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

Tim Wiese is a German professional wrestler and former football goalkeeper.

Wolfgang Walter Wilhelm Bosbach is a German politician and member of Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which he joined in 1972. A lawyer by profession, Bosbach is a partner at Winter, Jansen & Lamsfuß in Bergisch Gladbach.

Antonio Di Salvo is an Italian-German football manager and former striker. He is now the assistant manager of Germany U21.

Britta Haßelmann is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens. She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2005 and first manager of the Green parliamentary group since 2013.

Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger [zaˈbiːnə ˈlɔʏthɔʏsɐ ˈʃnaʀənˌbɛɐ̯ɡɐ] is a German politician of the liberal Free Democratic Party and a prominent advocate of human rights in Germany and Europe. Within the FDP, she is a leading figure of the social-liberal wing. She served as Federal Minister of Justice of Germany from 1992 to 1996 in the cabinet of Helmut Kohl and again in the second Merkel cabinet from 2009 to 2013. In 2013, the new German government announced Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger's candidacy for the office of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe.

Jens Teutrine is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since the 2021 German federal election, representing the Herford – Minden-Lübbecke II district. Since 2020, he is also the chairman of the party’s youth organisation, the Young Liberals (Julis). He was elected to the board of the Free Democratic Party in 2021.

Robin Alexander is a German journalist and author. He reports mainly for the Die Welt group on the German Chancellery and the CDU/CSU parties.

Mirjana Lučić-Baroni is a Croatian professional tennis player. She enjoyed a meteoric rise on the WTA Tour in the late 1990s, during which she set several "youngest-ever" records. She captured the women's doubles title at the 1998 Australian Open when she was 15 years-old, partnered with Martina Hingis. She also won the first ever professional tournament she entered, the 1997 Croatian Ladies Open, and defended it the following year at age 16, making her the youngest player in history to successfully defend a title. She then reached the semifinals of the 1999 Wimbledon Championships, beating world No. 4 Monica Seles and eighth seed Nathalie Tauziat, the previous year's finalist, before she lost to Steffi Graf in three sets. Following a series of personal problems from 2000 onwards, she faded from the scene.

Florian Kohfeldt is a German football manager who manages Werder Bremen.

Hella Kemper, known by her stage name Hella von Sinnen, is a German entertainer and television presenter. She has been a regular on several TV shows on German private channels, mainly RTL.