Wimmer
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Wimmer may refer to:
  • Boniface Wimmer
    Boniface Wimmer
    Archabbot Boniface Wimmer, O.S.B. was a German monk who in 1846 founded the first Benedictine monastery in the United States, Saint Vincent Archabbey, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, forty miles southeast of Pittsburgh...

     (1809–1887), a German monk who founded the first Benedictine monastery in the United States
  • Chris Wimmer
    Chris Wimmer
    Chris Wimmer is an American driver. He has raced mostly in short track competition and as high as the NASCAR Busch Series . Wimmer is currently competing in the ASA Midwest Tour where he finished fourth in 2008.-Early career:Wimmer's career began in his youth, when he began working on his uncle,...

     (born 1979), an American driver
  • Christian Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer
    Christian Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer
    Christian Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer was a German botanist and educator who was a native of Breslau.He worked as a Schulrat in Breslau, and was the author of several publications of Silesian flora. He specialized in the study of the willow genus Salix...

     (1803–1868), a German botanist who was a native of Breslau
  • Dick Wimmer
    Dick Wimmer
    Richard Samuel "Dick" Wimmer was an American author, editor and creative writing instructor known for his trilogy of fictional novels the Irish Wine Trilogy.-Early life :...

     (1936–2011), American novelist
  • Eckard Wimmer
    Eckard Wimmer
    Eckard Wimmer is an American virologist most famous for his seminal work on the molecular biology of poliovirus and the first chemical synthesis of a live virus.-Life and career:Wimmer was born on 22 May 1936 in Berlin, Germany...

     (born 1936), an American scientist and a Distinguished Professor of Stony Brook University
  • Gerd Wimmer
    Gerd Wimmer
    Gerd Wimmer is a retired Austrian football player.-Club career:Wimmer's first club was his hometown club SV Laa an der Thaya. His first professional club was Admira Wacker, moving to Sturm Graz in 1995 and rejoining Admira later that year at the start of the 1995/1996 season...

     (born 1977), a retired Austrian football player
  • Herbert Wimmer
    Herbert Wimmer
    Herbert "Hacki" Wimmer is a former footballer. Besides winning five national championships and two UEFA Cups with his club side Borussia Mönchengladbach he won the 1974 World Cup and the 1972 European Football Championship with Germany.Herbert Wimmer started his playing career with lowly Borussia...

     (born 1944), a former soccer player
  • Julie Wimmer
    Julie Wimmer
    -Childhood and early life:Julie Wimmer was born in 1975. After graduating from academic high school, she lived and studied for several years in Switzerland and Great Britain. In London, she attended children's book illustration seminars at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design...

     (born 1975), a designer in the field of jewelry and glass
  • Kurt Wimmer
    Kurt Wimmer
    Kurt Wimmer is an American screenwriter and film director.Wimmer is of German descent, he attended the University of South Florida and graduated with a BFA degree in Art History. He then moved to Los Angeles where he worked for 12 years as a screenwriter before making his 2002 film, Equilibrium...

    , an American screenwriter and film director
  • Larry T. Wimmer
    Larry T. Wimmer
    Larry Turley Wimmer is the Warren and Wilson Dusenberry University Professor at Brigham Young University . He is a professor of economics who specializes in American economic history and the economics of aging.-Biography:...

     (born 1935), the Warren and Wilson Dusenberry University Professor at Brigham Young University
  • Manfred Wimmer
    Manfred Wimmer
    Manfred Wimmer was the first Western professional go player. As of 2007, there have been fewer than a dozen professional go players born outside of Asia.Manfred Wimmer was born in Austria in 1944...

     (1944–1995), the first Western professional Go player
  • Martin Wimmer
    Martin Wimmer
    Martin Wimmer is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Germany. He had his best year in 1985 when he won the German Grand Prix, and had two second places, finishing the 250cc season in fourth place behind Freddie Spencer, Anton Mang and Carlos Lavado.In 1987, Yamaha teamed him with Kevin...

     (born 1957), a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Germany
  • Natasha Wimmer
    Natasha Wimmer
    Natasha Wimmer is an American translator best known for her translations of Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño's 2666 and The Savage Detectives from Spanish into English....

     (born 1973), an American translator
  • Per Wimmer
    Per Wimmer
    Per Wimmer is a Danish philanthropist, space advocate and a possible future space traveller.Per Wimmer owns and administrates his own international corporate financial advisor, Wimmer Financial, which he founded on the 50th anniversary of Sputnik day, the 4th of October 2007...

    , a Danish space advocate and a future space traveller
  • Scott Wimmer
    Scott Wimmer
    Scott Wimmer is a NASCAR Nationwide Series driver. He has a total of 6 wins in the Nationwide Series. His brother Chris Wimmer competed in the Busch Series. Wimmer co-owns State Park Speedway in a Wausau suburb...

     (born 1976), a NASCAR Nationwide Series driver who was born in Wausau, Wisconsin
  • Wimmer's Shrew
    Wimmer's Shrew
    Wimmer's Shrew is a white-toothed shrew found only in Côte d'Ivoire. It is listed as a critically endangered species due to habitat loss and a restricted range....

    (Crocidura wimmeri) is a white-toothed shrew found only in Côte d'Ivoire
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