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

Tom Buhrow is a German journalist and intendant of the WDR.

Denis Moschitto is a German actor best known for his roles in Kebab Connection (2004), Chiko (2009) and In the Fade (2017).

Vanessa Ann Fuchs is a German model, currently based in New York City.

Guido Reil is a German politician who is serving as an Alternative for Germany Member of the European Parliament.

Esther Kinsky is a German literary translator and the author of novels and poetry.

Lisa Schmidla is a German rower. She won a total of three gold medals at the World U23 Championships. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, she competed in women's quadruple sculls competition in which the German team won the gold medal.

Heino Falcke is a German professor of radio astronomy and astroparticle physics at the Radboud University Nijmegen. He was a winner of the 2011 Spinoza Prize. His main field of study is black holes, and he is the originator of the concept of the 'black hole shadow'. In 2013, a team under his lead earned a 14 million euro research grant from the European Research Council to further studies of black holes. In 2019, Falcke announced the first Event Horizon Telescope results at the EHT Press Conference in Brussels.

Patrick Mölleken is a German actor, film producer, dubber and voice-over artist on radio dramas as well as on audiobooks.

Countess Tamara von Nayhauss is a German television presenter, blogger, and socialite.

Sascha Kindred, is a British swimmer who has competed in six Summer Paralympic Games, winning thirteen medals.