# 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

## Musicians
### 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
* 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.
in foreign parties or organisations
* 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