Curated category
American people of German descent
- Christopher WalkenRonald Walken was born on the 31st of March 1943 in Astoria, Queens. His parents were Rosalie Russell and Paul Wälken. They owned a bakery called Walken's…
- German AmericansThe first permanent German settlement in what became the United States was Germantown, Pennsylvania, founded near Philadelphia on the 6th of October 1683.
- Donald TrumpDonald John Trump was born on the 14th of June 1946 at Jamaica Hospital in Queens. He grew up in a twenty-three room mansion in the Jamaica Estates…
- Taylor SwiftTaylor Alison Swift was born on the 13th of December 1989, in West Reading, Pennsylvania. Her parents chose a unisex name hoping it would help her succeed in…
- Barack ObamaBarack Obama was born on the 4th of August 1961, at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, Hawaii.
- George LucasGeorge Walton Lucas Jr. was born on the 14th of May 1944 in Modesto, California. He grew up as the son of Dorothy Ellinore Lucas and George Walton Lucas Sr.
- Meryl StreepMary Louise Streep was born on the 22nd of June 1949 in Summit, New Jersey. Her mother Mary Wilkinson Streep worked as an artist while her father Harry…
- John SteinbeckJohn Steinbeck was born on the 27th of February 1902 in Salinas, California. He grew up in a small rural valley set about 25 miles from the Pacific Coast.
- Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis on the 11th of November 1922. He descended from a long line of German Americans whose family fortune rested on the…
- Marlon BrandoMarlon Brando Jr. entered the world on the 3rd of April 1924 in Omaha Nebraska as the only son of Marlon Brando Sr and Dorothy Pennebaker.
- Ron PaulRonald Ernest Paul was born on the 20th of August 1935, in Pittsburgh. He grew up as the son of Howard Caspar Paul and Margaret Dumont Paul.
- Dr. SeussTheodor Seuss Geisel arrived in Springfield, Massachusetts on the 2nd of March 1904. His father managed a family brewery that closed during Prohibition…
- Harrison FordHarrison Ford was born on the 13th of July 1942 at the Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago. His father worked as an advertising executive and his mother had…
- John D. RockefellerJohn Davison Rockefeller was born on the 8th of July 1839 in a small village called Richford, New York. He entered the world as the second child of William A.
- Stephen ColbertOn the 11th of September 1974, a ten-year-old boy named Stephen Colbert stood in the living room of his family home on James Island.
- Gwyneth PaltrowGwyneth Kate Paltrow entered the world on the 27th of September 1972 in Los Angeles. Her father Bruce Paltrow worked as a film producer and director while…
- Jack NicholsonJohn Joseph Nicholson entered the world on the 22nd of April 1937 in Neptune City, New Jersey. His mother June Frances Nicholson was a showgirl who performed…
- Brad RutterBradford Gates Rutter stood on the stage of Manheim Township High School in Neffsville, Pennsylvania during the 1994 Texaco Star National Academic…
- Roger EbertRoger Joseph Ebert was born on the 18th of June 1942 in Urbana, Illinois. He grew up as the only child of Annabel and Walter Harry Ebert.
- Bruce Leethe 27th of November 1940 marked the arrival of Lee Jun-fan in San Francisco. His parents traveled to California for an international opera tour when he was…
- Tom BradyThomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr. was born on the 3rd of August 1977, in San Mateo, California. He grew up as a fan of the San Francisco 49ers and attended…
- David FincherDavid Andrew Leo Fincher was born in Denver on the 28th of August 1962. His family moved to San Anselmo, California when he was two years old.
- Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann Herring was born in Oklahoma City on the 22nd of June 1949. Her family lived near the ragged edge of the middle class during her childhood…
- Jack SwigertJohn Leonard Swigert Jr. was born on the 30th of August 1931, in Denver, Colorado to parents Dr. John Leonard Swigert Sr. and Virginia Anne Swigert.
- Brian WilsonBrian Douglas Wilson was born on the 20th of June 1942, at Centinela Hospital Medical Center in Inglewood, California. His father Murry Wilson worked as a…
- Neil ArmstrongNeil Alden Armstrong was born on the 5th of August 1930 in rural Washington Township, Auglaize County, Ohio. His father worked as an auditor for the state…
- Henry Edward KrehbielHenry Edward Krehbiel entered the world on the 10th of March 1854 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His father served as a German clergyman within the Methodist…
- Alex JonesAlexander Emerick Jones was born on the 11th of February 1974, in Dallas, Texas. He grew up in Rockwall, a town located twenty-five miles east of the city.
- Robert Downey Jr.Robert John Downey Jr. was born in Manhattan, New York City, on the 4th of April 1965. His father Robert Downey Sr. worked as a filmmaker while his mother…
- Walt DisneyWalter Elias Disney was born on the 5th of December 1901 at 1249 Tripp Avenue in Chicago's Hermosa neighborhood. He moved to a farm in Marceline, Missouri…
- Bill GatesIn 1970, a group of students at Lakeside School in Seattle gathered around a Teletype Model 33 ASR terminal. Bill Gates was one of them.
- Frank BormanFrank Frederick Borman II was born on the 14th of March 1928, at 2162 West 11th Avenue in Gary, Indiana. His father Edwin Otto Borman owned an Oldsmobile car…
- Ron HowardRonald William Howard entered the world on the 1st of March 1954, in Duncan, Oklahoma. His father Rance Howard served three years in the United States Air…
- Walter CronkiteWalter Leland Cronkite Jr. entered the world on the 4th of November 1916, in Saint Joseph, Missouri. His father was a dentist named Walter Leland Cronkite…
- Tony GilroyAnthony Joseph Gilroy entered the world on the 11th of September 1956, inside a Manhattan hospital. His father Frank D. Gilroy worked as an award-winning…
- Carl WiemanCarl Edwin Wieman was born on the 26th of March 1951 in Corvallis, Oregon. His father N. Orr Wieman and mother Alison Marjorie Fry raised him there before he…
- David J. PetersonDavid Joshua Peterson entered the world on the 20th of January 1981 in Long Beach, California. His father carried German heritage while his mother held…
- George R. R. MartinGeorge Raymond Martin was born on the 20th of September 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey. His father worked as a longshoreman while his mother's family had once…
- Claude ShannonClaude Elwood Shannon was born on the 30th of April 1916 in a hospital near Petoskey, Michigan. His family lived in the small town of Gaylord where he spent…
- Steve BannonStephen Kevin Bannon was born on the 27th of November 1953 in Norfolk, Virginia. His father worked as an AT&T telephone lineman and a middle manager while…
- Paul NitzePaul Henry Nitze was born on the 16th of January 1907 in Amherst, Massachusetts. His parents were both of German descent and his father worked as a professor…
- James IrwinJames Benson Irwin was born on the 17th of March 1930 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His parents were James William Irwin and Elsa Mathilda Irwin.
- Deborah Ann WollDeborah Ann Woll was born on the 7th of February 1985 in Brooklyn, New York. Her father worked as an architect while her mother Cathy taught at the Berkeley…
- Jonathan DavisJonathan Howsmon Davis was born in Bakersfield, California, on the 18th of January 1971. His childhood began with severe asthma that forced him into the…
- Rasmus B. AndersonRasmus Bjørn Anderson arrived in the world on the 12th of January 1846. He grew up in Koshkoning within Dane County, Wisconsin.
- Allan NevinsJoseph Allan Nevins arrived in the world on the 20th of May 1890. He entered life within Camp Point, Illinois, a small town where his father worked as a…
- Phil JacksonPhilip Douglas Jackson was born on the 17th of September, 1945 in Deer Lodge, Montana. His parents Charles and Elisabeth Funk Jackson served as ministers for…
- Richard D. WolffRichard David Wolff was born on the 1st of April 1942 in New Rochelle, New York. His parents had fled Nazism to escape Germany during World War II.
- Fritz LeiberFritz Leiber Jr. entered the world on the 24th of December 1910, in Chicago, Illinois. He was born to actors Fritz Leiber and Virginia Bronson Leiber.
- Joe ManganielloJoseph Michael Manganiello arrived in the world on the 28th of December 1976. He grew up in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, an affluent suburb bordering…