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

Thomas Helmer is a German former footballer. His preferred playing position was sweeper, but he was primarily deployed as a centre-back.

Margarethe Schreinemakers is a German television presenter, talk show host and journalist.

Joachim Król is a German actor, known for his appearances in the films Run Lola Run, Maybe, Maybe Not, and Anne Frank: The Whole Story.

Andreas Voßkuhle is a German legal scholar who served as the president of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany from 2010 until 2020.

Ronald Pofalla is a German politician of the CDU and a German manager. He was the Chief of Staff of the German Chancellery and a Federal Minister for Special Affairs from 2009 to 2013, in the second coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel. Since 2017, he is the CEO of the infrastructure department of Deutsche Bahn.

Ursula "Ulla" Schmidt is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). From 2001 to 2009 she was Federal Minister of Health in the German Government. Between 2013 and 2017, she served as Vice-President of the German Bundestag.

Walther Hewel was a German diplomat before and during World War II, an early and active member of the Nazi Party, and one of German dictator Adolf Hitler's personal friends.

Suzan or Susan Anbeh is a German actress best known to English-speaking audiences as the woman who stole Timothy Hutton away from Meg Ryan in the 1995 film French Kiss.

Gian-Luca Waldschmidt is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward for Primeira Liga club Benfica and the Germany national team. He developed through the academy of Eintracht Frankfurt and has represented Germany at various levels.

Aleksandra Martha Justine Bechtel is a Finnish-German TV-presenter and personality. In 1993, she started working for the new TV channel VIVA Germany as a VJ. Bechtel, in 1996, starred with Matthias Opdenhövel in the TV-show Bitte lächeln on RTL II for two years. She is married to Alexander Lassen. The couple has two sons.