List of Germans
Famous people from Germany:
Composers
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Johannes Brahms
- Georg Friedrich Händel
- Paul Hindemith
- Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
- Carl Orff
- Johann Pachelbel
- Robert Schumann
- Richard Strauss
- Georg Philipp Telemann
- Richard Wagner
- Carl Maria von Weber
- Kurt Weill
Artists
- Joseph Beuys - artist
- Arnold Böcklin - painter
- Albrecht Dürer - painter
- Caspar David Friedrich - painter
- Franz Marc - painter
- Carl Spitzweg - painter
Writers
- Ernst Moritz Arndt - poet
- Heinrich Böll - author
- Bertolt Brecht - playwright, poet
- Clemens Brentano - poet
- Matthias Claudius - poet
- Theodor Fontane - poet
- Paul Gerhardt - poet
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - author, poet
- Günter Grass - author
- Johann Gottfried Herder - poet
- Hermann Hesse - author
- Thomas Mann - author
- Novalis - poet
- Rainer Maria Rilke - poet
- Friedrich Schiller - poet, playwright
- Theodor Storm - poet
- Walter von der Vogelweide - poet
- Joseph von Eichendorff - poet
- Wolfram von Eschenbach - poet
Filmmakers
Scientists
- Albertus Magnus - alchemist
- Robert Wilhelm Bunsen - chemist
- Albert Einstein - physicist
- Carl Friedrich Gauss - mathematician
- Otto Hahn - chemist
- Werner Karl Heisenberg - physicist
- Johannes Kepler
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Adam Riese
- Wernher von Braun - space engineer
- Justus von Liebig - chemist
Theologians
- Karl Barth
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Rudolf Bultmann
- Elisabeth Moltmann-Wendel
- Jürgen Moltmann
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
- Dorothee Sölle
- Helmut Thielicke
- Paul Tillich
- Adolf von Harnack
Politicians
- Hannah Arendt - political theorist
- Willy Brandt - West German Chancellor
- Jakob Grimm - parlamentarian
- Wilhelm Grimm - parlamentarian
- Adolf Hitler - dictator and war criminal
- Petra Kelly - founder of the Greens
Sportspersons
- Franz Beckenbauer - footballer
- Boris Becker - tennis player
- Steffi Graf - tennis player
- Jürgen Klinsmann - footballer
- Sepp Maier - footballer
- Gerd Müller - footballer
- Karl-Heinz Rummenigge - footballer
- Uwe Seeler - footballer
- Berti Vogts - footballer
- Rudi Völler - footballer
- Fritz Walter - footballer
Others
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer - theologian
- Marlene Dietrich - actress
- Anne Frank - victim of the Holocaust
- Hildegard von Bingen - abbess, mystic
- Karen Horney - psychoanalyst
- Immanuel Kant -philosopher
- Gottfried Leibniz - philosopher, mathematician
- Martin Luther - theologian
- Albert Schweitzer - physician , humanitarian