German Lutherans

German composer (1685–1750)

German philosopher (1724-1804)

chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)

German statesman and Chancellor (1815-1898)

German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)

German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)

German philosopher and theologian (1770–1831)

German painter, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist (1471-1528)

German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)

German poet, writer and literary critic (1797–1856)

German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)

Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)

German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)

as King of Prussia last German Emperor from 1888 to 1918 (1859–1941)

German politician (SPD), chancellor of West Germany (1969–1974) and Nobel Peace Prize laureate

Chancellor of West Germany (1998–2005)

Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen is a German politician and physician who has served as President of the European Commission since 2019. She served in the German federal government between 2005 and 2019, holding positions in Angela Merkel's cabinet, most recently as Federal Minister for Defence. She is a member of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its affiliated European political party, the European People's Party (EPP). On 7 March 2024, the EPP elected her as its Spitzenkandidat to lead the campaign for the 2024 European Parliament elections. She was re-elected to head the Commission in July 2024.

Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801), better known by his pen name Novalis (; ), was a German aristocrat and polymath, who was a poet, novelist, philosopher and mystic. He is regarded as an influential figure of Jena Romanticism.

German mathematician, inventor of set theory (1845–1918)

German-born British astronomer and composer (1738–1822)

German physicist (1857–1894)

German philosopher (1762–1814)

Chancellor of West Germany (1974–1982)

German mathematician (1826–1866)

Prussian-German field marshal of the German Empire, statesman and president of Weimar Germany and Nazi Germany (1847–1934)

German philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology (*1859 – †1938)

Prussian philosopher, government official, diplomat, and educator (1767–1835)

German politician (CDU); president of Germany, 2004–2010

German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)

German Romantic landscape painter (1774–1840)

Chancellor of West Germany (1963–1966)

President of Germany from 1984 to 1994

German association football manager

German chemist (1835-1917)

German politician (SPD), 8th president of Germany from 1999 until 2004 (1931–2006)

German resistance fighter during the Nazi regime, member of the White Rose (1921-1943)

German historian and founder of modern source-based history (1795-1886)

German composer (1714–1788)

former President of the Federal Republic of Germany (1934-2017)

German journalist and politician (1884-1963)

President of West Germany (1974-1979)

German journalist, author, pacifist and recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize (1889–1938)

German politician, President of Germany 1969–1974 (1899–1976)

German painter, poet and cartoonist (1832–1908)

president of the Federal Republic of Germany (1914-1992)

German politician (FDP), Foreign Minister of Germany (1961-2016)

German poet, writer and linguist

King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and Elector of Saxony (1670–1733)

German philosopher (1679–1754)

German politician and statesman (1942–2023)

German painter and printmaker (1472–1553)

German composer, organist and teacher

German educator

German politician and economist (1877–1970)

German composer (1895–1963)

German writer

German admiral, head of military intelligence service (1887–1945)

Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocketry pioneer (1894-1989)

German painter (1480–1538)

German field marshal (1849–1945)