List of Famous people born in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Hanna Klein is a German middle-distance runner. She finished 11th in the 1500m at the 2017 World Athletics Championships.

Tobias Sippel is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Borussia Mönchengladbach in the Bundesliga.

Caren Nicole Lay is a German politician. She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2009 and has been deputy chairperson of the Die Linke parliamentary group in the Bundestag since 2017. From 2012 to 2018, she was one of the deputy chairpersons of her party. In November 2019, Lay unsuccessfully applied to succeed Sahra Wagenknecht as co-chairperson of the Die Linke parliamentary group in the Bundestag. She was defeated by Amira Mohamed Ali in a competitive vote.

Erik Schmidt is a German handball player for SC Magdeburg and the German national team.

Sebastian Junk is a German Paralympic judoka who competes in international level events. He has participated at five Paralympic Games and won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Paralympics.

Bernard Bonnet, French civil servant, is best known for being the first prefect since World War II to be convicted of an offense committed in the course of his duties, his role in the "Affair of the beach huts".

Pascal Ackermann is a German cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Bora–Hansgrohe. In August 2016 Bora–Hansgrohe announced that Ackermann would join them for the 2017 season. In May 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Giro d'Italia where he won the second and fifth stages and became the first German rider to win the Points classification. In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2020 Vuelta a España where he won the ninth and eighteenth stages.

Gabriele Pauli is a German politician, formerly with the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) party. She was the District Administrator for the rural district of Fürth from 1990 to 2008.

Miriam Welte is a German track cyclist.

Jörg Bewersdorff is a German mathematician who is working as mathematics writer and game designer.