Famous People with Name Rainer

Rainer Riesner            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Rainer Riesner: is a German theologian and university lecturer, who teaches evangelic religion and their didactics with the main focus on the New Testament at the TU Dortmund University. Since 1986 he is married to medic Cornelia Riesner and has four children.[1]

Rainer Borkowsky            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Rainer Borkowsky: is a German rower who competed for the Unified Team of Germany in the 1956 Summer Olympics. In 1956 he was the coxswain of the German boat which won the silver medal in the coxed pairs event.

Rainer Schmidt            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Rainer Schmidt: is an East German ski jumper who competed from 1972 to 1976. He won the bronze medal in the Individual large hill at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo.

Rainer Brüderle            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Rainer Brüderle: is a German politician and member of the FDP. He served as Minister of Economics and Transport of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1987–1998. On 28 October 2009, he was appointed Federal Minister for Economics and Technology in the Cabinet Merkel II.

Rainer K. Liedtke            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Rainer K. Liedtke: is a German physician, scientist and entrepreneur. Theory and practice of biomedical information systems and medical innovation. New therapies of pain, stress, cell degeneration. These include biomedical information systems and a number of new transdermal therapies, e.g. transdermal hormonal contraception (1988), including its first time clinical proof (together with L. Wildt, University of Erlangen). Bioinformatics conception of a transdermal therapy of neuromuscular pain with sodium channel blockers (1993/94), including the first clinical proof of effectiveness in back pain and postoperative pain (1995) and first market product of its kind in the USA. Another US product (Lidoderm) that is based on the same conception is approved for postherpetic pain.

Luise Rainer            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Luise Rainer: in Duesseldorf / Germany, is a two-time Academy Award-winning German film actress. Of living people who have won Academy Awards, she holds the earliest-awarded Oscars. She is also the oldest of Academy Award winners at 98.

Yvonne Rainer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Yvonne Rainer: an American choreographer and filmmaker, whose work in both disciplines is frequently challenging and experimental.In 1957 Rainer moved to New York to study theater. She found herself more strongly drawn to modern dance than acting, however, and began studying at the Martha Graham School and later with Merce Cunningham. Rainer was one of the organizers of the Judson Dance Theater, a focal point for vanguard activity in the dance world throughout the 1960s, and she formed her own company for a brief time after the Judson performances ended. Rainer is noted for an approach to dance that treats the body more as the source of an infinite variety of movements than as the purveyor of emotion or drama. Many of the elements she employed—such as repetition,

Alfred Rainer            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Alfred Rainer: was a World Cup competitor in the Nordic Combined event. A talented skier, he had previously been a soldier in the Austrian Army and a joiner. He spoke both German and English and enjoyed a range of hobbies, including football, movies, music and bicycling

Friedrich W. Rainer            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Friedrich W. Rainer: was a leader in the Nazi Party, as well as an Austrian State governor of Salzburg and Carinthia. He is the only Austrian governor who has ever held the same office in two separate states. He was a native of Sankt Veit an der Glan, located in the Austrian