Famous People with Name Rainer

Luise Rainer            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Luise Rainer: in Duesseldorf / Germany, is a two-time Academy Award-winning German film actress. Of living people who have won Academy Awards, she holds the earliest-awarded Oscars. She is also the oldest of Academy Award winners at 98.

Yvonne Rainer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Yvonne Rainer: an American choreographer and filmmaker, whose work in both disciplines is frequently challenging and experimental.In 1957 Rainer moved to New York to study theater. She found herself more strongly drawn to modern dance than acting, however, and began studying at the Martha Graham School and later with Merce Cunningham. Rainer was one of the organizers of the Judson Dance Theater, a focal point for vanguard activity in the dance world throughout the 1960s, and she formed her own company for a brief time after the Judson performances ended. Rainer is noted for an approach to dance that treats the body more as the source of an infinite variety of movements than as the purveyor of emotion or drama. Many of the elements she employed—such as repetition,

Alfred Rainer            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Alfred Rainer: was a World Cup competitor in the Nordic Combined event. A talented skier, he had previously been a soldier in the Austrian Army and a joiner. He spoke both German and English and enjoyed a range of hobbies, including football, movies, music and bicycling

Friedrich W. Rainer            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Friedrich W. Rainer: was a leader in the Nazi Party, as well as an Austrian State governor of Salzburg and Carinthia. He is the only Austrian governor who has ever held the same office in two separate states. He was a native of Sankt Veit an der Glan, located in the Austrian