German Famous Names Starting with Letter B

Is a female volleyball player from Germany, who made her debut for the German Women's National Team

Is a female volleyball player from Germany, who made her debut for the German Women's National Team in 1999. Standing at 184cm and nicknamed "Thummi" she represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

Is a former swimmer from the German Democratic Republic, having won two silver medals in the 1976 Su

Is a former swimmer from the German Democratic Republic, having won two silver medals in the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal and a bronze medal in the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow. She began her international career in 1975 as 15-year-old aft

Is a German actor of Turkish descent. He has acted in a number of German and Turkish films, TV serie

Is a German actor of Turkish descent. He has acted in a number of German and Turkish films, TV series and theatrical productions. His name, "Birol", means "unique" in Turkish. Ünel began as a theatre actor at the Berliner Tacheles where he played the lead and also directed the play "Caligula". Ünel made his film debut in 1988's The Passenger. He played a private detective in the film Dealer which he followed up with a role in Fatih Akin's Im Juli. Birol then acted in the award winning Gegen die Wand as Cahit Tomruk. He won the German film prize for best actor for this role.

Is a retired German runner who specialized in the 800 metres. She represented the sports club ASV Köln, and became German champion in 1993.[1] Her personal best time was 1:59.17 minutes, achieved in July 1988 in East Berlin.[2]

Is a former butterfly and backstroke swimmer from East Germany, who won three medals at the 1988 Sum

Is a former butterfly and backstroke swimmer from East Germany, who won three medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. The twenty-year old triumphed with the DDR Women's Relay Team in the 4x100m Medley together with her teammates Kristin Otto, Silke Hörner and Katrin Meißner, and finished second in both the 100m and the 200m Butterfly.

Is a German actress. She studied at the Munich's August Everding Music and Drama School (2002 - 2006

Is a German actress. She studied at the Munich's August Everding Music and Drama School (2002 - 2006). Her most popular role so far was one of the leading role in the RTL series Schulmädchen. She also took part in the later ProSieben series Alles außer Sex with Simone Hanselmann, another school girl in Schulmädchen.

Is an artist based in Berlin. Dahlem was born in Munich. He makes sculptures based on space and astr

Is an artist based in Berlin. Dahlem was born in Munich. He makes sculptures based on space and astrophysics out of ordinary household materials.[1]

Was a German actress and chansonniere.

Was a German actress and chansonniere.

Was a German naturalist.Merrem was born at Bremen, and studied at the university of Göttingen under

Was a German naturalist.Merrem was born at Bremen, and studied at the university of Göttingen under Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. He developed an interest in zoology, particularly ornithology. He is remembered chiefly as the first ornithologist to propose a division of birds into Ratitae (ratites or running birds, with a flat sternum) and Carinatae (carinates or flying birds, with a keeled sternum), which formed part of his classification of birds in Tentamen Systematis Naturalis Avium, published in Berlin in 1816 (in Abhandlugen Akad. Wiss.

German heavy metal band which is often credited as one of the seminal and most influential bands in

German heavy metal band which is often credited as one of the seminal and most influential bands in power metal and speed metal subgenres.[1] [2] [3] It was formed in the mid-1980s in Krefeld, West Germany.[4]

Is a Deaf actor. He starred in the film Children of a Lesser God and portrays Walter Novak on the te

Is a Deaf actor. He starred in the film Children of a Lesser God and portrays Walter Novak on the television drama All My Children. On All My Children, he plays the estranged father of daughter Annie Lavery, the character having been written to loathe the young woman.

Is an East German bobsledder who competed from the mid to late 1980s.

Is an East German bobsledder who competed from the mid to late 1980s.

A former German football goalkeeper, who played for 1. FC Köln and Real Madrid, and helped West Ger

A former German football goalkeeper, who played for 1. FC Köln and Real Madrid, and helped West Germany to the 1990 World Cup, where he became the first goalkeeper to keep a clean sheet in a World Cup final.Illgner was a product of 1. FC Köln's youth system, and debuted in the Bundesliga on February 22, 1986, in a 3-1 away loss to Bayern Munich. From 1987-88 onwards, he became the side's undisputed starter.

Is a German former football (soccer) goalkeeper who played in East Germany. He played during most of

Is a German former football (soccer) goalkeeper who played in East Germany. He played during most of his career for the football club Dynamo Berlin where he was East German champion ten times in a row from 1979 to 1988. He was also the goalkeeper of the E

Is a German football coach and a former player who is currently managing SV Frisia 03 Risum-Lindholm

Is a German football coach and a former player who is currently managing SV Frisia 03 Risum-Lindholm.

Is a Polish-born East German-German bobsledder who competed from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.

Is a Polish-born East German-German bobsledder who competed from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.

Was a German archaeologist and a distant relative of the family of Manfred von Richthofen, the "Red

Was a German archaeologist and a distant relative of the family of Manfred von Richthofen, the "Red Baron". He is sometimes confused with his distant cousin and namesake, Karl Bolko von Richthofen (1903–1971) – the youngest brother of the fighter ace. After the war ended, he participated as a Freikorps volunteer during the Silesian Uprisings. In the early post-war period he entered tertiary studies and quickly became an eminent scholar.

A retired boxer from Colombia, who represented his native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics. There

A retired boxer from Colombia, who represented his native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics. There he was eliminated in the second round of the men's light middleweight division (– 71 kg) by eventual gold medalist Dieter Kottysch from West Germany

Is an award-winning Turkish-German author and screen writer.

Is an award-winning Turkish-German author and screen writer.

Is a German ice hockey goaltender who currently plays for the Frankfurt Lions of the Deutsche Eishoc

Is a German ice hockey goaltender who currently plays for the Frankfurt Lions of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). He began his career with his hometown team the Krefeld Pinguine playing eleven games during the 1999-2000 season.

Was a German composer. His career resumed after 1945, and he later became director of the Music Acad

Was a German composer. His career resumed after 1945, and he later became director of the Music Academy of Berlin, and is today regarded as one of the most influential music figures of his time. His students include Aribert Reimann, Isang Yun, Maki Ishii, Fritz Geißler, Giselher Klebe, Heimo Erbse, Klaus Huber, Francis Burt, Gottfried von Einem, and Richard Wernick.

Is a German conductor and composer. Between 2000 and 2001, Boris Böhmann was chairman of the Associ

Is a German conductor and composer. Between 2000 and 2001, Boris Böhmann was chairman of the Association of Church Musicians in the bishopric of Münster. Since 1996, he has been a member of the national committee of the German choir association "Pueri Cantores" and since 1999 also held a position as a member of the presidency committee.

A German-Ecuadorian Pianist and Diplomat.Boris Cepeda got his first piano lessons at four. He appear

A German-Ecuadorian Pianist and Diplomat.Boris Cepeda got his first piano lessons at four. He appeared in public for the first time in Ecuadorian television at five. Since then he has performed worldwide. Boris Cepeda studied at the University of the Arts Bremen in the class of Kurt Seibert. In 1999 he become assistant manager to the artistic director of the Festival Weidener Max-Reger-Tage From 2002 to 2007 he acted as Cultural attaché at the Embassy of Ecuador in Berlin.

A former World No. 1 professional tennis player from Germany. He is a six-time Grand Slam singles ch

A former World No. 1 professional tennis player from Germany. He is a six-time Grand Slam singles champion, an Olympic gold medalist, and the youngest-ever winner of the men's singles title at Wimbledon at the age of 17.

Is a German contemporary artist based in Barcelona. His artistic roots lie in graffiti, but today hi

Is a German contemporary artist based in Barcelona. His artistic roots lie in graffiti, but today his work spans painting, photography, video, sculpture and installation art. His work has been used in advertising campaigns as well. Hoppek's trademark is a symmetric oval, which appears in most of his work either alone or in a constellation of three, thus forming a face. He is the creator of The C'Mons, a fictional rock band at the centre of a viral marketing campaign for the fourth-generation Opel Corsa car. In 2010 he was named as one of the leading figures in urban art by Patrick Nguyen in his book Beyond the Street.