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

Georgios Chatzimarkakis is a German politician of Greek descent, Member of the European Parliament with the Free Democratic Party of Germany. He was a 2014 European Parliament candidate for the newly formed party Greek European Citizens of Greece.

Karl-Heinz Feldkamp is a German football manager and former player.

Elisabeth Winkelmeier-Becker is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from Rhein-Sieg-Kreis I in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2005. In 2019, she was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy under Minister Peter Altmaier in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Peter Baltes is a German hard rock and heavy metal musician. He is the former bassist of the German heavy metal group Accept, having played bass guitar on their first 15 albums, which have sold more than 17 million records around the world. He joined them in 1976 after Dieter Rubach left the band and also made minor contributions as a lead vocalist with Accept on their early albums and on the album Predator of 1996. After 42 years as a member, Baltes announced his departure from Accept in November 2018; the band later replaced him with former Uli Jon Roth sideman Martin Motnik.