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

Erika Ikuta is a Japanese idol singer, actress and a member of the Japanese idol girl group Nogizaka46. In addition to her work with Nogizaka46, Ikuta has appeared in multiple television and stage productions, including a Japanese production of Les Misérables.

Stephan Remmler is a German singer, musician, and composer. He became famous as the lead singer of the German band Trio, alongside Gert Krawinkel, who played the guitar, and Peter Behrens, who played the drums. After the deaths of both members, Remmler is the only surviving member of Trio.

Katharina Dröge is a German economist and politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as co-chair of the Green Party’s parliamentary group in the Bundestag since 2021, alongside Britta Haßelmann. She previously served as one of the group’s managers from 2018 to 2021. She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2013.

Frank Gust is a German serial killer. He has been dubbed Rhein-Ruhr-Ripper by the media, because his actions, mainly committed in the Rhine-Ruhr region in western Germany, share similarities with London's Jack the Ripper murders.

Antje Vollmer is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens. From 1994 to 2005, she was one of the vice presidents of the German parliament, the Bundestag.

Juliane Werding is a German singer and alternative therapy practitioner (Heilpraktiker).

Wotan Wilke Möhring is a German actor.

Campino is a German-British singer, songwriter and actor. He is best known as the lead vocalist of Die Toten Hosen, a German punk rock band.

Margrit Schiller was a German militant leftist associated with the Socialist Patients' Collective and later the Red Army Faction.

Mustafa Gundogdu, best known under his stage name Mousse T., is a German DJ, record producer, film composer and judge on season 15 of Deutschland sucht den Superstar, the German version of Pop Idol. He is best known for the 1998 house hit "Horny '98" and for his collaboration with Tom Jones on the 2000 hit "Sex Bomb", from Jones' 1999 album Reload.