List of Famous people born in Germany
Uwe Schmidt
Uwe Schmidt is a German stevedore and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bremen since 2017.
Johann König
Johann König is a German art agent and founder of KÖNIG GALERIE.
Winfried Bausback
Winfried Bausback is a German politician, representative of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria.
Sascha Burchert
Sascha Burchert is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Bundesliga club Greuther Fürth.
Thilo Bode
Thilo Bode is the founder and International Director of the consumer rights advocacy group Foodwatch, and was previously the CEO of Greenpeace.
Sabrina Hering
Sabrina Hering is a German canoeist. She competed in the women's K-4 500 metres event at the 2016 Summer Olympics where the team won a silver medal.
Marco Holzer
Marco Holzer is a German professional racing driver. He has competed in sports car competitions such as the 24 Hours of Le Mans, 24 Hours of Daytona, American Le Mans Series and Le Mans Series as a Porsche works driver.
Holger Seitz
Holger Seitz is a German manager and former professional football player. He is the current manager of Bayern Munich II.
Marc Zwiebler
Marc Zwiebler is a badminton player from Germany. His highest ranking is 10 in the world. He is a seven-time German national champion in men's singles. He won gold at the 2012 European Championships in Karlskrona over Henri Hurskainen 21–15, 21–13. 2010 he won bronze behind Peter Gade and Jan Ø. Jørgensen. By reaching the third round at the 2008 Olympics and the final of 2009 Denmark Open, one of premier tournament competition series BWF World Superseries, Zwiebler is considered as Germany's top badminton player of all time.
Ronald Reng
Ronald Reng is a German sports journalist and author. Of his books, two have been translated to English and both of them have been honored with book awards in the UK. The Keeper of Dreams, the story of the German goalkeeper Lars Leese who ended up playing for Barnsley Football Club in the Premier League, won the Sports Book of the Year Award in 2004. It was the first foreign book to win the award. Reng's biography of the late German national goalkeeper Robert Enke, A Life too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke was voted William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 2011. Reng was the first non-English speaking author in 23 years to win the award. In Germany, Reng won seven times, between 2001 and 2010, the award for the best sports story of the year by the Association of German Sports Writers. In 2010 he was awarded the Dietrich Oppenberg Media Award "for outstanding journalistic contributions to promote the culture of reading."