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

Christian Wunderlich is a German actor, singer and songwriter. “Real Good Moments”, his debut album released on 6 September 1999, made him famous not only in Germany, but also in Switzerland. In 2001, he became a support act on some of 2001 "Where Dreams Come True Tour" by Irish pop vocal band Westlife. In 2009 he released his single: “Gelacht, um nicht zu weinen”.

Sybille Waury is a German actress.

Markus Laubenthal is a Generalmajor in the German Army and the Chief of Staff of U.S. Army Europe, the first non-American to hold that post. He was born on December 4, 1962 in Aachen, Germany.

Kurt Gerstein was a German SS officer and head of technical disinfection services of the Hygiene-Institut der Waffen-SS. After witnessing mass murders in the Belzec and Treblinka Nazi extermination camps, Gerstein gave a detailed report to Swedish diplomat Göran von Otter, as well as to Swiss diplomats, members of the Roman Catholic Church with contacts to Pope Pius XII, and to the Dutch government-in-exile, in an effort to inform the international community about the Holocaust. In 1945, following his surrender, he wrote the Gerstein Report covering his experience of the Holocaust. He died of an alleged suicide while in French custody.

Ilse Paula Steppat was a German actress. Her husband was noted actor and director Max Nosseck.

Hermann-Josef Tenhagen is the former Editor-in-Chief of Finanztest, the German monthly magazine dealing with financial issues published by Stiftung Warentest, the German consumer organisation.

Daniel Engelbrecht is a German retired football forward who last played for Rot-Weiss Essen.

Can Bozdoğan is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Süper Lig club Beşiktaş, on loan from Schalke 04..

Alma Siedhoff-Buscher, born Alma Buscher, was a German designer. She trained at the Reimann School in Berlin, the Unterrichtsanstalt des Kunstgewerbemuseums Berlin and the Bauhaus.

Robert Klaus Freiherr von Weizsäcker is a German Economist and Honorary President of the German Chess Federation. He has held the Chair of Economics, Public Finance and Industrial Organization at Technical University of Munich. He is the eldest son of the late former German President Richard von Weizsäcker (1920-2015).