udo Lindenberg is a German singer, drummer, and composer.
Joshua Kimmich
Joshua Walter Kimmich is a German professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder or right-back for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and the Germany national team.
Lars Klingbeil
Lars Klingbeil is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party, who has been the General Secretary of the Social Democratic Party since 8 December 2017. Since 2001 he has been a member of the City Council of Munster and a member of the District Council of Heide. He was a Member of the Bundestag for about 9 months in 2005 and has been a member again since the 2009 Federal Election. From 2003 till 2007, Klingbeil was the Deputy Leader of the Jusos, the SPD youth wing. Klingbeil is a member of the Seeheim Circle, the right wing of the SPD, which shares many similarities with Tony Blair's New Labour.
Ted Herold
Harald Walter Bernhard Schubring, stage name Ted Herold, was a German rock and roll singer.
Hape Kerkeling
Hans Peter Wilhelm "Hape" Kerkeling is a German actor, presenter and comedian of Dutch descent.
Marco Buschmann
Marco Buschmann is a German lawyer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2009 to 2013 and again since 2017.
Johannes Oerding
Johannes Oerding is a German singer-songwriter.
Gerhard Schröder
Gerhard Fritz Kurt Schröder is a German politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005, during which his most important political initiative was Agenda 2010. As a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), he led a coalition government of the SPD and the Greens. Since 2017, Schröder serves as the chairman of Russian energy company Rosneft.
Bettina Stark-Watzinger
Bettina Stark-Watzinger is a German economist and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as Minister of Education and Research in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's cabinet since 2021. She has been a member of the Bundestag from the state of Hesse since 2017. Since 2021, she has been the chairwoman of the FDP in Hesse.