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

Udo Hempel is a retired road and track cyclist from West Germany, who won the gold medal in the Men's 4.000 Team Pursuit at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, alongside Günther Schumacher, Jürgen Colombo, and Günter Haritz. In the 1968 Summer Olympics, he had already won silver in the same event. He was a professional cyclist from 1973 to 1983, whose best results were on the track.

Fabienne Deprez is a German badminton player. She won the gold medal at the European Junior Championships in the team event in 2011, a silver in the mixed doubles in 2009, also two bronzes in the team and girls' singles in 2009 and 2011 respectively. Deprez was part of the national team that won the 2012 European Women's Team Championships. She played for the FC Langenfeld, and emerge as the women's singles champion at the 2013 German National Championships.

Raphael Beck is a German badminton player. He started playing badminton at age 9, and joined the Germany national badminton team in 2011.