All articles starting with G

Gunter Dreibrodt

Günter (Günther) Dreibrodt, born 1951 in Roßlau, East German handball right back; Olympic gold 1980 Moscow (23-22 OT vs USSR), 186 caps/691 goals, 1978 world bronze, seven GDR titles and 1978/1981 European Cup with SC Magdeburg.

Günter Gottstein

Günter Gottstein (G. Gottstein, born 1944) is a German materials scientist and physical metallurgist who led grain boundary and recrystallization research at RWTH Aachen University.

Günter Grass

Günter Grass (1927-2015), German novelist and graphic artist of the Danzig trilogy (Die Blechtrommel, Katz und Maus, Hundejahre), Nobel Literature laureate 1999; revealed in 2006 his teenage Waffen-SS service.

Gunter Haritz

Günter Haritz (1948–2025), German track cyclist, won Olympic gold in the 1972 Munich 4,000m team pursuit and world titles in 1970 and 1973, then won 11 six-day races as a professional.

Günter Jung

Günter Jung is a German chemistry professor at the University of Tübingen, expert in liposomes and DNA transfection, named on the foundational European mRNA vaccine patent.

Günter M. Ziegler

Günter M. Ziegler (born 1963 in Munich) is a German mathematician working in discrete geometry and convex polytopes, and president of Freie Universität Berlin since 2018.

Günter Meisner

Günter Meisner (also Günther Meisner, Günter Meissner), 1926–1994, German character actor and Berlin gallery owner; over 100 screen roles, famous as Mr. Slugworth in Willy Wonka and for playing Hitler and SS officers.

Gunter Meister

Gunter Meister is a German molecular biologist, professor and chair of Biochemistry at the University of Regensburg since 2009, known for work on microRNAs, Argonaute proteins, and RNA interference.

Gunter Ortmann

Günter Ortmann (1916-2002), German handball player, 1936 Berlin Olympic gold medalist in field handball and 1938 world champion in both field and indoor handball; later a policeman.

Günter P. Wagner

Günter P. Wagner is an Austrian-born evolutionary biologist and Yale professor since 1991, known for his theories of homology and evolutionary novelty, bird digit identity, and the evolution of mammalian pregnancy.

Gunter Perleberg

Günter Perleberg (1935–2019) was a German canoe sprint paddler who won Olympic gold in the kayak relay at Rome 1960 and silver at Tokyo 1964.

Günter Reiter

Günter Reiter, born 1960 in Wels, Austria, is an experimental polymer physicist and professor at the University of Freiburg, known for dewetting and polymer crystallization research.

Gunter Sachs

Gunter Sachs (Fritz Gunter Sachs, 1932–2011), German photographer, filmmaker, and art collector; Bardot's husband; opened Hamburg gallery showing Warhol in 1972; Sotheby's sold his collection for 51 million euros in 2012.

Günter Scheibe

Günter Scheibe (1893–1980) was a German physical chemist, professor at the Technical University of Munich from 1932 to 1961, whose 1936 discovery of ordered dye aggregates, the Scheibe effect, opened the study of exciton coupling.

Gunter Spur

Günter Spur (1928–2013) was a German production engineering scientist who held the machine tools chair at TU Berlin from 1965 to 1997 and built the Production Technology Centre Berlin.

Gunter Tittes

Günter Tittes (Gunter Tittes), East German breaststroke swimmer (1936–2023) of ASK Vorwärts Rostock; 1960 Rome Olympian in the 4x100 medley relay; set the 100 m breaststroke world record of 1:10.8 on 5 July 1961 in East Berlin.

Gunter Traub

Günter Traub (born 13 March 1939, Schweinfurt) is a German speed and roller speed skater, two-time all-around world record holder (1963, 1968), four-time West German champion, Olympian in 1964 and 1968, later US and Italian national coach and fitness coach to Formula 1 drivers.

Günter Weiß

Günter Weiss is an Austrian physician-scientist in internal medicine, hematology, and iron metabolism, director of Internal Medicine II at the Medical University of Innsbruck since 2012.

Günter Wolf

Günter Wolf, also known as Gunter Wolf, is a German nephrologist born in 1961 who directs nephrology at Jena University Hospital and studies diabetic nephropathy.

Guntersdorf

Guntersdorf, a market town in Hollabrunn district, Lower Austria, population 1,176 (2026); includes Großnondorf, SC Guntersdorf football club (founded 1946), fire brigade 1885, B303 road rebuild 2023-2026.

Günther (singer)

Günther, stage name of Swedish musician Mats Söderlund, is a eurodance singer and former model behind the 2004 camp hit "Ding Dong Song" with the Sunshine Girls, later viral on TikTok.

Gunther (wrestler)

Gunther (Walter Hahn), Austrian WWE wrestler nicknamed The Ring General; record 666-day Intercontinental Champion, 870-day NXT UK Champion, two-time World Heavyweight Champion, retired Goldberg, AJ Styles, and John Cena.

Günther Balz

Günther Balz was a chemist who, with Günther Schiemann, discovered the Balz–Schiemann reaction for making aryl fluorides from aromatic amines at the Technische Hochschule Hannover in 1927.

Gunther Dennert

Gunther Dennert is a German-trained immunologist and Emeritus Professor at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, known for work on natural killer cells and immune regulation.

Günther Deuschl

Günther Deuschl is a German neurologist who led the Department of Neurology at Kiel from 1995 to 2016 and led the randomized trials establishing deep-brain stimulation as a Parkinson's treatment.

Gunther Eggeler

Gunther F. Eggeler is a German materials scientist who has led the Chair of Materials Science at Ruhr-Universität Bochum since 1995, studying superalloys and shape memory alloys.

Gunther F. Joklik

Gunther F. Joklik, also known as G. Frank Joklik, is an Australian-trained exploration geologist and mining executive known for developing the Mt. Newman iron ore mine and leading Kennecott.

Günther Gerisch

Günther Gerisch (1931–2025) was a German cell biologist and Max Planck Institute director known for his work on the actin cytoskeleton and the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum.

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Gunther Gerzso

Gunther Gerzso (1915–2000) was a Mexican painter and set designer who pioneered geometric abstraction in Mexican art while also designing sets for some 250 films.