List of Famous people born in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Antje Tillmann is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Thuringia since 2002.

Wolfgang Becker is a German film director and screenwriter, best known to international audiences for his work Good Bye Lenin! (2003).

Markus Fothen is a retired German road racing cyclist, who rode as a professional between 2004 and 2013.

Wolfram Burgard is a German roboticist. He is a full professor at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg where he heads the Laboratory for Autonomous Intelligent Systems. He is known for his substantial contributions to the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem as well as diverse other contributions to robotics.

Paul Josef Cordes is a German Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as President of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum (1995–2010), and was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 2007.