Editing Düsseldorf (section)

===Born after 1900===
[[File:Filmregisseur Helmut Kautne in Nederland, Bestanddeelnr 910-9501.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|Helmut Käutner 1960]]
* [[Max Lorenz (tenor)|Max Lorenz]] (1901–1975), tenor
* Joseph H. Heinen (1903-1981), founder, [[Heinen's|Heinen's Grocery Stores]], Cleveland, Ohio
* [[Toni Ulmen]] (1906–1976), motorcycle and car race driver
* [[Karl Pschigode]] (1907–1971), actor and theatre director
* [[Helmut Käutner]] (1908–1980), film director and actor
* [[Hilarius Gilges]] (1909–1933), Afro-German actor, victim of [[Nazism]]
* [[Ernst Klusen]] (1909–1988), musicologist
* [[Luise Rainer]] (1910–2014), actress
* [[Josef Peters (racing driver)|Josef Peters]] (1914–2001), racing driver
* [[Ursula Benser]] (1915–2001), painter
* [[Fred Beckey]] (1923–2017), rock climber, mountaineer, author
* [[Jürgen Habermas]] (born 1929), philosopher and sociologist
* [[Carl-Ludwig Wagner]] (1930–2012), politician (CDU)
* [[Wim Wenders]] (born 1945), filmmaker, playwright, author
* [[Carmen Thomas]] (born 1946), journalist, radio and television presenter, author and lecturer
* [[Marius Müller-Westernhagen]] (born 1948), actor and musician
* [[Heiner Koch]] (born 1954), Roman Catholic bishop
* [[Andreas Gursky]] (born 1955), photographer
* [[Bettina Böttinger]] (born 1956), TV-presenter
* [[Birgitt Bender]] (born 1956), politician (The Greens), Member of Landtag and Bundestag
* [[Tommi Stumpff]] (born 1958), musician
* [[Petra Müllejans]] (born 1959), conductor and violinist
* [[Bettina Hoffmann (musician)|Bettina Hoffmann]] (born 1959), musician and musicologist
* [[Andreas Frege]] (born 1962), "Campino", singer in the band [[Die Toten Hosen]]
* [[René Obermann]] (born 1963), manager, husband of [[Maybrit Illner]]
* [[Jörg Schmadtke]] (born 1964), football manager
* [[André Olbrich]] (born 1967), guitarist in the band [[Blind Guardian]]
* [[Michael Preetz]] (born 1967), footballer
* [[Svenja Schulze]] (born 1968), politician (SPD)
* [[Heike Makatsch]] (born 1971), actress and singer
* [[Tetsuya Kakihara]] (born 1982), voice actor and singer
* [[Erika Ikuta]] (born 1997), Japanese actress, a former member of [[Nogizaka46]]