Editing List of Germans (section)

==Scientists and engineers==
{{see also|List of German scientists|List of German chemists|List of German physicists}}

===A–G===
[[Image:Wernher von Braun.jpg|thumb|160px|[[Wernher von Braun]]]]
[[Image:Nicolaus Copernicus 1598 (116109572) (cropped).jpg|thumb|160px|Nicolaus Copernicus, Tornaeus Borussus Mathematicus (N.C.,Prussian mathematician from Thorn/Torun). Copper engraving from 1597]]
[[Image:Einstein 1921 by F Schmutzer - restoration.jpg|thumb|160px|[[Albert Einstein]]]]
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* [[Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich]] (1806–1886), mineralogist, geologist
*[[Michael Albeck]] (born 1934), Israeli chemist; President of [[Bar-Ilan University]]
* [[Alois Alzheimer]] (1864–1915), psychiatrist and neuropathologist
* [[Peter Apian]] (1495–1552), mathematician, astronomer and cartographer
* [[Manfred von Ardenne]] (1907–1997), physicist
* [[Anton de Bary]] (1831–1888), surgeon, botanist, microbiologist
* [[Johann Bayer]] (1572–1625), astronomer
* [[Henning Behrens]] (born 1940), economist and political scientist
* [[Georg Bednorz]] (born 1950), physicist [[Nobel Prize for Physics]]
* [[Emil von Behring]] (1854–1917), physician
* [[Karl Benz]] (1844–1929), inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile
* [[Friedrich Bessel]] (1784–1846), mathematician
* [[Hans Bethe]] (1906–2005), physicist
* [[Hennig Brand]] (c. 1630{{spaced ndash}} c.1692 or c. 1710), alchemist; discoverer of [[phosphorus]]
* [[Max Born]] (1882–1970), physicist
* [[Robert Bosch]] (1861–1942), industrialist
* [[Carl F. W. Borgward]] (1890–1963), engineer
* [[Karl Ferdinand Braun]] (1850–1918), physicist
* [[Wernher von Braun]] (1912–1977), space engineer, rocket scientist
* [[Eduard Buchner]] (1860–1917), biochemist; recipient 1907 [[Nobel Prize for Chemistry]] for the discovery of enzymes
* [[Robert Bunsen|Robert Wilhelm Bunsen]] (1811–1899), chemist
* [[Alfred Buntru]] (1887–1974), hydraulic engineer and SS officer
* [[Georg Cantor]] (1845–1918), mathematician
* [[Conrad of Leonberg]] (1460–1511), humanist scholar
* [[Nicolaus Copernicus]] (1473–1543), [[Prussia (region)|Prussian]] astronomer who wrote and spoke German; he is also often considered as a Pole<!-- do not remove! he definitely spoke and wrote German. Also included in [[List of Polish people#Astronomy]] -->
* [[Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt]], neuropathologist
* [[Adolf Daimler]] (1871–1913), mechanical engineer
* [[Gottlieb Daimler]] (1834–1900), inventor and engineer
* [[Gertrud Dorka]] (1893–1976), archaeologist, prehistorian and museum director
* [[Carl Duisberg]] (1861–1935), chemist and industrialist
* [[Rudolf Diesel]] (1858–1913), inventor of the [[Diesel engine]]
* [[Paul Ehrlich]] (1854–1915), physician
* [[Albert Einstein]] (1879–1955), physicist
* [[Gerhard Ertl]] (born 1936), physicist
* [[Hans Jürgen Eysenck]] (1916–1997), psychologist
* [[Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit]] (1686–1736), physicist, engineer, and glass blower
* [[Adolf Eugen Fick]] (1829–1901), inventor of contact lenses
* [[Wolfgang Finkelnburg]] (1905–1967), physicist
* [[Hermann Emil Fischer]] (1852–1919), chemist and [[List of Nobel laureates in Chemistry|1902 recipient]] of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
* [[Friederike Fless]] (born 1964), president of the German Archaeological Institute
* [[Elvira Fölzer]] (1868–1928), early female archaeologist
* [[Joseph von Fraunhofer]] (1787–1826), physicist
* [[Gottlob Frege]] (1848–1925), mathematician and logicist
* [[Wilhelm Siegmund Frei]] (1885–1943), dermatologist
* [[Erich Fromm]] (1900–1980), psychologist
* [[Klaus Fuchs]] (1911–1988), physicist and spy
* [[Hans Geiger]] (1882–1945), physicist
* [[Carl Friedrich Gauss]] (1777–1855), mathematician
* [[Otto von Guericke]] (1602–1682), scientist
* [[Johannes Gutenberg]] (1398–1468), inventor of modern bookprinting
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===H–J===
[[File:Portret van Professor Fritz Haber, een chemicus uit Duitsland (foto 1918- 1934), SFA002023057.jpg|thumb|160px|[[Fritz Haber]]]]
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* [[Fritz Haber]] (1868–1934), chemist
* [[Ernst Haeckel]] (1834–1919), physician
* [[Otto Hahn]] (1879–1968), chemist
* [[Theodor W. Hänsch]] (born 1941), physicist
* [[Bernhard Hantzsch]] (1875–1911), ornithologist
* [[Georg Hartmann (geographer)|Georg Hartmann]] (1865–1946), geographer
* [[Felix Hausdorff]] (1868–1942), mathematician
* [[Robert Havemann]] (1910–1982), chemist
* [[Ernst Heinkel]] (1888–1958), aircraft engineer
* [[Werner Heisenberg|Werner Karl Heisenberg]] (1901–1976), physicist
* [[Hermann Helmholtz]], physicist
* [[Heinrich Rudolf Hertz]] (1857–1894), physicist
* [[Johannes Hevelius]] (1611–1687), astronomer
* [[David Hilbert]] (1862–1943), mathematician
* [[Magnus Hirschfeld]] (1868–1935), physician, sexologist, founder of the first ever committee for LGBTQ+ rights
* [[Johann Homann]] (1664–1724), geographer
* [[Erich Hückel|Erich Hueckel]] (1896–1980), physicist
* [[Alexander von Humboldt]] (1769–1859), explorer
* [[Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi]] (1804–1851), mathematician
* [[Alfons Maria Jakob]] (1884–1931), neurologist
* [[Hugo Junkers]] (1859–1935), aircraft engineer
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===K–L===
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* [[Theodor Kaluza]] (1885–1954), mathematician, theoretical physicist
* [[Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz]] (1829–1896), chemist
* [[Johannes Kepler]] (1571–1630), astronomer
* [[Gustav Robert Kirchhoff]] (1824–1887), physicist
* [[Martin Heinrich Klaproth]] (1743–1817), chemist
* [[Felix Klein]] (1849–1925), mathematician
* [[Klaus von Klitzing]] (born 1943), physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics]]
* [[Wolfgang Franz von Kobell]] (1803–1882), mineralogist
* [[Robert Koch]] (1843–1910), physician
* [[Walter Karl Koch]] (1880–1962), surgeon
* [[Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe]] (1818–1884), chemist
* [[Leopold Kronecker]] (1823–1891), mathematician
* [[Ernst Eduard Kummer]] (1810–1893), mathematician
* [[Edmund Landau]] (1877–1938), mathematician
* [[Hermann Lattemann]] (1852–1894), balloon pilot and parachutist
* [[Max von Laue]] (1879–1960), physicist
* [[Gottfried Leibniz|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] (1646–1716), mathematician
* [[Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard]] (1862–1947), physicist
* [[Rudolph Lennhoff]] (1866–1933), public health doctor 
* [[August Leskien]] (1840–1916), linguist
* [[Justus von Liebig]] (1803–1873), chemist
* [[Otto Lilienthal]] (1848–1896), aviation pioneer
* [[Ferdinand von Lindemann]] (1852–1939), mathematician
* [[Alexander Lippisch]] (1894–1976), aerodynamicist
* [[Friedrich Loeffler]] (1852–1915), bacteriologist
* [[Johann Josef Loschmidt]] (1821–1895), physicist, chemist
* [[Cornelia Lüdecke]] (born 1954), polar researcher, historian
* [[Reimar Lüst]] (1923–2020), astrophysicist
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===M–R===
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* ([[Albertus Magnus]] ''see'' "A")
* [[Ludwig Immanuel Magnus]], mathematician
* [[Siegfried Marcus]] (1831–1898), automobile pioneer
* [[Wilhelm Maybach]] (1846–1929), car-engine and [[automobile]] constructor
* [[Willy Messerschmitt|Wilhelm Messerschmitt]] (1898–1978), aircraft engineer
* [[Lothar Meyer]] (1830–1895), chemist
* [[Franz Mertens]] (1840–1927), mathematician
* [[August Ferdinand Möbius]] (1790–1868), mathematician, theoretical astronomer
* [[Ralph Bernstein]] (born 1933), engineer
* [[Johannes Peter Müller|Johannes Müller]] (1801–1858), physiologist
* [[Walther Nernst]] (1864–1941), physicist
* [[Carl Gottfried Neumann]] (1832–1925), mathematician
* [[Franz Ernst Neumann]] (1798–1895), mathematician
* [[Markolf Niemz]] (born 1964),  physicist, biophysicist, and author
* [[:de:Claus Noé|Claus Noé]] (1938–2008), economist
* [[Emmy Noether]] (1882–1935), mathematician
* [[Georg Ohm]] (1789–1854), physicist
* [[Wilhelm Ostwald]], chemist; recipient 1909 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
* [[Nicolaus Otto]] (1832–1891), coinventor of the [[Otto cycle]]
* [[Bernhard Philberth]] (1927–2010), physicist, engineer, philosopher, theologian
* [[Max Planck]] (1858–1947), physicist
* [[Jesco von Puttkamer]] (1933–2012), space scientist (NASA manager), engineer and author
* [[Bernhard Riemann]] (1826–1866), mathematician
* [[Adam Ries]] (1492–1559), mathematician
* [[Wilhelm Röntgen]] (1845–1923), physicist; inventor of x-rays
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[[File:Werner von Siemens (1816-1892), ca. 1850.jpg|thumb|238x238px|[[Werner von Siemens]]]]

===S–V===
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* [[Carl Wilhelm Scheele]] (1742–1786), chemist
* [[Matthias Jakob Schleiden]] (1804–1881), botanist
* [[Heinrich Schliemann]] (1822–1890), archaeologist
* [[Christian Friedrich Schonbein]] (1799–1868), chemist
* [[Friedrich Hermann Schottky]] (1851–1935), mathematician
* [[Theodor Schwann]] (1810–1882), physiologist
* [[Hermann Amandus Schwarz]] (1843–1921), mathematician
* [[Karl Schwarzschild]] (1873–1916), physicist
*[[Ernst Stromer]] (1871–1952), Paleontologist
* [[Carl Semper]] (1832–1893), ecologist
* [[Cynthia Sharma]] (born 1979), infectious disease researcher, biologist 
* [[Werner von Siemens]] (1816–1892), inventor, industrialist
* [[Rolf Singer]] (1906–1994), mycologist
* [[Arnold Sommerfeld]] (1868–1951), physicist
* [[Eduard Adolf Strasburger]] (1844–1912), German-Polish professor; one of the most famous botanists of the 19th century
* [[Georg Steller]] (1709–1746), naturalist
* [[William Stern (psychologist)|William Stern]] (1871–1938), psychologist, philosopher
* [[Alfred Stock]] (1876–1946), chemist
* [[Levi Strauss]] (1829–1902), jeans
* [[Emmy Mercedes Todtmann]] (1888–1973), glacial geologist
* [[Max Vasmer]] (1886–1962), linguist
* [[Rudolf Virchow]] (1821–1902), pioneer of medicine
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===W–Z===
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* [[Otto Wallach]], physicist
* [[Hellmuth Walter]] (1900–1980), propulsion
* [[Felix Wankel]] (1902–1988), inventor of the [[Wankel engine]]
* [[Alfred Wegener]] (1880–1930), geologist, meteorologist
* [[Karl Weierstrass]] (1815–1897), mathematician
* [[August Weismann]] (1834–1914), biologist
* [[Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker]] (1912–2007), physicist
* [[Hermann Weyl]] (1885–1955), mathematician
* [[Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied]] (1782–1867), zoologist
* [[Wilhelm Wien]] (1864–1928), physicist
* [[Heinrich Wohlwill]] (1874–1943), electrical engineer
* [[Mieczysław Wolfke]] (1883–1947), Polish physicist of German descent
* [[Wilhelm Wundt]] (1832–1920), physiologist, psychologist
* [[Christian Zeller]] (1822–1899, Rektor), mathematician
* [[Ferdinand von Zeppelin]] (1838–1917), inventor of the [[Zeppelin]], founded the Zeppelin Airship company
* [[Ernst Zermelo]] (1871–1953), mathematician
* [[Konrad Zuse]] (1910–1995), computer pioneer
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