List of Famous people born in Germany
Sascha Dum
Sascha Dum is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder for FC Teutonia Weiden.
Daniel Flottmann
Daniel Flottmann is a German footballer who plays for SV Rödinghausen.
Gerd Zimmermann
Gerd Zimmermann is a German retired footballer. He spent 9 seasons in the Bundesliga with Borussia Mönchengladbach, SC Fortuna Köln and Fortuna Düsseldorf. He spent two years in the North American Soccer League playing for the Houston Hurricane and the Calgary Boomers before returning to Germany to close out his career.
Dirk Bielefeldt
Dirk Bielefeldt is a German actor and cabaret artist, particularly famous for his role of the policeman, Herr Holm.
Werner Braune
Karl Rudolf Werner Braune was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era and a Holocaust perpetrator. During the German invasion of the Soviet Union of 1941, Braune was the commander of Einsatzkommando 11b, part of Einsatzgruppe D. Braune organized and conducted mass murders of Jews in the Army Group South Rear Area, the Reichskommissariat Ukraine. For his role in these crimes, Braune was tried before the Nuremberg Military Tribunal in 1948 in the Einsatzgruppen trial. He was convicted, sentenced to death and executed in 1951.
Gyde Jensen
Gyde Jensen is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2017.
Stefan Krämer
Stefan Krämer is a German football coach, who is currently managing Eupen.
Gerhard Augustin
Gerhard Augustin is a German music producer. He was the first professional disc jockey in Germany and co-founder of the music program Beat-Club. Augustin helped generate a shift in Germany culture by introducing various genres of music at a time when schlager was the standard by giving exposure to krautrock bands such as Amon Düül II and Popol Vuh. He later became the head of A&R for United Artists Records in Munich, and then the producer and manager for American R&B duo Ike & Tina Turner.
Tobias Welz
Tobias Welz is a German football referee who is based in Wiesbaden. He referees for SpVgg Nassau Wiesbaden of the Hessian Football Association. He was a FIFA referee between 2013 and 2019.
Thomas Römer
Thomas Christian Römer is a Swiss exegete, philologist and biblist, of German origin. After teaching at the University of Geneva, he became professor of the Old Testament at the University of Lausanne and, from 2007, held the chair "Biblical environments" at the Collège de France, of which he became administrator in 2019.