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Daniel Prenn (1904–1991), German-Polish-British tennis player, highest world ranking # 6; Birgit Prinz (born 1977), football player; Lina Radke (1903–1983), athlete; Teodor Regedziński (also known as Theodor Reger) (1894–1954), Polish chess master of German origin; father's name was Reger; Otto Rehhagel (born 1938), football player and ...
Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979), German-American philosopher, political scientist and sociologist; Erich Maschke (1900–1982), historian and professor of history; Carolina Michaëlis (1851–1925), a German-Portuguese romanist; Hildegard Maria Nickel (born 1948), sociologist specializing in gender studies; Franz Oppenheimer (1864–1943 ...
Ruth Westheimer (born Karola Siegel; 1928–2024), German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, Doctor of Education, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper. Karl-Hermann Flach (1929–1973), journalist of the Frankfurter Rundschau , and a politician of the liberal Free Democrats (FDP)
figures from the genre of minstrel epic are generally not included unless they are commonly discussed in secondary sources dealing with heroic epic in medieval Germany. gods and deities Although this list excludes Germanic deities , it includes other entities stemming from Germanic folklore that appear in the legends (such as valkyries , dwarfs ...
This is a list of notable German actors from 1895, the year of the first public showing of a motion picture by the Lumière brothers, to the present. Actors are listed in the period in which their film careers began and the careers of most spanned more than just one period. The list currently includes actors that appear in German movies ...
Johann Joachim Kändler; Wolf Kahlen; Leo Kahn; Johannes Kahrs (artist) Hanns-Christian Kaiser; Johanna Keimeyer; Hans Kemmer; George Kenner; Georg Friedrich Kersting
Friedrich Ritter von Röth (1893–1918), German World War I fighter ace; Karl Schnörrer (1919–1979), German military aviator who served in the Luftwaffe during World War II; Otto Sponheimer (1886–1961), German General of the Infantry during World War II; Heinrich Thoma (1891–1948), German general during World War II
The German public was allowed to vote (via postcard, SMS or Internet) for the most important Germans—historical or contemporary—from a list of more than 300 people, plus additional suggestions. This pre-determined list of candidates was created for two reasons: