Kunkel
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Surnames
- Adam KunkelAdam KunkelAdam Charles Kunkel is a male hurdler from Canada, who twice represented his native country at the Pan American Games: 2003 and 2007...
(born 1981), Canadian hurdler - Benjamin KunkelBenjamin KunkelBenjamin Kunkel is an American novelist. He co-founded and is a co-editor of the journal n+1. His first novel, Indecision, was published in 2005.-Background and education:...
, American novelist - Bill Kunkel (baseball)Bill Kunkel (baseball)William Gustave James Kunkel was an American right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1961 to 1963 who went on to a career as an American League umpire from 1968 until his death. His son Jeff was a major league shortstop from 1984 to 1992.Kunkel was born in Hoboken, New Jersey...
, Major League Baseball pitcher and umpire - Bill Kunkel (gaming)Bill Kunkel (gaming)Bill Kunkel was the executive editor of Electronic Games Magazine in the early 1980s. More recently, Kunkel was editor-in-chief of Tips & Tricks magazine from January 2007 until August 2007 when it ceased publication...
, ex-executive editor of Electronic Games Magazine - Dale A. Kunkel, director at the Gordon and Betty Moore FoundationGordon and Betty Moore FoundationGordon and Betty Moore Foundation seeks to develop outcome-based projects that will improve the quality of life for future generations. The private foundation focuses upon portfolios of large-scale initiatives and encourages collaboration so as to achieve the most significant and enduring outcomes...
- Henry G. Kunkel, winner of the 1975 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical ResearchAlbert Lasker Award for Basic Medical ResearchThe Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research is one of the prizes awarded by the Lasker Foundation for the understanding, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and cure of disease...
and the 1977 Louisa Gross Horwitz PrizeLouisa Gross Horwitz PrizeLouisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry is an annual prize awarded by Columbia University to a researcher or group of researchers that have made an outstanding contribution in basic research in the fields of biology or biochemistry....
for Biology or Biochemistry - Jacob Michael KunkelJacob Michael KunkelJacob Michael Kunkel was a U.S. Representative from Maryland.Born in Frederick, Maryland, Kunkel attended the Frederick Academy for Boys and graduated from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1843....
, US Congressman from Maryland - Jeff KunkelJeff KunkelJeffrey William Kunkel is a former shortstop in Major League Baseball with the Texas Rangers and Chicago Cubs. The son of American League umpire Bill Kunkel, after receiving All-American honors as a shortstop, he was chosen in the first round of the 1983 Major League Baseball Draft out of Rider...
, Major League Baseball shortstop, and son of the umpire - Johann von Löwenstern-KunckelJohann von Löwenstern-KunckelJohann Kunckel, awarded Swedish nobility in 1693 under the name von Löwenstern-Kunckel , German chemist, was born in 1630 , near Rendsburg, his father being alchemist to the court of Holstein...
(1630-1703), German chemist - John C. KunkelJohn C. KunkelJohn Crain Kunkel was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He was the grandson of John Christian Kunkel, great-grandson of John Sergeant, and great-great-grandson of Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant and Robert Whitehill.He was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,...
(1898-1970), US Congressman from Pennsylvania - John Christian KunkelJohn Christian KunkelJohn Christian Kunkel was a Whig and Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He was the grandfather of John Crain Kunkel.He was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania...
(1816-70), US Congressman from Pennsylvania - Mike KunkelMike KunkelMike Kunkel is a comic book writer and artist known, among other things, for his work on Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam! and for his creator-owned Herobear and the Kid.-Sources:...
, 2001 Ignatz Award nominee - Russ KunkelRuss KunkelRussell Kunkel , also known as Russ Kunkel, is an American drummer and producer who has worked as a session musician with a number of well-known artists.Kunkel was born in Pittsburgh, PA...
, drummer and producer - Paul KunkelPaul KunkelPaul C. Kunkel was an American amateur tennis player in the early part of the 20th Century.Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Kunkel played tennis at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. and graduated in 1924....
(1903-1977), amateur tennis player - Ted Kunkel, chairman of Billabong (clothing)Billabong (clothing)Billabong International is a clothing company traded on the Australian Securities Exchange since 11 August 2000. Billabong was founded in 1973 by Gordon and Rena Merchant....
- Thor KunkelThor KunkelThor Kunkel, a German author, was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1963. Kunkel claims to have spent his youth associating with drug fiends and American soldiers stationed in the then West Germany...
(b. 1963), German author - Will Kunkel (b. 1984), American FOX Sports Anchor
- Ryan P. Kunkel (b. 1985), American Medical Scholar
- Sanford S. Kunkel Jr. (b. 1980), American Hotel Developer
Places
- Elizabeth Kunkel House, Historic site in Martinsburg, West VirginiaMartinsburg, West VirginiaMartinsburg is a city in the Eastern Panhandle region of West Virginia, United States. The city's population was 14,972 at the 2000 census; according to a 2009 Census Bureau estimate, Martinsburg's population was 17,117, making it the largest city in the Eastern Panhandle and the eighth largest...
- Kunkel Gallery at the Whitaker Center for Science and the ArtsWhitaker Center for Science and the ArtsWhitaker Center for Science and the Arts is located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The center is the first complex of its kind in the United States to use science as an entry to the arts. Whitaker Center exhibits science, the performing arts, and an IMAX theater under one roof...
- Kunkelpass, a pass in SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....