List of Famous people born in Germany

Ilona Maria Gusenbauer is a retired Austrian high jumper. She competed at the 1968 and 1972 Olympics and finished in eighth and third place, respectively. She held the world record for more than a year starting in 1971, and was the Austrian champion in 1966–1973, 1975 and 1976.

Maria of Romania or Marie of Yugoslavia, known in Serbo-Croatian as Marija Karađorđević, was Queen of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later Queen of Yugoslavia, as the wife of King Alexander from 1922 until his assassination in 1934. She was the mother of Peter II, the last Yugoslav monarch. Her citizenship was revoked and her property confiscated by the Yugoslav Communist regime in 1947, but she was "rehabilitated" in 2014.

Giuseppe "Billy" Reina is a German former professional footballer who played as a striker. He spent nine seasons in the Bundesliga with Arminia Bielefeld, Borussia Dortmund and Hertha BSC.

Florian Munteanu, also known by his ring name Big Nasty, is a German-Romanian actor and model, and a former heavyweight boxer. He is widely known for his role of the boxer Viktor Drago, the son of former Soviet Union boxer Ivan Drago, in the 2018 American sports drama film Creed II, which the film was the direct sequel from 1985's Rocky IV. He also played Razor Fist in the 2021 Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

Wiebke Lehmkuhl is a German contralto in opera and concert who has appeared at international leading opera houses and festivals, including as Wagner's Magdalene at the Bayreuth Festival, as Erda in Paris, and as Annina at the Salzburg Festival. She was the alto soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the 2017 opening of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg.

Kimberly Drewniok is a German volleyball player. She participated in the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League.

Heiner Flassbeck is a German economist and public intellectual. From 1998 to 1999 he was a State Secretary in the German Federal Ministry of Finance where he also advised former finance minister Oskar Lafontaine on a reform of the European Monetary System. He became the Chief of Macroeconomics and Development of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva in January 2003, a position that he held until resigning at the end of 2012 due to his age.

Jakob von Weizsäcker is a German economist and politician who currently serves as the chief economist of the German Ministry of Finance. Before, he served as the social democratic Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Thuringia, Germany for the 8th European Parliament (2014-2019).

Dirk Dier is a former professional tennis player from Germany.

Marko Rehmer is a German former professional footballer who played mainly as a centre-back.