Famous People with Name Werner

Werner Freyberg            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Werner Freyberg: was a German field hockey player who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.He was a member of the German field hockey team, which won the bronze medal. He played two matches as halfback.

Werner Kubitzki            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Werner Kubitzki: was a German field hockey player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.He was a member of the German field hockey team, which won the silver medal. He played one match as forward.

Werner Proft            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Werner Proft: was a German field hockey player who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.He was a member of the German field hockey team, which won the bronze medal. He played three matches as back.

Werner Haas            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Werner Haas: was a German classical pianist. He was widely known for his performances of early 20th century compositions, particularly those of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. But he had a very wide repertoire that included works by Frédéric Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven, Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Kabalevsky.He was born in Stuttgart, Germany and attended the Stuttgart Academy of Music. Later he had private study with the renowned pianist Walter Gieseking. After a string of successful recitals throughout Europe in the 1950s, he signed a multi-year recording contract with Philips Records. His recordings had numerous successes including a complete works of Debussy edition which was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque in 1970. Other Ravel recordings by Haas were given the Amsterdam Edison Prize, also in 1970.

Werner Otto            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Werner Otto: is a retired track cyclist from East Germany, who represented his native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. There he won the silver medal in the Men's Tandem, alongside Jürgen Geschke.

Johann(es) Werner            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Johann(es) Werner: was a German parish priest in Nuremberg and a mathematician. His primary work was in astronomy, mathematics, and geography, although he was also considered a skilled instrument maker.This work further developed the suggestion of Regiomontanus that the occurrences of eclipses and cometary orbits could be used to find longitude, giving a practical approach for this method by means of the cross-staff. (The approach did not actually solve the problem as the instrument was not sufficiently accurate.)

Abraham Gottlob Werner            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Abraham Gottlob Werner: was a German geologist who set out a now obsolete theory about the stratification of the Earth's crust and coined the now obsolete word Neptunism.While in Leipzig, Werner became interested in the systematic identification and classification of minerals. Within a year he published the first modern textbook on descriptive mineralogy, Vonden äusserlichen Kennzeichen der Fossilien (On the External Characters of Fossils, or of Minerals) (1774).

Tobias Werner            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Tobias Werner: is a German football player. As of January 2009, he plays for FC Augsburg.

Scarlett Werner            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Scarlett Werner: is a German professional tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 279, which she reached on September 22, 2003. Her career high in doubles is 199, which she reached on November 10, 2003. She reached a career high junior singles world ranking of 1

Fritz Eberhard Werner            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Fritz Eberhard Werner: was a German artist and landscapist. Eberhard Werner was the son of the newspaper publisher and printer Friedrich Werner. After his battlefield injury that stemmed from the World War II was cured, he became a teacher in the GDR in Gransee and studied Art in Erfurt.[1]