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Famous Natives
People listed are either native to Germany, or of German descent (born elsewhere) that have made a significant contribution to the fame of the country in their personal endeavors (PAGE 1)
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Konrad Adenauer former chancellor
Alois Alzheimer psychiatirst, neuropathologist, identified alzheimer disease
Johann Sebastian Bach composer
Karl Baedeker publisher, travel guide author
Michael Ballhaus cinematographer
Anton de Bary surgeon, botanist, microbiologist
Bruno Bauer political theorist and philosopher
Franz Beckenbauer football player
Boris Becker tennis player
Ludwig van Beethoven composer
Peter Behrens architect, designer
Carl Benz co-inventor gasoline-powered auto
Otto von Bismarck imperial chancellor
Hugo Boss fashion designer
Johannes Brahms composer
Willy Brandt politician, chancellor, nobel laureate
Wernher von Braun engineer, rocket scientist
Bertolt Brecht playwright, poet
Max Bruch composer
Charlemagne (Karl der Große) emperor holy roman empire; king of the franks
Gottlieb Daimler co-inventor gasoline-powered auto
Adolf "Adi" Dassler founder adidas sportswear
Rudolf Diesel inventor of diesel engine
Marlene Dietrich actress, singer
Albrecht Durer painter
Rudi Dutschke leader german student movement
Egon Eiermann architect, designer
Albert Einstein scientist, theoretical physicist
Hanns Eisler composer
Roland Emmerich director, screenwriter, producer
Michael Ende author fantasy novels, children's books
Friedrich Engels philosopher, political economist
Erik Erikson psychologist, psychoanalyst, coined phrase "identity crisis"
Max Ernst surrealist painter
Gabriel Fahrenheit physicist, engineer, inventor fahrenheit temperature scale
Adolf Eugen Fick inventor of contact lenses
Siegfried Fischbacher illusionist, magician
Friedrich von Flotow composer
Theodor Fontane novelist and poet
Anne Frank diarist, holocaust victim
Wilhelm Siegmund Frei dermatologist
Erich Fromm psychologist
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe author, poet
Steffi Graf tennis player
Gunter Grass author
Brothers Grimm collectors/publishers of fairy tales
Walter Adolph Gropius architect, founder bauhaus
Johannes Gutenberg inventor printing press
Gunther von Hagens anatomist, inventor plastination
Georg Friedrich Handel opera composer
Georg Wilhelm Hegel philosopher
Heinrich Heine journalist, essayist, poet
Werner Karl Heisenberg physicist, nobel prize laureate, founder quantum mechanics
Fanny Hensel composer
Alfred Herrhausen banker, chairman deutsche bank
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz physicist, mechanician
Hermann Hesse author
Paul Hindemith composer
E.T.A. Hoffmann author
Hans Holbein illustrator, painter
Erich Honecker politician
August Horch car designer and manufacturer
Roy Horn illusionist, animal conservationist
Karen Horney psychoanalyst
Alexander von Humboldt naturalist, explorer
Wilhelm von Humboldt diplomat, philosopher, linguist
Helmut Jahn architect, designer
Ernst Junger writer, novelist
Hugo Junkers aircraft engineer
Immanuel Kant philosopher
Bill Kaulitz singer
Tom Kaulitz musician
Friedrich Kellner diarist
Johannas Kepler mathematician, astronomer, astrologer
Henry Kissinger diplomat, noble prize winner
Ludwig Klages philosopher
Heinrich von Kleist poet, dramatist, author
Horst Kohler former president
Paul Klee artist
Heidi Klum actress, model
Robert Koch physician,bacteriologist, nobel prize laureate; founder bacteriology
Karl Lagerfield fashion designer
Fritz Lang film director
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz philosopher, mathmatician
Max Liebermann painter
Otto Lilienthal aviation pioneer
Ludwig II of Bavaria king of bavaria; "swan king"
Markus Lupertz painter and sculptor
Martin Luther priest, professor, reformer, theologian
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