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==Sportspeople== {{see also|List of German bodybuilders|List of Germany men's international footballers|List of Germany international footballers 1908–1942|List of Germany women's international footballers|List of Germany national rugby union players}} [[File:Boris Becker.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Boris Becker]]]] [[File:Franz Beckenbauer 2006 06 17.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Franz Beckenbauer]]]] [[File:Marcel Goc Predators.png|thumb|120px|[[Marcel Goc]]]] [[File:Steffi Graf für Rexona.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Steffi Graf]]]] [[File:Austria vs. USA 2013-11-19 (066).jpg|thumb|120px|[[Jürgen Klinsmann]]]] [[File:Helene Mayer 1928.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Helene Mayer]]]] ===A–G=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Franziska van Almsick]] (born 1978), swimmer * [[Adolf Anderssen]] (1818–1879), chess grandmaster * [[Tobias Arlt]] (born 1987), luger * [[Rudi Ball]] (1911–1975), Hall of Fame ice hockey player, Olympic bronze 1932, World runner-up 1930, bronze 1934<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sihss.se/RudiBallbiography.htm|author=Birger Nordmark and Patrick Houda|title=Rudi Ball|publisher=Sihss.se|access-date=12 May 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311175056/http://www.sihss.se/RudiBallbiography.htm|archive-date=11 March 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> * [[Michael Ballack]] (born 1976), football player * [[Karin Balzer]] (1938–2019), hurdler * [[Marcel Barthel]] (born 1990), professional wrestler * [[Dieter Baumann]] (born 1965), athlete * [[Franz Beckenbauer]] (1945–2024), football player * [[Boris Becker]] (born 1967), tennis player * [[Ludger Beerbaum]] (born 1963), equestrian; four-time Olympic Gold medalist * [[Elly Beinhorn]] (1907–2007), aviator * [[Valery Belenky]] (born 1969), Soviet/Azerbaijan/German Olympic gymnastics champion (team combined exercises), bronze (individual combined exercises) * [[Isaac Bonga]], NBA player<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/friv/birthplaces.fcgi?country=DE&state=|title=NBA & ABA players Born in Germany|work=basketball-reference.com|access-date=16 June 2019}}</ref> * [[Stefan Bellof]] (1957–1985), race car driver * [[Gretel Bergmann]] (1914–2017), internationally renowned [[high jumper]] of the 1930s was excluded from the 1936 Olympic team due to being Jewish. * [[Frank Biela]] (born 1964), race car driver * [[Oliver Bierhoff]] (born 1968), football player * [[Jérôme Boateng]] (born 1988), football player * [[Timo Boll]], table tennis player * [[Kathrin Boron]] (born 1969), [[sculling|scmomuller]]; four-time Olympic gold medallist * [[Daryl Boyle]] (born 1987), ice hockey player for Germany * [[Andreas Brehme]] (born 1960), football player and coach * [[Paul Breitner]] (born 1951), football player * [[Kai Budde]] (born 1979), professional ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' player * [[Bettina Bunge]] (born 1963), tennis player * [[Rudolf Caracciola]] (1901–1959), race car driver * [[Rolf Decker]], German-born American, football midfielder (US national team) * [[Uschi Disl]] (born 1970), biathlete * [[Leon Draisaitl]] (born 1995), ice hockey player * [[Heike Drechsler]] (born 1964), athlete * [[Mathew Dumba]] (born 1994), ice hockey player * [[Stefan Effenberg]] (born 1968), football player * [[Christian Ehrhoff]] (born 1982), Olympian and [[National Hockey League]] hockey player; plays for the [[Buffalo Sabres]] *[[David Elsner]] (born 1992), ice hockey forward * [[Erich Gottlieb Eliskases]] (1913–1997), leading chess player of the 1930s–40s, represented [[Austria]], [[Germany]] and [[Argentina]] in international competition * [[Kornelia Ender]] (born 1958), swimmer; became the first woman swimmer to win four gold medals at a single Olympic Games ([[1976 Summer Olympics|in 1976]]), all in world record times * [[Karin Enke]] (born 1961), speed skater; one of the most dominant of the 1980s * [[Jürgen Fanghänel]] (born 1951), boxer * [[Rudi Fink]] (born 1958), boxer * [[Birgit Fischer]] (born 1962), kayaker * [[Sven Fischer]] (born 1971), biathlete * [[Theodor Fischer (fencer)|Theodor Fischer]], Olympic épée and foil fencer * [[Alfred Flatow]] (1869–1942), gymnast, three-time Olympic champion ([[parallel bars]], team parallel bars, team horizontal bar), silver ([[horizontal bar]]) * [[Gustav Flatow|Gustav Felix Flatow]] (1875–1945), two-time Olympic champion (team parallel bars, team horizontal bar) * [[Heinz-Harald Frentzen]] (born 1967), racing driver * [[Torsten Frings]] (born 1976), football player * [[Gottfried Fuchs]] (1889–1972), Olympic football player * [[Erika Geisen]], IFBB professional bodybuilder * [[Natalie Geisenberger]] (born 1988), luger * [[Timo Glock]] (born 1982), racing driver * [[Marcel Goc]], German Olympian and NHL hockey player; plays for the [[Nashville Predators]] * [[Harold Goldsmith]], born Hans Goldschmidt (1930–2004), American Olympic foil and épée fencer * [[Mario Gómez]] (born 1985), football player * [[Steffi Graf]] (born 1969), tennis player * [[Michael Greis]] (born 1976), biathlete * [[Michael Gross (swimmer)|Michael Gross]] (born 1964), swimmer * [[Ricco Groß]] (born 1970), biathlete * [[Jan Gustafsson]] (born 1979), chess grandmaster and Janistan head of state * [[Ludwig Guttmann]] (1899–1980), founder of the [[Paralympics]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishsports.net/historical_view.htm |title=Historical View |publisher=Jewishsports.net |access-date=12 May 2010}}</ref> {{div col end}} ===H–M=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Tommy Haas]] (born 1978), tennis player * [[Georg Hackl]] (born 1966), luger * [[Hans Halberstadt]] (1885–1966), German-born American Olympic fencer * [[Dietmar Hamann]] (born 1973), football player * [[Sven Hannawald]] (born 1974), ski jumper * [[Armin Hary]] (born 1937), athlete * [[Thomas Häßler]] (born 1966), football player * [[Nico Hülkenberg]] (born 1987), racing driver * [[Nick Heidfeld]] (born 1977), racing driver * [[Lilli Henoch]] (1899–1942), world records in discus, shot put, and 4x100-m relay; shot by the Nazis in Latvia * [[Jupp Heynckes]] (born 1945), retired footballer and current manager of [[FC Bayern Munich]] * [[Julius Hirsch]] (1892–1945), Olympian football player and first Jewish member of the [[Germany national football team|national team]], two-time Germany team champion, awarded the [[Iron Cross]] during World War I, murdered in [[Auschwitz concentration camp]]. * [[Ottmar Hitzfeld]] (born 1949), football player and manager * [[Leah Horowitz (runner)|Leah Horowitz]] (1933–1956), Israeli Olympic hurdler * [[Mats Hummels]] (born 1988), football player * [[Peter Hussing]] (1948–2012), boxer * [[Robert Hübner]] (1948–2025), chess grandmaster * [[Reinhold Joest]] (born 1937), race car driver and racing team owner * [[Klaus Junge]] (1924–1945), one of the youngest German chess grandmasters * [[Enriko Kehl]] (born 1992), muay thai kickboxing * [[Oliver Kahn]] (born 1969), football player * [[Andy Kapp]] (born 1967), curler * [[Dirk Käsebier]] (born 1966), boxer * [[Fritz Keller]] (born 1957), football administrator * [[Udo Kiessling]] (born 1955), first ice hockey player to compete at [[List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games|five Olympics]] * [[Herbert Klein (swimmer)|Herbert Klein]] (1923–2001), Olympic bronze (200-m breaststroke); three world records * [[Ralph Klein (basketball)|Ralph Klein]] (1931–2008), Berlin-born Israeli basketball player and coach * [[Jutta Kleinschmidt]], rally driver * [[Reiner Klimke]] (1936–1999), equestrian; won six gold and two bronze medals in dressage at the Summer Olympics * [[Jürgen Klinsmann]] (born 1964), football player and manager<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bundesliga.com/en/bundesliga/news/jurgen-klinsmann-a-world-football-legend-usmnt-3779|title=Jürgen Klinsmann: the life of a world football legend|work=bundesliga.com|access-date=16 June 2019}}</ref> * [[Jürgen Klopp]] (born 1967), Football player and then manager * [[Miroslav Klose]] (born 1978), football player * [[Georg Koch]] (born 1972), football player * [[Marita Koch]] (born 1957), [[Sprint (running)|sprint]] [[track and field]] athlete who collected 30 [[List of world records in athletics|world records]] * [[Olaf Kölzig]] (born 1970), German Olympian and [[National Hockey League]] [[goaltender|goalie]]; plays for the [[Tampa Bay Lightning]] * [[Andreas Köpke]] (born 1962), football player (goalkeeper) * [[Louis Krages]] (1949–2001), racing driver who raced under the [[pseudonym]] of "John Winter" * [[Ingrid Krämer]] (born 1943), [[Diving (sport)|diver]] and Olympic champion * [[Toni Kroos]] (born 1990), football player * [[Uwe Krupp]] (born 1965), ice hockey player and coach; won the [[Stanley Cup]] and played in an NHL All-Star Game * [[Erich Kühnhackl]] (born 1950), ice hockey player; named Germany's ice hockey player of the 20th century and member of the [[IIHF Hall of Fame]] * [[Kevin Kuske]] (born 1979), bobsledder; most successful Olympic athlete in bobsledding, winning four gold medals and two silver medals * [[Philipp Lahm]] (born 1983), football player * [[André Lange]], bobsledding champion * [[Hermann Lang]] (1909–1987), champion race car driver * [[Bernhard Langer]] (born 1957), golfer * [[Henry Laskau]] (1916–2000), racewalker; won 42 national titles; [[Pan American Games]] champion; four-time [[Maccabiah]] champion * [[Emanuel Lasker]] (1868–1941), the second World Chess Champion (1894–1921) * [[Jens Lehmann]] (born 1969), football player (goalkeeper) * [[Ellen Lohr]], racing driver * [[Joachim Löw]] (born 1960), football player and manager of [[Germany national football team|Germany]] * [[Klaus Ludwig]], racing driver * [[Marion Lüttge]] (born 1941), javelin thrower * [[Brooks Macek]] (born 1992), ice hockey player for Germany * [[Felix Magath]] (born 1953), football player and manager * [[Sepp Maier]] (born 1944), football player * [[Jan Martín]] (born 1984), German-Israeli-Spanish basketball player * [[Henry Maske]] (born 1964), boxer * [[Jochen Mass]], racing driver * [[Lothar Matthäus]] (born 1961), football player * [[Roland Matthes]] (1950–2019), swimmer and the most successful [[backstroke]] swimmer of all times * [[Helene Mayer]] (1910–1953), foil fencer, Olympic champion * [[Georg Meier]] (1910–1999), motorcycle racer * [[Yona Melnik]] (born 1949), Israeli Olympic judoka * [[Markus Merk]] (born 1962), top-level [[Referee (association football)|football referee]] * [[Christoph Metzelder]] (born 1980), football player * [[Ulrike Meyfarth]] (born 1956), high jumper * [[Rosi Mittermaier]] (1950–2023), alpine ski champion * [[Andreas Möller]] (born 1967), football player * [[Gerd Müller]] (1945–2021), football player * [[Jörg Müller]] (born 1969), race car driver * [[Petra Müller]] (born 1965), athlete * [[Thomas Müller]] (born 1989), football player {{div col end}} ===N–R=== [[File:DirkNowitzki.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Dirk Nowitzki]]]] {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Patricia Neske]] (born 1966), figure skater * [[Günter Netzer]] (born 1944), football player * [[Manuel Neuer]] (born 1986), football player (goalkeeper) * [[Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann]] (born 1966), speed skater * [[Aron Nimzowitsch]] (1886–1935), Latvian-Danish German chess master and chess writer * [[Dirk Nowitzki]] (born 1978), [[National Basketball Association]] player<ref name=":0"/> * [[Kristin Otto]] (born 1966), Olympic swimming champion * [[Sylke Otto]] (born 1969), luger * [[Mesut Özil]] (born 1988), football player * [[Claudia Pechstein]] (born 1972), speed skater * [[Uta Pippig]] (born 1965), athlete * [[Lukas Podolski]] (born 1985), football player * [[Sarah Poewe]] (born 1983), South African-German swimmer, Olympic bronze (4 × 100 medley relay) * [[Ellen Preis]] (Ellen Müller-Preis) (1912–2007), German-born Austrian Olympic champion foil fencer * [[Daniel Prenn]] (1904–1991), German-Polish-British tennis player, highest world ranking # <nowiki>6</nowiki> * [[Birgit Prinz]] (born 1977), football player * [[Lina Radke]] (1903–1983), athlete * [[Teodor Regedziński]] (also known as Theodor Reger) (1894–1954), Polish chess master of German origin; father's name was Reger * [[Otto Rehhagel]] (born 1938), football player and manager * [[Annegret Richter]] (born 1950), athlete * [[Lars Riedel]] (born 1967), athlete * [[Maria Höfl-Riesch]] (born 1984), [[FIS Alpine Ski World Cup|World Cup]] [[Alpine skiing|alpine ski racer]] * [[Jochen Rindt]] (1942–1970), German-born racing driver who represented Austria during his career (one-time World Champion) * [[Walter Röhrl]], rally and racing driver (two-time Rally World Champion) * [[Nico Rosberg]] (born 1985), former German–Finnish Formula One driver (one-time World Champion) * [[Bernd Rosemeyer]] (1909–1938), racing driver * [[Karl-Heinz Rummenigge]] (born 1955), football player {{div col end}} ===S–Z=== [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-09348, Max Schmeling.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Max Schmeling]]]] [[File:Schumi di GP Kanada 2011 cropped.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Michael Schumacher]]]] [[File:Jan Ullrich.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Jan Ullrich]]]] [[File:Sebastian Vettel 2017 Malaysia 2.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Sebastian Vettel]]]] {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Arian Sadiković]] (born 1994), professional Kickboxer former title challenger at One Championship (2022) * [[Matthias Sammer]] (born 1967), football player and manager who won the [[1996 Ballon d'Or]] * [[Thomas Schaaf]] (born 1961), football player and manager * [[Max Schmeling]] (1905–2005), World Heavyweight Boxing Champion * [[Paul Felix Schmidt]] (1916–1984), Estonian–German chess master * [[Martin Schmitt]] (born 1978), ski jumper * [[Bernd Schneider (footballer)|Bernd Schneider]], football player * [[Bernd Schneider (racing driver)|Bernd Schneider]], racing driver * [[Mehmet Scholl]] (born 1970), football player * [[Anja Schreiner]], IFBB professional bodybuilder * [[Detlef Schrempf]] (born 1963), German-American former NBA player<ref name=":0"/> * [[Carl Schuhmann]] (1869–1946), won four Olympic titles in gymnastics and wrestling at the [[1896 Summer Olympics]]; becoming the most successful athlete at the inaugural Olympics of the modern era * [[Harald Schumacher]] (born 1954), football player * [[Michael Schumacher]] (born 1969), racing driver (seven-time Formula One World Champion)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.formula1.com/en/drivers/hall-of-fame/Michael_Schumacher.html|title=Michael Schumacher|work=formula1.com|access-date=13 June 2019}}</ref> * [[Ralf Schumacher]] (born 1975), racing driver; brother of [[Michael Schumacher]] * [[Dennis Schröder]], NBA player<ref name=":0"/> * [[Ralf Schumann]] (born 1962), pistol shooter * [[Bernd Schuster]] (born 1959), football player and manager * [[Rainer Schüttler]], tennis player * [[Armin Schwarz]] (born 1963), racing driver * Wolfgang Schmidt (athlete) (born 1954), olympian track and field * [[Bastian Schweinsteiger]] (born 1984), football player * [[Werner Seelenbinder]] (1904–1944), wrestler * [[Uwe Seeler]] (1936–2022), football player * [[Dennis Seidenberg]] (born 1981), ice hockey player * [[Katja Seizinger]], alpine ski champion * [[Wolfgang Stark]] (born 1969), football referee * [[Renate Stecher]] (born 1950), athlete * [[Britta Steffen]] (born 1983), swimmer; three-time [[Olympic medal]]ist<ref>[https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/hall-of-fame/bio/swimmer/britta-steffen "Britta Steffen – Hall of Fame Swimmer"]. ''[[Swimming World]]''. Retrieved 23 July 2021.</ref> * [[Michael Stich]] (born 1968), tennis player * [[Rolf Stommelen]] (1943–1983), racing driver * [[Hans Stuck]] (1900–1978), racing driver * [[Hans-Joachim Stuck]], racing driver and son of Hans * [[Marco Sturm]] (born 1978), ice hockey player and coach; one-time [[NHL All-Star Game|NHL All-Star]] ([[1999 NHL All-Star Game|1999]]) * [[Siegbert Tarrasch]] (1862–1934), chess grandmaster * [[Joseph Taussig]] (1877–1947), German-born American football quarterback<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=football&ID=55|access-date=2020-09-13|title=x|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030520230414/http://jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=football&ID=55|archive-date=20 May 2003}}</ref> * [[Axel Teichmann]] (born 1979), cross-country skier * [[Richard Teichmann]] (1868–1925), leading German chess player, easily of grandmaster strength * [[Alexander Wolfe (wrestler)|Axel Tischer]] (born 1986), professional wrestler * [[Toni Turek]] (1919–1984), football player * [[Jan Ullrich]] (born 1973), cyclist * [[Wolfgang Unzicker]] (1925–2006), chess grandmaster * [[Nicole Uphoff]] (born 1967), equestrian * [[Sebastian Vettel]], Formula One driver (four-time World Champion) * [[Berti Vogts]], football player and manager * [[Johannes Voigtmann]] (born 1992), basketball player * [[Rudi Völler]] (born 1960), football player * [[Sebastian Vollmer]] (born 1984), American football player, first German NFL draft pick; plays for the [[New England Patriots]] * [[Katrin Wagner-Augustin]] (born 1977), [[Canoe sprint|sprint canoer]] * [[Ralf Waldmann]], motorcycle racer * [[Fritz Walter (footballer, 1920)|Fritz Walter]] (1920–2002), football player * [[Fritz Walter (footballer, 1960)|Fritz Walter]] (born 1960), football player * [[Ulrich Wehling]] (born 1952), won the [[nordic combined]] event in the [[Winter Olympics]] three consecutive times, in [[1972 Winter Olympics|1972]], [[1976 Winter Olympics|1976]], and [[1980 Winter Olympics|1980]] * [[Jens Weißflog]] (born 1964), ski jumper * [[Tobias Wendl]] (born 1987), luger *[[Moritz Wagner (basketball)|Moritz Wagner]], NBA player for the [[Los Angeles Lakers]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.german-times.com/like-many-german-athletes-moritz-wagner-had-a-rough-go-of-it-when-he-arrived-in-the-us-now-hes-a-los-angeles-laker/|title=Like many German athletes, Moritz Wagner had a rough go of it when he arrived in the U.S., now he's a Los Angeles Laker|work=german-times.com|access-date=16 June 2019}}</ref><ref name=":0"/> * [[Isabell Werth]] (born 1969), equestrian and world champion in [[dressage]]; holds the record for the most Olympic medals won by any equestrian athlete * [[Kati Wilhelm]] (born 1976), biathlete * [[Joachim Winkelhock]], racing driver * [[Manfred Winkelhock]] (1951–1985), racing driver; brother of [[Joachim Winkelhock]] * [[Hans Günter Winkler]] (1926–2018), [[show jumping]] rider * [[Katarina Witt]] (born 1965), figure skater * [[Bärbel Wöckel]] (born 1955), [[Sprint (running)|sprinter]] * [[Sigrun Wodars]] (born 1965), athlete * [[Jenny Wolf]] (born 1979), speed skater * [[Erik Zabel]] (born 1970), cyclist * [[Christian Ziege]] (born 1972), football player and manager * [[Johannes Zukertort]] (1842–1888), German Polish-Jewish chessmaster {{div col end}}
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