List of German people of Kurdish descent

This is a list of notable 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 – human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
 * Khanna Omarkhali - academic and researcher
 * Gülşen Aktaş, educator

Artists

 * Bahzad Sulaiman – performance maker and visual artist

Athletes

 * Agit Kabayel, boxer
 * Deniz Naki, football player
 * Mahmoud Dahoud, football player
 * Baker Barakat, boxer and kickboxer
 * Deniz Undav, football player
 * Mirkan Aydın, football player
 * Aias Aosman, football player
 * Youssef Amyn, football player
 * Joan Oumari, football player
 * Hassan Oumari, football player
 * Dilan Ağgül, football player

Rappers

 * Haftbefehl (Kurdish father and Turkish mother)
 * KC Rebell
 * Eko Fresh (Kurdish mother and Turkish father)
 * Azad
 * Xatar
 * Kurdo
 * Eno
 * Capo (Kurdish father and Turkish mother)
 * AK Ausserkontrolle
 * Fero47
 * Bero Bass

Singers

 * Namosh
 * Ferhat Tunç
 * Engin Nurşani
 * Nizamettin Ariç
 * Ali Baran
 * Hozan Canê
 * Serhat Baran

DJs

 * Kurd Maverick

Politicians
in German parties in foreign parties or organisations
 * Sevim Dağdelen, German politician and a member of the Left Party (die Linke)
 * 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 Özdemir, German politician of The Left from Hamburg. She is a member of the Hamburg Parliament
 * Muhterem Aras,  German 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 Aydın, German politician and member of Die Linke.
 * Haji Ahmadi (Iran; grew up in Iran and lives in exile in Germany)
 * Leyla İmret (grew up in Germany and lived in Turkey)
 * Feleknas Uca (grew up in Germany and lives in Turkey)

Cinema

 * Züli Aladağ, film director, film producer, and screenwriter (Kurdish and Turkish origin)
 * Ayşe Polat, script writer and film director
 * Yasemin Şamdereli, German film director, screen writer and actress
 * Düzen Tekkal, German author, television journalist, filmmaker, war correspondent, political scientist, and social entrepreneur of Kurdish–Yazidi descent
 * Nizamettin Ariç, film director

Writers and Literature

 * Seyran Ateş (Kurdish father and Turkish mother)
 * Rohat Alakom
 * Düzen Tekkal
 * Lamiya Haji Bashar
 * Eskerê Boyîk
 * Nadia Murad
 * Bachtyar Ali
 * Eskerê Boyîk, writer
 * Khalil Rashow
 * Fatma Aydemir, author and journalist
 * Meşale Tolu, German journalist and translator

Miscellaneous

 * Hatun Sürücü, victim of a so-called "honor killing" by her youngest brother in 2005