Bavarians

For the early medieval people, see Baiuvarii.

Bavarians
Bajuwaren
Bajuwarn

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Total population
c. 15 million
Languages
Bavarian German Swabian-Alemannic Franconian
Religion
Roman Catholicism, Protestantism
Related ethnic groups
Other Germanic peoples (especially Germans)

Bavarians (Standard German and Bavarian: Bayern) are an ethnographic group of Germans of Bavaria. The group's dialect is Bavarian and German.

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The Oktoberfest in Munich, the most widely known festival of Bavarian culture, held since 1810 (2006 photograph).

List of popular Bavarians

Scientists

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Joseph von Fraunhofer

• Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787–1826)
• Feodor Lynen (1911–1979)

Politicians

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Franz Josef Strauß

• Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845–1886)
• Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (1900–1945)
• Franz Josef Strauß (1915–1988)
• Roman Herzog (1934–2017)
• Edmund Stoiber (1941–)
• Horst Seehofer (1949–)

Artists

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Christoph Willibald Gluck

• Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787)
• Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
• Franz Marc (1880–1916)
• Michael Ende (1929–1995)
• Werner Herzog (1942–)

Sportspeople

• Franz Beckenbauer (1945–2024)
• Philipp Lahm (1983–)
• Magdalena Neuner (1987–)
• Thomas Müller (1989–)

Others

• Traudl Junge (1920–2002)
• Joseph Ratzinger (1927–)