List of Famous people born in Germany
Katja Keul
Katja Keul is a German lawyer and politician of Alliance 90/The Greens. She has been a member of the Bundestag, the German parliament, since the 2009 German federal election.
Nadja Uhl
Nadja Uhl is a German actress.
Odisseas Vlachodimos
Odysseas Vlachodimos is a professional footballer who plays for Portuguese club Benfica and the Greece national team as a goalkeeper.
Barbara Auer
Barbara Auer is a German actress. She has appeared in multiple television shows and films including Meine Tochter gehört mir, Impossibly Yours, Waiting for Angelina, and The Book Thief.
Julia Görges
Julia Görges is a German former professional tennis player. A former top-ten singles player, she was ranked as high as No. 9 in the world on 20 August 2018, and was ranked inside the top 15 in doubles, peaking at world No. 12 on 22 August 2016. She won seven singles and five doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as six singles and six doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.
Sandra
Sandra Ann Lauer, commonly known under her stage name Sandra and Sandra Cretu, is a German pop singer who enjoyed a mainstream popularity in the 1980s and early 1990s with a string of European hit singles, produced by her then-husband and musical partner, Michael Cretu, most notably "(I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena" (1985), "In the Heat of the Night" (1985), "Everlasting Love" (1987), "Secret Land" (1988), "Hiroshima" (1990) and "Don't Be Aggressive" (1992). Her albums Into a Secret Land (1988) and Close to Seven (1992) have won Sandra high critical acclaim.
Gaby Köster
Gabriele Wilhelmine "Gaby" Köster is a German actress and comedian.
Herbert Köfer
Herbert Köfer is a German actor, voice artist and TV presenter.
Magdalena Neuner
Magdalena "Lena" Neuner is a retired German professional biathlete. She is the most successful woman of all time at Biathlon World Championships and a two-time Olympic gold medalist. At the age of 21, she became the youngest Overall World Cup winner in the history of the International Biathlon Union (IBU). With 34 World Cup wins, Neuner is ranked second all-time for career victories on the Biathlon World Cup tour. She has won the Overall World Cup title three times, in 2007–08, in 2009–10 and her final season in 2011–12. Neuner retired from the sport in March 2012, citing a lack of motivation and her desire for a normal life.
Simon Schempp
Simon Schempp is a German former biathlete. In 2009, he made his World Cup debut. He became world champion by winning gold in the 15km mass start race at the Biathlon World Championships 2017 in Hochfilzen. He also won three more gold medals, two for being part of the German Biathlon World Championships 2010 mixed relay team in Khanty-Mansiysk and the German Biathlon World Championships 2017 mixed relay team in Hochfilzen, and one gold medal as part of the German Biathlon World Championships 2015 men's relay team in Kontiolahti.