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123 famous people found
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Wernher von Braun
German and American aerospace engineer and space architect
1912 - 1977 -
Paul Klee
Swiss-born German artist
1879 - 1940 -
Walter BENJAMIN
German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist
1892 - 1940 -
Pope Benedict XVI
Head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 19 April 2005 until his resignation on 28 February 2013
1927 - 2022 -
Angela Merkel
German politician who has been Chancellor of Germany since 2005
1954 -
Robert SCHUMANN
German composer, pianist, and influential music critic
1810 - 1856 -
Marlene Dietrich
German and American actress and singer
1901 - 1992 -
Anne FRANK
German-born Dutch-Jewish diarist
1929 - 1945 -
Karl LAGERFELD
German creative director, artist, photographer and caricaturist
1933 - 2019 -
Oskar SCHINDLER
German industrialist, spy, and member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust
1908 - 1974 -
Wolfram Freiherr VON RICHTHOFEN
German Generalfeldmarschall (General Field Marshal) of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) during the Second World War
1895 - 1945 -
Richard WAGNER
German composer, conductor, theatre director and polemicist
1813 - 1883 -
Mayer Amschel ROTHSCHILD
Founder of the Rothschild family international banking dynasty
1743 - 1812 -
Johann Wolfgang VON GOETHE
German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath
1749 - 1832 -
Adolf HITLER
Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party
1889 - 1945 -
Hermann GOERING
German politician, military leader, and a leading member of the Nazi Party
1893 - 1946 -
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist
1879 - 1955 -
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN
Composer, pianist and conductor
1770 - 1827 -
Wilhelm GRIMM
German author and anthropologist
1786 - 1859 -
Jacob GRIMM
German philologist, jurist, and mythologist
1785 - 1863