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, often the Slavic form of Herman. For the Spanish given name pronounced with stress in the second syllable see Germán. People with the name German include:

Art and music

* German Galynin, Soviet Russian composer * German Goldenshteyn, Romanian klezmer musician *

German Moreno German Molina Moreno (; October 4, 1933 – January 8, 2016), also known as Kuya Germs ( or ) and dubbed as "The Master Showman", was a Filipino television host, presenter, actor, comedian, talent manager, producer, writer, and director. Early ...

, Filipino actor * German Okunev, Soviet Russian composer

Humanities and social sciences

German Gref German Oskarovich Gref (; born February 8, 1964) is a Russian politician and businessman. He was the Minister of Economics and Trade of Russia from May 2000 to September 2007. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active S ...

, Russian economist *

German Kim German Nikolaevich Kim (; ; born 16 July 1953) is Director of the Institute for Asian Studies at Al-Farabi University, Kazakhstan and one of the leading internationally recognized scholars on ethnic Koreans in the former Soviet Union: Koryo-saram ...

, Kazakhstani historian *

German Sadulaev German Umaralievich Sadulaev (Russian: Герман Умаралиевич Садулаев, born 2 February 1973) is a Russian writer of Chechen origin. Biography German Sadulaev was born in 1973, in the town of Shali, in the Chechen-Ingush ...

, Chechen writer and lawyer

Politics

German Galushchenko German Valeriiovych Galushchenko, also Herman Valeriiovych Halushchenko (; born 1 May 1973), is a Ukrainian lawyer currently serving as Minister of Energy of Ukraine since 29 April 2021. He is also a member of the National Security and Defense ...

(born 1973), Ukrainian lawyer and politician *

German Hacker German(s) may refer to: * Germany, the country of the Germans and German things **Germania (Roman era) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ger ...

(born 1968), German politician * German Kuznetsov, former deputy premier of Kyrgyzstan

Sport

German Apukhtin German Nikolayevich Apukhtin (; born 12 June 1936 - 2003 ) was a Soviet Russian footballer. Honours * Soviet Top League bronze: 1958, 1964. * 1960 European Nations' Cup winner: 1960. * Top 33 players year-end list: 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960. Inte ...

, Soviet Russian footballer *

German Fernandez German Fernandez (born November 2, 1990) is a retired American professional runner from Riverbank, California, known for his performance in high school and collegiate cross country and track and field. Later he trained under Jerry Schumacher for ...

, American distance runner *

German Glessner Germán Glessner (born 8 March 1974 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine/German Olympian who represented Argentina in the Winter Olympic Games of Salt Lake City 2002, in the ice sport of Skeleton. Glessner is a multilingual businessman who speaks Span ...

, Argentine skeleton racer *

German Kutarba German Vasilyevich Kutarba (; born 10 September 1978) is a Russian former professional footballer. Club career He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1991 for FC Dinamo Gagra. International At one point he was a candida ...

, Russian footballer * German Lovchev, Russian footballer *

German Onugkha German Olegovich Onugkha (; born 6 July 1996) is a Russian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Danish Superliga club Copenhagen. Career Early life and youth career German Olegovich Onugkha was born on 6 July 1996 in Moscow, Russia ...

, Russian footballer * German Ruano, Costa Rican footballer *

German Skurygin German Anatolyevich Skurygin (; September 15, 1963 – November 28, 2008) was a Russian race walker. He was born in Vutno. He originally won a gold medal at the 1999 World Championships, but later lost it due to doping. He was suspended from 1 ...

, Russian race walker * German Titov (ice hockey), Russian ice hockey player

Other

* Serbian Patriarch German I, Serbian Patriarch (1881–1888) *

Serbian Patriarch German German ( sr-Cyrl, Герман, English equivalent: ''Herman''; 19 August 1899 – 27 August 1991) was the 43rd Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church from 1958 to 1990. He was successful in revitalizing the Serbian Orthodox Church to a certa ...

, Serbian Patriarch (1958–1990) *

German Gardiner German Gardiner (Germain, Jermyn) (date of birth unknown; executed at Tyburn, 7 March 1544) was a Roman Catholic layman and nephew to Stephen Gardiner who became involved in the Prebendaries' Plot against Thomas Cranmer. Henry VIII was becoming ...

, English Catholic martyr * German Sterligov, Russian businessman and environmentalist *

German Titov Gherman Stepanovich Titov (; 11 September 1935 – 20 September 2000) was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut who, on 6 August 1961, became the second human to orbit the Earth, aboard Vostok 2, preceded by Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1. He was the four ...

, Soviet Russian cosmonaut

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