List of Famous people born in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Edgar Reitz is a German filmmaker and Professor of Film at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe.

Rudolf Kargus is a former German football player.

Ulrich Neymeyr is a German Roman-Catholic bishop.

Carsten Koch is a German organist, choral conductor and academic. He is the church musician at the Unionskirche in Idstein, Hesse, conducting the concert choir Idsteiner Kantorei and the orchestra Nassauische Kammerphilharmonie that he founded. He lectured orchestral conducting at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts.

Annette Carmen Schönlaub, better known as Annette Schwarz, is a German former pornographic actress and fetish model.

Dieter Gerald Janecek is a German politician of the Green Party who has been serving as a member of the German Parliament since 2013. From 2008 to 2014 Janecek was chairman of the Bavarian Green Party.

Thomas Fahrner is a former freestyle swimmer from Germany. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles Fahrner earned two medals bronze in the 200 m freestyle and silver in 4×200 m freestyle relay. He also set an Olympic record for the 400 m freestyle (3:50.91) in the B final. Four years later at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul he earned another medal this time a bronze medal in the 4×200 m freestyle relay.

Johannes Fröhlinger is a German former professional road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2007 and 2019 for the Gerolsteiner, Team Milram and Team Sunweb squads.

Eduard Löwen is a German footballer who plays as a midfielder for Bundesliga club Bochum on loan from Hertha BSC.

Putra Arifin Scheunemann, known professionally as Arifin Putra, is a German-born Indonesian actor. His international recognition is largely attributed to his role in the Indonesian action film The Raid 2: Berandal, which was released in the United States and other major markets around the world. He also starred in the 2009 Indonesian horror film, Rumah Dara.