German Famous Names Starting with Letter G

Is a German football player, who is currently plays for Lega Pro Prima Divisione club Novara.In Janu

Is a German football player, who is currently plays for Lega Pro Prima Divisione club Novara.In January 2010, he joined Novara as a free agent, after being released by Modena F.C. in summer 2009.

Is an Australian singer and songwriter, best known as a founding member and lead singer of pop group

Is an Australian singer and songwriter, best known as a founding member and lead singer of pop group Little River Band. Shorrock currently lives in Sydney with his wife Jo.Glenn Shorrock originally came to fame in Australia, as the co-lead singer of popular '60s band The Twilights. They scored major Australian hits with singles including "Needle In A Haystack", and their definitive cover of The Hollies' "What's Wrong With The Way I Live", which was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London.

Is a Sydney, Australia based singer, songwriter, guitarist, performer, record producer and sound eng

Is a Sydney, Australia based singer, songwriter, guitarist, performer, record producer and sound engineer. Formerly, he was a part of renowned Australian Pop rock/Soft Rock band LemonJuice, which enjoyed several years of success in Japan and South Korea with partner Steve Glover.

Is an Australian countertenor, specialising in baroque music.Glenn Kesby made his professional singi

Is an Australian countertenor, specialising in baroque music.Glenn Kesby made his professional singing debut at the 25th Handel Festival in Karlsruhe, Germany, where he played Adelberto in Ottone, conducted by Charles Farncombe CBE. Since then, he has played several lead Handel opera roles including Julius Caesar and Ruggiero in Alcina for the Handel Opera Society, Rinaldo at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London, and most recently Apollo in Parnasso in Festa with Baroque Encounter at St. John's, Smith Square.

Was a German violinist, teacher and composer. He studied with Friedrich Wilhelm Dietz a pupil of Spo

Was a German violinist, teacher and composer. He studied with Friedrich Wilhelm Dietz a pupil of Spohr and later with Wilhelmj. He started his career at the age of 12. He was leader of famous orchestras: Berna (1870), Bremen (1872), Hamburg (1880). After a stroke in 1900 he concentrated in teaching

Angelus Gottfried Thomas Mann, was a popular German historian, essayist and writer. He was the third

Angelus Gottfried Thomas Mann, was a popular German historian, essayist and writer. He was the third child of the novelist Thomas Mann and his wife Katia Mann.

A German footballer. He plays as a defender for Bayer Leverkusen.Castro has played for the German na

A German footballer. He plays as a defender for Bayer Leverkusen.Castro has played for the German national U-21 team at the 2006 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship. He made his international debut for the senior national team in a friendly against Denmark on March 28, 2007.

Is a naturalized Austrian football player currently playing for SC St. Valentin. He also holds Croat

Is a naturalized Austrian football player currently playing for SC St. Valentin. He also holds Croatian citizenship.

Is a German slalom canoer who competed in the 1990s.

Is a German slalom canoer who competed in the 1990s.

Was a German philosopher and statistician. He is counted among the inventors of statistics.He was bo

Was a German philosopher and statistician. He is counted among the inventors of statistics.He was born in Elblag (in German: Elbing). Beginning in 1738 he studied in Jena, Halle, again Jena and Leipzig. In the years 1743 to 1746 he worked as controller in

Was a German amateur tennis champion and twice French Open champion.In his 1979 autobiography Jack K

Was a German amateur tennis champion and twice French Open champion.In his 1979 autobiography Jack Kramer, the long-time tennis promoter and great player himself, included Gottfried von Cramm in his list of the 21 greatest players of all time.

Was a German composer, cantor, and organist.Homilius predominantly composed church music: more than

Was a German composer, cantor, and organist.Homilius predominantly composed church music: more than 10 Passions (one printed 1775), an oratorio to Christmas (1777) and to Easter, over 60 motets, more than 150 cantatas (six arias from which appeared in 1786), chorales, preludes, and choral works.

A contemporary German architect.

A contemporary German architect.

Is a contemporary German architect.Böhm was born into a family of architects in Offenbach, Hessen

Is a contemporary German architect.Böhm was born into a family of architects in Offenbach, Hessen. His father, Dominikus Böhm, was renowned for having built several churches throughout Germany. His grandfather was also an architect. After having graduated from Technical University of Munich in 1946, he studied sculpture at a nearby fine-arts academy. After 1947, Böhm worked for his father until the latter's death in 1955. Böhm later took over the firm. During this period, he also worked with the "Society for the Reconstruction of Cologne" under Rudolf Schwarz. In 1951, he traveled to New York City where he worked for six months in the architectural firm of Cajetan Baumann. During his travels in America, he met two of his greatest inspirations, German architects Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius.

Was a German essayist, novelist, and expressionist poet. A doctor of medicine, he became an early ad

Was a German essayist, novelist, and expressionist poet. A doctor of medicine, he became an early admirer, and later a critic, of the National Socialist revolution. Benn had a literary influence on German verse immediately before and after the Nazi German

Is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1976 Summer Olympics. In 1976 he was a crew m

Is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1976 Summer Olympics. In 1976 he was a crew member of the East German boat which won the gold medal in the eights event.

Was a German composer, conductor and virtuoso violist. Although praised in their time for their rhyt

Was a German composer, conductor and virtuoso violist. Although praised in their time for their rhythmic vitality and unusual blend of Wagnerian chromaticism and Brahmsian structural integrity, Eschenbach's works have later fallen into obscurity.

Was a famous Jewish national team footballer who fled Germany because of the Holocaust. He is rememb

Was a famous Jewish national team footballer who fled Germany because of the Holocaust. He is remembered mainly for scoring 10 goals for Germany against Russia at the 1912 Olympics.On July 1, 1912 Fuchs scored 10 of the goals in Germany's 16-0 win over Russia. He was part of the legendary attacking trio of Karlsruher FV with Fritz Förderer and Julius Hirsch. His older brother was Richard Fuchs.

Was a prolific German composer. Stölzel grew up in Schwarzenberg, Saxony in the Erzgebirge. From 17

Was a prolific German composer. Stölzel grew up in Schwarzenberg, Saxony in the Erzgebirge. From 1707 he was a student of theology in Leipzig, and of Melchior Hofmann, the musical director of the Neukirche. He studied, worked and composed in Breslau and Halle. Then an eighteen-month sojourn in Italy from 1713 — where he met Antonio Vivaldi in Venice — rendered him au courant with the latest musical taste. After working for three years in Prague, he became briefly court Kapellmeister in Bayreuth and Gera. Then in 1719 he married, and the next year took up an appointment in Gotha, where he worked until his death for the dukes Frederick II and Frederick III of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, composing a cantata each week.

Was a German mathematician, geographer and astronomer.[1] He was born near Naumburg and was awarded

Was a German mathematician, geographer and astronomer.[1] He was born near Naumburg and was awarded a Ph.D. in 1733 from the University of Leipzig with a dissertation on De viribus motricibus.[2] Later he became professor of mathematics at the same institution. Professor Heinsius may have been the first to publish an announcement about the return of Halley's comet in 1759.[3] From 1736–43 he taught in St. Petersburg with Leonhard Euler and was a member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.[4] The crater Heinsius on the Moon is named after him.

Is an Austrian-Irish fine artist, painter, photographer, installation and performance artist.He has

Is an Austrian-Irish fine artist, painter, photographer, installation and performance artist.He has worked as a painter, draftsman, photographer, muralist, sculptor, installation- and performance artist, using a wide variety of techniques and media.

Was a German composer who is perhaps most known for his scores to German expressionist silent films

Was a German composer who is perhaps most known for his scores to German expressionist silent films such as the science fiction epic Metropolis. He also collaborated numerous times with legendary director Fritz Lang.[1][2]

He occupies an equally grand place in both the history of philosophy and the history of mathematics.

He occupies an equally grand place in both the history of philosophy and the history of mathematics. He invented calculus independently of Newton, and his notation is the one in general use since. He also discovered the binary system, foundation of virtually all modern computer architectures.

In 1848, Ludolf Camphausen stepped suddenly from his banker's desk at Cologne to the presidential ch

In 1848, Ludolf Camphausen stepped suddenly from his banker's desk at Cologne to the presidential chair of the Ministry of State at Berlin, being called by King Frederick William IV. to succeed Count Arnim-Boitzenburg as prime minister, on the 29th of March. Ludolf availed himself largely of his younger brother's (Otto) splendid business talents, and the two might, indeed, have succeeded at the time in tiding over this most critical epoch in the constitutional history of the land, had they not had to encounter the deep insincerity of the monarch on the one side, and the (very excusable) profound distrust of the Radical and Progressist majority of the Assembly on the other side.

Is a contemporary German-Dutch composer. Koenig studied church music in Braunschweig, composition, p

Is a contemporary German-Dutch composer. Koenig studied church music in Braunschweig, composition, piano, analysis and acoustics in Detmold, music representation techniques in Cologne and computer technique in Bonn. He attended and later lectured at the "Darmstädter Ferienkurse" (Darmstadt music summer schools). From 1954 to 1964 Koenig worked in the electronic studio of West German Radio (WDR) producing his electronic compositions Klangfiguren, Essay and Terminus 1 and wrote orchestral and chamber music. Furthermore he assisted other composers, including M. Kagel, F. Evangelisti, Gy. Ligeti, H. Brün and K. Stockhausen (with the realization of Kontakte and Gesang der Jünglinge).