List of Famous people born in Germany
Thomas Weikert
Thomas Weikert is a German sports official. He is current President of the International Table Tennis Federation and was elected to office on 31 May 2017. Formerly the Deputy President, Thomas Weikert became President in 2014 when Adham Sharara, who had held the office since 1999, assumed the role of Chair and Honorary President of the International Table Tennis Federation.
Vera Lengsfeld
Vera Lengsfeld is a German politician. She was a prominent civil rights activist in East Germany and after the German reunification she first represented the Alliance '90/The Greens and then the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the Bundestag.
Nicole
Nicole Seibert, known professionally as Nicole, is a German singer, songwriter, musician and producer. In 1982 she was the first German representative to win the Eurovision Song Contest. She has released more than 25 studio albums and 80 singles, some of which she performed and recorded in, among other languages, English, Dutch, and French. She wrote the music and lyrics for some of her recordings.
Leonard Lansink
Leonard Lansink is a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films since 1983.
Wolfgang Götze
Wolfgang Götze was a German theoretical physicist.
Marcus Pretzell
Marcus Pretzell is a German politician and was Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany from 2016 to 2019. He was a member of the Alternative for Germany, part of the Europe of Nations and Freedom and was a member of The Blue Party.
Kevin Großkreutz
Kevin Großkreutz is a German former professional footballer who played as a right back and winger.
Fabian Hambüchen
Fabian Hambüchen is a retired German gymnast who was Olympic, World and European champion. Fabian also won gold medals at European Games and at 2015 Summer Universiade. He has a full set of Olympics medals, one in each colour, as he is the 2016 Olympic champion, 2012 Olympic silver medalist and 2008 Olympic bronze medalist on the individual horizontal bar event. He became World champion on horizontal bars in 2007 Stuttgart.
Oscar Otte
Oscar Otte is a German tennis player.
John B. Goodenough
John Bannister Goodenough is an American materials scientist, a solid-state physicist, and a Nobel laureate in chemistry. He is a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at the University of Texas at Austin. He is widely credited with the identification and development of the lithium-ion battery, for developing the Goodenough–Kanamori rules in determining the sign of the magnetic superexchange in materials, and for seminal developments in computer random access memory.