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Matthias Sammer

Matthias Sammer, born 1967 in Dresden, is a German former footballer and libero who won the 1996 Ballon d'Or, Euro 1996, and the 1997 Champions League with Borussia Dortmund.

Matthias Scheffler

Matthias Scheffler, born 1951 in Berlin, is a German theoretical physicist known for work on density-functional theory and for directing the NOMAD Laboratory at the Fritz Haber Institute.

Matthias Schindler

Matthias Schindler is a theoretical physicist and professor at the University of South Carolina who uses effective field theories to study hadronic parity violation, earning a 2013 DOE Early Career Award.

Matthias Schoenaerts

Matthias Schoenaerts (born 1977, Antwerp) is a Belgian actor known for Bullhead, Rust and Bone (César winner), The Drop, The Old Guard, The Regime, and as Krem in Supergirl (2026).

Matthias Schweighöfer

Matthias Schweighöfer (born 1981, Anklam) is a German actor, director, and producer, son of actors Gitta and Michael Schweighöfer; breakthrough with Soloalbum (2003), directing debut What a Man (2011), Pantaleon Films founder, and international star of Army of Thieves and Oppenheimer.

Matthias Selbach

Matthias Selbach (born 1971) is a German proteomics researcher who leads the Proteome Dynamics group at the Max Delbrück Center and is a professor at the Charité in Berlin.

Matthias Steiner

Matthias Steiner, Austrian-born German weightlifter (born 1982, Vienna), won 2008 Beijing Olympic gold in +105 kg with 203/258 for 461 kg, one kilo over Chigishev, months after his wife Susann's death; retired 2013.

Matthias Sutter

Matthias Sutter (born 1968 in Hard, Austria) is an Austrian behavioral and experimental economist directing the Department of Experimental Economics at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Economics in Bonn.

Matthias the Apostle

Matthias the Apostle, or Saint Matthias, is the apostle chosen by lot in Acts 1 to replace Judas Iscariot, the only one not chosen directly by Jesus.

Matthias Thurn

Matthias Thurn, also known as Jindřich Matyáš Thurn, was a Bohemian count and soldier who initiated the 1618 Defenestration of Prague and commanded the estates' army.

Matthias Troyer

Matthias Troyer is an Austrian computational physicist, ETH Zurich professor from 1998 to 2019, known for the ALPS libraries and the sign problem, now Technical Fellow at Microsoft Quantum.

Matthias Vojta

Matthias Vojta is a German theoretical condensed-matter physicist, professor at TU Dresden since 2010, known for work on quantum phase transitions, strongly correlated electron systems, and frustrated magnetism.

Matthias Volz

Matthias Volz (Max Matthias Volz, 1910-2004), German artistic gymnast from TV 1848 Schwabach; won team gold, vault bronze, and rings bronze at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, seventh all-around, and appeared in Riefenstahl's film Olympia.

Matthias von Herrath

Matthias von Herrath is a German immunologist specializing in type 1 diabetes who founded the La Jolla Institute's Type 1 Diabetes Center and directs the Diabetes Research Institute in Miami.

Matthias Wabl

Matthias Wabl is an immunologist and Professor Emeritus of Microbiology and Immunology at UCSF, known for showing how antibody class switching occurs within a B cell clone.

Matthias Wagner

Matthias Wagner is a German inorganic and materials chemist who has been a full professor at Goethe University Frankfurt since 2000, known for boron-doped molecules for organic electronics.

Matthias Witthaus

Matthias Witthaus (born 1982, Oberhausen), nicknamed Witti, German field hockey forward; 364 caps, double Olympic gold (2008, 2012), Athens 2004 bronze, World Cup 2002/2006; later coach at Hamburg Polo Club, GTHGC sports director, and 2025 indoor world champion coach.

Matthias Wuttig

Matthias Wuttig, born 1960 in Mettmann, Germany, is a physicist and professor at RWTH Aachen known for phase-change materials that store data in rewriteable discs and memory.

Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor

Matthias (1557–1619), Holy Roman Emperor 1612–1619, Habsburg archduke; son of Maximilian II, wrested power from brother Rudolf II, secured Ferdinand II as heir, died March 1619 as the Bohemian revolt began.

Matthieu Androdias

Matthieu Androdias, French rower born 1990 in La Rochelle, Olympic gold medalist in the men's double sculls at Tokyo 2020 with Hugo Boucheron, two-time world and European champion, four-time Olympian, retired December 2025.

Matthieu Baret

Matthieu Baret is a French venture capital investor who has led Eurazeo's venture arm as Managing Partner since 2005, backing companies including Talend, Glovo, Onfido, and Vestiaire Collective.

Matthieu Blazy

Matthieu Blazy (born 1984, Paris) is a French-Belgian fashion designer, Chanel's artistic director since December 2024 and former Bottega Veneta creative director (2021-2024), known for trompe-l'oeil leather craft and the 2025 debut that sparked "Matthieu Mania."

Matthieu Bonamy

Matthieu Bonamy is a French venture capital investor, Partner at Eurazeo, where he leads the firm's climate tech investing and is known for investments in Sunrun and BreezoMeter.

Matthieu Chedid (musician)

Matthieu Chedid, who performs as -M-, is a French singer-songwriter born in 1971, known for "Je dis aime" and a record 13 Victoires de la Musique.

Matthieu Epolo

Matthieu Luka Epolo (born 2005, Brussels) is a DR Congo international goalkeeper for Standard de Liège; former Belgium youth international, contract to June 2029, 2026 World Cup participant.

Matthieu Piel

Matthieu Piel (born 1973) is a French CNRS research director at Institut Curie in Paris who studies cell division, migration, and volume regulation using microfluidic devices; elected to the French Academy of Sciences in 2025.

Matthieu Reynaud

Matthieu Reynaud, aka Mattyeux (born 2001), French pop singer-producer, ex-half of synth-pop duo Videoclub ("Amour plastique", album Euphories), solo since 2022 with singles Break Up Diaries, Sometimes, and the 2024 album Mirages.

Matthijs Buchli

Matthijs Büchli, Dutch track cyclist born 1992 in Haarlem; keirin world champion 2019, Olympic keirin silver 2016 and team sprint gold Tokyo 2020; later road rider for BEAT Cycling until retiring 31 December 2024.

Matthijs de Ligt

Matthijs de Ligt is a Dutch center-back for Manchester United and the Netherlands who captained Ajax to a 2019 double before playing for Juventus and Bayern Munich.

Matthijs Verhage

Matthijs Verhage is a Dutch cellular neuroscientist who studies how nerve terminals release neurotransmitters, and full professor and head of Functional Genomics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam since 2000.