List of Famous people born in Germany

Victor Moritz "Moe" Wagner is a German professional basketball player for the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played for the University of Michigan from 2015 through his junior season for the 2017–18 Wolverines team. The forward entered his name for the 2017 NBA draft without hiring an agent, but withdrew and returned to Michigan. He was selected with the 25th overall pick in the 2018 NBA draft by the Los Angeles Lakers.

Matthias Koeberlin is a German actor and reciter. His work includes the British-German co-production The Sinking of the Laconia and 2017 in German television serie Charité he played role of German physician Emil Behring.

Christoph Tobias Metzelder is a German former professional footballer who played as a central defender.

Marco Wanderwitz, is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Since 2018, he has been serving as Parliamentary States Secretary in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Stefan Kretzschmar is a retired professional German handball player. The son of Peter Kretzschmar, a legendary handball player and coach in the former GDR and Waltraud Kretzschmar, a former handball player for the East German team and winner of Olympic team medals in silver (1976) and bronze (1980), he was a three-time Olympic athlete and winner of the Olympic silver medal with the German team in 2004. He is well known for his many tattoos and piercings. He ended his active career on 14 July 2007 and currently resides in Magdeburg, Germany, where he continues to hold a position with the local handball club, SC Magdeburg.

Reinhard Friedrich Michael Mey is a German "Liedermacher". In France he is known as Frédérik Mey.

Ursula Eva Maria Kock am Brink is a German television presenter.

Anke Huber is a German retired top-five professional tennis player. She was the runner-up in women's singles at the 1996 Australian Open and the 1995 WTA Finals. She finished ten seasons inside the top 20, and achieved a career-high ranking of 4 in October 1996.

Mojib Latif is a German meteorologist and oceanographer of Pakistani descent. Latif graduated with a Diplom in meteorology in 1983. He took a position as scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in 1985. In 1987 he earned a Ph.D. in oceanography from the University of Hamburg. In 2003 he became professor at IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences. Mojib Latif is a regular guest at TV discussions about global warming.

Fritz Wepper is a German film and television actor. He is best known for his role as Inspector Harry Klein in the long-running crime series Derrick (1974-1998). Wepper is also remembered for his roles in the films Cabaret (1972) and The Bridge (1959) and as Mayor Wöller in the TV series Um Himmels Willen.