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

Ahmed Kutucu is a professional footballer who plays as a centre-forward for Turkish club İstanbul Başakşehir and the Turkey national team.

Ingo Althöfer is a German mathematician at the University of Jena, where he holds the chair of operations research.

Wiebke Muhsal is a German politician with the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). Since 2014, she is a member of the Landtag of Thuringia and deputy chairman of the AfD caucus. She is also her party's critic on family and education policy and is a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Education, Youth and Sports.

Manuel Ferdinand Theodor Sarrazin is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Hamburg since 2008.

Stefan Gödde is a German television presenter, radio presenter and reporter.

Eugen Drewermann is a German church critic, theologian, peace activist and former Catholic priest. His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages.

Anne Gellinek is a German journalist and TV host. Gellinek is the Brussels Bureau Chief of German public-service television broadcaster ZDF and was ranked as number 6 among influential women in Brussels by European affairs weekly newspaper Politico in 2018.

Bernard Dietz is a former German football player and manager. He captained the West Germany national team to victory in the UEFA Euro 1980.

Hans Jürgen "Hansi" Kürsch is a German singer, songwriter, record producer and former bass guitarist, best known as a member of the power metal band Blind Guardian. One of the founders of the band, he has been its lead vocalist since its creation in 1984, and also acted as the band's bass guitarist until 1996.

Elisabeth Mohn is a German billionaire businesswoman and philanthropist.