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127 famous people found
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Jacob GRIMM
German philologist, jurist, and mythologist
1785 - 1863 -
Eugène WEIDMANN
German criminal who was executed by guillotine in France
1908 - 1939 -
Martin LUTHER
German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation
1483 - 1546 -
Karl MARX
German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, communist, and revolutionary
1818 - 1883 -
Heinrich HEINE
Journalist, essayist, literary critic, and one of the most significant German romantic poets
1797 - 1856 -
Thérèse Neumann
German Catholic mystic and stigmatic
1898 - 1962 -
Jenny Erpenbeck
German writer and opera director
1967 -
Sophie SCHOLL
German student and anti-Nazi political activist
1921 - 1943 -
Felix MENDELSSOHN
German composer, pianist, organist and conductor
1809 - 1847 -
Ursula VON DER LEYEN
German politician and the President of the European Commission since 1 December 2019
1958 -
Sophie Charlotte VON WITTELSBACH
Duchess of Alençon
1847 - 1897 -
Erich Maria REMARQUE
German author, best known for his novel All Quiet on the Western Front
1898 - 1970 -
Otto VON BISMARCK
German statesman, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire
1815 - 1898 -
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 -
Johann Sebastian BACH
German composer, organist, violist, and violinist
1685 - 1750 -
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