List of Famous people born in Germany

Sabrina Mockenhaupt is a German long-distance runner who specialises in track events and the marathon. She is a two-time winner of the Cologne Marathon and has also won the Frankfurt Marathon and the Berlin Half Marathon. She represented Germany at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics and was the 3000 metres bronze medallist at the 2005 European Indoor Championships. She has a marathon best of 2:26:21, set at the 2010 Berlin Marathon.

Herbert Hainer is a German manager and the former CEO of Adidas-Group, as well as supervisory board chairman of the FC Bayern Munich AG. He is currently the president of the football club FC Bayern Munich.

Sabine Christiansen is a German journalist and television presenter.

Paula Kalenberg is a German actress. She is probably best known to international audiences for her roles in films Krabat, Vision – From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen and Jew Suss: Rise and Fall.

Deniz Yücel is a German-Turkish journalist and publisher. He has been a contributor to several German publications, most notably Die Tageszeitung and Die Welt.

David Raum is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for TSG 1899 Hoffenheim. He is mainly utilised in as a left midfielder and has represented Germany at youth level.

Ansgar Brinkmann is a retired German football player. He played two seasons in the Bundesliga with Eintracht Frankfurt and Arminia Bielefeld. He also played 316 games in the 2. Bundesliga for nine different teams.

Frank Schätzing, is a German writer, mostly known for his best-selling science fiction novel The Swarm (2004).

Friederike Kempter is a German actress. Her acting credits include films like Pandorum and A Coffee in Berlin as well as television shows like Ladykracher and Hauptstadtrevier. She has played Police Kommissar Nadeshda Krusenstern in the Thiel and Boerne Tatort episodes since 2002.

Sibylle Rauch is a German former film actress, nude model and pornographic actress.