List of Germans - Others

Others

• Rodolphus Agricola (1443–1485)
• Franz Borkenau (1900–1957), social scientist
• Hugo Boss (1885–1948), fashion designer
• Dieter Claessens (1921–1997), sociologist
• Adolf Dassler (1900–1978), founder of Adidas
• Rudolf Dassler (1898–1974), founder of PUMA
• Adolf Eugen Fick, inventor of contact lenses
• Gudrun Ensslin (1940–1977), terrorist
• Siegfried Fischbacher, (1939), magician, conservationist
• Reinhard Furrer (1940–1995), astronaut
• Herschel Grynszpan
• Johann Gutenberg (c. 1390s – 1468), printer
• Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179), abbess, mystic
• August Horch (1868–1951), car designer and manufacturer
• Roy Horn, (1944), magician, conservationist
• Karen Horney, psychoanalyst
• Heribert Illig (born 1947), historian
• Sigmund Jähn (born 1937), the first German in space
• René König (1906–1992), sociologist
• Siegfried Kracauer
• Karl Lagerfeldt, (born 1933), fashion designer
• Christian Frederick Martin (1796–1867), Inventor of the steel-string guitar
• Ulrike Meinhof (1934–1976), journalist and terrorist
• Ulf Merbold (born 1941), astronaut
• Heinrich Meyerfreund, founder of Garoto, a chocolate company in Brazil
• Michael Mittermeier (born 1966), comedian
• Adam Opel (1837–1895), founder of the automobile company Adam Opel AG
• Carl von Ossietzky (1889–1938), journalist and pacifist
• Ferdinand Porsche (1875–1951), designer and founder of Porsche
• Ferry Porsche (1909–1998), automobile designer and son of Ferdinand Porsche
• Ferdinand Alexander Porsche (1935–2012), designer and member of the Porsche family
• Ferdinand Oliver Porsche (born 1961), lawyer, executive and family member of Porsche
• Ludwig Quidde (1858–1941), historian and pacifist
• Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886), historian
• Paul Reuter (1816–1988), entrepreneur, pioneer of telegraphy and news reporting
• Mathias Rust (born 1968), aviator who landed on Moscow's Red Square in 1987
• Helmut Schelsky (1912–1984), sociologist
• Hannelore Schmatz, mountaineer
• Sophie Scholl (1921–1943), member of the German resistance in WW2
• Heffa Schücking, environmentalist
• Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965), physician, humanitarian
• Henry Shultz (1776–1851), emigrant to USA, entrepreneur
• Edith Stein (1891–1942), nun, victim of Holocaust
• Johann Tetzel (1465–1519), monk
• Ulrich Walter (born 1954), astronaut
• Alfred Weber, sociologist
• Max Weber, sociologist
• Diedrich Hermann Westermann (1875–1956), linguist
• Carl Zeiss (1816–1888), maker of optical instruments, founded Carl Zeiss AG
• Daniel Tosh (Born 1975), Comedian