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

Diego Demme is a German professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Serie A club Napoli and the Germany national team.

Susanne Laschet is the First Lady of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's largest state with 18 million inhabitants, as the wife of Prime Minister Armin Laschet.

Olcay Şahan is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a winger for Yeni Malatyaspor and the Turkey national team. He can also play as an attacking midfielder.

Lena Schöneborn is a German pentathlete, who won the gold medal in the Modern Pentathlon at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She is living in Berlin and besides Pentathlon she is studying Marketing. She won gold at the Women’s Final of the Modern Pentathlon European Championships 2011, held in Medway.

Uwe Lyko is a German comedian and cabaretist.

Karl Rüdiger "Purple" Schulz is a German pop singer. The nickname "Purple" came from covering Deep Purple tunes as a 13-year-old. He had his greatest successes in the 1980s. Some of Purple Schulz's songs are noted for highbrow literary references; his „Sehnsucht“ of 1983 cites the poet Eichendorff's „Sehnsucht.“

Ingo Oschmann is a German comedian, entertainer and stage magician who also works as a television presenter and actor. In 2003, he became the first comedian to win the final of Star Search in Germany.

Simone Bagel-Trah is a German businessperson and Chairman of the Supervisory Board and Chairman of the Shareholders' Committee of Henkel.

Ashok-Alexander Sridharan is a German politician of Indian and German ancestry who served as Mayor of Bonn from 2015 until 2020. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU). He was the first mayor of Bonn to be of immigrant background.

Ralf Jäger is a German politician. He is a member of the SPD. Since 2000 he is an MP of the Landtag, the parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. Between 2010 and 2017 he served as Minister for Interior and Local Government of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the cabinet of Minister-President Hannelore Kraft. In 2014 he was chairman of the Standing Conference of Interior Ministers in Germany.