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

Ulrike Beate Guérot is a Berlin-based German political thinker and Founder and Director of the European Democracy Lab (EDL). In April 2016, Danube University Krems appointed Ulrike Guérot as Professor for European Policy and the Study of Democracy. She is the head of the Department for European Policy and the Study of Democracy.

Simon Gosejohann is a German comedian, television presenter and actor.

Friedhelm Funkel is a retired German football manager and former player. He last coached Fortuna Düsseldorf.

Markus Alexander Uhl is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Saarland since 2017.

Naomi Seibt is a German climate change denier. Until April 2020, she was employed by the Heartland Institute, an American conservative and right-wing public policy think tank that marketed her as the "anti-Greta". She has been a speaker at multiple events organized by conservative think tanks. Over her political position, she says, that she is an anarcho-capitalist.

Isabella Levina Lueen, better known mononymously as Levina or Izza after a rebranding in 2020, is a German singer-songwriter. She represented Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 in Kiev with the song "Perfect Life" and finished in 25th place with 6 points in the final, thus becoming the first German entrant in two years not to have placed last.

Julius Brink is a beach volleyball player from Germany, who won the gold medal in the men's beach team competition at the 2006 European Beach Volleyball Championships in The Hague, Netherlands, partnering Christoph Dieckmann. He took part at the Olympic Games in 2008.

Bernd Baumann is a German politician of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and chief whip of the AfD Group who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Hamburg since 2017.

Michael Heinz Skibbe is a German former football player and manager who was last the manager of Al-Ain.

Thorsten Fink is a German football coach and a former footballer, who last coached Vissel Kobe.