* Leonardo DiCaprio (German mother) * Kirk Douglas * Fred Astaire (1899-1988; the famous dancer's real name was Frederick Austerlitz; his father was born in Linz/Austria) * Melissa Auf der Maur (born 1972; Canadian-born rock singer whose family comes from Switzerland) * Floyd Landis (mennonite parents) * Mädchen Amick * Eric Braeden * Sandra Bullock * Doris Day * Kirsten Dunst * Jon Voight * Christopher Walken * Johnny Weissmuller Statesmen/Politicians * Vladimir Putin (KGB agent in former East-Germany) * Lenin (in Zürich in exile) * King George I. of England (German from Hannover) * Henry Kissinger (former Foreign Minister of the USA; born in Fürth/Germany) * Marie Antoinette (1755-1793; daughter of the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph who married the French King Louis XVI)