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Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer (1770-1827)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a Classical composer and musician. He completed more than 800 works in his life—including outstanding examples of most of the genres of his time: symphonies, concertos, chamber music, opera, and choral music.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)

Albrecht Dürer
German painter, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist (1471-1528)
Johannes Gutenberg
German inventor and craftsman (1400-1468)

Michael Schumacher
Michael Schumacher is a German former racing driver who competed in Formula One from 1991 to 2006 and from 2010 to 2012. Schumacher won a record-setting seven Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles, tied by Lewis Hamilton in 2020, and—at the time of his retirement—held the records for most wins (91), pole positions (68), and podium finishes (155), while he maintains the record for most fastest laps (77), among others.

Konrad Adenauer
German politician, Chancellor of West Germany (1949–1963), Zentrum and CDU
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German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor (1927-2015)

Helmut Kohl
Chancellor of West Germany and reunified Germany (1982–1998)

Franz Beckenbauer
German sports official and association football player (1945–2024)
Erwin Rommel
German field marshal (1891-1944)

Jacques Offenbach
German-born French composer (1819–1880)
Miroslav Klose
German professional football manager and former player
Friedrich Merz
German politician, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany

Manuel Neuer
Manuel Peter Neuer is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper and is the captain of Bundesliga club Bayern Munich. Considered one of the greatest and most influential goalkeepers of all time, Neuer has been described as a "sweeper-keeper" because of his playing style and speed when rushing off his line to anticipate opponents, going out of the penalty area. He was named the best goalkeeper of the decade from 2011 to 2020 by IFFHS.

Christian Wulff
10th German Federal President
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
also known as Francis I, Emperor of Austria (1768-1835)

Karl Weierstraß
German mathematician (1815–1897)

Empress Elisabeth of Austria
Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary from 1854 to 1898 (1837–1898)
Carl Maria von Weber
German Romantic composer (1786–1826)

Oskar Schindler
German industrialist and Holocaust rescuer (1908–1974)

Joachim Löw
German football player and manager
Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
German aristocrat, army officer and resistance fighter (1907-1944)

Kurt Georg Kiesinger
Chancellor of West Germany (1966–1969)

Boris Becker
German tennis player (born 1967)
Peter Grünberg
German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (1939-2018)
Franz von Papen
German general staff officer, politician, diplomat, nobleman and Chancellor of Germany (1879–1969)

Bastian Schweinsteiger
German association football player
Angelique Kerber
German tennis player

Ernst Jünger
German writer (1895–1998)
Joseph von Fraunhofer
Bavarian physicist and optical lens manufacturer

Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
German mathematician (1805–1859)

Otto von Habsburg
Head of the House of Habsburg and German politician
Friedrich Paulus
German general (1890–1957)

Henry I the Fowler
King of East Francia (919–936); Duke of Saxony (912–936)
Leopold Mozart
German composer (1719–1787)
Johann Christian Bach
German composer (1735–1782)
Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor

Hans Frank
German lawyer, Nazi politician, General Governor of Nazi occupied Poland and convicted war criminal (1900-1946)
Alois Alzheimer
German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (1864–1915)

Carl Orff
German composer (1895–1982)
Georgius Agricola
German mineralogist (1494-1555)

Augustus II the Strong
King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and Elector of Saxony (1670–1733)
Walther von der Vogelweide
German minstrel singer (c. 1170 – c. 1230)

Johann Joachim Winckelmann
German art historian and archaeologist, and conservator of the Vatican Library (1717–1768)

Heinrich Lübke
German politician (1894-1972)
Joschka Fischer
German politician

Theodor Schwann
German physiologist (1810–1882)
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
German politician, former federal minister of defence

Joseph von Eichendorff
German poet and novelist (1788-1857)

Horst Seehofer
German politician (CSU) and former Federal Minister of the Interior (born 1949)

Rudolf Höss
German war criminal, commandant of Auschwitz (1901–1947)
Regiomontanus
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.

Wilhelm Marx
German politician (1863–1946)
Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria
King of Bavaria

Joseph Wirth
German chancellor (1879-1956)
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb
German field marshal and war criminal (1876–1956)
Matthias Grünewald
German Renaissance painter (c.1480–1528)

Klaus Barbie
German SS officer, head of the Gestapo in Lyon and convicted war criminal (1913–1991)
Max Reger
German composer, pianist and conductor (1873-1916)