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...
Reiner Knizia (German pronunciation: [ˈʁaɪnɐ ˈknɪtsiə]) is a prolific German-style board game designer. Born in Germany, he developed his first game at the age of six. He has a PhD in...
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...
Rosmarie Waldrop (born August 24, 1935) is a contemporary American poet, translator and publisher. Born in Germany, she has lived in the United States since 1958. She has lived in...
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...