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(Topics List)A. Edward Nussbaum - A. Edward Nussbaum was a theoretical mathematician and professor of mathematics at Washington University in Saint Louis for nearly 40 years.
A. H. Heisey - Augustus Henry Heisey was an American industrialist, soldier, and glass maker.
Abraham Cohn - Abraham Cohn was an American Civil War Union Army Sergeant Major and recipient to the highest military decoration for valor in combat — the Medal of Honor — for having distinguished himself at ...
Abraham Jacobi - Abraham Jacobi was a pioneer of pediatrics, opening the first children's clinic in the United States.
Abraham Robinson - Abraham Robinson was a mathematician who is most widely known for development of non-standard analysis, a mathematically rigorous system whereby infinitesimal and infinite numbers were incorpora...
Adalbert J. Volck - Adalbert J. Volck was a dentist, political cartoonist, and caricaturist born in Bavaria.
Adolf Busemann - Adolph Busemann was a German aerospace engineer and influential early pioneer in aerodynamics, specialising in supersonic airflows.
Adolf Grünbaum - Adolf Grünbaum is a philosopher of science and a critic of psychoanalysis and Karl Popper.
Adolf Neuendorff - Adolf Heinrich Anton Magnus Neuendorff, also known as Adolph Neuendorff was a German-American composer, violinist, pianist and conductor, stage director and theater manager.
Adolf Strodtmann - Adolf Heinrich Strodtmann, German poet, translator and literary historian, had a peripatetic youth, learning the classics in four gymnasiums.
Adolf Thiel - Adolf Thiel was an Austrian-born German expert in guided missiles during World War II, and later worked for the United States Army and TRW.
Adolph Aschoff - Adolph Aschoff was a homesteader in the U.S. state of Oregon in the late 19th century.
Adolph Coors - Adolph Herman Joseph Coors, Sr. was a brewer who started the Adolph Coors Company in Golden, Colorado in 1873.
Adolph Ernst Kroeger - Adolph Ernst Kroeger was a translator and author.
Adolph Fischer - Adolph Fischer was an anarchist and labor union activist tried and executed after the Haymarket Riot.
Adolph Germer - Adoph Germer is best remembered as National Executive Secretary of the Socialist Party of America from 1916 to 1919.
Adolph Lewisohn - Adolph Lewisohn was a German-Jewish immigrant born in Hamburg who became a New York City investment banker, mining magnate, and philanthropist.
Adolph Marx (bishop) - Adolph Marx was the first Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brownsville, in Brownsville, Texas.
Adolph Sutro - Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro was the 24th mayor of San Francisco, California, and second Jewish mayor, serving in that office from 1894 until 1896.
Adolph von Steinwehr - Baron Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich von Steinwehr was a German-Brunswick army officer who emigrated to the United States, became a geographer, cartographer, and author, and served as a Union g...
Adolphus Busch - Colonel Adolphus Busch was the German-born co-founder of Anheuser-Busch with his father-in-law, Eberhard Anheuser.
Adolphus Buschbeck - Adolphus Buschbeck commanded the 27th Pennsylvania in the Army of the Potomac and a brigade in that army and later in the Army of the Cumberland during the American Civil War.
Al Shean - Al Shean was the stage name for comedian Abraham Elieser Adolph Schönberg, although other sources give his birth name as various Adolf Schönberg, Albert Schönberg, or Alfred Schönberg.
Albert Beyer - Albert Beyer was a United States Navy Coxswain awarded the Medal of Honor for actions during the Battle of Cienfuegos during the Spanish-American War.
Albert Bierstadt - Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his large landscapes of the American West.
Albert Einstein - Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist who is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists of all time.
Albert Kuner - Georg Albrecht Ferdinand Kuner The engraver of California's State Seal, which was designed by Robert S. Garnett.
Albert O. Hirschman - Albert Otto Hirschman is an influential economist who has authored several books on political economy and political ideology.
Albert Weiblen - Albert Weiblen was a German-born American architect and sculptor.
Albrecht Goetze - Albrecht Goetze was a German-American Hittitologist.
Alex Skotarek - Alexander “Alex” Skotarek is a former German American soccer defender.
Alexander Lippisch - Alexander Martin Lippisch was a German pioneer of aerodynamics.
Alexander Marx - Alexander Marx was an American historian, bibliographer and librarian.
Alfred Lion - Alfred Lion was a Jewish German-born American record executive who co-founded Blue Note Records in 1939 Blue Note recorded many of the biggest names in jazz throughout the 1940s, 50s, and 60s.
Alfred Wagenknecht - Alfred Wagenknecht was an American Marxist politician who played a critical role in the establishment of the American Communist Party in 1919.
Alfred Wolf - Alfred Wolf was a United States Navy sailor who distinguished himself in combat during World War II and later died in action.
Andrew Dasburg - Andrew Michael Dasburg was an American modernist painter and "one of America's leading early exponents of cubism".
André Previn - André George Previn KBE is a German-born American pianist, conductor, and composer.
Andy Bechtolsheim - Andreas von Bechtolsheim is a computer scientist who co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982, along with Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy, and Scott McNealy.
Anna Ottendorfer - Anna Ottendorfer was a journalist and philanthropist.
Anthony Eickhoff - Gerhard Anton Eickhoff was a German-American journalist, editor, author, lawyer, United States Congress representative of New York City, United States Treasury auditor and New York City Fire Com...
Anthony Maas - Anthony John Maas was a noted catholic exegete, or writer of critical interpretation of scripture.
Antje Duvekot - Antje Duvekot is a singer-songwriter and guitarist based in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Armin D. Lehmann - Armin Dieter Lehmann, was a Hitler Youth courier in the Führerbunker towards the end of German dictator Adolf Hitler's life, leaving shortly after Hitler committed suicide.
Arnold Genthe - Arnold Genthe was a photographer, best known for his photos of San Francisco's Chinatown, the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and his portraits of noted persons, from politicians and socialites to...
Arthur Louis Breslich - Arthur Louis Breslich was a professor, university administrator, and a German Methodist theologian.
Arthur Oncken Lovejoy - Arthur Oncken Lovejoy was an influential American philosopher and intellectual historian, who founded the field known as the history of ideas.
Arthur R. von Hippel - Arthur Robert von Hippel was a German American materials scientist and physicist.
Arthur Rudolph - Arthur Louis Hugo Rudolph was a German rocket engineer who helped develop and produce the V-2 rocket.
August Bloedner - Christian Friedrich August Bloedner was a German-born carpenter from Cincinnati, Ohio, until his enlistment in the 32nd Regiment Indiana Infantry in August 1861.
August Duesenberg - August Samuel Duesenberg was a German-American automobile pioneer manufacturer.
August Kautz - August Valentine Kautz was a German-American soldier and Union Army cavalry officer during the American Civil War.
August Schoenborn - August Schoenborn was an German American architect.
August Schrader - August Schrader was an enterprising German-American immigrant who set up a shop dealing in rubber products in Manhattan, New York CIty, USA. His original shop was located at 115 John Street.
August Siemering - August Siemering, a notable German Texan, was a writer and political leader, was born in Brandenburg, Germany, on February 8, 1828.
August Spies - August Vincent Theodore Spies was an anarchist labor activist who was found guilty of conspiracy and hanged following a bomb attack on police at the Haymarket Riot.
August Uihlein - August Uihlein was a German-American brewer and business executive.
August Willich - August Willich, born Johann August Ernst von Willich, was a military officer in the Prussian Army and a leading early proponent of Communism in Germany.
Augustus Maria Bernard Anthony John Gebhard Toebbe - Augustus Maria Bernard Anthony John Gebhard Toebbe was the second bishop of Covington, Kentucky.
Axel T. Brunger - Axel T. Brunger is a German American biophysicist and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, and Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University, and an Howard Hughes Medical...
Bailey Gatzert - Bailey Gatzert was the eighth mayor of Seattle, Washington, serving from 1875 to 1876.
Barbara A. Schaal - Barbara Anna Schaal American scientist, evolutionary biologist, is a professor at Washington University in St. Louis and vice president of the National Academy of Sciences.
Barbara Bouchet - Barbara Bouchet, is an actress and entrepreneur currently resident in Rome, Italy.
Barney Dreyfuss - Bernhard "Barney" Dreyfuss was an executive in Major League Baseball who owned the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise from 1900 to 1932.
Ben Neumann - Ben Neumann is an American entrepreneur, investor, film producer and mixed martial artist, best known for his founding of early Internet hosting service firm Internet Communication Icom.com, and...
Bernard Adolph Schriever - General Bernard Adolph Schriever was born in Bremen, Germany, and after immigrating to the United States, played a major role in the U.S. Air Force programs for space and ballistic missile research.
Bernd Heinrich - Bernd Heinrich, Ph.D, is a professor emeritus in the biology department at the University of Vermont and is the author of a number of books about nature writing, behavior, biology, ecology, and ...
Bernhard Fernow - Bernhard Eduard Fernow was the third chief of the USDA's Division of Forestry of the United States from 1886 – 1898, preceding Gifford Pinchot in that position, and laying much of the grou...
Bernhard M. Jacobsen - Bernhard Martin Jacobsen was a Democratic U.S. Representative from Iowa who served nearly three full terms during the Great Depression.
Bernhard Müller - Bernhard Müller, known as Count de Leon was a German Christian mystic and alchemist of uncertain origins.
Bernhard Tessmann - Bernhard Tessmann was a German expert in guided missiles during World War II, and later worked for the United States Army and NASA.
Bernhard Witkop - Bernhard Witkop is a German-born American organic chemist.
Berta Scharrer - Berta Vogel Scharrer was a German-born American scientist who helped to found the scientific discipline now known as neuroendocrinology.
Bill Kuehne - William J. Kuehne b. William J. Knelme was an infielder in Major League Baseball who played from 1883 through 1892 for the Columbus Buckeyes, Pittsburgh Alleghenys, Pittsburgh Burghers, Co...
Bill Zimmerman - William Frederick Zimmerman was born on January 20, 1887 in Kengen, Germany.
Boris Kodjoe - Boris Frederic Cecil Tay-Natey Ofuatey-Kodjoe is an Austrian-American actor.
Bruno Albert Forsterer - Bruno Albert Forsterer was a U.S. Marine Sergeant who received the Medal of Honor for actions during the Philippine American War for "distinguished conduct in the presence of the enemy at Samoa,...
Bruno Hauptmann - Bruno Richard Hauptmann was a German carpenter sentenced to death and executed for the abduction and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of famous pilots Charles Lindb...
Bun Troy - Robert Gustave "Bun" Troy was a German-born Major League Baseball pitcher who was killed in action while serving with the U.S. Army during World War I at Petit Majouym, France.
C. F. W. Walther - Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther was the first President of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod and its most influential theologian.
Camilla Cobb - Camilla Cobb was the founder of the first kindergarten in Utah.
Carl A. Schenck - Carl Alwyn Schenck was a pioneering forestry educator in North America, known for his contributions as the forester for George W. Vanderbilt's Biltmore Estate, and the founder of the Biltmore Fo...
Carl Heinrich Schnauffer - Carl Heinrich Schnauffer was a poet, soldier and editor.
Carl Joachim Friedrich - Carl Joachim Friedrich was a German-American professor and political theorist.
Carl Laemmle - Carl Laemmle, born in Laupheim, Württemberg, Germany, was a pioneer in American film making and a founder of one of the original major Hollywood movie studios - Universal.
Carl Schurz - Carl Schurz was a German revolutionary, American statesman and reformer, and Union Army General in the American Civil War.
Carl Spitz - Carl Spitz was a Hollywood dog trainer, most famous for owning and training Toto, the dog from the movie The Wizard of Oz. Toto was played by Spitz's own Cairn Terrier named Terry.
Carl Tanzler - Carl Tanzler or sometimes Count Carl von Cosel was a German-born radiologist at the United States Marine Hospital in Key West, Florida who developed a morbid obsession for a young Cuban-Am...
Carl W. Buehner - Carl William Buehner was a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1952 to 1961 and was the Republican Party candidate for governor of Utah in the 1968 election.
Carl Zerrahn - Carl Zerrahn was a German-born American flautist and conductor.
Carl-Alexander von Volborth - Carl-Alexander von Volborth was a German-born American heraldic artist and heraldist.
Caspar Henry Borgess - Caspar Henry Borgess was the second Roman Catholic bishop of Detroit, Michigan.
Charles Anthony Goessmann - Charles Anthony Goessmann was a Massachusetts agricultural and food chemist.
Charles Bendire - Major Charles Emil Bendire was a United States Army soldier and noted ornithologist.
Charles Christian Nahl - Carl Christian Heinrich Nahl, later known as Charles Nahl, Karl Nahl, Charles Christian Nahl or Charles C. Nahl, was a German-born painter who is called California's first significant artist.
Charles Conrad Schneider - Charles Conrad Schneider, original name: Carl Conrad Schneider, often referred to as C. C. Schneider, was an American civil engineer and bridge designer.
Charles F. Buck - Charles Francis Buck was a U.S. Representative from Louisiana.
Charles Fey - Charles Fey was a San Francisco mechanic who is best-known for inventing the slot machine.
Charles Follen - Charles Follen was a German poet and patriot, who later moved to the United States and became the first professor of German at Harvard University, a Unitarian minister, and a radical abolitionist.
Charles L. Matthies - Charles Leopold Matthies was a Prussian soldier, revolutionary and Union Army officer during the American Civil War, rising to the rank of brigadier general.
Charles Mohr - Charles Theodor Mohr was a pharmacist and botanist of German descent who lived and worked in the Americas.
Charles Nordhoff (journalist) - Charles Nordhoff was an American journalist, descriptive and miscellaneous writer.
Charles Pfizer - Charles Pfizer was a German chemist who immigrated to the United States in the early 1840s and founded the Pfizer Inc. pharmaceutical company in 1849 as Charles Pfizer & Co. He remained at its h...
Charles Proteus Steinmetz - Charles Proteus Steinmetz was a German-American mathematician and electrical engineer.
Charles Windolph - Charles Windolph was a soldier in Company H of the George Armstrong Custer's Seventh U. S. Cavalry who survived the Battle of the Little Bighorn and was the recipient of the Medal of Honor.
Charlotte Benkner - Charlotte Benkner née Enterlein was a German American supercentenarian and the oldest verified living person from November 2003 until sufficient documentation was found to validate the age of Ra...
Charlotte Riefenstahl - Charlotte Riefenstahl was a German physicist.
Chris Strachwitz - Christian Alexander Maria, Graf Strachwitz von Gross-Zauche und Camminetz, is the founder and president of Arhoolie Records, which he established in 1960.
Christene Mayer - Christene Mayer or Kid Glove Rosey was a New York criminal and thief during the late 19th century; her aliases including Mary Scanlon and Rosey Roder.
Christian Frederick Martin - Christian Frederick Martin, Sr. was a luthier who specialized in guitars.
Christian Metz (Inspirationalist) - Christian Metz was born in Germany and emigrated to America on October 26, 1842.
Christoph M. Kimmich - Christoph M. Kimmich was the eighth President of Brooklyn College from 2000 to 2009.
Christoph Wolff - Christoph Wolff is a German-born musicologist, presently on the faculty of Harvard University.
Christopher Bechtler - Christopher Bechtler was a German-American goldsmith and watchmaker.
Christopher Memminger - Christopher Gustavus Memminger was a prominent political leader and the first Secretary of the Treasury for the Confederate States of America.
Claus Spreckels - Claus Spreckels, formally Adolph Claus J. Spreckels,, was a major industrialist in Hawai'i during the kingdom, republican and territorial periods of the islands' history.
Constance Drexel - Constance Drexel, a naturalized United States citizen, and groundbreaking feature writer for U.S. newspapers, was indicted for treason in World War II for radio broadcasts from Berlin that extol...
Craig Lefferts - Craig Lindsay Lefferts was a relief pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, San Diego Padres, San Francisco Giants, Baltimore Orioles, Texas Rangers and California Angels.
Curt Stern (geneticist) - Curt Stern was a German-American geneticist.
Detlef Schrempf - Detlef Schrempf is a retired German NBA basketball player.
Dieter Cunz - Dieter Cunz, German-born American historian, writer, educationist, and occasional journalist.
Dieter Ficken - Dieter Ficken was a U.S. soccer forward who spent his club career in the U.S. third division German American Soccer League.
Dietrich Albrecht - Dietrich Albrecht is a retired American soccer player.
Dietrich Gruen - Dietrich Gruen German born watchmaker who emigrated to the USA in the 1880s and founded the Gruen watch Company.
Dirk Dirksen - Dirk Dirksen was a music promoter and emcee of the San Francisco punk rock clubs Mabuhay Gardens and On Broadway in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Dolly Haas - Dorothy Clara Louise Haas was a singer and an entertainer who often appeared on Broadway.
Dov Tamari (mathematician) - Dov Tamari, born Bernhard Teitler, was a mathematician.
Dutch Schliebner - Frederick Paul Schliebner, is a former professional baseball player who played first base during the 1923 season for the Brooklyn Robins and St. Louis Browns.
E. Henry Wemme - E. Henry Wemme was a wealthy businessman in Portland, in the U.S. state of Oregon.
Eberhard Anheuser - Eberhard Anheuser was a German-born soap and candle maker as well as the father-in-law of Adolphus Busch, the founder of the Anheuser-Busch Company.
Eberhard Rees - Dr Eberhard Friedrich Michael Rees was a German-American rocketry pioneer and the second Director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.
Eckart Kehr - Eckart Kehr was one of the first historians to emphasize the importance of social structure and economic interests in influencing political decisions.
Edmund von Mach - Edmund von Mach was a German-American writer on and lecturer on art.
Eduard Sobolewski - Johann Friedrich Eduard Sobolewski was a Polish-American violinist, composer, and conductor.
Edward Degener - Edward Degener was a Republican U.S. Representative from Texas during Reconstruction.
Edward J. Kuntze - Edward J. Kuntze was a sculptor.
Edward S. Salomon - Edward Selig Salomon was a German immigrant to the United States who served as a Union brigadier general in the American Civil War and later became governor of Washington Territory and a Califor...
Edward Salomon - Edward Salomon was the eighth Governor of Wisconsin during the Civil War after the accidental drowning of his predecessor, Louis P. Harvey.
Edward Sapir - Edward Sapir, was a German-born American anthropologist-linguist and a leader in American structural linguistics.
Elisabeth Mann-Borgese - Elisabeth Mann-Borgese CM was the youngest daughter of Thomas Mann and his wife Katia Pringsheim, sister to Klaus, Erika, Golo, and Michael Mann, sister-in-law to W. H. Auden, and niece of the n...
Elisabeth Röhm - Elisabeth Röhm is a German American television actress, best known for playing Assistant District Attorney Serena Southerlyn on the television drama Law & Order and as Detective Kate Lockley...
Elizabeth Mayer - Elizabeth Mayer was a German-born American translator and editor, closely associated with W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears, and other writers and musicians.
Elkan Naumburg - Elkan Naumburg was a New York City merchant, banker, philanthropist and musicologist, best remembered for his sponsorship of the arts in Manhattan.
Emanuel Leutze - Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze was a German American history painter best-known for his painting Washington Crossing the Delaware.
Emil Fuchs (baseball) - Emil Edwin Fuchs was a German-born American baseball owner and executive.
Erhard Brielmaier - Erhard Brielmaier, was a renowned and prominent architect within United States and Canada from late 1800s through the 1900s.
Eric Braeden - Eric Braeden is a German-born film and television actor, best known for his role as Victor Newman on the soap opera The Young and the Restless.
Eric Lenneberg - Eric Heinz Lenneberg was a linguist and neurologist who pioneered ideas on language acquisition and cognitive psychology, particularly in terms of the concept of innateness.
Erich Fromm - Erich Seligmann Fromm was a German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist.
Erich Maria Remarque - Erich Maria Remarque was a German author, most famous today for his anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front.
Erich Pommer - Erich Pommer was one of the most influential producers of the silent film era, having been one of the most influential creators behind the German Expressionism movement as the head of production...
Erich Schmidt - Erich Friedrich Schmidt was a German and American-naturalized archaeologist, born in Baden-Baden.
Erik Erikson - Erik Erikson was a Danish-German-American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on social development of human beings.
Erika Jordan - Erika Jordan is an actress and model.
Ernie Stautner - Ernest Alfred Stautner was a German-born American football player and coach who starred as a defensive tackle with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Ernst B. Haas - Ernst Bernard Haas was an American political scientist who made numerous contributions to theoretical discussions in the field of international relations.
Ernst Fraenkel (political scientist) - Ernst Fraenkel was a German political scientist.
Ernst Geissler - Ernst Geissler was a German aerospace engineer.
Ernst Gräfenberg - Ernst Gräfenberg was a German-born medical doctor and scientist.
Ernst Kantorowicz - Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz was a German-Jewish historian of medieval political and intellectual history, known for his 1927 book Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite on Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II...
Ernst Perabo - Johann Ernst Perabo was a German-born American composer and pianist.
Ernst R. G. Eckert - Dr Ernst R. G. Eckert was a scientist who advanced the film cooling technique for aeronautical engines.
Ernst Raven - Ernst or Ernest Raven was an immigrant from Germany who became a prominent resident of Texas; he served as consul for the German Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in the State of Texas during the...
Ernst Stuhlinger - Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger was a German-born American atomic, electrical and rocket scientist.
Ernst Victor Wolff - Ernst Victor Wolff was a German-born concert pianist and harpsichordist who maintained a career not only as a soloist but also as a respected accompanist.
Erwin Panofsky - Erwin Panofsky was a German art historian who emigrated to America and remains highly influential in the modern academic study of iconography.
Eugene Amandus Schwarz - Eugene Amandus Schwarz was an American entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.
Eugene Dietzgen - Eugene Dietzgen was the first son of socialist philosopher Joseph Dietzgen, born in Germany.
Eugene H. C. Leutze - Eugene Henry Cozzens Leutze was an admiral of the United States Navy.
Eugene Spiro - Eugene Spiro, born Eugen Spiro was a German and American painter.
Evelyn Hofer - Evelyn Hofer was a German-American portrait and documentary photographer.
F. W. Murnau - Friedrich Wilhelm "F. W." Murnau was one of the most influential German film directors of the silent era.
Felix Adler (Society for Ethical Culture) - Felix Adler was a Jewish rationalist intellectual, popular lecturer, religious leader and social reformer who founded the Ethical Culture movement and is thought to have been a main influence on...
Felix Gilbert - Felix Gilbert was a German-born American historian of early modern and modern Europe.
Felix Schlag - Felix Oscar Schlag was the designer of the United States five cent coin in use from 1938 to 2004.
Ferdinand Lindheimer - Ferdinand Jacob Lindheimer was a German Texan botanist who spent his working life on the American frontier.
Ferdinand Schumann-Heink - Ferdinand Schumann-Heink born 9 August 1893 Hamburg Germany died 15 September 1958 was a prolific character actor with over 65 films to his credit.
Florinda Donner - Florinda Donner was born February 15, 1944 in Amberg, Germany to German parents Rudolph Thal and Katarina Claussnitzer.
Francis Brunn - Francis Brunn was a German juggler.
Francis Hoffmann - Francis Arnold Hoffmann was a Lutheran clergyman, politician and writer.
Francis Lieber - Dr. Francis Lieber, originally known as Franz Lieber, was a German-American jurist and political philosopher.
Francis Wolff - Francis Wolff was a record company executive, photographer and record producer.
Francis Xavier Krautbauer - Francis Xavier Krautbauer was the second Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Green Bay, in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Born in Mappach, Germany, he was ordained to the Roman Catholi...
Francis Xavier Seelos - Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos was a German-American Roman Catholic priest and Redemptorist missionary.
Frank Williams (Medal of Honor recipient) - Frank Williams was an American sailor serving in the United States Navy during the Spanish–American War who was awarded the Medal of Honor for bravery.
Franz Boas - Franz Boas was a German American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology".
Franz Pieper - Franz August Otto Pieper was a Confessional Lutheran theologian; born at Carwitz, Pomerania and died in St. Louis, Missouri.
Fred Beell - Fred Beell was a German-born American professional wrestler and police officer.
Fred Duesenberg - Frederick Samuel Duesenberg was a German-born American automobile pioneer designer, manufacturer and sportsman.
Frederic Lewy - Frederick Henry Lewey was a prominent neurologist.
Frederick Alber - Frederick Alber was a soldier in the American Civil War who was awarded the Medal of Honor for valor in action.
Frederick August Otto Schwarz - Frederick August Otto Schwarz was a toy retailer who started FAO Schwarz.
Frederick C. Salomon - Frederick C. Salomon was a German immigrant to the United States who served as a Union brigadier general in the American Civil War.
Frederick Cook (politician) - Frederick Cook was an American businessman and politician.
Frederick Fraske - Frederick W. Fraske was the last surviving veteran of the Indian Wars at the time of his death.
Frederick Halterman - Frederick Halterman was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Frederick John Bahr - Frederick John Bahr was an immigrant from Baden, Germany, who eventually settled on Wills Mountain in Cumberland, Maryland to avoid the encroachment of the Civil War.
Frederick Miller - Frederick Edward John Miller was a brewery owner who founded the Miller Brewing Company at the Plank Road Brewery in 1855.
Frederick Traugott Pursh - Frederick Traugott Pursh was a German-American botanist.
Frederick William Lehmann - Frederick William Lehmann was a prominent American lawyer, statesman, United States Solicitor General, and rare book collector.
Fredericka Mandelbaum - Fredericka "Marm" Mandelbaum was a New York entrepreneur and operated as a criminal fence to many of the street gangs and criminals of the city's underworld, handling between $1-5 million in sto...
Frieda Fromm-Reichmann - Frieda Fromm-Reichmann was a German psychiatrist and contemporary of Sigmund Freud who emigrated to America during World War II.
Friedman Paul Erhardt - Friedemann Paul Erhardt was a German American pioneering early television chef.
Friedrich Diercks - Friedrich Diercks was born on June 18, 1796, at Burg Gödens near the village of Neustadtgödens.
Friedrich Hirth - Friedrich Hirth, Ph.D. was a German-American sinologist, born at Gräfentonna, Saxe-Gotha.
Friedrich List - Georg Friedrich List was a leading 19th century German and American economist who developed the "National System" or what some would call today the National System of Innovation.
Friedrich Münch - Friedrich Münch was a German-American Rationalist, winemaker, Missouri State Senator, and prolific author for German emigrants, beginning in the 1830s.
Friedrich Solmsen - Friedrich W. Solmsen was a philologist and professor of classical studies.
Friedrich Weyerhäuser - Friedrich Weyerhäuser was a German-American timber mogul and founder of the Weyerhaeuser Company, which owns large forested areas as well as saw mills, paper factories, and other business enterp...
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben - Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben, also referred to as the Baron von Steuben, Prussian aristocrat and military officer who served as inspector general and Major general...
Fritz Albert Lipmann - Fritz Albert Lipmann was a German-American biochemist and a co-discoverer in 1945 of coenzyme A. For this, together with other research on coenzyme A, he was awarded half the Nobel Prize in Phys...
Fritz Buelow - Frederick William Alexander "Fritz" Buelow was a catcher in Major League Baseball.
Fritz Feld - Fritz Feld was a film character actor actor who appeared in over 140 films, both silent and sound.
Fritz G. A. Kraemer - Fritz Gustav Anton Kraemer was a German-American military educator and advisor.
Fritz Herzog - Fritz Herzog was an American mathematician, known for his work in complex analysis and power series.
Fritz John - Fritz John was a German born mathematician specialising in partial differential equations and ill-posed problems.
Fritz Julius Kuhn - Fritz Julius Kuhn was a Nazi, Antisemite, and controversial leader of the German American Bund, prior to World War II. He was a naturalized citizen of the United States and a loyal supporter of ...
Fritz London - Fritz Wolfgang London was a German-born American theoretical physicist.
Gary Allison - Gary Allison is a retired German-American soccer goalkeeper who played professionally in the North American Soccer League, American Soccer League and Major Indoor Soccer League.
Geoffrey Hartman - Geoffrey H. Hartman is a German-born American literary theorist, sometimes identified with the Yale School of deconstruction, but also has written on a wide range of subjects, and cannot be cate...
George Adomeit - George Gustav Adomeit was a German-born American painter and printmaker, and also co-founder and long-time president of the Caxton Company, a printing company that was bought by the Fetter Print...
George Atzerodt - George Andreas Atzerodt was a conspirator, with John Wilkes Booth, in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
George Boldt - George Charles Boldt was a Prussian-born, self-made millionaire, who influenced the development of the urban hotel as a civic social center and luxurious destination.
George Dzundza - George Dzundza is a German-American actor.
George Grosz - George Grosz was a German artist known especially for his savagely caricatural drawings of Berlin life in the 1920s.
George Henry Griebel - George Henry Griebel was a prominent Berlin-born and trained architect who resided in New York City.
George J. Adler - George J. Adler was a noted philologist and linguist.
George N. Saegmuller - George N. Saegmuller was a German-born American inventor of many astronomical instruments and other mechanical devices.
George Rapp - Johann Georg Rapp was the founder of the religious sect called Harmonists, Harmonites, Rappites, or the Harmony Society.
George Remus - George Remus was a famous Cincinnati lawyer and bootlegger during the prohibition era.
George Schoener - George Schoener, or Georg Schöner was a German-born Roman Catholic priest who became known in the United States as the "Padre of the Roses" for his experiments in rose breeding, especially...
George Sylvester Viereck - George Sylvester Viereck was a German-American poet, writer, and propagandist.
Gerald Holton - Gerald Holton is Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics and Research Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University.
Gerhard Fischer (inventor) - Gerhard Fisher contributed to the development and popularity of the hand held metal detector.
Gerhard Neumann - Gerhard Neumann was a German-American aviation engineer and executive for General Electric's aircraft engine division.
Gerhart Friedlander - Gerhart Friedlander was a nuclear chemist who worked on the Manhattan Project.
Germans in Omaha, Nebraska - Germans in Omaha immigrated to the city in Nebraska from its earliest days of founding in 1854, in the years after the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states.
Gisela Beker - Gisela Beker is an artist and painter, who was awarded the Palme d'Or on July 27, 1974 in Paris, France at the International Festival de Peinture et d'Art Graphico.
Godfrey Weitzel - Godfrey Weitzel was a major general in the Union army during the American Civil War, as well as the acting Mayor of New Orleans during the Federal occupancy of the city.
Golo Mann - Golo Mann, born Angelus Gottfried Thomas Mann, was a popular German historian, essayist and writer.
Gottfried E. Noether - Gottfried Emanuel Noether was an American statistician and educator.
Gottlieb Storz - Gottlieb Storz was a pioneer entrepreneur in Omaha, Nebraska.
Gottlieb Von Boorian - Gottlieb Von Boorian credited with founding the town of Burien, Washington immigrated from Germany to Seattle, Washington in 1880 and found interest in a small settlement called Sunnydale.
Grete Mosheim - Margaret "Grete" Mosheim was a German film, theatre and television actress of Hungarian Jewish ancestry.
Guenter Lewy - Guenter Lewy is an author and political scientist who is a professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts.
Guenter Wendt - Günter F. Wendt is a German-American engineer noted for his work in the U.S. manned spaceflight program.
Gustav A. Schneebeli - Gustav Adolphus Schneebeli was a U.S. Representative from the state of Pennsylvania.
Gustav Konstantin von Alvensleben - Gustav Konstantin von Alvensleben, called Alvo von Alvensleben was a German entrepreneur home in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada and Seattle, Washington USA.
Gustav Körner - Gustav Körner, also spelled Gustave or Gustavus Koerner graduated 1832 from the University of Heidelberg with a degree in law.
Gustav Schleicher - Gustav Schleicher was a German-born Democratic United States Representative from Texas.
Gustav Sohon - Gustav Sohon was an artist, Indian Pictorialist, Interpreter, and topographical assistant.
Gustav Tafel - Gustav Tafel was a German-born colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and the mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1897 to 1900.
Gustave Whitehead - Gustave Albin Whitehead, born Gustav Albin Weisskopf was a German immigrant to the US and an aviation pioneer who designed and built engines and very early aircraft in which he reportedly ...
Gustavus A. Finkelnburg - Gustavus Adolphus Finkelnburg was a nineteenth century politician, lawyer and judge from Missouri.
Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs - Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs was a chemist who published his findings on periodic laws within the chemical elements well before Dmitri Mendeleev or Lothar Meyer.
Hajo Holborn - Hajo Holborn was a German-American historian and specialist in modern German history.
Hanns Scharff - Hanns-Joachim Gottlob Scharff was a German Luftwaffe interrogator during the Second World War.
Hannskarl Bandel - Hannskarl Bandel, was a German-American structural engineer.
Hans A. Linde - Hans Arthur Linde, is a German American attorney and former jurist in the U.S. state of Oregon.
Hans F. Loeser - Hans F. Loeser is an American lawyer whose activism during the Vietnam War earned him the enmity of Richard Nixon.
Hans Georg Dehmelt - Hans Georg Dehmelt is a German-born American physicist, who co-developed the ion trap technique with Wolfgang Paul, for which they both received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989.
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski - Hans Heinrich von Twardowski was a German film actor.
Hans Massaquoi - Hans-Jürgen Massaquoi is a German American journalist and author.
Hans Multhopp - Hans Multhopp was a German aerospace engineer during the Second World War.
Hans Rademacher - Hans Adolph Rademacher was a German mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis and number theory.
Hans Richter (artist) - Hans Richter was a painter, graphic artist, avant-gardist, film-experimenter and producer.
Hans Sennholz - Hans F. Sennholz was an economist from the Austrian school of economics who studied under Ludwig von Mises.
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, best known as "Sepp" Gumbrecht, is a German-born American literary theorist and currently the Albert Guérard Professor on Literature in the Departments of Comparativ...
Hans Wilhelm - Hans Wilhelm is a German-American writer, children’s book author and illustrator, and artist.
Hans Wilhelm Frei - Hans Wilhelm Frei is best known for work on biblical hermeneutics, especially on the interpretation of narrative.
Hans Ziegler - Dr. Hans K. Ziegler was a pioneer in the field of communication satellites and the use of photovoltaic solar cells as a power source for satellites.
Hans-Dieter Sues - Hans-Dieter Sues is a German-born paleontologist who is currently the Associate Director for Research and Collections at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution in ...
Hans-Hermann Hoppe - Hans-Hermann Hoppe is an Austrian school economist of the anarcho-capitalist tradition, and a former economics professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Hans-Joachim Bremermann - Hans-Joachim Bremermann was a German-American mathematician and biophysicist.
Hansel Mieth - Hansel Mieth was a German-born photojournalist who worked on the staff of LIFE Magazine.
Hanya Holm - Hanya Holm born in March 3, 1893 in Worms, Germany and died November 3, 1992 in New York City.
Harmony Society - The Harmony Society was a Christian theosophy and pietist society founded in Iptingen, Germany, in 1785.
Harry Groener - Harry Groener is an American actor and dancer, perhaps best known for playing Mayor Wilkins in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Harry M. Rosenfeld - Harry M. Rosenfeld is an American newspaper editor who was the editor in charge of local news at The Washington Post during the Watergate scandal.
Harry Sauthoff - Harry Sauthoff, Sr., son of a German immigrant and brother of Dr. August Sauthoff, was a lawyer and politician from Madison, Wisconsin.
Hedwig Kohn - Hedwig Kohn, was a pioneer in physics and one of only three women who obtained Habilitation in physics before World War II. She and the other two physicists, Lise Meitner and Hertha Sponer, were...
Heidi Klum - Heidi Samuel, better known by her birth name Heidi Klum, is a German American model, actress, television host, business woman, fashion designer, television producer, artist, and occasional...
Heinrich Christian Eisenbrandt - Heinrich Christian Eisenbrandt was a German-born manufacturer of brass and woodwind instruments.
Heinrich Conried - Heinrich Conried was a theatrical manager and director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
Heinrich Gebhard - Heinrich Gebhard was a German-American pianist, composer and piano teacher.
Heinrich Göbel - Heinrich Göbel, or later: Henry Goebel, born in Germany, was a precision mechanic and inventor, an early pioneer who independently developed designs for an incandescent light bulb.
Heinrich Klüver - Heinrich Klüver was a German-American psychologist born in Holstein, Germany.
Heinz Becker - Heinz Reinhard Becker was a Major League Baseball first baseman who played for the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians.
Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat - Heinz Ludwig Fraenkel-Conrat was a biochemist, famous for his viral research.
Heinz Prechter - Heinz Prechter a German born entrepreneur who founded the American Sunroof Company was a quintessential entrepreneur, legendary visionary, community leader and philanthropist.
Helene Mayer - Helene Mayer was a world champion Olympic fencer who competed for Nazi Germany in the 1936 Summer Olympics, despite having being forced to leave Germany and resettle in the United States because...
Helmut Hölzer - Helmut Hoelzer was a Nazi Germany V-2 rocket engineer who was brought to the United States under Operation Paperclip.
Helmut Sonnenfeldt - Helmut Sonnenfeldt is an American foreign policy expert.
Henri La Fayette Villaume Ducoudray Holstein - Henri La Fayette Villaume Ducoudray Holstein was a soldier in France and South America, and an author in the United States.
Henry Adams (mechanical engineer) - Henry Adams was an American architectural engineer.
Henry Burk - Henry Burk was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Henry C. Kumpf - Henry Christian Kumpf was elected to three one-year terms as Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri in 1886-1888.
Henry Christian Timm - Henry Christian Timm was a German-born American pianist, conductor, and composer.
Henry E. Steinway - Henry E. Steinway made pianos in Germany and the United States.
Henry Ferdinand Riefle - Henry Ferdinand Riefle, was a butcher and leading citizen of Baltimore, Maryland.
Henry Francis Fisher - Henry Francis Fisher, a notable German Texan, was born in Kassel, Hesse.
Henry J. Leir - Henry J. Leir was an American industrialist, financier, and philanthropist.
Henry Kissinger - Dr. Henry Alfred Kissinger, is a German-born American political scientist, diplomat, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Henry Klein - Henry Klein was a Union Army soldier during the American Civil War and a recipient of America's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Sayler's Creek.
Henry Koster - Henry Koster was born Herman Kosterlitz in Berlin, Germany.
Henry Laskau - Helmut Laskau has been called the greatest racewalker in U.S. track and field history.
Henry Lehman - Henry Lehman was a Jewish German-American businessman and the founder of Lehman Brothers.
Henry M. Arens - Henry Martin Arens was a politician who served in many offices in Minnesota, including the U.S. House of Representatives.
Henry Morgenthau, Sr. - Henry Morgenthau was a lawyer, businessman and United States ambassador, most famous as the American ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.
Henry Timken - Henry Timken was an inventor who was born in Bremen, Germany.
Henry Villard - Henry Villard was an American journalist and financier who was an early president of the Northern Pacific Railway.
Henry Wasmuth - Henry Wasmuth was a United States Marine during the American Civil War.
Herbert Marcuse - Herbert Marcuse was a German-Jewish philosopher, political theorist and sociologist, and a member of the Frankfurt School.
Herman Bottcher - Major Herman J. F. Bottcher was a German national who achieved the rank of Major with two different armies: the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War and the United States Army dur...
Herman Rapp - Herman Rapp was a German-American soccer defender who was a member of the U.S. national team at the 1934 FIFA World Cup.
Herman Rosenthal - Herman Rosenthal was an American author, editor, and librarian.
Hermann Eduard von Holst - Hermann Eduard von Holst was a German-American historian.
Hermann Eilts - Hermann Frederick Eilts was a United States Foreign Service Officer and diplomat.
Hermann Jakob Knapp - Hermann Jakob Knapp was a German-American ophthalmologist who was born in Dauborn, Nassau.
Hermann Kotzschmar - Johann Carl Hermann Kotzschmar was a German-American musician, conductor, and composer.
Hermann Viets - Hermann Viets, Ph.D. is an astronautics engineer and president of Milwaukee School of Engineering.
Hermann Ziegner - Herman or Hermann Ziegner was a German-American soldier who served in the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars and the Spanish-American War.
Hilla von Rebay - Hildegard Anna Augusta Elizabeth Freiin Rebay von Ehrenwiesen, Baroness Hilla von Rebay, or simply Hilla Rebay, was one of the few female abstract painters in the beginning of ...
Horst Feistel - Horst Feistel was a cryptographer who worked on the design of ciphers at IBM, initiating research that would culminate in the development of the Data Encryption Standard in the 1970s.
Horst P. Horst - Horst P. Horst, most often known as just Horst, was a German American photographer best known for his photographs of women and fashion taken while working for Vogue magazine.
Horst Stemke - Horst Stemke is a retired U.S. soccer defender who was a member of the U.S. soccer team at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Hubert Birkenmeier - Hubert Birkenmeier is a retired German professional footballer who played for Freiburger FC and Tennis Borussia Berlin in Germany, and for the New York Cosmos and the New Jersey Eagles in the Un...
Hubert Dilger - Hubert Anton Casimir Dilger was a German immigrant to the United States who became a decorated artillerist in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Hugo Perls - Hugo Perls was an international art dealer, historian, philosopher and notable collector born in Rybnik in Upper Silesia.
Ida Straus - Ida Straus, née Rosalie Ida Blun was an American homemaker and wife of the co-owner of the Macy's department store.
Ingeborg de Beausacq - Ingeborg de Beausacq was an American photographer and explorer of German origin Ingeborg de Beausacq was born Holland on January 25, 1910, in Hattingen, Germany.
Isadore S. Jachman - Isadore Seigfreid Jachmanwas a United States Army sergeant who was killed in World War II after defending the town of Flamierge, Belgium from a Nazi attack on January 4, 1945.
Isidor Fisch - Isidor Srul Fisch was a German Jewish friend and business associate of Bruno Hauptmann, from whom Hauptmann claimed to have received a box containing gold certificates which had earlier been use...
Isidor Straus - Isidor Straus—a German Jewish American — was co-owner of the Macy's department store with his brother Nathan.
J. C. Julius Langbein - J. C. Julius Langbein was a drummer boy in the Union Army and a Medal of Honor recipient for his actions in the American Civil War.
J. C. Leyendecker - Joseph Christian Leyendecker was one of the pre-eminent American illustrators of the early twentieth century.
J. William Schickel - J. William Schickel, FAIA, known professionally as William Shickel, was a German-American architect and founder of the New York architectural firm of Schickel & Ditmars.
Jack Steinberger - Jack Steinberger is a German-American physicist currently residing near Geneva, Switzerland.
Jacob A. Schowalter - Jacob Abraham Schowalter was a Kansas farmer, business owner and Mennonite philanthropist whose estate formed the basis of the Schowalter Foundation.
Jacob Hirschorn - Jacob Hirschorn was a Jewish-American immigrant from Germany who served in the U.S.-Mexican War and wrote a dramatic memoir entitled "The Mexican War.
Jacob Klein (philosopher) - Jacob Klein Jēkabs Kleins was a German-American philosopher and interpreter of Plato.
Jacob Nolde - Jacob Nolde was an American industrialist and environmentalist who was largely responsible for the creation of Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center, a Pennsylvania state park in Berks Cou...
Jacob Schiff - Jacob Henry Schiff, born Jacob Hirsch Schiff was a Jewish German-born New York City banker and philanthropist, who helped finance, among many other things, the Japanese military efforts ag...
Jacob Schueler - Jacob Schueler was a confectionery proprietor in the city of Denver during the early 1870s.
Jacob Schumacher - Jacob Schumacher was born in Württemberg, Germany and emigrated to the United States where he resided in Zanesville, Ohio.
James Behrens - James Behrens, was an entomologist.
James Warburg - James Paul Warburg was an American banker and financial adviser to Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Jan Valtin - Jan Valtin was the alias of Richard Julius Hermann Krebs, a German Communist and Soviet agent during the interwar period.
Jean Willrich - Jean Willrich is a retired U.S.-German soccer forward.
Jeff Baker - Jeffrey Glen Baker is a professional baseball player in Major League Baseball who plays several positions as a utility player for the Chicago Cubs.
Jerry Zaks - Jerry Zaks is a German-born American multiple award-winning stage- and television director, and actor.
Jesco von Puttkamer - Jesco Freiherr von Puttkamer is a German-born rocket engineer and senior NASA manager from Leipzig.
Joe Miller (second baseman) - Joseph Wick Miller was a German-American second baseman and manager in Major League Baseball.
Johann de Kalb - Johann von Robaii, Baron de Kalb, born Johann Kalb, was a German soldier who served as a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
Johann Friedrich Peter - Johann Friedrich Peter was an American composer of German origin.
Johann Most - Johann Joseph "John" Most was a German-American anarchist and orator, who in the late 19th century began to advocate the use of violence to achieve revolutionary political and social change.
Johann Peter Gogarten - Johann Peter Gogarten was born in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany.
Johannes Andreas August Grabau - Johannes Andreas August Grabau was an influential German-American Old Lutheran pastor and theologian.
John A. Hasecoster - John Adam Hasecoster was a prominent American architect in Indiana during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
John A. Roebling - John Augustus Roebling was a German-born civil engineer famous for his wire rope suspension bridge designs, in particular, the design of the Brooklyn Bridge.
John C. Koch - John C. Koch was a Republican politician who served two terms as mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
John Christian Frederick Heyer - John Christian Frederick Heyer was the first missionary sent abroad by Lutherans in the United States.
John Ericson (actor) - John Ericson, born John Meibes in Düsseldorf, Germany, is an actor and film and television star.
John Flammang Schrank - John Flammang Schrank was a saloon-keeper from New York, best known for his attempt to assassinate former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt on October 14, 1912 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
John G. Cullmann - John Gottfried Cullmann was a German businessman and political activist who emigrated to the United States as a result of his financial ruin related to participation in the Revolution of 1848.
John George Nicolay - John George Nicolay was an American biographer and secretary of Abraham Lincoln.
John Green (US Army officer) - John Green was a United States cavalry officer, who was awarded a Medal of Honor for his bravery and leadership at the First Battle of the Stronghold during the Modoc War.
John Greenwall - John Greenwall, also known as Johann Theodore Wild was a German immigrant to New York City who became the last person to be hanged in New York State.
John Gutmann - John Gutmann was a German-born American photographer and painter.
John Henry Luers - John Henry Luers was nominated first Bishop of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and consecrated in Cincinnati, Ohio, 10 January, 1858.
John Jacob Astor - John Jacob Astor, born Johann Jakob or Johann Jacob Astor, was the first prominent member of the Astor family and the first multi-millionaire in the United States.
John Kilian - John Kilian also Johann Kilian, was a Lutheran pastor and leader of the colony known as the Wends of Texas.
John Kluge - John Werner Kluge is a German-American entrepreneur and a billionaire.
John Lewis Krimmel - John Lewis Krimmel, sometimes called "the American Hogarth" was America's first painter of genre scenes.
John O. Meusebach - John O. Meusebach, born Baron Otfried Hans von Meusebach, was at first a Prussian bureaucrat, later an American farmer and politician who served in the Texas State Senate.
John Peter Altgeld - John Peter Altgeld was the 20th Governor of the U.S. state of Illinois from 1893 until 1897.
John Rewald - John Rewald was a German-born American art historian, scholar of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cézanne, Renoir, Pissarro, Seurat, and other French painters of the late 19th century.
John Singer (homeschooler) - John Singer was a homeschooler in Utah who was killed in a stand-off with state government authorities who were attempting to arrest him.
John Stallo - John Bernhard Stallo was a German-American academic, jurist, philosopher, and ambassador.
John Steppling - John Steppling was a German-American silent film actor.
John Zundel - John Zundel was an organist, composer, arranger, and pedagogue.
Josef Rubinstein - Josef "Joe" Rubinstein is a comic book artist and inker, most associated with inking Marvel Comics' The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe.
Josef Sommer - Josef Sommer is an American film actor.
Joseph A. Hemann - Joseph Anton Hemann was a German-American educator, newspaper publisher, and banker.
Joseph Conrad (general) - Joseph Conrad was a Union American Civil War officer who was brevetted a brigadier general of volunteers during the Atlanta Campaign.
Joseph Jessing - The Reverend Fr. John Joseph Jessing a German-American immigrant, was a pioneer in Catholic orphanage work and Catholic education.
Joseph Mosenthal - Joseph Mosenthal was a German-American musician, born at Kassel.
Joseph Pilates - Joseph Hubertus Pilates invented and promoted the Pilates method of physical fitness.
Joseph Schlitz - Joseph Schlitz was a German entrepreneur who made his fortune in the brewing industry.
Joseph W. Eaton - Joseph W. Eaton is an American Sociologist – anthropologist listed in Who is Who in the World for his published research and academic career in public and international affairs, social wor...
Jules Bache - Jules Semon Bache was a German-born American banker, art collector and philanthropist.
Julius Adler (biochemist) - Julius Adler Ph.D. is an Emeritus Professor of biochemistry and genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Julius Erasmus Hilgard - Julius Erasmus Hilgard was a German-American engineer.
Julius H. Kroehl - Julius Herman Kröhl was a German-born American inventor.
Julius Houseman - Julius Houseman was a U.S. businessman and politician who served as mayor of Grand Rapids, Michigan, as representative in the Michigan House of Representatives and as Congressman in the U.S. Hou...
Julius Kahn - Julius Kahn was a United States Congressman who was succeeded by his wife Florence Prag Kahn after his death.
Julius P. Heil - Julius Peter Heil was the 30th Governor of Wisconsin from 1939 to 1943.
Julius Theodore Melchers - Julius Theodore Melchers was a German born American sculptor and teacher who immigrated to the United States leaving Prussia after 1848 and resided in Detroit, Michigan after 1855.
Jurgen Wilson - Jurgen Wilson George Wilson was a German-American Union Army officer during the American Civil War, serving with the Scandinavian Regiment.
Justus F. Lehmann - Justus F. Lehmann MD was a German-American physiatrist.
Jürgen Moser - Jürgen Kurt Moser or Juergen Kurt Moser was a German-American mathematician who worked in differential equations, spectral theory, celestial mechanics, and stability theory, with groundbre...
Karen Horney - Karen Horney born Danielsen was a German psychoanalyst and psychiatrist of Norwegian and Dutch descent.
Karl Anschütz - Karl Anschütz was a German-born musical director and composer who founded the German Opera in New York City.
Karl August Wittfogel - Karl August Wittfogel was a German-American historian and sinologist.
Karl Birnbaum - Karl Birnbaum was a German-American psychiatrist and neurologist.
Karl Brandt (economist) - Karl Brandt was a German-American agricultural economist.
Karl Butzer - Karl W. Butzer is an American geographer, cultural ecologist and environmental archaeologist.
Karl Eugen Guthe - Karl Eugen Guthe was a German-born American physicist notable for his work on aspects of electricity.
Karl G. Maeser - Karl Gottfried Maeser was a prominent Utah educator and a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Karl Hagedorn - Karl Hagedorn was a German American painter, who worked on lithographs and etchings.
Karl Meissner - Karl Wilhelm Meissner was a German-American physicist specializing in hyperfine spectroscopy.
Karl Strauss - Karl Martin Strauss was one of the most honored brewers in America.
Karl Theodor Bayrhoffer - Karl Theodor Bayrhoffer was a German American philosopher and publicist, from 1838 to 1846 professor of philosophy in the University of Marburg.
Karl Wallenda - Karl Wallenda was the founder of The Flying Wallendas, an internationally known daredevil circus act famous for performing death-defying stunts without a safety net.
Karl Zerbe - Karl Zerbe September 16, 1903 – November 24, 1972 was a German-born American painter.
Katherine Esau - Katherine Esau was a German-American botanist.
Katia Mann - Katia Mann was the youngest child and only daughter of the German Jewish mathematician and artist Alfred Pringsheim and his wife Hedwig Dohm Pringsheim, who was an actress in Berlin before her m...
Kaufmann Kohler - Kaufmann Kohler was a German-born U.S. reform rabbi and theologian.
Klaus Fuchs - Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs was a German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy who in 1950 was convicted of supplying information from the British and American atomic bomb research to th...
Klaus Janson - Klaus Janson is a German-born American comic book artist, working regularly for Marvel Comics and DC Comics and sporadically for independent companies.
Klaus Landsberg - Klaus Landsberg was a pioneering electrical engineer who made history with early commercial telecasts and helped pave the way to today's Television networks.
Klaus Ottmann - Klaus Ottmann is an independent curator and writer based in New York.
Konrad Dannenberg - Konrad Dannenberg was a German-American rocket pioneer and member of the German Rocket Team.
Krafft Arnold Ehricke - Krafft Arnold Ehricke was a rocket-propulsion engineer and advocate for space colonization.
Kurt Benirschke - Kurt Benirschke is a German-born American pathologist, geneticist and expert on the placenta and reproduction in humans and myriad mammalian species.
Kurt Eberling, Sr. - Kurt Eberling, Sr. was a German-American chef and the inventor of SpaghettiOs.
Kurt H. Debus - Dr. Kurt Heinrich Debus was a former Nazi Germany V-2 rocket scientist who in 1962 became the first director of the Kennedy Space Center after being brought to the United States under Operation ...
Kurt Schindler - Kurt Schindler was a German-born American composer and conductor.
Kurt Wiese - Kurt Wiese was an award-winning German-born book illustrator.
L.E. Katterfeld - Ludwig Erwin "Dutch" Katterfeld was an American socialist politician, a founding member of the Communist Labor Party of America, a Comintern functionary, and a magazine editor.
Lee Lawrie - Lee Oscar Lawrie was one of the United States' foremost architectural sculptors and a key figure in the American art scene preceding World War II. Over his long career of more than 300 commissio...
Leo Strauss - Leo Strauss was born in Germany to Jewish parents and later emigrated to the United States where took up his trade as a political philosopher who specialized in classical political philosophy.
Leo White - Leo White was a stage performer and appeared as a character actor in many Charlie Chaplin films.
Leopold Katzenstein - Leopold Katzenstein Rhina, former Kreis Hunfeld, Hessen, Germany; d. December 4, 1915 New York City was a Naval Architect and Marine engineer.
Leopold von Gilsa - Leopold von Gilsa was a career soldier who served as an officer in the armies of Prussia and later the United States.
Levi Strauss - Levi Strauss was a German-Jewish immigrant to the United States who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans.
Lewis A. Coser - Lewis Coser was an American sociologist.
Lewis Heermann - Lewis Heermann, born in Kassel, Germany, 3 August 1779 was commissioned Surgeon's Mate in the United States Navy 8 February 1802.
Lewis P. Ohliger - Lewis Philip Ohliger was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.
Lisel Mueller - Lisel Mueller is an award-winning American poet.
Lothar Osiander - Lothar Osiander is a U.S.-German soccer coach who has served as head coach to the U.S. national and Olympic teams as well as the Atlanta Ruckus, Los Angeles Galaxy and San Jose Clash.
Lotte Jacobi - Johanna Alexandra Jacobi was a German photographer, who immigrated to the United States to escape Nazi Germany.
Louis F. Moench - Louis Frederick Moench was the founder of Weber Stake Academy and the father of education in Northern Utah, on the same level of importance as John R. Park and Karl G. Maeser to the development ...
Louis Kleberg - Louis Kleberg was a German Texan soldier in the Texas Revolution and a member of the frontier forces.
Louis Maurer - Louis Maurer was a German-born American lithographer, and the father of the American painter Alfred Henry Maurer.
Louis Wernwag - Louis Wernwag was a prominent bridge builder in the United States in the early 1800s.
Lucille Eichengreen - Lucille Eichengreen is a survivor of the Lodz Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz, Neuengamme and Bergen-Belsen.
Ludwig Lore - Ludwig Lore was an American socialist newspaper editor and politician, best remembered for his tenure as editor of the New Yorker Volkszeitung and role as a factional leader in the early Ame...
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies was a German-American architect.
Ludwig Roth - Ludwig Roth was the Aerospace engineer who was the head of the Peenemünde Future Projects Office which designed the Wasserfall and created advanced rockets designs such as the A9/A10 ICBM.
Luise Rainer - Luise Rainer is a German film actress, the first woman to win two Academy Awards, and the first person to win them back to back.
Lukas Foss - Lukas Foss, born Lukas Fuchs, was a German-born American composer, conductor, pianist, and professor.
Lya Lys - Lya Lys was a German-born American actress.
Magnus von Braun - Magnus "Mac" Freiherr von Braun was a German chemical engineer, Luftwaffe aviator, and rocket scientist at Peenemünde, the Mittelwerk, and via Operation Paperclip, at Fort Bliss.
Manfred Schellscheidt - Manfred "Manny" Schellscheidt is a German American soccer coach and former player.
Manfred Seissler - Manfred “Manny” Seissler was a U.S.-German soccer player who began his career in the lower German divisions before moving to the United States.
Marcus Goldman - Marcus Goldman was a German-born American businessman and entrepreneur.
Marcus Jastrow - Marcus Jastrow was a renowned Talmudic scholar, most famously known for his authorship of the popular and comprehensive A Dictionary of the Targumim, Talmud Babli, Talmud Yerushalmi and Midras...
Margaret Buechner - Margaret Buechner was a German-born American composer.
Margarethe Schurz - Margarethe Meyer-Schurz opened the first German-language Kindergarten in the USA.
Maria Goeppert-Mayer - Maria Goeppert-Mayer was a German-born American theoretical physicist, and Nobel laureate in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus.
Maria Kraus-Boelté - Maria Kraus-Boelté was a pioneer of Fröbel education in the United States, and helped promote kindergarten training as suitable for study at university level.
Maria Luise von Quistorp - Maria Luise Freifrau von Braun is the widow of rocketry pioneer Wernher von Braun.
Martin Ebon - Martin Ebon was a German American author of non-fiction books from the paranormal to politics.
Martin Gumpert - Martin Gumpert was a Jewish German-born American physician and writer.
Martin Kosleck - Martin Kosleck was a German film actor.
Martin Stephan - Martin Stephan was pastor of St. John Lutheran Church in Dresden, Germany during the early 19th century.
Martin Wagner (architect) - Martin Wagner was a German architect, city planner, and author, best known as the driving force behind the construction of modernist housing projects in interwar Berlin.
Marty Krug - Martin John Krug was a Koblenz, Germany-born major league third baseman with the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs.
Marty Swandell - Marty Swandell played in Major League Baseball in the 19th century.
Mato Kósyk - Mato Kosyk was a Sorbian poet and minister.
Max August Zorn - Max August Zorn was a German-born American mathematician.
Max Baginski - Max Baginski was a German-American anarchist.
Max Bedacht - Max Bedacht Sr. was a German-born American revolutionary socialist politician and journalist who helped establish the Communist Party of America.
Max Bentele - Dr. Max Bentele was a notable pioneer in the field of jet aircraft turbines and mechanical engineering.
Max Davidson - Max Davidson was a German film actor known for his comedic Jewish persona during the silent film era.
Max Frankel - Max Frankel is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.
Max Horkheimer - Max Horkheimer was a German philosopher-sociologist, famous for his work in critical theory as a member of the 'Frankfurt School' of social research.
Max Kade - Dr. h.c. Max Kade was an emigrant from Germany to New York City who became successful in the pharmaceutical industry.
Max Rudolf - Max Rudolf was a German conductor who spent most of his career in the United States.
Max Schlemmer - Maximilian "Max" Schlemmer was called the "King of Laysan" and superintendent of a guano mining operation on the Hawaiian island of Laysan, where he lived from 1894 to 1915.
Max Stern (businessman) - Max Stern was born in Fulda, Germany and emigrated to America in 1926.
Max Weber (general) - Max Weber was a military officer in the armies of Germany and later the United States, most known for serving as a brigadier general in the Union army during the American Civil War.
Max Weyl - Max Weyl was a prominent Washington, D.C. artist of the late 19th century known especially for his landscapes of Rock Creek Park and the Potomac River.
Maximilian Berlitz - Maximilian Delphinius Berlitz was a linguist and the founder of the Berlitz Language Schools, the first of which he established in 1878 in Providence, Rhode Island.
Michael Diversey - Michael Diversey was an American beer brewer, owner of the Diversey Beer Brewery.
Michael Heiss - Michael Heiss was the first Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of La Crosse and the second Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Michael Mann (scholar) - Michael Thomas Mann was a German-born musician and professor of German literature.
Michael Witzel - Michael Witzel is Wales Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University, United States.
Michael Wohlfahrt - Michael Wohlfahrt, aka Michael Welfare, was a religious leader who assisted Conrad Beissel in leading the Ephrata Community in Pennsylvania.
Mike Windischmann - Michael "Mike" Windischmann is a retired U.S. soccer defender who played in both the Major Indoor Soccer League and the American Soccer League.
Minnie Marx - Miene Schönberg Marx was the mother and manager of the Marx Brothers, wife of Sam Marx, and the sister of vaudeville star Al Shean.
Monika Bauerlein - Monika Bauerlein is the co-Editor of Mother Jones magazine.
Monika Mann - Monika Mann was a novelist.
Moritz Dobschutz - Moritz J. Dobschutz, born as Moritz Julius von Dobschütz, member of German nobility, immigrated 1856 into the USA and became a very prosperous merchant in Belleville.
Morris D. Rosenbaum - Morris David Rosenbaum was a prominent businessman in early Utah and one of the few Jewish people to join The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during the 19th century.
Moses Alexander - Moses Alexander was the first elected Jewish governor of a U.S. state, serving as the 11th Governor of Idaho from 1915 until 1919.
Moses Buttenweiser - Moses Buttenweiser was an American Bible scholar, born at Beerfelden, Germany and educated at the universities of University of Würzburg, Leipzig, and Heidelberg.
Mr. John - John P. John was an American milliner.
Myer Strouse - Myer Strouse was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Nathan Straus - Nathan Straus was an American merchant and philanthropist who owned two of New York City's biggest department stores -- R.H. Macy & Company and Abraham & Straus -- before giving away most of his...
Nicholas Rescher - Nicholas Rescher is an American philosopher, affiliated for many years with the University of Pittsburgh, where he is currently Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Chairman of t...
Nicola Marschall - Nicola Marschall was a German-American artist who supported the Confederate cause during the American Civil War.
Nicole Brown Simpson - Purcilla Brown Simpson was an ex-wife of former American football player O. J. Simpson.
O. J. Matthijs Jolles - Otto Jolle Matthijs Jolles performed a major service to strategic studies in the United States by providing the first American translation of Carl von Clausewitz's magnum opus, On War.
Oscar Burkard - Oscar R. Burkard was a German-American soldier who served in the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars and World War I. In 1898, he was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of...
Oscar F. Mayer - Oscar Ferdinand Mayer was a German American who founded the processed-meat firm Oscar Mayer that bears his name.
Oscar Hammerstein I - Oscar Hammerstein I was a businessman, theater impresario and composer in New York City.
Oscar Stonorov - Oscar Gregory Stonorov, was a modernist architect and architectural writer, historian and archivist who emigrated to the United States from Germany in 1929.
Oscar Straus (politician) - Oscar Solomon Straus was United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor under President Theodore Roosevelt from 1906 to 1909.
Oskar Morgenstern - Oskar Morgenstern was a German-born Austrian economist.
Oskar Seidlin - Oskar Seidlin; German-born American literary scholar, poet, and writer of children’s stories.
Oswald Ottendorfer - Oswald Ottendorfer was a journalist.
Ottmar Mergenthaler - Ottmar Mergenthaler was a German inventor, who has been called a second Gutenberg because of his invention of a machine that could easily and quickly set movable type.
Otto Boehler - Otto A. Boehler was a United States Army private who received the Medal of Honor for actions during the Philippine–American War.
Otto C. Winzen - Otto C. Winzen was a German - American aeronautics engineer who made significant advances in the materials and construction of balloons after World War II.
Otto Dresel - Otto Dresel was an American composer of German birth.
Otto Eckstein - Otto Eckstein was a German-born economist at Harvard University, member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1964 to 1968, and co-founder of Data Resources Inc. He received an A...
Otto Hermann Kahn - Otto Hermann Kahn was an investment banker, collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts.
Otto Kuhler - Otto Kuhler was an American designer, one of the best known industrial designers of the American railroads.
Otto Laporte - Otto Laporte was a German-born American physicist who made contributions to quantum mechanics, electromagnetic wave propagation theory, spectroscopy, and fluid dynamics.
Otto Loewi - Otto Loewi was a German pharmacologist whose discovery of acetylcholine helped enhance medical therapy.
Otto Voit - Otto Emil Voit was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Otto von Bressensdorf - Ottone Eugeno Camelio Bresselau, who claimed to be Otto von Bressensdorf, was a German-born fraudster in USA. The family name of the Austrian noble von Bressendorfs is Bresselau, Otto is a...
Paul Alfred Biefeld - Dr. Paul Alfred Biefeld was born in Jöhstadt, Saxony, Germany.
Paul Carus - Paul Carus, Ph.D. was a German-American author, editor, a student of comparative religion, and professor of philosophy.
Paul de Bruyn - Paul de Bruyn was a German athlete.
Paul Dobberstein - Paul Matthias Dobberstein was a German American priest and architect.
Paul F. Straub - Paul F. Straub was an Surgeon in the United States Army and a Medal of Honor recipient for his actions in the Philippine-American War.
Paul Follen - Paul Follen was a German-American attorney and farmer, who had founded the Gießener Auswanderungsgesellschaft.
Paul Fromm - Paul Fromm was a Jewish Chicago wine merchant and performing arts patron through the Fromm Music Foundation.
Paul Hindemith - Paul Hindemith was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and conductor.
Paul Mattick - Paul Mattick was a Marxist political writer and activist.
Paul Oskar Kristeller - Paul Oskar Kristeller was an important scholar of Renaissance humanism.
Paul Schettler - Paul August Schettler was a 19th century Latter-day Saint leader and interpreter.
Paul Tillich - Paul Johannes Tillich was a German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher.
Paul Warburg - Paul Moritz Warburg was a Jewish-German-American banker and early advocate of the U.S. Federal Reserve system.
Paul Weigel - Paul Weigel was a German-American actor.
Peer Schneider - Peer Schneider is one of the founders of videogames and entertainment website IGN. He is currently Senior Vice President of Content & Publisher at IGN Entertainment.
Pep Deininger - Otto Charles "Pep" Deininger was a pitcher/center fielder in Major League Baseball who played for two different teams between and.
Peter Bergmann - Peter Gabriel Bergmann was a German-American physicist best known for his work with Albert Einstein on a unified field theory encompassing all physical interactions.
Peter Gay - Peter Gay is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and former director of the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers.
Peter Joseph Osterhaus - Peter Joseph Osterhaus was Union Army General in the American Civil War and later served as a diplomat.
Peter Kappesser - Peter Kappesser was a soldier in the United States Army who received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the American Civil War.
Peter van Eyck - Peter van Eyck, born Götz von Eick, was a German-American actor.
Peter Viertel - Peter Viertel was an author and screenwriter.
Phil Dalhausser - Philip "Phil" Peter Dalhausser is an American professional beach volleyball player.
Phil Rosen - Phil Rosen was an American film director and cinematographer.
Philip Becker - Philip Becker was Mayor of the City of Buffalo, New York, serving 1876–1877 and 1886–1889.
Philip Diehl (inventor) - Philip H. Diehl was a German-American engineer and inventor who held several U.S. patents, including electric incandescent lamps, electric motors for sewing machines and other uses, and ceiling fans.
Philip Dorsheimer - Philip Dorsheimer He came to the United States in 1815, and settled in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Philip Embury - Philip Embury was a Methodist preacher, a leader of one of the earliest Methodist congregations in the United States.
Philip William Otterbein - Philip William Otterbein was a U.S. clergyman.
Philipp Merkle - Philipp Merkle, also known as Philip Merkle and Philip Merkel, was a prominent German-American Freethinker and preacher in New York in the nineteenth century who was active as a Maso...
R. G. Waldeck - Rosie Goldschmidt Waldeck born Rosa Goldschmidt, also known as Rosie Waldeck and by several other variants of her name, was the author of several works including Prelude to the pas...
Rainer Kurt Sachs - Rainer Kurt Sachs is a German-American computational radiation biologist and astronomer.
Ray Forrest - Ray Forrest was a radio staff announcer for NBC, pioneering TV announcer, host and news broadcaster from the very earliest TV era through the 1960s.
Reinhard Bendix - Reinhard Bendix was a sociologist born in Berlin, Germany.
Reinhold Aman - Reinhold Aman is a former chemical engineer and professor of German, and the publisher of Maledicta, a scholarly journal dedicated entirely to the study of offensive language.
Reinhold Solger - Reinhold Ernst Friedrich Karl Solger was a historian, novelist, poet, political activist and lecturer.
Richard Enderlin - Richard Enderlin was a musician and United States Army soldier who received a Medal of Honor for the heroism he displayed when fighting in the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.
Richard Ernest Kunze - Richard Ernest Kunze was a physician.
Richard Lieber - Richard Lieber was a German-American businessman who became the father of the Indiana state parks system.
Richard Musgrave - Richard Abel Musgrave was an American economist of German heritage.
Richard Plant (writer) - Richard Plant was a German-American writer.
Richard W. Guenther - Richard William Guenther was a Prussian-born 19th century politician and pharmacist in Wisconsin.
Robert H. Von Schlick - Robert H. Von Schlick was a German-born United States Army private awarded the Medal of Honor for actions during the Boxer Rebellion.
Robert J. Kleberg - Robert Justus Kleberg, christened Johan Christian Justus Robert Kleberg, was a German Texan from Herstelle, Westphalia, then part of the Kingdom of Prussia.
Robert Kempner - Robert Kempner was a German-born American lawyer.
Robert Koehler - Robert Koehler was a German born painter and art teacher who spent most of his career in the United States of America.
Robert Ray (prosecutor) - Robert William Ray is an American lawyer.
Robert Rosenthal (psychologist) - Robert Rosenthal is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside.
Robert Watke - From 1898 to 1902, Robert F. Watke operated a grain warehouse in Farwell, Nebraska where he challenged the monopoly of the corporate grain elevator companies and the railroad companies.
Rolf Cahn - Ralf Cahn was a folk musician, martial arts teacher, author, and social activist.
Rosanna Osterman - Rosanna Dyer Osterman was a Jewish Texan, Texas pioneer, American Civil War nurse and philanthropist.
Rudolf Arnheim - Rudolf Arnheim was a German-born author, art and film theorist and perceptual psychologist.
Rudolf Carnap - Rudolf Carnap was an influential German-born philosopher who was active in Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter.
Rudolf K. Poecker - Rudolf Kurt Poecker was a German–American baker, missionary, and religious leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Rudolf Löb - Rudolf Löb was a German banker with Mendelssohn & Co. and consultant to the German and Russian governments.
Sally Anne Golden - Sally Anne Golden was born Sally Annaźecsky Goldenni in Dresden, Germany.
Sam Rosen (sportscaster) - Sam Rosen is an American sportscaster, best known as the primary play-by-play announcer for the New York Rangers games on MSG. On June 8, 2008, Rosen was inducted into the National Jewish Sports...
Samuel Adler (rabbi) - Samuel Adler was a leading German-American Reform rabbi, Talmudist, and author.
Semi Joseph Begun - Semi Joseph Begun, usually referred to as S. Joseph Begun, was a German-American engineer and inventor.
Severin Roesen - Severin Roesen is a painter known for his abundant fruit and flower still lifes and is today recognized as one of the major American still-life painters of the mid-nineteenth century.
Siegfried & Roy - Siegfried & Roy are two German-American entertainers known for their long running show of magic and illusion in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Sig Arno - Sig Arno was a German film actor who appeared in such films as Pardon My Sarong, and The Mummy's Tomb.
Sig Ruman - Sig Ruman was a German-American actor known for his comic portrayals of pompous villains.
Sigurd Raschèr - Sigurd Manfred Raschèr was an American saxophonist of German birth.
Simon Bamberger - Simon Bamberger was the fourth Governor of Utah after it achieved statehood from territorial status in 1896.
Simon Suhler - Simon Suhler was a private in the United States Army and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States.
Simran Sethi - Simran Preeti Sethi is an Indian American journalist, television producer, and activist.
Solomon Loeb - Solomon Loeb was an American banker, who was born into a Jewish family in Germany.
Solomon Schindler - Solomon Schindler was a rabbi and author.
Sonia Raiziss - Sonia Raiziss Giop was an American poet, critic, and translator.
Stefan Brecht - Stefan Brecht was a German-born American poet, critic and scholar of theater.
Stefan Hakenberg - Born in Wuppertal, Germany, composer Stefan Hakenberg now resides in Juneau, Alaska.
Susanne Crane - Susanne Maria Crane, born in 1966 in Frankfurt, Germany, is an American artist.
Sylvester Rosa Koehler - Sylvester Rosa Koehler was an author, and the first curator of prints at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Tatjana Wood - Tatjana Wood is an artist who was born Tatjana Weintraub in Darmstadt, Germany.
Theodor August Heintzman - Theodor August Heintzman was a German-born Canadian piano manufacturer and inventor, best known for founding the piano company which still bears his name.
Theodore Regensteiner - Theodore Regensteiner migrated to the USA in 1884.
Theodore Schwan - Theodore Schwan was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War who received the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Peebles' Farm.
Theodore Thomas (conductor) - Theodore Thomas was an American violinist and conductor of German birth.
Thomas Biesinger - Thomas Biesinger was a German convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a Mormon missionary to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Thomas Dooley - Thomas Dooley is a retired German-American soccer defender and defensive midfielder, a long-time member and former captain of the United States national team.
Thomas Franck (lawyer) - Thomas Franck was a lawyer, law professor, and expert on international law.
Thomas Mann - Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and ...
Thomas Nast - Thomas Nast was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist who is considered to be the "Father of the American Cartoon.
Tobias Geye - Tobias "Toby" Geye is a multi-platform Southern California artist.
Tony Sarg - Anthony Frederick Sarg, known professionally as Tony Sarg, was a German American puppeteer and illustrator, described as "America's Puppet Master", and in his biography as the father of m...
Tony Welzer - Anton Frank Welzer was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from through for the Boston Red Sox.
Ulrich Hauber - Ulrich A. Hauber was the 5th president of St. Ambrose College from 1926-1930.
Ursula Pearson - Ursula Pearson Bellah was a German-born, American actress, author, and businesswoman, most famous for her role of Hilda in Teenagers From Outer Space and her autobiographical perspective on Nazi...
Valentin J. Peter - Valentin J. Peter was a Bavarian-born publisher of a German language newspaper called the Omaha Tribüne and the president of the Nebraska chapter of the National German-American Alliance.
Vera Zorina - Vera Zorina was a ballerina, musical theatre actress and choreographer in both Europe and the United States.
Vladimir Kagan - Vladimir Kagan,, furniture designer.
W. Michael Blumenthal - Werner Michael Blumenthal served as United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Jimmy Carter from 1977-1979.
Walter Baade - Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade was a German astronomer who emigrated to the USA in 1931.
Walter Curt Behrendt - Walter Curt Behrendt was a German-American architect and active advocate of German modernism.
Walter Dornberger - Major-General Dr Walter Robert Dornberger was a German Army artillery officer whose career spanned World Wars I and II. He was a leader of Germany's V2 rocket program and other projects at the P...
Walter Gropius - Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering maste...
Walter Kaufmann (philosopher) - Walter Arnold Kaufmann was a German-American philosopher, translator, and poet.
Walter Krueger - Walter Krueger was an American soldier of German descent and General in the first half of the 20th century.
Walter Laqueur - Walter Zeev Laqueur is an American historian and political commentator.
Walter M. Elsasser - Walter Maurice Elsasser was a physicist and is considered "father" of the geodynamo theory.
Walter Midener - Artist Walter Midener was born in Germany, studied at the Berlin Academy of Arts, and received an Master of Arts from Wayne State University.
Walter Riedel - Walter J H "Papa" Riedel was a German engineer who was the head of the Design Office of the Army Research Center Peenemünde and the chief designer of the V-2 rocket..
Walter Wurzburger - Rabbi Walter S. Wurzburger, a leader of Modern Orthodox Judaism and student of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, was born in Munich in March 1920 and emigrated to America in 1938.
Warren Demian Manshel - Warren Demian Manshel was born in Germany and went to school with Henry Kissinger.
Werner Hegemann - Werner Hegemann was a city planner, critic on architecture and author.
Werner Mieth - Werner Meith was a German-American football halfback.
Wernher von Braun - Dr. Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun was a German-American rocket physicist, astronautics engineer, and space architect, becoming one of the leading figures in the development ...
Wilhelm Siegmund Frei - Wilhelm Siegmund Frei was a German dermatologist best known for his contributions to Durand-Nicholas-Favre disease, a sexually transmitted disease found mainly in tropical and subtropical climates.
Wilhelm Smith - Wilhelm Smith was a United States Navy sailor and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor.
Willi Apel - Willi Apel was a German-American musicologist.
William C. Farr - William C. Farr was the fifth mayor of Bayonne, New Jersey from 1891 to 1895.
William Dieterle - William Dieterle was a German actor and film director, who worked in Hollywood for much of his career.
William Heilman - William Heilman was a U.S. Representative from Indiana, great-grandfather of Charles Marion LaFollette.
William J. Archinal - William J. Archinal was an American Civil War Union Army soldier who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Vicksburg.
William Meyer - William Meyer was a United States Navy sailor and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Battle of Cienfuegos during the Spanish-American War.
William Nast (Methodism) - William Nast was a German-born religious leader and editor.
William Prager - William Prager was a German-born US applied mathematician.
William Q. Dallmeyer - William Quintillis Dallmeyer was a German-born Missouri politician.
William Seegers - William Alfred Seegers was, at age 106, one of the last two known remaining veterans of the First World War to have served in the German forces and California's last known World War I veteran.
William Sohmer - William Sohmer was an American politician.
William Steinway - William Steinway, also Wilhelm Steinway,, son of Steinway & Sons founder Henry E. Steinway, was a businessman and civic leader who was influential in the development of Astoria, New York.
William Wells (Medal of Honor) - William Wells was a United States Navy sailor and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the American Civil War.
William Wyler - William Wyler was a leading American motion picture director, producer, and screenwriter.
Willy Ley - Willy Ley was a German-American science writer and space advocate who helped popularize rocketry and spaceflight in both Germany and the United States.
Willy Roy - Willy Roy is a retired U.S. soccer forward and coach.
Willy Schaeffler - Wilhelm Josef "Willy" Schaeffler was an German-American skiing champion, winning coach and ski resort developer.
Willy Schaller - Willy Schaller was a U.S. soccer defender who played most of his career in the German American Soccer League.
Wladimir Seidel - Wladimir P. Seidel was a German-American mathematician.
Wolfgang Klietmann - Dr. Wolfgang Klietmann is a clinical pathologist and medical microbiologist and serves at Harvard Medical School faculty as an appointed Lecturer on Pathology.
Wolfgang Köhler - Wolfgang Köhler was a German psychologist and phenomenologist who, like Max Wertheimer, Fritz Perls, and Kurt Koffka, contributed to the creation of Gestalt psychology.
Wolfgang Langewiesche - Wolfgang Langewiesche aviator, author and journalist, is one of the most quoted authors in aviation writing.
Wolfgang Reitherman - Wolfgang Reitherman, also known and sometimes credited as Woolie Reitherman, was a famed Disney animator and one of Disney's Nine Old Men.
Wolfgang Suhnholz - Wolfgang Suhnholz is an American soccer coach and former player from Germany where his name was spelt Sühnholz.
Wolfgang W.E. Samuel - Wolfgang W.E. Samuel is a German-born American author and a veteran of the United States Air Force.
Wolfgang Zilzer - Wofgang Zilzer was a German-American stage and film actor.
Wolfgang Zuckermann - Wolfgang Joachim Zuckermann is a harpsichord maker, author and environmental and social activist.
Wulf Barsch - Wulf Erich Barsch von Benedikt is a Latter-day Saint artist and professor at Brigham Young University.
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