Famous People with Name Gunter

Gunter Schoß            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Gunter Schoß: is a German television actor. He also was the German voice of Frank Langella as Moses in the movie: The Bible.

Günter Strack            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Günter Strack: was a German television actor. In 1966 he played the role as professor Karl Manfred in Hitchcock's thriller Torn Curtain. In Germany he was known for his character in Ein Fall für zwei.

Günter Bialas            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Günter Bialas: was a German composer. In 1939, he became a lecturer in music theory and composition at the Institute for Music Education at Breslau University. After his German military service and Allied captivity from 1941 to 1945, he and his wife, the singer Gerda Specht, had to flee Silesia. They settled in Bavaria in 1946 and Bialas found work conducting the Munich Bach-Verein. From 1947 to 1959, he taught composition at the Nordwestdeutschen Musikakademie, now the Hochschule für Musik Detmold. He transferred to become a professor at the State Academy of Music in Munich in 1959, where he remained until his retirement in 1972.

Günter Lenz            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Günter Lenz: is a German jazz bassist and composer. First he learned, assisted by Carlo Bohländer, playing guitar and since the mid-1950s, he played jazz in the clubs of the U.S. Army. During the 1959/1960 national service, he switched to the bass. 1961 Albert Mangelsdorff picked him up as member of the Albert Mangelsdorff Quintet. Since then Lenz has also became a member of the "hr-jazz ensemble," for which he arranged and composed too. In 1965 he worked in the quintet of Krzysztof Komeda. In 1968 he played with Joachim Kühn and Aldo Romano in a band led by Barney Wilen at the Berlin Jazz Days. 1970, he played with the George Russell Sextet, and also with a band led by Leon Thomas. 1972 Günter Lenz played with Lightning Hopkins. This allowed him to collect big band experience.

Günter Raphael            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Günter Raphael: was a German composer. Born in Berlin, Raphael is the grandson of composer Albert Becker. His first symphony was premiered by Wilhelm Furtwängler in 1926 in Leipzig. From 1926 to 1934 he taught in Leipzig, but illness and the rise of National Socialism - he was declared a half-Jew - made this difficult for him. For surviving the Nazis while managing his illness he was awarded the Franz-Liszt award in 1948. His students include Kurt Hessenberg.

Raymond Jones Gunter            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Raymond Jones Gunter: British Labour Party politician, was born in Wales and had a background in the railway industry and the British trade union movement - specifically his union, the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA).

Christopher Ross "Chris" Gunter            Origin/Culture/Country: Welsh

Christopher Ross "Chris" Gunter: is a Welsh footballer, currently playing for Tottenham Hotspur and the Wales national team. In 2007 he became the youngest Cardiff City player ever to play for the full Welsh team.Gunter started life as a Striker when he played for Durham Colts and Albion Rovers but switched to full-back at a young age and signed for the Cardiff City youth side at the age of eight. He signed his first professional contract with the club on 1 August 2006 along with fellow Cardiff academy graduate Darcy Blake.

Neil Edward Lloyd Gunter            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Neil Edward Lloyd Gunter: is an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire from 2002 to 2004. Gunter was born at Basingstoke, Hampshire. He played initially for Berkshire and joined Derbyshire in the 2002 season. Gunter was released from his duties in 2004, when even his bowling

Bernhard Günter            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Bernhard Günter: is a German post-Cageian composer associated with microwave and lowercase movements or styles of minimalist composition. He is influenced by Morton Feldman. A former rock and jazz drummer, Günter studied at IRCAM and began working with electronically generated sound. However, he now works primarily with samples. He founded his own label, Trente Oiseaux.

William Dawson "Bill" Gunter, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Dawson "Bill" Gunter, Jr.: was an American politician from the state of Florida. Gunter briefly attended the University of Georgia in 1957 and served in the United States Army from 1957 to 1958. He was a member of the Florida State Senate in 1966. He was elected as a Democrat to th