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Jürgen Gröll

Jürgen Gröll, also spelled Juergen Groll, is a German polymer chemist who holds the chair of Functional Materials in Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Würzburg.

Jürgen Habermas (1929–2026), German philosopher and sociologist of the Frankfurt School's second generation; author of The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Theory of Communicative Action; known for discourse ethics, communicative rationality, and constitutional patriotism.

Sep 20, 2026

Jürgen Janek

Jürgen Janek (born 1964) is a German physical chemist who has held the physical chemistry chair at Justus Liebig University Giessen since 1999 and studies solid-state batteries.

Jürgen Klinsmann

Jürgen Klinsmann, born 1964, German striker and coach; 108 caps, 47 goals; World Cup 1990, Euro 1996; later managed Germany (2006 third place), Bayern, USMNT 2011-16, Hertha, South Korea.

Jürgen Klopp

Jürgen Klopp (born 1967), German football manager; led Mainz, Borussia Dortmund, and Liverpool (2015-2024), winning the 2019 Champions League and 2020 Premier League; now Germany head coach after a Red Bull role.

Sep 20, 2026

Jürgen Knoblich

Jürgen Knoblich (born 1963) is a German developmental biologist at IMBA in Vienna whose laboratory introduced cerebral organoids, human stem-cell models of brain development, in 2013.

Oct 10, 2026

Jürgen Kocka

Jürgen Kocka, born 1941 in Bohemia, is a German historian who co-founded the Bielefeld School of historical social science with Hans-Ulrich Wehler, pioneered comparative social history, and won the Holberg Prize.

Sep 20, 2026

Jürgen Kurths

Jürgen Kurths (born 1953) is a German physicist and complex-systems scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, known for work on synchronization of chaotic systems.

Sep 27, 2026

Jürgen Ligi

Jürgen Ligi (born 1959) is an Estonian Reform Party politician and Minister of Finance since 2024, having earlier served as finance, defense, foreign affairs, and education minister.

Jurgen Litz

Jürgen Litz (born 8 October 1938, Essen) is a German rower, Olympic gold medalist in the men's coxed fours at Rome 1960 (6:39.12) with RC Germania Düsseldorf crewmates Cintl, Effertz, Riekemann, and cox Obst; decorated with the Silver Bay Leaf.

Jürgen Locadia

Jürgen Leonardo Locadia, born 1993 in Emmen, Netherlands, is a Curaçao international striker, formerly of PSV Eindhoven and Brighton & Hove Albion, who started all three of Curaçao's matches at its debut 2026 World Cup.

Jürgen M. Lehmann

Jürgen M. Lehmann was a researcher at Glaxo Wellcome in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, known for identifying ligands for the nuclear receptors PPARγ, PXR, and FXR.

Jurgen May

Jürgen May is a German middle- and long-distance runner born in 1942 in Nordhausen, who held the 1000 m world record and was East German Athlete of the Year in 1965.

Jürgen Moltmann

Jürgen Moltmann (1926–2024) was a German Reformed theologian at the University of Tübingen, known for Theology of Hope (1964) and his new political theology with Johann Baptist Metz.

Jürgen Moser

Jürgen Moser (1928–1999) was a mathematician born in Königsberg, East Prussia, who worked in dynamical systems, celestial mechanics, and partial differential equations, and is best known for the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theory of stability in Hamiltonian systems.

Jürgen Mossack

Jürgen Mossack (born 1948) is a German-born Panamanian lawyer who co-founded Mossack Fonseca, the offshore law firm exposed by the 2016 Panama Papers leak of 11.5 million documents; tried for money laundering in Panama in 2024 and acquitted.

Jurgen Oelke

Jürgen Oelke (born 25 November 1940, Berlin) is a German rowing coxswain of Berliner RC who won gold in the coxed four at Tokyo 1964 and the 1962 first World Championships at Luzern.

Oct 10, 2026

Jürgen Osterhammel

Jürgen Osterhammel (born 1952) is a German historian and pioneer of global history, best known for his world history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World.

Jürgen P. Rabe

Jürgen P. Rabe is a German experimental physicist, professor of the physics of macromolecules at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 1994 and founding director of IRIS Adlershof.

Jürgen Popp

Jürgen Popp (born 1966 in Dinkelsbühl) is a German physical chemist who develops Raman-based, label-free optical diagnostics, leading the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology in Jena since 2006.

Jürgen Prochnow

Jürgen Prochnow (born 1941, Berlin) is a German actor, star of Das Boot (1981) as the U-boat captain 'der Alte', later in Dune, The English Patient, and The Da Vinci Code.

Jürgen Raps

Jürgen Raps (1951–2025) was a German airline pilot who served as Lufthansa's chief pilot and was one of the first pilots licensed to fly the Airbus A380.

Jürgen Rehm

Jürgen Rehm is a German epidemiologist at Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health who studies the global burden of disease from alcohol and other drugs.

Jürgen Rödel

Jürgen Rödel is a German materials scientist who headed nonmetallic-inorganic materials at TU Darmstadt from 1994 until retiring in 2024, known for dislocation engineering of ferroelectrics and lead-free piezoceramics.

Jürgen Rühe

Jürgen Rühe (born 1961 in Enniger, Germany) is a German polymer chemist who holds the interfaces chair at the University of Freiburg and won the 2002 DECHEMA Prize.

Jürgen Ruland

Jürgen Ruland (born 1966) is a German physician-scientist and immunologist at TU Munich who studies immune signaling pathways and how their defects cause immunodeficiency, inflammation, and lymphoma.

Jürgen Schmidhuber

Jürgen Schmidhuber is a German computer scientist known for the LSTM neural network, longtime head of the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA, and Director of the AI Initiative at KAUST.

Jurgen Schult

Jürgen Schult (born 1960), East German/German discus thrower; 1986 world record 74.08 m (stood until 2024), 1988 Olympic champion, 1992 silver, 1987 world champion, later German national coach.

Jürgen Stroop

Jürgen Stroop (born Joseph Stroop, 1895–1952) was the SS and Police Leader who commanded the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943, compiled the Stroop Report used at Nuremberg, and was executed in Warsaw in 1952.