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

Roland Siegfried Borchardt called SS-Siggi is a German neo-Nazi activist of the Free fellowship and a former functionary of the Freedom German Workers' Party, which was banned in 1995. In the 2014 local elections, he won a seat on the city council of the city of Dortmund, as the party's leading candidate, but resigned after two months.

Annette Frier is a German actress and comedian.

Günther Johannes Jauch is a German television presenter, television producer, and journalist.

Pinar Atalay is a German radio and television presenter.

Christoph Maria Herbst is a German actor and comedian.

Karl Lauterbach is a German scientist and politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He is professor of health economics and epidemiology at the University of Cologne. Since the 2005 federal elections, he has been a Member of the Bundestag.

Kai Lukas Havertz is a German professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for Premier League club Chelsea and the Germany national team.

Reinhold "Reiner" Calmund is a German retired football executive. He was the managing director of Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen from 1976 to 2004.

Armin Meiwes is a German former computer repair technician who achieved international notoriety for killing and eating a voluntary victim in 2001, whom he had found via the Internet. After Meiwes and the victim jointly attempted to eat the victim's severed penis, Meiwes killed his victim and proceeded to eat a large amount of his flesh. He was arrested in December 2002. In January 2004, Meiwes was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to eight years and six months in prison. In a retrial in May 2006, he was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. Because of his acts, Meiwes is also known as the Rotenburg Cannibal or Der Metzgermeister.

Svenja Schulze is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from Münster in Westphalia.