- Richard Kiel
Richard Dawson Kiel (born September 13, 1939, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American actor best known for his role as Jaws in the James Bond movies "The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977) and "Moonraker" (1979) as well as the video game "Everything or Nothing", Mr. Larson in Happy Gilmore and his considerable height. - Henry Kiel
Henry W. Kiel (February 21 1871 - November 26, 1942) was the thirty-sixth Mayor of Saint Louis, serving from 1913 to 1925. Kiel grew up in St. Louis and attended St. Louis Public Schools and the Smith Academy. His family worked in the construction industry, and Kiel learned the bricklayer's trade from his father. He was President of Kiel and Duanes Contracting Company and had a role in constructing a number of prominent public and private buildings in St. Louis, … - Terrence Kiel
Terrence Kiel (born November 24, 1980) is an American football safety, currently a free agent. He attended Texas A&M University. - Friedrich Kiel
Friedrich Kiel was a German composer and music teacher. Writing of the chamber music of Friedrich Kiel, the famous scholar and critic Wilhelm Altmann notes that it was Kiel’s extreme modesty which kept him and his exceptional works from receiving the consideration they deserved. After mentioning Brahms and others, Altmann writes, “He produced a number of chamber works, which. - Peter Kiel
Peter Kiel is a former Australian rules footballer. Played for St Kilda as a utility. Won the club's best and fairest award in his first year, but never quite recaptured the same form. Later in his career he was given tagging roles. - Angelika Volquartz
Angelika Volaquartz is the mayor of Kiel, Germany. She is Kiel's first woman mayor. - Ernst Busch
Ernst Busch (22 January, 1900 - 8 June, 1980) was a singer and actor. He was born in Kiel, Germany, and died in Berlin. Busch first rose to prominence as an interpreter of political songs, particularly those of Kurt Tucholsky, in the Berlin cabaret scene of the 1920s. He starred in the original 1928 production of Bertolt Brecht's "Threepenny Opera", as well as the subsequent 1931 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst. - Hans Geiger
Johannes (Hans) Wilhelm Geiger (September 30, 1882 - September 24, 1945) was a German physicist. He is perhaps best-known as the co-inventor of the Geiger counter, and for the Geiger-Marsden experiment which discovered the atomic nucleus. Geiger was born at Neustadt-an-der-Haardt, Germany. He was one of five children born to Wilhelm Ludwig Geiger, a philosophy professor at the University of Erlangen. - Rudolf Hell
Rudolf Hell was a German inventor. He was born in Eggmühl, Bavaria, Germany. From 1919 to 1923 he studied electrical engineering in Munich. He worked there from 1923 to 1929 as assistant of Prof. Max Dieckmann, with whom he operated a television station at the "Verkehrsausstellung" (lit.: Traffic exhibition) in Munich in 1925. In the same year Hell invented an apparatus called the "Hellschreiber", an early forerunner to the fax. - Ferdinand Tönnies
Ferdinand Tönnies (July 26, 1855, near Oldenswort (Eiderstedt, Northern Frisia) - April 9, 1936, Kiel, Germany) was a German sociologist. He was a major contributor to sociological theory and field studies, as well as bringing Thomas Hobbes back on the agenda, by publishing his manuscripts. He is best known for his distinction between two types of social groups - Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft. - Angelika Beer
Angelika Beer (born 24 May 1957 in Kiel) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Alliance '90/The Greens, part of the European Greens. - Bruno Tesch
Bruno Guido Camillo Tesch (22 April 1913 in Kiel - 1 August 1933 in Altona, Hamburg) was a German antifascist. In 1933, he was found guilty of murder and put to death in connection with the Altona Blood Sunday ("Altonaer Blutsonntag") incident, an SA march on 17 July 1932 that turned violent and led to 18 people being shot dead. The conviction was overturned in November 1992. - Anders Dahl
Anders (Andreas) Dahl was a Swedish botanist and student of Carolus Linnaeus. The dahlia flower is named after him. In 1770, Dahl entered Uppsala University as a freshman (Carolus Linnaeus died in 1778). After receiving the bachelor's degree, he worked in Gothenburg as curator of the private natural museum and botanic garden of Claes Alströmer. In 1786 he received a medical doctor's degree at the University of Kiel, Germany. - 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. - Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
Carl Friedrich Freiherr (Baron) von Weizsäcker was a German physicist and philosopher. He was the longest-living member of the research team which tried, and failed, to develop a nuclear weapon in Germany during the Second World War. Weizsäcker was born in Kiel, Germany, the son of the German diplomat Ernst von Weizsäcker. He was the elder brother of the former German President Richard von Weizsäcker, … - Carl Zuckmayer
Carl Zuckmayer (December 27, 1896 - January 18, 1977) was a German writer and playwright. Born in Nackenheim in Rheinhessen, he was four years old when his family moved to Mainz. With the outbreak of World War I, he (like many other high school students) finished school with a facilitated "emergency"-"Abitur" and volunteered for the Army. During the war he served on the western front. - Gerhard Domagk
Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk (October 30, 1895 - April 24, 1964) was a German pathologist and bacteriologist and Nobel laureate. Domagk was born in Lagow, Brandenburg, the son of a school headmaster. Until he was 14 he attended school in Sommerfeld, Brandenburg (now Lubsko, Poland). Domagk studied medicine at the University of Kiel, but volunteered to serve as a soldier in World War I, where he was wounded in December 1914, working the rest of the war as medic. - Detlev von Liliencron
Detlev von Liliencron (June 3, 1844 - July, 1909), German lyric poet and novelist, was born at Kiel. He entered the army and took part in the campaigns of 1866 and 1870-71, in both of which he was wounded. He retired with the rank of captain and spent some time in America, afterwards settling at Kellinghusen in Holstein, where he remained until 1887. After some time at Munich, he settled in Altona and later at Altrahlstedt, near Hamburg. - Ferris Mc
Sascha Reimann (born October 2, 1973 in Neuwied), alias Ferris MC, is a German musician, rapper and actor, known for his offensive language and antisocial attitude. - Tomma Abts
Tomma Abts (born 1967) is a German artist and abstract painter living and working in London, England. Tomma Abts was born in Kiel, Germany. She is the winner of the 2006 Turner Prize, having been selected for her solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland, and greengrassi, London. - Alfred von Tirpitz
Alfred von Tirpitz was a German Admiral, Secretary of State of the Imperial Naval Office, the powerful administrative branch of the Kaiserliche Marine from 1897 until 1916. Born in Küstrin in Brandenburg, the son of a senior civil servant, he grew up in Frankfurt (Oder). He joined the Prussian Navy in 1865 and attended Kiel Naval School, gaining his commission in 1869. Upon the creation of the German fleet in 1871 he was part of a torpedo squadron. - Marina Lewycka
Marina Lewycka (born 1946, Kiel) is a British writer of Ukrainian origin long resident in Sheffield, England. Lewycka was born in a refugee camp in Kiel, Germany after World War II. Her family then moved to England where she now lives. She was educated at Keele University and is now a lecturer in media studies at Sheffield Hallam University. - Heinrich Hansen
Heinrich Hansen, a Lutheran theologian, father of the Lutheran High Church movement in Germany. Born 13 October 1861 in Klockries near Lindholm (Nordfriesland) as a son of a teacher. Died 17 April 1940 in Breklum (Husum district). Hansen studied in Kiel and Erlangen theology, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and in particular Old Testament under August Klostermann and worked since 1887 as a pastor in Schleswig-Holstein: in Reinfeld, Lindholm, on the island Pellworm, … - Moritz Schlick
Moritz Schlick was a German philosopher and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle. Schlick was born in Berlin to a wealthy family. He studied physics at Heidelberg, Lausanne, and, ultimately, the University of Berlin under Max Planck. In 1904, he completed his dissertation essay, "Über die Reflexion des Lichts in einer inhomogenen Schicht" ("On the Reflection of Light in a Non-Homogeneous Medium"). - Francisco Copado
Francisco Copado (born July 19 1974 in Kiel) is a professional Spanish football player who currently plays for TSG Hoffenheim. - Claus Harms
Claus Harms (May 25, 1778 - February 1, 1855), was a German clergyman and theologian. He was born at Fahrstedt in Schleswig-Holstein, and in his youth worked in his father's mill. At the University of Kiel he repudiated the prevailing rationalism and under the influence of Schleiermacher became a fervent Evangelical preacher, first at Lunden (1806), and then at Kiel (1816). His trenchant style made him very popular, and he did great service for his cause especially in 1817, … - Judith Malina
Judith Malina (born June 4, 1926) is an American theater and film actor, writer, and director, who is one of the founders and leaders of The Living Theatre. Malina was born in Kiel, Germany, the daughter of a rabbi. In 1928 she moved with her father to New York City, where she has lived with few interruptions ever since. Interested in acting from an early age, she began attending the New School for Social Research in 1945 to study theatre under Erwin Piscator. - Julius Stinde
Julius Stinde, German author, was born at Kirchnüchel near Eutin, the son of a clergyman. Having attended the gymnasium at Eutin, he was apprenticed in 1858 to a chemist in Lubeck. He soon tired of the shop, and went to study chemistry at Kiel and Giessen where he proceeded to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. In 1863 Stinde received an appointment as consulting chemist to a large industrial undertaking in Hamburg; but, … - Paul Deussen
Paul Deussen (January 7, 1845, Oberdreis-July 6, 1919, Kiel) was a German Orientalist and Sanskrit scholar. He was influenced by Arthur Schopenhauer. He was also a friend of Friedrich Nietzsche and Swami Vivekananda. In 1911, Paul Deussen founded the Schopenhauer Society ("Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft"). He was the first editor, in 1912, of the scholarly journal Schopenhauer Yearbook ("Schopenhauer-Jahrbuch"). Deussen served in this position until his death. - Dietrich Grönemeyer
Dietrich H. W. Grönemeyer is a German professor of medicine and one of the inventors of Microtherapy. He grew up in Bochum with his two brothers. One of them, Herbert Grönemeyer, is a popular musician. After studying sinology and romance languages in Bochum and medicine in Kiel Grönemeyer graduated in 1978. In 1982 he received a Ph.D., and at the Witten/Herdecke University in 1990 he finished his habilitation, … - Otto Jahn
Otto Jahn, was a German archaeologist, philologist, and writer on art and music. He was born at Kiel. After the completion of his university studies at Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel, the University of Leipzig and Humboldt University, Berlin, he travelled for three years in France and Italy; in 1839 he became "Privatdozent" at Kiel, and in 1842 professor-extraordinary of archaeology and philology at Greifswald (ordinary professor 1845). - Gotthilf Hempel
Gotthilf Hempel (b. March 8, 1929) is a retired German marine biologist and oceanographer. Hempel studied biology and geology at the universities of Mainz and Heidelberg. In 1952 he gained his Ph.D. with a study on the energetics of grasshopper jumps from Heidelberg University. He then went on to work as a scientific assistant at various research institutes in Wilhelmshaven, Helgoland, and Hamburg, where he habilitated with a thesis on the ecology of fry in 1963. - Heike Henkel
Heike Henkel (born Heike Redetzky on May 5, 1964 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein) is a German former athlete competing in high jump. She won the high jump gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. - Otto Frank
Otto Frank (June 21, 1865 - 1944) was a German physiologist. He was educated at Munich, Kiel, Heidelberg, Glasgow and Strassburg. He is best known, along with Ernest Starling, for the Frank-Starling law of the heart. The law states that "Within physiological limits, the force of contraction is directly proportional to the initial length of the muscle fiber". - Wilhelm Jensen
Wilhelm Jensen was a German writer. He was born at Heiligenhafen in Holstein, the son of a local Danish magistrate, who came of old patricial Frisian stock. After attending the classical schools at Kiel and Lübeck, Jensen studied medicine at the universities of Kiel, Würzburg and Breslau. He, however, abandoned the medical profession for that of letters, and after engaging for some years in individual private study proceeded to Munich, … - Friedrich von Esmarch
Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch (January 9, 1823 - February 23, 1908) was a German surgeon. He developed the Esmarch bandage and founded the "Deutscher Samariter-Verein", the predecessor of the "Deutscher Samariter-Bund". - Heinz Reincke
Heinz Reincke (b. May 28, 1925 in Kiel, Germany) is a German actor. Currently he lives in Vienna, Austria. - Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann
Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann (May 13, 1785 - December 5, 1860) was a German historian and politician. He came of an old Hanseatic family of Wismar, which then belonged to Sweden. His father, who was burgomaster of the town, intended him to study theology, but Friedrich preferred classical philology, which he studied from 1802 to 1806 at the University of Copenhagen, University of Halle, and then again at Copenhagen. - Hubertus von Amelunxen
Hubertus von Amelunxen is a professor at the Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal, and the European Graduate School, Saas-Fee. He studied Roman, German, and Art History at Marburg and Paris and finished his Ph.D. in Roman Studies at the University of Mannheim. Amelunxen authored and published several books focusing on the history and theory of photography. Hubertus von Amelunxen lectured in Basel and became a Visiting Professor at the University of California, … - Wilhelm Griesinger
Wilhelm Griesinger was a German neurologist and psychiatrist. He studied under Johann Lukas Schönlein at the University of Zurich and physiologist François Magendie in Paris. After receiving his doctorate he practiced medicine in several locations, including Württemberg, Stuttgart, Tübingen and Kiel. In the early 1850s he went to Egypt to head the medical school in Cairo, and also became personal physician to Abbas I. During his stay in Egypt, …
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