This is a list of German-language philosophers. The following individuals have written philosophical texts in the German language. Many are categorized as or , but some are neither German nor Austrian by ethnicity or nationality. Each one, however, satisfies at least one of the following criteria:

1. s/he has been identified as a philosopher in any reputable, reliable encyclopedic/scholarly publication (e.g. MacMillan, Stanford, Routledge, Oxford, Metzler.)''
2. s/he has written multiple articles published in reputable, reliable journals of philosophy and/or written books that were reviewed in such journals.