German Famous Names Starting with Letter C

Is a German-Spanish football midfielder. He plays for Alemannia Aachen in the 2. Bundesliga.

Is a German-Spanish football midfielder. He plays for Alemannia Aachen in the 2. Bundesliga.

Was a German composer best known for his Oboe concertos. At the peak of his career, he was the music

Was a German composer best known for his Oboe concertos. At the peak of his career, he was the musical director at the court of Merseburg.[1]

Was a German astronomer.Cuno Hoffmeister founded the Sonneberg Observatory and discovered approximat

Was a German astronomer.Cuno Hoffmeister founded the Sonneberg Observatory and discovered approximately 10.000 variable stars and several asteroids. He also co-discovered comet C/1959 O1. Hoffmeister crater on the Moon is named after him, as are the asteroids 1726 Hoffmeister and 4183 Cuno.

Was a German-Austrian stage and motion-picture actor. He was usually billed in English-speaking film

Was a German-Austrian stage and motion-picture actor. He was usually billed in English-speaking films as Curt Jurgens.

Was a German horticulturist especially known for the collection and classification of cacti.He trave

Was a German horticulturist especially known for the collection and classification of cacti.He travelled extensively through Central and South America, and published a number of books on cacti, including the six-volume 4,000-page Die Cactaceae, 1958-1962, and the Kakteenlexikon first appearing in 1966 and updated posthumously.Although he collected and described many new species and defined a number of new genera, much of his work was based on faulty assumptions about the evolution of cacti, and too focused on geographic distribution; many of his genera have since been reorganized or abandoned.

Was a German-American geneticist. He made several important genetic discoveries, demonstrating chrom

Was a German-American geneticist. He made several important genetic discoveries, demonstrating chromosomal crossover in Drosophila weeks after Barbara McClintock and Harriet Creighton had done so [with maize] in 1931. He demonstrated that there were multiple genes on the Drosophila Y chromosome and described the mechanism of dosage compensation. During World War II he led research for the American government on low dose radiation safety; his group concluded that there is no "safe" threshold below which radiation is not harmful. After the War his research focused on human genetics; he wrote the very successful pioneering US textbook Principles of Human Genetics, and studied what is now known as gene regulation. Though not a physician,

Was a Count and a German chess master who committed suicide by jumping out of a window in 1924. His

Was a Count and a German chess master who committed suicide by jumping out of a window in 1924. His life and death were the basis for that of the main character in the novel The Defense by Vladimir Nabokov. He edited the magazine Deutsche Schachzeitung from 1887 through 1891.

Was a German composer, music theoretician, Music educator and Music publisher. From 1884 on, he work

Was a German composer, music theoretician, Music educator and Music publisher. From 1884 on, he worked at Bad Kissingen in Lower Franconia, where he founded an own music school. From 1880 on, he published the music journal „Musikalische Tagesfragen. Organ für Musiker, Musikfreunde und Freunde der Wahrheit“ („Current questions on music. An organ for musicians, friends of music and friends of truth“).