Lothar Matthäus is a German football manager and former player. After captaining West Germany to victory in the 1990 FIFA World Cup, he was named European Footballer of the Year. In 1991, he was named the first ever FIFA World Player of the Year, and remains the only German to have received the award.
Lothar is the name of a character in the "Mandrake the Magician" comic strip; to be precise, it's the name of Mandrake's sidekick. Those who grew up in the 1980s may remember both characters from their appearance in the cartoon series "Defenders of the Earth", where the th is pronounced as in "thin".
Alfred Lothar Wegener (1880-1930) was a German scientist/meteorologist who first theorized the idea of Pangaea, which is all the continents on Earth were once one "supercontinent." Through continental drift they have separated and moved.