List of Famous people born in Germany

Peer Steinbrück is a German politician who was the chancellor-candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in the 2013 federal election. Steinbrück served as the 8th Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2002 to 2005, a member of the Bundestag from 2009 to 2016, and as Federal Minister of Finance in the first Cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2005 to 2009.

Kira-Theresa Underberg is a German actress and radio play talker.

Chiara Schoras is a German actress.

Devid Striesow is a German actor. He starred as "Sturmbannführer Herzog" in Stefan Ruzowitzky's 2007 film The Counterfeiters, which was awarded the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for that year.

Joscha Kiefer is a German actor and best known for his role as Sebastian von Lahnstein on the soap opera Verbotene Liebe .

Nadeshda Brennicke is a German actress, singer and author.

Antonia "Toni" Pettyfer is a German fashion model, actress and humanitarian.

Franziska Katharina Brantner is a German politician of the Green Party. She was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 to 2013, and since 2013 she has been a member of the German Parliament.

Fritz Bauer was a German Jewish judge and prosecutor. He was instrumental in the post-war capture of former Holocaust planner Adolf Eichmann and also played an essential role in starting the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials.

Udo Zimmermann is a German composer, musicologist, opera director and conductor. He worked as a professor of composition, founded a centre for contemporary music in Dresden, and was director of the Leipzig Opera and the Deutsche Oper Berlin. He directed a contemporary music series for the Bayerischer Rundfunk and a European centre of the arts in Hellerau. His operas, especially Weiße Rose, on a topic he set to music twice, have been performed internationally and recorded.