Famous people of German origin

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

German-born physicist

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)

German pianist and composer

Karl Marx (1818 - 1883)

German philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

German writer and philosopher

Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)

German priest and theologian

Heidi Klum (45)

German model, actress, fashion designer, and producer

Diane Kruger (42)

German actress and former model

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)

German composer

Mesut Özil (30)

German football player

Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)

German philosopher

Heinrich Himmler (1900 - 1945)

German Nazi

Joseph Goebbels (1897 - 1945)

German politician

Hans Zimmer (61)

German composer

Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898)

German statesman

Eva Braun (1912 - 1945)

German wife of Adolf Hitler

Angela Merkel (64)

German politician

Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883)

German composer

Erwin Rommel (1891 - 1944)

German field marshal

Lukas Podolski (33)

German footballer

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

German writer and poet

Werner Heisenberg (1901 - 1976)

German physicist

Hermann Göring (1893 - 1946)

German politician and military leader

Mario Götze (26)

German footballer

Max Weber (1864 - 1920)

German economist and sociologist

Michael Schumacher (50)

German race car driver

Marco Reus (29)

German footballer

Dirk Nowitzki (40)

German basketball player

Adolf Eichmann (1906 - 1962)

German nazi officer and war criminal

Lewis Holtby (28)

German football player

Werner Herzog (76)

German director

Johannes Kepler (1571 - 1630)

German astronomer

Karl Lagerfeld (86)

German fashion designer

Manfred von Richthofen (1892 - 1918)

German pilot

Sebastian Vettel (31)

German Formula One driver

Mario Gómez (33)

German football player

Albrecht Dürer (1471 - 1528)

German painter

Johannes Gutenberg (1398 - 1468)

German inventor who invented movable type

Anneliese Michel (1952 - 1976)

German woman believed to be Demonic possession|possessed by demons

Erik Erikson (1902 - 1994)

German psychoanalyst

Steffi Graf (49)

German tennis player

Reinhard Heydrich (1904 - 1942)

German Nazi SS officer

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)

German philosopher

Albert Speer (1905 - 1981)

German architect

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 - 1831)

German philosopher

Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 - 1855)

German mathematician

Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)

German author

Rudolf Hess (1894 - 1987)

German Nazi leader

Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)

German physicist and engineer

Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847)

German pianist, composer, and conductor

Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)

German composer

Bastian Schweinsteiger (34)

German footballer

Martin Heidegger (1889 - 1976)

German philosopher