List of Famous people born in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Jonathan Horne is a German karateka. At the 2018 World Karate Championships in Madrid, Spain, he won the gold medal in the men's +84 kg event. He represented Germany at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.

Sascha Hildmann is a German football manager of Preußen Münster.

Harald Martenstein is a German journalist and author.

Heiko Vogel is a German football manager, who last managed KFC Uerdingen.

Karl Johannes Max Strub was a German violin virtuoso and eminent violin pedagogue. He gained a Europe-wide reputation during his 36 years of activity as primarius of the Strub Quartet. Stations as concertmaster led him from the 1920s to the operas of Stuttgart, Dresden and Berlin. Appointed Germany's youngest music professor at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar in 1926, he followed calls to the Berlin University of the Arts and, after the Second World War to the Hochschule für Musik Detmold. Strub was a connoisseur of the classical-romantic repertoire, but also devoted himself to modern music, among others he gave the world premiere of Hindemith's Violin Sonata No. 2 in D major. He promoted the music of Hans Pfitzner. Strub played on a Stradivari violin until 1945; numerous recordings from the 1930s/40s document his work.

Timo Scheider is a German racing driver who competes in the FIA World Rallycross Championship for Münnich Motorsport. He won the DTM title in 2008 and 2009.

Ernst Huberty is a German sports journalist.

Dominik Kohr is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for 1.FSV Mainz 05 on loan from Eintracht Frankfurt.

Josephine Henning is a former German footballer who last played as a centre-back for Arsenal and the Germany national team. Since making her debut for the national team in September 2010, she has won over 25 caps and represented her country at UEFA Women's Euro 2013 and the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.

Sebastian Ernst Klaus Dietz is a German track and field athlete who competes in disability athletics in the F36 category. Dietz specializes in both the discus and shot put, winning a gold medal in the former at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. As well as achieving Paralympic success Dietz has also won gold in his classification in both discus and shot put at the IPC World Championships.