List of Famous people born in Sigmaringen, Germany
Lothar Späth
Lothar Späth was a German politician of the CDU.
Prince Karl I, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Karl, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was the reigning Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen from 1831 to 1848.
Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern
Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was a member of the Princely House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. Karl Anton was the third and youngest son of Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern and his wife Infanta Antónia of Portugal. Karl Anton's elder brothers were William, Prince of Hohenzollern and Ferdinand I of Romania.
Anton Aloys, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Anton Aloys, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.
Ferdinand I of Romania
Ferdinand, nicknamed Întregitorul, was the second King of Romania from 1914 until his death in 1927. Ferdinand was the second son of Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern and Infanta Antónia of Portugal, daughter of Ferdinand II of Portugal and Maria II of Portugal. His family was part of the Catholic branch of the Prussian royal family Hohenzollern.
Carol I of Romania
Carol or Charles I of Romania, born Prince Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, was the first monarch of Romania from 1866 to his death in 1914, ruling as Prince (Domnitor) from 1866 to 1881, and as King from 1881 to 1914. He was elected Prince of the Romanian United Principalities on 20 April 1866 after the overthrow of Alexandru Ioan Cuza by a palace coup d'état. In May 1877, he proclaimed Romania an independent and sovereign nation. The defeat of the Ottoman Empire (1878) in the Russo-Turkish War secured Romanian independence, and he was proclaimed King on 26 March [O.S. 14 March] 1881. He was the first ruler of the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen dynasty, which ruled the country until the proclamation of a socialist republic in 1947.
Prince Karl Friedrich I, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Karl Friedrich was a member of the House of Hohenzollern and Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Lord of Haigerloch and Wehrstein from 1769 until his death.
Princess Friederike of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Claus Wolf
Eitel Frederick IV, Count of Hohenzollern
Count Eitel Friedrich IV of Hohenzollern was the founder and first Count of the line Hohenzollern-Hechingen as Eitel Friedrich I.