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

Anna Loerper is a German handball player for SG BBM Bietigheim and the German national team.

Louisa-Christin Lippmann is a German female volleyball player. She plays as an outside hitter or opposite and has over 100 appearances for the Germany women's national volleyball team. At club level she currently plays for Schweriner SC. Lippmann played in many international competitions and won the German league, cup and supercup with the clubs she played for.

Jürgen Roters is a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He was mayor of Cologne from 2009 to 2015. Roters studied law from 1968 until 1974, is married and has three children.

Daniel Wiemer is a German actor mainly known for his role of Bong in the German comedy shows Axel! and Axel! will’s wissen with Axel Stein. He also appeared in the German soap opera Verbotene Liebe and miscellaneous other productions.

Dorothee Oberlinger is a German recorder player and professor.

Josef Sieber was a German film actor.

Patrik Schumacher is an architect and architectural theorist based in London. He is the principal architect of Zaha Hadid Architects.

Andrea Renzullo is a German singer and was a participant who finished fourth in season 4 of Das Supertalent.

Emily Margarethe Haber is a German diplomat. She served as State Secretary from 2011 to 2018: from 2011 to 2013, at the Federal Foreign Office and from 2014 to 2018, at the Federal Ministry of the Interior. She is currently serving as German Ambassador to the United States.

Erwin Kremers is a former German footballer who played as a striker. His twin brother, Helmut Kremers, also played as a German international with the two brothers playing with each other regularly. Erwin and Helmut Kremers are the first ever twins to play in the Bundesliga.