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Matthias Drieß

Matthias Drieß, born 1961 in Eisenach, is a German inorganic and materials chemist who heads the metalorganic chemistry chair at Technische Universität Berlin and studies heavier main-group elements.

Matthias Eberhard

Matthias Eberhard (1815–1876) was a German Catholic priest who served as Bishop of Trier from 1867 until his death, opposing papal infallibility at Vatican I and imprisoned under the Kulturkampf.

Matthias Egger

Matthias Egger is a Swiss epidemiologist and public health physician at the University of Bern, known for the 1997 BMJ test for bias in meta-analysis.

Matthias Eikermann

Matthias Eikermann is a German-trained anesthesiologist and critical care researcher who became Chair of Anesthesiology at Montefiore Medical Center and professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.

Matthias Ernst

Matthias Ernst is an Australian cancer biologist who studies inflammation-driven gastrointestinal cancers and became the inaugural Scientific Director of the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute in 2015.

Matthias Ernzerhof

Matthias Ernzerhof is a theoretical chemist and professeur titulaire at the Université de Montréal, co-developer of the PBE functional of 1996 and the HSE hybrid functional of 2003.

Matthias Erzberger

Matthias Erzberger (1875-1921), German Center Party politician: Reichstag Peace Resolution 1917, signed the 1918 Compiègne Armistice, Reich finance minister 1919-20 whose tax reform centralized German finances; assassinated 1921 by Organisation Consul right-wing terrorists.

Matthias Ginter

Matthias Ginter, born 1994 in Freiburg, German centre-back for SC Freiburg; 2014 World Cup winner (youngest squad member, no minutes), 2017 Confederations Cup winner, 2016 Olympic silver, 51 Germany caps, formerly Dortmund and Gladbach.

Matthias Grünewald

Matthias Grünewald, whose real name was Mathis Gothart Nithart (c. 1475–1528), was a German painter of the Northern Renaissance, best known for the Isenheim Altarpiece, painted for a monastery hospital between 1512 and 1516.

Matthias H. Tschöp

Matthias H. Tschöp, born 1967, is a German physician-scientist in endocrinology known for identifying the hunger hormone ghrelin and creating multi-agonist drugs that led to tirzepatide; he has been President of LMU Munich since 2025.

Matthias Hauer

Matthias Hauer (born 1977) is a German CDU politician and lawyer who has been Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space since 2025.

Matthias Hebrok

Matthias Hebrok is a developmental biologist and diabetes researcher known for generating insulin-producing beta cells from human stem cells; he directs the Institute for Diabetes and Organoid Technology at Helmholtz Munich.

Matthias Hentze

Matthias W. Hentze is a German RNA biologist known for discovering the iron-responsive element and for riboregulation, and has directed EMBL in Heidelberg since 2013.

Matthias Hoe von Hoenegg

Matthias Hoe von Hoenegg (1580–1645) was a leading Lutheran theologian who served as chief court preacher to the Saxon electors in Dresden from 1613 until his death.

Matthias Jabs

Matthias Jabs (born 1955, Hannover) is the German lead guitarist of the Scorpions since 1978, chosen from 140 London auditionees, known for Lovedrive, Blackout, Love at First Sting, his Gibson Explorers, and melodic song-serving solos.

Matthías Jochumsson

Matthías Jochumsson (1835–1920) was an Icelandic clergyman, poet, playwright, and translator, best known as author of the lyrics of the Icelandic national anthem, written in 1874.

Matthias Joseph Scheeben

Matthias Joseph Scheeben (1835–1888) was a German Catholic dogmatic theologian who taught at Cologne and wrote on grace, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, and the supernatural order.

Matthias Mann

Matthias Mann, born 1959 in Germany, is a physicist-turned-biochemist known as a founding father of proteomics, director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry since 2005.

Matthias Mayer

Matthias Mayer (born 1990, Sankt Veit an der Glan, Austria), nicknamed Mothl, Austrian alpine skier, son of Helmut Mayer. Won Olympic downhill gold 2014 and super G golds 2018 and 2022, plus 2022 downhill bronze; retired December 2022.

Matthias Mellinghaus

Matthias Mellinghaus (born 1965, Iserlohn) is a German rower and film director; he won Olympic gold in the 1988 Seoul men's eight for West Germany and later worked as an assistant director in Vancouver.

Matthias Merkenschlager

Matthias Merkenschlager is an immunologist and molecular biologist, Professor of Cell Biology at Imperial College London, known for work on CTCF and cohesin in genome organization.

Matthias Meyer

Matthias Meyer is a biochemist and Max Planck Research Group Leader in Leipzig who develops methods for recovering DNA from ancient material, including Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes.

Matthias Miersch

Matthias Miersch (born 1968, in Hannover) is a German SPD politician who has chaired the party's Bundestag parliamentary group since 2025, representing Hannover-Land II since 2005.

Matthias Nahrendorf

Matthias Nahrendorf (born 1970) is a German-born physician-scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who studies how immune cells drive heart injury and repair.

Matthias of Janov

Matthias of Janov (Matěj z Janova), called the Parisian Master, was a Bohemian priest and reformer whose Regulae Veteris et Novi Testamenti influenced Jan Hus.

Matthias P. Lütolf

Matthias P. Lütolf is a Swiss stem cell bioengineer who directs Roche's Institute of Human Biology in Basel and is a Full Professor at EPFL.

Matthias Peter

Matthias Peter, born 1962 in Winterthur, Switzerland, is a Swiss molecular biologist and full Professor of Biochemistry at ETH Zurich since 2002, studying cell growth and division.

Matthias Pfisterer

Matthias E. Pfisterer is a Swiss cardiologist, former professor and head of cardiology at University Hospital Basel, known for leading the BASKET stent cost-effectiveness trials.

Matthias Preusser

Matthias Preusser is an Austrian medical oncologist and neuro-oncologist, head of oncology at the Medical University of Vienna since 2018 and a past president of EANO.

Matthias Rief

Matthias Rief is a physicist and Full Professor at the Technical University of Munich who leads its Chair of Molecular Biophysics, known for single-molecule force spectroscopy of protein folding.