- Jesse Owens
James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens was an American track and field athlete. He participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany where he achieved international fame by winning four gold medals; one each in the 100 meters, the 200 meters, the long jump, and as part of the 4x100 meter relay team. - To Rococo Rot
To Rococo Rot is a mostly post-rock trio from Berlin, Germany. Composed of bassist Stefan Schneider (also of Dusseldorf group Kreidler) and brothers Robert (guitar, electronics) and Ronald Lippok (drums, effects). Ronald Lippok has also gained praise for his work in Tarwater. The bands name is a palindrome as it can be spelled the same both forwards and backwards. - Sido
"Sido" is the stage name of the Berlin rapper Paul Würdig ,an artist whose work is released by the German record label, Aggro Berlin. Sido distinguishes himself by using provocative and aggressive lyrics, and is often seen wearing a silver skull mask. The name "Sido" is an abbreviation that is spelled as "super-intelligentes Drogenopfer" (super intelligent drug victim). However, this is the new interpretation, or backronym, … - Jia Tian
Jia Tian (born February 9, 1981 in Tian Jin) is a female beach volleyball player from PR China, who won the bronze medal in the women's team competition at the 2005 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Berlin, Germany, partnering Fei Wang. She represented her native country at the 2000 and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. - Marcio Araujo
Marcio Henrique Barroso Araujo is a beach volleyball player from Brazil, who won the gold medal in the men's beach team competition at the 2005 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Berlin, Germany, partnering Fabio Luiz Magalhães. Araujo represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, after having claimed the bronze medal alongside Benjamin Insfran at the 2003 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. - Juliana Felisberta
Juliana Felisberta Silva is a female beach volleyball player from Brazil, who won the silver medal in the women's beach team competition at the 2005 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Berlin, Germany, partnering Larissa França. - Arthur Abraham
Arthur Abraham (born Avetik Abrahamyan in Yerevan, Armenia) is a professional boxer and the current IBF champion of the middleweight division. He won the vacant title on December 10, 2005, in Leipzig, Germany, beating Kingsley Ikeke, via 5-round knock-out. On September 23, 2006, Abraham won a decision against Edison Miranda despite having his jaw broken in two places. - Harald Welte
Harald Welte (born in 1979) is a programmer, living in Berlin, Germany. Within the free software community, Welte is well known as a hacker of the Linux kernel and for his activities in enforcing the GNU General Public License (GPL), the license that governs the use of much of free software. Welte is also involved in Openmoko, a Linux version for low-cost, high-volume phones such as the Neo1973. - Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols (born November 6 1931) is an American Emmy Award, Academy Award, Grammy Award, and Tony Award-winning stage and film director, writer, and producer. Born Michael Igor Peschkowsky in Berlin, Germany, he and his German-Russian Jewish family moved to the United States to flee the Nazis in 1939. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1944. While attending the University of Chicago in the 1950s, … - Gudrun Gut
Gudrun Gut is an electronic artist from Germany. She was an early member of experimental act Einstürzende Neubauten and a founding member of Mania D, Malaria! and Matador. She is the head of labels Monika Enterprise and Moabit Musik. She co-presents the Oceanclub weekly radio program in Berlin with Thomas Fehlmann. Her debut solo album, I Put a Record On was released on February 5, 2007. - Meshell Ndegeocello
Meshell Ndegeocello is an American singer, rapper, bassist, and multi-instrumentalist. She has been hailed in the music press as a redeemer of soul music. Her music incorporates funk, soul, hip-hop, reggae, R&B, rock and jazz. She has been nominated for 9 Grammy Awards. - Fei Wang
Fei Wang is a female beach volleyball player from PR China, who won the bronze medal in the women's beach team competition at the 2005 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Berlin, Germany, partnering Jia Tian. She represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. After playing in only one event each in the 1998, 1999 and 2000 seasons, Fei Wang started competing full-time on the FIVB World Tour with Jia Tian in 2001. - Planningtorock
Planningtorock is a musician/video artist from Bolton, England, residing in Berlin, Germany. Founder of Rostron Records. She has been compared to The Residents and has been described as the "love child of Kate Bush and Ozzy Ozbourne". Now under the Chicks on Speed label, she released her first album, Have it All, in 2006, to generally positive reviews. - Julius Brink
Julius Brink is a beach volleyball player from Germany, who won the bronze medal in the men's beach team competition at the 2005 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Berlin, Germany, partnering Kjell Schneider. - Sascha Heyer
Sascha Heyer is a beach volleyball player from Switzerland, who won the silver medal in the men's beach team competition at the 2005 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Berlin, Germany, partnering Paul Laciga. - Jürgen Prochnow
Jürgen Prochnow (born June 10, 1941) is a German actor. His most well-known roles internationally have been as submarine Captain Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock in "Das Boot" (1981), Duke Leto Atreides in "Dune" and the villain Maxwell Dent in "Beverly Hills Cop II". Prochnow was born in Berlin, Germany; he has an older brother, Dieter. He studied acting at the Folkwang Academy in Essen. Thanks to his on-screen intensity and his fluency in English, … - Benjamin Insfran
Benjamin Insfran (born April 14, 1972 in Porto Murtinho, Mato Grosso do Sul) is a beach volleyball player from Brazil, who won the bronze medal in the men's beach team competition at the 2003 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Berlin, Germany, partnering Marcio Araujo. He represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. - Fabio Luiz Magalhães
Fábio Luiz Magalhães is a beach volleyball player from Brazil, who won the gold medal in the men's beach team competition at the 2005 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Berlin, Germany, partnering Marcio Araujo. - Paul Laciga
Paul Laciga (born November 24, 1970 in Bern) is a beach volleyball player from Switzerland, who won the silver medal in the men's beach team competition at the 2005 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Berlin, Germany, partnering Sascha Heyer. He represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000 (Sydney, Australia). - Kjell Schneider
Kjell Schneider (born October 4, 1976 in Kiel) is a beach volleyball player from Germany, who won the bronze medal in the men's beach team competition at the 2005 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Berlin, Germany, partnering Julius Brink. - Jack Wilson
Jack Wilson (born January 17, 1918) won a silver medal in boxing for the U.S. during the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. - Yang Yu
Yang Yu (born February 6, 1985 in Hangzhou) is an Olympic medal-winning swimmer from the People's Republic of China. Yu became part of the Chinese national swimming team in 1999. - Heinz Becker
Heinz Reinhard Becker (August 26, 1915 - November 11, 1991) was a Major League Baseball first baseman who played for the Chicago Cubs (1943, 1945-46) and Cleveland Indians (1946-1947). Born in Berlin, Germany, he was one of only 28 German-born players in MLB history. Becker may be most well-known for being a key reserve on the last Chicago Cubs team to win a National League pennant (1945). He got into 67 games and hit .286 with 2 home runs, 27 runs batted in, … - Sasse
Sasse is the stage name used by Finnish electronic music producer Klas Lindblad. Based out of Berlin, Germany since 1999, Lindblad has also recorded under the monikers Freestyle Man, Cocamoto Exclusivo, Morris Brown, Sassomatic, Thirsty Monk and Winston Fletcher. He was also a member of electronic act Mr. Negative. Sasse's base-genre falls into the IDM category but also incorporates the styles of house music, electro, … - Kurt Gerron
Kurt Gerron (May 11, 1897 - November 15, 1944) was a German Jewish actor and film director during the Nazi period. Born Kurt Gerson to Jewish parents in Berlin, Germany, Gerron initially studied medicine but became a stage actor in 1920. He appeared in such films as "The Blue Angel" opposite Marlene Dietrich, and on stage originated the role of Brown (the chief of police in London) in the premiere production of "Die Dreigroschenoper" in Berlin in 1928. - Gundula Janowitz
Gundula Janowitz (born August 2, 1937 in Berlin, Germany) was one of the greatest lyric sopranos in modern history, renowned for her magnificent tone -- often described as "creamy" or "silvery" -- and her vocal control at the top of her range. She studied at the Graz Conservatory and, in 1960, made her debut in Vienna. Popularity came quickly for her. She was especially admired, and often cast, by Herbert von Karajan. - Mocky
Mocky is a pop music perfomer (born Dominic Salole) in Saskatchewan who later moved to Ottawa and then Toronto, Canada. He later moved to Berlin, Germany. His father is of Somali descent but born in present-day Yemen, his mother is from England. He has been a member of the groups The Puppetmastaz, The Shit, Son, the freeway band, and the roustabouts. He also does work with Peaches, Feist and Gonzales, Taylor Savvy, Kevin Blechdom and Jamie Lidell. - Werner Krauss
Werner Krauss was a German film actor. Krauss was born in Gestungshausen, Germany, the son of a clergyman. He ran away from home and joined a travelling theatre company. There, he met the noted theatre director Max Reinhardt. Reinhardt took Krauss to Berlin where he became a film actor in 1916. Krauss became a worldwide sensation for his demonic portrayal of the titular character in Robert Wiene's "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari". - Jörg Buttgereit
Jörg Buttgereit is a German writer/director known for his controversial films. He was born in Berlin, Germany. He is maybe best known for his 1987 film Nekromantik, which was described by John Waters as the “first erotic film for necrophiliacs”. - Fritz Feld
Fritz Feld was a film actor. Born Fritz Feilchenfeld in Berlin, Germany, Feld began his acting career in his native Germany in 1917, and quickly developed a characterisation that he played in virtually all of his subsequent 140 films. He often played the part of a maître d', but also a variety of artistocrats and eccentrics. - Rex Reason
Rex Reason (born in Berlin, Germany on November 30, 1928) is an American actor. Reason was born in Berlin while his parents were there on business. Reason appeared in several films and television shows throughout the 1950s and 1960s. He started his career at Universal Studios under the name "Bart Roberts", and is perhaps best remembered for his role as a scientist Cal Meachum in the 1950's sci-fi cult classic "This Island Earth". - Henry Koster
Henry Koster (May 1, 1905 - September 21, 1988) was born Herman Kosterlitz in Berlin, Germany. He became a film director and later moved to Hollywood. Koster's father, a salesman, left home when Henry was a young man. Koster still managed to finish gymnasium (high school) in Berlin while working as short story writer and cartoonist. Koster was introduced to cinema about 1910 when his uncle opened a very early movie theater in Berlin. - Bernhard Gál
Bernhard Gál is an Austrian composer and artist. - Marty Grosz
Marty Oliver Grosz (born February 28, 1930) is a German jazz guitarist, banjoist, vocalist and composer born in Berlin, Germany, perhaps most notable for his work with Bob Wilber, performing with and doing arrangements for him. Grosz has also been involved in projects involving Kenny Davern, Dick Sudhalter and Keith Ingham. Marty Grosz is the son of the famed painter George Grosz who was associated with the Dada art movement. - Renate Müller
Renate Müller was a German actress. Born in Munich, Germany, Müller entered films in the late 1920s in Berlin and quickly became popular. A blue-eyed blonde, she was considered to be one of the great beauties of her day and along with Marlene Dietrich was seen to embody fashionable Berlin society. She starred in more than 20 German films, including "Viktor und Viktoria" (1933), one of her biggest successes, … - Heinrich Tessenow
Heinrich Tessenow (April 7, 1876 in Rostock, Germany - November 1, 1950 in Berlin, Germany) was a German architect, professor, and urban planner active in the Weimar era. - Vera Zorina
Vera Zorina (born Eva Brigitta Hartwig on January 2, 1917 in Berlin, Germany) was a ballet dancer and choreographer in Europe and the United States. She died on April 9, 2003 in Santa Fe, New Mexico of natural causes at the age of 86. She was George Balanchine's second wife; they were married from 1938 to 1946. She was also married to Goddard Lieberson from 1946 until his death on May 29, 1977, by whom she had 2 sons: Peter Lieberson, a composer, … - Elena Bashkirova
Elena Dmitrievna Bashkirova is a Russian-born pianist and musical director. She was born in Moscow, Russia, the daughter of pianist and teacher Dimitri Bashkirov. She studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. She is the founder of the Metropolis Ensemble in Berlin, Germany and Jerusalem International Festival of Chamber Music (also JIFCM's artistic director) in 1998. In 1988 she became the second wife of the Argentine-Israeli pianist Daniel Barenboim. - Marjorie Gestring
Marjorie Gestring was a competitive springboard diver from the United States who won the gold medal in 3-meter springboard diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany at the age of 13 years, 268 days—the youngest person ever to win an Olympic gold medal. With the cancellation of the Olympics in 1940 and 1944 due to World War II, Gestring did not get a chance to defend her title, and her comeback attempt for the 1948 Summer Olympics fell short. - John Charles Fields
John Charles Fields (May 14, 1863 - August 9, 1932) was a Canadian mathematician and the founder of the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics. First awarded in 1936, the medal has been awarded since 1950 every four years at the International Congress of Mathematicians to two to four recipients under the age of 40. Born in Hamilton, Ontario to a leather shop owner, …
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