Top Celebrity Names Starting With Georg

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   Georg Baselitz

   Age 74 Male
   

   Painter

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   Georg Baselitz is a German painter who studied in the former East Germany, before moving to what was then the country of West Germany. Baselitz's style is interpreted by the Northern American as Neo-Expressionist, but from a European perspective, it is more seen as postmodern. His career was kick-started in the 1960s after police action against one of his paintings, because of its provocative, offending sexual nature.… read more

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   Georg Solti

   1912 - 1997 Male
   

   Orchestral and Operatic Conductor

   
   

   Sir Georg Solti, KBE, was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor. He was a major classical recording artist, holding the record for having received the most Grammy Awards, having personally won 31 as a conductor, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.… read more

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   Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

   1770 - 1831 Male
   

   Philosopher

   
   

   Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher, one of the creators of German Idealism. His historicist and idealist account of reality as a whole revolutionized European philosophy and was an important precursor to Continental philosophy and Marxism.… read more

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   Georg Cantor

   1845 - 1918 Male
   

   Mathematician Who Originated Set Theory.

   
   

   Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor was a German mathematician, best known as the inventor of set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics. Cantor established the importance of one-to-one correspondence between the members of two sets, defined infinite and well-ordered sets, and proved that the real numbers are "more numerous" than the natural numbers. In fact, Cantor's method of proof of this theorem implies the existence of an "infinity of infinities".… read more

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   Georg Danzer

   1946 - 2007 Male
   

   Singer, Musician, Songwriter

   
   

   Georg Franz Danzer was an Austrian singer-songwriter. Although he is credited as one of the pioneers of Austropop, he always refused to be part of this genre. Danzer was successful as a solo artist, but also in the group Austria3, along with Wolfgang Ambros and Rainhard Fendrich.… read more

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   Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff

   1699 - 1753 Male
   

   Painter, Architect, Soldier

   
   

   Hans Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff was a painter and architect in Prussia. Knobelsdorff was born in Kuckädel, now in Krosno Odrzańskie County. A soldier in the service of Prussia, he resigned his commission in 1729 as captain so that he could pursue his interest in architecture. In 1740 he travelled to Paris and Italy to study at the expense of the new king, Frederick II of Prussia.… read more

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   Georg Forster

   1754 - 1794 Male
   

   Naturalist and Ethnologist

   
   

   Johann Georg Adam Forster was a German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, and revolutionary. At an early age, he accompanied his father on several scientific expeditions, including James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific. His report from that journey, A Voyage Round the World, contributed significantly to the ethnology of the people of Polynesia and remains a respected work.… read more

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   Georg Hackenschmidt

   1877 - 1968 Male
   

   Wrestler, Heavyweight, Champion

   
   

   Georg Karl Julius Hackenschmidt was an early 20th-century Estonian strongman and professional wrestler, and the first free-style heavyweight champion of the world. He launched his professional career in Russia and lived most of his life in London, England, where he gained the nickname of 'The Russian Lion'.… read more

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   Georg Philipp Telemann

   1681 - 1767 Male
   

   Composer, Musician

   
   

   Georg Philipp Telemann was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes. After studying in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hildesheim, Telemann entered the University of Leipzig to study law, but eventually settled on a career in music.… read more

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    Georg Simmel

    1858 - 1918 Male
    

    Sociologist, Major, Philosopher

    
    

    Georg Simmel was a major German sociologist, philosopher, and critic. Simmel was one of the first generation of German sociologists: his neo-Kantian approach laid the foundations for sociological antipositivism, asking 'What is society?' in a direct allusion to Kant's question 'What is nature?', presenting pioneering analyses of social individuality and fragmentation.… read more

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    Georg Ratzinger

    Age 88 Male
    

    Priest, Musician, Conductor

    
    

    Georg Ratzinger, PA is a German Catholic priest and musician, known for his work as the conductor of the Regensburger Domspatzen, the cathedral choir of Regensburg, Germany. He is the elder brother of Pope Benedict XVI. His granduncle was German politician Georg Ratzinger.… read more

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    Georg Sauerwein

    1831 - 1904 Male
    

    Poet, Minister, Writer

    
    

    Georg Julius Justus Sauerwein (15 January 1831 in Hanover – 16 December 1904 in Christiania was a German publisher, polyglot, poet, and linguist. He is buried at Gronau. Sauerwein was the greatest linguistic prodigy of his time and mastered about 75 languages. His father served as an evangelical minister in Hanover, Schmedenstedt and Gronau. From 1843 to 1848 Sauerwein went to the Gymnasium in Hanover.… read more

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    Georg Ludwig von Trapp

    1880 - 1947 Male
    

    Austrian World War I U-boat Commander

    
    

    Korvettenkapitän Georg Ludwig Ritter von Trapp, known as Baron von Trapp, was an Austro-Hungarian Navy officer. His exploits at sea during World War I earned him numerous decorations, including the prestigious Military Order of Maria Theresa. The story of his family served as the inspiration for the musical The Sound of Music.… read more

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    Georg Kajanus

    Age 66 Male
    

    Composer, Musician, Singer

    
    

    Georg Kajanus is a Norwegian composer and pop musician, best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the British pop group, Sailor.

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    Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

    1742 - 1799 Male
    

    Scientist, Satirist

    
    

    Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was a German scientist, satirist and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany. Today, he is remembered for his posthumously published notebooks, which he himself called Sudelbücher, a description modeled on the English bookkeeping term "waste books", and for his discovery of the strange treelike patterns now called Lichtenberg figures.… read more

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    Georg Brandes

    1842 - 1927 Male
    

    Danish Author

    
    

    Georg Morris Cohen Brandes was a Danish critic and scholar who had great influence on Scandinavian and European literature from the 1870s through the turn of the 20th century. He is seen as the theorist behind the "Modern Breakthrough" of Scandinavian culture. At the age of 30, Brandes formulated the principles of a new realism and naturalism, condemning hyper-aesthetic writing and fantasy in literature.… read more