List of Famous people born in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Heinz Hermann Thiele
Heinz Hermann Thiele is a German billionaire businessman, and the chairman of Knorr-Bremse, a German brakes maker, and chairman of Vossloh, a German transport technology manufacturer.
Peter Kohl
Peter Kohl is a German businessman and author, who resides in Switzerland. He is the younger son of former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Hannelore Kohl, and brother of Walter Kohl.
Anne de Gaulle
Anne de Gaulle was the youngest daughter of General Charles de Gaulle and his wife, Yvonne. She was born in Trier, Germany, where her father was stationed with the Army of Occupation in the Rhineland.
Daniel Tosh
Daniel Dwight Tosh is an American comedian, television host, actor, writer, and executive producer. After graduating from the University of Central Florida with a degree in Marketing, Tosh moved to Los Angeles to purse a career in comedy. His career accelerated in 2001 after a performance on the Late Show with David Letterman where he would go on to appear in other various national shows, leading to his own 30-minute special on Comedy Central Presents two years later. Tosh later premiered his own show in Comedy Central in 2009, called Tosh.0 which was a showcase of popular Internet video clips while adding his own narrative comedic dialogue. Daniel Tosh then went on his own series of comedy tours from 2010 to 2015.
Albrecht Glaser
Albrecht Heinz Erhard Glaser is a German politician. From 1997 until 2001 he served as the treasurer of Frankfurt.
Éric de Moulins-Beaufort
Éric de Moulins-Beaufort is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who has been a bishop since 2008 and the Archbishop of Reims since 2018. He was elected president of the Bishops' Conference of France in 2019.
Verena Hubertz
Verena Ute Hubertz is a German entrepreneur and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 2021.
Alica Schmidt
Alica Schmidt is a German track and field athlete. She became an Olympian in 2020 and will represent Germany in Tokyo.
Jean-Marc Barr
Jean-Marc Barr is a French American film actor and director.
Aiman Abdallah
Aiman Abdallah is a German television presenter of Egyptian descent for the German television show Galileo at ProSieben and former rugby national player. Born in Bad Kreuznach, he played for the Berliner SV 1892.