List of Germans

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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]

References[edit]

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