List of famous German Americans

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This is a list of famous German Americans.

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[edit] See also

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  1. ^ [1] "He was born Guenther Edward Schneider February 18, 1890 in New York City to fur cutter Carl Schneider and Elizabeth Ohse formerly of Hanover, Germany. Five children made for a crowded coldwater flat, but the thrifty German family somehow always had enough food on the table."
  2. ^ [2]"After his arrival in New York and a brief stay at Ellis Island, Fritz Austerlitz made his way west to Omaha, Nebraska. There he met a woman much younger than he named Johanna (Ann) Geilus. Johanna had been born in Omaha, but her parents, David Geilus and Wilhelmina Klaatke, were German-speaking, Lutheran immigrants from East Prussia and Alsace. The 25-year-old Fritz and 16-year-old Johanna were married at the First German Lutheran Church in Omaha on Nov. 17, 1894. On the marriage license the groom is listed simply as “Fritz Austerlitz.” The bride's name is recorded as “Johanna Geilus” with the notation “consent given by father” of the teenage bride."
  3. ^ [3] "She is half Hungarian on her mother's side" [4] "Drews Mother - Jaid Barrymore (nee Ildiko Jaid Mako) [was] Born on the 8th May 1946 in Brannenburg, West Germany in a camp for displaced persons. Jaids parents (Drew's grandparents) were Hungarian."
  4. ^ [5] "Bibi Besch was an Austrian actress."
  5. ^ [6] "Born Hans Gudegast, Eric Braeden emigrated to the U.S. in 1959 from the port city of Kiel, West Germany and became a naturalized citizen while attending college. In 1989, Eric served as a member of the German-American Advisory Board along with the likes of Dr. Henry Kissinger. Eric has also been awarded the Federal Medal of Honor by the President of Germany for promoting a "positive, realistic image of Germans in America."
  6. ^ [7] "The half-German, half-Alabaman Bullock was born in Washington, DC...
  7. ^ [8]
  8. ^ [9] "Though his professional name was suggestive of a Latin Lover type, actor Ricardo Cortez was actually an Austrian Jew, born Jacob Krantz. He arrived in Hollywood in 1922, at a time when the Rudolph Valentino craze was at its height."
  9. ^ [10]
  10. ^ [11] "though as it happens, Doris Day, nee Doris Kappelhoff, is purebred German. "And I have a beautiful shitsu called Wesley Winfield.""
  11. ^ [12] "He's half-German, half-Italian." [13] "His dad, George DiCaprio, half German and half Italian, is an underground comic book artist... DiCaprio's mother, Irmelin Indenbirken (sometimes spelled In Den Birken), was born in a German air raid shelter in the midst of a World War II air raid. After the war, in the 1950s, she emigrated to the US with her parents as a young child... DiCaprio's maternal grandparents, Wilhelm and Helene Indenbirken, continued to live in the US for many years before returning to Germany to enjoy their retirement." [14]
  12. ^ [15] "German-American motion-picture actress whose aura of sophistication and languid sensuality made her one of the most glamorous of all film stars."
  13. ^ [16] "I'm basically a MUTT, but I'll give you the run down. I'm mostly Belgian, with some German and English on my mom's side and Irish, German, English, and Sioux Indian on my Dad's side."
  14. ^ [17] "...posters of this Swedish/German beauty will be plastered in locker rooms everywhere..."
  15. ^ Noted as one of several Danish Americans at [18]; [19] "the only son (four sisters) to parents of Danish-German and Latvian extraction"
  16. ^ [20] "...My Mom is Estonian and German."
  17. ^ Dakota Fanning - [21] "I'm also half German" [22] "My Grandmother was German, and the tradition was to hide an ornament in a pickle, and whoever find it gets a prize. It's a lot of fun."
  18. ^ [23] "What nationality are you? (Ginny) German. American."
  19. ^ [24] "Cody Kasch, who plays Zach Young on Desperate Housewives, wore an argyle sweater with a burgundy tie. "I wore the sweater because I'm Scottish," he said."
  20. ^ [25] "Q. Whats Max's nationality? His last anme ROcks and how do you pronounce his last name? A. Im Full blooded Scottish, and proud of it, however my last name Kasch is not my families name, my father changed his last name from McKee to Kasch 30 years ago. Kasch is pronounced cash."
  21. ^ [[26]]
  22. ^ [27] "The actress, who's Alaskan/Swiss on her mother's side, was born in Schweigmatt, Germany." http://history.swissroots.org/233.0.html]
  23. ^ [28] "Uta Hagen, a German actress who achieved fame in her role in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, died on Wednesday. Uta was 84."
  24. ^ [29] "Raised in Connecticut with her two older brothers, Holt and Jason, and older sister Meg, the half-Irish, half-German natural blonde was a child model for Sears catalogs before landing small roles in commercial work."
  25. ^ [30] "Her Irish-German beauty helped her grab her first TV gig back in her native Nebraska..."
  26. ^ [31] "Austrian born film star, Hedy Lamarr, of the 1930 and 40s was also a gifted electrical engineer." [32] "Hedy Lamarr had been an American citizen since 1953."
  27. ^ [33] "Elissa Landi Austrian/Italian leading lady."
  28. ^ [34]” Her father was a Norwegian railroad mechanic, Alfred Ridste, and her mother, Clara Stentek Ridste, was Polish.”
  29. ^ [35] "LR: How can you be Italian with a name like Lauper? CL: Lauper's my father's name. He's German and Swiss and my mom's Italian. So I'm German, Swiss and Sicilian. Kinda like cold cuts. [laughs] The German and the Italian in me are always fighting and the Swiss guy in the middle is goin', "OK, let's talk here. Everybody calm down." [both laugh]"
  30. ^ [36] "I am only French, Dutch and German. I get my skin color from the French side of my family."
  31. ^ [37]
  32. ^ [38] "Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the part Panamanian, part German, and all woman Candice Michelle"
  33. ^ [39]”The actor was born in the Bronx to a Polish Catholic mother from Pennsylvania and a German Jewish father whose ancestry was Spanish Sephardic.”
  34. ^ [40] "Galvanizing, stern-featured Viennese character actress with extensive Broadway experience..."
  35. ^ [41] "That's Erika Slezak, daughter of the famous Austrian-American actor Walter Slezak..."
  36. ^ [42]"I’m Irish and German, I thought that I could go toe-to-toe but it’s hard to keep up with the Aussies."
  37. ^ [43] "Ethnicity: German/American"
  38. ^ [44] "The German-born, New Jersey-raised Willis, 43, is one of Hollywood's biggest..."
  39. ^ [45]
  40. ^ [46] "German-born Bierstadt, whose teachers had included the German Romantic painter Lessing..."
  41. ^ [47] "early 20th century German artist, George Grosz."
  42. ^ [48]
  43. ^ http://www.germanheritage.com/biographies/atol/hofmann.html] "German-American painter and teacher, often called the dean of abstract expressionism"
  44. ^ [49] "sat for Austrian native Greta Kempton five times in 1947..."
  45. ^ [50] "The artist was a German American immigrant of strong liberal democratic..."
  46. ^ [51]"German American art historian who gained particular prominence for his studies in iconography (the study of symbols and themes in works of art)."
  47. ^ [52] "The Austrian-born Puck began..."; WolfgangPuck.com (2005); retrieved 2006-08-31
  48. ^ [53] "German native Severin Roesen is most famous for his abundant fruit..."
  49. ^ [54] "So when Bukowski, who was German-born, got along with this young..."
  50. ^ [55] regarding an Austrian decoration: "I have focused on Austrian studies most of my academic life. As an Austrian-American, it makes me especially proud."
  51. ^ [56] "Part of a large German-American family, and the ninth of ten children, his childhood was marked by poverty." [57] "Theodore Dreiser was the son of a German Catholic immigrant father and a German-Moravian Mennonite mother."
  52. ^ [58] "Like Charles Follen and Carl Schurz, Lieber was a German revolutionary and patriot but only America allowed him to develop his talents to the full."
  53. ^ [59] "The two most distinguished German Sinologists at the turn of the century, Friedrich Hirth (1845-1927) and Berthold Laufer..."
  54. ^ [60] ".. Born in 1922 to poor working-class Jewish immigrants from Romania.. "
  55. ^ in "Tropic of Cancer" he about being from a German family and the German songs he had to learn in his youth
  56. ^ [61]"Thomas Nast - German-born Father of American Caricature..."
  57. ^ [62] "In Lady Lazarus, Sylvia Plath does many things: she explores her guilt about being German during World War II..."
  58. ^ [63] "Charles Sealsfield (1793-1864): German and American novelist of the nineteenth century."
  59. ^ [64]
  60. ^ [65]
  61. ^ [66]
  62. ^ [67]
  63. ^ [68] "Vonnegut, a fourth generation German-American, was sent to a POW camp in Dresden." [69]
  64. ^ [70] "German-American motion-picture director"
  65. ^ [71] "Mike Nichols, the German-born director of HBO's Angels in America, tells the Washington Post his feel for Yiddish rushed back in a skit when Elaine May..."
  66. ^ [72] "I still spoke with a strong European accent as I had immigrated to the United States only 10 years earlier as an Estonian refugee via Germany and was experiencing, in reality and the real sense of the word, "the American Dream.”"
  67. ^ [73] "Wilder, Austrian-born, but in the US since 1934, directed his last film in 1981."
  68. ^ [74] "My background is Norwegian and German, two of the unfunniest ethnic groups in the history of the world."
  69. ^ [75] "Ethnicity: Mexican/German "
  70. ^ [76] "German-American conductor and composer"
  71. ^ [77] "He was a noted conductor of the Arad Symphony in Romania and is on Romania’s list of prominent citizens."
  72. ^ [78]
  73. ^ [79] "A study of the life and work of Austrian composer Korngold..."
  74. ^ [80] "Charles Martin Loeffler (1861-1935) was a German-American violinist and composer"
  75. ^ [81] "Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951, Austrian composer. He became a U.S. citizen in 1941."
  76. ^ [82] "German-born American conductor who was largely responsible for the role of symphony orchestras in many American cities."
  77. ^ [83] "German composer, American citizen from 1943"
  78. ^ [84]"Lawrence Welk, German-American bandleader"
  79. ^ "No one really sounds like me. I'm German-Irish but for some reason I have soul in me. I've always had it - ever since I was a kid. So I'm bringing my spirit and my heart because every song I sing, I'm telling a story."
  80. ^ [85] "German-American merchant and financier, born near Heidelberg, Germany."
  81. ^ [86]
  82. ^ [87] "Adolphus Busch, was a Corporal Co. E 3rd Regiment US Reserve Infantry Corps (3 months, 1861) after the war became St. Louis most famous German immigrant."
  83. ^ [88]
  84. ^ [89] "And so it was with Adolph Coors, the young German immigrant who founded Coors Brewing Company..."
  85. ^ [90] "his father, Elias Disney, an Irish-Canadian, and his mother, Flora Call Disney, who was of German-American descent."
  86. ^ [91]
  87. ^ [92]
  88. ^ [93] "Born a middle-class, assimilated German Jew..."
  89. ^ [94] "The legendary Swiss manager has been tasked with bringing fresh momentum to the sputtering engine of the world's largest automobile group."
  90. ^ [95] "Kluge, a German-born billionaire, donated a whopping $60 million to start the..."
  91. ^ [96] "Frederick Miller, a German immigrant who started his own brewery in 1855..."
  92. ^ [97]
  93. ^ [98] "Claus Spreckels was born on July 9, 1828 and started off as a poor German immigrant who first settled in North Carolina upon arriving in America in 1846."
  94. ^ [99] "Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, a German master-carpenter, builds his first instrument in his Seesen..."
  95. ^ [100] "German-born Swiss pioneer settler and colonizer in California..."
  96. ^ [101] "The celebrity, who is half Scottish and half German, is thrilled with the honor..."
  97. ^ [102]
  98. ^ [103] "German-born American Textile Artist"
  99. ^ [104] "German-born George Atzerodt immigrated to the United States with his family in 1843, at the age of eight."
  100. ^ [105] "On November 8 1887, Emile Berliner, a German immigrant working in Washington DC..."
  101. ^ [106] "Ethnicity Swiss/German"
  102. ^ [107]
  103. ^ [108]
  104. ^ [109]
  105. ^ [110] "German-born U.S. composer, pianist, and conductor"
  106. ^ [111] "Though Swiss by birth, Frank traveled the world before settling in the United States in 1953."
  107. ^ [112] "Born to an aristocratic Swiss family, Albert Gallatin (1761-1849) emigrated from Switzerland to America in 1780."
  108. ^ [113] "Walter Gropius was a German architect and art educator"
  109. ^ [114] "Meyer, though a native speaker of German, was Swiss-German."
  110. ^ [115] "German-born American carpenter and burglar"
  111. ^ [116]
  112. ^ [117]
  113. ^ [118]
  114. ^ [119] "Lederer, a German-born physician"
  115. ^ [120] "German-born Jacob Leisler"
  116. ^ [121] "Ottmar Mergenthaler, a German inventor"
  117. ^ [122] "German-American"
  118. ^ [123] "Charles Mohr (1824-1901), German-born Mobile pharmacist and botanist, is best known for the monumental Plant Life of Alabama"
  119. ^ [124]
  120. ^ [125]Irish, German; Pat Nixon's mother immigrated from the Ober Rosbach region of Germany; her father was Irish and his parents immigrated to the U.S. from County Mayo, Ireland, date unknown
  121. ^ [126] "In future years many leaders of American labor were German American, including Walter Reuther"
  122. ^ [127]
  123. ^ [128] "Eventually, he met Ingrid Rimland, an ethnic German who now lives in Tennessee"
  124. ^ [129] "The founder, August Schrader was a creative and inventive German immigrant"
  125. ^ [130] "Carl Schurz, one of the most celebrated German Americans"
  126. ^ [131] "the Schwarzkopfs emigrated to the US long before the rise of Nazism, are not known to have voiced Nazi leanings, and were a respected part of the substantial German-American community in New Jersey."
  127. ^ [132]
  128. ^ [133]
  129. ^ [134] "German-born Swiss pioneer settler and colonizer in California"
  130. ^ [135] "In 1910, a German immigrant, Paul Warburg"
  131. ^ [136] "Gustave Whitehead, a poor, German immigrant"
  132. ^ [137] mentioned as one of several "Swiss Americans"
  133. ^ [138]
  134. ^ [139] "German immigrant printer named John Peter Zenger"
  135. ^ [140] "Born into an affluent German-Jewish family in Louisville"
  136. ^ [141] "Ethnicity Swiss/German"
  137. ^ [142] "ethnic background: Swedish"
  138. ^ [143] born in Stockholm, Sweden
  139. ^ Named "Swedish-American of the Year" [144]
  140. ^ [145]
  141. ^ [146] "German-born American clergyman"
  142. ^ [147]
  143. ^ [148]
  144. ^ [149] "Baade wanted to go there to observe with it himself, but his German citizenship prevented him"
  145. ^ [150] "German-born American theoretical physicist"
  146. ^ [151]
  147. ^ [152]
  148. ^ [153]
  149. ^ [154] "German-born American physicist who shared one-half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1989 with the German physicist Wolfgang Paul"
  150. ^ [155] "Max Delbruck German-born US biologist, a pioneer in the study of molecular genetics."
  151. ^ [156] "German-born botanist"
  152. ^ [157]
  153. ^ [158] "James Franck German-born American physicist"
  154. ^ [159] "German-born American physicist"
  155. ^ [160] "Schwiez-born U.S. psychiatrist"
  156. ^ [161] "Austrian-born physicist who was a joint recipient, with Carl D. Anderson of the United States, of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1936 for his discovery of cosmic rays--high-energy radiation originating in outer space."
  157. ^ [162] "Herman Hollerith was the German American who first automated US census information"
  158. ^ [163] "German-American psychiatrist"
  159. ^ [164] "German psychologist and cofounder"
  160. ^ [165] "German psychologist"
  161. ^ [166] "Austrian-American modernist architect Richard Neutra."
  162. ^ [167] "was developed in 1925 by Austrian-American theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli..."
  163. ^ [168] "Wilhelm Reich, an Austrian-Ukrainian of Jewish background."
  164. ^ [169]
  165. ^ [170] "German botanist"
  166. ^ [171] "Wernher von Braun, the German physicist who oversaw most of the achievements of the US space program until his death in 1977"
  167. ^ [172]
  168. ^ [173] "Growing up in Vienna in a well-to-do Jewish family..." [174] "One of the most brilliant Jewish scientists to be driven from Germany by Nazi persecution..."
  169. ^ [175] "Martin Buser, a long-time Swiss citizen, is scheduled to be sworn in today as a United States citizen by Judge Ben Esch after crossing the finish line yesterday as winner of the 2002 Iditarod."
  170. ^ [176] "Chronicle: Dave, you are Croatian American, tell us about your background? Diehl: I grew up on the south side of Chicago. I’m fifty percent Croatian and fifty percent German. I went to grammar school and High School (Brother Rice) with some Croatian friends. So I have been following Croatian heritage ever since I can remember. That’s why people couldn’t figure out why I have Diehl as my last name and Croatian GRB tattooed on my left arm. I grew up going to St. Jerome’s Croatian Catholic Church with my Grandmother. Her maiden name was Semanic and she was from one of the Croatian islands. I remember going to St. Jerome’s and having palacinke for breakfast. My grandmother married Grandpa who was Ante Bekavac from small village Bekavci near Lovrec in Imotski, Dalmacija, Croatia. My father Jerry who passed away in August was hundred percent German on both sides."
  171. ^ [177] "A German - Jewish immigrant who never played professional baseball"
  172. ^ [178] "Lou Gehrig's life, from the poor German boy in Yorkville to the famous star playing America's favorite pastime"
  173. ^ [179]
  174. ^ [180] Raised in a Swedish-American family
  175. ^ [181] "Markakis, who is half Greek and half German, led the Greek Olympic team..."
  176. ^ [182] "Swiss Roots: How much do you know about your Swiss heritage? Ben Roethlisberger: Honestly, I didn't know a whole lot until recently; then I started feeling it out a little more and hearing a little more about it. Now, when people ask me where I'm from, I'm quick to say, "Well, I'm Swiss." I'm sure I have a lot of things in me, but that's one of the things I tell people—that I'm Swiss."
  177. ^ [183] "The Wanderones were German-Swiss"
  178. ^ [184] "Felix Adler, a German-American educator"
  179. ^ [185] "Arendt, a Jew, gained fame as a German-Jewish refugee scholar"
  180. ^ [186] "The phrase comes from the German philosopher Ernst Bloch"
  181. ^ [187] "Rudolf Carnap, a German-born philosopher and naturalized US citizen"
  182. ^ [188] "Francis Lieber German-born US political philosopher"
  183. ^ [189] "German-born American choreographer of modern dance and Broadway musicals"
  184. ^ [190]
  185. ^ [191]
  186. ^ [192] "German/American, 1832-1932"
  187. ^ [193] "Mencken came from a German-American neighborhood and family."
  188. ^ [194] "the name of the 30-year-old former Swiss bank guard is already being entered into the ranks of the righteous gentiles -- those persons who have taken risks to help Jews."
  189. ^ [195] "German-born American Architect"
  190. ^ [196] "German-born U.S. journalist and financier"
  191. ^ [197]"I think German guys are really hot ... I am German."
  192. ^ [198]
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