- Tommy Haas
Thomas Mario Haas (born April 3, 1978) is a German tennis player. He is 187 cm tall and plays right-handed. He is currently ranked #10 in the world. He reached a career-high ranking of World No. 2 in May 2002. Haas is particularly well-known for his strong forehand. - Tank
Tank (born Eric Geisenheyner on July 1 1977, in Hamburg, Germany) is a German musician and martial artist known best as the vocalist on several hit techno songs. Born to Ghanaian parents, he was adopted by a family in Hamburg following the accidental death of his parents. He first came to prominence by winning several Karate championships in Hamburg, and eventually won a national championship. Although he had always been an enthusiast of progressive music, … - Michael Weikath
Michael Ingo Joachim Weikath is the guitarist of the Power metal band called Helloween. He was born on August 7, 1962 in Hamburg, Germany. His name is a reference for the term melodic metal or power metal, since he contributed much to the innovations that occurred in the heavy metal sound in the beginning of the 1980s. "Weiki" is one of the Helloween founding members, and along with the musicians Kai Hansen (vocals/guitars), … - Alvin Lee
Alvin Lee (born December 19, 1944 in Nottingham, England) is an English guitarist. He began playing guitar at the age of thirteen, and with Leo Lyons formed the core of the band Ten Years After in 1960. Originally influenced by his parent's collection of jazz and blues records, it was the advent of rock and roll that truly sparked his interest and creativity, and guitarists like Chuck Berry and Scotty Moore provided his inspiration. - Horst Fascher
Horst Fascher (born 1936, Hamburg) was a German nightclub bouncer, and a friend of The Beatles during their days playing in Hamburg, Germany. A onetime professional boxer whose career was cut short (he had unintentionally killed a sailor in a street fight), Fascher found work in clubs along the Reeperbahn in Hamburg. When the Beatles (including original drummer Pete Best and bassist Stuart Sutcliffe) made their first trip to Germany in August 1960, … - Alexander Dimitrenko
Alexander Dimitrenko is an up and coming professional heavyweight boxer. He was born on July 5, 1982 in Crimea, Ukraine. He began boxing at the age of 14 and at the age of 18 won the (2000) world junior boxing championship in the Unlimited weight division. He was immediately offered a deal by German promoter Klaus-Peter Kohl after his victory. Dimitrenko signed with Kohl's Universum promotion company and emigrated to Hamburg, Germany to begin his professional career. - Hans Braumüller
Braumüller, is a networker, mail artist, visual poet and painter, currently living in Hamburg, Germany. He has been active in mail art since he was introduced by the Chilean visual poet Guillermo Deisler. In 1995 he founded with Merlin aka Klaus Rupp, the networking art platform crosses.net on which they publish their art projects and collaborations with many other artists. They also hosted there the mail art forums, which are used extensively by the mail art community. - Tatjana Patitz
Tatjana Patitz is a German supermodel and actress. Patitz was born in Hamburg, Germany and raised in Skanör, Sweden. She began working as a model in Paris at the age of 17. By 1990, she had become one of the great supermodels that would dominate the 1990s, appearing on over 130 magazine covers in the course of her career. In 1987 she filmed the Duran Duran video for the song "Skin Trade" from the album "Notorious". - Billie Ray Martin
Billie Ray Martin is a female singer born 'Birgit Dieckmann' in Hamburg, Germany noted for her elegant, soulful voice as much as her avant-garde persona. - Anders Petersen
Anders Petersen, was born 3 May 1944 in Solna, Sweden, and lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. He is a world renowned photographer, noted for his intimate and personal documentary-style black-and-white photographs. He studied photography under Christer Stromholm in Sweden, 1966-1967. In 1967, he started to photograph the late-night regulars (prostitutes, transvestites, drunks, lovers, drug addicts) in a bar in Hamburg, Germany, named Café Lehmitz, … - Lisel Mueller
Lisel Mueller (b. February 8, 1924) is a prize-winning American poet. She was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1924 and immigrated to America at the age of 15. her father, Fritz Neumann, was a professor at Evansville College. Her mother died in 1953. "Though my family landed in the Midwest, we lived in urban or suburban environments," she once wrote. She and her husband, Paul Mueller (d. 2001) built a home in Lake Forest, Illinois in the 1960s, where she lives today. - Wolfe+585, Senior
Wolfe+585, Senior is a nickname for the man with the longest name ever used by anyone. Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff (the name he used on printed forms) was born in Bergedorf, Germany (near Hamburg) on February 29, 1904 and later emigrated to the United States, settling in Philadelphia. He was photographed for the 1980 "Guinness Book of World Records" in front of a marquee in New York City which displayed his name. - William J. H. Boetcker
William J. H. Boetcker (1873 - 1962) was an American religious leader and influential public speaker. Born in Hamburg, Germany, he was ordained a Presbyterian minister soon after his arrival in the United States as a young adult. He quickly gained attention as an eloquent motivational speaker, and is often regarded today as the forerunner of such contemporary "success coaches" as Anthony Robbins. An outspoken political conservative, Rev. - Harald Ende
Harald Ende (born February 15, 1929, Hamburg, Germany) is a German saxophone, flute and accordion player who was active in the Hamburg music scene from the 1950s to the 1990s. He attended the local music school and was trained as a classical clarinetist. However, upon graduating, he soon found that in order to get steady work, he had to play in a more popular context. In 1958, he joined the NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk, or North German Radio) big band. - Friedrich Engel
Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm Konrad Siegfried Engel (January 3 1909 in an unknown place in Havelland, German Empire - February 4, 2006 in Hamburg) was a German SS officer who was convicted in absentia of 246 murder charges by an Italian military court in 1999 for his role in the 1944 execution of Italian captives in retalition for a partisan attack against German soldiers, and who as a result would earn the nickname "Butcher of Genoa". - Albrecht Becker
Albrecht Becker was a production designer, photographer, and actor, who was imprisoned by the Nazi regime for the charge of homosexuality. Born in Thale am Harz, Germany, at eighteen, Becker fell in love with an older man, with whom he lived for nearly ten years. In 1935 he was arrested on suspicion of violating Paragraph 175 and sentenced to three years in prison at Nürnberg. On his release he joined the German army and served on the Russian front until 1944. - Hennig Brand
Hennig Brand(t) (c. 1630 - c. 1710) was a merchant and amateur alchemist in Hamburg, Germany who discovered phosphorus around 1669. The circumstances of Brand's birth are unknown. Some sources describe his origins as humble and indicate that he had been an apprentice glass-maker as a young man. However, correspondence by his second wife Margaretha states that he was of high social standing. - John Brahm
John Brahm (August 17, 1893 - October 12, 1982) was a film and television director possibly best known today for directing a dozen of the original Twilight Zone episodes including the now classic Time Enough at Last. His films include "The Lodger" (1944), "Hangover Square" (1945), the film noir "The Locket" (1946) with Laraine Day, Robert Mitchum, and Brian Aherne, and the Secret Sharer segment of "Face to Face". - Dolly Haas
Born Dorothy Clara Louise Haas (to Charles Oswald Haas and Margarete Maria Hansen Haas) on April 29, 1910, in Hamburg, Germany to Jewish parents, Dolly Haas was a singer and an entertainer who often appeared on Broadway. Haas was an accomplished actor in German cinema before moving to the United States. Although she didn't appear in many U.S. films, she had a role in the high-profile Alfred Hitchcock film "I Confess" in 1953. She was a naturalized U.S. citizen. - Susanne Albrecht
Susanne Albrecht is a German former terrorist and member of the Red Army Faction. Born to a wealthy family in Hamburg, Germany, Albrecht attended the University of Hamburg studying sociology and psychology. Becoming acquainted with several members of the Red Army Faction, she was a participant in the murder of her godfather and president of the Dresdner Bank Jürgen Ponto on July 30, 1977. - Arnd Klawitter
Arnd Klawitter (b. 26 July 1968, Hamburg, Germany), is a German actor. Klawitter is often chosen to play in historical films because of his slightly old fashioned appearance that can be compared to that of Ralph Fiennes. After his studies at Otto Falkenberg School of Performing Arts in Munich, Arnd Klawitter joined the ensemble of the Munich Kammerspiele in 1994 for a year. From 1995 until 2001 he was engaged at Staatstheater Stuttgart, … - Angela Sommer-Bodenburg
Angela Sommer-Bodenburg (born December 18, 1948 in Reinbek, Germany) is the author of a number of fantasy books for children. Her most most famous contribution to the field of children's fantasy is "The Little Vampire" series which has sold over 10 million copies and has been translated into over 30 languages. Sommer-Bodenburg states that her "vampire is not a bloodthirsty monster, however, … - Henry Shultz
Henry Shultz (1776 - 13 October, 1851) was a mechanical genius and entrepreneur who appeared in the United States at Augusta, GA in 1806. His aggressive and intelligent vision gained the respect and confidence of local citizens, investors, and the legislatures of Georgia and South Carolina. His cantankerous independence led to resentment, bankruptcy, manslaughter, and attempted suicide. - John Lederer
John Lederer, was a nurse and an explorer of the Appalachian Mountains. Lederer was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1644, and studied medicine at the Hamburg Academic Gymnasium. He later migrated to the United States. Lederer arrived in Virginia in 1669. Believing that the riches of California lay just beyond the mountains west of Virginia, Sir William Berkeley, colonial governor of Virginia, … - Gottfried von Bismarck
Gottfried Alexander Leopold Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen was a telecommunications executive best known for his flamboyant wardrobe, debaucherous parties and substance abuse which intertwined with scandals including the death of a university classmate and an accidental death that occurred at his London apartment during an orgy. His own death is currently under investigation. - Wolfgang Lauenstein
Wolfgang Lauenstein (born March 20, 1962 in Hildesheim, Germany) is a German film producer and animator. Lauenstein entered the School of Fine Arts in Hamburg, Germany in 1985. While enrolled at the school Lauenstein, together with his twin brother Christoph, created the animated short film "Balance". It received an Academy Award in the animated short film category in 1990. - Jacob Abendana
Jacob Abendana (1630-September 12, 1695), was hakam of London from 1680 until his death. Jacob was eldest the son of Joseph Abendana and had a brother, Isaac Abendana. Though his family originally lived in Hamburg, Germany, Jacob and his brother were both born in Spain. At some point in time, his family moved to Amsterdam where he studied at the De los Pintos rabbinical academy in Rotterdam. In 1655 he was appointed hakam of that city. - Alan Brahmst
Alan Brahmst (born September 27, 1965 in Hamburg, Germany) is a former field hockey defender from Canada, who earned his first international cap in 1986 for the Men's National Team against the Netherlands in Amstelveen. The resident of Toronto, Ontario created the Planet Field Hockey-website, originally called "Off The Crossbar", together with teammates Hari Kant and Andrew Griffiths. - Martin Ebon
Martin Ebon (May 27, 1917 - February 11, 2006) prolific author of non-fiction books from the paranormal to politics. Martin Ebon was born in Hamburg, Germany on May 27, 1917 and emigrated to the United States in 1938. Ebon worked for twelve years as Administrative Secretary for the Parapsychology Foundation and worked closely with its founder, Eileen J. Garrett. He died on February 11, 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada. - Kelly Rezansoff
Kelly Rezansoff (born August 8, 1977 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a field hockey player from Canada, who won a bronze medal in ringette at the 1995 Canada Winter Games before winning the golden medal in field hockey at the 1997 Canada Summer Games. Rezansoff currently lives in Hamburg, Germany, where she plays for Klipper, a top ranked team in Germany's first division. - Johann Georg Tralles
Johann George Tralles was a German mathematician and physicist. He was born in Hamburg, Germany, and was educated at the University of Göttingen beginning in 1783. He became a professor at the University of Bern in 1785. In 1810 he became a professor of mathematics at the University of Berlin. In 1798 he served as the Swiss representative to the French metric convocation, and was a member of its committee on weights and measures. - Grock
Grock (January 10 1880, Reconvilier, Switzerland - July 14 1959, Imperia, Italy), original name Charles Adrien Wettach, was a Swiss circus and music-hall clown whose blunders with the piano and the violin became proverbial. The son of a watchmaker, he became an amateur acrobat and was allowed to spend each summer with a circus, where he performed first as a tumbler and then as a violinist, pianist, and xylophonist. - Geerd Hendel
Geerd Niels Hendel (January 14, 1903 - March 30, 1998) was a naval architect and native of Germany. He found success in the United States becoming a prominent yacht designer who had a hand in an America's Cup victory in 1937. Born in Hamburg, Hendel apprenticed for two years at Deutsche Werft shipyard in Hamburg before attending the Higher Technical Institute at Bremen where he specialized in naval architecture. - Arthur Kollmann
Arthur Kollmann was a medical researcher who studied fingerprint characteristics, of friction ridges and volar pads, in Germany. In the 1880s (1883, 1885), Arthur Kollmann of Hamburg, Germany, was the first researcher to address the formation of friction ridges on the fetus and the random physical stresses and tensions which may have played a part in their growth. Arthur Kollmann may have been the first researcher to study the development of friction ridges. - Laurelee Kopeck
Laurelee Kopeck (born July 17, 1969 in Nelson, British Columbia) is a former field hockey defender from Canada, who earned a total number of 163 international caps for the Canadian National Team during her career. Nicknamed "Jumbo", she graduated from the University of Victoria (sociology/psychology) in 1996. Kopeck also played club hockey in Hamburg, Germany. - Miyagawa Yashukichi
Miyagawa Yashukichi (c. 1888-) was a Japanese drug trafficker who, while residing in Great Britain as a purchasing agent for a Japanese company, was responsible for one of the largest drug rings in operation at the time. Sending thousands of pounds of heroin to Japan via London, he came under investigation by authorities after customs officials became suspicious of an unusually large order of dolls shipped from Hamburg, Germany to his firm. - Johann Friedrich Krummnow
Johann Friedrich Krummnow (or Krumnow) arrived in Port Adelaide, Australia on January 22, 1839 from Hamburg, Germany on the ship Catharina, having departed from Europe with a group of Lutheran dissidents known as 'Kavel's People.' Krummnow was to establish Australia's first intentional community based on the principles of shared property and fervent prayer. The community, founded in 1852, was named Herrnhut and located near Penshurst in western Victoria. - Eric "red Mouth" Gebhardt
Eric "Red Mouth" Gebhardt is a singer/songwriter from Florence, Alabama, who plays a unique blend of southern music that encompasses delta blues, broken-hearted honky tonk, Stonesy rock 'n' roll, and gospel music. Gebhardt started in a band dubbed The Throwaways who still perform every so often around the north Alabama area. The band's crowning achievement was a one-off release with High Society Records out of Hamburg, Germany. - Anne Karin Roggmann
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