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

Constanze Stelzenmüller is a German international relations analyst, policy and law scholar, and journalist. She is an expert in German, European, and trans-Atlantic foreign policy and global affairs. She writes academic and journalistic analyses in English and German media about international relations in general, and German–American relations in particular, as well as questions in the politics of Germany and the United States.

Sylvia Pantel is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2013.

Richard Gutjahr is a German TV presenter and blogger. He is known for covering the terror attacks in Nice and Munich in mid-2016 with a mobile phone, and he "explained how basic mobile technology allowed him to cover the two attacks".

Nazım Sangaré is a Turkish footballer who plays as a right back for Fenerbahçe.

Ingrid Remmers is a German politician. Born in Ibbenbüren, North Rhine-Westphalia, she represents The Left. Ingrid Remmers has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2009 till 2013 and since 2017.

Michael Reschke is a German director of football. He was head of sport of VfB Stuttgart from 2017 to 2019.

Nicole Heyka, known professionally as Kelly Trump, is a German actress and former pornographic actress. She has performed in story-driven German adult films such as German Beauty, Eiskalte Engel, the 00Sex series, and Ariella the Mermaid. She has also acted in a small number of American adult films, including films for Wicked Pictures.

İsmail Yurtseven, better known by his stage name İsmail YK, is a Turkish Pop-Arabesque singer and composer. YK stands for Yurtseven Kardeşler, the siblings group he was a member of at the start of his career. A number of his albums have been top sellers in Turkey. His first solo album Şappur Şuppur sold 1.2 million copies. In 2006 his second album Bombabomba.com was the best selling Turkish album with over 600,000 copies. In 2008, his third album Bas Gaza sold 450,000 copies. İsmail YK has won many awards including Best Turkish Arabesque-Fantasy singer that he won 3 times consecutively in 2006, 2007 and 2008.

Knut Reinhardt is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Bernd Dreher is a German former professional football player, who played as a goalkeeper, and a current goalkeeper coach. He last worked at Ludogorets Razgrad.