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

Architects edit

 
Walter Gropius

Artists edit

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

A–M edit

N–Z edit

Company founders edit

 
Friedrich Alfred Krupp
 
Carl Benz

A–M edit

 
Dr. August Oetker
 
August Thyssen

N–Z edit

 
Heidi Klum

Fashion models edit

 
Karl Lagerfeld

Fashionmakers edit

Film and theatre edit

Actresses and actors edit

 
Hanna Maron
 
Michael Herbig

A–M edit

N–Z edit

 
Werner Herzog

Filmmakers edit

Literature edit

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

Classic edit

Major edit

Contemporary edit

Humorists, cabaret performers and comedians edit

Journalists edit

Mathematicians edit

 
Georg Cantor
 
Carl Friedrich Gauss
 
Georg Ohm
 
Erich Ludendorff

Military edit

Music edit

Composers edit

 
Hans Zimmer
 
Ludwig van Beethoven

Conductors, instrumentalists and singers edit

 
Lena Meyer-Landrut
 
Udo Lindenberg

A–M edit

 
Sido

N–Z edit

Philosophy edit

 
Immanuel Kant

Classic edit

 
Erich Fromm

Major edit

Contemporary edit

Politicians edit

 
Angela Merkel
 
Ernst Thälmann

Miscellaneous edit

 
Gustav Stresemann

Chancellors of Germany 1871–1945 edit

 
Photo of Chancellor Bismarck in the 1880s
 
Konrad Adenauer

Chancellors of Germany (after World War II) edit

(in chronological order)

 
Theodor Heuss

Presidents of Germany edit

(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 edit

 
Joseph Goebbels

Personalities of the Nazi Party and regime edit

 
Adolf Hitler
 
Wilhelm II
 
Frederick the Great

Royalty edit

Scientists and engineers edit

A–G edit

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

H–J edit

 
Johannes Hevelius

K–L edit

M–R edit

 
Werner von Siemens

S–V edit

W–Z edit

Sportspeople edit

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

A–G edit

H–M edit

N–R edit

 
Dirk Nowitzki

S–Z edit

 
Max Schmeling
 
Michael Schumacher
 
Jan Ullrich
 
Sebastian Vettel

Theologians, saints and beatified persons edit

 
Pope Benedict XVI

Militants edit

Others edit

 
Oskar Schindler
 
Sigmund Jähn

More lists of Germans edit

See also edit

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