List of Famous people born in Thuringia, Germany
Philipp Horn
Philipp Horn is a German biathlete. He competed at the Biathlon World Championships 2020.
Perry Bräutigam
Perry Bräutigam is a German Association football coach and a former player who works as goalkeeper coach for RB Leipzig.
Empress Hermine of Germany
Princess Hermine Reuss of Greiz, widowed Princess of Schönaich-Carolath, was the second wife of Wilhelm II (1859–1941). They were married in 1922, four years after he abdicated as German Emperor and King of Prussia.
Andrea Eskau
Andrea Eskau is a German handbiker, Paralympic biathlon and cross country skier who was born in Apolda and was a winner of 3 gold medals in Summer Paralympic games. In 2014, she became a recipient of another gold medal at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Russia. In 2013, she was a cross-country sit skiing winner at the IPC Nordic Skiing World Championship.
Bringfried Müller
Bringfried Lothar Müller was a German footballer and manager who played as a defender.
Curt Teich
Curt Otto Teich was an American publisher of German descent who produced popular color postcards, primarily of scenes from American life. He was a pioneer of the offset printing process. Under his management, the Curt Teich & Company became the world's largest printer of view and advertising postcards.
Florian Wünsche
Florian Wünsche is a German actor and well known for his role as Manuel Siewert in the children soap opera Schloss Einstein.
André Lange
André Lange is a retired German bobsledder and the most successful bob pilot of all time. Competing at the 2002, 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics, he has won four gold and one silver medals. Lange originally started his sledding career as a luger, taking up bobsleigh in 1993.
Sidonia Hedwig Zäunemann
Sidonia Hedwig Zäunemann, known as die Zäunemännin, was a German poet. Zäunemann was inspired by the example of Christiana Mariana von Ziegler. She became Poet Laureate of Göttingen at the age of twenty-four.
Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg was the wife of Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and the mother of Duke Ernst II and Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria. She was the paternal grandmother of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom. She is also the paternal great-great-great grandmother of Elizabeth II.