This is a list of famous German American physicists.
For other famous German Americans, see List of German Americans.
- Gabriel Aeppli
- Guenter Ahlers, Fritz London Memorial Prize (1978)
- Andreas Albrecht, University of California, Davis
- Thomas M. Baer, Stanford
- Hans Christian von Baeyer, College of William and Mary
- Kevin Bassler, University of Houston
- Ernst G. Bauer, Arizona State University
- Wolfgang Bauer, Michigan State University
- Robert Behringer, Duke university
- Eugene W. Beier
- Bernd Berg
- George F. Bertsch
- Eric Betzig
- Robert T. Beyer
- John Robert Beyster, founder of SAIC
- Paul Alfred Biefeld
- Arthur Bienenstock
- Robert Bindschadler
- Gregory S. Boebinger
- Karl Wolfgang Böer
- Howard Brandt
- James E. Brau
- Wernher von Braun
- Keith Brueckner
- Rafael Brüschweiler
- Fritjof Capra
- John Clauser
- John G. Cramer
- Edward Creutz
- Michael Creutz
- Konrad Dannenberg
- Robert H. Dicke
- Gerhard Heinrich Dieke
- Hans Georg Dehmelt, Nobel Prize in Physics (1989)
- Carl Eckart
- Ernst R. G. Eckert
- Paul Peter Ewald
- Hans Frauenfelder
- Steven Frautschi
- Hellmut Fritzsche
- Lester Germer
- Claire F. Gmachl
- John M. Grunsfeld
- Robert Gundlach
- C. R. Hagen
- A. Carl Helmholz
- Wilmot N. Hess
- Paul R. Heyl
- Arthur R. von Hippel
- Frank N. von Hippel
- Alfred Hübler
- George Randolph Kalbfleisch
- Lisa Kaltenegger
- Marc A. Kastner
- Harold R. Kaufman
- Donald J. Kessler, 2010 Dirk Brouwer award
- Erhard Kietz
- John R. Klauder
- Edward Alan Knapp
- Harry Kroger
- Richard Ernest Kronauer
- Jakob Kunz
- Polykarp Kusch, Nobel Prize in Physics (1955)
- Harold Lichtenberger
- Walter Mauderli
- Alfred M. Mayer
- Maria Göppert-Mayer, Nobel Prize in Physics (1963)
- Horst Meyer, Fritz London Memorial Prize (1993)
- Seth Neddermeyer
- Gerry Neugebauer
- Reinhard Oehme
- Raymond L. Orbach
- August Herman Pfund
- Harold E. Rorschach Jr.
- Harold K. Schilling
- Benjamin Schumacher
- Keith Schwab
- Frederick Seitz, National Medal of Science (1973)
- Horst L. Störmer, Nobel Prize in Physics (1998)
- Uwe Thumm
- John G. Trump
- Gerhard Wagner
- Bernard Waldman
- Martin Walt
- Albert Wattenberg
- Bill Wattenburg
- Frank Wattendorf
- George Weil
- Gary Westfall
- James Westphal
- Clyde Wiegand
- John R. Wiegand
- Carl Wieman, Nobel Prize in Physics (2001)
- Kurt Wiesenfeld
- John R. Winckler
- David J. Wineland
- Bruce Winstein
- Lincoln Wolfenstein
- Peter A. Wolff
- Oliver Reynolds Wulf
- Harold A. Zahl
- Clarence Zener
- Walter Zinn
- Raymond E. Zirkle
- Robert Zwanzig
- Martin Zwierlein