List of German Americans explained
German Americans (German: link=no|Deutschamerikaner) are citizens of the United States who are of German ancestry; they form the largest ethnic ancestry group in the United States, accounting for 17% of U.S. population.[1] The first significant numbers arrived in the 1680s in New York and Pennsylvania. Some eight million German immigrants have entered the United States since that point. Immigration continued in substantial numbers during the 19th century; the largest number of arrivals moved 1840–1900, when Germans formed the largest group of immigrants coming to the U.S., outnumbering the Irish and English.[2] Some arrived seeking religious or political freedom, others for economic opportunities greater than those in Europe, and others for the chance to start afresh in the New World. California and Pennsylvania have the largest populations of German origin, with more than six million German Americans residing in the two states alone.[3] More than 50 million people in the United States identify German as their ancestry; it is often mixed with other Northern European ethnicities.[4] This list also includes people of German Jewish descent.
Americans of German descent live in nearly every American county, from the East Coast, where the first German settlers arrived in the 17th century, to the West Coast and in all the states in between. German Americans and those Germans who settled in the U.S. have been influential in almost every field, from science, to architecture, to entertainment, and to commercial industry.
Art and literature
Architects
- Dankmar Adler – architect[5] [6]
- Adolf Cluss – architect, builder of numerous public buildings in Washington, D.C.[7]
- Ferdinand Gottlieb – architect heading his own firm, Ferdinand Gottlieb & Associates, based in Dobbs Ferry, New York[8]
- Walter Gropius – pioneer in modern architecture, founder of Bauhaus[9]
- Albert Kahn – industrial architect; known as the "architect of Detroit"[10]
- Richard Kiehnel – senior partner of Kiehnel, Elliot and Chalfant[11]
- Henry C. Koch – architect based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin[12]
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe – architect, academic, and interior designer
- Joseph Molitor – Chicago-based church architect
- John A. Roebling – architect, known for designing the Brooklyn Bridge[13]
- Washington Roebling – civil engineer known for his work on the Brooklyn Bridge, which was designed by his father John A. Roebling[14]
- Frederick C. Sauer – architect, particularly in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, region of the late 19th and early 20th centuries[15] [16]
- Frederick G. Scheibler Jr. – Art Nouveau Pittsburgh architect[17]
- August Schoenborn – helped design the United States Capitol Dome[18]
- Hans Schuler – sculptor and monument maker; first American sculptor to win the Salon Gold Medal[19]
- Adolph Strauch – landscape architect[20]
- Horace Trumbauer – prominent architect of the Gilded Age, known for designing residential manors for the wealthy[21]
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe – pioneer of modern architecture, second Chicago School of Architecture[22]
- Thomas Ustick Walter – fourth Architect of the Capitol, designed the current United States Capitol dome[23]
Artists
- Anni Albers – printmaker, textile artist[24]
- Josef Albers – painter and graphic artist[25]
- Leonard Bahr – portrait painter, muralist, illustrator and educator. He worked for many years as a painting professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)[26]
- Earl W. Bascom – painter, printmaker, and sculptor ("Cowboy of Cowboy Artists")
- Robert Benecke – early photographer[27]
- Albert Bierstadt – painter, known for his large landscapes of the American West[28]
- Richard Bock – sculptor and associate of Frank Lloyd Wright
- Charles Dellschau – one of America's earliest known outsider artists, draftsman engineer, creating drawings, collages and watercolors of airplanes and airships
- Rudolph Dirks – comic strip artist who created The Katzenjammer Kids[29]
- Alfred Eisenstaedt – photographer and photojournalist best remembered for his photograph capturing the celebration of V-J Day[30]
- Jimmy Ernst – painter[31]
- Carl Eytel – artist of desert landscapes living in early 20th-century Palm Springs, California[32]
- Claire Falkenstein – sculptor, painter, print-maker and jewelry designer known for her large-scale abstract metal and glass sculptures
- Andreas Feininger – photographer and writer on photographic technique
- Lyonel Feininger – painter and caricaturist[33]
- Carl Giers – early photographer[34]
- George Grosz – member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group, known especially for his savagely caricatural drawings of Berlin life in the 1920s[35]
- Don Heck – comics artist best known for co-creating the Marvel Comics characters Iron Man and the Wasp, and for his long run penciling the Marvel superhero-team series The Avengers during the 1960s Silver Age of comic books[36]
- Uli Herzner – fashion designer[37]
- Hans Hofmann – abstract expressionist painter[38]
- Ubbe Ert Iwwerks – Academy Award-winning animator, cartoonist and special effects technician, famous for his work for Walt Disney
- Klaus Janson – comic book artist (inker), working regularly for Marvel Comics and DC Comics and sporadically for independent companies
- Ulli Kampelmann – painter and filmmaker
- Kenya (Robinson) – multimedia artist
- Harold Knerr – illustrator of The Katzenjammer Kids until 1949[39]
- Fritz Kredel – woodcut artist and illustrator known for fairy tale and young readers' fiction drawings, delicate and hand-colored botanical woodcuts, and US and European armies' uniforms over time
- John Lewis Krimmel – America's first genre painter[40]
- Dorothea Lange – documentary photographer and photojournalist[41]
- Emanuel Leutze – history painter best known for his painting Washington Crossing the Delaware[42]
- Cornelius Krieghoff – painter[43]
- Nicola Marschall – artist, designed the first Confederate flag and the Confederate uniform[44]
- Louis Maurer – lithographer[45]
- David Muench – landscape and nature photographer known for portraying the American western landscape[46]
- Marc Muench – sports and landscape photographer[46]
- Charles Christian Nahl – painter who is called California's first significant artist[47]
- Thomas Nast – political cartoonist[48]
- Elisabet Ney – sculptor[49]
- Erwin Panofsky – art historian[50]
- William Henry Rinehart – Neoclassical sculptor[51]
- Julian Ritter – Classical Realist painter best known for his paintings of nudes, clowns and portraits and his ill-fated voyage of the South Pacific[52]
- Severin Roesen – still life painter[53]
- Paulus Roetter – landscape and botanical painter[54]
- Christoph Sauer – earliest type founder in America, published the first German Bible, 1743, and the first religious magazine in America, 1764[55]
- Christian Siriano – fashion designer[56]
- Gustavus Sohon – artist[57] [58] [59]
- Henry William Stiegel – glassmaker and ironmaster
- Alfred Stieglitz – photographer instrumental in making photography an acceptable art form alongside painting and sculpture[60]
- Ruth VanSickle Ford – painter, art teacher, and owner of the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts
- Richard Veenfliet – artist known for illustration-figure, genre and landscape
- Patrizia von Brandenstein – production designer
- Kat Von D (Katherine von Drachenberg) – tattoo artist[61] [62]
- Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven – avant-garde, Dadaist artist, and poet
- Baroness Hilla von Rebay – abstract painter, helped establish the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City
- Karl Ferdinand Wimar – painter[63]
- Matt Groening - animator, creator of The Simpsons and Futurama, father is of German-Canadian descent
- Tom Ruegger - animator at Warner Bros. Animation and Disney,creator of Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Histeria and The 7D
- Stephen Hillenburg - animator, creator of SpongeBob SquarePants
- Chuck Jones
- Tex Avery
Authors and writers
- Kathy Acker – author
- Sade Baderinwa – news reporter-journalist
- Matthias Bartgis – printer and publisher[64]
- L. Frank Baum – author, actor, and independent filmmaker best known as the creator of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz[65]
- Dan Brown – author of thriller novels, known for the Robert Langdon series which includes The Da Vinci Code
- Pearl S. Buck – writer and novelist, first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature[66]
- Charles Bukowski – poet and novelist[67]
- Edgar Rice Burroughs – writer, creator of Tarzan[68]
- Caspar Butz – journalist, politician[69]
- Clive Cussler – adventure author and undersea explorer
- George DiCaprio – writer, editor, and major west coast underground comic book distributor[70]
- Theodore Dreiser – author of the naturalist school, known for dealing with the gritty reality of life[71]
- Gottfried Duden – travel author[72]
- Roger Ebert – Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic, journalist, and screenwriter[73]
- Martin Ebon – author of non-fiction books from the paranormal to politics[74]
- Max Ehrmann – widely known for his 1927 prose poem "Desiderata" (Latin: "things desired").[75]
- Joseph Eiboeck – newspaper editor and publisher of Iowa Staats-Anzeiger and author of The Germans in Iowa and Their Achievements[76]
- Charles Follen – poet and patriot[77]
- Cornelia Funke – author[78]
- Geoffrey Hartman – literary theorist[79]
- Ursula Hegi – novelist[80]
- Patricia Highsmith – novelist known for her psychological thrillers[81]
- Friedrich Hirth – sinologue
- Max Hofmann – correspondent
- William Dean Howells – realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters"[82]
- Amal Kassir – international award-winning spoken word poet[83]
- Stephen King – author[84]
- Chuck Klosterman – writer
- Siegfried Kracauer – film historian, sociologist and author[85]
- Herbert Arthur Krause – historian[86]
- D.L. Lang – poet laureate of Vallejo, California[87]
- Fritz Leiber – science fiction writer
- Walter Lippman – writer, journalist, and political commentator
- H. L. Mencken – journalist[88]
- Henry Miller – writer and painter[89]
- Anna Balmer Myers – author of Mennonite (Pennsylvania Dutch) novels[90]
- Oswald Ottendorfer – journalist associated with the development of the German-language New Yorker Staats-Zeitung into a major newspaper[91]
- Sylvia Plath – poet, novelist, and short story writer[92]
- Frederik Pohl – science-fiction writer, editor
- Erich Maria Remarque – German-born author, naturalized United States citizen[93]
- Conrad Richter – Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist[94]
- Hope Aldrich Rockefeller – journalist
- Irma S. Rombauer – author of The Joy of Cooking[95]
- Virginia Satir – author and psychotherapist, called the "mother of family therapy"[96]
- Diane Sawyer – journalist[97]
- Jack Schaefer – author of Shane
- Paul Schrader – screenwriter, film director, and film critic
- Charles Sealsfield – pseudonym of Austrian American author of novels and travelogues Carl (or Karl) Anton Postl
- Dr. Seuss (born Theodor Seuss Geisel) – writer and cartoonist[98]
- Maria Shriver – journalist and author
- Mona Simpson – novelist and university professor, biological younger sister of the late Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs[99] [100]
- Curt Siodmak – screenwriter[101]
- Nicholas Sparks – author and screenwriter
- Gertrude Stein – author[102]
- John Steinbeck – Nobel prize-winning author, one of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century[103] [104]
- Wallace Stevens – modernist poet[105]
- Gene Stratton-Porter – novelist and silent film-era producer
- Henry F. Urban – journalist, author[106]
- Henry Villard – journalist[107]
- Kurt Vonnegut – novelist[108]
- Tessa Gräfin von Walderdorff – writer, socialite[109]
Businesspeople and entrepreneurs
- Philip Anschutz – billionaire businessman who owns or controls many companies in a variety of industries[110]
- John Jacob Astor – business magnate, merchant and investor and the first multi-millionaire in the United States[111] [112] [113]
- John Jacob Astor IV – millionaire businessman, real estate developer, inventor, writer and a lieutenant colonel in the Spanish–American War
- William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor – financier and statesman
- Ralph Baer – father of the home video game console
- John Jacob Bausch – optician who co-founded Bausch & Lomb[114]
- Andy von Bechtolsheim – co-founder of Sun Microsystems and one of the first investors in Google[115]
- Maximilian Berlitz – Berlitz Language School[116]
- Isaac Wolfe Bernheim – businessman notable for starting the I. W. Harper brand of premium bourbon whiskey[117]
- Bernard Baruch – financier, stock-market speculator, statesman, and political consultant[118]
- William Edward Boeing – aviation pioneer who founded The Boeing Company[119]
- Paul Bonwit – founder of Bonwit Teller department store in New York City[120]
- Emil J. Brach – founder of Brach's Candy
- George Brumder – newspaper publisher and businessman in Milwaukee, Wisconsin[121] [122]
- Clyde Cessna – aircraft designer, aviator, and founder of the Cessna Aircraft Corporation[123]
- Walter Chrysler – Chrysler automobile developer[124]
- Frank Crowninshield – first editor of Vanity Fair magazine
- George A. Dickel – whiskey distributor; born in Grünberg, Hesse[125]
- Chris Deering – businessman and marketer best known for his role as president of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe[126]
- Noah Dietrich – CEO of the Howard Hughes empire[127]
- Walt Disney – film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, and philanthropist[128]
- August Duesenberg – automobile pioneer manufacturer[129] [130] [131]
- Fred Duesenberg – automobile pioneer designer, manufacturer and sportsman
- Edward Filene – businessman, social entrepreneur and philanthropist[132]
- Harvey Firestone – founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company[133]
- Henry Flagler – industrialist, co-founder of Standard Oil
- Nicholas C. Forstmann – one of the founding partners of Forstmann Little & Company, a private equity firm[134]
- Theodore J. Forstmann – one of the founding partners of Forstmann Little & Company, a private equity firm, and chairman and CEO of IMG, a leading global sports and media company
- Henry Clay Frick – industrialist, financier and art patron, co-founder of U.S. Steel
- Bill Gates – software magnate and investor, founder and former chairman of Microsoft
- Henry Giessenbier – banker and founder of the Young Men's Progressive Civic Association in 1915 and the United States Junior Chamber in 1920[135]
- Henry J. Heinz – H. J. Heinz Company ketchup founder[136]
- H. J. Heinz II – best known as Jack Heinz, a business executive and CEO of the H. J. Heinz Company
- H. Robert Heller – President and CEO of VISA U.S.A. and Federal Reserve Board of Governors
- Richard Hellmann – company founder of Hellmanns
- Joseph A. Hemann – educator, newspaper publisher, and banker[137]
- Milton S. Hershey – Hershey chocolate founder[138]
- Barron Hilton – chairman of the Hilton Hotel chain and grandfather of Paris Hilton
- Conrad Hilton – founder of the Hilton Hotel chain and great-grandfather of Paris Hilton and Nicky Hilton[139]
- Richard Hilton – hotelier and real estate entrepreneur, father of Paris Hilton
- George A. Hormel – founder of Hormel Foods Corporation[140]
- Steve Jobs – software tycoon, co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc.[141]
- Max Kade – pharmaceutical tycoon, endowed the Max Kade Foundation[142]
- Otto Hermann Kahn – investment banker[143] [144]
- Henry J. Kaiser – industrialist and health care pioneer
- Jawed Karim – co-founder of YouTube and designer of key parts of PayPal
- Edgar J. Kaufmann – department store entrepreneur
- Peter Kern – confectioner and mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee[145]
- John Kluge – television industry mogul[146]
- Klaus Kleinfeld – business executive[147]
- William Knabe – industrialist and piano-manufacturer
- James L. Kraft – first to patent processed cheese; founder of Kraft Foods
- Bernard Kroger – chain grocer founder of the Kroger chain
- Louis Kurz – major publisher of chromolithographs in the late 19th century
- Johan Adam Lemp – father of modern brewing in St. Louis, started the William J. Lemp Brewing Company[148]
- Alfred Lion – co-founder of Blue Note Records[149]
- Solomon Loeb – banker, co-founder of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
- Grover Loening – aircraft manufacturer[150]
- Henry Lomb – co-founded Bausch & Lomb[151] [152]
- George Lucas – film director and producer[153]
- Adolph Luetgert – Chicago businessman of A.L. Luetgert Sausage & Packing Company
- Peter Luger – steak restaurateur[154]
- Abby Rockefeller Mauzé – philanthropist[155]
- Oscar Mayer – meat entrepreneur[156]
- Frederick L. Maytag – founder of the Maytag Company
- George W. Merck – scientist and former president of Merck & Co
- Fred G. Meyer – founder of Fred Meyer
- Maxey Dell Moody Jr. – founder of MOBRO Marine, Inc. and CEO of M. D. Moody & Sons, Inc.
- Elon Musk – co-founder of PayPal Inc.; founder of SolarCity, SpaceX, Hyperloop, and Tesla Motors
- Carrie Marcus Neiman – co-founder of the Neiman-Marcus department store[157]
- Douglas R. Oberhelman – former CEO and Executive Chairman of Caterpillar Inc. in Peoria, Illinois[158]
- Adolph Ochs – newspaper publisher and former owner of The New York Times and The Chattanooga Times (now the Chattanooga Times Free Press)
- Hermann Oelrichs – shipping magnate and owner of Norddeutsche Lloyd Shipping[159]
- Albrecht Pagenstecher – pioneer of the modern paper industry[160]
- Charles Pfizer – founded the Pfizer Inc. pharmaceutical company[161]
- John C. Pritzlaff – founder of the John Pritzlaff Hardware Company, the largest wholesale hardware store in the Midwestern United States until its closure in 1958[162]
- John J. Raskob – builder of the Empire State Building
- Francis Joseph Reitz – banker, civic leader, and philanthropist[163]
- John Augustus Reitz – known as the "Lumber Baron", an entrepreneur, industrialist, banker, civic leader, and philanthropist[164]
- George Remus – famous Cincinnati lawyer and bootlegger during the Prohibition era
- Edwin O. Reischauer – diplomat, educator, and professor at Harvard University
- William Rittenhouse – built the first paper mill in America[165]
- David Rockefeller – banker, philanthropist, world statesman, and the current patriarch of the Rockefeller family
- John D. Rockefeller – oil magnate and philanthropist
- John D. Rockefeller Jr. – industrialist and philanthropist
- John D. Rockefeller III – industrialist and philanthropist
- Laurance Rockefeller – venture capitalist, financier, philanthropist and major conservationist
- John Augustus Roebling – civil engineer, one of the pioneers in the construction of suspension bridges[166]
- Washington Roebling – civil engineer best known for his work on the Brooklyn Bridge
- Jim Rohr – chairman and CEO of PNC Financial Services (PNC Bank)[167]
- Jacob Ruppert – brewer, businessman, National Guard colonel and United States Congressman, owner of New York Yankees from 1915 until 1939[168] [169] [170]
- Christoph Sauer – first German-language printer and publisher in North America
- William Schaus – New York-based art dealer
- August Schell – founded The August Schell Brewing Company in 1860, the second oldest family-owned brewery in America
- Walter Schlage – engineer, inventor, and businessman; founder of Schlage Manufacturing company in San Francisco
- John Schnatter – founder of Papa John's Pizza
- Jacob Schiff – banker and philanthropist
- Julius Schmid – creator of the Sheik condom and the Ramses condom[171] [172]
- Charles M. Schwab – steel magnate (Bethlehem Steel)[173]
- Frank Seiberling – inventor and founder of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Seiberling Rubber Company, Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens[174] [175] [176]
- John Seiberling – founder and inventor of one of the first reaping machines[174] [175] [176]
- Isaac Singer – inventor, actor, and sewing machine entrepreneur
- Joseph Spiegel – founder of Spiegel catalog[177]
- Claus Spreckels – industrialist[178]
- George Steinbrenner – shipping and sports franchise entrepreneur and late owner of the New York Yankees
- Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg – Steinway pianos manufacturer[179]
- Henry William Stiegel – glassmaker and ironmaster and an active lay Lutheran and associate of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg
- Chris Strachwitz – founder and president of Arhoolie Records[180]
- Levi Strauss – creator of the first company to manufacture blue jeans
- Clement Studebaker – founded Studebaker, a wagon, carriage and car manufacturer
- Arthur Hays Sulzberger – publisher of The New York Times, 1935–1961[181]
- John Sutter – pioneer settler/colonizer[182]
- Peter Thiel – co-founder of PayPal Inc.; first outside investor in Facebook, Inc.[183] [184]
- Otto Timm – aircraft manufacturer
- Robert Uihlein Jr. – heir, businessman, polo player and philanthropist[185]
- Frederick Vogel – tanner and businessman from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who spent a single one-year term as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly[186] [187]
- Charles Von der Ahe – co-founder of the Vons Supermarket chain
- Wilfred Von der Ahe – co-founder of the Vons Supermarket chain
- The Warburg Family – bankers
- George Westinghouse – engineer and electricity pioneer[188] [189]
- Oscar Werwath – founder and first president of the Milwaukee School of Engineering in Milwaukee, Wisconsin[190]
- Friedrich Weyerhäuser – timber mogul and founder of the Weyerhaeuser[191]
- Francis Wolff – co-founder of Blue Note Records
- Rudolph Wurlitzer – musical instrument entrepreneur[192]
- Frederick G. Zinsser – American chemical company entrepreneur who founded Zinsser & Company, which synthesized organic chemicals
Brewers
- Eberhard Anheuser – soap and candle maker, president and CEO of Eberhard Anheuser and Company, which eventually became Anheuser-Busch[193]
- Valentin Blatz – beer baron, started the Valentin Blatz Brewing Company[194]
- Adolphus Busch – Anheuser-Busch brewing company founder[195]
- Adolphus Busch III – brewing magnate who was the President and CEO of Anheuser-Busch, 1934–1946
- August Anheuser Busch Sr. – brewing magnate who served as the President and CEO of Anheuser-Busch, 1913–1934
- August Busch IV – president and CEO of Anheuser-Busch
- Gussie Busch – company chairman, 1946–1975, of Anheuser-Busch
- Adolph Coors – Coors beer empire founder[196]
- Matthias Haffen – New York City brewer[197]
- Theodore Hamm – founder of Hamm's Brewery
- Frederick Miller – Miller beer creator[198]
- Frederick Pabst – founder of Pabst Brewery (with Philip Best)
- Tom Pastorius – founded Penn Brewery (Pennsylvania Brewing Co.)[199] [200]
- Frederick Schaefer – beer baron, started F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Company[201] [202]
- Joseph Schlitz – beer baron, founded Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company[203]
- Kosmas Spoetzl – brewer, Shiner Brewery[204] [205]
- Peter P. Straub – founder of Straub Brewery[206]
- August Uihlein – Uhrig Brewery and Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company brewer[207]
- Herman Weiss – first brewmaster in Shiner, Texas
Distillers
Entertainment
Actors
- Gideon Adlon – actress
- Ben Affleck – actor and filmmaker
- Casey Affleck – actor and director
- Eddie Albert (born Edward Albert Heimberger) – stage, film, and character actor, and World War II hero
- Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg) – filmmaker, writer, actor, comedian, and musician
- Mädchen Amick – actress
- Fred Armisen – comedian, actor, musician, writer, and producer
- Fred Astaire – dancer, singer, actor, choreographer, and television presenter[210] [211]
- Odessa A'zion – actress
- Catherine Bach – actress
- Diedrich Bader – actor
- Haley Bennett – actress
- Earl W. Bascom – film actor
- Kim Basinger – actress[212]
- Kristen Bell – actress
- Zazie Beetz – actress
- Candice Bergen – actress[213]
- Frances Bergen (née Westerman) – actress and model
- Ingrid Bergman – actress
- Michael Biehn – actor[214]
- Jessica Biel – actress[215]
- Karen Black – actress
- Curt Bois – actor[216]
- Johnny Yong Bosch – actor
- Julie Bowen – actress
- Eric Braeden – actor[217] [218]
- Marlon Brando – actor[219]
- Lesley-Ann Brandt - actress[220]
- Benjamin Bratt – actor[221]
- Hermann Braun – actor[222]
- Felix Bressart – actor[223]
- Agnes Bruckner – actress[224]
- Sandra Bullock – actress
- Ty Burrell – actor
- Scott Caan – actor
- Nicolas Cage – actor
- Steve Carell - actor
- Dana Carvey – actor, comedian, and producer
- Loan Chabanol – actress
- Sarah Chalke – actress[225]
- Carol Channing – actor
- Claudia Christian – actress[226] [227]
- Mae Clarke (born Violet Mary Klotz) – actress[228]
- Montgomery Clift – actor
- George Clooney – actor, director, producer, screenwriter, activist, businessman, and philanthropist[229]
- Kevin Costner – actor[230]
- Bryan Cranston – actor, director and producer
- Tom Cruise – actor[231]
- Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz) – actor
- Willem Dafoe – actor
- Josh Dallas – actor
- Helmut Dantine – actor[232]
- Doris Day – actress, singer[233] [234]
- Robert De Niro – actor[235]
- James Dean – actor
- Johnny Depp – actor[236]
- Cameron Diaz – actress[237] [238]
- Leonardo DiCaprio – actor[239] [240] [241]
- Angie Dickinson – actress[242]
- Marlene Dietrich – actress[243]
- Peter Dinklage – actor[244]
- Adam Driver – actor[245]
- Patty Duke – actress; mother of Mackenzie Astin and Sean Astin[246]
- Kirsten Dunst – film actress and former model[247]
- Aaron Eckhart – actor
- Zac Efron – actor
- Nicole Eggert – actress[248]
- Erika Eleniak – actress[249]
- Noah Emmerich – actor
- Chris Evans – actor[250]
- Dakota Fanning – actress[251]
- Elle Fanning – actress; younger sister of Dakota Fanning
- Tina Fey – writer, comedian, and actress[252]
- William Fichtner – actor[253]
- Jenna Fischer – actress[254]
- Carrie Fisher – actress
- Jodie Foster – actress[255]
- Jason David Frank (1973–2022) – actor and martial artist
- Dennis Franz (born Dennis Franz Schlachta) – actor[256] [257]
- Brendan Fraser – actor[258]
- Tatiana von Fürstenberg – rock singer and filmmaker; daughter of fashion designers Diane and Prince Egon von Fürstenberg
- James Garner (born James Scott Bumgarner) – actor
- Clark Gable – actor[259]
- Janet Gaynor – actress
- Lillian Gish – actress[260]
- Summer Glau – actress[261]
- Karl Glusman – actor[262] [263] [264]
- Crispin Glover – actor
- Betty Grable – actress, dancer, and singer
- Joel Gretsch – actor
- Andy Griffith – actor
- Harry Groener – actor and dancer
- Lukas Haas – actor
- Gene Hackman – actor
- Thomas J. Hageboeck (1945–1996) – actor
- Uta Hagen – actress[265]
- Jon Hamm – actor[266]
- Chelsea Handler – comedian and actress[267]
- Daryl Hannah – actress
- Melora Hardin – actress and singer
- Mariska Hargitay – actress
- Woody Harrelson – actor
- Cecilia Hart – television and stage actress
- David Hasselhoff – actor[268]
- Anne Hathaway – actress[269]
- Cole Hauser – film and television actor
- Dwight Hauser – actor and film producer
- Wings Hauser – actor, director and film writer
- James Haven – actor[270] [271]
- Rita Hayworth – actress and dancer
- Bill Heck – actor
- Eileen Heckart – actress
- Katherine Heigl – actress[272]
- Tricia Helfer
- Marg Helgenberger – actress[273]
- Richard Henzel – film, TV, and voice-over actor
- Edward Herrmann – television and film actor[274]
- J. G. Hertzler – actor, author, and screenwriter[275]
- Emile Hirsch – actor
- Katie Holmes – actress[276]
- Sofia Hublitz – actress[277]
- Adam Huber – actor
- Rock Hudson – actor
- Tab Hunter – film actor and singer
- Josh Hutcherson – actor
- Martha Hyer – Academy Award-nominated actress[278]
- Gillian Jacobs – film, theater and television actress
- Emil Jannings – first actor to receive the Academy Award for Best Actor[279]
- Van Johnson – film and television actor and dancer who was a major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios during and after World War II[280]
- Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight) – actress
- James Earl Jones – actor
- Leatrice Joy (born Leatrice Joy Zeidler) – silent film era actress
- Victoria Justice – actress
- Vincent Kartheiser – actor[281]
- Gene Kelly – dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer
- Grace Kelly – actress[282]
- Ellie Kemper – actress and comedian
- Nicole Kidman – actress
- Richard Kiel – actor
- Q'orianka Kilcher – actress and singer[283]
- Val Kilmer – actor[284] [285]
- Angela Kinsey – actress
- Chris Klein – actor
- Werner Klemperer – actor
- Kevin Kline – actor[286]
- Liza Koshy – actress, television host, comedian, media personality, and YouTuber
- Don Knotts – actor and comedian[287]
- Johnny Knoxville – actor
- Boris Kodjoe – actor
- David Koechner – actor, comedian, and musician[288]
- Lynne Koplitz – actor and comedian
- Fran Kranz – actor
- Kurt Kreuger – actor
- Diane Kruger – actress
- Mickey Kuhn – actor[289]
- Ashton Kutcher – actor
- Cheryl Ladd – actress and model
- Veronica Lake – actress and pin-up model[290]
- Jessica Lange – actress[291]
- Wesley Lau – film and television actor[292]
- Cyndi Lauper – singer, actress[293]
- Ed Lauter – actor[294]
- Taylor Lautner – actor/martial artist[295]
- Jennifer Lawrence – actress[296]
- Bruce Lee – actor; father of Brandon Lee and Shannon Lee[297]
- Janine Lindemulder – exotic dancer and adult film actress[298]
- Kay Lenz – actress
- Clara Lipman – actress and playwright; sister of Lieder singer Mattie Lipman Marum[299]
- Blake Lively – actress
- Kristanna Loken – actress
- Carole Lombard – actress
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus – actress
- Chad Lowe – actor and director
- Rob Lowe – actor
- Kellan Lutz – fashion model and actor for television and films
- Matilda Lutz – actress
- Chloë Grace Moretz – actress[300]
- Kaitlyn Maher – actress and singer
- John Malkovich – actor
- Jayne Mansfield – actress[301]
- William Mapother – actor
- Marx Brothers – actors
- Matthew McConaughey – actor
- Mia Malkova – pornographic actress
- Candice Michelle – model, actress, WWE wrestler[302]
- Wentworth Miller – actor
- Jason Momoa – actor
- Michelle Monaghan – actress[303]
- Barbara Nichols – actress
- Jack Nicholson – actor and filmmaker[304]
- Nick Nolte – actor[305]
- Bob Odenkirk – actor
- Chris O'Donnell – actor[306]
- Nick Offerman – actor and comedian[307]
- Heather O'Rourke – child actress
- Chord Overstreet – actor
- Jared Padalecki – actor[308]
- Lilli Palmer (born Lillie Marie Peiser) – actress[309]
- Gwyneth Paltrow – actress; daughter of Blythe Danner
- Sarah Jessica Parker – actress[310] [311]
- Gregory Peck – actor
- Evan Peters – actor
- William Petersen – actor and producer[312]
- Michelle Pfeiffer – actress[313]
- Joaquin Phoenix – actor
- Brad Pitt – actor[314]
- Amy Poehler – actress, comedian, producer and writer
- Erich Pommer – actor and film producer[315]
- Chris Pratt – actor[316]
- Laura Prepon – actress
- Freddie Prinze Jr. – actor
- Jürgen Prochnow – actor
- George Raft (born George Ranft) – actor[317]
- Luise Rainer – actress[318]
- John Ratzenberger – actor
- Donna Reed – actress[319]
- Frank Reicher – German-born American actor, director and producer[320]
- Jeremy Renner – actor and musician[321] [322]
- Denise Richards – actress
- Molly Ringwald – actress
- Naya Rivera – actress and singer
- Julia Roberts – actress and producer[323]
- Isabella Rossellini – actress, daughter of Ingrid Bergman
- Andrew Rothenberg – television actor
- Mercedes Ruehl – theater, television and film actor[324]
- Katee Sackhoff – actress
- William Sadler – film and television actor[325] [326]
- Roy Scheider – actor
- August Schellenberg – actor[327]
- Kendall Schmidt – actor and singer – well known for his part in Big Time Rush
- Danielle Schneider – actress, comedian, and writer
- Helen Schneider – actress and singer
- John Schneider – actor and singer
- Liev Schreiber – actor
- Pablo Schreiber – actor
- Ricky Schroder – actor and film director
- Carly Schroeder – actress and model
- Brooke Shields – actress
- Tom Selleck – actor
- Amanda Seyfried – actress
- Sherri Saum – actress
- Elke Sommer – actress
- Josef Sommer – actor[328]
- Shannyn Sossamon – actress, dancer, model, and musician[329]
- Nick Stahl – actor
- Rod Steiger – actor
- Frances Sternhagen – actress
- Emma Stone – actress
- Michael Strahan – retired football player, actor, and television personality
- Meryl Streep – actress
- Ethan Stiefel – dancer, choreographer, and director[330] [331]
- Jeremy Sumpter – actor
- Sydney Sweeney – actress
- Carl Switzer – actor, professional dog breeder and hunting guide
- Ralph Taeger – actor
- Channing Tatum – actor[332]
- Shirley Temple – actress
- Alexis Texas – pornographic actress
- Charlize Theron – actress[333]
- Jonathan Taylor Thomas (born Jonathan Taylor Weiss) – actor
- Uma Thurman – actress; mother is model Nena von Schlebrügge
- Rip Torn – actor and voice actor[334]
- Liv Tyler – actress
- Alida Valli (Maria Laura Altenburger von Marckenstein-Frauenberg) – actress
- Mario Van Peebles – actor and director[335]
- Mike Vogel – actor[336]
- Jon Voight – actor[337]
- Erik von Detten – actor
- Jenna von Oÿ – actress and singer[338]
- Christopher Walken – actor[339]
- Paul Walker – actor[340]
- Erin Wasson – actress and model[341]
- Johnny Weissmuller – Olympic swimmer, actor, best known as Tarzan[342]
- Lois Weber – silent film actress, screenwriter, producer, and director[343]
- George Wendt – actor
- Frank Welker – actor
- Mae West – actress, playwright, screenwriter, and sex symbol[344]
- Vera-Ellen Westmeier Rohe – actress and dancer
- Bruce Willis – actor[345]
- Henry Winkler – actor, comedian, director, producer, and author[346] [347]
- Frank Wolff – actor
- Elijah Wood – actor
- Kari Wuhrer – actress and singer
- Wolfgang Zilzer – actor[348]
- Zendaya – (born Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman) actress
Celebrities
- Glenn Beck – political commentator[349]
- Benjamin C. Bradlee (1921–2014) – editor-in-chief of the Washington Post during the Watergate scandal
- Samantha Brown (born 1970) – television host of several Travel Channel programs
- Pat Buchanan – political commentator
- William F. Buckley Jr. – conservative writer and political commentator, founder of National Review
- Kristin Cavallari – television personality, fashion designer, and actress[350]
- Katie Couric – television and online journalist, presenter, producer, and author[351]
- Walter Cronkite – broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–1981)[352]
- Jeane Dixon – born Lydia Emma Pinckert, astrologer and self-proclaimed psychic, columnist[353]
- Mark Edward Fischbach – YouTuber and actor
- Siegfried Fischbacher – magician
- Willie Geist – television personality, journalist and humorist[354]
- Nicky Hilton – businesswoman, socialite, model, member of the former Hilton Hotel owners family[355]
- Paris Hilton – businesswoman, socialite, model, member of the former Hilton Hotel owners family[356]
- James Holzhauer (born 1984) – game show contestant and professional sports gambler[357]
- Roy Horn – magician
- Kris Jenner – socialite
- Kendall Jenner – socialite and model
- Kylie Jenner – socialite, model, media personality, businesswoman, and billionaire from Kylie Cosmetics
- Alex Jones – conspiracy theorist
- Khloe Kardashian – socialite and model
- Kourtney Kardashian – socialite and model
- Kim Kardashian – television personality, socialite, actress, businesswoman, and model[358]
- Megyn Kelly – journalist, attorney, talk show host
- Jimmy Kimmel – comedian, writer, late night talk show host, game show host, and producer[359]
- Tomi Lahren – political commentator[360]
- Rush Limbaugh – conservative political commentator[361]
- Alicia Menendez – television journalist
- Bridget Marquardt – model and TV personality, reality TV star[362]
- Jenny McCarthy – model, author, activist, actress, Playboy Playmate of the Year, and television personality[363]
- Don Ohlmeyer – TV producer and president of the NBC West Coast
- Keith Olbermann – news anchor, sports and political commentator, and radio sportscaster[364]
- Jeff Probst – game show host and executive producer
- Brad Rutter – game show contestant, TV host, producer, and actor
- Judy Sheindlin – television personality, television producer, author, former prosecutor and family court judge[365]
- Stassi Schroeder – television personality, podcast host, author, fashion blogger, and model[366]
- Ed Schultz – television and radio host, liberal political commentator, former sports broadcaster
- Jerry Springer – television personality, journalist, comedian[367]
- Ruth Westheimer (born 1928) – known as "Dr. Ruth," sex therapist, talk show host, author, professor, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper
Composers and musicians
- Anastacia (full name: Anastacia Lyn Newkirk) – singer-songwriter, and former dancer[368]
- George Antheil – avant-garde composer, pianist, author, and inventor[369]
- Bibi Bourelly – singer
- Andy Biersack – lead singer of Black Veil Brides
- Bix Beiderbecke – jazz cornet player and a classical and jazz pianist
- Jon Bon Jovi – singer and musician[370]
- Eva Cassidy – singer[371]
- J. Cole – rapper, songwriter, record producer[372]
- Tre Cool – punk rocker[373]
- Patrick Dahlheimer – bassist for the band Live[374]
- Walter Johannes Damrosch – conductor
- John Denver (born Henry John Deutschendorf Jr.) – musician[375]
- Edsel Dope (born Brian Ebejer) – lead singer of Dope
- Dave Dudley – (born David Darwin Pedruska) – country music singer
- David Ellefson – co-founder of thrash metal band Megadeth
- Eminem – rapper and actor[376] [377]
- Nancy Faust – former stadium organist for Major League Baseball's Chicago White Sox
- Lukas Foss – conductor[378]
- Chris Frantz – musician and record producer; the drummer for both Talking Heads and the Tom Tom Club
- Norman Frauenheim – pianist and music teacher[379]
- Ace Frehley – band member of Kiss[380]
- Hugo Friedhofer – film music composer[381]
- G-Eazy – rapper
- Louis F. Gottschalk – composer
- Dave Grohl – musician[382] [383]
- Hilary Hahn – violinist[384]
- Daryl Hall – co-founder and principal lead vocalist of Hall & Oates[385]
- Jeff Hanneman – guitarist of Slayer
- Reinhold Heil – film and television composer[386]
- Otto K. E. Heinemann – manager for the U.S. branch of German-owned Odeon Records
- James Hetfield – vocalist, rhythm guitarist and co-founder of Metallica
- Elbert Joseph Higgins – songwriter[387]
- Paul Hindemith – composer, violinist and teacher[388]
- Hanya Holm – choreographer[389]
- Horst P. Horst – photographer[390]
- Terry Kath – first guitarist of the rock band Chicago
- Josh Kaufman – singer-songwriter and season six winner of NBC's The Voice
- John Kiffmeyer – first drummer of the punk rock band Green Day
- Otto Klemperer – conductor
- Alison Krauss – bluegrass-country singer-songwriter, and musician
- Nick Lachey – pop singer
- Armando Lichtenberger Jr. – member of musical band La Mafia
- Charles Martin Loeffler – composer[391]
- Courtney Love – actress and frontwoman of Hole[392]
- Marilyn Manson – front man of rock band Marilyn Manson
- Martina McBride – country music singer-songwriter and record producer
- Melissa Auf der Maur – rock singer
- Alyson Michalka – actress, singer-songwriter, and guitarist[393]
- Amanda Michalka – actress, singer-songwriter, and guitarist
- Sanford A. Moeller – rudimental drummer, national champion, educator, author and Spanish–American War veteran
- Tomo in der Mühlen – DJ, producer and guitar player, known for work with Harold Perrineau, Masta Ace, Styles P, and Ekatarina Velika
- Dave Mustaine – co-founder of thrash metal band Megadeth and first lead guitarist for thrash metal band Metallica
- Charles Theodore Pachelbel – baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist, son of Johann Pachelbel
- James Pankow – trombone player for the rock band Chicago
- Jaco Pastorius – musician and songwriter widely acknowledged for his virtuosity with the fretless bass[394]
- Jaan Patterson – founder of the Surrism-Phonoethics label, also known as Undress Béton
- Les Paul (born Lester William Polsfuss) – jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor[395]
- Katy Perry – singer and songwriter
- Kim Petras – German singer and songwriter based in Los Angeles
- Philip Phile – composer, best known for "The President's March", composed for the inauguration of President George Washington
- Pink (Alecia Beth Moore) – singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress[396]
- Jimmy Pop – musician, composer, comedian and lead singer of the Bloodhound Gang
- Elvis Presley – singer-songwriter, and actor[397]
- Charlie Puth — singer-songwriter, brother of Stephen Puth[398]
- R.A. the Rugged Man - rapper and producer
- Dee Dee Ramone – bassist for the Ramones[399]
- Trent Reznor – musician, film score composer and founder of Nine Inch Nails[400]
- Olivia Rodrigo – singer and actress
- Heinz Eric Roemheld – composer; won the Academy Award for Best Original Music Score for Yankee Doodle Dandy in 1943[401] [402]
- Linda Ronstadt – singer-songwriter[403] [404]
- Dieter Ruehle – stadium organist for Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Dodgers and National Hockey League's Los Angeles Kings[405]
- Nate Ruess – singer-songwriter and musician, best known as the lead vocalist of indie rock band Fun
- Felix Salten – composed scores for some 150 Hollywood movies[406]
- Arnold Schoenberg – expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School[407]
- Nico Schüler – music theorist, musicologist, musician, composer, educator
- Wesley Schultz – guitarist and lead vocalist for the American folk rock band The Lumineers
- Pete Seeger – folk singer
- John Philip Sousa – composer and conductor of the late Romantic era, known particularly for American military and patriotic marches[408]
- James Shaffer – co-founder and guitarist of the nu metal band Korn
- Paul Stanley – musician from the band KISS, of Jewish descent
- Frederick Stock – composer and conductor with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Mark Stoermer – musician, producer and singer-songwriter; bassist for alternative rock band the Killers[409]
- Joel Stroetzel – guitarist from the metalcore band Killswitch Engage
- Alec John Such - musician and former member of bon Jovi[410]
- Taylor Swift – singer-songwriter[411] [412]
- Lil Peep († 2017) – rapper, singer-songwriter
- Machine Gun Kelly – rapper, singer and actor
- Theodore Thomas – conductor[413]
- Obie Trice – rapper
- Steven Tyler – lead singer of Aerosmith
- Eddie Vedder – lead vocalist of Pearl Jam
- Kurt Weill – composer[414]
- Lawrence Welk – bandleader[415]
- Pete Wentz – bassist for Fall Out Boy[416]
- Hans Zimmer – Academy Award-winning film composer
- Wolfgang Zuckermann – harpsichord maker and writer[417] [418] [419]
Directors, producers, screenwriters, and film editors
- Robert Altman – film director, screenwriter, and producer
- Michael Ballhaus – cinematographer[420]
- Gesine Bullock-Prado – pastry chef, TV personality, author, attorney, and former film executive[421] [422]
- Frank Dexter (1882–1965) – German-born American art director[423]
- Roy O. Disney – entertainment industry executive
- Roland Emmerich – Hollywood film director[424]
- Paul Feig – actor and director
- Steven Fischer – producer and director; two-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee
- Ray Harryhausen – visual effects creator, writer, and producer
- Jim Jarmusch – film director and screenwriter
- Carl Laemmle – pioneer in American filmmaking and a founder of one of the original major Hollywood movie studios
- Ernst Lubitsch – acclaimed film director, special Academy Award winner[425] [426]
- Anthony Mann – film director and actor[427]
- Richard C. Meyer – German-American television and film editor
- Russ Meyer – director and photographer[428]
- F. W. Murnau – film director of the silent era
- Seymour Nebenzahl – film producer[429]
- Kurt Neumann – Hollywood film director who specialized in science fiction[430]
- Mike Nichols – Academy Award-winning film director, writer and producer[431]
- Arch Oboler – scriptwriter, novelist, producer and director who was active in films, radio and television
- Wolfgang Petersen – director[432]
- Kelly Reichardt – screenwriter and film director working within American indie cinema
- Gottfried Reinhardt – producer and director[433]
- Ringling brothers – circus owners[434]
- Victor Schertzinger – composer, film director, film producer, and screenwriter[435]
- Eugen Schüfftan – cinematographer and inventor[436]
- Nev Schulman – producer, actor, and photographer
- Reinhold Schünzel – director and actor[437]
- Robert Siodmak – director[438]
- Wim Wenders – film director[439]
- William Wyler – film director[440]
- Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. – Broadway impresario, notable for his series of theatrical revues, the Ziegfeld Follies[441]
- George Lucas-director, founder of Lucasfilm, of German and Swiss-German descent
- Matt Groening-animator, cartoonist, creator of The Simpsons and Futurama franchises and Disenchantment, father is of German-Canadian descent
Humorists
Models
First Ladies of the United States
(in order by their husband's presidency)
Historical figures
- Harry J. Anslinger – United States government official who served as the first commissioner of the United States Department of the Treasury's Federal Bureau of Narcotics, supporter of prohibition and the criminalization of drugs, and played a pivotal role in cannabis prohibition[452] [453]
- Neil Armstrong – astronaut, first human to set foot on the Moon
- George Atzerodt – assassin, conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln[454]
- Meta Schlichting Berger – socialist organizer[455]
- Frank Borman – astronaut, commander of the Apollo 8 mission, the first to fly around the Moon
- Warren E. Burger (1907–1995) – Chief Justice of the United States, 1969–86[456]
- Willard Erastus Christianson aka Matt Warner – Old West outlaw, deputy sheriff
- Adolph Douai – educational reformer, abolitionist, newspaper editor, and labor leader[457]
- Amelia Earhart – aviation pioneer and author, the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross[458]
- Johann Friedrich Ernst – "Father of German Immigration to Texas", arriving in 1831[459] [460]
- Bobby Fischer – chess prodigy, grandmaster, and the eleventh World Chess Champion[461]
- Henry Francis Fisher – German Texan in Houston, Texas, where he was consul for the Hanseatic League, became acting treasurer of the San Saba Company[462]
- Meyer Guggenheim (1828–1905) – statesman, patriarch of what became known as the Guggenheim family[463]
- Frank Gusenburg – gangster and a victim of the Saint Valentine's Day massacre in Chicago[464]
- Peter Gusenberg – member of Chicago's North Side Gang, the main rival to the Chicago Outfit
- John F. Hartranft – military officer, awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in the First Battle of Bull Run, served as the 17th governor of Pennsylvania
- Bruno Hauptmann – Lindbergh kidnapper[465]
- Mary Hays – American Revolutionary War hero
- Alfons Heck – writer and former Hitler Youth[466]
- Friedrich Hecker – revolutionary[467]
- Michael Hillegas – first Treasurer of the United States[468]
- Alger Hiss – American government official accused in 1948 of having spied for the Soviet Union in the 1930s, original surname of "Hesse"[469]
- Jimmy Hoffa – labor union leader and author[470]
- J. Edgar Hoover – first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
- Lena Kleinschmidt – jewel thief
- Fritz Kuhn – German American Bund leader[471]
- Maria Kraus-Boelté – pioneer of Fröbel education in the United States, and helped promote kindergarten training as suitable for study at university level
- Herman Lamm – considered the "father of modern bank robbery"
- Johann Lederer – explorer[472] [473]
- Jacob Leisler – colonist[474]
- Frank J. Loesch – law enforcement official, reformer and a founder of the Chicago Crime Commission
- Kurt Frederick Ludwig – head of the "Joe K" spy ring in the United States in 1940–41
- Paul Machemehl – German-Texan, rancher and civic leader
- Fredericka Mandelbaum – entrepreneur and criminal
- Nicola Marschall – designer of the first national flag and uniform of the Confederacy[475]
- Christene Mayer – aka "Kid Glove Rosey", famous thief and associate of "Black" Lena Kleinschmidt
- Burchard Miller – Texas land pioneer
- Peter Minuit – Director-General of the Dutch colony of New Netherland[476]
- Charles Mohr – pharmacist[477]
- Duncan Niederauer – CEO of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)[478] [479]
- Madge Oberholtzer – schoolteacher who worked for the state of Indiana on adult literacy
- Franz Daniel Pastorius – pioneer and founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania[480]
- Robert Prager – Illinois coal miner lynched during World War I because of anti-German sentiment
- Hermann Raster – Chicago politician, editor, and abolitionist
- Walter Reuther – labor leader
- Rockefeller family – industrial and political family that made one of the world's largest fortunes in the oil business during the late 19th and early 20th centuries
- Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. – historian, social critic, and public intellectual[481]
- August Schrader – engineer and mechanic[482]
- Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. – Lindbergh kidnapping investigator
- Dutch Schultz (born Arthur Flegenheimer) – New York City-area gangster[483]
- Margarethe Schurz – established the kindergarten system in the United States
- Frank "The German" Schweihs – alleged hitman who had been known to work for The Outfit, the organized crime family in Chicago
- Jacob Shallus – penman of the original copy of the United States Constitution
- Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels – "Texas-Carl" was an Austro-Hungarian Lieutenant General and founder of the town New Braunfels, Texas
- Jacob Sternberger – historian and one of the original Forty-Eighters
- Ida Straus – victim of the sinking of the RMS Titanic
- Isidor Straus – former co-owner of Macy's and victim of the sinking of the RMS Titanic
- Chesley Sullenberger – commercial airline pilot, safety expert, and accident investigator; piloted US Airways Flight 1549 to a safe ditching in the Hudson River in New York City
- John Sutter – settler/colonizer[484]
- Count Ludwig Joseph von Boos-Waldeck – organized the Adelsverein to promote German emigration to Texas[485]
- Paul Warburg – banker
- Charles Maria Weber – pioneer of California and founder of Stockton, California
- John Henry Weber – fur trader and explorer in the Rocky Mountains. The Weber River, Weber State University, and Weber County, Utah, were named after him.
- Louis J. Weichmann – witness for the prosecution in the conspiracy trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Conrad Weiser – pioneer, farmer, monk, tanner, judge, soldier, interpreter and diplomat between the Pennsylvania Colony and Native Americans[486]
- Lewis Wetzel – frontiersman and Indian fighter
- Adam Worth – crime boss and fraudster
- John Peter Zenger – printer, publisher, editor and journalist in New York City[487]
- David Ziegler – first mayor of Cincinnati; Revolutionary War Veteran and aide to president George Washington
Military
- Rosemarie Aquilina – Judge, Michigan Army National Guardswoman, Michigan's first female member of the Judge Advocate General's Corps[488]
- Otto Boehler – United States Army private awarded the Medal of Honor for actions during the Moro Rebellion during the Philippine–American War
- Johann August Heinrich Heros von Borcke – Major in the Confederate army[489]
- John Boyd – United States Air Force fighter pilot and Pentagon consultant during the second half of the 20th century[490]
- Arent S. Crowninshield (1843–1908) – Commander of the USS Maine
- George Armstrong Custer (1839–1876) – United States Army cavalry commander[491] [492]
- Thomas Custer – United States Army officer and two-time recipient of the Medal of Honor for bravery during the American Civil War; a younger brother of George Armstrong Custer, perishing with him at Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory
- Konrad Dannenberg – rocket pioneer and member of the German Rocket Team, brought to the U.S. under Operation Paperclip
- Dieter Dengler – German born United States Navy Naval aviator during the Vietnam War
- Hubert Dilger – decorated artillerist in the Union Army during the American Civil War
- Walter Dornberger – leader of Germany's V-2 rocket program and other projects at the Peenemünde Army Research Center, brought to the U.S. under Operation Paperclip
- Johann de Kalb – Major general in the American Revolution
- Frank Finkel – claimed to be the only white survivor of the Battle of Little Big Horn[493]
- Friedrich Hecker – lawyer, politician, revolutionary and Civil War colonel
- Lewis Heermann – commissioned Surgeon's Mate in the United States Navy February 8, 1802; in 1942, the destroyer was named in his honor
- Nicholas Herkimer – commanding general at Battle of Oriskany, American Revolutionary War
- Daniel Hiester – political and military leader from the Revolutionary War period to the early 19th century
- John Hiester – military leader from the Revolutionary War period to the early 19th century
- Ralph Ignatowski – soldier, of German and Polish descent, World War II veteran
- August Kautz – Brigadier general /Union Army officer[494]
- Walter Krueger – United States Army general during World War II and military historian
- Eugene H. C. Leutze – admiral of the United States Navy, appointed to the United States Naval Academy by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863
- Frank Luke – aviator in World War I, Medal of Honor recipient
- Aleda E. Lutz – American Army flight nurse during World War II, second-most decorated woman in American military history
- Marc Mitscher – Vice Admiral in the U.S. Navy; served as commander of the Fast Carrier Task Force in the Pacific in the latter half of World War II
- Peter Muhlenberg – clergyman, soldier and a politician of the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Post-Revolutionary eras in Pennsylvania
- Chester W. Nimitz – Commander in Chief of Pacific Forces for the United States and Allied forces during World War II[495]
- Peter Osterhaus – Union Army general in the American Civil War, later serving as a U.S. diplomat
- John J. Pershing – officer in the United States Army, rose to the highest rank ever held in the U.S. Army – General of the Armies
- Friedrich Adolf Riedesel – regiment commander of the Duchy of Brunswick (Braunschweig) unit hired by the British during the American Revolution
- Alexander Schimmelfennig – American Civil War general in the Union Army[496]
- James Martinus Schoonmaker – colonel in the Union Army in the American Civil War and a vice-president of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad[497]
- Theodore Schwan – officer who served with distinction during the American Civil War, Spanish–American War and the Philippine–American War
- Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. – United States Army General
- Albert Sieber – U.S. Civil War veteran, Chief of Scouts for much of the Apache Wars
- Franz Sigel – teacher, newspaperman, politician, and served as a Union general in the American Civil War
- Carl Andrew Spaatz – general in World War II[498]
- Adolph von Steinwehr – served as a Union general in the American Civil War
- Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben – German–Prussian general; served with George Washington in the American Revolutionary War[499]
- Gustav Tafel – colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War
- Stephen J. Townsend – U.S. Army general, served with the 10th Mountain Division during the war in Afghanistan; born in (West) Germany[500]
- Max Weber – brigadier general in the Union army during the American Civil War;[501]
- Lewis Wetzel – frontiersman and Indian fighter who roamed the hills of western Virginia and Ohio; Wetzel County, West Virginia, is named for him
- Godfrey Weitzel – Major General in the Union army during the American Civil War[502]
- August Willich – general in the Union Army during the American Civil War[503] [504]
- Charles Henry Wilcken – artilleryman who was awarded the Iron Cross by the King of Prussia, Frederick William IV
- Jurgen Wilson – Union Army officer during the American Civil War
- Frederick C. Winkler – lieutenant colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War
- Chuck Yeager – United States Air Force officer, test pilot, and flying ace, first confirmed person to exceed the speed of sound in flight
Philosophers
Politicians and public servants
- John Peter Altgeld – former Union troop, Illinois governor and leading figure of the Progressive Era movement
- Edward L. Bader – politician who served as mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey
- William B. Bader – Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs 1999–2001
- Gerhard Adolph Bading – physician, politician, and diplomat[511]
- Charles Augustus Barnitz – Anti-Masonic member of the United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 11th congressional district from 1833 to 1835
- Martin Baum – former mayor of Cincinnati, fought with General Anthony Wayne at the Battle of Fallen Timbers
- Paul Bechtner – newspaper editor of Abendpost, manufacturer, and Wisconsin State Assembly politician[512]
- Henry C. Berghoff – mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana, Cofounder of the Herman J. Berghoff Brewing Company, lawyer, and businessman[513]
- Richard Blumenthal – United States Senator from Connecticut since 2011
- John Bohn – mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from 1942 to 1948[514]
- Philip Becker – mayor of Buffalo, New York, 1876–1877 and 1886–1889[515]
- Martin Grove Brumbaugh – Pennsylvania's 25th governor (Republican)[516]
- Henry Burk – former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
- Benjamin Williams Crowninshield – 5th United States Secretary of Navy (1815–1818), and member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusett's 2nd district (1823–1832)
- Jacob Crowninshield – member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusett's 2nd district (1803–1808)
- William Q. Dallmeyer – Missouri politician[517]
- Thomas Dixon Jr. – politician, lawyer
- William J. Diehl – served as mayor of Pittsburgh, 1899–1901, a thirty-third degree mason[518]
- George Anthony Dondero – U.S. representative from Michigan
- Gerhard Anton (Anthony) Eickhoff – journalist, editor, author, lawyer, United States Congress representative of New York City, United States Treasury auditor and New York City Fire Commissioner
- Timothy Geithner – U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
- William Goebel – controversial politician who served as governor of Kentucky for a few days in 1900 before being assassinated
- Richard W. Guenther – 19th-century politician and pharmacist from Wisconsin
- Charles Godfrey Gunther – Mayor of New York, 1864–1866
- Paul Grottkau – socialist political activist and newspaper publisher[519]
- Louis F. Haffen – two-time borough president for Bronx, New York, 1898–1909
- John Paul Hammerschmidt – served for 13 terms in the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas[520]
- William Havemeyer – mayor of New York City (1845–1846, 1848–1849, and 1873–1874)
- John Hay – statesman and diplomat, private secretary to Abraham Lincoln, served under William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt[521]
- Max W. Heck – politician and jurist[522]
- Julius Heil – governor of Wisconsin, 1939–1943
- H. Robert Heller – governor of the Federal Reserve System, 1986–1989 and president of Visa Inc.
- Daniel Hiester (1747–1804) U.S. congressman
- Gabriel Hiester (1749–1824) Pennsylvania political leader
- Isaac Ellmaker Hiester (1824–1871) U.S. congressman
- John Hiester (1745–1821) U.S. congressman
- Joseph Hiester (1752–1832) U.S. congressman and governor of Pennsylvania[523]
- Daniel Hiester the younger (1774–1834) U.S. congressman
- William Hiester (1790–1853) US congressman
- William Muhlenberg Hiester – (1818–1878) political and military leader in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
- Gustav A. Hoff (1852–1930) – German-born American politician and businessman active in Arizona Territory[524]
- Franz Hübschmann – physician and political leader in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Vera Katz – 45th mayor of Portland, Oregon
- Henry Kissinger – former Secretary of State
- John C. Koch – Republican politician who served two terms as mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Matt Koehl – leader of the American Nazi Party
- Gustav Koerner – lieutenant governor of Illinois, 1853–1857, U.S. ambassador to Spain, and one of the original Dreissiger[525]
- Ferdinand Kuehn – Milwaukee politician[526]
- Louis Kuehnle – politician; considered a pioneer in the growing resort town of Atlantic City in the late 1880s
- Oscar Marx – mayor of Detroit from 1913 to 1918[527] [528] [529]
- Christopher Gustavus Memminger – first Confederate States Secretary of the Treasury, 1861–1864[530]
- Baron Otfried Hans von Meusebach – Prussian bureaucrat, later an American farmer, politician, and member of the Texas Senate
- Frederick Muhlenberg – minister and politician who was the first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
- Peter Muhlenberg – clergyman, soldier and politician of the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Post-Revolutionary eras in Pennsylvania
- Karl E. Mundt – U.S. senator and congressman
- Paul Henry Nitze – Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient[531]
- Henry Paulson – U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
- William C. Rauschenberger – Republican politician who served as mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin[532]
- Luke Ravenstahl – Pittsburgh mayor[533] [534]
- Denny Rehberg – lieutenant governor of Montana, 1991–1997 and U.S. representative for Montana's at-large congressional district, 2001–2013
- Joseph Ritner – eighth governor of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, elected as a member of the Anti-Masonic Party
- William E. Rodriguez (1879–1970) – socialist politician and lawyer; first Hispanic elected to the Chicago City Council[535]
- Edward Salomon – governor of Wisconsin during the Civil War
- Edward S. Salomon – Union brigadier general in the Civil War, later became governor of Washington Territory and a California legislator
- Harry Sauthoff – lawyer, Wisconsin State Senator, also served in the United States House of Representatives
- Solomon Scheu – mayor of Buffalo, New York, in office 1878–1880
- Gustav Schleicher – U.S. Representative from Texas, serving briefly in Texas legislature and veteran of the Confederate Army[536]
- Gustav A. Schneebeli – former member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Pennsylvania
- Frederick A. Schroeder – industrialist and politician
- Carl Schurz – statesman and reformer, and Union Army general in the American Civil War[537]
- Emil Seidel – mayor of Milwaukee, 1910–1912 and the vice presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America in the 1912 presidential election[538] [539]
- John Andrew Shulze – Pennsylvania political leader and 6th governor of Pennsylvania
- August Siemering – writer, political leader and Forty-Eighter
- Jackie Speier – member of the United States House of Representatives for California's 12th and 14th districts, serving since 2008
- Harold Stassen 25th governor of Minnesota, 1939–1943
- Edward Stettinius Jr. – U.S. Secretary of State 1944–1945
- Jesse Ventura – former governor of Minnesota (1999–2003)
- Paul Volcker – 12th chairman of the Federal Reserve, 1979–1987
- Robert F. Wagner – U.S. senator from New York, 1927–1949
- Emil Wallber – mayor of Milwaukee from 1884 to 1888, during the Great Labor Strike of 1886[540]
- Carl Zeidler – mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from 1940 to 1942[541]
- Frank Zeidler – mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, serving three terms from April 20, 1948, to April 18, 1960[541]
- Robert Zoellick – eleventh president of the World Bank, former United States Deputy Secretary of state and United States Trade Representative
Religious
- Joseph Breuer – leader of the Orthodox Jewish community of Washington Heights, Manhattan; very well known for his involvement in setting up an Orthodox Jewish infrastructure in post-World War II America
- Conrad Beissel – religious leader who in 1732 founded the Ephrata Community in Pennsylvania
- Raymond Philip Etteldorf – Roman Catholic Archbishop and author
- George J. Geis – Baptist missionary in Kachin State, Burma[542]
- Robert Graetz – Lutheran clergyman[543]
- Barbara Heck – 1768 – founder of the first Methodist church in New York
- Joseph J. Himmel – Catholic priest and member of the Society of Jesus, missionary and retreat master, and president of Gonzaga College and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
- Samuel Hirsch – philosopher and rabbi
- Johannes Kelpius – pietist, mystic, musician, and writer
- Kathryn Kuhlman – 20th-century faith healer and Pentecostal arm of Protestant Christianity
- Benjamin Kurtz – Lutheran pastor and theologian[544]
- Barbara Heinemann Landmann – spiritual leader of the Amana Colonies
- Alexander Mack – Germantown, Pennsylvania New World religious leader
- Christian Metz – inspirationalist
- Albert Gregory Meyer – Roman Catholic Archbishop of Chicago
- Henry K. Moeller – Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cincinnati
- John Gottlieb Morris – Lutheran minister who played an influential role in the evolution of the Lutheran church in America[545]
- Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg – Lutheran clergyman
- St. John Neumann – Bishop of Philadelphia (1852–60) and the first American bishop to be canonized[546]
- Reinhold Niebuhr – Protestant theologian best known for his work relating the Christian faith to the realities of modern politics and diplomacy
- William Passavant – Lutheran minister noted for bringing the Lutheran Deaconess movement to the United States[547]
- George Rapp – founder of the religious sect called Harmonists, Harmonites, Rappites, or the Harmony Society[548]
- Augustus Rauschenbusch – clergyman[549]
- Walter Rauschenbusch – theologian and Baptist pastor who taught at the Rochester Theological Seminary[550]
- August Karl Reischauer – Presbyterian missionary in Japan
- Joseph Cardinal Ritter – Roman Catholic Archbishop and Cardinal of the Church, desegregated schools in his two archdioceses in the mid-1940s
- George Erik Rupp – educator and theologian, the former President of Rice University and later of Columbia University, and president of the International Rescue Committee
- Francis Xavier Seelos – Roman Catholic missionary priest beatified in 2000[551]
- Joseph Strub – founder of what is today Duquesne University, which was called the Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost until 1911[552]
- Billy Sunday – evangelist
- Paul Tillich – Protestant theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher
- C. F. W. Walther – Lutheran clergyman, professor, seminary president, editor, and first president of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod
- Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf – founded the town of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where his daughter Benigna organized the school that would become Moravian College[553]
- Dieter F. Uchtdorf – apostle and current second counselor in the First Presidency within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Scientists and inventors
- Howard H. Aiken – physicist and computing pioneer[554]
- David Alter – inventor, physicist and doctor
- Reinhold Aman – chemical engineer and publisher of Maledicta[555]
- Rudolf Arnheim – author, art and film theorist, and perceptual psychologist; learned Gestalt psychology from studying under Max Wertheimer and Wolfgang Köhler at the University of Berlin and applied it to art[556]
- Walter Baade – astronomer[557]
- Earl W. Bascom – inventor of rodeo equipment[558]
- Max Bentele – pioneer in the field of jet aircraft turbines and mechanical engineering[559]
- Hans Albrecht Bethe – nuclear physicist who won a Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the nuclear energy sources of stars (1967)
- Franz Boas – anthropologist and ethnologist best known for his work with the Kwakiutl Indians in British Columbia, Canada
- Karl Brandt – economist
- Magnus von Braun – chemical engineer, Luftwaffe aviator, and rocket scientist at Peenemünde, the Mittelwerk, and after emigrating to the United States via Operation Paperclip, at Fort Bliss; brother of Wernher von Braun[560]
- Wernher von Braun – rocket scientist, aerospace engineer, space architect[561]
- Hermann Collitz – eminent German historical linguist and Indo-Europeanist[562]
- Arthur Compton – physicist, discovered the Compton effect[563]
- Werner Dahm – NASA rocket scientist[564]
- Kurt H. Debus – rocket engineer and NASA director
- Hans Georg Dehmelt – physicist[565]
- Max Delbrück – biophysicist[566]
- Krafft Arnold Ehricke – rocket-propulsion engineer
- Ernst R. G. Eckert – scientist
- Otto Eckstein – economist[567]
- Albert Einstein – theoretical physicist, philosopher and author[568]
- Douglas Engelbart – inventor, computer and Internet pioneer
- George Engelmann – botanist[569]
- Katherine Esau – botanist[570]
- Paul Flory – Nobel Prize-winning chemist
- James Franck – physicist[571]
- John Fritz – pioneer of iron and steel technology who has been referred to as the "Father of the U.S. Steel Industry"[572]
- John Froelich – invented the first successful gasoline-powered tractor with forward and reverse drive[573]
- Frieda Fromm-Reichmann – psychoanalyst, founded William Alanson White Institute[574]
- Herbert Spencer Gasser – Nobel Prize-winning physiologist
- Ernst Geissler – NASA aerospace engineer[575]
- William Paul Gerhard – sanitary engineer
- Edward Glaeser – economist and Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University
- Heinrich Göbel – precision mechanic and inventor, who was long seen as an early pioneer who independently developed designs for an incandescent light bulb, though this claim is seen as unlikely today
- Kurt Gödel – logician, mathematician, and philosopher
- Maria Goeppert Mayer – Nobel Prize-winning physicist[576]
- Martin Gruebele – biophysicist and Computational biologist, currently associated with many departments at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
- Dietrich Gruen – timepiece or wristwatch maker; founded the Gruen Watch Company in Ohio
- Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht – literary theorist and professor at Stanford University
- Walter Haeussermann – NASA rocket scientist[577]
- Hermann August Hagen – entomologist who specialised in Neuroptera and Odonata
- Ewald Heer – aerospace engineer
- Michael Heidelberger – regarded as the father of modern immunology
- Philip Showalter Hench – Nobel Prize-winning physician, co-discovered Cortisone[578]
- Holger Henke – political scientist
- Herman Hollerith – inventor of tabulating machines[579]
- Karen Horney – psychoanalyst[580]
- David H. Hubel – Nobel Prize-winning neurophysiologist[581]
- Heinrich Klüver – psychologist, largely credited with introducing Gestalt psychology to the United States in the early 20th century[582]
- Siegfried Knemeyer – aviation technologist, civilian employee and consultant with the United States Air Force for over twenty years
- Donald Knuth – computer scientist
- Wolfgang Köhler – psychologist[583]
- Christopher C. Kraft Jr. – aerospace engineer, instrumental in establishing NASA's Mission Control Center
- Gene Kranz – aerospace engineer, flight director during Apollo 11 and Apollo 13
- Alfred Louis Kroeber – cultural anthropologist
- Polykarp Kusch – physicist
- Berthold Laufer – anthropologist, historical geographer
- Willy Ley – science writer and space advocate who helped popularise rocketry and spaceflight[584] [585]
- Jacques Loeb – biologist, Nobel Prize candidate
- Leo Loeb – biologist, pathologist
- John Mauchly – computer pioneer, co-designed the ENIAC
- John Mearsheimer – political scientist and international relations scholar[586]
- Ottmar Mergenthaler – linotype inventor[587]
- George Mueller – electrical engineer, headed the Office of Manned Space Flight from September 1963 until December 1969
- Hermann Joseph Muller – Nobel Prize-winning geneticist
- Hugo Münsterberg – psychologist, pioneered applied psychology
- Emmy Noether – mathematician
- Robert Oppenheimer – physicist and director of the Manhattan Project, also known as "The Father of the Atomic Bomb"[588]
- Linus Carl Pauling – chemist, biochemist, chemical engineer, peace activist, author, and educator[589]
- Jesco von Puttkamer – aerospace engineer, senior manager at NASA, and a pulp science fiction writer
- Norman Ramsey Jr. – Nobel Prize-winning physicist[590]
- Eberhard Rees – rocketry pioneer, second director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
- Charles Francis Richter – seismologist, inventor of the Richter magnitude scale
- David Rittenhouse – astronomer, inventor, and the first director of the United States Mint[591]
- Eileen Rockefeller – founder and former president of the Institute for the Advancement of Health
- Gunther E. Rothenberg – military historian, professor at Purdue University and elsewhere[592]
- Frank Schlesinger – astronomer
- Theodore Schultz – Nobel Prize-winning economist[593]
- Lewis David de Schweinitz – botanist and mycologist, "Father of American Mycology"
- Frederick Seitz – physicist, co-inventor of the Wigner-Seitz unit cell, which is an important concept in solid state physics[594]
- Claude Shannon – mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist and cryptographer known as the "father of information theory"
- Herbert A. Simon – political scientist
- Charles Proteus Steinmetz – electrical engineer, fostered development of alternating current
- Adam Steltzner – NASA engineer who works for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), flight projects including Galileo, Cassini, Mars Pathfinder, Mars Exploration Rovers[595]
- Joseph Strauss – structural engineer and designer, chief engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge[596]
- Otto Stern – physicist and Nobel laureate, known for his studies of molecular beams[597]
- Ernst Stuhlinger – atomic, electrical, and rocket scientist
- Henry Taube – Nobel Prize-winning chemist[598]
- Frederick Traugott Pursh – botanist[599]
- Harold Urey – physical chemist, discovered Deuterium[600]
- Willard Van Orman Quine – logician and philosopher[601]
- George Waldbott – physician, allergy and fluoride specialist
- Hellmuth Walter – engineer who pioneered research into rocket engines and gas turbines[602]
- Kenneth Waltz – political scientist, outlined the theory of neorealism[603]
- Günter Wendt – mechanical engineer noted for his work in the U.S. human spaceflight program[604]
- Gustave Whitehead – aviation pioneer, built first motorized plane[605]
- Eckard Wimmer – virologist, Distinguished Professor of molecular genetics and microbiology at Stony Brook University; known for the first chemical synthesis of a viral genome capable of infection and subsequent production of live viruses
- Louis Wirth – sociologist
- Caspar Wistar – physician and anatomist
- Wright brothers – inventors of the airplane[606]
- Hans Zinsser – American bacteriologist, physician and author
- Max August Zorn – algebraist, group theorist, and numerical analyst
Sports
Baseball professionals
- Chris von der Ahe – owner of the St. Louis Brown Stockings of the American Association, now the St. Louis Cardinals[607]
- Nick Altrock – professional baseball player and coach[608]
- Trevor Bauer – MLB pitcher
- Chris Beck – Chicago White Sox pitcher
- Heinz Becker – MLB first baseman who played for the Chicago Cubs (1943, 1945–46) and Cleveland Indians (1946–47)[609]
- Zinn Beck – MLB third baseman, shortstop and first baseman; minor league manager and baseball scout[610]
- Heinie Beckendorf – former MLB catcher
- Joe Benz – former pitcher for the Chicago White Sox; threw a no-hitter[611]
- Lou Bierbauer – former MLB second baseman during the late 1880s and 1890s; credited with giving the Pittsburgh Pirates their name[612]
- Mike Blowers – former MLB third baseman and first baseman; current Seattle Mariners radio commentator
- Brennan Boesch – MLBoutfielder
- Ted Breitenstein – former MLB pitcher and part of the "Pretzel Battery" with Heinie Peitz[613]
- Clay Buchholz – MLB pitcher for the Boston Red Sox
- Taylor Buchholz – MLB pitcher
- Mark Buehrle – MLB pitcher
- Fritz Buelow – former MLB
- Jay Buhner – former MLB player
- Madison Bumgarner – MLB pitcher for the San Francisco Giants[614]
- Roger Clemens – former MLB pitcher[615]
- Bill Dahlen – former MLB shortstop[616]
- Babe Danzig – MLB first baseman[617]
- Ross Detwiler – MLB pitcher
- Mel Deutsch – former MLB pitcher[618]
- Bill Dietrich – MLB pitcher[619]
- Derek Dietrich – MLB 2nd baseman[620]
- Barney Dreyfuss – baseball executive[621] [622]
- Ryne Duren – former relief pitcher in MLB
- Justin Duchscherer – MLB pitcher
- David Eckstein – MLB player and 2006 World Series MVP[623]
- Mose Eggert – second baseman in Major League Baseball[624]
- Hack Eibel – utility player in Major League Baseball[625]
- Jim Eisenreich – former MLB outfielder
- Kid Elberfeld – "The Tabasco Kid", former shortstop in MLB[626]
- Jacoby Ellsbury – center fielder
- Joe Engel – former left-handed pitcher and scout in MLB who spent nearly his entire career with the Washington Senators
- Oscar Emil "Happy" Felsch – center fielder for the Chicago White Sox, best known for his involvement in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal[627]
- David Freese – 2011 National League Championship Series MVP Award and the 2011 World Series MVP Award winner[628]
- Frank Frisch – former MLB player and manager[629]
- Bruce Froemming – MLB umpire, then special assistant to the vice president on umpiring[630]
- Gene Garber – former MLB player
- Ron Gardenhire – former New York Mets player and current Minnesota Twins manager
- Lou Gehrig – MLB player[631]
- Charlie Gehringer – MLB second baseman, played 19 seasons (1924–1942) for the Detroit Tigers
- Charlie "Pretzels" Getzien – former MLB pitcher[632] [633]
- Troy Glaus – former MLB third baseman
- Paul Goldschmidt – MLB first baseman
- Zack Greinke – MLB pitcher
- Charlie Grimm – former MLB player[634] [635]
- Justin Grimm – MLB relief pitcher
- Heinie Groh – third baseman for the Cincinnati Reds and New York Giants
- Travis Hafner – Cleveland Indians designated hitter
- Noodles Hahn – former MLB pitcher
- Ian Happ – second baseman for the Chicago Cubs[636]
- Roy Hartzell – MLB player 1906–1916
- Arnold Hauser – former MLB shortstop
- Harry Heilmann – Hall of Fame MLB player and World War I Veteran[637]
- Fred Heimach – former MLB pitcher and part of the "Murderers' Row" Yankee teams
- Tommy Henrich – MLB player nicknamed "The Clutch" and "Old Reliable"[638]
- Tom Herr – former MLB second baseman
- August Herrmann – MLB executive[639] [640]
- Orel Hershiser – former MLB pitcher[641]
- Buck Herzog – MLB infielder and manager
- Whitey Herzog – MLB outfielder, scout, coach, manager, general manager and farm system director
- Shea Hillenbrand – baseball player
- Dick Hoblitzel – MLB first baseman[642]
- Billy Hoeft – former MLB pitcher
- Barbara Hoffman – All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
- Glenn Hubbard – former Atlanta Braves and Oakland Athletics player and current Braves' coach
- Carl Hubbell – MLB Hall of Fame screwball pitcher
- John Hummel – former MLB utility player
- Brock Huntzinger – MLB free agent
- Jason Isringhausen – MLB relief pitcher
- Edwin Jackson – MLB pitcher
- Derek Jeter – former MLB shortstop, played 20 season[643]
- Jeff Karstens – MLB pitcher
- Pop Kelchner – college professor who spoke seven languages; prolific MLB scout[644]
- Alex Kellner – MLB pitcher[645]
- Walt Kellner – MLB pitcher[645]
- Dean Kiekhefer – MLB relief pitcher
- Chuck Klein – former MLB outfielder
- Johnny Kling – former MLB catcher
- Bob Knepper – former MLB all-star pitcher[646]
- Chuck Knoblauch – former MLB second baseman
- Mark Koenig – former MLB shortstop for the New York Yankees, 1925–1936[168]
- Howie Koplitz – baseball player, pitcher for the 1961 Tigers and then the Senators until 1966[647]
- Rick Kranitz – MLB pitching coach
- Gene Krapp – MLB pitcher[648]
- Erik Kratz – MLB catcher
- Harvey Kuenn – player, coach and manager in MLB[649]
- Randy Keisler – former MLB pitcher
- Dallas Keuchel – MLB pitcher
- Bowie Kuhn – former commissioner of MLB[650]
- Kenesaw Mountain Landis – while serving as a Federal judge, Landis, an ardent baseball fan, was selected as chairman of a new National Commission of baseball
- Charley Lau – American League catcher and hitting coach, authored How to Hit .300[651]
- Charlie Leibrandt – former MLB pitcher[652]
- Craig Lefferts – former MLB pitcher
- Jon Lieber – MLB pitcher
- Jesse Litsch – MLB pitcher
- Hans Lobert – infielder, coach, manager and scout in MLB
- Kyle Lohse – MLB pitcher
- Chuck Machemehl – former Cleveland Indians pitcher[653]
- Heinie Manush – Hall of Fame left-fielder in MLB
- Nick Markakis – outfielder for the Baltimore Orioles[654]
- Erskine Mayer – MLB pitcher[655]
- Heinie Meine – sometimes "Heinie" Meine, professional baseball player[656]
- Fred Merkle – first baseman in Major League Baseball, 1907–1926[657]
- Bob Meusel – former MLB shortstop
- Emil Meusel – former MLB outfielder
- Bill Mueller – retired MLB third baseman
- Freddie Muller – infielder in Major League Baseball[658]
- Les Mueller – former MLB pitcher
- Walter Mueller – former professional baseball player who played outfield in MLB 1922–1926
- Fritz Mollwitz – born in Germany, former Major League Baseball first baseman[659] [660]
- Chris Nabholz – former starting pitcher in MLB
- Jeff Niemann – pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays
- Brett Oberholtzer – MLB pitcher
- Ross Ohlendorf – MLB pitcher
- Daniel Ortmeier – MLB pitcher
- Fritz Ostermueller – pitcher in MLB 1934–1948
- Barney Pelty – MLB pitcher
- Heinie Peitz – former MLB catcher and part of the "Pretzel Battery" with Ted Breitenstein[661] [662] [663] [664]
- Dick Radatz – "The Monster" or "Moose", relief pitcher in MLB
- Rick Reuschel – former MLB pitcher
- Rick Rhoden – former Pittsburgh Pirate pitcher and current golf professional
- John Rocker – former MLB reliever and controversial figure
- Oscar Roettger – first baseman and right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball
- Wally Roettger – outfielder in Major League Baseball[665]
- Trevor Rosenthal – MLB Pitcher
- Babe Ruth – MLB player 1914–1935[666]
- Adley Rutschman – catcher for the Oregon State Beavers, seen as a top prospect for the 2019 MLB Draft
- Germany Schaefer – former second baseman in MLB who played fifteen seasons[667] [668]
- Jordan Schafer – MLB player
- Ray Schalk – MLB catcher
- Bobby Shantz – MLB pitcher
- Scott Schebler – outfielder in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization
- Bob Scheffing – baseball player, coach, manager and front-office executive
- Carl Scheib – right-handed pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball[669]
- Max Scherzer – MLB pitcher[670]
- Curt Schilling – MLB pitcher
- Ryan Schimpf – former LSU Tigers baseball and MLB infielder[671]
- Gus Schmelz – MLB manager
- Jason Schmidt – MLB baseball pitcher
- Mike Schmidt – former Philadelphia Phillies third baseman and Hall of Famer[672]
- Frank Schneiberg – pitcher in Major League Baseball[673]
- Brian Schneider – MLB catcher
- Red Schoendienst – former player, coach and manager in MLB
- Scott Schoeneweis – MLB relief pitcher
- Marge Schott – managing general partner, president and CEO of Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds franchise, 1984–1999
- Paul Schrieber – MLB umpire
- Al Schroll – MLB baseball pitcher[674]
- Heinie Schuble – former MLB infielder
- John Schuerholz – general manager of the Atlanta Braves
- Frank Schulte – right fielder in Major League Baseball[675]
- Joe Schultz – catcher, coach and manager in MLB
- Joe Schultz Sr. – Joe "Germany" Schultz, outfielder and farm system director in MLB and a manager in minor league baseball
- Skip Schumaker – outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals
- Ralph Schwamb – St. Louis Browns pitcher and convicted murderer
- Kyle Schwarber – MLB catcher[676]
- Bob Shawkey – baseball pitcher who played fifteen seasons in Major League Baseball[677]
- J. B. Shuck – outfielder for the Chicago White Sox
- John Smoltz – pitcher for the Atlanta Braves[678]
- Travis Snider – outfielder in MLB
- Warren Spahn – Hall of Fame pitcher in MLB
- Justin Speier – relief pitcher
- Rusty Staub – MLB player for 23 seasons (1963–1985)
- Terry Steinbach – former catcher in MLB
- Hank Steinbrenner – art-owner and Senior Vice President of the New York Yankees, along with his brother Hal Steinbrenner
- Harry Steinfeldt – MLB utility infielder[679]
- Casey Stengel – MLB player and manager, early 1910s–1960s
- Stephen Strasburg – MLB pitcher
- Gus Suhr – Major League Baseball first baseman[680]
- Bruce Sutter – Hall of Fame right-handed relief pitcher in MLB
- Nick Swisher – infielder in MLB
- Duke Snider – Hall of Fame MLB center fielder[681]
- Jake Thielman – MLB pitcher[682]
- Jack Thoney – reserve outfielder / infielder in Major League Baseball who played from 1902 through 1911[683]
- Peter Ueberroth – executive, served as commissioner of MLB, 1984–1989[684]
- Bob Uecker – former MLB player and award-winning sportscaster, comedian, and actor
- Jim Umbricht – former MLB pitcher[685]
- Frank Viola – former starting pitcher in MLB
- Chris von der Ahe – entrepreneur and owner of the St. Louis Browns of the National League, now known as the Cardinals
- Fritz Von Kolnitz – MLB third baseman[686]
- Doug Waechter – MLB pitcher, currently a free agent
- Billy Wagner – MLB closer
- Heinie Wagner – former MLB shortstop for the New York Giants and the Boston Red Sox
- Honus Wagner – former Pittsburgh Pirate Hall of Fame shortstop, manager and hitting instructor[687]
- Bill Wambsganss – second baseman in MLB[688]
- Duke Welker – MLB pitcher
- Jayson Werth – MLB outfielder
- Vic Wertz – former MLB first baseman and outfielder
- Hoyt Wilhelm – Hall of Fame knuckleball pitcher in MLB
- Nick Wittgren – pitcher with the Miami Marlins
- Shawn Wooten – former MLB player
- Michael Wuertz – MLB pitcher
- Christian Yelich – MLB outfielder, great-grandson of Fred Gehrke[689]
- Ryan Zimmerman – MLB player
- Jordan Zimmermann – MLB pitcher
- Ben Zobrist – MLB second baseman
- Bill Zuber – MLB pitcher, 1936–1947
Basketball
American Football
- John Alt – former offensive tackle in the NFL
- Jay Berwanger – the first recipient (1935) of the Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, renamed in 1936 as the Heisman Memorial Trophy[698]
- Kroy Biermann – NFL defensive end
- Tom Brady – quarterback, one of only two players to win five Super Bowls[699]
- Dave Butz – NFL defensive lineman, selected to the NFL 1980s All-Decade Team
- Amon-Ra St. Brown – wide receiver for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at USC and was drafted by the Lions in the fourth round of the 2021 NFL Draft[700]
- Equanimeous St. Brown – wide receiver for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Notre Dame and was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the sixth round of the 2018 NFL Draft[701]
- Gunther Cunningham – American football head coach[702]
- Fritz Crisler – NCAA football coach
- David Diehl – football player and NFL offensive lineman[703]
- Dan Dierdorf – former NFL football player and current television sportscaster
- Conrad Dobler – former offensive lineman
- Chris Doering – former college and professional football player; wide receiver in the NFL
- Dave Duerson – safety in the NFL, two-time Super Bowl Champion
- Zach Ertz – tight end in the NFL[704]
- Kirk Ferentz – head coach of University of Iowa Hawkeyes football
- Fred Gehrke – NFL halfback / defensive back and executive; great-grandfather of Milwaukee Brewers left fielder, Christian Yelich
- Jared Goff – quarterback[705]
- Bob Griese – Hall of Fame quarterback
- Al Groh – NCCA Virginia football head coach and former NFL coach
- Hinkey Haines – NFL player and MLB player
- Don Hasselbeck – NFL
- Matt Hasselbeck – NFL football player
- Tim Hasselbeck analyst and former professional quarterback
- Keith Heinrich – NFL tight end
- John Heisman – football player, coach, and namesake of the Heisman Trophy[706]
- Kirk Herbstreit – former Ohio State University quarterback and analyst for ESPN's College GameDay
- Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch – running back and receiver for the Los Angeles Rams and Chicago Rockets, nicknamed for his unusual running style
- Domenik Hixon – NFL wide receiver
- Jeff Hostetler – former NFL quarterback[707]
- Harvey Jablonsky – football player and U.S. Army Veteran who was a 'highly decorated veteran' of both World War II and later in his career the Vietnam War, elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1978[708] [709]
- Brett Keisel – defensive end for the Pittsburgh Steelers
- Don Klosterman – quarterback
- Jonathan Klinsmann – son of Jürgen Klinsmann, goalkeeper for LA Galaxy
- Dan Kreider – fullback in the NFL
- Dave Krieg – former NFL Seattle Seahawks quarterback
- Clint Kriewaldt – linebacker in the NFL
- Luke Kuechly – linebacker in the National Football League[710]
- John Kuhn – fullback, currently playing for the Green Bay Packers
- Kory Lichtensteiger – NFL center
- Lex Luger – former football player and professional wrestler
- Todd Marinovich – former NFL American and Canadian football quarterback
- Zach Mettenberger – LSU and NFL quarterback
- Christian Mohr – NFL defensive end
- Nesser brothers – group of football playing brothers who helped make up the most famous football family in the United States, 1907–mid-1920s
- John Nesser: born April 25, 1875, in Triere, Germany, and died August 1, 1931, in Columubus, Ohio
- John Peter Nesser: born October 22, 1877, in Triere, Germany, and died May 29, 1954, in Columbus, Ohio
- Philipp Gregory Nesser: born December 10, 1880, in Triere, Germany, and died May 9, 1959, in Columbus, Ohio
- Theodore H. (Ted) Nesser: born April 8, 1883, in Dennison, Ohio, and died June 7, 1941, in Columbus, Ohio
- Frederick William Nesser: born September 10, 1887, in Columbus, Ohio, and died July 2, 1967, in Columbus, Ohio
- Francis Raymond (Frank) Nesser: born June 3, 1889, in Columbus, Ohio, and died January 1, 1953, in Columbus, Ohio
- Alfred Louis Nesser: born June 6, 1893, in Columbus, Ohio, and died March 11, 1967, in Columbus, Ohio
- Raymond Joseph Nesser: born March 22, 1898, in Columbus, Ohio, and died September 2, 1969, in Columbus, Ohio[711] [712]
- Rick Neuheisel – football coach
- Ray Nitschke – Hall of Fame football player
- Brock Osweiler – NFL quarterback
- Tyler Ott – long snapper
- Jim Otto – former Oakland Raider offensive lineman
- Robin Pflugrad – college football coach[713]
- Ricky Proehl – former NFL wide receiver, two-time Super Bowl Champion
- George Ratterman – former player in the All-America Football Conference and the NFL
- Ben Roethlisberger – Pittsburgh Steelers Quarterback of Swiss-German descent, two-time Super Bowl Champion
- Rudy Ruettiger – former player at Holy Cross College (1972–1974) and Notre Dame
- George Sauer – former American football player, coach, college sports administrator, and professional football executive[714]
- George Sauer Jr. – wide receiver who played six seasons for the American Football League's New York Jets[715]
- Matt Schaub – NFL quarterback
- Bo Schembechler – former NCAA football coach at the University of Michigan
- Anthony Schlegel – former linebacker[716]
- Cory Schlesinger – NFL fullback
- Blake Schlueter – former American football and NCAA TCU center
- Francis Schmidt – college football coach inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame
- Joe Schmidt – former 1950s NFL football player and coach
- Owen Schmitt – NFL fullback
- John Schneider – professional American football player in the Ohio League and the early National Football League for the Columbus Panhandles
- John Schneider – professional American football executive
- Joe Schobert – linebacker[717]
- Turk Schonert – former NFL quarterback
- Jay Schroeder – former professional quarterback in the NFL
- Geoff Schwartz – NFL offensive lineman
- Mitchell Schwartz – NFL offensive tackle
- Jim Schwartz – NFL head coach
- Stephen Spach – NFL tight end[718]
- Matt Spaeth – tight end for the Pittsburgh Steelers
- Roger Staubach – Heisman Trophy winner and Hall of Fame quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys[719]
- Eric Steinbach – NFL offensive lineman
- Zach Strief – NFL offensive lineman
- Harry Stuhldreher – football player, coach, and college athletics administrator[720]
- Zach Sudfeld – NFL tight end
- Nate Sudfeld – quarterback
- Mike Tannenbaum – professional football executive, who is currently the Executive Vice President of Football Operations for the Miami Dolphins and former general manager for the New York Jets
- Jim Tressel – college head football coach
- Brian Urlacher – Pro Bowl linebacker for the Chicago Bears
- Sebastian Vollmer – NFL offensive Lineman
- Kimo von Oelhoffen – NFL linebacker
- Uwe von Schamann – former NFL kicker
- Mike Wagner – safety for the Pittsburgh Steelers, 1971–1980; member of the famed Steel Curtain defense; played in two Pro Bowls
- Charlie Weis – NFL football coach
- Wes Welker – NFL wide receiver, punt returner, and kick returner
- Carson Wentz – football quarterback for the North Dakota State Bison
- Björn Werner – NFL linebacker[721]
- Matt Wilhelm – NFL linebacker
- Danny Wuerffel – former NFL quarterback and 1996 Heisman Trophy winner
- Zach Zenner – NFL running back
- Jim Zorn – Seattle Seahawks quarterback
Golf
Ice hockey
Soccer
Tennis
Boxing, Mixed Martial Arts, Wrestling
- Max Baer – boxer, heavyweight boxing champion of the world[742]
- Shayna Baszler – professional wrestler and mixed martial artist, her father is of German descent
- Mac Danzig – professional mixed martial arts fighter and instructor, and is a former lightweight champion for the King of the Cage and Gladiator Challenge mixed martial arts organizations
- Ted DiBiase – former professional wrestler
- Ted DiBiase Jr. – former professional wrestler
- Harry Greb – professional boxer, nicknamed "The Pittsburgh Windmill", he was the American Light Heavyweight Champion, 1922–1923 and World Middleweight Champion, 1923–1926[743]
- April Hunter – professional wrestler, professional wrestling valet and fitness and glamour model
- Maven Huffman - professional wrestler
- Nia Jax – professional wrestler[744]
- Brock Lesnar – professional wrestler and MMA fighter
- Mercedes Varnado – professional wrestler known in the WWE as "Sasha Banks" and formerly known as "Mercedes KV"[745]
- David Schultz – retired professional wrestler, known by his ring name "Dr. D"
- Ryan Schultz – professional mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter, currently fighting for the Portland Wolfpack of the International Fight League
- Chael Sonnen – professional mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter, politician and actor
- Gus Sonnenberg – professional wrestler and boxer[746]
- Seth Rollins – professional wrestler of Armenian, German & Irish descent
- Jon Heidenreich – former professional wrestler and former football player
- Katarina Waters – professional wrestler
Other sports
- Lisa Aukland – professional bodybuilder and powerlifter
- Earl W. Bascom – professional rodeo cowboy, inductee in several rodeo halls of fame
- Tony Bettenhausen and his race-driving sons Gary, Tony Jr., and Merle; Tony was at times nicknamed "Der Panzer" due to his ancestry and driving style
- Jana Bieger – two-time World Champion artistic gymnast
- Gretchen Bleiler – professional halfpipe snowboarder and pioneer
- Greg Bretz – Olympic snowboarder
- George Brosius – gymnastics teacher associated from 1854 to 1915 with the Milwaukee Turnverein, he served in the Union Army from 1861 to 1864[747]
- Dale Earnhardt – race car driver in NASCAR's top division[748]
- Dale Earnhardt Jr. – semi-retired professional stock car racing driver, team owner, author analyst for NASCAR on NBC[748]
- Gertrude Ederle – Olympic Gold Medal winner and first woman to swim the English Channel[749]
- George Eyser – gymnast who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics with a wooden leg
- Bobby Fischer – chess grandmaster and World Chess Champion between 1972 and 1975
- Christopher Fogt – Army captain who won a bronze medal at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi as a member of the famed Team Night Train[750]
- Gretchen Fraser – alpine ski racer; first American to win an Olympic gold medal for skiing
- Archie Hahn – sprinter in the early 20th century
- Hans Halberstadt – Olympic fencer[751]
- J. R. Hildebrand – Formula One and IndyCar Series race car driver
- Margaret Hoelzer – Olympic swimmer
- Katie Hoff – Olympic medal-winning swimmer
- Mark Geiger – soccer referee in Major League Soccer in the United States and Canada, as well as CONCACAF and the World Cup
- Harry Greb – professional boxer, nicknamed "The Pittsburgh Windmill", he was the American Light Heavyweight Champion, 1922–1923 and World Middleweight Champion, 1923–1926[743]
- Kasey Kahne – dirt track racing driver and former professional stock car racing driver
- Evel Knievel – motorcycle daredevil[752] [753]
- Henry Laskau – racewalker
- Helene Mayer – Olympic champion fencer
- Kimmie Meissner – U.S. national champion figure skater
- Josef Newgarden – IndyCar Series driver, driving the 21 car for Ed Carpenter Racing
- Jordan Niebrugge – amateur golfer currently playing collegiate golf at Oklahoma State University[754]
- Robert Oberst – professional strongman
- Michael Phelps – swimmer; has won 16 Olympic medals[755]
- Craig Sager – sports journalist for TBS and TNT
- Allison Schmitt – swimmer
- Lacy Schnoor – Olympic skier
- Mark Spitz – swimmer and Olympic gold medalist
- Sara Studebaker – biathlete who has competed on the World Cup circuit
- Dana Vollmer – swimmer and Olympic gold medalist
- Lindsey Vonn – alpine skier
- Thomas Vonn – alpine skier
- Rudolph "Minnesota Fats" Wanderone (1913–1996) – perhaps the best known pool player in the United States[756]
- Dick Weber – bowling professional and a founding member of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA), father of Pete Weber
- Pete Weber – bowling professional on the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) Tour
- Richard Weiss – slalom canoer
- Johnny Weissmuller – swimmer, Olympic gold medalist
- Rasa von Werder – bodybuilder
- Waldemar von Zedtwitz – German-born American bridge player and administrator[757]
Other
- Nicole Brown Simpson - murder victim and ex-wife of former football player O. J. Simpson
See also
References
- Bibliography
External links
Notes and References
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- http://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entry.php?rec=159 "Carrie Marcus Neiman (1883–1953)"
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- Ernst Klee. Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, pp. 73–74.
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- http://www.wargs.com/other/mapother.html Ancestry of Tom Cruise
- http://www.germanhollywood.com/casabl2.html#dant Casablanca 2 >> German-Hollywood Connection
- https://archive.today/20040416202555/http://www.steynonline.com/pageprint.cfm?edit_id=38 Ten Years Ago
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- Book: Levy, Shawn. De Niro: A Life. Crown Archetype. 2014. 978-0-307-71679-8.
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- Web site: Leonardo DiCaprio >> German-Hollywood Connection . April 5, 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060323155609/http://www.germanhollywood.com/dicaprio.html . March 23, 2006. "His dad, George DiCaprio, half German and half Italian, is an underground comic book artist.... DiCaprio's mother, Irmelin Indenbirken (sometimes spelled In Den Birken), was born in a German air raid shelter in the midst of a World War II air raid. After the war, in the 1950s, she emigrated to the US with her parents as a young child.... DiCaprio's maternal grandparents, Wilhelm and Helene Indenbirken, continued to live in the US for many years before returning to Germany to enjoy their retirement."
- http://www.german-way.com/intervw1oma.html Interview with Leonardo DiCaprio's German Grandma
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- http://search.eb.com/women/article-9030401 Encyclopædia Britannica's Guide to Women's History
- http://www.jigsawlounge.co.uk/film/reviews/neil-youngs-film-lounge-interview-with-tom-mccarthy-peter-dinklage-bobby-cannavale/ Tom McCarthy, Peter Dinklage and Bobby Cannavale talk The Station Agent. | Neil Young's Film Lounge
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- Book: Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke. Bantam Books. 1987. 978-0-553-27205-5. 8.
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- Dakota Fanning – Web site: Times Square Movies . July 22, 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060522231017/http://www.Timesquare.com/movies/dakota_fanning/index.html . May 22, 2006. "I'm also half German" Web site: Lovely Dakota [+] Bringing Dakota Fans Together since 2002 . August 16, 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060701014329/http://www.dakota-fanning.org/news.php . July 1, 2006. "My Grandmother was German, and the tradition was to hide an ornament in a pickle, and whoever find it gets a prize. It's a lot of fun."
- Book: Schuman, Michael A.. Tina Fey: TV Comedy Superstar. Enslow Pub Inc. 2011. 978-0-7660-3557-7. 10.
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- "He was played by Dennis Franz, the son of German immigrant postal workers from Chicago, who was also a graduate of Robert Altman's acting company."
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- http://www.fashionmodeldirectory.com/models/Erin_Wasson Erin Wasson - Fashion Model | Models | Photos, Editorials & Latest News | The FMD
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- http://www.loisweber.net/lois-weber.html LOIS WEBER
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- See Zuckermann (1968), as well as https://list.uiowa.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=HPSCHD-L;ca8271d7.9804, in which an acquaintance writes "When he came to the United States, he told me he changed his name from Wolfgang Joachim Zuckermann to Wallace to Americanize it. Friends further Americanized it by calling him Wally." Zuckermann later published primarily under the name Wolfgang; only his column for Harpsichord (see below) is signed Wallace.
- Web site: Cinemascope – Michael Ballhaus: The anti-shaky-cam man . February 24, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091129065108/http://cinemascopian.com/2008/04/26/michael-ballhaus-the-anti-shaky-cam-man/ . November 29, 2009. "Born in Berlin, established in the USA"
- Web site: Gesine Bullock-Prado. IMDb.
- https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/mar/19/gesine-bullock-prado-cakes-sandra-bullock From film-making to cake-baking | Family | The Guardian
- Gevinson, Alan. Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911–1960. University of California Press, 1997. P.372
- http://german.about.com/library/blfam_geramDEF.htm Famous German-Americans - Part 2: D-E-F
- https://archive.today/20130118220638/http://wwwa.britannica.com/eb/article-9049218 Ernst Lubitsch (American director) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
- Web site: Lubitsch and the "You've Got Mail" Connection > German-Hollywood . July 5, 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070706050949/http://www.germanhollywood.com/gotmail.html . July 6, 2007. "Ernst Lubitsch (1892–1947) came to Hollywood from his native Berlin in 1922—at the request of Mary Pickford. It was in the German film capital that he began to develop what would later be known simply as "the Lubitsch Touch." In the American film capital his success would be phenomenal."
- http://www.germanhollywood.com/alphindx_4.html#ma Profiles 4: Film People > German-Hollywood Connection
- Web site: Big Bosoms and Square Jaws. eBooks.com.
- Web site: Actors Directors from Germany, Austria, Switzerland 2 – German-Hollywood Connection . July 5, 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071024135102/http://www.germanhollywood.com/abc_index2.html . October 24, 2007. "(1897–1961, aka Nebenzal) – German-American film producer born in New York, educated there and in Berlin, Germany. Together with his father Heinrich Nebenzahl (died 1938), Seymour founded film companies and produced many of the classic movies of the Weimar period, including PANDORA'S BOX with Louise Brooks and M with Peter Lorre. In Hollywood Seymour worked as a producer at MGM and his own Nero Films."
- https://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=2:104310 All Movie Guide
- Web site: Archived copy . May 18, 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20061007115719/http://www.nextbook.org/archive/newsarchive.html?id=663 . October 7, 2006. "Mike Nichols, the German-born director of HBO's Angels in America, tells the Washington Post his feel for Yiddish rushed back in a skit when Elaine May ..."
- https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800020603/bio
- Web site: Actors Directors from Germany, Austria, Switzerland 2 – German-Hollywood Connection . July 5, 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071024135102/http://www.germanhollywood.com/abc_index2.html . October 24, 2007. "... came to the US at the age of 19. The second son of Max Reinhardt (below), Gottfried was born in Berlin but lived in both Germany and the US before he died in Los Angeles in 1994."
- "Ringling Brothers". Encyclopædia Britannica, 2014.
- http://free-pianosheetmusic.com/tangerine-by-victor-schertzinger-free-piano-sheet/ Tangerine by Victor Schertzinger
- http://www.germanhollywood.com/alphindx_5.html#sf Profiles 5: Film People > German-Hollywood Connection
- http://www.germanhollywood.com/alphindx_5.html#sc Profiles 5: Film People > German-Hollywood Connection
- http://www.germanhollywood.com/alphindx_5.html#sd Profiles 5: Film People > German-Hollywood Connection
- Web site: German Director Wim Wenders > the German-Hollywood Connection . January 14, 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080217044903/http://www.germanhollywood.com/wenders.html . February 17, 2008. "Wim Wenders was born Ernst Wilhelm Wenders on August 14, 1945 in Düsseldorf, Germany. After living in Los Angeles for eight years, the director returned to his homeland to make his first German-language film since moving to the US The German director has made most of his films in English in the US He has been living in Los Angeles since the 1980s, although he spends part of each year in Germany and Berlin (his favorite city)."
- Web site: William Wyler >> German-Hollywood Connection . January 11, 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071009225219/http://www.germanhollywood.com/wyler.html . October 9, 2007. "... born in Mülhausen (Mulhouse), Alsace-Lorraine (then German, now part of France) on the first day of July 1902. ... Wyler became a US citizen in 1928."
- John Arthur Garraty and Mark Christopher Carnes (eds.), American National Biography, Vol. 24. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 239–240.
- Web site: Michael Ian Black Biography (1971–) . Film Reference . March 15, 2013.
- Web site: Ancestry of David Letterman. www.wargs.com.
- http://coedmagazine.com/2011/03/08/16-things-you-didnt-know-about-daniel-tosh/ 16 Things You Didn't Know About Daniel Tosh : COED Magazine
- Book: Cooper. Wilhelmina. The New You. 1978. Simon and Schuster. New York. 0-671-22487-5. 9.
- Web site: Twitter/CindyCrawford . June 4, 2010.
- Web site: At Home with Supermodel Karlie Kloss and Her Sisters. Arthur Elgort, Jane Keltner de. Valle. October 30, 2012. May 3, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180504011411/https://www.teenvogue.com/gallery/karlie-kloss-and-family. May 4, 2018. live.
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- Web site: Ancestry of Uma Thurman . William Addams Reitwiesner Genealogical Services . May 22, 2014.
- http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=21 Lucretia Garfield Biography :: National First Ladies' Library
- McWilliams . John C. . Unsung Partner against Crime: Harry J. Anslinger and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 1930–1962 . The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography . 1989 . 113 . 2 . 207–236 . 20092328 . 11620406 .
- https://timeline.com/harry-anslinger-racist-war-on-drugs-prison-industrial-complex-fb5cbc281189 How a racist hate-monger masterminded America’s War on Drugs | by Laura Smith | Timeline
- Web site: Biography and Images of George Atzerodt, Assassination Conspirator . February 14, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110124155531/http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/lincolnconspiracy/atzerodt.html . January 24, 2011. "German-born George Atzerodt immigrated to the United States with his family in 1843, at the age of eight."
- https://emke.uwm.edu/entry/meta-schlichting-berger/ Meta Schlichting Berger - Encyclopedia of Milwaukee
- News: BURGER APPROVED BY SENATE PANEL; A Unanimous Vote Follows Friendly Questioning -- Protester is Barred . The New York Times . June 4, 1969 . Graham . Fred P. .
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- Book: Butler, Susan . Susan Butler (American writer) . 2009 . [{{GBurl|vp9KDgAAQBAJ|pg=PT31}} East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart ]. New York . Da Capo Press . 978-0-786-745791 . Edwin Earhart's ancestors were God-fearing, German-speaking Lutheran farmers who had also come to America when it was still a colony..
- http://www.honkytonks.org/showpages/accordion.htm Honky Tonks, Hymns, & the Blues
- https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/png02 GERMANS | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)
- News: Quinn . Ben . Alan Hamilton . Bobby Fischer, chess genius, heartless son . The Sunday Times . January 28, 2008 . September 14, 2008.
- https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ffi17 Fisher, Henry Francis
- https://www.nysun.com/article/arts-mining-a-dynasty-for-narrative-riches Mining a Dynasty for Narrative Riches | The New York Sun
- http://www.myalcaponemuseum.com/id29.htm Massacre Victim's Stats.
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bruno-Hauptmann Bruno Hauptmann | German Immigrant, Lindbergh Kidnapping Convict | Britannica
- Book: Alfons Heck. A Child of Hitler: Germany in the Days when God Wore a Swastika. 1985. 23. American Traveler Press . 978-0-939650-44-6.
- Web site: German American Corner: HECKER, Friedrich Karl Franz (1811–1881) . Germanheritage.com . May 22, 2014.
- http://www.pgs.org/culture.asp Pennsylvania German Culture and History
- Book: Morton. Levitt. Michael. Levitt. A Tissue Of Lies: Nixon vs. Hiss. registration. New York. McGraw Hill. 1979. 255–56. 978-0-07-037397-6.
- Book: Sloane, Arthur A. . Hoffa . 1991 . MIT Press . 978-0-262-19309-2 . en. Hoffa's father was a coal miner and of Pennsylvania "Dutch" (German) lineage.
- Web site: German American Bund . Ushmm.org . June 10, 2013 . May 22, 2014.
- Web site: The Discoveries of John Lederer (1672) . June 29, 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060717233049/http://www.vahistorical.org/lederer.htm . July 17, 2006. "Lederer, a German-born physician"
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- Web site: Jacob Leisler. June 29, 2006. September 30, 2006. https://web.archive.org/web/20060930014739/http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/bios/l/leisler.html. dead.
- "Hume, Edgar Erskine, "The German Artist Who Designed the Confederate Flag and Uniform". The American-German Review, August 1940."
- http://www.germanheritage.com/biographies/mtoz/minuit.html
- http://www.2003.botanyconference.org/engine/search/detail.php?aid=247 "Charles Mohr (1824–1901), German-born Mobile pharmacist and botanist, is best known for the monumental Plant Life of Alabama"
- News: Hessen is the Official Partner State of the 51st Annual German-American Steuben Day Parade in NYC . Business Wire . 2008.
- Web site: EUM . German-American Steuben Parade of New York . Germanparadenyc.org . May 22, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140522222949/http://www.germanparadenyc.org/about.html . May 22, 2014.
- Web site: Francis Daniel Pastorius . November 8, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151220155003/http://www.ushistory.org/germantown/people/pastorius.htm . December 20, 2015. "In 1683 Francis Daniel Pastorius was commissioned by the Frankfort Land Company and a group of merchants from Crefeld, Germany to form a settlement in America. They purchased fifteen thousand acres in Pennsylvania and Germantown was born."
- December 20, 2011. The Age of Schlesinger by James Chace . The New York Review of Books. December 21, 2000. Chace. James.
- Web site: 1917 Schrader Navy MK V Diving Helmet. August 15, 2008. Land and Sea Collection.
- Book: The Five Families . MacMillan . June 22, 2008 . 978-0-312-36181-5 . September 5, 2006.
- http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9070519 "German-born Swiss pioneer settler and colonizer in California"
- https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ufa01 "Accordingly, in May 1842 the association sent two of its members, counts Joseph of Boos-Waldeck and Victor August of Leiningen-Westerburg-Alt-Leiningen to Texas to investigate the country firsthand and purchase a tract of land for the settlement of immigrants."
- Paul A. W. Wallace, Conrad Weiser, 1696–1760, Friend of Colonist and Mohawk. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1945. Reprinted Wennawoods, 2001,
- Web site: Account of Zenger Trial . April 15, 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080420160211/http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/zenger/zengeraccount.html . April 20, 2008. "German immigrant printer named John Peter Zenger"
- News: Ingham judge has creative life off the bench with new crime thriller. Judy Putnam. January 12, 2018. Lansing State Journal. [Aquilina's] father was born in Malta, a Mediterranean country near Sicily, and her mother in Germany..
- Web site: Antietam: Maj Johann August Heinrich Heros von Borcke . April 29, 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070928081212/http://aotw.org/officers.php?officer_id=1082 . September 28, 2007. "German-Prussian officer, served under General Jeb Stuart"
- News: Coram . Robert . March 9, 2003 . 'Boyd': First Chapter . New York Times . December 13, 2023 . Elsie was a German Presbyterian....
- Book: Wert, Jeffry D. . Custer: The Controversial Life of George Armstrong Custer . 1996 . Simon & Schuster . New York . 978-0-684-81043-0 ., p. 15.
- Book: Connell, Evan S. . Son Of The Morning Star . San Francisco, California . North Point Press . 1984 . 978-0-86547-160-3 . registration ., p. 352.
- Web site: Koster . John P. . Survivor Frank Finkel's Lasting Stand . Historynet.com . April 9, 2007. May 22, 2014.
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- Web site: Important Dates in German-American History . https://web.archive.org/web/20060907032715/http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/KADE/unit19/apen19-j.html . September 7, 2006 . www.ulib.iupui.edu.
- https://spartacus-educational.com/USACWschimmel.htm "Alexander Schimmelfennig was born in Germany in 1824. A graduate of the German military academy he joined Franz Sigel, Carl Schurz, August Willich, Peter Osterhaus, Max Weber in taking part in the failed 1848 German Revolution. Schimmelfennig emigrated to America and on the outbreak of the American Civil War he joined the Union Army."
- Book: The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature ; the R.S. Peale Reprint, with New Maps and Original American Articles . 1893 . Werner Company . en . Schoonmaker, German....
- Book: Boatner III, Mark M. . The Biographical Dictionary of World War II . 978-0-89141-548-0 . Presidio . 1996 . 518–519 .
- http://www.steubensociety.org "German-Prussian General who served with George Washington in the American Revolutionary War and is credited with teaching the Continental Army the essentials of military drill and discipline. He reorganised the Continental Army and guided it to victory."
- News: Battle Brings Soldier Closer to His Ethnic Roots. Thomas E.. Ricks. March 18, 2002. Washington Post.
- Weber, Max. 1889.
- http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=400 "Weitzel was born on November 1, 1835, in Germany. His family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio when he was quite young. He was educated in public schools and received an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1851."
- Web site: Quigley . Mike . August Willich in the Civil War: Heart of a Communist/Mind of a Prussian . https://web.archive.org/web/20131202223331/http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/ArticlesWillich.htm . December 2, 2013 . November 27, 2013 . His last real name was von Willich. His father was an officer in the Prussian army. He was born in Braunsberg, Prussia in 1810..
- https://spartacus-educational.com/USACWwillich.htm "August Willich was born in Germany in 1810. A graduate of the German military academy he joined Franz Sigel, Carl Schurz, Peter Osterhaus, Alexander Schimmelfennig, Max Weber in taking part in the failed 1848 German Revolution."
- Web site: Who Was Felix Adler? . https://web.archive.org/web/20060213084100/http://www.ecfs.org/125/felixadler.asp . February 13, 2006 . June 29, 2006 . Felix Adler, a German-American educator.
- Web site: Hannah Arendt . Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi) . Petri . Liukkonen . Kuusankoski Public Library . Finland . https://web.archive.org/web/20070206114923/http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/arendt.htm . February 6, 2007 . . Quote: "Arendt, a Jew, gained fame as a German-Jewish refugee scholar"
- http://www.iep.utm.edu/c/carnap.htm "Rudolf Carnap, a German-born philosopher and naturalized US citizen"
- Andersch . Norbert . August 2023 . Susanne K. Langers "Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling." Eine späte Wiederentdeckung . Gestalt Theory . 45 . 1–2 . 153–177 . 10.2478/gth-2023-0007 . the German-American philosopher Susanne K. Langer . free .
- http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9048175
- MacFarlane . Alistair . 2014 . Richard Rorty (1931-2007) . Philosophy Now . His father was the son of an Irish immigrant, and his mother a schoolteacher of German descent. . January 21, 2024.
- Edward S. Kerstein, Milwaukee's All-American Mayor: Portrait of Daniel Webster Hoan. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1966; pg. 73.
- https://books.google.com/books?id=aA36KrL7wqIC&dq=Paul+Bechtner+german&pg=PA90 ""It was Play Or Starve": Acting in the Nineteenth Century American Popular Theatre, Pg. 90"
- Web site: Berghoff Brewery. 2022-01-07. FORT WAYNE BEER. en-US.
- https://books.google.com/books?id=8uxfTF4Lm-kC&dq=John+L.+Bohn+german&pg=PA753 "John L. Bohn, the son of German Luthern immigrants..."
- Web site: Philip Becker. May 27, 2009. Through The Mayor's Eyes, The Only Complete History of the Mayor's of Buffalo, New York, Compiled by Michael Rizzo. The Buffalonian is produced by The Peoples History Union. May 29, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20110926225201/http://www.buffalonian.com/history/industry/mayors/Becker.htm. September 26, 2011.
- Earl C. Kaylor Jr. 1996. Martin Grove Brumbaugh: A Pennsylvanian's Odyssey from Sainted Schooman to Bedeviled World War I Governor, 1862–1930. Teaneck, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson Press, p. 311.
- Web site: Missouri State Treasurer's Office – William Quintilis Dallmeyer. www.treasurer.mo.gov. August 6, 2019.
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- Harmut Keil, "The German Immigrant Working Class of Chicago, 1875–90: Workers, Labor Leaders, and the Labor Movement," in Dirk Hoerder (ed.), American Labor and Immigration History, 1877-1920s: Recent European Research. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983; pg. 165.
- http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=4169 "John Paul Hammerschmidt was born on May 4, 1922, in Harrison to Arthur Paul and Junie M. Hammerschmidt. Hammerschmidt was the fourth of five children. Both sets of grandparents migrated to Boone County in the early years of the twentieth century and were of German descent."
- Encyclopedia: Malone D, ((American Council of Learned Societies)) . Dictionary of American biography . HAY, JOHN MILTON . January 23, 2024 . 1932 . . 8 . New York . 430 . On his father's side he was of Scotch and German ancestry.
- https://archive.org/details/commemorativebiogr00jhbe/page/n103
- http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/GermAmChron.htm "1820 – Joseph Heister becomes Governor of Pennsylvania"
- News: Street Smarts: Road honors husband of Tucson's first Christian Scientist . David . Leighton . Arizona Daily Star . June 15, 2015.
- Web site: Gustav Koerner, a German-American Liberal . Wolf D . Fuhrig . 34th Symposium of the Society of German-American Studies . . Belleville Heritage Society . April 24, 2010 . August 17, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131004213331/http://www.gustavekoerner.org/koernerliberalism.htm . October 4, 2013.
- 'Memoirs of Milwaukee County,' vol. 1, Jerome Anthony Watrous, Historical Associates: 1909, biographical sketch of Ferdinand Kuehn, pg. 134–135
- Book: The city of Detroit, Michigan, 1701–1922; Volume 3 . Clarence Monroe Burton . William Stocking . Gordon K. Miller . The S. J. Clarke publishing company . 1922 . 608 .
- Book: The Dodge Brothers: The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy . Charles K. Hyde . Wayne State University Press . 2005 . 0-8143-3246-3 . 150 . registration .
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- 'History of Milwaukee, City and County,' Josial Curry Seymour, S.J. Clarke Company: Milwaukee, 1922, Biographical Sketch of William C. Rauschenberger, pg. 578–579
- Web site: WQED Multimedia . June 11, 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080110112849/http://www.wqed.org/mag/features/1106/ravenstahl.shtml . January 10, 2008. "The surname Ravenstahl, of German origin, might be translated as "steadfast raven" or "steel raven." ... one of only a few German-American mayors in Pittsburgh's history."
- http://bleacherreport.com/articles/111894-mayor-ravenstahl-of-pittsburgh "The prefix -stahl, in German, actually means steel to begin with."
- "Chicago's First Hispanic Alderman: How William E. Rodriguez broke ethnic – and political – barriers," Chicago magazine, vol. 30, no. 11 (November 1981), pp. 144–147.
- Web site: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Bioguide.congress.gov . May 22, 2014.
- http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=s000151 "SCHURZ, Carl, a senator from Missouri; born in Liblar, near Cologne, Germany, March 2, 1829; educated at the gymnasium of Cologne and the University of Bonn; having taken part in the German revolutionary movement of 1848, he was compelled to flee from Germany; was a newspaper correspondent in Paris and later taught school in London; immigrated to the United States in 1852 and settled in Philadelphia, Pa.; moved to Watertown, Wis., in 1855; studied law; admitted to the bar and practiced in Milwaukee, Wis ..."
- "Our Candidates Emil Seidel", Cleveland Socialist, whole no. 48 (September 21, 1912), pg. 2.
- https://books.google.com/books?id=8uxfTF4Lm-kC&dq=emil+seidel+german&pg=PA753 "...born in Pennsylvania of Pomeranian immigrants, lived in Germany from 1886 to 1892..."
- Web site: Wisconsin Historical Society-Emil Wallber. August 6, 2019. March 3, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303221846/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=1651&keyword=wallber.
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- American anthropologist, Volume 10 (1908), American Anthropological Association
- http://www.biography.com/people/robert-graetz-21397007 "His German grandfather was an ardent Lutheran who, upon seeing that his own son had chosen a career in chemical engineering, prepped his grandson for a life in the ministry."
- https://www.germanmarylanders.org/profile-index/Education--Religion "German Marylanders: Education & Religion"
- Anon.. Rev. J. G. Morris D.D.. Entomological News. 1895. 6. 9. Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.
- Book: Curley, Michael . 1952 . Venerable John Neumann, C.SS.R.: Fourth Bishop of Philadelphia . Washington, D.C. . Catholic University of America Press . 10.
- The Passavant House (Zelienople Historical Society) http://www.zelienoplehistoricalsociety.com/index.html
- Robert Paul Sutton, Communal Utopias and the American Experience: Religious Communities (2003) p. 38
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- https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/history/26/ "The Social Gospel and Socialism: A Comparison of the Thought of Francis Greenwood Peabody, Washington Gladden, and Walter Rauschenbusch"
- Web site: "Blessed Francis X. Seelos", Redemptorists of the Baltimore Province. https://web.archive.org/web/20161025023129/http://redemptorists.net/saints-seelos.cfm. October 25, 2016. August 6, 2019.
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- Book: Cohen, I. Bernard . Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer . MIT Press . 2000 . 978-0-262-53179-5 . January 26, 2024 . 9 . His mother, Margaret Emily Mierisch Aiken, was a child of German immigrants.
- http://sonic.net/maledicta/aman.html "Reinhold Albert Aman was born on April 8, 1936, in Fürstenzell (Bavaria), Germany. He grew up in Straubing and Oberschneiding, studied chemical engineering in Augsburg, and worked in Frankfurt and Munich."
- Web site: CABINET // The Intelligence of Vision: An Interview with Rudolf Arnheim. cabinetmagazine.org. August 6, 2019.
- Web site: Walter Baade and the Southern Hemisphere . June 29, 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20051103101854/http://www.aas.org/publications/baas/v25n4/aas183/abs/S3402.html . November 3, 2005. "Baade wanted to go there to observe with it himself, but his German citizenship prevented him"
- Web site: Rodeo – Earl Bascom. www.theinventors.org. August 6, 2019.
- http://www.powerset.com/explore/go/Max-Bentele "Dr. Max Bentele (born Ulm, Germany January 15, 1909 – died New York May 19, 2006, at age 97) was a pioneer in the field of jet aircraft turbines and mechanical engineering"
- Book: Ordway, Frederick I III . Sharpe, Mitchell R . The Rocket Team . Apogee Books Space Series 36 . 1979 . Thomas Y. Crowell . New York . 4,7–12,53,311,391,423 . 978-0-690-01656-7.
- http://www.space.com/news/spacehistory/vonbraun_disney_020813.html "Wernher von Braun, the German physicist who oversaw most of the achievements of the US space program until his death in 1977"
- https://www.germanmarylanders.org/profile-index/Education--Religion German Marylanders: "Herman Collitz was born in the town of Bleckede, Hanover, Germany."
- . Science: Cosmic Clearance . Time . . January 13, 1936 . 4 . The mother is Otelia Catherine Augspurger Compton, sprig of a German Mennonite family . January 17, 2024.
- http://nasawatch.com/archives/2008/01/werner-dahm-has-died.html "Werner K. Dahm, an internationally recognized rocket pioneer whose work in Germany and the United States."
- http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9029760 "German-born American physicist who shared one-half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1989 with the German physicist Wolfgang Paul"
- http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9029810 "Max Delbruck German-born US biologist, a pioneer in the study of molecular genetics."
- Web site: Otto Eckstein . December 2, 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090104064702/http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/eckstein.htm . January 4, 2009. "German-born Harvard economist and developer of large-scale macroeconometric models (for which he founded a forecasting corporation, Data Resources Inc. (DRI))"
- Web site: Albert Einstein – Biographical . Nobelprize.org . April 18, 1955 . May 22, 2014.
- Web site: George Engelmann, 1809–1884. German-born botanist . June 29, 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060901125137/http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/manuscripts/mlc/engelmann/engelmann.html . September 1, 2006. "German-born botanist"
- http://www.botany.org/bsa/misc/esau.html "The city was named originally after Katherine the Great who promoted agriculture in the steppes of the Ukraine by inviting settlers from Germany, among them the Mennonites. Dr. Esau's family is Mennonite. Dr. Esau's great-grandfather Aron Esau immigrated to the Ukraine In 1804 from Prussia"
- http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9035141?query=franck&ct= "James Franck German-born American physicist"
- https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-1987-02-08-2564784-story.html "There was no reason to think there was anything extraordinary about the boy born to George Fritz and Mary Meharg on Aug. 21, 1822. Little Johannes Fritzius, named after his German grandfather, soon found that there was plenty to do on his family's farm in rural Chester County. Under the stern but loving eye of their Scotch-Irish mother, John Fritz and his six brothers and sisters grew to maturity."
- Book: Schwieder, D. . Iowa: The Middle Land . University of Iowa Press . 1996 . 978-1-58729-549-2 . 237 . German-American John Froelich . January 26, 2024.
- http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=BAP.014.0379A "Born in Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1890, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann graduated from medical school at Königsberg, Eastern Prussia, in 1913."
- Web site: Geissler . August 29, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101019045720/http://astronautix.com/astros/geissler.htm . October 19, 2010. "German engineer in WW2, member of the Rocket Team in the United States thereafter."
- http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9051590 "German-born American physicist"
- Web site: Haeussermann . August 29, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100715042158/http://www.astronautix.com/astros/haermann.htm . July 15, 2010. "German-American engineer. Worked on V-2 gyro platform at Peenemünde 1939–1942. Returned to von Braun's team in US in 1948, working on Hermes II and Redstone guidance systems, becoming Director, Guidance and Control Division, at Huntsville."
- Book: Haller, Charles R. . Distinguished German-Americans . Heritage Books . 1995 . 978-0-7884-0193-0 . 2024-01-19 . 172.
- http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0241,black,39111,1.html "Herman Hollerith was the German American who first automated US census information"
- http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/horney.html "German-American psychiatrist"
- Wurtz . Robert H. . 2014 . David H. Hubel 1926–2013 . Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences . His paternal grandfather had emigrated from Germany to Detroit, where he had invented the first process for the mass production of gelatin pill capsules. . January 20, 2024.
- http://www.nap.edu/readingroom.php?book=biomems&page=hkluver.html "Heinrich Klüver, son of Wilhelm and Dorothes (Wübbers) Klüver, was born on May 25, 1897, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He arrived in the United States in 1923, married Cessa Feyerabend on February 4, 1927, and was naturalized as a US citizen in 1934."
- http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9045891 "German psychologist"
- Web site: Ley . December 20, 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081220144843/http://www.astronautix.com/astros/ley.htm . December 20, 2008. "Willy Ley was an extremely effective populariser of the idea of space flight – first in Germany and then in the United States. Ley was born in Berlin. Fluent in German, English, Italian, French, and Russian, he studied astronomy, physics, zoology, and paleontology at the University of Berlin."
- http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Ley.html "German engineer who was a founder of the German Rocket Society. In 1934, he emigrated to the United States rather than pursuing military applications of rocketry. In the U.S., he became a popularizer of space exploration and travel, writing many popular books."
- Kaplan . Robert D. . January–February 2012 . Why John J. Mearsheimer Is Right (About Some Things) . registration . The Atlantic . One of five children in a family of German and Irish ancestry . January 26, 2024.
- http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9052119 "Ottmar Mergenthaler, a German inventor"
- http://www.atomicarchive.com/Bios/Oppenheimer.shtml "Julius Robert Oppenheimer was born in New York City on April 22, 1904. His parents, Julius S. Oppenheimer, a wealthy German textile merchant, and Ella Friedman, an artist, were of Jewish descent but did not observe the religious traditions."
- http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/coll/pauling/chronology/page1.html "The Ancestry of Linus Pauling"
- Web site: Norman F. Ramsey – Biographical . 1989 . nobelprize.org . January 26, 2024 . My mother, daughter of German immigrants, had been a mathematics instructor at the University of Kansas..
- Book: Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.) . Rittenhouse . August 2022 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-024511-5 . January 20, 2024 . Americanized form of German Rittinghaus: habitational name from a farm near Altena, Westphalia. History: William Rittenhouse (1644–1708) was the first Mennonite preacher in North America. He was born in the Rhineland, Prussia (Germany) and worked as a papermaker in Amsterdam, emigrating to PA in 1688 and establishing the first paper mill in America. His great-grandson David Rittenhouse (1732–96) of Philadelphia was an astronomer and the first director of the United States Mint..
- Book: Gunther Eric Rothenberg . Contemporary Authors Online . Detroit . . 2001 . February 1, 2014 . http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query=&prodId=BIC1&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&mode=view&displayGroupName=Reference&limiter=&currPage=&disableHighlighting=false&displayGroups=&sortBy=&search_within_results=&p=BIC1&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CH1000085240&source=Bookmark&u=fairfax_main&jsid=b43395e8f85d2425010cfc836411ceac . Gale Document Number: GALE|H1000085240 . subscription . Contemporary Authors. Biography in Context.
- Johnson . D. Gale . October 1998 . In Memoriam: Theodore W. Schultz . Economic Development and Cultural Change . 47 . 1 . 212 . Born into a family of German immigrants . 10.1086/452393 . 10.1086/452393 . 154920609 . January 26, 2024.
- http://www.nysun.com/obituaries/frederick-seitz-96-physicist-led-rockefeller/72433/ "Seitz grew up in San Francisco, where he was born on July 4, 1911, to a German immigrant baker."
- News: The Martian Chroniclers . . Burkhard . Bilger . April 22, 2013 . April 15, 2013.
- https://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/10great/2006-10-05-german-places_x.htm "Two of San Francisco's best-known landmarks were built by Germans: Joseph Strauss designed the 1937 Golden Gate Bridge, and Bernard Maybeck, son of a German immigrant, designed the Palace of Fine Arts."
- http://www.germanheritage.com/biographies/mtoz/stern.html "Stern was born in Sorau, Germany (now Zary, Poland), and educated at the University of Breslau. He taught at Technische Hochschule in Zürich and at the universities of Frankfurt and Hamburg. In 1933 he moved to the U.S., accepting the position of research professor of physics at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University) in Pittsburgh, Pa."
- Peter C. Ford . Thomas J. Meyer. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . 2020 . 70 . Henry Taube. 30 November 1915—16 November 2005 . 409–418. His parents were ethnic German farmers who escaped from Russian-controlled Ukraine in 1911 for Canada. . 10.1098/rsbm.2020.0042 . free.
- Web site: NPWRC :: Rocky Mountain Beeplant (Cleome serrulata) . November 15, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141129032542/http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/plants/wildflwr/species/cleoserr.htm . November 29, 2014. "German botanist"
- Urey . Harold . Harold Urey . Stephane Groueff . Harold Urey's Interview . Voices of the Manhattan Project . March 3, 1965 . . The name is English. All the rest of my grandparents are German. Their names are Hofstettler. Hofstettler is a corruption. It was Hochstettler or something. And Eckhart and Reinoehl, very German, you see. . January 17, 2024.
- MacFarlane . Alistair . 2013 . W.V.O. Quine (1908-2000). Philosophy Now . Willard’s paternal grandmother, Katherine Motz, was born in Fronhofen in the Rhineland Palatinate, coming to Akron as a child. . January 22, 2024.
- http://www.walterwerke.co.uk/hw/wbiog.htm "In 1960 he emigrated to the United States and joined the Worthington Biochemical Corporation in Harrison, New Jersey, eventually becoming vice-president. During his life he was awarded numerous scientific medals and awards, and he published over 200 patents. Hellmuth Walter died on 16 December 1980."
- Book: Viotti, Paul R. . Kenneth Waltz: An Intellectual Biography . live . cup.columbia.edu . Columbia University Press . April 2024 . Book . 9780231178822 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231208044830/https://cup.columbia.edu/book/kenneth-waltz/9780231178822 . December 8, 2023 . Paul R. Viotti draws on extensive, candid interviews with Waltz—starting with his German grandparents’ immigration to the United States.
- Book: Farmer, Gene . Dora Jane Hamblin. First On the Moon: A Voyage With Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.. Little, Brown and Co.. 1970. Boston . 51–54 . 1970fomv.book.....F . Library of Congress 76-103950.
- http://www.unmuseum.org/gustave.htm "Gustave Whitehead, a poor, German immigrant"
- Web site: The Wright brothers' roots in the German Settlement . January 3, 2022 . Lovettsville Historical Society . January 19, 2024 . The Wright brother’s mother, Susan Koerner Wright, was born near Hillsboro in 1831. Her parents (Wilbur and Orville’s grandparents) were John Koerner, a carriage maker who emigrated from Saxony, and Catherine Frye Koener (1796-1889), who was born in the German Settlement in Loudoun County..
- https://baseballhall.org/discover-more/stories/pre-integration/von-der-ahe-chris CHRIS VON DER AHE – A MAGNATE FOR SUCCESS
- Web site: Nick Altrock: A Columbia Heights Major Leaguer Ghosts of DC. ghostsofdc. January 4, 2012. en-US. January 1, 2020.
- https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/43a04e49 "Heinz Becker, the only German-born big-leaguer who played during the years of World War II."
- http://en.bab.la/dictionary/german-english/zinn "Zinn is the German word for tin"
- https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/8dc7bc65 "The Benz family was of German Catholic stock, Joe's grandfather, also named Michael, having emigrated from the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1849."
- Book: The American Game. registration. 30. lou bierbauer german.. 2002. SIU Press. August 6, 2019. Internet Archive. 978-0-8093-8909-4.
- News: Breitenstein, 65, Dies; Once Noted Pitcher . . May 4, 1935 .
- https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/31/sports/baseball/world-series-2014-madison-bumgarner-sf-giants-ace-is-product-of-north-carolina-and-proud-father.html?_r=0 "The Bumgarners began arriving from southwest Germany a couple of hundred years ago."
- Web site: FamilySearch. FamilySearch. August 6, 2019.
- https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/571833af "His father, Daniel, was a German immigrant; his mother, Rosina (née Shellhorn), was the daughter of a German immigrant."
- https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/a0faa084 "Father Peter Danzig emigrated to the United States in 1880, he was considered and listed himself in the 1900 census as German"
- https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/1c9acfff "His father, Fred, was a salesman at a drugstore in Burleson, Texas, in 1920. Ten years later the 1930 census shows him as a salesman in a garage. Fred was a native Texan, too, but his father had been born in Berlin and his mother was Moravian. Both German and Bohemian were spoken in the household."
- Web site: Bill Dietrich – Society for American Baseball Research.
- Web site: Dietrich Name Meaning & Dietrich Family History at Ancestry.com®. www.ancestry.com. August 6, 2019.
- , "Not bad press for a man who just twenty-four years before had arrived from Freiburg, Germany with just a few dollars in his pocket."
- Book: Parker, Clifton Blue. Big and Little Poison: Paul and Lloyd Waner, Baseball Brothers. October 2, 2015. McFarland. 978-0-7864-8140-8. Google Books.
- http://germanoriginality.com/heritage/people/sports.php?id=146 "David Eckstein was born to German-American parents in Sanford, Florida. He is an MLB shortstop and current leadoff hitter for the St. Louis Cardinals. Eckstein was named the World Series MVP in 2006."
- https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/ff13ab21 "Elmer Albert Eggert was born and died in Rochester, New York – born on January 29, 1902 to parents of German ancestry. His mother Theresa Felgner Eggert had been born in Rochester, and his father Fred was born in New York City to two German parents."
- https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/c1e46a1f Society for American Baseball Research
- Web site: BGS The Report Card – December 8, 2006. https://web.archive.org/web/20070928063522/http://www.beckett.com/news/reportcard/archive.asp?a=7792&s=62. September 28, 2007. August 6, 2019.
- https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/cd61b579 "Oscar Emil Felsch, who grew up to be arguably the best baseball player ever produced by Milwaukee's north side, was born in 1891 in a German working-class neighborhood – Reference: Felsch's Application for Social Security Account Number, December 3, 1943; Wisconsin Original Certificate of Death #'64 024373; and 1900 and 1930 United States Censuses."
- Web site: Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: User Home Pages: The Guy Richard Freese Family Home Page . February 10, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150210223008/http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/r/e/Guy-R-Freese/ . February 10, 2015. "The Guy Richard Freese Family Home Page"
- http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/GermAmChron.htm "1929 – ...baseball stars: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Honus Wagner, Frank Frisch, all of German descent"
- http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=froemming "Froemming Name Meaning North German (Frömming): patronymic from Fromm."
- http://www.germanheritage.com/biographies/atol/lougehrigessay.html "Lou Gehrig's life, from the poor German boy in Yorkville to the famous star playing America's favorite pastime."
- News: Sketch of the Men Who Now wear the Dauvray Medals . The Sporting Life . 1887 .
- https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/getzich01.shtml "Pretzels Getzien"
- https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/c008379d Society of Baseball Research / SABR
- Book: Batesel, Paul. Major League Baseball Players of 1916: A Biographical Dictionary. February 14, 2007. McFarland. 978-0-7864-2782-6. Google Books.
- Web site: Happ Name Meaning & Happ Family History at Ancestry.com®. www.ancestry.com. August 6, 2019.
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- https://books.google.com/books?id=P63_5PFD5S8C&pg=PA47 "German Americans 30% of the U.S. Armed Forces, among them such high profile players such as Charlie Gehringer, Tommy Henrich, Pete Reiser and Red Ruffing."
- https://books.google.com/books?id=G8cEXUdRiggC&dq=August+Herrmann+german&pg=PA54 "German American assistants Rudolph Hynicka and August Hermann"
- https://books.google.com/books?id=wM-RcdEGhgsC&dq=August+Herrmann+german&pg=PA74 "Young August, a good Cincinnati German, worked for another good Cincinnati German..."
- Web site: "Between the Lines: Nine Principles to Live By" by Orel Hershiser and Robert Wolgemuth . August 26, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141129054817/http://www.ofspirit.com/tw-betweenthelines.htm . November 29, 2014. "...He wasn't angry, but true to his German roots..."
- , "Richard Carleton Hoblitzell... his father, Henry Hoblitzell, whose ancestors hailed from the oft-disputed Alsace-Lorraine region, was part German, Swiss, and French."
- https://books.google.com/books?id=2sg3CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA60 "part German mother"
- https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/b028c8f6 " Charles Schaeffer Kelchner ...was the son of Martin and Maria (Schaeffer) Kelchner, of Pennsylvania Dutch (German) descent."
- https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/6d17077b "His paternal great-grandfather, Johann Justus Kellner, a German immigrant."
- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~snowhillcloister/knepperfamily.htm "The Knepper Family... accompanied their founder, Alexander Mack, from Europe to Pennsylvania was a certain Wilhelm Knepper... 'Bob' Knepper, the noted baseball player, is a descendant"
- News: Howie Koplitz Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac . Baseball Almanac . May 22, 2014.
- https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/14d34d58 "Eugene Hamlet Krapp was born to Frederick "Fritz" and Bertha (Hettig) Krapp on May 12, 1887, in Rochester, New York. His father was born in Wurtemberg, Germany in 1854 and came to the United States three years later. His mother was a native New Yorker whose family had come from the same area in Germany."
- https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/a79cd3a2 "The Kuenns were the typical German-American blue-collar family that so heavily populated Milwaukee."
- News: Bowie Kuhn, 80, former baseball commissioner . Richard . Goldstein . . March 16, 2007 . November 8, 2013.
- https://www.amazon.com/dp/0140153357 The Art of Hitting .300
- https://www.genealogytoday.com/surname/finder.mv?Surname=Leibrandt "Leibrandt Surname"
- MLB – Chuck Machemehl Player Page. Sports Illustrated .
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/24/AR2006032401735.html "Markakis, who is half Greek and half German, led the Greek Olympic team..."
- Web site: Erskine Mayer | Society for American Baseball Research. sabr.org. August 6, 2019.
- https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/10fba444 "Henry William Meine was born on May 1, 1896 in an unincorporated area called Luxemburg in the predominantly German neighborhood known as Carondelet bordering the Mississippi River in south St. Louis, Missouri. Meine's parents were both children of German immigrants; Henry (born in 1864) and Louisa (nee Kulhman, born in 1873) married in 1891 and had seven children, Lilly, Henry, Edwin, Arthur, Charles, Ferdinand, and Walter, born between 1892 and 1908."
- Web site: FamilySearch.org. .
- https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/c4f233ab "Frederick William Muller was born on December 21, 1907, a son of German immigrants George and Mary Muller."
- Web site: Fritz Mollwitz Stats. Baseball-Almanac.com. May 21, 2011.
- https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/af0c2137 Fritz Mollwitz
- Book: Mike Eisenbath and Stan Musial . Cardinals Encyclopedia . 258–259.
- Census entry for Henry Peitz, ball-player, born November 1870. Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Census Place: Cincinnati Ward 23, Hamilton, Ohio; Roll: T623_1279; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 193.
- Census entry for Henry Peitz and family. Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Census Place: Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri; Roll: 733; Family History Film: 1254733; Page: 509C; Enumeration District: 306; Image: 0189.
- News: Heinie Peitz Is A Favorite . The Pittsburgh Press . March 16, 1905 .
- http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=roettger "Roettger Name Meaning North German (also Röttger): variant of Rudiger or Roger."
- http://german.about.com/library/bltrivia_misc1.htm "... born George Herman Ruth in Baltimore, Maryland to parents of German background. His mother, Katie Schaumberger, was the daughter of Pius and Anna Schaumberger, both born in Germany. Babe Ruth's father, saloon owner George Ruth, had German grandparents. Although Babe Ruth's German background is certain ..."
- , "Herman A. Schaefer was born to German immigrant parents in Chicago's South Side Levee District, on February 4, 1876."
- Web site: Germany Schaefer. Dan Holmes. 2006. Deadball Stars of the American League. Potomac Books, Inc.. May 28, 2012.
- Book: Knorr, Lawrence. Wonder Boy – The Story of Carl Scheib: The Youngest Player in American League History. March 30, 2017. Sunbury Press, Inc.. 978-1-62006-413-9. Google Books.
- Web site: Gameday Thread, #28: 4/30 vs. Astros. Jim. McLennan. April 30, 2008. AZ Snake Pit.
- Web site: Schimpf Name Meaning & Schimpf Family History at Ancestry.com®. www.ancestry.com.
- News: MIKE SCHMIDT HAS CREDENTIALS TO RATE WITH BEST. The New York Times . April 5, 1982 . Berkow . Ira .
- Web site: Frank Schneiberg – Society for American Baseball Research.
- Bill Nowlin. Al Schroll. Society for American Baseball Research.
- https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/66b47e26 "...to German immigrant John Schulte"
- Web site: Kyle Schwarber: 7 things you might not know. Dan. Cahill. July 22, 2015. Chicago Sun-Times. August 6, 2019.
- https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/69fabfcf Society for American Baseball Research / SABR
- https://books.google.com/books?id=P63_5PFD5S8C&dq=john+smoltz+is+german&pg=PA48 "Americans of German descent, like John Smoltz"
- , "The son of a German immigrant, Henry M. Steinfeldt was born on September 29, 1877, in St. Louis."
- Book: Porter, David L.. Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Baseball. March 20, 2000. Greenwood Publishing Group. 978-0-313-29884-4. Google Books.
- Web site: Untitled . December 2, 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081208130741/http://www.thesportgallery.com/sport-stories/dukesnider.html . December 8, 2008. "Ed (his mother never calls him Duke, a nickname coined by his father when the boy was five) is named Edwin Donald and has German-Dutch bloodlines on the paternal side and Scotch-Irish on the maternal side."
- https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/a6f98d87 "He was born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, on May 20, 1879, to Leonard and Mary Thielman. Leonard was a hardware dealer at the time of the 1900 census, a German immigrant who had come to the United States around 1858. Mary had been born in New York to German immigrant parents."
- https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/191174e8 "Elias Thoeny was a painter, a German immigrant as was his wife. National boundaries have, of course, changed over time. The Thoenys appear to have come from the southern part of current Germany..."
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070104082450/http://www.time.com/time/subscriber/personoftheyear/archive/stories/1984.html "His father, Victor, half German and half Viennese, with his hearty manner and curious mind, was the biggest influence in his life, says Ueberroth."
- https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/0ba8bbd7 "James "Jim" Umbricht was born in Chicago on September 17, 1930, to Mr. and Mrs. Eduard Umbricht. Eduard's parents were from Illinois and he was born and raised in the state. Jantina Frank, Eduard's wife, was born in Holland to a Dutch mother and German father. She was a native German speaker."
- https://books.google.com/books?id=P63_5PFD5S8C&dq=von+kolnitz+red&pg=PA42 "The story of Alfred Holmes "Fritz" Von Kolnitz illustrates ethnic ambivalence. Sensitive to his obviously Prussian-sounding name, he used the name "R. H. Holmes" when entering professional baseball in 1913..."
- http://usa.usembassy.de/germanamericans.htm "In sports there have been such memorable figures as baseballers Honus Wagner, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Casey Stengel ..."
- https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/420628e7 "The Wambsganss name was German in origin, though the best a German professor at Concordia College in Fort Wayne, Indiana, could tell him was that it seemed to combine components of the word for overcoat, or at least a word that might have been used as overcoat in early 20th century German usage."
- News: Rodriguez. Juan C.. Marlins notes: Yelich branches off family football tree. July 3, 2016. Sun Sentinel. March 4, 2014. August 25, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160825221131/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2014-03-04/sports/fl-marlins-0305-20140304_1_christian-yelich-reeves-pioneer-award-fred-gehrke.
- https://www.lifeinthefingerlakes.com/boeheim-basketball/ "The Boeheims were German in an Italian neighborhood, but honestly, it's not like my family celebrated their cultural heritage much."
- http://www.nbadraft.net/players/isaiah-hartenstein "Notes: He is the son of Florian Hartenstein, a German former professional basketball player and basketball coach... His mother is American and he was born in Eugene, Oregon ... He lived in USA until 2008, when he followed his family in Germany where his father was playing professionally... He has been a member of the German junior national teams since 2014, when he was 16 years old."
- https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/23/sports/celtics-legend-tommy-heinsohn-had-scare-poland-1964-that-was-red-auerbach-prank/ "A government official told the players about anti-German sentiment in Poland, one of their main stops of the 21-game tour. Heinsohn, with his unmistakably German last name, was a bit wary, but he didn't think much of it. He was just going to play basketball anyway."
- Phil Jackson, "Sacred Hoops", p. 27
- http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/olympics_blog/2008/07/clippers-kaman.html "Clippers' Kaman becomes German citizen for Olympics"
- https://books.google.com/books?id=2sg3CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA82 "...described herself as German..."
- http://forebears.io/surnames/prohm "Prevalence of Prohm Surname in Deutschland"
- Web site: University of Kentucky Coaching Record for Adolph Rupp . April 21, 2009 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20090312051429/http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/Statistics/Coaches/Adolph_Rupp.html . March 12, 2009. "Unlike some coaches, Mr. Rupp rarely played the role of a substitute father to his players. He was not the chummy sort. He had stern and demanding qualities, inherited from his German-immigrant father. He had reverence for order and precision and demanded it from his players. To some person, he appeared to be a mean old man."
- Web site: Heisman Trophy – Jay Berwanger – Heisman Winners. heismantrophy.com. January 5, 2021.
- News: Tom Brady's roots run deep into 19th-century Boston . Boston Globe. February 18, 2018.
- https://www.nfl.com/news/back-2-campus/usc-wr-amon-ra-st-brown-was-built-by-his-father-for-the-nfl Goodbread, Chase. "Son Also Rises: Amon-Ra St. Brown," NFL.com, Monday, April 19, 2021.
- Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Web site: Der harte Weg in die NFL für die St. Brown-Brüder SPORTreportage – ZDF . September 20, 2019 . YouTube.
- https://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/CunnGu0.htm "Born: June 19, 1946 (Age: 70-313d) in Munich, Germany"
- http://www.hr/darko/etf/diehl.html "Chronicle: Dave, you are Croatian American, tell us about your background? Diehl: I grew up on the south side of Chicago. I'm fifty percent Croatian and fifty percent German. I went to grammar school and High School (Brother Rice) with some Croatian friends. So I have been following Croatian heritage ever since I can remember. That's why people couldn't figure out why I have Diehl as my last name and Croatian GRB tattooed on my left arm. I grew up going to St. Jerome's Croatian Catholic Church with my Grandmother. Her maiden name was Semanic and she was from one of the Croatian islands. I remember going to St. Jerome's and having palacinke for breakfast. My grandmother married Grandpa who was Ante Bekavac from small village Bekavci near Lovrec in Imotski, Dalmacija, Croatia. My father Jerry who passed away in August was hundred percent German on both sides."
- http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=ertz "Ertz Name Meaning German: variant of Ersch, from a pet form of Aro or Arez."
- http://www.familytree.com/surnames/Goff "... the Goff name comes from the Old German term 'goff', which means a priest, god-like person or a powerful warrior."
- Web site: John Heisman . October 6, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160122024724/http://pabook2.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Heisman__John.html . January 22, 2016. "Born Johann Wilhelm Heisman on October 23, 1869, in Cleveland, Ohio, he was the son of John M. Heisman and Sara Lehr. The name John William was later adopted in order to make less apparent the fact that he was the son of immigrants. His father was the estranged son of German aristocrats and husband to his lower-class wife, for whom he gave up his family, inheritance, and surname."
- Web site: Archived copy . August 6, 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070821193212/http://www.hostetler.net/origins/fdescend2.cfm . August 21, 2007. "Hostelter is a descendant of the Amish-Mennonite immigrant Jacob Hochstetler."
- Web site: Jacob Jablonsky. tripod.com. 19 September 2023.
- 1900 Census, St. Louis, Missouri, FHL Film No. 1,240,888, Central Twp, E. D. 119, Sheet 5A, Family 105 at Lines 28–33.
- http://www.germanimmigrants1850s.com/index.php?f=ln&q=Kuechly "Kuechly Surname : 19th Century Germanic Immigrants to USA"
- https://books.google.com/books?id=GCvNoVqXOmUC&dq=Nesser+Brothers+german&pg=PA29 The Man Who Built the National Football League: Joe F. Carr, page 29 et seq.
- http://www.daytontriangles.com/nessers.htm "Their father, Theodore Nesser, was lured from Germany by the railroad and designed the steam engine the Pennsy used for years"
- http://forebears.io/surnames/pflugrad "Pflugrad Surname Distribution"
- Web site: George H. Sauer, Sr. – Norka – a German colony in Russia . November 16, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151117032133/http://www.norka-russland.net/george-h-sauer-sr.html . November 17, 2015. "Norka – a German colony in Russia"
- Web site: George Sauer, Jr. – Norka – a German colony in Russia . November 16, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151117032244/http://www.norka-russland.net/george-sauer-jr.html . November 17, 2015. "Norka – a German colony in Russia"
- http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=schlegel "German: from Middle High German slegel 'hammer', 'tool for striking' (Old High German slegil, a derivative of slahan 'to strike'), hence a metonymic occupational name for a smith or mason, or a nickname for a forceful person."
- http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=schobert "German Surname – (Schöbert): variant of Schober.variant of Schubert."
- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pocky/spach.html "Spach Family Name"
- https://books.google.com/books?id=pBljDwAAQBAJ&dq=roger+staubach+german&pg=PT20 The Family Tree German Genealogy Guide: How to Trace Your Germanic Ancestry
- Book: Sperber, Murray. Onward to Victory: The Creation of Modern College Sports. July 29, 2014. Henry Holt and Company. August 6, 2019. Google Books. 978-1-4668-7645-3.
- News: Berliner Mauer vor dem Durchbruch . Axel . Gustke . December 31, 2012 . . de.
- http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=dufner "German: variant of Duffner."
- http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,1517392,00.html "Golden wonder"
- Web site: Germans to America Passenger Data file, 1850–1897, Ship Normannia, departed from Hamburg, arrived in New York, New York, New York, United States, NAID identifier 1746067, National Archives at College Park, Maryland . FamilySearch.org . June 23, 2015.
- http://ellisisland.org/search/matchMore.asp?LNM=BACKES&PLNM=BACKES&first_kind=1&kind=exact&offset=0&dwpdone=1 "Backes is a surname of German immigrants to America."
- http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=eichel "German: topographic name of uncertain origin, possibly related to modern German Eichel 'acorn'. German: habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of an acorn."
- http://gazette.com/cc-hockey-players-enjoying-pro-careers-overseas/article/1564421 "...became a U.S.-German dual citizen before the move."
- Web site: It's a small hockey world for Guentzel. NHL.com. October 14, 2023 .
- Web site: Die Kultfigur bei den Pinguins – Sport in Bremen – WESER-KURIER . www.weser-kurier.de . January 5, 2016 . February 13, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160213090148/http://www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/bremen-sport_artikel%2C-Die-Kultfigur-bei-den-Pinguins-_arid%2C1284456.html . February 13, 2016.
- http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=mueller "German (Müller) and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a miller, Middle High German müller, German Müller. In Germany Müller, Mueller is the most frequent of all surnames; in the U.S. it is often changed to Miller."
- http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=schaller "German: nickname from Middle High German schallære 'braggart', 'orator', 'babbler'. Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a trumpeter or a shofar player, from an agent derivative of Yiddish shaln 'to sound'."
- http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=umberger "German: topographic or habitational name of unexplained origin."
- Web site: Walter Bahr reflects on the day the US beat England and stunned the so.... John. Hanc. AARP. August 6, 2019.
- Web site: Chandler Emerging at FC Nurnberg . https://web.archive.org/web/20110129211711/http://www.yanks-abroad.com/get.php?mode=content&id=7318 . usurped . January 29, 2011 . January 26, 2011 . March 5, 2011 . Yanks Abroad.
- Web site: Marcus Hahnemann. Reading FC . December 11, 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080102035747/http://www.baldyank.com/article.php . January 2, 2008. "Marcus' surname comes from his German roots, with his parents leaving Hamburg 35 years ago"
- Web site: VfB sign Jerome Kiesewetter . . May 16, 2012 . September 28, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150530050602/http://www.vfb.de/en/aktuell/meldungen/news/2012/verfplichtung-kiesewetter/page/1470-0-1-1337166981.html . May 30, 2015.
- The Reflection, Future and Duality of Post-USMNT Jurgen Klinsmann. July 8, 2019. Ballard. Chris. May 16, 2018. Sports Illustrated.
- Web site: Philadelphia German Americans win the 1936 US Open Cup. September 3, 2014. August 6, 2019.
- Web site: THE SIGI SCHMID INTERVIEW – Part I | Prost Amerika Soccer . January 3, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100317134808/http://www.prostamerika.com/2010/01/01/sigi-schmid-interview-part-1-17342/ . March 17, 2010. "Born in Tübingen, West Germany, he moved with his family to America at the age of four."
- . Yanks Abroad. November 9, 2005. Retrieved August 20, 2012.
- Winner, Andrew (September 19, 2005). "Spector aims to boost World Cup credentials". ESPN FC. Retrieved May 17, 2015. Archived from the original on May 15, 2010.
- http://germanoriginality.com/heritage/people/sports.php?id=87 "Maximillian Adelbert Baer, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, to German immigrant parents. His father was a butcher, and Baer often credited his powerful shoulders to working as a butcher."
- Book: Paxton, Bill . The Fearless Harry Greb: Biography of a Tragic Hero of Boxing . McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers . November 29, 2014 . 260 . English . 978-1-4766-1383-3 . ebook.
- News: An XL model mixes up the WWE stars. Sport1. February 20, 2019. February 21, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190221054731/https://www.sport1.de/kampfsport/wrestling/2017/02/nia-jax-vor-der-wwe-deutschland-tour-tim-wiese-ist-geruestet.amp.
- TIJ – EP168 – Sasha Banks . 48:09 . Talk is Jericho . Podcastone . . February 2, 2016.
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- https://emke.uwm.edu/entry/milwaukee-turners/ "Turnen is simply the German word for gymnastics, but the Turner movement has been defined by its compelling combination of physical exercise, cultural activity, and civic engagement. The German-American group played a leading role in the public life of Milwaukee, especially in the late nineteenth century."
- Web site: Ancestry of Dale Earnhardt Jr.. www.wargs.com.
- http://german.about.com/library/blfam_geramDEF.htm "was the first woman to swim the English Channel. The German-American swimming champ was born on October 23, 1905 in New York City, one of six children. Her father was a butcher from Germany. When Gertrude was eight, while visiting her grandmother in Germany, she fell into a pond, a fateful experience that led her to learn to swim. At the Paris Olympics in 1924 she won gold in the 400-meter freestyle relay, and bronze in the 100 m and 400 m individual freestyle events. In her 1926 Channel swim she beat the men's record by more than two hours. She held the women's record until 1950, when Florence Chadwick crossed the Channel in 13 hours and 20 minutes."
- http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Fogt "Recorded in several forms including Fogt, Foit, Vogt, Vogts, Veogt, Voigt and Voight, this is a German surname, but of pre 5th century Roman (Latin) origins. It derives from the ancient word "advocatus.""
- http://www.westcoastfencingarchive.com/2015/12/14/hans-halberstadt-at-the-1928-olympics/ "Hans Halberstadt at the 1928 Olympics,"
- http://evelknievel.com/the-man/ "Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel was the first of two children born to Robert E. and Ann Keough "Zippy" Knievel. His surname is of German origin; his great-great-grandparents on his father's side emigrated to the United States from Germany and on his mother's side from Ireland."
- Web site: Knievel family . March 11, 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071205210147/http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~gustaf/knievel.html . December 5, 2007. "Knievel"
- Web site: Niebrugge Name Meaning & Niebrugge Family History at Ancestry.com®. www.ancestry.com. August 6, 2019.
- Web site: michael phelps . ancestry.com . May 22, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120808192320/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/olympics08/phelps.htm . August 8, 2012 .
- Web site: ESPN Classic - Fat Man of Pool. www.espn.com.
- http://web5.acbl.org/about-acbl/hall-of-fame/members/von-zedtwitz-waldemar "Von Zedtwitz, Waldemar"
