This is a list of individuals who are of full or partial Kurdish origin who grew up and/or live in Germany.
Academia and Medicine
- Jamal Nebez, linguist, mathematician, politician, author, translator and writer
- Bachtyar Ali, novelist, intellectual, literary critic, essayist, and poet
- Rauf Ceylan, German-Turkish sociologist and author
- Khalil Rashow, academic, writer, and researcher
- Nadia Murad â human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- Khanna Omarkhali - academic and researcher
- GülÃ
Âen AktaÃ
Â, educator
Artists
Athletes
- Agit Kabayel, boxer
- Deniz Naki, football player
- Mahmoud Dahoud, football player
- Baker Barakat, boxer and kickboxer
- Deniz Undav, football player
- Mirkan Aydñn, football player
- Aias Aosman, football player
- Shergo Biran, football player
- Youssef Amyn, football player
- Joan Oumari, football player
- Hassan Oumari, football player
- Dilan AÃÂgül, football player
Musicians
Rappers
Singers
DJs
Politicians
in German parties
- Ferat Koçak,
- Sevim DaÃÂdelen, German politician and a member of the Left Party (Die Linke)
- Cem Ince, German politician (The Left)
- Evrim Sommer, German politician
- Gökay Akbulut, German politician and social scientist. She is currently serving in the Bundestag (federal parliament) as a member of The Left Party from the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg
- Kassem Taher Saleh, German civil engineer and politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens
- Kenan Engin, German-Kurdish political scientist
- Leyla Güven, Kurdish Politician
- Lamiya Haji Bashar, human rights activist. She was awarded the Sakharov Prize jointly with Nadia Murad in 2016
- Ali Atalan, Kurdish-German politician of Yazidi faith. He is a former member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia with Die Linke in Germany, and the Turkish Parliament with the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP)
- Cansu ÃÂzdemir, German politician of The Left from Hamburg. She is a member of the Hamburg Parliament
- Serdar Yüksel, German politician of SPD from Essen. He is since 2025 a member of the Bundestag
- Muhterem Aras, àGerman politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens party. She has been a Member of the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg for the constituency Stuttgart I since May 2011, and Landtagspräsidentin (speaker) since May 2016
- Hamide Akbayir German politician
- Hüseyin Kenan Aydñn, German politician and member of Die Linke.
in foreign parties or organisations
Cinema
- Züli AladaÃÂ, film director, film producer, and screenwriter (Kurdish and Turkish origin)
- AyÃ
Âe Polat, script writer and film director
- Yasemin Ã
Âamdereli, German film director, screenwriter and actress
- Düzen Tekkal, German author, television journalist, filmmaker, war correspondent, political scientist, and social entrepreneur of KurdishâÂÂYazidi descent
- Nizamettin Ariç, film director
Writers and Literature
Miscellaneous
See also
References