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53 famous people found
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Carl Benz
German engine designer and automotive engineer
1844 - 1929 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Eugène WEIDMANN
German criminal who was executed by guillotine in France
1908 - 1939 -
Sophie SCHOLL
German student and anti-Nazi political activist
1921 - 1943 -
Manfred VON RICHTHOFEN
German fighter pilot with the Imperial German Army Air Service (Luftstreitkräfte) during World War I
1892 - 1918 -
Erwin ROMMEL
German Field Marshal of World War II
1891 - 1944 -
Helmut SCHMIDT
German Social Democratic politician who served as Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982
1918 - 2015 -
Paul VON HINDENBURG
German field marshal, statesman, and politician
1847 - 1934 -
Ferdinand von ZEPPELIN
German general and later aircraft manufacturer, the founder of the Zeppelin Airship company
1838 - 1917 -
Thomas J. BATA
Founder of the Bata Shoe Company
1914 - 2008