Henry Alfred Kissinger is a German-born American bureaucrat, diplomat, and 1973 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He served as National Security Advisor and later...
Jakob Wassermann (Hebrew: יעקב וסרמן; March 10, 1873 - January 1, 1934) was a Jewish-German writer and novelist. Born in Fürth, Wassermann was the son of a shopkeeper and lost his mother at...
Michael Shawn Malone (born 1954) is a American author, columnist editor, investor, business-man, and has been the host of several shows on PBS. Malone is a columnist for ABC News, an op-ed...
Lucas Cranach the Elder was a German painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was born Lucas Sunder at Kronach in upper Franconia,...
Bert Hölldobler (born 25 June 1936) is a German behavioral biologist and Sociobiologist whose primary study subjects are social insects and in particular ants. He is a co-winner of the...
Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende was a German writer of fantasy and children's literature. He was born in Garmisch , son of the surrealist painter Edgar...
Pope Benedict XVI (Latin: Benedictus PP. XVI; Italian: Benedetto XVI; German: Benedikt XVI.; born Joseph Alois Ratzinger on 16 April 1927) is the 265th and current Pope, by virtue of his...
Leopold Hermann Oskar Panizza (12 November 1853 – 28 September 1921) was a German psychiatrist and avant-garde author, playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, publisher and literary journal...
Sylvia Nasar (born 17 August 1947 in Rosenheim, Germany) is a German economist and author, best known for her biography of John Forbes Nash, A Beautiful Mind. Nasar was born to a German...
Mark Benecke (born August 26, 1970) is a German forensic biologist. Benecke was born in Rosenheim (Bavaria). After receiving a Dr. rer. medic. at Cologne University in 1997, he worked in the...
Martin Walser (born 24 March 1927 in Wasserburg am Bodensee, on Lake Constance) is a German writer. He became famous for describing the conflicts his anti-heroes have in his novels and...
Tommy Jaud (born July 16, 1970, in Schweinfurt) is a German author, scriptwriter, and freelance author for many television productions. After completing his Abitur, Jaud served his...
Ludwig Thoma (January 21, 1867, Oberammergau - August 26, 1921, Rottach) was a German author, publisher and editor, who gained popularity through his partially exaggerated description of a...
Franz Stuck was a German Symbolist/Art Nouveau painter, sculptor, engraver, and architect. Stuck was born at Tettenweis, in Bavaria. From an early age he displayed...
Hans Hofmann was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter. He was born in Weißenburg, Bavaria on March 21, 1880 the son of Theodor and Franziska Hofmann....
Ernst Walter Mayr (July 5, 1904, Kempten, Germany – February 3, 2005, Bedford, Massachusetts, United States), was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a...
Thea Gabriele von Harbou (December 27, 1888 – July 1, 1954) was a German actress and author of Prussian aristocratic origin. She was born in Tauperlitz in the Kingdom of Bavaria. In 1905...
Lily Brett is an award-winning Australian novelist, essayist and poet who now lives in New York City. Much of her writing deals with her Jewish family semi-biographically...
Oskar Maria Graf (22 July 1894 – 28 June 1967) was a German author. He wrote several socialist-anarchist novels and narratives about life in Bavaria, mostly autobiographical. In the...
Albertus Magnus, O.P. (1193/1206 – November 15, 1280), also known as Albert the Great and Albert of Cologne, was a Dominican friar and a bishop, who achieved fame for his comprehensive...
Jean Paul (21 March 1763 – 14 November 1825), born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, was a German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories. Jean Paul was born at...
Johann Kaspar Schmidt (October 25, 1806 – June 26, 1856), better known as Max Stirner (the nom de plume he adopted from a schoolyard nickname he had acquired as a child because of his high...
Rainer Werner Maria Fassbinder (May 31, 1945 – June 10, 1982) was a German movie director, screenwriter and actor. He is one of the most important representatives of the New German...
Hans Carossa (15 December 1878, Bad Tölz, Kingdom of Bavaria – 12 September 1956, Rittsteig) was a German novelist and poet, known mostly for his autobiographical novels, and his innere...
Ruth Westheimer (born June 4, 1928) is an American sex therapist, media personality, and author. Best known as Dr. Ruth, the New York Times described her as a "Sorbonne-trained psychologist...