@savageupdatesThe data comes from Pantheon, MIT Media Lab, and the Global Wikipedia Database, and it's picked out 25 people as the most famous from Germany. Albert Einstein tops it, with Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, Karl Marx, Martin Luther, Immanuel Kant, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, Johannes Gutenberg, Johannes Kepler, Otto von Bismarck, Max Planck, Richard Wagner, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Karl Benz, Michael Schumacher, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Angela Merkel, Hans Zimmer, Marlene Dietrich, Anne Frank, Steffi Graf, Boris Becker, Dirk Nowitzki, and Toni Kroos all making the cut. Some serious names across science, music, philosophy, and sport in there.

@savageupdatesThe data comes from Pantheon, MIT Media Lab, and the Global Wikipedia Database, and it's picked out 25 people as the most famous from Germany. Albert Einstein tops it, with Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, Karl Marx, Martin Luther, Immanuel Kant, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, Johannes Gutenberg, Johannes Kepler, Otto von Bismarck, Max Planck, Richard Wagner, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Karl Benz, Michael Schumacher, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Angela Merkel, Hans Zimmer, Marlene Dietrich, Anne Frank, Steffi Graf, Boris Becker, Dirk Nowitzki, and Toni Kroos all making the cut. Some serious names across science, music, philosophy, and sport in there.