List of Famous people born in Germany

Alexander Waibel is a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Waibel's research interests focus on speech recognition and translation and human communication signals and systems. Waibel is known for the time delay neural network (TDNN), which he developed. It is the first convolutional neural network (CNN) trained by gradient descent, using the backpropagation algorithm. Alex Waibel introduced the TDNN 1987 at ATR in Japan.

Herwig Baier is a German neurobiologist with dual German and US-American citizenship. He is Director at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology and head of the department Genes – Circuits – Behavior. Herwig Baier's research aims to understand how animal brains convert sensory inputs into behavioral responses.

Markus Schupp is a German football manager and former player.

Özgür Yıldırım is a German-Turkish film director.

Helen Langehanenberg is a German dressage rider competing at Olympic level. On 7 August 2012 Langehanenberg, riding Damon Hill, was a member of the team which won the silver medal in the team dressage event.

Sebastian Ernst is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for SpVgg Greuther Fürth.

Wolfgang Kaiser was a member of Rainer Hildebrandt's "Struggle against Inhumanty" group which campaigned against the one party dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic.

Patrick Erras is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Holstein Kiel.

Fabian Schleusener is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward for Karlsruher SC.