German Famous Names Starting with Letter C

Is a retired German football player.

Is a retired German football player.

Is a retired German football player who is currently an athletic director for Hannover 96. He is a n

Is a retired German football player who is currently an athletic director for Hannover 96. He is a nephew of Helmut Haller. He played in two friendlies for West Germany in December 1987 - against Brazil and Argentina.

Is a retired German football player and a football manager who currently managing Rot-Weiss Ahlen.

Is a retired German football player and a football manager who currently managing Rot-Weiss Ahlen.

Is a former Austrian cross country skier who competed since 1994. He won the bronze medal in the 50k

Is a former Austrian cross country skier who competed since 1994. He won the bronze medal in the 50km at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. Four years later at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Hoffmann finished 2nd in the 30 km freestyle mass

Is a German sprint canoer who competed in the late 1930s.

Is a German sprint canoer who competed in the late 1930s.

Is an Austrian figure skater. He is the 2000 Austrian national champion and the 2001 national silver

Is an Austrian figure skater. He is the 2000 Austrian national champion and the 2001 national silver medalist.

Is a German composer, conductor and pianist. He completed his studies at the San Francisco Conservat

Is a German composer, conductor and pianist. He completed his studies at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 1989. Jost has served as composer-in-residence for several German orchestras; in 2003, he was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Composers Prize.

Was a bassoonist, teacher and composer. He was principal bassoonist of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orches

Was a bassoonist, teacher and composer. He was principal bassoonist of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra from 1857 - 1887. He taught at the Leipzig Conservatory beginning in 1882. Apart from a small canon of Romantic works, he is chiefly remembered for his pedagogical works, the Practical Bassoon School and the Bassoon Studies, Opus 8 (which includes the "Fifty Advanced Studies"), which are still in widespread use.

Was a German bandmaster or Kapellmeister[2], violinist, organ and keyboard player, and composer. Alm

Was a German bandmaster or Kapellmeister[2], violinist, organ and keyboard player, and composer. Almost an exact contemporary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he was a prolific composer in many fields and a force in the musical world. He rose to high honours at the courts of the Prussian Kings. For unknown reasons, Kalkbrenner left his position as Kapellmeister to Prince Henry of Prussia and went first to Naples and later on to Paris. He was the father of Friedrich Wilhelm Kalkbrenner, one of the great piano virtuosos of the first half of the 19th century.

Is a retired Austrian footballer.He started his career at SC Eisenstadt and also played for SK Rapid

Is a retired Austrian footballer.He started his career at SC Eisenstadt and also played for SK Rapid Wien, Wiener Sportclub, LASK Linz and SV Austria Salzburg.

Is a former medley and freestyle swimmer from Germany, who competed in four consecutive Summer Olymp

Is a former medley and freestyle swimmer from Germany, who competed in four consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1992.

An Austrian Formula One racing driver. Klien has yet to achieve a race win or a podium finish in For

An Austrian Formula One racing driver. Klien has yet to achieve a race win or a podium finish in Formula One.Klien started his career in motorsport in his early teens; racing in karting championships both in Austria and Switzerland before moving up to Formula BMW. After several more titles in lower Formulas, Klien moved up into Formula One with the Jaguar Racing team, alongside Mark Webber. At the end of 2004, Jaguar's Formula One team was sold to Red Bull and renamed Red Bull Racing; Klien shared the race seat with Italian Vitantonio Liuzzi. The Austrian stayed at Red Bull for 2006, with Liuzzi going to Red Bull junior team, Scuderia Toro Rosso.

Is a German cyclist who rides for Team Milram in the UCI ProTour.

Is a German cyclist who rides for Team Milram in the UCI ProTour.

Is a retired German football player of Polish origin. He spent 10 seasons in the Bundesliga with Bor

Is a retired German football player of Polish origin. He spent 10 seasons in the Bundesliga with Borussia Mönchengladbach.

Is a German road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Team Milram.

Is a German road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Team Milram.

Is a German professional racing cyclist.

Is a German professional racing cyclist.

Is a German football defender who plays for Bayern Munich.Lell is a product of the Bayern Munich Jun

Is a German football defender who plays for Bayern Munich.Lell is a product of the Bayern Munich Junior Team. Lell saw action with Bayern Munich's second team in the Regionalliga Süd from 2001 to 2004. He made his Bundesliga debut against Hertha BSC Berli

Is a midfielder for German football team VfB Oldenburg.

Is a midfielder for German football team VfB Oldenburg.

Is a German politician and general secretary of the liberal party Free Democratic Party of Germany (

Is a German politician and general secretary of the liberal party Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP).Lindner joined the FDP in 1995. He has been a member of the Executive Board of the FDP in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 1998 and became Se

Was a German journalist and literary critic, one of the founders of the Young Germany movement durin

Was a German journalist and literary critic, one of the founders of the Young Germany movement during the Vormärz period. In 1834, he published a collection with 22 of his lectures under the title "Ästhetische Feldzüge" ("Aesthetic Campaigns"). With the o

Was a prominent German ornithologist.

Was a prominent German ornithologist.

An Austrian artist.After he had spent his youth in Upper Austria (also at the Attersee, that's where

An Austrian artist.After he had spent his youth in Upper Austria (also at the Attersee, that's where his artist's name comes from), Attersee began his studies in 1957 at the then-named Vienna Akademie für angewandte Kunst (Academy of Applied Arts, in 1998 renamed to "University of Applied Arts") with E. Bäumer, keeping these up until 1963. From 1966 on, he got in touch with the short-lived Viennese Actionism movement. Being very intrigued by object and action art from the start, Attersee attempted to combine music, speech, photo and video art with the basic form to create a new form of total artwork (also known by the German term Gesamtkunstwerk) like object inventions such as the "Speisekugel" ("food sphere"), the "Speiseblau" ("food blue"), the "Prothesenalphabet" ("prosthetical alphabet"), the "Speicheltönung" ("saliva tinge" or "saliva hue"), the female vagina as an object of arts as well as the self-coined "Attersteck". In later years, the quintessence of his work shall be characterized by subjects like sexuality and natural studies.

Was a German composer and organist.[1] From 1692-1700 Boxberg was active as an opera composer with h

Was a German composer and organist.[1] From 1692-1700 Boxberg was active as an opera composer with his operas being performed Leipzig, Wolfenbüttel, Kassel und Ansbach. From 1702-1729 he was Kapellmeister at the Church of St. Peter und Paul in Görlitz.

Was a German pastor and ornithologist. He was the father of Alfred Brehm.Brehm was born near Gotha,

Was a German pastor and ornithologist. He was the father of Alfred Brehm.Brehm was born near Gotha, and studied at the University of Jena. In 1813 he became the minister at Renthendorf, a village sixty miles south of Leipzig, where he remained until his death. His extensive writings included Beitrage zur Vogelkunde (1820-22), which described 104 species of German birds in minute detail, and Handbuch der Naturgeschichte aller Vogel Deutschlands (1831).Brehm accumulated a collection of 15,000 bird skins. He offered these to the Berlin Zoological Museum, but the sale fell through. After his death they remained in the attic of his house, where Otto Kleinschmidt discovered them some years later. Kleinschmidt persuaded Lord Rothschild to buy them, and the collection arrived at his museum in Tring in 1900.

Studied under Carl Friedrich Gauss, obtaining his doctorate in 1812 for a thesis entitled: Methodi p

Studied under Carl Friedrich Gauss, obtaining his doctorate in 1812 for a thesis entitled: Methodi proiectionis orthographicae usum ad calculos parallacticos facilitandos explicavit simulque eclipsin solarem die, at the University of Göttingen. He is nota