Famous People

Wolf Huber

German painter and architect. (c.1485-1553)

1485 — 1553

Wolf Graf von Helldorf

German politician (1896-1944)

1896 — 1944

Wolf Hoffmann

German heavy metal guitarist

1959 — present

Wolf Vostell

German painter and sculptor (1932–1998)

1932 — 1998

Wolf Biermann

German singer-songwriter and former East German dissident

1936 — present

Wendelin of Trier

German saint

554 — 617

Wendelin Förster

German philologist and Romance scholar (1844–1915)

1844 — 1915

Mayer Carl von Rothschild

German banker (1820-1886)

1820 — 1886

Mayer Mayer Rothschild

German banker (1773-1855)

1773 — 1855

Mayer Mayer Rothschild

German-born British financier (1777–1836)

1777 — 1836

Mayer Amschel Rothschild

German banker (1744–1812)

1744 — 1812

Ingolf Wiegert

German handball player (born 1957)

1957 — present

Benno Elkan

German Jewish sculptor (1877-1960)

1877 — 1960

Benno Landsberger

German Assyriologist (1890-1968)

1890 — 1968

Benno Adam

German painter (1812-1892)

1812 — 1892

Benno von Arent

German politician and SS officer (1898-1956)

1898 — 1956

Benno Schmitz

German footballer

1994 — present

Benno Fürmann

German actor

1972 — present

Benno Ohnesorg

West German university student killed on 2 June 1967 (1940–1967)

1940 — 1967

Gerhart Eisler

German politician (1897-1968)

1897 — 1968

Gerhart Baum

German politician (1932–2025)

1932 — 2025

Anselm Anselm Feuerbach

German archaeologist (1798-1851)

1798 — 1851

Anselm Grün

German Benedictine padre and author

1945 — present

Anselm Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach

German legal scholar (1775-1833)

1775 — 1833

Anselm Feuerbach

German painter (1829–1880)

1829 — 1880

Anselm Kiefer

German painter and sculptor (born 1945)

1945 — present

Rembert Wilhelm Rembert von Berg

Baltic German aristocrat and Russian statesman (1794-1874)

1794 — 1874

Ludger Schepers

German bishop

1953 — present

Ludger Pistor

German actor

1959 — present

Ludger Stühlmeyer

German composer, music director and music historian

1961 — present

Ludger Beerbaum

German equestrian

1963 — present

Camillo Karl Schneider

German botanist and landscape architect (1876-1951)

1876 — 1951

Theophil T. Wegner

German pacifist, writer and poet (1886–1978)

1886 — 1978

Reinhardt Nettlau

German anarchist and historian (1865–1944)

1865 — 1944

Tilly Fleischer

German javelin thrower (1911–2005)

1911 — 2005

Marg Moll

German artist and writer (1884–1977)

1884 — 1977

Lilli Jahn

German physician

1900 — 1944

Lilli Henoch

German track and field athlete (1899–1942)

1899 — 1942

Lilli Lehmann

German operatic soprano (1848–1929)

1848 — 1929

Lilli Schwarzkopf

German heptathlete

1983 — present

Lilli Palmer

German actress (1914–1986)

1914 — 1986

Corona Schröter

German musician and singer (1751-1802)

1751 — 1802

Angelus Mann

German-Swiss historian (1909-1994)

1909 — 1994

Angelus Silesius

German writer

1624 — 1677

Sig Ruman

German-American actor (1884-1967)

1884 — 1967

Rodolphe Brazda

German concentration camp survivor (1913–2011)

1913 — 2011

Marinus Kraus

German ski jumper

1991 — present

Ricarda Bauernfeind

Cyclist from Germany

2000 — present