List of Famous people born in Germany

Klaus Cichutek is a German biochemist and the current President of the Paul Ehrlich Institute. He is also professor of biochemistry at the Goethe University Frankfurt.

Cenk Tosun is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Everton and the Turkey national team.

Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel is a German politician of the SPD.

Steffen Reiche is a German politician, a representative of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

Jürgen Prochnow is a German-American actor and voice actor. His best-known roles internationally have been as the good-hearted and sympathetic U-boat captain in Das Boot (1981), Duke Leto Atreides in Dune (1984), the minor but important role of Kazakh dictator General Ivan Radek in Air Force One (1997), and the antagonist Maxwell Dent in Beverly Hills Cop II (1987).

Marian Gold is a German singer-songwriter who gained fame as the lead singer of the German synth-pop recording act Alphaville, but also has recorded as a solo artist.

Ulrike Folkerts is a German actress. She is most famous for playing police officer Lena Odenthal in the German crime television series Tatort. The episodes are located in the town of Ludwigshafen.

Jamie-Lee Kriewitz, better known by the mononym Jamie-Lee, is a German singer and activist. Born and raised in Bennigsen, Hanover, she performed as a member of the German children choir Joyful Noise before auditioning for the fifth season of The Voice of Germany in 2015. She competed as one of the seventeen composing members of Team Michi & Smudo and later emerged as the winner after garnering 38% of the public vote. Kriewitz's debut and winner's single, "Ghost", peaked at number 11 on the GfK Entertainment Charts, number 65 in the Ö3 Austria Top 40 and number 26 on the Swiss Hitparade. She subsequently signed a recording contract with Universal Music Group; her debut studio album Berlin was released on 29 April 2016 and peaked at number 18 on the GfK Entertainment Charts.

Thomas Hitzlsperger is a German director of football and former footballer who played as a midfielder. Since February 2019, he has been the head of sport of VfB Stuttgart.

Claas-Hendrik Relotius is a German former journalist. He resigned from Der Spiegel in 2018 after admitting numerous instances of journalistic fraud.