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page 1German people of American descent
Ursula von der Leyen
Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen is a German politician and physician who has served as President of the European Commission since 2019. She served in the German federal government between 2005 and 2019, holding positions in Angela Merkel's cabinet, most recently as Federal Minister for Defence. She is a member of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its affiliated European political party, the European People's Party (EPP). On 7 March 2024, the EPP elected her as its Spitzenkandidat to lead the campaign for the 2024 European Parliament elections. She was re-elected to head the Commission in July 2024.
Emil Jannings
German actor (1884-1950)
Baldur von Schirach
German Nazi politician and convicted war criminal (1907-1974)
Sarah Connor
German singer (born 1980)
John Brooks
German-American soccer player (born 1993)
David Garrett
German violinist
Jermaine Jones
German-American soccer player
Chris Kaman
German American basketball player
Shawn Bradley
American basketball player
Elisabeth Röhm
German-American actress, producer, and director (born 1973)
Thomas Dooley
German-American soccer player and manager
Ernst Hanfstaengl
Nazi businessman, art dealer (1887-1975)
Isaiah Hartenstein
German-American basketball player
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
British physicist (1886-1957)
Ferdinand von Schirach
German lawyer and author of crime novels
Nicole Brown Simpson
wife of American football player O. J. Simpson (1959–1994)
Alfredo Morales
American soccer player
Ernst Albrecht
German politician (1930–2014)
Terrence Boyd
American soccer player
Adam von Trott zu Solz
German noble and diplomat (1909-1944)
Sandro Nicolas
German singer
David Yelldell
American footballer
Demond Greene
German-American basketball player and coach
Benedict Wells
German novelist
Lara Wendel
German actress
Jimmy Hartwig
German footballer (born 1954)
Shawn Parker
German footballer
Lennard Maloney
German-American soccer player
Derrick Williams
Irish association football player
Timothy Tillman
German-American soccer player
Emma Schweiger
German actress
Mildred Scheel
German physician (1932–1985)
Erwin Kostedde
German footballer
Sherry Hormann
American-German film director and screen writer
Jerome Kiesewetter
German-American soccer player
Marita Lorenz
German who had affair with Fidel Castro (1939–2019)
Maurice Banach
German footballer (1967–1991)
Luna Schweiger
German child actress
Max Kepler
German professional baseball player
Jonathan Klinsmann
American soccer player
David Pisot
German footballer
Gavin Schilling
German basketball player (1995-)
Andrew Wooten
German-American soccer player
Walther Sommerlath
German businessman; father of Queen Silvia of Sweden (1901-1990)
Elias Harris
German basketball player
Hurl Beechum
American basketball player
Ashton Götz
German association football player
Peter Behrens
German musician and actor (1947–2016)
Ariadne von Schirach
German writer
Tristano Casanova
German actor
Devante Parker
German footballer
T. J. DiLeo
American basketball player
Kenneth Kronholm
American-German footballer
Jann George
German footballer
Stefano Garris
German basketball player
Walter Sittler
German-American actor
B-Tight
Robert Edward Davis (born 28 December 1979), known professionally as B-Tight, is an American-born German rapper.
Maurice Malone
German-American association football player
Marty Grosz
American musician
Lilli Schweiger
German actress