German Famous Names Starting with Letter P

Is a German foil fencer. Joppich won the gold medal at the foil 2006 World Fencing Championships aft

Is a German foil fencer. Joppich won the gold medal at the foil 2006 World Fencing Championships after beating Andrea Baldini 15-14 in the final. He beat Baldini again in the 2007 final, 15-9. He was also the 2003 World Champion.

Is a retired German football player. He spent 10 seasons in the Bundesliga with Eintracht Braunschwe

Is a retired German football player. He spent 10 seasons in the Bundesliga with Eintracht Braunschweig.

Is a politician from Germany, and served as president of the Committee of the Regions (CoR) of the E

Is a politician from Germany, and served as president of the Committee of the Regions (CoR) of the European Union (EU) from 2004 to 2006.In November 1984, he became a member of the federal state parliament of Baden-Wuerttemberg. He served as deputy presid

Is an Austrian bobsledder who won competed during the 1980s.Competing in two Winter Olympics, Kienas

Is an Austrian bobsledder who won competed during the 1980s.Competing in two Winter Olympics, Kienast earned his best finish of sixth in the four-man event at Calgary in 1988.

Is a modern classical composer, born in Marktheidenfeld, Germany to Silesian parents.

Is a modern classical composer, born in Marktheidenfeld, Germany to Silesian parents.

Is a former West German handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.In 1976 he was part

Is a former West German handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.In 1976 he was part of the West German team which finished fourth in the Olympic tournament. He played all six matches and scored six goals.

Is a retired German football player.

Is a retired German football player.

Is a German football player currently playing for VfB Günnigfeld.

Is a German football player currently playing for VfB Günnigfeld.

Was a Slovene lawyer, geographer, cartographer, activist and manufacturer. He was of an ethnic Germa

Was a Slovene lawyer, geographer, cartographer, activist and manufacturer. He was of an ethnic German origin, but identified himself with Slovenian culture and advocated a peaceful co-existence of the Slovene and German cultures in Carniola.Kozler was born in Koce, a village south of Kocevje in Gottschee County, in what was then the Austrian Kingdom of Illyria and is now Slovenia. He is probably most famous for creating the first map of Slovene Lands, called Zemljovid Slovenske dežele in pokrajin ("A map of the Slovene Land and Regions") in a scale 1:576000. The map was made during the Spring of Nations in 1848

Is a retired German football player. He spent one season in the Bundesliga with Borussia Mönchengla

Is a retired German football player. He spent one season in the Bundesliga with Borussia Mönchengladbach.

Is a German singer and actor.[1] Kraus was popular especially in the 1950s, notably in those musical

Is a German singer and actor.[1] Kraus was popular especially in the 1950s, notably in those musical comedy films where he played opposite Cornelia Froboess. 1969 Kraus married the photo model Ingrid. She brought her daughter Gaby into the marriage, whom Kraus adopted later on. A few years later their son Mike was born. Gaby died in her late thirties from breast cancer.

Is a German theatre and television actor.

Is a German theatre and television actor.

Is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1968 Summer Olympics. In 1968 he was a crew m

Is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1968 Summer Olympics. In 1968 he was a crew member of the East German boat which won the silver medal in the coxed fours event.

Is a German artist. From 1960 to 1961 Peter Kuckei studied at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden

Is a German artist. From 1960 to 1961 Peter Kuckei studied at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Bremen, as well as from 1961 to 1963 at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart with Prof. H. Wildemann. Peter Kuckei lectured from 1986 to 1987 at the Staatliche Akamdemie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart, Germany. He lives and works in Berlin and Butjadingen since 1963. In 1993 he opened his studio in the United States in San Francisco, California. After ten years he established in 2002 in Miami, Florida, where he currently lives and works.

Is a former professional football goalkeeper.Playing for Eintracht Wetzlar Peter Kunter was capped f

Is a former professional football goalkeeper.Playing for Eintracht Wetzlar Peter Kunter was capped for the German youth national team in 1958, amassing nine appearances. Afterwards he played four times for the amateur national team. From 1961 on Kunter st

Is a German footballer who played for Bayern Munich during the 1960s.

Is a German footballer who played for Bayern Munich during the 1960s.

Is a German theologian and Professor of New Testament Studies at the University of Heidelberg in Ger

Is a German theologian and Professor of New Testament Studies at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. After studies in theology, philosophy and archaeology at Bielefeld and Göttingen, Germany, and Rome, Italy, he received his Ph.D. and his Dr. habil. at the University of Bern in Switzerland with works about the social history of the Christians in the city of Rome in the first two centuries and about the concept of ecclesiastical unity in the Pauline letters. As assistant professor (“Wissenschaftlicher Assistent“), he taught at the University of Bern from 1981 on, until, in 1986, he was called to a chair of New Testament Studies at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, USA. In 1992, he took the chair of History and Archaeology of Early Christianity and Its Environment at the University of Kiel in Germany, where he also served as dean of the school of theology. In 1999, he accepted a call to the University of Heidelberg.

Was a German actor. He enjoyed brief fame as a prolific leading man of Spaghetti Westerns before dyi

Was a German actor. He enjoyed brief fame as a prolific leading man of Spaghetti Westerns before dying at the age of 29. His first notable film role was a small, uncredited, but important appearance as the brother-in-law of Lee Van Cleef in For a Few Dollars More. From than on he went on to star in 16 more Spaghetti Westerns from 1967 to 1973. He was also credited in several of these films as Arthur Grant. Some of these films were hits in Europe including "32 Caliber Killer" (1967), "Days of Violence" (1967), Fury of Johnny Kid (1967), The Man Who Killed Billy the Kid (1967), Killer Adios (1968). He was a particularly popular actor in Cuba.

Is a German photographer known for his 1961 photographs of escaping East German border guard, Conrad

Is a German photographer known for his 1961 photographs of escaping East German border guard, Conrad Schumann jumping a barbed wire fence during construction of the Berlin Wall. As people on the Western side shouted Komm rüber! ("come over"), Leibing captured a photograph of Schumann jumping a barbed wire fence and making his escape. The photo became a well-known image of the Cold War and won the Overseas Press Club Best Photograph award for 1961.[3]

Is a German jurist. Between 1964 and 1996 he held a chair for constitutional law at the Ludwig Maxim

Is a German jurist. Between 1964 and 1996 he held a chair for constitutional law at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. His research interests also included media law. Lerche studied law at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, earning his H

Is a German figure skater. He is the 2009 German national champion and 2002 German junior national c

Is a German figure skater. He is the 2009 German national champion and 2002 German junior national champion.

Is a German fashion photographer.Lindbergh was born in Lissa, Surrey and grew up in Duisburg. He stu

Is a German fashion photographer.Lindbergh was born in Lissa, Surrey and grew up in Duisburg. He studied painting in art school, but began photography in 1971 and established himself as an advertising photographer. Moving to Paris in 1978, to concentrate on high-fashion, he photographed many top models including Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Stephanie Seymour, Isabella Rossellini, Nastassja Kinski and Tatjana Patitz as well as other projects with Karl Lagerfeld, Daryl Hannah, Giorgio Armani and more.

Is a retired German football player who played for Hamburg, Saarbrücken, Bayer Uerdingen, Hércules

Is a retired German football player who played for Hamburg, Saarbrücken, Bayer Uerdingen, Hércules CF, Ajax and Eintracht Braunschweig.

Is an Austrian professional road bicycle racer. He finished fifth in the General Classification of t

Is an Austrian professional road bicycle racer. He finished fifth in the General Classification of the 1996 Tour de France, but he never again managed to live up to the promise of that result, with a position as 13 in 1997 and 2003 as the best later resul

Is a German former footballer.

Is a German former footballer.