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Thomas Mann
German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)
Martin Buber
German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian (1878–1965)
Rainer Weiss
American physicist (1932–2025)
Heinrich Brüning
German chancellor (1885-1970)
Erich Kleiber
Austrian conductor (1890–1956)
Hans Richter
German artist (1888–1976)
Theodor Lessing
German philosopher (1872–1933)
Rolf Singer
German mycologist (1906–1994)
Stefanie Zweig
German writer (1932-2014)
Peter Lilienthal
German screenwriter, film director and actor (1929–2023)
Kurt Sanderling
German conductor (1912–2011)
Erwin Finlay-Freundlich
German astronomer (1885–1964)
Arthur Rosenberg
German historian refugee from Nazis because of Jewish heritage (1889-1943)
John Brahm
German born film and television director (1893–1982)
Carl Neuberg
German biochemist (1877-1956)
Valeska Gert
German dancer, cabaret artist, actress (1892-1978)
Alice Rühle-Gerstel
German-Jewish writer, psychologist
Horst Matthai Quelle
Spanish language German philosopher
Leonid Kreutzer
German musician (1884–1953)
Angelika Schrobsdorff
German writer (1927–2016)
Friedrich Dessauer
German philosopher (1881-1963)
Cornelia Oberlander
Canadian architect (1921-2021)
Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat
biochemist (1910-1999)
Gego
Gertrud Louise Goldschmidt (1 August 1912 – 17 September 1994), known as Gego, was a modern German-Venezuelan visual artist. Gego is perhaps best known for her geometric and kinetic sculptures made in the 1960s and 1970s, which she described as "drawings without paper".
Steffie Spira
German actress (1908–1995)
Grete Mosheim
German actress (1905-1986)
Abraham Plessner
Russian mathematician (1900-1961)
Wilhelm Dittmann
German socialist politician (1874-1954)
Pierre Ramus
Austrian anarchist (1882–1942)
Ludwig Stössel
Austrian actor
Rolf Nesch
German artist (1893-1975)
Willy Leow
German politician (1887-1937)
Johannes Max Proskauer
German-born American bryologist (1923-1970)
Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus
German-Brazilian zoologist (1901-1990)
Robert Wartenberg
American neurologist (1886–1956)
Max Landa
German actor (1873-1933)
Leo Stern
Austrian-German political activist and historian (1901-1982)
Pranas Domšaitis
German artist (1880-1965)
Fritz Erpenbeck
German writer (1897–1975)
Fritz Henle
German-American photographer (1909-1993)
Ilse Losa
Portuguese writer (1913–2006)
Rudolf Hamburger
German architect (1903–1980)
Eberhard Rebling
German politician, pianist and musicologist (1911-2008)
Luis Camnitzer
German-born, Uruguayan conceptual artist, teacher (born 1937)
Karl W. Butzer
American geographer
Friedrich Solmsen
German classical scholar (1904-1989)
Rose Liechtenstein
German film actor and stage actor (1887-1955)
Harry R. Sokal
Romanian-born German film producer (1898-1979)
Karl Süssheim
German orientalist (1878–1947)
Hanna Waag
German actress (1904-1995)
Maxime Hans Kuczynski
Jewish-German/Peruvian physician
Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz
German journalist, poet and prisoner in Dachau concentration camp
Gerardo Budowski
German-Venezuelan chess player (1925-2014)
Richard Paulick
German architect (1903–1979)
Hans Helfritz
German composer and photographer (1902–1995)
Margit Frenk
Mexican academic (1925-2025)
Tatjana Wood
American comic artist
Kurt Bachmann
German journalist (1909-1997)
Gerhard Harig
German physicist (1902–1966)
Elza Temáry
German actress