Famous People with Name Rainer

Rainer Maria Rilke            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Rainer Maria Rilke: German language's greatest 20th century poets.

Rainer Kattel            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Rainer Kattel: is an Estonian academic and science administrator; he is an expert on innovation as well as political philosophy.

Rainer Schnttler            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Rainer Schnttler: He began playing tennis at the age of ten. He currently resides in Switzerland. After Wimbledon 2008, he is currently 39th in the ATP rankings.Rainer Schnttler was born in Korbach, Hesse.He had his breakthrough year in 2003, when he finished in the ATP top 10 for the first time improving his ATP ranking for the ninth year in succession, which is the longest among current players. He also became the first German since Boris Becker in 1989 to advance to the 4th round at all Grand Slams. He became the first German to reach a Grand Slam final, at the Australian Open,

Rainer Seifert            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Rainer Seifert: is a former field hockey player from Germany, who was a member of the West-German squad that won the golden medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.

Rainer Bonhof            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Rainer Bonhof: a former German footballer. He was a wing-back or defensive midfielder.Bonhof, a midfielder, was widely recognized — during his time — for having one of the game's hardest free-kicks as well as longest and most precise throw-ins. Former Liverpool goalkeeper, Ray Clemence, in 1977 following a European Cup tie between the Reds and Borussia Mönchengladbach, was credited for expressing fear of Bonhof's shots. Clemence's fear was such that in a March 1978 match between Liverpool and Borussia Mönchengladbach he ducked to avoid a 25 metre Bonhof free-kick that appeared to be going straight for the keeper's head. Bonhof was awarded the ARD Goal of the Month on three occasions.

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