This is a list of notable Germans. Persons of mixed heritage have their respective ancestries credited.

Architects

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Walter Gropius

Artists

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Häusliche Szene by Johann Gottlieb Hantzsch, 1831
 
Horst Janssen, 1968

A–M

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N–Z

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Company founders

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Friedrich Alfred Krupp

A–M

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Dr. August Oetker
 
August Thyssen

N–Z

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Heidi Klum

Fashion models

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Karl Lagerfeld

Fashionmakers

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Film and theatre

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Actresses and actors

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Hanna Maron
 
Michael Herbig

A–M

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N–Z

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Werner Herzog

Filmmakers

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Literature

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
Friedrich Schiller
 
Gotthold Lessing
 
Hermann Hesse
 
Thomas Mann
 
Günter Grass

Classic

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Major

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Contemporary

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Humorists, cabaret performers and comedians

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Journalists

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Mathematicians

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Georg Cantor
 
Carl Friedrich Gauss
 
Georg Ohm
 
Erich Ludendorff

Military

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Music

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Composers

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Hans Zimmer
 
Ludwig van Beethoven

Conductors, instrumentalists and singers

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Lena Meyer-Landrut
 
Udo Lindenberg

A–M

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Sido

N–Z

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Philosophy

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Immanuel Kant

Classic

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Erich Fromm

Major

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Contemporary

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Politicians

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Angela Merkel
 
Ernst Thälmann

Miscellaneous

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Gustav Stresemann

Chancellors of Germany 1871–1945

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Photo of Chancellor Bismarck in the 1880s
 
Konrad Adenauer

Chancellors of Germany (after World War II)

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(in chronological order)

 
Theodor Heuss

Presidents of Germany

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(in chronological order)

  • Friedrich Ebert (1871–1925), first president of the Weimar Republic (SPD) 1919–25
  • Paul von Hindenburg (1847–1934), field marshal, president 1925–34
  • Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), combining legally both offices, president and chancellor ("Führer und Reichskanzler") 1933–45
  • Karl Dönitz (1891–1980), Admiral of the Fleet, after Hitler's death, president for 22 days, 1945

Presidents of the Federal Republic of Germany since 1949:
(in chronological order)

 
Erich Honecker

Politicians of the East German Communist Party and regime

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Joseph Goebbels

Personalities of the Nazi Party and regime

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Adolf Hitler
 
Wilhelm II
 
Frederick the Great

Royalty

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Scientists and engineers

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A–G

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Wernher von Braun
 
Nicolaus Copernicus, Tornaeus Borussus Mathematicus (N.C.,Prussian mathematician from Thorn/Torun). Copper engraving from 1597
 
Albert Einstein

H–J

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Johannes Hevelius

K–L

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M–R

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Werner von Siemens

S–V

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W–Z

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Sportspeople

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Boris Becker
 
Franz Beckenbauer
 
Marcel Goc
 
Steffi Graf
 
Jürgen Klinsmann
 
Helene Mayer

A–G

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H–M

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N–R

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Dirk Nowitzki

S–Z

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Max Schmeling
 
Michael Schumacher
 
Jan Ullrich
 
Sebastian Vettel

Theologians, saints and beatified persons

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Pope Benedict XVI

Militants

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Others

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Oskar Schindler
 
Sigmund Jähn

More lists of Germans

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See also

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References

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