List of Germans

This is a list of notable Germans.

Persons of mixed heritage have their respective ancestries credited.

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

Walter Gropius

Häusliche Szene by Johann Gottlieb Hantzsch , 1831

Horst Janssen , 1968

Friedrich Alfred Krupp

Dr. August Oetker

August Thyssen

Heidi Klum

Karl Lagerfeld

Hanna Maron

Michael Herbig

Werner Herzog

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Friedrich Schiller

Gotthold Lessing

Hermann Hesse

Thomas Mann

Günter Grass

Georg Cantor

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Georg Ohm

Erich Ludendorff

Hans Zimmer

Ludwig van Beethoven

Lena Meyer-Landrut

Udo Lindenberg

Sido

Immanuel Kant

Erich Fromm

Angela Merkel

Ernst Thälmann

Gustav Stresemann

Photo of Chancellor Bismarck in the 1880s

Konrad Adenauer

Theodor Heuss

Erich Honecker

Joseph Goebbels

Adolf Hitler

Wilhelm II

Frederick the Great

Wernher von Braun

Nicolaus Copernicus, Tornaeus Borussus Mathematicus (N.C.,Prussian mathematician from Thorn/Torun). Copper engraving from 1597

Albert Einstein

Fritz Haber

Werner von Siemens

Boris Becker

Franz Beckenbauer

Marcel Goc

Steffi Graf

Jürgen Klinsmann

Helene Mayer

Dirk Nowitzki

Max Schmeling

Michael Schumacher

Jan Ullrich

Sebastian Vettel

Pope Benedict XVI

Oskar Schindler

Sigmund Jähn