FAMOUS GERMAN-AMERICANS

  • Famous Germans - in English at the German Way. What's the German-Hollywood Connection?. Famous bio's
  • Biographies of significant contributors of German descent to American life. Many resources. Max Kade.
  • The German Corner has over 200 famous German-Americans.
  • My page on the Forty-Eighters in Germany and the US
  • Brief, Basic biographical information is available at the homepage for Biography (A&E).
  • Forbes' 100 most powerful people - search "most powerful" and women, celebrities, business. How many Germans?
  • Britannica Online Search for quick info.

    The list below is mostly taken from Gerard Wilk's Americans from Germany.
  • Josef and Anni Albers
  • John Peter Altgeld
  • John Jacob Astor
  • Albert Bierstadt
  • Werner von Braun
  • Adolphus Busch
  • Charlie Chaplin?
  • Rudolf Dirks & the Katzenjammer Kids.
  • Albert Einstein
  • Karl Follen
  • Lou Gehrig
  • Manfred George
  • Walter Gropius
  • Oscar Hammerstein
  • Friedrich Hecker
  • Abraham Jacobi
  • Johan de Kalb
  • Henry A. Kissinger
  • Jakob Leisler
  • Emanuel Leutze
  • Francis Lieber
  • Ernst Lubitsch
  • Ottmar Mergenthaler
  • Christian Metz
  • John O. Meusebach
  • Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg and sons Johan Peter Gabriel and Frederick Augustus Conrad
  • Friedrich Muench
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  • Thomas Nast
  • Anna Ottendorfer
  • Erwin Panofsky
  • Franz Daniel Pastorius and the protest against US slavery
  • Adolph Rickenbacker. Constructed the first electric guitar!
  • Johann Augustus Roebling
  • Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • George Hermann "Babe" Ruth
  • Johann Paul Schott
  • Carl Schurz and the 1848ers
  • Martin Schwarzschild
  • Charles Proteus Steinmetz
  • Heinrich Steinway, sons John, Theodore, Henry
  • Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
  • Levi Strauss
  • Johann August Sutter and the Gold Rush
  • John Studebaker
  • Henry Villard
  • Wagner
  • Bruno Walter
  • Lawrence Welk
  • Kurt Weill
  • Friedrich Weyerhaeuser
  • Johan Peter Zenger
     

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    Last updated July 17, 1997 and August 5, 2001 and Feb 2017!