Gültekin Kaan is a Turkish German musician and singer born and raised in Remscheid.
Hans-Jürgen Berger (born 21 September 1951 in Remscheid) is a German former long jumper who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Heidi Urbahn de Jauregui (born 1940 in Remscheid) is an emeritus Professor of German Literature at the Jean Monnet University, France, and essayist.
In 1980 he moved to North Rhine-Westphalia where he joined the medical team of the Fabricius Klinik in Remscheid, Germany's largest orthopedic hospital run by consultants, specialising in arthroscopic knee surgery and becoming one of the pioneers in Germany.
An A-10 Thunderbolt II crashed in the city on 8 December 1988.
This local, rustic specialty founded in the alimentary behavior of the grinder that worked in the area of the Wupper river in Remscheid, Wuppertal and Solingen.
He has exhibited internationally, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Royal Hibernian Academy; Berkeley Art Museum, CA; Künstlerverein Malkasten; Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf; Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld; Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg; Galerie der Stadt Remscheid and the Saatchi Gallery, London.