People from Germany
15 profiles
Science
Konrad Zuse
German engineer who built the first working programmable computer
1910 – 1995
Technology
Robert Bosch
German engineer who founded Bosch and pioneered the car magneto
1861 – 1942
Science
Heinrich Hertz
German physicist who first proved that radio waves exist
1857 – 1894
Sports
Dietmar Hopp
SAP co-founder and backer of the football club TSG Hoffenheim
Born 1940
Music
Karlheinz Brandenburg
German audio engineer often called the “father of MP3”
Born 1954
Science
Jürgen Schmidhuber
German AI researcher whose lab co-invented the LSTM neural network
Born 1963
Technology
Werner von Siemens
German inventor and industrialist who founded Siemens
1816 – 1892
Technology
Timotheus Höttges
CEO of Deutsche Telekom, owner of T-Mobile US
Born 1962
Science
Sepp Hochreiter
German computer scientist who co-invented LSTM and xLSTM
Born 1967
Technology
Rudolf Diesel
German engineer who invented the diesel engine
1858 – 1913
Science
Martin Odersky
German computer scientist who created the Scala programming language
Born 1958
Technology
Andy Bechtolsheim
German engineer who co-founded Sun Microsystems and wrote Google’s first cheque
Born 1955
Science
Klaus Tschira
SAP co-founder and patron of science
1940 – 2015
Technology
Carl Benz
German engineer who built the first practical petrol-powered automobile
1844 – 1929
Technology
Hasso Plattner
German co-founder of SAP, the business-software giant
Born 1944