German male writers

German philosopher (1762–1814)

German zoologist (1834-1919)

(1846-1926) German philosopher

German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director (born 1942)

German businessman, writer, art collector and politician (1867-1922)

German sociologist & scholar (1944–2015)

Johannes Müller von Königsberg (6 June 1436 – 6 July 1476), better known as Regiomontanus (), was a mathematician, astrologer and astronomer of the German Renaissance, active in Vienna, Buda and Nuremberg. His contributions were instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the decades following his death.

German economist, founder of World Economic Forum

German physicist (1912–2007)

German politician and writer, Vice Chancellor of Germany from 2021 to 2025 (born 1969)

German association football player (born 1944)

German children's books author (1923–2013)

German-British sociologist, politician (1929–2009)

Chinese-German politician and writer

German actor and writer (1930–2026)

German mathematician (1871–1953)

German philosopher (1655-1728)

German sociologist (1876–1936)

German anthropologist (1826–1905)

German writer, philosopher, academic and film director (1932–2026)

German philosopher (1851-1911)

Sorbian writer (1916-2006)

German philosopher and social scientist (1931-2012)

German philosopher and biologist (1867 - 1941)

German philosopher (1862-1915)

German writer (1763-1810)

German educational theorist (1854-1932)

thumb|right|The place in Hindenburg at which the house of Janosch's birth used to stand (now demolished) Janosch (, born as Horst Eckert on 11 March 1931) is a German children's author and illustrator.

10th-century Saxon chronicler

German-American economic historian and sociologist who promoted dependency theory after 1970 and world-systems theory after 1984 (1929–2005)

German writer and journalist

German philosopher (1922–2017)

German minister and composer

American-Austrian sociologist (1927-2016)

German philosopher

German journalist (1923-2002)

Swiss-German writer and politician

German publicist (1819–1904)

German churchman, inquisitor and withcraft theorist (c. 1430–c. 1505)

German author, scientist and philosopher (1848–1910)

German theologian and philosopher

German philosopher and author

German philosopher

Margrave of Brandenburg

German lawyer and author of crime novels

German philosopher (1741-1802)

German comic creator and writer (born 1957)

German philosopher (1606-1681)

German film director (1932-2006)

German poet and dramatist

German writer (1926-2016)

Sorbian writer (1938-2017)

German-Danish philosopher (1736-1807)

German Lutheran pastor, hymnwriter

German politician (1764-1832)

German art historian and writer (1828–1901)

German writer and publicist (1923-2014)

German Cistercian, author

German and Sorbian writer, linguist and man of science (1854–1932)

German comic book creator