German (name)
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German is a given name
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...

, often the Slavic or Spanish form of Herman
Herman
Herman is a Dutch and English male given name. Its original meaning was "army man" and derives from the Germanic elements "heri" meaning "army" combined with "man" meaning "man"...

, as well as a surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...

. People with this name include:

Art and music

Given name:
  • Germán Casas
    German Casas
    -Brief bio:German Casas became famous during the 1960s and 1970s. Many of his songs hit Chilean airwaves and television, making him a household name all over his native country. He was one of Chile's best known rock and roll and twist musicians of the era...

    , Chilean singer
  • Germán Cueto
    Germán Cueto
    Germán Gutiérrez Cueto was a Mexican painter, sculptor, puppet designer and puppeteer. He joined the Academia de Artes in 1968 and belonged to the founding members.- Biography :...

    , Mexican painter
  • German Galynin
    German Galynin
    German Germanovich Galynin was a Soviet composer, student, and continuer of the Shostakovich and Myaskovsky line in Soviet classic music....

    , Soviet Russian composer
  • Germán Gedovius
    Germán Gedovius
    Germán Gedovius was a Mexican painter....

    , Mexican painter
  • German Goldenshteyn
    German Goldenshteyn
    German Goldenshteyn, or Goldenshtayn was born in the Bessarabian shtetl of Otaci, then in Romania, now in Moldova. He was a clarinetist and musicologist who brought his native region's klezmer tradition to the USA. In 1994 he arrived with nearly a thousand klezmer tunes that he had transcribed...

    , Romanian klezmer musician
  • Germán Legarreta
    Germán Legarreta
    Germán Legarreta is a Puerto Rican-born American film and television actor.-Early life:Legarreta was born Germán Legarreta Quiles in San Juan, Puerto Rico; It did not take long for him to get his first big break—a commercial when he was just three years old...

    , Puerto Rican actor
  • German Londoño
    German Londoño
    German Londoño is a Colombian artist from Medellín. He is mostly known as a painter but recently has begun sculpting. He has exhibited in museums in Lisbon and Bogotá, as well as galleries in Colombia, Italy, and New York City.-External links:*...

    , Colombian painter and sculptor
  • Germán Magariños
    Germán Magariños
    Germán Magariños is an Agentine film director, film producer, screenwriter, bassist and sometimes actor.-Biography:All of his movies are extremely low-budget violent productions considered gore horror comedies or splatterpunk, being Ed Wood, Jr and Lloyd Kaufman his main influences...

    , Argentine film director and screenwriter
  • German Moreno
    German Moreno
    German Moreno, also known as Kuya Germs or the Master Showman , is a Filipino television host, actor, comedian and Talent Manager popular during the 1980s...

    , Filipino actor
  • German Okunev
    German Okunev
    German Grigoryevich Okunev was a Soviet Russian composer, pianist and teacher.-Life:Okunev's father was an engineer; his mother was a dressmaker. From the age of 8 he attended a musical school in Leningrad. He graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in Leningrad, where he studied with O...

    , Soviet Russian composer
  • Germán Pedro Ibáñez
    Germán Pedro Ibáñez
    Germán Pedro Ibáñez was the musical director of one of the oldest musical groups from Cuba, the Septeto Habanero....

    , Cuban musical director
  • Germán Robles
    Germán Robles
    Germán Robles is a Mexican film, theater, television, and voice actor. He came to Mexico when he was 17, after Spain's civil war. His slim figure contrasts with his deep, calm, elegant voice....

    , Mexican actor
  • Germán Valdés
    Germán Valdés
    Germán Genaro Cipriano Gomez Valdés Castillo , better known as Tin-Tan, was an actor, singer and comedian who was born in Mexico City but was raised and began his career in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. He often displayed the pachuco dress and employed pachuco slang in many of his movies, some with his...

    , Mexican actor
  • Germán Villar
    Germán Villar
    -Biography:Germán Villar was born in Valencia, Spain. The roots of his musical education lay in Madrid, where he started his education with Inés Ribanedeira. At the age of 20 he joined the Joaquim Rodrigo Conservatory in Valencia, where he was to finish his studies...

    , Spanish tenor


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  • Aleksei German
    Aleksei German
    Aleksei Yuryevich German is a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, most active as a director and screenwriter. His last name is pronounced with a hard "g" and in English is frequently spelled Guerman or Gherman to avoid confusion.Almost all of German's films have been set during the Stalin era and have...

    , Soviet Russian filmmaker
  • Anna German
    Anna German
    Anna Viktoria German was a popular Soviet-born Polish singer of German/Dutch origin.-Biography:Anna German was born in Urgench, a city with a 22-thousand population in northwestern Uzbekistan, USSR. Her mother, Irma Martens, was the descendent of Dutch Mennonites invited to Russia by Catherine II...

    , Polish singer
  • Edward German
    Edward German
    Sir Edward German was an English musician and composer of Welsh descent, best remembered for his extensive output of incidental music for the stage and as a successor to Arthur Sullivan in the field of English comic opera.As a youth, German played the violin and led the town orchestra, also...

    , English composer
  • Gretchen German
    Gretchen German
    Gretchen German is a Canadian-born American actress who has appeared in both film and television. She is best known for her guest roles in an episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld, an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and as Joe Hackett's girlfriend, Gail, during the third season of Wings...

    , American actress
  • Lauren German
    Lauren German
    Lauren Christine German is an American actress, known for her role as the hitchhiker in the 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, as well as for starring in the 2007 film Hostel: Part II, in which she plays one of the lead characters...

    , American actress
  • Robert German
    Robert German
    Robert German is a United States singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He is known for his unique vocal style which has drawn comparisons to such disparate influences as Louis Armstrong, Tori Amos and Tom Waits....

    , American singer,guitarist, and songwriter

Humanities and social sciences

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  • Germán Arciniegas
    Germán Arciniegas
    Germán Arciniegas was a Colombian essayist and historian. Arciniegas wrote over 50 books and many columns in the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo and also taught at Columbia University in New York.- Books :...

    , Colombian essayist
  • Germán Carrera Damas
    Germán Carrera Damas
    Germán Carrera Damas , is a Venezuelan historian, professor and retired ambassador, author of important works of Venezuela's historiography such as El Culto a Bolívar and Una nación llamada Venezuela , among other works and essays.- References :*Early review about Carrera Damas career at the...

    , Venezuelan historian
  • Germán Castro Caycedo
    Germán Castro Caycedo
    Germán Castro Caycedo is a Colombian journalist and writer. Castro Caycedo's topics revolve around the Colombian reality, under the parameters of the cultural identity and its social and economic phenomena....

    , Colombian writer and journalist
  • Germán Espinosa
    Germán Espinosa
    Germán Espinosa was a Colombian novelist, poet and author born and based in Cartagena, Colombia. He wrote over forty works over the course of his career. He often used his native Cartagena for the backdrop or inspiration for his writings...

    , Colombian novelist and poet
  • German Gref
    German Gref
    German Oskarovich Gref , born February 8, 1964) is a Russian economist of German ethnicity, the founder of Center of the Strategic Development. He was the Minister of Economics and Trade of Russia from May 2000 to September 2007...

    , Russian economist
  • Germán Gullón
    Germán Gullón
    Germán Gullón , literary critic and writer, is a Professor of Spanish Literature and Member of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam...

    , Spanish literary critic
  • German Kim
    German Kim
    German Nikolaevich Kim is Head of the Department of Korean Studies at Al-Farabi University, Kazakhstan and one of the leading internationally-recognised scholars of the Koryo-saram.- Early life :...

    , Kazakhstani historian
  • German Nogueira Gomez
    German Nogueira Gomez
    Germán Gomez Nogueira , is a Cuban author, composer and producer. He was born in Havana, Cuba. He has been the winner of several national and international music events. He is the author of many popular songs included in soloists’ discs launched by Cuban and international music distributors...

    , Cuban author
  • German Sadulaev
    German Sadulaev
    German Umaralievich Sadulaev is a Chechen writer.- Biography :German Sadulaev was born in 1973, in the town of Shali, in the Chechen-Ingush ASSR, to a Chechen father and Terek Cossack mother....

    , Chechen writer

Politics

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  • German Kuznetsov
    German Kuznetsov
    German Kuznetsov was Vice President of Kyrgyzstan from 1991-1992 under Askar Akayev. Akayev replaced him on 27 February 1992 in favor of Feliks Kulov.-References:...

    , former deputy premier of Kyrgyzstan
  • Germán List Arzubide
    Germán List Arzubide
    Germán List Arzubide was a Mexican poet and revolutionary.Born in Puebla, he was an active participant in the Revolution, fighting alongside Emiliano Zapata as well as extolling him and other revolutionary leaders in his poetry...

    , Mexican revolutionary
  • Germán Martínez
    Germán Martínez
    Germán Martínez Cázares is a Mexican politician and lawyer. He is a member of the National Action Party....

    , Mexican politician
  • Germán Riesco
    Germán Riesco
    Germán Riesco Errázuriz was a Chilean political figure, and he served as President of Chile between 1901 and 1906.-Early life:...

    , former president of Chile
  • Germán Riesco Errázuriz
    Germán Riesco Errázuriz
    Germán Ignacio Riesco Errázuriz was a Chilean political figure, who served several times as minister between 1919 and 1950. He was of Basque descent....

    , Chilean politician, son of the above
  • Germán Sequeira
    Germán Sequeira
    Germán Sequeira Aguilera was a Nicaraguan politician. He was the 79th and 82nd mayor of El Sauce, León, Nicaragua. Before he was mayor, he attended medical school at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua...

    , Nicaraguan politician
  • Germán Serrano Pinto
    Germán Serrano Pinto
    Germán Serrano Pinto is a Costa Rican politician. He served as vice president from 1990 through 1994.-References:...

    , Costa Rican politician
  • Germán Suárez Flamerich
    Germán Suárez Flamerich
    Germán Suárez Flamerich was President of Venezuela from 1950 to 1952.Flamerich was a lawyer, college professor, diplomat, and politician. He was president of the "Junta de Gobierno" 1950-1952, after the assassination of Carlos Delgado Chalbaud. His parents were J.M. Suárez and Clorinda Flamerich...

    , former president of Venezuela
  • Germán Trejo
    Germán Trejo
    Germán Trejo-Caballero is a politician dedicated to defending the rights of immigrants in the United States and Mexico, and to improving the lot of Hispanics and Latinos through public service and civic participation...

    , American immigrant rights activist
  • Germán Vargas Lleras
    Germán Vargas Lleras
    Germán Vargas Lleras is a Colombian lawyer and politician currently serving as Minister of the Interior of Colombia. From 1994 to 2008 he served as Senator of Colombia for four consecutive terms, and during the Colombian presidential election of 2010 he ran as a candidate for the Radical Change...

    , Colombian politician and presidential candidate


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  • Lindsey German
    Lindsey German
    Lindsey German is the convenor of the British anti-war organisation Stop the War Coalition and a former member of the central committee of the Socialist Workers Party. She was editor of Socialist Review for twenty years until 2004...

    , British anti-war activist
  • Mike German
    Mike German
    Michael James German, Baron German, OBE , usually known as Mike German, is a member of the House of Lords and former member of the National Assembly for Wales for the South Wales East Region. He was leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats from 2007–08...

    , Welsh politician
  • Obadiah German
    Obadiah German
    Obadiah German was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He was admitted to the bar in 1792, and commenced practice in Norwich....

    , American politician and lawyer
  • William Manley German
    William Manley German
    William Manley German was an Ontario barrister and political figure. He represented Welland in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1894 to 1900 and in the Canadian House of Commons from 1891 to 1892, from 1900 to 1917 and from 1921 to 1925 as a Liberal member.He was born in Hillier Township,...

    , Canadian politician and lawyer
  • Yael German
    Yael German
    Yael German is the current mayor of Herzliya, Israel since 1998. German is the first female mayor in Herzliya and one of the few women who have served as mayors of Israeli cities.Yael German has a bachelor's degree in general history from Tel Aviv University...

    , Israeli politician, first female mayor of Herziliya

Sport

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  • Germán Aceros
    Germán Aceros
    Germán "Cuca" Aceros Buenos was a Colombian footballer. He competed for the Colombian national football team at the 1962 FIFA World Cup which was held in Chile.-References:...

    , Colombian footballer
  • Germán Alemanno
    Germán Alemanno
    Germán Alemanno is an Argentine football striker who is currently playing for Universidad San Martin.Alemanno began his career with Rosario Central, making his debut against Banfield on 13 November 2004....

    , Argentine footballer
  • Germán Arangio
    Germán Arangio
    Carlos Germán Arangio is a professional football player from Argentina currently playing for Albinegros de Orizaba in Mexico's Primera Division A....

    , Argentine footballer
  • German Apukhtin, Soviet Russian footballer
  • Germán Barranca
    German Barranca
    Germán Barranca Costales was a Major League Baseball player. He was born on October 19, 1956 in Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, Mexico and played second base. He was listed at 6 feet tall and 160 pounds. He made his major league debut on September 2, 1979 for the Kansas City Royals. He played 5...

    , Mexican baseball player in the U.S. Major League
  • Germán Beltrán
    Germán Beltrán
    Germán Beltrán Juarez is a Spanish footballer who plays for CD Laudio as a forward.-External links:** *...

    , Spanish footballer
  • German Beriyev
    German Beriyev
    German Khoranovich Beriyev is a Russian professional football player. Currently, he plays in the Russian Second Division for FC Dynamo Stavropol.-External links:*...

    , Russian footballer
  • Germán Burgos, Argentine footballer
  • Germán Cano
    Germán Cano
    Germán Ezequiel Cano is an Argentine football striker who plays for Colombian club Deportivo Pereira on loan from Club Atlético Lanús.-Career:Cano made his league debut in a 1-0 defeat by Club Atlético Huracán on February 17, 2008...

    , Argentine footballer
  • Germán Carty
    Germán Carty
    Germán Luis Carty is a Peruvian professional football player, played currently for Deportivo Coopsol. Who most prominently played for Cienciano. He was the top goalscorer as Cienciano won the 2003 Copa Sudamericana. He played for the Peru national football team...

    , Peruvian footballer
  • Germán Castillo
    Germán Castillo
    Germán Pablo Castillo is an Argentine footballer who plays for Cerro Porteño in Paraguay.-External links: * at Radio-mundial.com...

    , Argentine footballer
  • Germán Cerezo Alonso
    Germán Cerezo Alonso
    Germán Cerezo Alonso is a Catalan ski mountaineer.Corezo was born in Terrassa, started ski mountaineering in 1994 and competed first in the 1997 Catalunyan Championship. Together with Manuel Pérez Brunicardi, Javier Martín de Villa and Fernando Navarro Aznar, he finished fifth in the relay event...

    , Spanish ski mountaineer
  • Germán Chavarría
    Germán Chavarría
    Germán José Chavarría Jiménez is a former Costa Rican football player who played for C.S. Herediano.He was part of the Costa Rica national football team squad that played in the 1990 FIFA World Cup held in Italy, and featured in all four games played. He also played at the 1984 Summer Olympics...

    , Costa Rican footballer
  • Germán Chiaraviglio
    Germán Chiaraviglio
    Germán Chiaraviglio is an Argentine pole vaulter.His personal best of 5.71 metres was achieved at the World Championships in Beijing on August 19, 2006, when he beat the old championship record of István Bagyula from 1988, and the Argentine senior record...

    , Argentine pole vaulter
  • Germán Denis
    Germán Denis
    Germán Gustavo Denis is an Argentine football striker who currently plays for Serie A club Atalanta on loan from Udinese Calcio...

    , Argentine footballer
  • Germán Durán
    Germán Durán
    Germán Durán is a Major League Baseball third baseman in the Houston Astros organization.-Early life:...

    , Mexican baseball player in the U.S. Major League
  • German Fernandez
    German Fernandez
    German Fernandez is an American collegiate runner from Riverbank, California, known for his performance in high school cross country and track and field. He is most well known for running the CA Cross Country State Meet course record , as well as running a new American high-school record, 8:34...

    , American distance runner
  • German Felk
    German Felk
    German Vladimirovich Felk is a Russian professional football player. Currently, he plays in the Russian Second Division for FC Sheksna Cherepovets.-External links:*...

    , Russian footballer
  • Germán Figueroa
    Germán Figueroa
    Germán Figueroa is a Puerto Rican professional wrestler, better known as Nuevo Gran Apolo, or simply Apolo. Figueroa began performing in Puerto Rico's independent circuit, before entering the International Wrestling Association and World Wrestling Council...

    , Puerto Rican wrestler
  • Germán Gabriel
    Germán Gabriel
    Germán Antonio Gabriel Benaches is a professional basketball player from Spain. He plays for Asefa Estudiantes.-External links:**...

    , Spanish basketball player
  • German Garrido
    German Garrido
    German Garrido is a member of one of Spain's most successful golfing families. His brother Antonio and nephew Ignacio were only the second father-son combination to have played in the Ryder Cup.German Garrido turned professional in 1963...

    , Spanish golfer
  • German Glessner
    German Glessner
    German Glessner is an Argentinian skeleton racer who competed from 1996 to 2006. He competed in the men's skeleton event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City....

    , Argentine skeleton racer
  • Germán González
    Germán González
    Germán José González is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher who played for the Minnesota Twins . He batted and threw right-handed....

    , Venezuelan baseball player in the U.S. Major League
  • Germán Herrera
    Germán Herrera
    Germán Gustavo Herrera is an Argentine striker who plays for Botafogo.-Career:On January 21, 2007 he made his La Liga debut with Real Sociedad against Valencia CF. He since returned to San Lorenzo but only made two appearances before joining Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata...

    , Argentine footballer
  • Germán Jiménez
    Germán Jiménez
    Germán Jiménez Camarena [he-may'-nes] is a former Mexican starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Atlanta Braves during the season. Listed at 5' 11", 200 lb., he batted and threw left-handed.As a teenager, Jiménez pitched for local Nayarit teams...

    , Mexican baseball player in the U.S. Major League
  • German Kutarba
    German Kutarba
    German Vasilyevich Kutarba is a Russian professional footballer. He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1991 for FC Dinamo Gagra. He born in Abkhazia, a pro-Russia autonomous republic inside Georgian SSR...

    , Russian footballer
  • Germán Leguía
    Germán Leguía
    Germán Carlos Leguía Dragó A.K.A. "Cocoliche" is a retired professional football striker and midfielder from Peru...

    , Peruvian footballer
  • Germán Lauro
    Germán Lauro
    Germán Luján Lauro is an Argentine shot putter.He finished eleventh at the 2001 World Youth Championships and became South American champion in 2006...

    , Argentine shotputter
  • Germán Leonforte
    Germán Leonforte
    Germán Gabriel Leonforte is an Argentine football defender who currently for Ferro Carril Oeste.-Honours:-External links:* at BoliviaGol.com * •••••...

    , Argentine footballer
  • German Lovchev
    German Lovchev
    German Aleksandrovich Lovchev is a Russian professional footballer. In 2008, he played for an Amateur Football League side FC Dolgiye Prudy Dolgoprudny. He made his professional debut in the Russian Second Division in 1998 for FC Energiya Velikiye Luki. He played 1 game in the UEFA Champions...

    , Russian footballer
  • Germán Lux, Argentine footballer
  • Germán Martínez (swimmer)
    Germán Martínez (swimmer)
    Germán Elberto Martínez Díaz is a backstroke swimmer from Colombia who competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia for his native country. There he ended up in 50th place in the Men's 100m Backstroke, clocking 59.94 in the preliminary heats.-References:*...

    , Colombian swimmer
  • Germán Mesa
    Germán Mesa
    German Mesa is a former Cuban shortstop for the Industriales of the Cuban National League and for the Cuba national baseball team. Mesa was known as "El Imán" or "The Magnet" for his superior fielding skills. He was also an above average hitter and base runner who led Cuban baseball in hits,...

    , Cuban baseball player
  • Germán Montoya
    Germán Montoya
    Marcelo Germán Montoya is an Argentine football goalkeeper. He currently plays for Vélez Sársfield in the Argentine Primera División.-Club career:...

    , Argentine footballer
  • Germán Orozco, Argentine field hockey player
  • Germán Ospina
    Germán Ospina
    Germán Alirio Ospina Castro is a retired male road cyclist from Colombia, who was a professional rider from 1996 to 1997.-Career:19951996...

    , Colombian cyclist
  • Germán Pacheco
    Germán Pacheco
    Germán Ezequiel Pacheco is an Argentine footballer who plays for FC Karpaty Lviv in Ukraine, mainly as a forward...

    , Argentine footballer
  • Germán Pietrobon
    Germán Pietrobon
    Germán Ariel Pietrobon is an Argentine football striker, who is currently looking for a club in Kazakhstan.-Club career:...

    , Argentine footballer
  • Germán Pinillos
    Germán Pinillos
    Germán Pinillos is a former Peruvian footballer.-Club career:Pinillos played for a number of clubs in Peru, including Sporting Cristal and Sport Boys.-International career:...

    , Peruvian footballer
  • Germán Ré
    Germán Ré
    Germán David Ré is an Argentine football defender currently playing for Estudiantes de La Plata.- Career :Ré made his debut for Newell's Old Boys in 2002, and went on to make over 150 appearances for the club. In 2004, he was part of the squad that won the 2004 Apertura tournament, playing mostly...

    , Argentine footballer
  • Germán Recio
    Germán Recio
    Germán Recio is a male volleyball and beach volleyball player from Dominican Republic, who participated in the NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit 2009 with Yewddys Pérez....

    , Dominican Republic volleyball player
  • Germán Rivarola
    Germán Rivarola
    Germán Ezequiel Rivarola is an Argentine football defender currently playing for Rosario Central in Primera B Nacional.-Career:...

    , Argentine footballer
  • German Rieckehoff
    German Rieckehoff
    Germán Rieckehoff , was a President of the Puerto Rican Olympic Committee.-Early years:Rieckehoff, , born in Vieques, Puerto Rico. He was raised in a homestead owned by his parents...

    , Puerto Rican swimmer
  • Germán Rivera
    Germán Rivera
    Germán Rivera Diaz is a third baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1980s.Rivera was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Los Angeles Dodgers on December 20, 1977...

    , Puerto Rican baseball player in the U.S. Major League
  • German Ruano
    German Ruano
    German Geovanni Ruano González , popularly known as El Chino, is a former Guatemalan football defender who has played the majority of his career for CSD Municipal in Guatemala's top division.-Club career:...

    , Costa Rican footballer
  • Germán Sánchez
    Germán Sánchez
    Germán Fortino Sánchez Cruz is a Mexican race walker.-Achievements:-References:*...

    , Mexican race walker
  • Germán Sánchez (racing driver)
    Germán Sánchez (racing driver)
    Germán Sánchez Flor is a Spanish racing driver.-Formula Three:Sánchez made his car racing debut aged just sixteen, when he took part in the 2006 Spanish Formula Three Championship. Driving a Dallara F300 for Escuela Profiltek, Sánchez was also eligible for the secondary Copa de España as he was...

    , Spanish racing driver
  • Germán Silva
    Germán Silva
    Germán Silva Martínez is a retired Mexican long-distance runner who specialized in the marathon. His foremost achievements were back-to-back victories at the New York City Marathon in 1994 and 1995. He represented Mexico twice at the Summer Olympics, competing in 1992 and 1996...

    , Mexican distance runner
  • German Skurygin
    German Skurygin
    German Skurygin was a Russian race walker.He originally won a gold medal at the 1999 World Championships, but later lost it due to doping. He was suspended from 1999-2001.He died of a heart attack.-Achievements:-References:*...

    , Russian race walker
  • German Titov (ice hockey)
    German Titov (ice hockey)
    German Mikhailovich Titov is a retired Russian ice hockey forward.Titov started his National Hockey League career with the Calgary Flames in 1993. He also played for the Edmonton Oilers, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and Pittsburgh Penguins. He left the NHL after the 2002 season...

    , Russian ice hockey player
  • Germán Torres
    Germán Torres
    Germán Torres is a former Mexican world boxing champion. His nickname was Ozeki.- Pro career :Torres turned pro in 1975 at the age of fifteen, and won the vacant WBC light flyweight title in his fifth attempt at attempting to win that title, with a decision win over Soon-Jung Kang in 1988...

    , Mexican boxer
  • Germán Villa
    Germán Villa
    Germán Villa Castañeda is a Mexican football player who currently plays for Querétaro he has two children by the name of German VIla Jr. and America Villa....

    , Mexican footballer
  • Germán Voboril
    Germán Voboril
    Germán Ariel Voboril is an Argentine football defender who plays for Godoy Cruz in the Argentine Primera División, on loan from San Lorenzo. He is of Czech descent.-Club career:...

    , Argentine footballer


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  • Antonio German
    Antonio German
    Antonio Timothy German is an English footballer who plays as a winger or as a striker for Stockport County.-Early career:...

    , English footballer
  • Bert German
    Bert German
    Bert German was the third head football coach for the Iowa State University Cyclones located in Ames, Iowa and he held that position for five seasons, from 1894 until 1898. His career coaching record at Iowa state was 22 wins, 10 losses, and 0 ties. This ranks him ninth at Iowa state in total...

    , American football coach
  • Jammi German
    Jammi German
    Jammi Darnell German is a former American football wide receiver of the National Football League....

    , American National Football League player
  • Jim German
    Jim German
    James H. German was an American football quarterback in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins and the Chicago Cardinals. He played college football at Centre College and was drafted in the eleventh round of the 1939 NFL Draft....

    , American National Football League player
  • Les German
    Les German
    Lester Stanley "Les" German was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He played in all or part of six seasons in the majors between and . He played for the Baltimore Orioles in 1890, then spent four seasons pitching for the New York Giants under the legendary John McGraw, finishing his career with...

    , American Major League Baseball player
  • Peter German
    Peter German
    Peter German is a former Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the AFL. He played 185 games with the club, mostly in the midfield....

    , Australian rules footballer
  • Ruslan German
    Ruslan German
    Ruslan Fanilyevich German is a retired Russian professional football player.-External links:*...

    , Russian footballer
  • Tamás German
    Tamás German
    Tamás German is a Hungarian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Lombard-Pápa TFC. He formerly played for Békéscsaba 1912 Előre SE and Szolnok.-External links:** ** ****...

    , Hungarian footballer

Other

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  • Germán Abad Valenzuela
    Germán Abad Valenzuela
    Germán Abad Valenzuela was an Ecuadorian radiologist. He served as the doctor to 20 Ecuadorian presidents.Abad was born August 10, 1919 in Guayaquil to Juana Valenzuela Garaycoa and mariner Benigno Abad Lara. He attended primary school in Quito and later in Guayaquil. In high school, he was an...

    , Ecuadorian radiologist
  • Germán Busch
    Germán Busch
    Germán Busch Becerra was a former Bolivian military officer, hero of the Chaco War , and president of Bolivia between 1937 and 1939.Germán Busch was born in San Javier, in central Bolivia's hot, fertile, coffee-growing region to a physician, a German...

    , Bolivian military officer
  • Patriarch German
    Patriarch German
    Patriarch German was the 43rd Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church from 1958 to 1990. Nicknamed the red patriarch by his opponents, he was successful in revitalizing the Serbian Orthodox Church to a certain extent during the Communist period, despite two schisms that occurred during his...

     Doric of the Serbian Orthodox Church
  • Germán Efromovich
    German Efromovich
    German Efromovich is a Bolivian-born Colombian-Brazilian entrepreneur born to a family of Polish Jews in Bolivia, raised in Arica, Chile and in São Paulo, Brazil...

    , South American entrepreneur
  • German Frers
    German Frers
    Germán Frers is a naval architect renowned for designing successful racing yachts. He designed his first yacht in 1958. There is a design team consisting of Germán Frers and his son, also named Germán Frers, supported by a team of engineers, architects and designers, some of whom have been with...

    , Argentine naval architect
  • German Gardiner
    German Gardiner
    German Gardiner was a Roman Catholic layman, nephew to Stephen Gardiner, who became involved in the Prebendaries' Plot against Thomas Cranmer....

    , English Catholic martyr
  • Germán Larrea Mota-Velasco
    Germán Larrea Mota-Velasco
    Germán Larrea Mota-Velasco is a Mexican businessman. He is the CEO of Grupo México, the largest mining corporation in Mexico and the third largest copper producer in the world.-Biography:...

    , Mexican businessman
  • German Martinez Hidalgo
    German Martinez Hidalgo
    German Martinez Hidalgo was a scientific, physicist, mathematician, chemist, astronomer who popularized science by writing weekly articles in the Mexican newspaper, El Sol de Puebla...

    , Mexican scientist
  • Germán Olano Moreno, for whom the Captain Germán Olano Moreno Air Base
    Captain Germán Olano Moreno Air Base
    Captain Germán Olano Moreno Air Base is a Colombian military base assigned to the Colombian Air Force Combat Air Command No. 1 . The base is located in Palanquero, near Puerto Salgar, in the Cundinamarca department of Colombia...

     is named
  • German Pinelli
    German Pinelli
    German Pinelli was a Cuban journalist and actor....

    , Cuban journalist
  • German Pugnali
    German Pugnali
    German Pugnali is a biologist and birder from Argentina. He lives in Buenos Aires, where he was born . He joined the in 1986. He acted there as a librarian and later became a board member...

    , Argentine biologist
  • Germán Sánchez Ruipérez, for whom the Germán Sánchez Ruipérez Foundation
    Germán Sánchez Ruipérez Foundation
    The Germán Sánchez Ruipérez Foundation is a non-profit Spanish institution, constituted in October 1981 and recognized by the Ministry of Culture of Spain....

     is named
  • German Titov, Soviet Russian cosmonaut


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  • Eugênio German
    Eugênio German
    Eugênio Maciel German was a Brazilian chess master.In 1949, Eugênio German won a match against Jayme Schreibman Moses in Belo Horizonte . In 1949, he tied for 3rd-4th in Rio de Janeiro. In 1950, he tied for 5-6th in Rio de Janeiro...

    , Brazilian chess master
  • Merlin German
    Merlin German
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    , U.S. Marine
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