List of Famous people born in Germany

Manfred Purzer is a German screenwriter and film director. He wrote 27 films between 1955 and 1993. In 1974, he was a member of the jury at the 24th Berlin International Film Festival.

Jutta Fleck is an attempted escapee and former political prisoner of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. She is known as "The Woman from Checkpoint Charlie". Following a failed attempt to escape from the German Democratic Republic (GDR) with her daughters in August 1982, she was imprisoned in Hoheneck Women's Prison and, after being deported to the Federal Republic of Germany, spent four years protesting for her daughters' release from East Germany.

Dorothee Wilms is a German politician.

Friedrich-Wilhelm Kiel is a German politician and member of the FDP.

Esther Gronenborn is a German film director and screenwriter. Films she wrote and directed include Alaska.de, Adil geht and a segment of 99euro-films. She has also been a director of the TV series Galileo Mystery.

Susanne Sabine Renner is a German botanist. She is professor of biology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich as well as director of the Botanische Staatssammlung München and the Botanischer Garten München-Nymphenburg. She is married to American ornithologist and ecologist Robert Ricklefs.