Theologians, Saints, Beatified Persons
See also List of German popes
- Heinrich Abeken (1809–1872), theologian
- Johannes Agricola (1494–1566), Protestant reformer
- Albertus Magnus, medieval philosopher and theologian
- Eusebius Amort (1692–1775)
- Pope Benedict XVI, a.k.a. Joseph Ratzinger (born 1927)
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), Theologian
- Johannes Bugenhagen (1485–1558) Protestand Reformer of Pomerania and Denmark, Theologian
- Rudolf Bultmann
- Alfred Delp
- Johann Eck (1486–1543)
- Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774–1824)
- Matthias Faber (1586–1653)
- Adolf Harnack (1851–1930)
- Hedwig of Andech (1174–1243)
- Johann Gottfried Herder, poet, translator, philosopher and theologian
- Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889–1977)
- Clemens August Graf von Galen, beatified, cardinal
- Adolph Kolping (1813–1865), beatified, priest
- Hans Küng
- Karl Lehmann
- Martin Luther (1483–1546), of the Protestant Reformation
- Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560), Protestant Reformation
- Moses Mendelssohn
- Jürgen Moltmann (born 1926), theologian
- Bernhard Philberth (born 1927), physicist, engineer, philosopher, theologian
- Karl Rahner, theologian
- Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834), theologian, philosopher
- Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965), musician, physician, pastor, philosopher and theologian
- Dorothee Sölle (1929–2003)
- Edith Stein (1891–1942), saint, nun, victim of Holocaust
- Carsten Peter Thiede (1952–2004), theologian, New Testament historian, chaplain
- Helmut Thielicke, theologian
- Paul Tillich, theologian, philosopher
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