Famous People with Name Rainer

Rainer Zobel            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Rainer Zobel: is a former German football (soccer) player and current football coach.In 2005, Zobel was head coach of Persepolis F.C. in Iran's Premier Football League. He was named as coach of Moroka Swallows, a South African team from Johannesburg and signed on 17 Ju

Rainer Klaus Wirth Castro            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Rainer Klaus Wirth Castro: is a Chilean goalkeeper who plays for Unión Española.He started his career with Universidad Católica youth system and made his professional debut with the team as well. After spending some of 2006 with Primera B club Temuco, he joined rival side Colo-Colo

Rainer Åkerfelt            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Rainer Åkerfelt: is a Finnish sprint canoer who competed in the early 1960s. He was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-2 1000 m event at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.

Rainer Hunold            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Rainer Hunold: is a German television actor.

Rainer Riehn            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Rainer Riehn: is a German music composer and conductor and co-editor of music theory magazines. Riehn studied music theory in Mainz, Zürich, and Berlin and composition with Gottfried Michael Koenig in Utrecht.

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