List of Famous people born in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Reinhard Saftig is a retired German football player and manager.

Lucas Luhr is a German BMW factory racing driver, currently competing for BMW and Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing in the GTLM category of the Tudor United SportsCar Championship.

Timo Perthel is a German professional footballer who plays for 1. FC Magdeburg.

Manfred Kaltz is a former German football player and manager, who played as a right back.

Paul Linz is a German football manager and former player who played as a striker.

Udo Bölts is a retired German racing cyclist, the brother of Hartmut Bölts. Bölts confessed publicly in 2007 to having used EPO and growth hormones in 1996 and 1997.

Axel Roos is a German football coach and a former player.

Andreas Schäfer is a German footballer.

Markus Schupp is a German football manager and former player.

Harald Kohr is a German football coach and a former player. He signed with VfB Stuttgart in the 1989 off-season after finishing in the top ten of Bundesliga scorers for three consecutive seasons, but suffered a serious knee injury with few days to go before the season opening and had to leave the team.