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

Architects

• Leonhard Muffert (born 2002), architect
• Walter Gropius (1883–1969), architect
• Carl Ludvig Engel (1778–1840), architect
• Leo von Klenze (1784–1864), architect
• Balthasar Neumann (1687–1753), architect and engineer
• Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann (1662–1736), architect
• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), architect
• Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841), architect and painter
• Johann Conrad Schlaun (1695–1773), architect
• Gottfried Semper (1803–1879), architect
• Albert Speer (1905–1981), architect
• Wilhelm Kreis (1873–1955), architect

Artists

A–M

N–Z

Company founders

A–M

N–Z

Fashion models

Fashionmakers

• Hugo Boss (1885–1948), fashion designer
• Wolfgang Joop (born 1944), fashion designer
• Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019), fashion designer
• Michael Michalsky (born 1967), fashion designer

Film and theatre

Actresses and actors

A–M

N–Z

Filmmakers

Literature

Classic

Major

Contemporary

Humorists, cabaret performers and comedians

• Dieter Hildebrandt (1927–2013), cabaret performer
• Bruno Jonas (born 1952), cabaret performer
• Michael Mittermeier (born 1966), comedian
• Georg Schramm (born 1949), cabaret performer
• Mathias Richling (born 1953), cabaret performer
• Richard Rogler (born 1949), cabaret performer
• Daniel Tosh (born 1975), comedian

Journalists

• Rudolf Augstein (1923–2002), journalist
• Peter Limbourg (born 1960), journalist
• Marion Dönhoff (1909–2002), journalist
• Günther Jauch (born 1956), journalist
• Sabine Christiansen (born 1957), journalist
• Maybrit Illner (born 1965), journalist
• Anne Will (born 1966), journalist
• Sandra Maischberger (born 1966), journalist

Mathematicians

• Wilhelm Ackermann (1896–1962), mathematician
• Georg Cantor (1845–1918), mathematician
• Richard Dedekind (1831–1916), mathematician
• Walther von Dyck (1856–1934), mathematician
• Albert Einstein (1879–1955), mathematician, physicist
• Gottlob Frege (1848–1925), mathematician
• Philipp Furtwängler (1869–1940), mathematician
• Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855), mathematician
• Ernst Hellinger (1883–1950), mathematician
• David Hilbert (1862–1943), mathematician
• Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804–1851), mathematician
• Erich Kähler (1906–2000), mathematician
• Johannes Kepler (1571–1630), mathematician and astronomer
• Felix Christian Klein (1849–1925), mathematician
• Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl (1885–1955), mathematician
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), mathematician
• Kurt Mendelssohn (1906–1980), mathematician
• Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909), mathematician
• August Ferdinand Möbius (1790–1868), mathematician, theoretical astronomer
• Carl Neumann (1832–1925), mathematician
• Emmy Noether (1882–1935), mathematician
• Georg Ohm (1789–1854), mathematician
• Carl Adam Petri (1926–2010), mathematician, computer scientist
• Julius Plücker (1801–1868), mathematician
• Bernhard Riemann (1826–1866), mathematician
• Adam Ries (1492–1559), mathematician, physicist, archeologist
• Gustav Roch (1839–1866) mathematician
• Eric Reissner (1913–1996), mathematician, engineer
• Carl David Tolmé Runge (1856–1927), mathematician, physicist, spectroscopist
• Heinrich Scherk (1798–1885), mathematician
• Herman Schwarz (1843–1921), mathematician
• Carl Ludwig Siegel (1896–1981), mathematician
• Roland Sprague (1894–1967), mathematician
• Heinrich Martin Weber (1842–1913), mathematician
• Karl Weierstrass (1815–1897), mathematician
• Max Zorn (1906–1993), mathematician

Military

Music

Composers

Conductors, instrumentalists and singers

A–M

N–Z

Philosophy

Classic

Major

Contemporary

Politicians

Miscellaneous

Chancellors of Germany 1871–1945

Chancellors of Germany (after World War II)

(in chronological order)

Presidents of Germany

(in chronological order)

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

Politicians of the East German Communist Party and regime

Personalities of the Nazi Party and regime

Royalty

Scientists and engineers

A–G

H–J

K–L

M–R

S–V

W–Z

Sportspeople

A–G

H–M

N–R

S–Z

Theologians, saints and beatified persons

Militants

• Sophie Scholl (1921–1943), member of the German resistance in World War II
• Linda Wenzel, ISIS bride

Others

More lists of Germans

See also

References