List of Famous people born in Thuringia, Germany

Sahra Wagenknecht

First Name Sahra
Born on July 16, 1969 (age 55)
Born in Germany, Thuringia

Sahra Wagenknecht is a German left-wing politician, economist, author and publicist. Along with Dietmar Bartsch, she was the parliamentary chairperson of Die Linke from 2010 to 2019. Since 2009, she has been a member of the Bundestag.

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Katrin Göring-Eckardt

Katrin Dagmar Eckardt
First Name Katrin
Born on May 3, 1966 (age 58)
Born in Germany, Thuringia

Katrin Dagmar Göring-Eckardt is a German politician from the German Green Party. Starting her political activity in the now-former German Democratic Republic in the late 1980s, she has been a member of the German Bundestag since 1998. She became co-chair of her party caucus in the Bundestag (2002–2005) and the Greens' Vice President of the Bundestag on 18 October 2005, a position that she held until 2013. In the November 2012 primary election, the Green Party chose her and Jürgen Trittin as the top two candidates for the Greens for the 2013 German federal election. She also stood as joint top candidate for the Greens in the 2017 German federal election, alongside Cem Özdemir.

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Yvonne Catterfeld

First Name Yvonne
Born on December 2, 1979 (age 44)
Born in Germany, Thuringia

Yvonne Catterfeld is a German singer, songwriter, actress, and television personality. Born and raised in Erfurt, Thuringia, she later moved to Leipzig to pursue her career in music. In 2000, she participated in the debut season of the singing competition series Stimme 2000, where she came in second place. Catterfeld subsequently signed a recording deal with Hansa Records, which released her debut single "Bum" in 2001. The same year, she was propelled to stardom when she was cast in a main role in the German soap opera Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten. In 2003, Catterfeld made her musical breakthrough when her fifth single, "Für dich", became an international number-one hit and produced the equally successful album Meine Welt.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

First Name Johann
Last Name Bach
Died on July 28, 1750
Born in Germany, Thuringia

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos and the Goldberg Variations, and for vocal music such as the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach Revival, he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time.

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Ella Endlich

Jacqueline Zebisch
First Name Ella
Born on June 18, 1984 (age 40)
Born in Germany, Thuringia

Jacqueline Zebisch, known professionally as Ella Endlich, is a German singer who also performed as Junia as a teenager. Best known for her song "Küss mich, halt mich, lieb mich", which is based on the title song of the film Tři oříšky pro Popelku, she participated in the national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2016.

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Elisabeth Pähtz

First Name Elisabeth
Born on January 8, 1985 (age 39)
Born in Germany, Thuringia

Elisabeth Pähtz has been the strongest German female chess player since her youth. In 2002 Pähtz became the World Youth Champion of the girls' under-18 age group, and in 2005 the World Junior Girls Champion. She won the 2018 European Women's Championship in rapid chess. In 2021 she scored her third grandmaster norm; if confirmed she will become the first German woman to earn the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM).

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Robert Enke

First Name Robert
Last Name Enke
Born on August 24, 1977
Died on November 10, 2009 (aged 32)
Born in Germany, Thuringia
Height 186 cm | 6'1

Robert Enke was a German professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Clueso

Born on April 9, 1980 (age 44)
Born in Germany, Thuringia

Thomas Hübner, better known by his stage name Clueso, is a German singer, rapper, songwriter, and producer. His first album, Text und Ton, was released in 2001. Since then, he has released seven more albums, of which the last three—Stadtrandlichter (2014), Neuanfang (2016) and Handgepäck I (2018)—reached number 1 of the German Top 100.

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Albrecht Schuch

First Name Albrecht
Last Name Schuch
Born on August 21, 1985 (age 39)
Born in Germany, Thuringia

Albrecht Schuch is a German actor.

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Wolfram Grandezka

First Name Wolfram
Last Name Grandezka
Born on December 17, 1969 (age 54)
Born in Germany, Thuringia

Wolfram Grandezka is a German actor.

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