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

Markus Kauczinski is a German football coach and manager, who coaches Dynamo Dresden.

Dirk Lottner is a German football manager and a former player who is the manager of FC Energie Cottbus.

Michael Rzehaczek is a retired German football midfielder. He was forced to retire due to knee injuries.

Emily Wood is a German actress.

Markus Feldhoff is a German football, who last managed VfL Osnabrück and former player.

Peter Millowitsch is a German film and television actor. He is the director of the Volkstheater Millowitsch which he took over in 1999 following the death of his father Willy Millowitsch. His sister is the actress Mariele Millowitsch.

Norman Langen is a German singer and a participant in season 8 of Deutschland sucht den Superstar who finished in 7th place. He likes to sing in German. He likes Schlager, pop and dance music.

Jonas Reckermann is a retired beach volleyball player from Germany. Together with his most recent partner Julius Brink, he won the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, which, along with Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst are the most successful Olympic appearances of a German beach volleyball team. They were the first European duo to win the Olympic gold medal – male or female competition. In addition to that they also were the first European team ever to win a world championship title and are currently ranked 22nd on the FIVB World Tour.

Marvin Matip is a retired footballer.

Anja Karen Blacha is a German mountaineer. Blacha holds a number of climbing records: in 2017, she became the youngest German woman to successfully climb Mount Everest and the youngest German overall to climb all Seven Summits and in 2019 she became the first German woman to climb K2.