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

Julia Stinshoff is a German actress.

Julius Kühn is a German handball player for MT Melsungen and the German national team.

Ingo Naujoks is a German actor. He was born on March 1, 1962 in Bochum, Germany.

Katharina Molitor is a German sportswoman who competes as a javelin thrower and volleyball player. As a javelin thrower, she is a World Champion, having won gold in 2015, and her personal best throw is 67.69 m. As a volleyball player, she represents Bayer Leverkusen in the Erste Volleyball-Bundesliga, the highest tier of German volleyball.

Stephan Kampwirth is a German theatre and screen actor.

Dirk Bremser is a German football coach and a former player.

Valentin Baus is a German para table tennis player who competes in international level events. He is a double European champion and has won most team titles with Selcuk Cetin and Jan Gürtler.

Katja Seizinger is a former World Cup alpine ski racing champion, Germany's most successful alpine skier.

Peter Kohlgraf is a German Roman Catholic bishop. He is the current Bishop of Mainz.

Bernhard Schlink is a German lawyer, academic, and novelist. He is best known for his novel The Reader, which was first published in 1995 and became an international bestseller.