Anne of Cleves was German; her name was actually Anna von Julich-Kleve-Berg.
The German president is a largely ceremonial officer, with real political power resting with the chancellor, who is currently Angela Merkel.
Una Merkel played Sam Spade’s office girl in The Maltese Falcon.
Una Merkel had a memorable brawl with Marlene Dietrich in Destry Rides Again.
“Lili Marlene”, by Hans Leip and Norbert Schultz, was first recorded by Lale Andersen in 1939 under the title “Das Mädchen unter der Laterne” (“The Girl under the Lantern”).
Following Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia, from 1941 Radio Belgrade became Soldatensender Belgrad to entertain German armed forces; the song was played frequently and became popular throughout Europe and the Mediterranean among both Axis and Allied troops.
The actress Mädchen Amick has appeared on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Twin Peaks, and Joey.
And to think she went on to become chancellor of Germany.
EDIT: Never mind for the rest. Beaten to the punch. 
Okay, got one: Mary Pickford, the silent-fim star known as “America’s Sweetheart,” was actually a godless Canadian from Toronto. Real name: Gladys Marie Smith (her real name, not Toronto’s).
Nicknames for Toronto include “Toronto the Good” (a reference to Victorian morality), “The Big Smoke” (originally applied to London, England), and “Hogtown” (for pork processing).
Actor Jason London was originally cast as Nathan Bedford in the TV show I’ll Fly Away. However, he became unavailable before the pilot was shot, so the role went to his twin brother Jeremy London. Jeremy played the role for the length of the original run, but when a series ending single episode was shot a few years later, he was unavailable, so the role went back to Jason.
Poet Carl Sandburg called Chicago “Hog butcher for the world” in honor of its pork processing.
The comedy company Second City was formed in Chicago and later added a company in Toronto.
President-elect Barack Obama spoke to a huge crowd of supporters in Grant Park in Chicago on the night of his election, Nov. 4, 2008. Obama and Grant are both among the ten youngest men to take office as President.
Mary of Scots, whose father died when she was only six days old, may be the youngest Queen ever. Since she was also a Queen of France, Rue Marie Stuart in Paris is named after her. When this street was still open to automobiles, the minimum legal journey from Rue Marie Stuart back to itself required driving on seven distinct streets.
Mary of Scots’s son James became the first universally-acknowledged king of both England and Scotland upon the death of Queen Elizabeth I. James never saw his mother after he was one year old and, for political reasons, did not object to her execution. It was he who later authorized the compilation of what became known as the King James Bible.
On June 24, 1604, King James VI and I arrested the Earl of Southampton, imprisoned him in the Tower, and had him interrogated; Southampton’s papers were seized and scrutinized. According to the French Ambassador, King James had gone into a complete panic and could not sleep that evening even though he had a guard of Scots posted around his quarters and sent troops to protect his son with orders that he should not stir out of his chambers. (It wasn’t until hundreds of years later that historians noted that this was the very date that Edward de Vere died.)
(* - see, e.g. http://www.ericmillerworks.com/images/pdf_files/SouthamptomMyth.pdf )
Southold, NY, is the oldest permanent English settlement in New York State (all previous settlements were Dutch), founded in 1640. Southampton, NY, also claims the honor, but we Southold natives all know it’s false.
New York is known as “the Empire State” (hence the skyscraper’s name), and its motto is “Excelsior” (“Ever higher”).
Excelsior is also the name for wood shavings used as packaging material (although it’s more flammable than those fucking styrofoam peanuts, it’s from a renewable resource). In one episode of Rocky and Bullwinkle, the intrepid moose satirized Longfellow’s poem “Excelsior”, about a mountain climber, as follows:
The answer came both quick and blunt:
It’s just a advertising stunt.
I represent Smith, Jones, & Jakes,
A lumber company that makes…
Excelsior!
Jay Ward and Bill Scott, the producers of Rocky and Bullwinkle, tried as a publicity stunt to petition for the characters’ home of Moosylvania to be made a state. They were rudely turned away at the White House, later to discover their arrival unfortunately coincided with the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Bullwinkle’s alma mater is that pinnacle of academic excellence, Wossamatta U., where the moose was a star quarterback.