1,841 people
Browse profiles of notable people from around the world.
Cora Berliner
German economist (1890–1942)
Cora Stephan
German writer
Dustin Brown
German tennis player
Cassandra Steen
German singer
Sophia Scholl
German resistance fighter during the Nazi regime, member of the White Rose (1921-1943)
Rico Strieder
German association football player
Rico Freimuth
German decathlete
August August Bürger
German poet (1747-1794)
August von Kotzebue
German dramatist and writer (1761–1819)
August von Mackensen
German field marshal (1849–1945)
August Weismann
German evolutionary biologist (1834-1914)
August von Zeppelin
German general and airship pioneer (1838–1917)
August Wilhelm Schlegel
German poet, translator, critic, and writer (1767–1845)
August Ferdinand Möbius
German mathematician and astronomer (1790–1868)
August Macke
German painter of the expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (1887–1914)
August Kekulé
German organic chemist (1829–1896)
August Bebel
German social democrat politician (1840–1913)
August Ruska
German physicist (1906–1988)
August Haeckel
German zoologist (1834–1919)
Freya von Moltke
German writer and scholar (1911–2010)
Cornelius Gurlitt
German composer (1820-1901)
Cornelius von der Marwitz
German general (1856–1929)
Maylin Hausch
German pair skater
Cecil Kodjoe
German actor
Arnold Gehlen
German academic (1904-1976)
Arnold Zweig
German writer (1887-1968)
Arnold Sommerfeld
German physicist (1868-1951)
Alf Lüdtke
German historian (1943–2019)
Ralph H. Baer
German-born American inventor and engineer (1922–2014)
Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann
German photographer (1815–1901)
Bertha Krupp
German business woman (1886–1957)
Bertha Benz
German automobile pioneer, with husband Karl Benz (1849–1944)
Bertha Riefenstahl
German filmmaker (1902–2003)
Nannette Streicher
German piano maker, composer, music educator, and writer
Antoinette Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
German duchess (1696-1762)
Ruby O. Fee
German actress
Mildred Scheel
German physician (1932–1985)
Mildred Harnack
American-German literary historian, professor, translator; Resistance fighter and anti-Nazi activist, who was executed during WWII in Germany
Rosemary Murphy
German-American actress (1925–2014)
Thor Möller
German actor (1928-2017)
Daisy Earles
German actress (1907-1980)
Rena Niehaus
German film actress
Curtis Bernhardt
German film director (1899–1981)
Patty Ryan
German singer (1961–2023)
Paris Brunner
German footballer
Albert Speer
German Nazi architect, Government Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany and convicted Nazi War Criminal (1905–1981)
Albert Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
Albert Schweitzer
French-German physician, theologian, musician, and philosopher (1875-1965)