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An incomplete list of German Americans:
- John Peter Altgeld
- Hannah Arendt (Jewish)
- John Jacob Astor
- William Backhouse Astor, Sr.
- Ralph Baer
- Philip Becker
- Marco Benz, U.S. Army Soldier and Great Great Great Grandson of Karl Benz
- Sandra Bullock, actress - German on her mother's side
- Adolf Cluss
- Leonardo DiCaprio, German paternal grandmother and German mother
- Hillary Duff, actress, part German ancestry from both parents
- Kirsten Dunst, actress, German on her father's side
- Albert Einstein (Jewish), physicist
- Dwight Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States (1953–1961) and General
- George Engelmann
- Erich Fromm (Jewish)
- Dick Gephardt
- Richard Goldschmidt (Jewish)
- Phil Hartman, Canadian-born of German descent
- Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States
- Henry J. Kaiser
- Henry Kissinger (Jewish), diplomat
- Fritz Kuhn (Nazi)
- Anthony Maas
- Reinhold Niebuhr, theologian
- Chester Nimitz
- Frederick Traugott Pursh
- Robert Oppenheimer (Jewish), physicist
- Abraham Robinson
- Donald Rumsfeld
- Eric E. Schmidt
- George Schoener
- August Schrader
- Carl Schurz
- Dr. Seuss
- Studebaker family
- Jerry Springer (Jewish)
- John Steinbeck, author, German American on his father's side
- Alfred Stieglitz (Jewish)
- Levi Strauss (Jewish), clothing manufacturer.
- Samuel Ullman (Jewish)
- Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist
- Kurt Vonnegut, writer
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Revolutionary general
- Christopher Walken, German on his father's side
- Ruth Westheimer (Jewish)
- Bruce Willis, German on his mother's side