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List of famous people from Munich, including photos when available. The people below are listed by their popularity, so the most recognizable names are at the top of the list. Some of the people below are celebrities born in Munich, while others are simply notable locals. If you're from Munich you might already know that these prominent figures are also from your hometown, but some of the names below may really surprise you. This list includes people who were born and raised in Munich, as well as those who were born there but moved away at a young age.

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Briana Banks is listed (or ranked) 1 on the list Famous People From Munich
age 39 Briana Banks is the stage name of a German American mature film actress and model. She is the Penthouse Pet of the Month for June 2001.

Rob Pilatus is listed (or ranked) 2 on the list Famous People From Munich
Dec. at 34 (1964-1998) Robert "Rob" Pilatus was a German model, dancer, and singer. Pilatus was half of the pop music duo Milli Vanilli.

Richard Strauss is listed (or ranked) 3 on the list Famous People From Munich
Dec. at 85 (1864-1949) Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his lieder, especially his ...more

Tracey E. Bregman is listed (or ranked) 4 on the list Famous People From Munich
age 54 Tracey Elizabeth Bregman is an American soap opera actress. She is best known for the role of Lauren Fenmore on The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful.

Ernst Röhm is listed (or ranked) 5 on the list Famous People From Munich
Dec. at 47 (1887-1934) Ernst Julius Günther Röhm, sometimes spelt in English language works Roehm, was a German officer in the Bavarian Army and later an early Nazi leader. He was a co-founder of the ...more

Klaus Mann is listed (or ranked) 6 on the list Famous People From Munich
Dec. at 43 (1906-1949) Klaus Mann was a German writer.

Heinrich Müller is listed (or ranked) 7 on the list Famous People From Munich
Dec. at 45 (1900-1945) Heinrich Müller was a German police official under both the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. He became chief of the Gestapo, the political secret state police of Nazi Germany, and was ...more

Marie-Louise von Franz is listed (or ranked) 8 on the list Famous People From Munich
Dec. at 83 (1915-1998) Marie-Louise von Franz was a Swiss Jungian psychologist and scholar, renowned for her psychological interpretations of fairy tales and of alchemical manuscripts.

Klaus Klostermaier is listed (or ranked) 9 on the list Famous People From Munich
age 85 Klaus K. Klostermaier is a researcher on Hinduism and Indian history and culture. He obtained a PhD in philosophy from the Gregorian University in Rome in 1961, and another in "Ancient ...more

Michael Herbig is listed (or ranked) 10 on the list Famous People From Munich
age 47 Michael Herbig is a German film director, actor and author. His nickname "Bully" became integral part of his stage name as Michael Bully Herbig as a comedian.

King Ludwig II of Bavaria is listed (or ranked) 11 on the list Famous People From Munich
Dec. at 41 (1845-1886) Ludwig II or Ludwig Otto Friedrich Wilhelm, was King of Bavaria from 1864 until his death. He is sometimes called the Swan King and der Märchenkönig, the Fairy Tale King. He also held ...more

Nina Grosse is listed (or ranked) 12 on the list Famous People From Munich
Nina Grosse age 59 Nina Grosse is a film and television director, and screenwriter.

Hans Ernst August Buchner is listed (or ranked) 13 on the list Famous People From Munich
Hans Ernst August Buchner Dec. at 52 (1850-1902) Hans Ernst August Buchner was a German bacteriologist who was born and raised in Munich. He was the older brother of Eduard Buchner, winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Aviezri Fraenkel is listed (or ranked) 14 on the list Famous People From Munich
age 89 Aviezri Siegmund Fraenkel is an Israeli mathematician who has made notable contributions to combinatorial game theory.

Fred Schuler is listed (or ranked) 15 on the list Famous People From Munich
Fred Schuler age 78 Fred Schuler is a cinematographer.

Mordechai Geldman is listed (or ranked) 16 on the list Famous People From Munich
age 72 Mordechai Geldman is an Israeli artist, author, poet and psychologist.

Thomas Hitzlsperger is listed (or ranked) 17 on the list Famous People From Munich
age 35 Thomas Hitzlsperger is a German former footballer who played as a midfielder. He spent the early part of his career playing for Aston Villa in England, before returning to Germany to play for ...more

Nick Menza is listed (or ranked) 18 on the list Famous People From Munich
age 53 Nick Menza is an American drummer best known for his work in Megadeth from 1989 to 1998, appearing on five of the band's studio albums.

Michael Haneke is listed (or ranked) 19 on the list Famous People From Munich
age 76 Michael Haneke is an Austrian film director and screenwriter best known for films such as Caché, Funny Games, The White Ribbon and Amour. His films often document the discontent and ...more

Hans Ziegler is listed (or ranked) 20 on the list Famous People From Munich
Dec. at 89 (1910-1999) Hans Ziegler was born in Winterthur, Switzerland, on 5 September 1910, and died in Estes Park, Colorado, on 5 August 1985. Hans Ziegler was a respected academic and was the author of a number of ...more

Arno Allan Penzias is listed (or ranked) 21 on the list Famous People From Munich
age 84 Arno Allan Penzias is an American physicist, radio astronomer and Nobel laureate in physics who is co-discoverer of the cosmic microwave background radiation, which helped establish the Big Bang ...more

Craig Lefferts is listed (or ranked) 22 on the list Famous People From Munich
age 60 Craig Lindsay Lefferts is a former relief pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, San Diego Padres, San Francisco Giants, Baltimore Orioles, Texas Rangers and California Angels between 1983 and 1994. He ...more

Dominik Graf is listed (or ranked) 23 on the list Famous People From Munich
age 65 Dominik Graf is a German film director.

Joseph Vilsmaier is listed (or ranked) 24 on the list Famous People From Munich
age 79 Joseph Vilsmaier is a German film director.

Alina Freund is listed (or ranked) 25 on the list Famous People From Munich
age 20 Alina Freund is an actress.

Sabrina Fox-Lallinger is listed (or ranked) 26 on the list Famous People From Munich
age 59 Sabrina Fox-Lallinger is an actress, presenter and reporter.

Franz Xaver Kroetz is listed (or ranked) 27 on the list Famous People From Munich
Franz Xaver Kroetz age 72 Franz Xaver Kroetz is a German author, playwright, actor and film director. His plays have been translated and performed internationally.

Carl Orff is listed (or ranked) 28 on the list Famous People From Munich
Dec. at 87 (1895-1982) Carl Orff was a 20th-century German composer, best known for his cantata Carmina Burana. In addition to his career as a composer, Orff developed an influential approach toward music education ...more

Nina Ruge is listed (or ranked) 29 on the list Famous People From Munich
age 61 Nina Ruge is a German journalist, TV presenter and author.

Markus Kuhn is listed (or ranked) 30 on the list Famous People From Munich
age 47 Markus Guenther Kuhn is a German computer scientist, currently working at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge.

Ursula Franklin is listed (or ranked) 31 on the list Famous People From Munich
age 96 Ursula Martius Franklin, CC OOnt FRSC, is a Canadian metallurgist, research physicist, author and educator who has taught at the University of Toronto for more than 40 years. She is the author ...more

Christa Kinshofer is listed (or ranked) 32 on the list Famous People From Munich
age 57 Christa Kinshofer-Güthlein is a retired German alpine skier. She won a silver medal in the slalom event at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. Eight years later at the 1988 Winter ...more

Franz Seitz, Jr. is listed (or ranked) 33 on the list Famous People From Munich
Dec. at 85 (1921-2006) Franz Seitz, Jr. was a German film producer, screenwriter and film director. He produced 74 films between 1951 and 2006. He was a member of the jury at the 16th Berlin International Film ...more

Marcel Nguyen is listed (or ranked) 34 on the list Famous People From Munich
age 30 Marcel Nguyen is a German artistic gymnast.

Abraham Fraenkel is listed (or ranked) 35 on the list Famous People From Munich
Dec. at 74 (1891-1965) Abraham Halevi Fraenkel, known as Abraham Fraenkel, was a German-born Israeli mathematician. He was an early Zionist and the first Dean of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He ...more

Xaver Hoffmann is listed (or ranked) 36 on the list Famous People From Munich
age 43 Xaver Hoffmann is a professional snowboarder.

Frank Shorter is listed (or ranked) 37 on the list Famous People From Munich
age 70 Frank Charles Shorter is an American former long-distance runner who won the gold medal in the marathon at the 1972 Summer Olympics. His victory is credited with igniting the running boom in the ...more

Bastian Clevé is listed (or ranked) 38 on the list Famous People From Munich
age 68 Bastian Clevé, born 1 January 1950 in Munich, is a German filmmaker and producer. He is Professor and Head of the Film Production-Department at the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg in ...more

Albrecht Fröhlich is listed (or ranked) 39 on the list Famous People From Munich
Dec. at 85 (1916-2001) Albrecht Fröhlich FRS was a mathematician famous for his major results and conjectures on Galois module theory in the Galois structure of rings of integers.

Robert Henke is listed (or ranked) 40 on the list Famous People From Munich
age 49 Robert B. Henke is a German computer music composer and professor of sound design at the Berlin University of the Arts. He is a co-developer of Ableton Live music software and founding member of ...more

Sandro Iannotta is listed (or ranked) 41 on the list Famous People From Munich
age 19 Sandro Iannotta is a German actor.

Kevin Iannotta is listed (or ranked) 42 on the list Famous People From Munich
age 25 Kevin Iannotta is a German actor and voice actor.

Dieter Kronzucker is listed (or ranked) 43 on the list Famous People From Munich

Otto Selz is listed (or ranked) 44 on the list Famous People From Munich
Dec. at 62 (1881-1943) Otto Selz was a German psychologist from Munich, Bavaria, who formulated the first non-associationist theory of thinking, in 1913. Influenced by the German phenomenological tradition, Selz used ...more

Bruno Kramm is listed (or ranked) 45 on the list Famous People From Munich
age 50 Bruno Kramm is a German musician, known for programming, playing synthesizers and keyboards, co-fronting and performing backup vocals for the electro-industrial duo Das Ich, alongside Stefan ...more

Tomcraft is listed (or ranked) 46 on the list Famous People From Munich
Tomcraft age 42 Thomas Brückner, known by his stage name Tomcraft, is a German DJ and producer. He specializes in progressive house and progressive trance music and is better known for having created the ...more

Moritz Bleibtreu is listed (or ranked) 47 on the list Famous People From Munich
age 44 Moritz Johann Bleibtreu is a German actor.

Max Scheler is listed (or ranked) 48 on the list Famous People From Munich
Dec. at 54 (1874-1928) Max Ferdinand Scheler was a German philosopher known for his work in phenomenology, ethics, and philosophical anthropology. Scheler developed further the philosophical method of the founder of ...more

Ernst G. Straus is listed (or ranked) 49 on the list Famous People From Munich
Dec. at 61 (1922-1983) Ernst Gabor Straus was a German-American mathematician who helped found the theories of Euclidean Ramsey theory and of the arithmetic properties of analytic functions. His extensive list of ...more

Leyti Seck is listed (or ranked) 50 on the list Famous People From Munich
age 37 Leyti Seck, is a Senegalese alpine skier.