| Ernst Abbe | 1840 - 1905 |
| Karl Abraham | 1877 - 1925 |
| Konrad Adenauer | 1876 - 1967 |
| Felix Adler | 1851 - 1933 |
| Theodor Adorno | 1903 - 1969 |
| Josef Albers | 1888 - 1976 |
| Karl Amadeus Hartmann | 1905 - 1963 |
| Mayer Amschel Rothschild | 1744 - 1812 |
| Walter Anderson | 1885 - 1962 |
| Adolf Anderssen | 1818 - 1879 |
| Hannah Arendt | 1906 - 1975 |
| Johann Arndt | 1555 - 1621 |
| Rudolf Arnheim | 1904 |
| Eberhard Arnold | 1883 - 1935 |
| Jean Arp | 1886 - 1966 |
| Berthold Auerbach | 1812 - 1882 |
| Frank Auerbach | 1931 |
| Wilhelm Backhaus | 1884 - 1969 |
| Georg Baselitz | 1938 |
| Bruno Bauer | 1809 - 1882 |
| August Bebel | 1840 - 1913 |
| Ulrich Beck | 1944 |
| Franz Beckenbauer | 1945 |
| Boris Becker | 1967 |
| Max Beckmann | 1884 - 1950 |
| Peter Behrens | 1868 - 1940 |
| Hans Bender | 1907 - 1991 |
| Pope Benedict XVI | 1927 |
| Walter Benjamin | 1892 - 1940 |
| Gottfried Benn | 1886 - 1956 |
| Hans Berger | 1873 - 1941 |
| Ruth Bernhard | 1905 |
| Joseph Beuys | 1921 - 1986 |
| Wolf Biermann | 1936 |
| Uwe Boll | 1965 |
| Dietrich Bonhoeffer | 1906 - 1945 |
| Martin Bormann | 1900 - 1945 |
| Max Born | 1882 - 1970 |
| Ludwig Borne | 1786 - 1837 |
| Robert Bosch | |
| Walther Bothe | 1891 - 1957 |
| Johannes Brahms | 1833 - 1897 |
| Willy Brandt | 1913 - 1992 |
| Eva Braun | 1912 - 1945 |
| Otto Braun | 1872 - 1955 |
| Bertolt Brecht | 1898 - 1956 |
| Hermann Broch | 1886 - 1951 |
| Max Bruch | 1838 - 1920 |
| Martin Buber | 1878 - 1965 |
| Horst Buchholz | 1933 - 2003 |
| Georg Buchner | 1813 - 1837 |
| Wilhelm Busch | 1832 - 1908 |
| Wilhelm Canaris | 1887 - 1945 |
| Georg Cantor | 1845 - 1918 |
| Rudolf Carnap | 1891 - 1970 |
| Martin Chemnitz | 1522 - 1586 |
| Ferdinand Christian Baur | 1792 - 1860 |
| Richard Courant | 1888 - 1972 |
| Graham Coxon | 1969 |
| Simon Dach | 1605 - 1659 |
| Caspar David Friedrich | 1774 - 1840 |
| Max Delbruck | 1906 - 1981 |
| Rudolf Diesel | 1858 - 1913 |
| Wilhelm Dilthey | 1833 - 1911 |
| Otto Dix | 1891 - 1969 |
| Thomas Dooley | 1961 |
| Albrecht Durer | 1471 - 1528 |
| Hermann Ebbinghaus | 1850 - 1909 |
| Friedrich Ebert | 1871 - 1925 |
| Meister Eckhart | 1260 - 1328 |
| Paul Ehrlich | 1854 - 1915 |
| Adolf Eichmann | 1906 - 1962 |
| Manfred Eigen | 1927 |
| Alfred Einstein | 1880 - 1952 |
| Hanns Eisler | 1898 - 1962 |
| Kurt Eisner | 1867 - 1919 |
| Roland Emmerich | 1955 |
| Michael Ende | 1929 - 1995 |
| Ernst Engel | 1821 - 1896 |
| Friedrich Engels | 1820 - 1895 |
| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | 1729 - 1781 |
| Ludwig Erhard | 1897 - 1977 |
| Max Ernst | 1891 - 1976 |
| Hans Eysenck | 1916 - 1997 |
| Lion Feuchtwanger | 1884 - 1958 |
| Anselm Feuerbach | 1829 - 1880 |
| Werner Finck | 1902 - 1978 |
| Joschka Fischer | 1948 |
| Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | 1925 |
| Lukas Foss | 1922 |
| Anne Frank | 1929 - 1945 |
| Bruno Frank | 1878 - 1945 |
| Hans Frank | 1900 - 1946 |
| Otto Frank | 1889 - 1980 |
| Roland Freisler | 1893 - 1945 |
| Wilhelm Frick | 1877 - 1946 |
| Carl Friedrich Gauss | 1777 - 1855 |
| David Friedrich Strauss | 1808 - 1874 |
| Hans Fritzsche | 1900 - 1953 |
| Klaus Fuchs | 1911 - 1988 |
| Cornelia Funke | 1958 |
| Christian Furchtegott Gellert | 1715 - 1769 |
| Hans-Georg Gadamer | 1900 - 2002 |
| Adolf Galland | 1912 - 1996 |
| Johann Georg Zimmermann | 1957 |
| Stefan George | 1868 - 1933 |
| Paul Gerhardt | 1606 - 1676 |
| Joseph Goebbels | 1897 - 1945 |
| Hermann Goering | 1893 - 1946 |
| Johann Gottlieb Fichte | 1762 - 1814 |
| Steffi Graf | 1969 |
| Gunther Grass | 1927 |
| Walter Gropius | 1883 - 1969 |
| George Grosz | 1893 - 1959 |
| Heinz Guderian | 1888 - 1954 |
| Jurgen Habermas | 1929 |
| Ernst Haeckel | 1834 - 1919 |
| Theodor Haecker | 1879 - 1945 |
| Nina Hagen | 1955 |
| Uta Hagen | 1919 - 2004 |
| Otto Hahn | 1879 - 1968 |
| Franz Halder | 1884 - 1972 |
| Oscar Hammerstein | 1846 - 1919 |
| Eduard Hanslick | 1825 - 1904 |
| Kaspar Hauser | 1812 - 1833 |
| Friedrich Hebbel | 1813 - 1863 |
| Martin Heidegger | 1889 - 1976 |
| Heinrich Heine | 1797 - 1856 |
| Gustav Heinemann | 1899 - 1976 |
| Johann Heinrich Lambert | 1728 - 1777 |
| Werner Heisenberg | 1901 - 1976 |
| Otto Hermann Kahn | 1867 - 1934 |
| Georg Hermes | 1775 - 1831 |
| Eugen Herrigel | 1885 - 1955 |
| Georg Herwegh | 1817 - 1875 |
| Werner Herzog | 1942 |
| Herman Hesse | 1877 - 1962 |
| Hermann Hesse | 1877 - 1962 |
| Stefan Heym | 1913 - 2001 |
| David Hilbert | 1862 - 1943 |
| Wolfgang Hildesheimer | 1916 |
| Heinrich Himmler | 1900 - 1945 |
| Paul Hindemith | 1895 - 1963 |
| Paul Hirsch | 1868 - 1940 |
| Max Hoffmann | 1869 - 1927 |
| Hans Hofmann | 1880 - 1966 |
| Erich Honecker | 1912 - 1994 |
| Roy Horn | 1944 |
| Kurt Huber | 1893 - 1943 |
| Robert Huber | 1937 |
| Edmund Husserl | 1859 - 1938 |
| Ferdinand I | |
| Karl Jaspers | 1883 - 1969 |
| Alfred Jodl | 1890 - 1946 |
| Denis Johnson | 1949 |
| Hanns Johst | 1890 - 1978 |
| Oliver Kahn | 1969 |
| Ernst Kaltenbrunner | 1903 - 1946 |
| Immanuel Kant | 1724 - 1804 |
| Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741 - 1801 |
| Erich Kastner | 1899 - 1974 |
| Bernard Katz | 1911 - 2003 |
| Walter Kaufmann | 1921 - 1980 |
| Wilhelm Keitel | 1882 - 1946 |
| Petra Kelly | 1947 - 1992 |
| Thomas Kempis | 1380 - 1471 |
| Johann Kepler | 1571 - 1630 |
| Johannes Kepler | 1571 - 1630 |
| Anselm Kiefer | 1945 |
| Klaus Kinski | 1926 - 1991 |
| Nastassja Kinski | 1959 |
| Martin Kippenberger | 1953 - 1997 |
| Felix Klein | |
| Werner Klemperer | 1920 - 2000 |
| Jurgen Klinsmann | 1964 |
| Alexander Kluge | 1932 |
| John Kluge | 1914 |
| Heidi Klum | 1973 |
| Hildegard Knef | 1925 - 2002 |
| Horst Koehler | 1843 |
| Helmut Kohl | 1930 |
| Kathe Kollwitz | 1867 - 1945 |
| Thomas Kretschmann | 1962 |
| Leopold Kronecker | 1823 - 1891 |
| Diane Kruger | 1976 |
| Gustav Krupp | 1870 - 1950 |
| Polykarp Kusch | 1911 - 1993 |
| Karl Lagerfeld | 1938 |
| Johann H. Lambert | 1728 - 1777 |
| Bernhard Langer | 1957 |
| Ferdinand Lassalle | 1825 - 1864 |
| Karl Lehmann | 1936 |
| Lotte Lehmann | 1888 - 1976 |
| Gottfried Leibniz | 1646 - 1716 |
| Siegfried Lenz | 1926 |
| Robert Ley | 1890 - 1945 |
| Willy Ley | 1906 - 1969 |
| Karl Liebknecht | 1871 - 1919 |
| Otto Lilienthal | 1848 - 1896 |
| Friedrich List | 1789 - 1846 |
| Ernst Lubitsch | 1892 - 1947 |
| Friedrich Ludwig Jahn | 1778 - 1852 |
| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner | 1880 - 1938 |
| Emil Ludwig | 1881 - 1948 |
| Martin Luther | 1483 - 1546 |
| Heinrich Mann | 1871 - 1950 |
| Thomas Mann | 1875 - 1955 |
| Franz Marc | 1880 - 1916 |
| Herbert Marcuse | 1898 - 1979 |
| Erich Maria Remarque | 1898 - 1970 |
| Rainer Maria Rilke | 1875 - 1926 |
| Carl Maria von Weber | 1786 - 1826 |
| Christoph Martin Wieland | 1733 - 1813 |
| Karl Marx | 1818 - 1883 |
| Kurt Masur | 1927 |
| Ernst Mayr | 1904 - 2005 |
| Ulrike Meinhof | 1934 - 1976 |
| Philipp Melanchthon | 1497 - 1560 |
| Philip Melanchthon | 1497 - 1560 |
| Felix Mendelssohn | 1809 - 1847 |
| Moses Mendelssohn | 1729 - 1786 |
| Angela Merkel | 1954 |
| Giacomo Meyerbeer | 1791 - 1864 |
| Christian Morgenstern | 1871 - 1914 |
| Ernst Moritz Arndt | 1769 - 1860 |
| Johann Most | 1846 - 1906 |
| Max Mueller | 1823 - 1900 |
| Erich Muhsam | 1878 - 1934 |
| Johannes P. Muller | 1801 - 1858 |
| Max Muller | 1823 - 1900 |
| Helmut Newton | 1920 - 2004 |
| Mike Nichols | 1931 |
| Carsten Nicolai | 1909 |
| Martin Niemoller | 1892 - 1984 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | 1844 - 1900 |
| Emil Nolde | 1867 - 1956 |
| Novalis | 1772 - 1801 |
| Hermann Oberth | 1894 - 1989 |
| Carl Orff | 1895 - 1982 |
| Wilhelm Ostwald | 1853 - 1932 |
| Rudolf Otto | 1869 - 1937 |
| Lilli Palmer | 1914 - 1986 |
| Tatjana Patitz | 1966 |
| Jean Paul | 1763 - 1825 |
| Thomas Perry | 1963 |
| Wolfgang Petersen | 1941 |
| Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach | 1714 - 1788 |
| Karl Philipp Moritz | 1756 - 1793 |
| Max Planck | 1858 - 1947 |
| Franka Potente | 1974 |
| Ludwig Quidde | 1858 - 1941 |
| Gustav Radbruch | 1878 - 1949 |
| Karl Rahner | 1904 - 1984 |
| Carl Rakosi | 1903 - 2004 |
| Dieter Rams | |
| Walther Rathenau | 1867 - 1922 |
| Joseph Ratzinger | 1927 |
| Johannes Rau | 1931 - 2006 |
| Max Reger | 1873 - 1916 |
| Leni Riefenstahl | 1902 - 2003 |
| Julius Robert Mayer | 1814 - 1878 |
| Abraham Robinson | 1918 - 1974 |
| Ernst Rohm | 1887 - 1934 |
| Erwin Rommel | 1891 - 1944 |
| Alfred Rosenberg | 1893 - 1946 |
| Mathias Rust | 1968 |
| Nelly Sachs | 1891 - 1970 |
| August Sander | 1876 - 1964 |
| Fritz Sauckel | 1894 - 1946 |
| Hjalmar Schacht | 1877 - 1970 |
| Max Scheler | 1874 - 1928 |
| Michael Schenker | 1955 |
| Claudia Schiffer | 1970 |
| Friedrich Schiller | 1759 - 1805 |
| Otto Schily | 1932 |
| Oskar Schindler | 1908 - 1974 |
| Friedrich Schleiermacher | 1768 - 1834 |
| Moritz Schlick | 1882 - 1936 |
| Heinrich Schliemann | 1822 - 1890 |
| Max Schmeling | 1905 - 2005 |
| Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788 - 1860 |
| Gerhard Schroder | 1944 |
| Gerhard Schroeder | 1944 |
| Klaus Schulze | 1947 |
| Michael Schumacher | 1969 |
| Clara Schumann | 1819 - 1896 |
| Robert Schumann | 1810 - 1856 |
| Carl Schurz | 1829 - 1906 |
| Elisabeth Schwarzkopf | 1915 - 2006 |
| Kurt Schwitters | 1887 - 1948 |
| W. G. Sebald | 1944 - 2001 |
| Johann G. Seume | 1763 - 1810 |
| Emperor Sigismund | 1368 - 1437 |
| Simone Signoret | 1921 |
| Angelus Silesius | 1624 - 1677 |
| Georg Simmel | 1858 - 1918 |
| Douglas Sirk | 1897 - 1987 |
| Dorothee Solle | 1929 - 2003 |
| Albert Speer | 1905 - 1981 |
| Oswald Spengler | 1880 - 1936 |