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	''']''' ({{lang-de|Deutschamerikaner}}) are ] of the ] of ] ancestry; they form the largest ethnic ] in the United States, accounting for 17% of U.S. population.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ADPTable?_bm=y&-qr_name=ACS_2009_1YR_G00_DP2&-geo_id=01000US&-ds_name=ACS_2009_1YR_G00_&-_lang=en&-redoLog=false&-format= |author=United States Census Bureau |title=US demographic census |accessdate=November 16, 2009}}; In 2009, 50.7 million claimed German ancestry. The 2000 census gives 15.2% or 42.8 million. The 1990 census had 23.3% or 57.9 million.</ref>
	The first significant numbers arrived in the 1680s in ] and ]. Some eight million German immigrants have entered the United States since that point. ] continued in substantial numbers during the 19th century; the largest number of arrivals moved 1840–1900, when ] formed the largest group of immigrants coming to the U.S., outnumbering the ] and ].<ref name="Dealing with Diversity">{{cite book |last=Adams |first=J. Q. |authorlink= |author2=Pearlie Strother-Adams |year=2001 |title=Dealing with Diversity |publisher=Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company |location=Chicago, Illinois |isbn=978-0-7872-8145-8}}</ref> Some arrived seeking religious or political freedom, others for economic opportunities greater than those in Europe, and others for the chance to start afresh in the ]. ] and ] have the largest populations of German origin, with more than six million German Americans residing in the two states alone.<ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081020035922/http://www.ugac.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=68 |date=October 20, 2008 }}</ref> More than 50 million people in the United States identify German as their ancestry; it is often mixed with other Northern European ethnicities.<ref> "U.S. Census Bureau, German ancestry – German: 50,764,352"</ref> This list also includes people of ] descent.
	Americans of German descent live in nearly every American county, from the East Coast, where the first German settlers arrived in the 17th century, to the West Coast and in all the states in between. German Americans and those Germans who settled in the U.S. have been influential in almost every field, from science, to architecture, to entertainment, and to commercial industry.
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	==Art and literature==
	===Architects===
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	* ] – architect<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.auditoriumtheatre.org/wb/pages/home/education/chicagos-landmark-stage/the-creators.php |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2012-03-19 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120615020726/http://auditoriumtheatre.org/wb/pages/home/education/chicagos-landmark-stage/the-creators.php |archivedate=2012-06-15 |df=}} "Dankmar Adler (1844–1900) was born in a small town in Germany."</ref><ref>Brody, Seymour "Sy"; biographical sketch of Dankmar Adler in the Jewish Virtual Library</ref>
	* ] – architect, famous for ''Aschenbroedel Verein'' which became one of the leading German organizations in ''Kleindeutschland'' ] on the ] in NYC<ref></ref><ref>"Designed by German-born architect August H. Blankenstein, 74 East 4th Street is known as the Aschenbroedel Verein building. Aschenbroedel Verein was a German-American professional orchestral musician's social and benevolent association founded in 1860."</ref>
	* ] – architect, builder of numerous public buildings in Washington, D.C.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.adolf-cluss.org/index.php?lang=en&topSub=specials&content=w&sub=5.2 |title=Adolf Cluss, Architect: From Germany to America – The Book to Accompany the Exhibitions |publisher=Adolf-cluss.org |date=2006-05-20 |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref>
	* ] – architect heading his own firm, Ferdinand Gottlieb & Associates, based in Dobbs Ferry, New York.<ref> '']'', October 29, 2007</ref>
	* ] – pioneer in modern architecture, founder of Bauhaus<ref> "Walter Gropius was a German architect and art educator"</ref>
	* ] – industrial architect; known as the "architect of Detroit", of Jewish descent<ref>{{cite web |url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=bhlead&idno=umich-bhl-0420 |title=BHL: Albert Kahn papers 1896–2011 |publisher=University of Michigan |date=1909-12-06 |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref>
	* ] – senior partner of Kiehnel, Elliot and Chalfant<ref>" German-born and educated Richard Kiehnel (1877–1944) and his partner John Blair Elliott (b. 1868) were commissioned to design the school."</ref>
	* ] – architect based in ]<ref name="jsonline.com">http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/wisconsin-historical-society-buys-henry-kochs-battle-maps-o59b9rh-200675041.html</ref>
	* ] – Chicago-based church architect
	* ] – architect, known for designing the ]<ref> "German-born architect famous for his wire rope suspension bridge designs, in particular, the design of the Brooklyn Bridge."</ref>
	* ] – civil engineer known for his work on the Brooklyn Bridge, which was designed by his father John A. Roebling.<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120202091141/http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Roebling__Washington.html |date=2012-02-02 }} Quote: "Washington Roebling grew up in Saxonburg, a village of German farmers who had just made the journey to America. John Roebling founded this settlement by leading a group of immigrants from Mühlhausen, Germany, to America in 1832. Roebling surveyed and planned the village and distributed land to the families."</ref>
	* ] – architect, particularly in the ], region of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.<ref> "Frederick C. Sauer was a German immigrant-architect and builder who established a Pittsburgh office in 1884, and practiced locally for many years.</ref><ref> "The church was designed by Frederick C. Sauer. While at Technical School in ] he worked as a stone cutter, brick layer arid carpenter. After graduation in 1879 he came to Pittsburgh at the age of 19."</ref>
	* ] – ] Pittsburgh architect<ref>Aurand, Martin. 1994. ''The Progressive Architecture of Frederick G. Scheibler, Jr.'', University of Pittsburgh Press. Pittsburgh.</ref>
	* ] – designed the U.S. Capitol Dome<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/KADE/merrill/lesson17.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2007-04-29 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070323013408/http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/KADE/merrill/lesson17.html |archivedate=2007-03-23 |df=}} "German-born designer of the US capitol dome. (c. 1817–1900)"</ref>
	* ] – German-born American ] and ] maker; first American sculptor to win the ]<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140322013535/http://www.schulerschool.com/legacy.php |date=2014-03-22 }} "The Legacy of the Schuler School of Fine Arts"</ref>
	* ] – landscape architect<ref name="german element">{{cite book |last=Faust |first=Albert Bernhardt |title=The German Element in the United States with Special Reference to Its Political, Moral, Social, and Educational Influence |publisher=] |year=1908 |pages=64–65}}</ref>
	* ] – architect<ref name=baltzell>Baltzell, Edward Digby. ''Puritan Boston & Quaker Philadelphia'' (Transaction Publishers, 1996), pp. 332–33. {{ISBN|1-56000-830-X}}</ref>
	* ] – pioneer of modern architecture, second Chicago School of Architecture<ref> "German-born Architect"</ref>
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	===Artists===
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	*] – astrologer, psychic
	* ] – printmaker, textile artist<ref> "German-born American Textile Artist"], ''Artcyclopedia''</ref>
	* ] – painter and graphic artist<ref name="Making of a Bauhaus Master">Roderick Conway Morris (October 21, 2011), '']''.</ref>
	* ] – fashion designer<ref name="Washington Post">{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/03/07/DI2008030702951.html?referrer=emailarticle|title=Transcript: 'Project Runway' Winner Christian Siriano|date=March 10, 2008|work=]}}</ref>
	* ] – painter, printmaker, sculptor, "Cowboy of Cowboy Artists"
	* ] – early photographer<ref>Peter Palmquist, , ''Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide'' (Stanford University Press, 2005), pp. 102–103.</ref>
	* ] – painter, known for his large landscapes of the American West<ref> "German-born Bierstadt, whose teachers had included the German Romantic painter Lessing ..."</ref>
	* ] – sculptor and associate of ]
	* ] – one of America's earliest known outsider artists, draftsman engineer, creating drawings, collages and watercolors of airplanes and airships.
	* ] – comic strip artist who created '']''<ref> "Born in Heide, Germany, Rudolph Dirks moved with his parents to Chicago at the age of seven."</ref>
	* ] – photographer and photojournalist best remembered for his photograph capturing the celebration of V-J Day<ref>{{cite book |work=Encyclopædia Britannica |year=2009 |title=Alfred Eisenstaedt |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/181526/Alfred-Eisenstaedt |quote=born December 6, 1898, Dirschau, West Prussia ... pioneering German-American photojournalist |accessdate=June 7, 2009}}
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	* ] – German-born artist of desert ] living in early 20th-century ]<ref>{{cite book |last1=James |first1=George Wharton |authorlink=George Wharton James |first2=Carl (illustrator) |last2=Eytel |title=The Wonders of the Colorado Desert (Southern California) |location=Boston |publisher=] |year=1906 |isbn=978-1-103-73361-3}} {{LCC|F868.S15 J2}}</ref>
	* ] – sculptor, painter, print-maker and jewelry designer known for her large-scale abstract metal and glass sculptures.
	* ] – photographer and writer on photographic technique<ref name="German-American Artists">{{dead link|date=May 2014}}</ref>
	* ] – painter and caricaturist<ref name="German-American Artists" /><ref> "Lyonel Feininger (Léonell Charles Feininger) is born in New York City on July 17. He is the first child of the violinist Karl Feininger from Durlach in Baden (South West Germany) and the American singer Elizabeth Cecilia Feininger, born Lutz, who is also of German descent."</ref>
	* ] – film producer, cartoonist<ref name="German-American Artists" />
	* ] – early photographer<ref name=hoobler>James A. Hoobler and Sarah Hunter Marks, '''' (Arcadia Publishing, 2000), p. 7.</ref>
	* ] – member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group, known especially for his savagely caricatural drawings of Berlin life in the 1920s<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.texaschapbookpress.com/magellanslog32/grosz/groszintro.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-05-18 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060617091726/http://texaschapbookpress.com/magellanslog32/grosz/groszintro.htm |archivedate=2006-06-17 |df=}} "early 20th century German artist, George Grosz."</ref>
	* ] – fashion designer<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bravotv.com/Project_Runway/season/3/bio/Uli_Herzner |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-01-30 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071019050035/http://www.bravotv.com/Project_Runway/season/3/bio/Uli_Herzner |archivedate=2007-10-19 |df=}} "Ulrike Herzner ("Uli"), is a 35-year-old German native who currently resides in Miami Beach."</ref>
	* ] – ] painter<ref> "German-American painter and teacher, often called the dean of abstract expressionism"</ref>
	* ] – Academy Award-winning animator, cartoonist and special effects technician, famous for his work for Walt Disney
	* ] – comic book artist (inker), working regularly for Marvel Comics and DC Comics and sporadically for independent companies
	* ] – painter and filmmaker
	* ] – multimedia artist whose work includes performance, sculpture and installation<ref>Penelope Green, , '']'', April 13, 2011.</ref>
	* ] – fashion designer who earned the nickname "Master of the ]"<ref> "Kleibacker Clan"</ref>
	* ] – ] painter
	* ] – illustrator of ] until 1949<ref> Lambiek Comiclopedia "Harold Hering Knerr was the son of an emigrated German physician."</ref>
	* ] – America's first genre painter<ref> "Born in Ebingen, Württemberg. Krimmel immigrated to the United States in 1810. Settled in Philadelphia, where he painted portraits, miniatures and gently satirical street and domestic scenes. He returned to Germany from 1817 to 1818. Back in Philadelphia in 1819. Early 1821 he was elected president of the Association of American Artists, but on July 15 of the same year he accidentally drowned near Germantown, Pennsylvania."</ref>
	* ] – history painter best known for his painting '']''<ref> "German Americans also have influenced greatly our artistic heritage. Emanuel Leutze's 1851 painting, ''Washington Crossing the Delaware River'', remains a cherished and recognized symbol of American courage and determination."</ref>
	* ] – painter<ref> "... born in Germany. Worked as an itinerant artist in Europe before immigrating to the United States in 1837. While living in New York City he married a French-Canadian and spent most of his life in Canada."</ref>
	* ] – artist, designed the first Confederate flag and the Confederate uniform<ref> "German-born artist, designed the first Confederate flag and the Confederate uniform".</ref>
	* ] – lithographer<ref> "German/American, 1832–1932"</ref>
	* ] – landscape and nature photographer known for portraying the American western landscape<ref>"Josef Muench (David's father) was born in Schweinfurt, Bavaria on February 8, 1904."</ref>
	* ] – photographer and environmentalist<ref>"Josef Muench was born in Schweinfurt, Bavaria on February 8, 1904."</ref>
	* ] – sports and landscape photographer<ref>"Josef Muench (Marc's grandfather) was born in Schweinfurt, Bavaria on February 8, 1904."</ref>
	* ] – painter who is called California's first significant artist<ref> "NAHL, Charles Christian (1818–1878), born in Kassel, immigrated to United States in 1849".</ref>
	* ] – political cartoonist<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.germany.info/relaunch/culture/ger_americans/g_a_nast.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-05-18 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060518031237/http://www.germany.info/relaunch/culture/ger_americans/g_a_nast.html |archivedate=2006-05-18 |df=}} "Thomas Nast – German-born Father of American Caricature ..."</ref>
	* ] – sculptor
	* ] – art historian, of Jewish descent<ref> "German American art historian who gained particular prominence for his studies in iconography (the study of symbols and themes in works of art)."</ref>
	* ] – ] painter best known for his paintings of nudes, clowns and portraits and his ill-fated voyage of the South Pacific<ref> "German-American painter trained in the "Munich School" style who is best known for his nudes, clowns and portraits and his ill-fated voyage of the South Pacific which nearly cost him his life"</ref>
	* ] – ] painter<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nbmaa.org/Gallery_htmls/roesen.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-05-18 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060502194316/http://www.nbmaa.org/Gallery_htmls/roesen.html |archivedate=2006-05-02 |df=}} "German native Severin Roesen is most famous for his abundant fruit ..."</ref>
	* ] – landscape and botanical painter<ref> "... born most likely in Nuremberg, landscape and botanical painter. Studied art in Düsseldorf and Munich. In 1825 he went to Switzerland, where he stayed for 20 years before he emigrated to America in 1845."</ref>
	* ] – earliest type founder in America, published the first German Bible, 1743, and the first religious magazine in America, 1764<ref> "... earliest type founder in America, published the first Bible in German, 1743, and the first religious magazine in America, 1764. The magazine was published by Christopher Sauer II, who took over the printshop after his father died in 1758."</ref>
	* ] – type designer<ref> "Schwartz first worked at MetaDesign Berlin, developing typefaces for Volkswagen and logos for a number of corporations. He then returned to the US and joined the design staff at The Font Bureau, Inc., working for a wide range of corporate and publication clients."</ref>
	* ] – artist<ref> "... born in Tilsit, East Prussia, came to America at the age of 17."</ref><ref> "Gustavus Sohon was born in Tilsit, Germany on December 10, 1825. He came to America at the age of 17 and lived in Brooklyn, New York. A gifted linguist (he spoke English, French, and German) ..."</ref><ref> "Gustavus Sohon, a native of East Prussia, arrived on the Columbia River in 1852 as a private in the US Army."</ref>
	* ] – glassmaker and ironmaster<ref name="German-American Artists" />
	* ] – photographer instrumental in making photography an acceptable art form alongside painting and sculpture<ref> "Birthplace: Cologne, Germany"</ref>
	* ] – painter, art teacher, and owner of the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts<ref name="German-American Artists" />
	* ] – artist known for illustration-figure, genre and landscape.
	* ] – production designer
	* ] (Katherine von Drachenberg) – tattoo artist<ref> "Though her father (Rene Von Drachenberg) is of German descent and her mother (Sylvia Galeano) has Spanish-Italian roots, both her parents are native Argentinians."</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.katvond.net/bio.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-04-09 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410224022/http://www.katvond.net/bio.html |archivedate=2008-04-10 |df=}} "Her father René Drachenberg and her mother Sylvia Galeano were both born in Argentina, though René's family origins were German and Sylvia's Spanish-Italian"</ref>
	* ] – ], ] artist and poet
	* ] – abstract painter, helped establish the ] in New York City<ref>] "Freiin, under German Nobles"</ref>
	* ] – painter and prominent businessman in the Panorama era (Milwaukee & Chicago) and also in the California wine business<ref></ref>
	* ] – painter<ref> "German American Corner: WIMAR, Karl Ferdinand (1828–1862)"</ref>
	===Authors and Writers===
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	* ] — correspondent
	* ] – author<ref> "German Heritage"</ref>
	*] — television
	* ] – news reporter-journalist
	* ] – printer and publisher<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/014900/014987/html/14987bio.html |title=Matthias Bartgis, MSA SC 3520-14987 |website=msa.maryland.gov|access-date=2017-05-23}}</ref>
	* ] – author, actor, and independent filmmaker best known as the creator of '']''<ref>Rogers, p. 1.</ref>
	* ] – writer<ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070720225543/http://www.germanhollywood.com/abc_index1.html |date=July 20, 2007 }}</ref>
	* ] – journalist, poet, writer<ref></ref>
	* ] – author of the K-PAX series of novels
	* ] – poet and novelist<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.salon.com/people/feature/2000/06/15/bukowski/index.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-05-18 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612025519/http://archive.salon.com/people/feature/2000/06/15/bukowski/index.html |archivedate=2008-06-12 |df=}} "So when Bukowski, who was German-born, got along with this young ..."</ref>
	* ] – writer, editor, and major west coast underground comic book distributor<ref name="DiCaprio1">{{cite book |last=Catalano |first=Grace |authorlink= |title=Leonardo DiCaprio: Modern-Day Romeo |publisher=Dell Publishing Group |date=February 1997 |location=New York |pages=7–15 |url= |isbn=978-0-440-22701-4}}</ref>
	* ] – author of the ], known for dealing with the gritty reality of life<ref> "Part of a large German-American family, and the ninth of ten children, his childhood was marked by poverty." "Theodore Dreiser was the son of a German Catholic immigrant father and a German-Moravian Mennonite mother."</ref>
	* ] – travel author<ref> "1829 – Gomried Duden's published travel report encourages thousands of Germans to come to America, especially Missouri"</ref>
	* ] – Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic, journalist, and screenwriter<ref> "I could hear the pain in my German-American father's voice as he recalled being yanked out of Lutheran school during World War I and forbidden by his immigrant parents ever to speak German again."</ref>
	* ] – author of non-fiction books from the paranormal to politics<ref> "Born May 27, 1917, in Hamburg, Germany; died February 11, 2006, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Moved to United States in 1938; resided in New York City from 1938 to 2006."</ref>
	* ] – poet and patriot<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cazoo.org/Germans/FrancisLieber.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-05-18 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050324001241/http://cazoo.org/Germans/FrancisLieber.html |archivedate=2005-03-24 |df=}} "Like Charles Follen and Carl Schurz, Lieber was a German revolutionary and patriot but only America allowed him to develop his talents to the full."</ref>
	* ] – author
	* ] - writer, ], ] and ] of the estate of ]
	* ] – award-winning sportswriter and broadcaster<ref> "German: from a short form of a Germanic personal name cognate with Old High German gratag 'greedy'."</ref>
	* ] – author, filmmaker, historian and photographer
	* ] – literary theorist<ref>Benjamin Balint. , ''The Forward'', May 22, 2008.</ref>
	* ] – novelist<ref>Dan Webster, {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120114094407/http://www.spokesmanreview.com/interactive/bookclub/interviews/interview.asp?IntID=8 |date=2012-01-14 }}, ''Spokesman Review'', April 3, 2003.</ref>
	* ] – novelist known for her psychological thrillers<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/highsm.htm |title=Patricia Highsmith |website=Books and Writers ''(kirjasto.sci.fi)'' |first=Petri |last=Liukkonen |publisher=] Public Library |location=Finland |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070430223727/http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/highsm.htm |archivedate=April 30, 2007 |dead-url=yes |df=}}. Quote: "Her father was of German descent and she did not meet him until she was twelve – the surname Highsmith was from her stepfather..."</ref>
	* ] – sinologue<ref> "The two most distinguished German Sinologists at the turn of the century, Friedrich Hirth (1845–1927) and Berthold Laufer ..."</ref>
	* ] – author<ref>{{Cite book|title=Finding Your Roots, Season 2: The Official Companion to the PBS Series|last=Gates Jr.|first=Henry Louis|publisher=The University Of North Carolina Press|year=2016|isbn=9781469626185|location=|pages=17}}</ref>
	* ] – writer
	* ] – film historian, sociologist and author<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070810232815/http://www.germanhollywood.com/alphindx_3.html#kr |date=2007-08-10 }} "German-American film historian, sociologist and author, best known for his 1947 book From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film. His Theory of Film (1960) was Kracauer's second influential, if also controversial, work. Born in Germany, the former editor of a Frankfurt newspaper and German film critic moved to America in 1941. His studies concentrated on how cinema both influences and is influenced by social and economic conditions."</ref>
	* ] – historian<ref></ref>
	* ] – ] writer
	* ] – writer, journalist, and political commentator
	* ] – journalist<ref>{{cite web |title=The American Language: Video Lesson Plan |url=http://www.americanwriters.org/classroom/videolesson/clips26_mencken.asp |website=American Writers |publisher=C-SPAN |accessdate=19 July 2016 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20021012051156/http://www.americanwriters.org/classroom/videolesson/clips26_mencken.asp |quote=Mencken came from a German-American neighborhood and family.|archive-date=12 October 2002}}</ref>
	* ] – writer and painter<ref> "... largely German-speaking neighborhood (Miller's grandparents had emigrated from Germany"</ref>
	* ] – author of ] (Pennsylvania Dutch) novels<ref> "Pennsylvania Dutch Identity: Anna Balmer Myers"</ref>
	* ] – journalist associated with the development of the German-language '']'' into a major newspaper<ref> "Public Letter to Oswald Ottendorfer" by Carl Schurz – From Frederic Bancroft, ed., ''Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz'', Volume III, pp. 261–280. Oswald Ottendorfer was editor of the N. Y. Staats-Zeitung. This letter was written in German. The translation, taken from one of the New York newspapers, was probably made hastily and not by Carl Schurz."</ref><ref> "Ottendorfer's desire was to help to uplift both the body and the mind of his fellow Germans in the United States ('dem Körpen und dem Geisten zu helfen')."</ref>
	* ] – poet, novelist, and short story writer<ref> "In Lady Lazarus, Sylvia Plath does many things: she explores her guilt about being German during World War II ..."</ref>
	* ] – German-born author, naturalized U.S. citizen<ref>{{cite web |author=Robertson, William |authorlink= |title=Erich Remarque |url=http://remarque.org/about_remarque.html |website= |publisher= |location=|trans-title=|doi= |date= |year= |accessdate=2009-06-25 |quote=}}</ref>
	* ] – Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist
	* ] – author<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/neighborhoods/northside/nor_n108.html |title=North Side: People: Mary Roberts Rinehart |publisher=Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh |date= |accessdate=2014-05-22 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140522220613/http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/neighborhoods/northside/nor_n108.html |archivedate=2014-05-22 |df=}}</ref>
	* ] – journalist{{citation needed|date=September 2008}}
	* ] – author of '']''<ref> "When St. Louis housewife Irma von Starkloff Rombauer (1877–1962) self-published The Joy of Cooking in 1931, she was, at age 54, a total amateur in the kitchen. She sets Rombauer's German-American roots in the context of a thriving Midwestern immigrant community and also unravels both her and her daughter's tangled, acrimonious relationship with Bobbs-Merrill."</ref>
	* ] – journalist<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=2626364&page=1|title=Diane Finds She's a True Kentucky Woman|last=News|first=A. B. C.|date=2008-07-18|website=ABC News|language=en|access-date=2018-03-05}}</ref>
	* ] – author of '']''
	* ] – screenwriter, film director, and film critic<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/dutch_americans/paul-j-schrader/|title=Paul J. Schrader|publisher=}}</ref><ref>http://paulschrader.org/articles/pdf/2007-ThinIce.pdf</ref>
	* ] – journalist and author.
	* ] – author of '']'' and '']''
	* ] – ] writer
	* ] – pseudonym of Austrian American author of novels and travelogues Carl (or Karl) Anton Postl<ref>{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} "Charles Sealsfield (1793–1864): German and American novelist of the nineteenth century."</ref>
	* ] – novelist and university professor, biological younger sister of the late Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs<ref name="Soderburg">{{cite web |url=http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/ucla-author-s-latest-novel-a-young-165944 |title=UCLA author's latest novel: A young mother, her nanny and hard choices |accessdate=2015-07-07 |last=Soderburg |first=Wendy |date=2010-08-05 |newspaper=UCLA Today}}</ref><ref name="urlMona Simpson">{{cite web |url=http://www.bard.edu/academics/faculty/faculty.php?action=details&id=1888 |title=Bard College:faculty Biography-Mona Simpson |accessdate=2015-07-07 |last= |first= |date= |publisher=]}}</ref>
	* ] – screenwriter<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070810232526/http://www.germanhollywood.com/alphindx_5.html |date=2007-08-10 }} "German screenwriter for B-movies and classic monster movies such as The Wolf Man (1941), I Walked with a Zombie (1943), Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) and Son of Dracula (1943). He also wrote scripts for Berlin Express (1948) and Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1948). He went to Hollywood in 1938."</ref>
	* ] – author and screenwriter
	* ] – author, of Jewish descent<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ncteamericancollection.org/litmap/stein_gertrude_pa.htm |title=Compare Internet and TV Service Deals in Your Area |accessdate=2007-07-08 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061003195621/http://www.ncteamericancollection.org/litmap/stein_gertrude_pa.htm |archivedate=2006-10-03 |df=}} "She is the youngest of five surviving children of Daniel Stein and Amelia Keyser. Both parents belonged to German Jewish immigrant families who settled in Baltimore, Maryland before the Civil War."</ref><ref> "Allegheny City (Deutschtown), Pittsburgh, PA birth placard"</ref>
	* ] – Nobel prize-winning author, one of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century<ref></ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.steinbeck.org/Bio.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2010-04-06 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100305004150/http://www.steinbeck.org/Bio.html |archivedate=2010-03-05 |df=}} "John Ernst Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California, on February 27, 1902 of German and Irish ancestry."</ref>
	* ] (born Theodor Seuss Geisel) – writer and cartoonist<ref>{{cite web |url=http://usa.usembassy.de/germanamericans.htm |title=About the USA > Germans in America |publisher=U.S. Diplomatic Mission to Germany |date= |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref>
	* ] – journalist, author<ref></ref>
	* ] – journalist<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071204161326/http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9382020/Henry-Villard |date=2007-12-04 }} "German-born US journalist and financier"</ref>
	* ] – novelist<ref> "Vonnegut, a fourth generation German-American, was sent to a POW camp in Dresden." </ref>
	* ] – writer, socialite<ref>http://iloveyou-magazine.com/people/tessa-von-walderdorff/</ref>
	* ] – author; political and social activist<ref>] is a German surname.</ref>
	==Entertainment==
	===Actors and Actresses===
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	* ] – American comedian, actor and producer, small amount of German ancestry.
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	* ] – actor
	* ] – actor
	* ] – born Edward Albert Heimberger; ]- and ] Award-nominated American stage, film, character actor, gardener, humanitarian activist, and World War II hero
	* ] – actor and comedian<ref> "Tim Allen – Biography"</ref>
	* ] – born as Allan Stewart Konigsberg – filmmaker, writer, actor, comedian, and musician, of Jewish descent
	* ] – actress
	* ] – dancer, singer, actor, choreographer and television presenter<ref> "Johanna (mother) had been born in Omaha, but her parents, David Geilus and Wilhelmina Klaatke, were German-speaking, Lutheran immigrants from East Prussia and Alsace"</ref><ref> "It's a small but serious and intriguing museum (trace their ancestry and you find that Fred Astaire, Babe Ruth and Herbert Hoover were German Americans),"</ref>
	* ] – actress<ref> "German Ancestry"</ref>
	* ] – actor, of part German descent
	* ] – actress, of part German ancestry
	* ] – actress, small amount of German ancestry
	* ] – actor
	* ] – film actor<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3327612/bio | title=Earl Bascom}}</ref>
	* ] – actress, small amount of German ancestry<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000107/bio|title=Kim Basinger|website=IMDb|access-date=2018-03-05}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=The Book of Origins: Discover the Amazing Origins of the Clothes We Wear, the Food We Eat, the People We Know, the Languages We Speak, and the Things We Use|last=Homer|first=Trevor|publisher=Plume|year=2007|isbn=978-0452288324|location=|pages=}}</ref>
	* ] – actor
	* ] – actress
	* ] – actress<ref>"Zazie Olivia Beetz is an actress. Born in Berlin, Germany, to a German father and an African-American mother, she was raised in Manhattan (New York City) speaking both German and English at home."</ref>
	* ] – actress, mother Frances Bergen was of German descent
	* ] – née Westerman, maternal grandparents of German descent
	* ] – actress, mother was an immigrant from Germany
	* ] – actress, mother is of partial German descent<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wargs.com/other/berry.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116194512/http://www.wargs.com/other/berry.html|dead-url=yes|archive-date=2013-01-16|title=Ancestry of Halle Berry|date=2013-01-16|access-date=2018-03-05}}</ref>
	* ] – actor and World War II veteran
	* ] – actor<ref> In this interview, he states that his surname's origin is German.</ref>
	* ] – actress, small amount of German ancestry<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://people.com/archive/jessica-biel-actress-vol-51-no-17/|title=Jessica Biel: Actress|work=PEOPLE.com|access-date=2018-03-05|language=en}}</ref>
	* ] – actress with German American father
	* ] – actor<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070919015402/http://www.germanhollywood.com/casabl2.html#bois |date=2007-09-19 }} "Born in Berlin, Bois worked as a "wide-eyed" character and stage actor for many years in Germany until he was forced to leave ..."</ref>
	* ] – actor, of partial paternal German descent
	* ] – actress, of part German ancestry<ref>{{cite web |url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/celeb/bowen.htm |title=julie bowen |publisher=ancestry.com |date= |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref>
	* ] – actor<ref>{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} "Born Hans Gudegast, Eric Braeden emigrated to the US in 1959 from the port city of Kiel, West Germany and became a naturalized citizen while attending college. In 1989, Eric served as a member of the German-American Advisory Board along with the likes of Dr. Henry Kissinger. Eric has also been awarded the Federal Medal of Honor by the President of Germany for promoting a "positive, realistic image of Germans in America."</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.germanhollywood.com/braeden.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-01-11 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024040355/http://www.germanhollywood.com/braeden.html |archivedate=2007-10-24 |df=}} "Hans Gudegast (a.k.a. Eric Braeden) is a German-born actor whose career has been very different from that of most other German-speaking actors who have made it big in Hollywood."</ref>
	* ] – actor; father was of partial German ancestry<ref>{{cite web |title=#78 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Ten Further Hollywood Figures (or Groups Thereof) |publisher=New England Historic Genealogical Society |url=http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/services/articles_gbr78.asp |accessdate=February 6, 2009 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113222205/http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/services/articles_gbr78.asp |archivedate=January 13, 2009}}</ref>
	* ] – actor; father is of mostly German ancestry<ref>{{cite web |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1285/is_5_30/ai_62140749 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2009-02-06 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100101082447/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1285/is_5_30/ai_62140749/ |archivedate=2010-01-01 |df=}} "After going through professional nursing school, she married my father, who was an American of German and English descent, and had five kids."</ref>
	* ] – motion picture actor<ref>Ernst Klee. ''Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945''. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, pp. 73–74.</ref>
	* ] – actor<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070918013531/http://www.germanhollywood.com/alphindx.html#br |date=2007-09-18 }} "German actor who came to Hollywood in 1937 after fleeing Nazi Germany via France. In the US he was busy as a character actor in many films of the 1940s."</ref>
	* ] – actress, of part German descent<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_11105.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2007-01-25 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070206202843/http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_11105.html |archivedate=2007-02-06 |df=}} "...Bruckner is definitely German"</ref>
	* ] – actress; mother was an immigrant from Germany, father had some German ancestry<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.netglimse.com/celebs/bio/sandra_bullock.shtml |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-05-18 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060624032045/http://www.netglimse.com/celebs/bio/sandra_bullock.shtml |archivedate=2006-06-24 |df=}} "The half-German, half-Alabaman Bullock was born in Washington, D.C. ...</ref>
	* ] – actor
	* ] – actor
	* ] – actress; mother is an immigrant from Germany<ref>] "Her mother is originally from Rostock, Germany. According to a Scrubs commentary track, she used to attend the German school in her hometown twice a week."</ref>
	* ] – actor, of 3/4 German and 1/4 African-American ancestry<ref> "Her grandfather was Nordic-German ..."</ref>
	* ] – actress; mother is a German immigrant<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.retrocrush.com/archive2007/claudia/ |title=RetroCRUSH interviews Claudia Christian |publisher=retroCRUSH |year=2007 |access-date=2016-10-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120504182501/http://www.retrocrush.com/archive2007/claudia/ |archive-date=2012-05-04 |dead-url=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metacritic.com/person/claudia-christian?filter-options=movies |title=Claudia Christian Profile |publisher=Metacritic}}</ref>
	* ] – born Violet Mary Klotz, actress<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hempinhand.com/FRANKENSTEIN_RISING1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303031957/http://www.hempinhand.com/FRANKENSTEIN_RISING1.html |dead-url=yes |archive-date=2012-03-03 |accessdate=2009-02-18 |df=}} "... I would learn later, after she had passed away, that her name was really Klotz! And I don't ever remember her telling me that herself, you know, that's kind of a German name, but she would always say, 'Well, I'm half Irish.'"</ref>
	* ] – actor
	* ] – actor, director, producer, screenwriter, activist, businessman, and philanthropist<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DM&p_theme=dm&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0ED3D262C9330137&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=The voice of experience Stormy life lends emotion to Clooney's singing|last=Eig|first=Jonathan|date=1 September 1992|website=The Dallas Morning News|access-date=}}</ref>
	* ] – actor, of part German descent<ref> "The Costners, of Irish and German descent ..."</ref>
	* ] – actor; parents both of part German ancestry<ref> "Ancestry of Tom Cruise"</ref>
	* ] – actor, born as Bernard Schwartz – German Jewish descent
	* ] – actor, mother was of half German descent
	* ] – actor<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070919015402/http://www.germanhollywood.com/casabl2.html#dant |date=2007-09-19 }} "...the 19-year-old was then able to get to safety in America."</ref>
	* ] – actress, singer<ref> "though as it happens, Doris Day, née Doris Kappelhoff, is purebred German. "And I have a beautiful shitsu called Wesley Winfield.""</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.germanhollywood.com/abc_index1.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2007-07-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070720225543/http://www.germanhollywood.com/abc_index1.html |archivedate=2007-07-20 |df=}} "Doris Day (Doris Mary Ann von Kappelhoff, 1924– ; some bios claim she was born in 1922) – American film actress and TV personality born in the Cincinnati suburb of Evanston, Ohio in her family's house, "attended by a good German midwife." Both her parents were children of German immigrants. (Her maternal grandfather Welz came from Berlin.) Despite being Catholics, Doris' parents separated over William von Kappelhoff's extramarital affair when Doris was eleven, and later divorced. In the 1940s in California, the singer began to use the stage name Doris Day."</ref>
	* ] – actor, mother was of half German descent<ref>{{Cite book|title=De Niro: A Life|last=Levy|first=Shawn|publisher=Crown Archetype|year=2014|isbn=978-0307716798|location=|pages=}}</ref>
	* ] – actor, small amount of German ancestry
	* ] – actor, small amount of German ancestry<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.johnnydepp-zone.com/deppster/|title=About Johnny|last=|first=|date=|website=www.johnnydepp-zone.com|access-date=2018-03-05}}</ref>
	* ] – actress, mother of German descent<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4717013.stm|title=Cameron Diaz: Hollywood crowd-pleaser|last=|first=|date=2005-07-29|work=BBC News|access-date=2018-03-05|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4729585/Girl-interrupted.html|title=Girl, interrupted|last=Jenkins|first=David|date=2003|work=The Telegraph|access-date=2018-03-05|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}</ref>
	* ] – actor, paternal grandmother was of German descent, and mother is an immigrant from Germany<ref>{{cite web |url=http://movies.go.com/bio?profileid%3D732586 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-05-20 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060509184950/http://movies.go.com/bio?profileid=732586 |archivedate=2006-05-09 |df=}} "He's half-German, half-Italian."</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.germanhollywood.com/dicaprio.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-04-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060323155609/http://www.germanhollywood.com/dicaprio.html |archivedate=2006-03-23 |df=}} "His dad, George DiCaprio, half German and half Italian, is an underground comic book artist.... DiCaprio's mother, Irmelin Indenbirken (sometimes spelled In Den Birken), was born in a German air raid shelter in the midst of a World War II air raid. After the war, in the 1950s, she emigrated to the US with her parents as a young child.... DiCaprio's maternal grandparents, Wilhelm and Helene Indenbirken, continued to live in the US for many years before returning to Germany to enjoy their retirement."</ref><ref> "How did you choose the name Leonardo Wilhelm? My daughter Irmelin's husband is Italian. Leonardo goes well with the last name DiCaprio. But so he would also have something German about him, we added the name of my husband Wilhelm. His roots, by the way, lie far to the east where our ancestors come from."</ref>
	* ] – actress<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09194/983517-129.stm |title=Patricia Sheridan's Breakfast With ... Angie Dickinson |newspaper=] |date=2009-07-13 |quote=I came from a German Catholic family in the Depression era. |first=Patricia |last=Sheridan}}</ref>
	* ] – actress; an immigrant from Germany<ref> "German-American motion-picture actress whose aura of sophistication and languid sensuality made her one of the most glamorous of all film stars."</ref>
	* ] – ]-winning actor; of part German descent<ref> "German its actually von dinklage (dink-lager)".</ref>
	* ] – actress; mother of ] and ]; she's of one quarter German descent<ref>{{Cite book|title=Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke|publisher=Bantam Books|year=1987|isbn=978-0553272055|location=|pages=8}}</ref>
	* ] – film actress and former model; German father, and maternal grandfather of German descent<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060228184238/http://www.askmen.com/women/actress/51b_kirsten_dunst.html |date=2006-02-28 }} "... posters of this Swedish/German beauty will be plastered in locker rooms everywhere ..."</ref>
	* ] – actor; father is of German ancestry, mother also has some German roots
	* ] – actor, of part German descent
	* ] – actress; father is a German immigrant<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20108283,00.html |title=Shore Leave |work=people.com |date=June 6, 1994 |quote= Rolf Eggert, a German-born executive...}}</ref>
	* ] – actress; mother is of Estonian and German ancestry<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://estonianworld.com/people/eight-internationally-famous-people-you-didnt-know-had-estonian-roots/|title=12 internationally famous people you didn't know had Estonian roots|date=2014-05-15|work=Estonian World|access-date=2018-03-05|language=en-US}}</ref>
	* ] – actor; father a German Jewish immigrant, mother of Eastern European Jewish descent
	* ] – actor, father of half German ancestry<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.msn.com/en-au/entertainment/celebrity/16-things-you-dont-know-about-chris-evans/ss-BBl4EnC#image=2|title=16 things you don't know about Chris Evans|website=www.msn.com|language=en-AU|access-date=2018-03-05}}</ref>
	* ] – actress, of part German descent<ref>Dakota Fanning – {{cite web |url=http://www.timessquare.com/movies/dakota_fanning/index.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-07-22 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060522231017/http://www.timessquare.com/movies/dakota_fanning/index.html |archivedate=2006-05-22 |df=}} "I'm also half German" {{cite web |url=http://www.dakota-fanning.org/news.php |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-08-16 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060701014329/http://www.dakota-fanning.org/news.php |archivedate=2006-07-01 |df=}} "My Grandmother was German, and the tradition was to hide an ornament in a pickle, and whoever find it gets a prize. It's a lot of fun."</ref>
	* ] – actress; younger sister of Dakota Fanning, of part German descent
	* ] – writer, comedian and a Prime Time Emmy-nominated actress; father is of half German ancestry<ref>{{Cite book|title=Tina Fey: TV Comedy Superstar|last=Schuman|first=Michael A.|publisher=Enslow Pub Inc|year=2011|isbn=978-0766035577|location=|pages=10}}</ref>
	* ] – actress<ref> "Jenna Fischer - Biography"</ref>
	* ] – actress, of part German descent
	* ] – actress, mother is of part German ancestry<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/jodie-foster-makes-it-work-19910321|title=Jodie Foster Makes It Work|work=Rolling Stone|access-date=2018-03-05}}</ref>
	* ] – born Dennis Franz Schlachta, Emmy-, Screen Actors Guild-, and Golden Globe Award-winning actor, father was a German immigrant, mother was of German descent<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.smokemag.com/0399/cover.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-11-25 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090330103728/http://www.smokemag.com/0399/cover.htm |archivedate=2009-03-30 |df= }} "In actuality, Franz is Dennis's middle name, and the first name of his father, a German immigrant. Though unfailingly mispronounced, 'Franz' is less difficult to say than his given surname. "'Schlachta' was never easy for people to hear, say or spell", says Dennis."</ref><ref>{{dead link|date=February 2019|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} "He was played by Dennis Franz, the son of German immigrant postal workers from Chicago, who was also a graduate of Robert Altman's acting company."</ref>
	* ] – actor<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://irishamerica.com/2010/02/brendan-fraser-on-playing-john-crowley-in-extraordinary-measures/|title=Brendan Fraser on Playing John Crowley in Extraordinary Measures {{!}} Irish America|website=irishamerica.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-05}}</ref>
	* ] – rock singer and filmmaker; daughter of fashion designers Diane and ]
	* ] – actor, born as James Scott Bumgarner – father is of German descent
	* ] – actor<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.germanhollywood.com/abc_index1.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2007-07-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070720225543/http://www.germanhollywood.com/abc_index1.html |archivedate=2007-07-20 |df=}} "... born in Cadiz, Ohio. Both Gable's mother (Adeline Hershelman) and father (William H. Gable) had German ancestors (Frankenfield, Hershelman, and Haupt) who had settled in Pennsylvania."</ref>
	* ] – actress
	* ] – born Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber; actress, singer, and dancer<ref> "Germanic Surname Lexikon (Gerber)"</ref>
	* ] – actress<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bioandlyrics.com/lilliangish |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2010-10-04 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090203091010/http://www.bioandlyrics.com/lilliangish |archivedate=2009-02-03 |df=}} "Gish Biography – Bio and Lyrics"</ref>
	* ] – actress, of part German descent<ref> "Actually, my last name does mean "glow" as it is German. My ancestry is Scotch-Irish and German."</ref>
	* ] – actor
	* ] – actress, dancer, and singer
	* ] – actor
	* ] – actor, of part German descent
	* ] – three-time Tony Award nominee
	* ] – actor, father is a German immigrant
	* ] – actor; part German
	* ] (1945–1996) – actor
	* ] – actress, an immigrant from Germany<ref> "Uta Hagen, a German actress who achieved fame in her role in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, died on Wednesday. Uta was 84. Uta was born on June 12, 1919 in Göttingen, Germany. Her family was very artistic. At age 7, her father got a job as head of the art history department of University of Wisconsin."</ref>
	* ] – actor<ref> "As you might expect for someone with solid St. Louis roots, Jon Hamm has German heritage. Roughly three-eighths of his family tree traces back to the fatherland, but he's equally English and one-quarter Irish."</ref>
	* ] – comedian and actress; mother was German<ref>Stated on '']'', August 6, 2012</ref>
	* ] – actress
	* ] – actress and singer
	* ] – actor
	* ] – actor, of one quarter German descent<ref> "... Hasselhoff took advantage of his fluency in the German language to establish a phenomenal successful singing career in Europe."</ref>
	* ] – actress, small amount of German ancestry<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,21468251-5003420,00.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120702231256/www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,21468251-5003420,00.html|dead-url=yes|archive-date=2012-07-02|title=No plain Jane {{!}} The Courier-Mail|date=2012-07-02|work=archive.is|access-date=2018-03-05}}</ref>
	* ] – film and television actor, father of part German descent
	* ] – actor and film producer, of part German descent
	* ] – actor, director and film writer, of part German descent
	* ] – actor, of part German descent<ref> "Joseph Kamp, b. Büren, Germany, 16 Sept. 1863, bapt. Sankt Nikolaus Katholisch Kirch, Büren, Westfalen, Preußen, 20 Sept. 1863"</ref><ref> "Jonathan Vincent Voight was born in Yonkers, NY, on 29 December 1938. His paternal grandfather immigrated from Košice, now the Slovak and European home of U.S. Steel, his maternal grandfather came from Büren, Germany, his grandmothers were born in the U.S."</ref>
	* ] – actress and dancer, of part German descent
	* ] – actress
	* ] – actress, of mostly German descent<ref> "Raised in Connecticut with her two older brothers, Holt and Jason, and older sister Meg, the half-Irish, half-German natural blonde was a child model for Sears catalogs before landing small roles in commercial work."</ref>
	* ] – actress, of mostly German descent<ref> "Her Irish-German beauty helped her grab her first TV gig back in her native Nebraska..."</ref>
	* ] – born Paul Georg Julius Hernried Freiherr von Wassel-Waldingau{{Citation needed|date=September 2008}}
	* ] – film, TV, and voice-over actor
	* ] – television and film actor, of part German descent<ref> "...in my family, the Herrmanns, who were German on my father's side. My father didn't speak English until he went to school. They were the most highly respected immigrant group in America, the Germans. They were models of immigrant application and education and hard work and honesty. They went from that to being vilified in about two years from 1914 to 1916. He was thrown off streetcars for forgetting and speaking German in public."</ref>
	* ] – actor, mother is of partial German ancestry
	* ] – actress, of part German ancestry<ref>{{cite web |url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MD58-5JL |author=NARA |authorlink=National Archives and Records Administration |title=Fredrick Holm; United States Census, 1920 |website=FamilySearch |id=Katie Holmes's paternal grandfather, Fredrick Holm, was born to German immigrants in Ohio.}}</ref>
	* ] – actor, of half German/Swiss-German descent
	* ] – film actor and singer, father was a German Jewish immigrant, mother a German Lutheran immigrant
	* ] – actor
	* ] – Oscar-nominated actress<ref></ref>
	* ] – film, theater and television actress, of part German descent
	* ] – first actor to receive the ]<ref>"Although in his autobiography the actor falsely claimed Brooklyn as his birthplace, Emil Jannings (Theodor Friedrich Emil Janez, July 23, 1884 – January 3, 1950) was actually born in Rorschach, Switzerland to a German mother (Margarethe Schwabe) and an American father (Emil Janez). He grew up as a German citizen in Switzerland, Leipzig, and Görlitz, Germany. Jannings began his acting career on the German stage. He made his first film in 1914, but his first real movie success came a few years later when he worked with the German (later Hollywood) director Ernst Lubitsch at the Ufa studios near Berlin."</ref>
	* ] – film and television actor and dancer who was a major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios during and after World War II, of part German descent<ref> ''Turner Classic Movies.'' Retrieved: October 28, 2011.</ref>
	* ] – actress, born Angelina Jolie Voight, of part German descent
	* ] – born Leatrice Joy Zeidler; ] era actress<ref> "German – Zeidler"</ref>
	* ] – actress, father of part German descent
	* ] – actress, mother was of German ancestry<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ujUaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BBAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7319,1607939&dq=grace+kelly+irish+german&hl=en | title=The Milwaukee Sentinel – Google News Archive Search}}</ref>
	* ] – actress and comedian
	* ] – actor
	* ] – actress and singer, of part Swiss-German descent<ref> "Princess Kaiulani stars German born actress Q'orianka Kilcher."</ref>
	* ] – actor
	* ] – actress, of part German descent
	* ] – actor, both parents of part German descent
	* ] – actor<ref> "Naturalized US Citizen: Birthplace: Cologne, Germany"</ref>
	* ] – actor, father was of German Jewish descent<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100117171009/http://www.rp-online.de/gesellschaft/leute/Stars-mit-deutschen-Wurzeln_bid_27542.html |date=2010-01-17 }} " His father had once told him he had a great-grandfather from Bavaria said Kevin Kline in an interview. "Somewhere deep in me slumbers German DNA" "</ref>
	* ] – actor, mother of German and German-Jewish descent
	* ] – actor, comedian and musician, of part German descent<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thebellevuescene.com/david-koechner-underneath-the-cowboy-hat-outside-the-office/3574/ |title=Eastside Scene |accessdate=2011-12-28 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330223206/http://thebellevuescene.com/david-koechner-underneath-the-cowboy-hat-outside-the-office/3574/ |archivedate=2012-03-30 |df=}} "Reporter: How do I pronounce your last name? We were having a debate in my office about how to pronounce it.
	DK: 'Kekner.' Everyone butchers it; it's German. I come from a small town called Tipton, Missouri which started as a German community. I guess I could have taken a stage name to make it easier, but then I would have to answer to my hometown."</ref>
	* ] – actor, comedian
	* ] – actor, of part German descent
	* ] – actor<ref> "Naturalized US Citizen – Birthplace: Michenberg, Germany"</ref>
	* ] – actress
	* ] – actor
	* ] – actor
	* ] – actress and model, of part German descent
	* ] – actress and pin-up model<ref>{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} "On the 1910 Census of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, it shows that the grandfather of Constance "Veronica" was born in Germany instead of Sweden..."</ref>
	* ] – actress, paternal grandfather was of German descent<ref>{{cite web |url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/celeb/lange.htm |title=Jessica Phyllis Lange |publisher=ancestry.com |date= |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref>
	* ] – singer, actress, of part German descent<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1285/is_8_31/ai_77336634 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2010-03-08 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090415024021/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1285/is_8_31/ai_77336634/ |archivedate=2009-04-15 |df=}} "LR: How can you be Italian with a name like Lauper? CL: Lauper's my father's name. He's German and Swiss and my mom's Italian. So I'm German, Swiss and Sicilian. Kinda like cold cuts. The German and the Italian in me are always fighting and the Swiss guy in the middle is goin', "OK, let's talk here. Everybody calm down." "</ref>
	* ] – actor, of part German descent<ref> "Of German and Irish descent, Lauter does both redneck and roughneck with great relish and subtle variation, and though he excels at looming and hulking, he appears equally at home (and equally unnerving) behind a clipboard and a white lab coat."</ref>
	* ] – actor/martial artist, of part German descent<ref> "I am only French, Dutch and German. I get my skin color from the French side of my family."</ref>
	* ] – actress, of part German descent<ref> "Jennifer Lawrence – Biography"</ref>
	* ] – actor; father of ] and ]; Bruce's mother was of Chinese and German ancestry<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Bruce Lee Story|last=Lee|first=Linda|publisher=Ohara Publications|year=1989|isbn=978-0897501217|location=United States|pages=}}</ref>
	* ] – exotic dancer and adult film actress<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iafd.com/person.rme/perfid=Janine/gender=f/Janine.htm |title=janine – internet adult film database |publisher=Internet Adult Film Database |accessdate=2015-01-21 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151102143355/http://www.iafd.com/person.rme/perfid%3DJanine/gender%3Df/Janine.htm |archivedate=2015-11-02 |df=}}</ref>
	* ] – actress and playwright; sister of ]er singer Mattie Lipman Marum<ref>Dr. F. A. Brick Dead; 1 Jersey Educator ''The New York Times''; October 17, 1932; pg. 15</ref>
	* ] – actress, of part German descent
	* ] – actress
	* ] – actress
	* ] – actress, HBO's ''VEEP'', ''Seinfeld'' and ''The New Adventures of Old Christine''; partly of German descent
	* ] – actor and director
	* ] – actor
	* ] – fashion model and actor for television and films; of mostly German descent
	*] – actress, model<ref>"She is of British and German descent, her patrilineal line can be traced back to Christian Moretz who was born, c.1714 in Sachsen, Germany".</ref>
	* ] – actor; of part German ancestry on his mother's side
	* ] – actress
	* ] – actor, '']''; Tom Cruise's cousin; of part German descent
	* ] – actors, of German Jewish descent
	* ] – actor, of part German descent
	* ] – model, actress, WWE wrestler<ref> "Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the part Panamanian, part German, and all woman Candice Michelle"</ref>
	* ] – actor, mother of part German descent
	* ] – actress<ref>{{cite web |title=50 fun facts you missed about actress Michelle Monaghan |work=Booms Beat |date=June 12, 2015 |url=http://www.boomsbeat.com/articles/21395/20150612/50-fun-facts-missed-actress-michelle-monaghan.htm |quote=Is of mostly Irish and German descent.}}</ref>
	* ] – actor and filmmaker<ref>{{Cite book|title=Celebrity Biographies – The Amazing Life Of Jack Nicholson – Famous Actors|last=Green|first=Matt|publisher=Matt Green at Google Play|year=2017|isbn=|location=|pages=}}</ref>
	* ] – actor, of part German descent<ref> "Nolte's father was Franklin, of German origin and, so the story goes, one of a tribe of giants – Nolte's uncles Bener and Poob, plus his dad, all rode in at over 6ft 6in"</ref>
	* ] – actor
	* ] – actor who played Robin in two ''Batman'' movies; mother is of part German ancestry<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SAEC&p_theme=saec&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAFE753A9C74029&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |work=Newsbank |title=Express-News Archives : MySA.com |first1=Bob |last1=Polunsky}}</ref>
	* ] – actor and comedian<ref> "Nick Offerman – Biography"</ref>
	* ] – child actress, of part German descent
	* ] – of part German descent
	* ] – born Lillie Marie Peiser; actress, German Jewish<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070810232526/http://www.germanhollywood.com/alphindx_5.html |date=2007-08-10 }} "German actress who at one time was married to Rex Harrison. She arrived in Hollywood via France and England in 1945."</ref>
	* ] – actress; daughter of ], who is of mostly German descent
	* ] – actress, mother of mostly German descent<ref>'']'' ] transmitted March 5, 2010</ref><ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100209044106/http://www.nbc.com/who-do-you-think-you-are/bios/sarahP.shtml |date=2010-02-09 }} ''Who Do You Think You Are?'' website</ref>
	* ] – adult film actress<ref name="pennypax">{{cite web |url=http://www.modelmayhem.com/2453326 |title=ModelMayhem.com – Penny Pax – Model – Los Angeles, California, US |accessdate=August 24, 2013}}</ref>
	* ] – actor
	* ] – actor and producer, of mostly German descent<ref name="highbeam">{{cite news |last=Hiltbrand |first=David |title=William Petersen didn't have a clue 'CSI' would be a huge hit |pages= |newspaper=Philadelphia Inquirer |date=February 6, 2004 |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-118753414.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026084912/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-118753414.html |dead-url=yes |archive-date=October 26, 2012 |accessdate=December 10, 2007}}</ref>
	* ] – actress, father was of half German ancestry<ref>{{cite book |title=The Great Movie Stars: The Independent Years |last=Shipman |first=David |year=1991 |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |location=Boston |isbn=978-0-316-78489-4}}</ref>
	* ] – actor, of part German descent<ref> "Chris Pine Net Worth, Height, Bio, Facts"</ref>
	* ] – actor, of part German descent, and fluent in the German language<ref> "Brad Pitt 'Keeper of the German Language'"</ref>
	* ] – actress, comedian, producer and writer, of 1/8th German descent
	* ] – actor and film producer<ref> "Erich Pommer ranks with the most important personalities of the German silent movie era and he was participated in the worldwide success. No other producer had so influenced the German film like Erich Pommer."</ref>
	* ] – actor, of part German descent, and has limited proficiency in the German language<ref> "Chris Pratt Is the Latest Actor to Reveal Hidden Language Skills"</ref>
	* ] – actress, mother is part German
	* ] – actor, of part German descent
	* ] – German actor
	* ] – born George Ranft; actor; father was an immigrant from Germany and mother was of German descent<ref>{{cite web |url=http://listing-index.ebay.com/actors/George_Raft.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-01-26 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080709010238/http://listing-index.ebay.com/actors/George_Raft.html |archivedate=2008-07-09 |df=}} "Raft was born George Ranft in ****'s Kitchen, New York City to Conrad Ranft (a German immigrant) and an Italian-American mother, where he quickly adopted the "tough guy" persona that he would later use in his films."</ref>
	* ] – actress, Jewish immigrant from Germany<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070810232526/http://www.germanhollywood.com/alphindx_5.html |date=2007-08-10 }} "Born in Düsseldorf, Germany on Jan. 12, 1910. She became a US citizen in 1940"</ref>
	* ] – actor with part German American father
	* ] – actress, of part German descent<ref> "Lutheran Mullenberger"</ref>
	* ] – actor and musician, father is of part German ancestry<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aoltv.com/2010/09/23/hurt-locker-jeremy-renner-madonna/ |title='Hurt Locker' Star Jeremy Renner on Ditching His Mom, Dancing With Madonna (VIDEO) |publisher=Aoltv.com |date=September 23, 2010 |accessdate=February 22, 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211184457/http://www.aoltv.com/2010/09/23/hurt-locker-jeremy-renner-madonna/ |archivedate=February 11, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jeremy-renner-avengers-bourne-legacy-307634?page=2 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |first=Stephen |last=Galloway |title=Jeremy Renner's Shot at Playing Hero |date=April 4, 2012}}</ref>
	* ] – actress
	* ] – actress
	* ] – actress and singer (a quarter German descent)
	* ] – actress and producer<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/megan-smolenyak-smolenyak/julia-roberts-isnt-a-robe_b_828778.html|title=Julia Roberts Isn't a Roberts|last=Smolenyak|first=Megan|date=2011-02-27|website=Huffington Post|language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-07}}</ref>
	* ] – actress, daughter of Ingrid Bergman; maternal grandmother was German
	* ] – television actor
	* ] – theater, television and film actor, father was of part German descent<ref>Corliss, Richard. . ''Time'' magazine. 6 April 2002.</ref>
	* ] – actress, of part German descent
	* ] – actress and producer
	* ] – actor, father was of German descent
	* ] – actor<ref> "Half German, half Native Indian"</ref>
	* ] – actor and singer – well known for his part in ]
	* ] – actress, comedian, and writer
	* ] – actress and singer
	* ] – actor and singer
	* ] – actor
	* ] – actor
	* ] – actor and film director
	* ] – actress and model
	* ] – actress with distant German ancestors.
	* ] – actor
	* ] – actress, of heavily German descent
	* ] – actress with German mother
	* ] – actress
	* ] – actor, immigrant from Germany<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070810232526/http://www.germanhollywood.com/alphindx_5.html |date=2007-08-10 }} "Born Maximilian Josef Sommer in Greifswald, Germany, Sommer came to the US as a youth."</ref>
	* ] – actress, dancer, model, and musician, of part German descent<ref> "The Nevada-bred beauty is a multicultural cocktail of Hawaiian, French, Dutch, Irish, Filipino and German ancestry."</ref>
	* ] – actor, of part German descent
	* ] – actress
	* ] – actress, of part German descent
	* ] – retired ] player, actor, and television personality; lived in Germany
	* ] – actress, father was of German/Swiss-German descent, mother was of part German ancestry
	* ] – actor, of part German descent
	* ] – "Alfalfa", actor, professional dog breeder and hunting guide<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.houseofnames.com/switzer-family-crest |title=Contemporary Notables of the name Switzer |publisher=Houseofnames.com |date=2014-03-25 |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref>
	* ] – actor
	* ] – actor, distant German ancestry<ref>{{Citation|title=CHANNING TATUM & JAMIE BELL fun interview for The Eagle|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtsTzn6OuPE&t=3m20s}} on ]</ref>
	* ] – actress, part German
	* ] – pornographic actress
	* ] – actress, mother has German ancestry<ref> "a naturalized US Citizen of note."</ref>
	* ] – born Jonathan Taylor Weiss; actor, best known for '']''
	* ] – actress; mother is model ], of half German descent
	* ] – actor and voice actor<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ancestry of Rip Torn |first=Robert |last=Battle |url=http://www.wargs.com/other/torn.html |access-date=2008-07-10}}</ref>
	* ] – actress, of part German descent
	* ] – actress, born Alida Maria Laura von Altenburger
	* ] – actor and director; mother is German<ref>{{cite web |title=Mario Van Peebles |url=http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/mario-van-peebles-actor-and-director |website=aaregistry.org |publisher=African American Registry}}</ref>
	* ] – actor<ref>{{cite web |title=Biography |publisher=mike-vogel.com |url=http://www.mike-vogel.com/biography.php |accessdate=January 25, 2008 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060821063821/http://www.mike-vogel.com/biography.php |archivedate=August 21, 2006}}</ref>
	* ] – actor; maternal grandparents were immigrants from Germany<ref> "His maternal grandparents were German his paternal grandfather was an immigrant from Austria-Hungary."</ref>
	* ] – actor; father is German<ref> "German Ancestry"</ref>
	* ] – actress and singer<ref> "Jenna: (On her last name) My last name is German and both my grandparents immigrated from Germany. The name is actually composed of two parts..."von", denotes land ownership, and "Oy" refers to a region in the lower Rhine. The family name predates any national borders and the ancestral estates are in present day Holland. In fact, ruins of a castle still exist there. In current Dutch, the "Oy" mimics the Dutch word for stork and our family crest does portray a stork."</ref>
	* ] – actor; father was an immigrant from Germany<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.salon.com/people/bc/2000/10/10/walken/index.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-01-03 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080121234035/http://archive.salon.com/people/bc/2000/10/10/walken/index.html |archivedate=2008-01-21 |df=}} "Both of his parents were immigrants – his father, Paul, from Germany; his mother, Rosalie, from Scotland."</ref>
	* ] – actor, of part German descent<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.infilm.com.au/features/paulwalker.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-08-22 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060822095212/http://www.infilm.com.au/features/paulwalker.htm |archivedate=2006-08-22 |df=}} "I'm Irish and German, I thought that I could go toe-to-toe but it's hard to keep up with the Aussies."</ref>
	* ] – actress/model<ref> "Ethnicity: German/American"</ref>
	* ] – ] swimmer, actor, best known as ]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.germanhollywood.com/tarzan.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-01-11 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080223235601/http://www.germanhollywood.com/tarzan.html |archivedate=2008-02-23 |df=}} "Weissmuller was born in the tiny hamlet of Freidorf ("free village" in German, Hungarian Szabadfalu) not far from Timişoara (Ger., ''Temeschburg''). Even today the area around Timişoara is dotted with small towns bearing German names such as Gottlob, Johanisfeld and Liebling, reflecting the German ethnic influence on the region. Weissmuller's family left Banat for America in 1904, shortly after Johnny's birth, settling first in Pennsylvania, where many other Austrians and Germans lived (and where brother Peter was born in 1905), and later in Chicago, another Germanic stronghold and the home of Weissmuller's maternal grandparents. The original German family name Weissmüller translates literally as "white miller" or "wheat miller" (Weizen)."</ref>
	* ] – ] actress, screenwriter, producer, and director. She is identified in some historical references as "the most important female director the American film industry has known"<ref>"Born Florence Lois Weber on June 13, 1879, in Allegheny City (annexed in 1907 officially as the North Side, Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania, Lois Weber was the second daughter of George and Mary Matilda (née Snaman) Weber.&nbsp; George's parents, Salesius Weber and Elizabeth Koch Weber arrived by 1854 from Germany."</ref>
	* ] – actor, of part German descent
	* ] – actress, playwright, screenwriter, and sex symbol; mother was an immigrant from Germany<ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080328064315/http://www.forward.com/issues/2004/04.02.06/news13.html |date=March 28, 2008 }}</ref>
	* ] Westmeier Rohe – actress and dancer
	* ] – actor, mother was German<ref> "The German-born, New Jersey-raised Willis, 43, is one of Hollywood's biggest ..."</ref>
	* ] – actor
	* ] – actor, father of half German descent; mother has one quarter German ancestry
	* ] – actress and singer, of part German descent
	* ] – actor<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070919015402/http://www.germanhollywood.com/casabl2.html#zilzer |date=2007-09-19 }} "Zilzer and Palfi married in 1943 and soon moved to New York. Both continued to act, mostly in television. Zilzer died in Berlin in 1991, and his former wife (they divorced amicably when Zilzer was seriously ill and wanted to go to Germany), who refused to return to Germany, died just a few months later in New York."</ref>
	* ] – actress, mother of German descent
	===Celebrities===
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	* ] – political commentator<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/19740 |title=Valkyrie January 5, 2009 |publisher=Glenn Beck |date=2009-01-05 |accessdate=2012-11-01}}</ref>
	* ] – editor-in-chief of the ''Washington Post'' during the Watergate scandal; maternal great-grandfather was Dr. Ernst Bruno von Gersdorff
	* ] – television host of several ] shows
	* ] – political commentator
	* ] – television personality, fashion designer, and actress<ref>{{cite web|title=Stars' Family Holiday Traditions: Kristin Cavallari|url=http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/stars-family-holiday-traditions-20123110/25835|website=US Magazine|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121117134628/http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/stars-family-holiday-traditions-20123110/25835|archivedate=November 17, 2012|quote=...the former reality star does Christmas big with her Italian family. 'We would always do a big Italian feast. My dad would make homemade raviolis and all kinds of things...My mom is German...'|date=2013-11-26}}</ref>
	* ] – broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–1981)<ref></ref>
	* ] – magician<ref> "Naturalized US Citizen – Birthplace: Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany"</ref>
	* ] – television personality, journalist and humorist<ref> "The simple sight (and a tiny bite) of a German chocolate cake always reminds Willie Geist of his family and childhood birthday celebrations. Though his last name is German, Willie said, "when you really break it down, he is part German, French, English, Irish and Norwegian."</ref>
	* ] – member of the former ] owners family<ref name="celeberty.aol.com-germans"> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060705170500/http://celebrity.aol.com/people/ataol/articles/0%2C26618%2C1208477%2C00.html |date=July 5, 2006 }}</ref>
	* ] – member of the former ] owners family<ref>{{cite web |url=http://celebrity.aol.com/people/ataol/articles/0,26618,1208477,00.html |title=Yahoo! |accessdate=2006-07-29 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060705170500/http://celebrity.aol.com/people/ataol/articles/0%2C26618%2C1208477%2C00.html |archivedate=2006-07-05 |df=}} "I think German guys are really hot ... I am German."</ref>
	* ] – game show contestant and professional sports gambler, he is the fourth highest-earning American game show contestant of all time and is best known for his record-setting 2019 run as champion on the quiz show Jeopardy!<ref>"His father, Juergen Holzhauer, a German immigrant who worked as an engineer for a chemical company for 32 years, didn't approve at first."</ref>
	* ] – magician<ref> "Naturalized US Citizen – Birthplace: Nordenham, Germany"</ref>
	* ] – comedian, writer, talk show host, game show host, and producer<ref> "But the workaholic, something he picked up from his father, an executive vice president for IBM, and his stay-at-home mother, looks forward to work every day as he is surrounded by genuine members of his German-Italian family."</ref>
	* ] – journalist
	*] – political commentator<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/388210-tomi-lahren-responds-to-genealogists-report-on-her-family-she-failed-miserably|title=Tomi Lahren responds to genealogist investigation of her family: She failed miserably|last=|first=|date=|work=www.thehill.com|access-date=May 17, 2018}}</ref>
	* ] – model and TV personality (maiden name Sandmeier)<ref> "German: variant of Sandmeyer."</ref>
	* ] – model and television personality<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/entertainment/and-now-for-the-worst-performance-by-an-irish-american-2780-237610291|title=Irish-American actors (dis)honored with a Razzie|date=2009-03-13|work=IrishCentral.com|access-date=2018-03-05|language=en}}</ref>
	* ] – news anchor, commentator and radio sportscaster<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20107912 |title='Countdown with Keith Olbermann' for August 2, 2007}} "You know, the same way the anti-immigrant bigots didn't want my immigrant German ancestors changing the tempo of the whole neighborhood in 1900."</ref>
	* ] – game show contestant, TV host, producer, and actor. He is the highest-earning American game show contestant of all time and the highest-earning contestant on the U.S. syndicated game show Jeopardy!
	*] – television personality, Author<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/20/magazine/judge-judy-tv.html|title=Judge Judy is still judging you|last=|first=|date=|work=www.nytimes.com|access-date=August 3, 2019}}</ref>
	* ] – television personality, podcast host, fashion blogger, and model<ref>] "Schroeder is a North German (from Schröder) occupational name for a cloth cutter or tailor, from an agent derivative of Middle Low German schroden, schraden 'to cut'."</ref>
	* ] – television and radio host, liberal political commentator, former sports broadcaster
	* ] – journalist
	===Directors, producers, screenwriters and film editors===
	* ] — entertainment industry executive
	* ] – Hollywood film director<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cinemascopian.com/2008/04/26/michael-ballhaus-the-anti-shaky-cam-man/ |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2010-02-24 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091129065108/http://cinemascopian.com/2008/04/26/michael-ballhaus-the-anti-shaky-cam-man/ |archivedate=2009-11-29 |df=}} "Born in Berlin, established in the USA"</ref>
	* ] – pastry chef, TV personality, author, attorney, and former film executive<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1618331/ | title=Gesine Bullock-Prado}}</ref><ref>"As children, the Bullock sisters lived in Germany, moving to Virginia when Sandra was 11 and Gesine was five where their father, John, worked at the Pentagon. Helga, a German opera singer, continued to travel back to Europe for work – sometimes taking her daughters with her on tour."</ref>
	* ] (1882–1965) – German-born American ]<ref>Gevinson, Alan. ''Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911–1960''. University of California Press, 1997. P.372</ref>
	* ] – Hollywood film director; born in Stuttgart<ref> "... the German director of Hollywood films including ''Stargate'', ''Independence Day'', ''Godzilla'', ''The Patriot'', and ''The Day After Tomorrow'', was born in Stuttgart."</ref>
	* ] – actor and director, of Jewish descent, parents converted to Christian Science
	* ] – producer and director; two-time ] nominee
	* ] – visual effects creator, writer, and producer
	* ] – pioneer in American filmmaking and a founder of one of the original major Hollywood movie studios, of Jewish descent
	* ] – acclaimed film director, special Academy Award winner<ref> "German-American motion-picture director"</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.germanhollywood.com/gotmail.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2007-07-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070706050949/http://www.germanhollywood.com/gotmail.html |archivedate=2007-07-06 |df=}} "Ernst Lubitsch (1892–1947) came to Hollywood from his native Berlin in 1922—at the request of Mary Pickford. It was in the German film capital that he began to develop what would later be known simply as "the Lubitsch Touch." In the American film capital his success would be phenomenal."</ref>
	* ] – film director and actor<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070810232800/http://www.germanhollywood.com/alphindx_4.html#ma |date=2007-08-10 }} "Born Emil Anton Bundmann. German-American director. (''Sullivan's Travels'', ''Border Incident'', ''Winchester '73'', ''The Glenn Miller Story'', ''God's Little Acre'', ''El Cid'')"</ref>
	* ] – German-American television and film editor
	* ] – motion picture director and photographer<ref> "''Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film'' – 'Certainly Lydia's most significant betrothal was to William Arthur Meyer, a Missouri-born East Oakland cop of German heritage ...'"</ref>
	* ] – film director of the ]<ref> F. W. Murnau Facts</ref>
	* ] – film producer, of Jewish descent<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.germanhollywood.com/abc_index2.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2007-07-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024135102/http://www.germanhollywood.com/abc_index2.html |archivedate=2007-10-24 |df=}} "(1897–1961, aka Nebenzal) – German-American film producer born in New York, educated there and in Berlin, Germany. Together with his father Heinrich Nebenzahl (died 1938), Seymour founded film companies and produced many of the classic movies of the Weimar period, including PANDORA'S BOX with Louise Brooks and M with Peter Lorre. In Hollywood Seymour worked as a producer at MGM and his own Nero Films."</ref>
	* ] – Hollywood film director who specialized in ]<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060426195934/http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg |date=2006-04-26 }} "German-born director Kurt Neumann came to the US in the early talkie era, hired to direct German-language versions of Hollywood films."</ref>
	* ] – Academy Award-winning film director, writer and producer<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nextbook.org/archive/newsarchive.html?id%3D663 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-05-18 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061007115719/http://www.nextbook.org/archive/newsarchive.html?id=663 |archivedate=2006-10-07 |df=}} "Mike Nichols, the German-born director of HBO's ''Angels in America'', tells the ''Washington Post'' his feel for Yiddish rushed back in a skit when Elaine May ..."</ref>
	* ] – scriptwriter, novelist, producer and director who was active in films, radio and television
	* ] – director<ref> "Yahoo! Movies Biography"</ref>
	* ] – Academy Award-nominated American cinematographer<ref> "Pfister: South German and Swiss German: occupational name for a baker, from Middle High German pfister 'baker' (from Latin pistor)."</ref>
	* ] – screenwriter and film director working within American indie cinema
	* ] – producer and director<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.germanhollywood.com/abc_index2.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2007-07-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024135102/http://www.germanhollywood.com/abc_index2.html |archivedate=2007-10-24 |df=}} "... came to the US at the age of 19. The second son of Max Reinhardt (below), Gottfried was born in Berlin but lived in both Germany and the US before he died in Los Angeles in 1994."</ref>
	* ] – circus owners<ref>"". Encyclopædia Britannica, 2014.</ref>
	* ] – composer, film director, film producer, and screenwriter<ref> "Schertzinger was born in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, a son of musical parents Pennsylvania Dutch German descent"</ref>
	* ] – cinematographer and inventor<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070810232526/http://www.germanhollywood.com/alphindx_5.html |date=2007-08-10 }} "German-American cinematographer and inventor of the "Schüfftan process" for optical special effects, used until it was replaced by the simpler matte method. Camera work: ''Menschen am Sonntag'' (1929), ''The Hustler'' (1961, Acad. Award), ''Lilith'' (1964)."</ref>
	* ] – producer, actor, and photographer
	* ] – director and actor<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070810232526/http://www.germanhollywood.com/alphindx_5.html |date=2007-08-10 }} "German director and actor. After a long career in Germany that included directing and writing the screenplay for Viktor und Viktoria (1933, remade by Blake Edwards in 1982), Schünzel came to the U.S. in 1938. In Hollywood he acted (''Hangmen Also Die'', ''The Hitler Gang'', ''Notorious'', ''Golden Earrings'', ''Berlin Express'') and directed (''Rich Man Poor Girl'', ''Ice Follies of 1939'', ''New Wine'')."</ref>
	* ] – director<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070810232526/http://www.germanhollywood.com/alphindx_5.html |date=2007-08-10 }} "German director and brother of Hollywood screenwriter, Curt Siodmak. Although born in Memphis, Tenn., Robert grew up and was educated in Germany. He began his film career at the German UFA studios in 1925"</ref>
	* ] – film director<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.germanhollywood.com/wenders.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-01-14 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080217044903/http://www.germanhollywood.com/wenders.html |archivedate=2008-02-17 |df=}} "Wim Wenders was born Ernst Wilhelm Wenders on August 14, 1945 in Düsseldorf, Germany. After living in Los Angeles for eight years, the director returned to his homeland to make his first German-language film since moving to the US The German director has made most of his films in English in the US He has been living in Los Angeles since the 1980s, although he spends part of each year in Germany and Berlin (his favorite city)."</ref>
	* ] – film director<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.germanhollywood.com/wyler.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-01-11 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009225219/http://www.germanhollywood.com/wyler.html |archivedate=2007-10-09 |df=}} "... born in Mülhausen (Mulhouse), Alsace-Lorraine (then German, now part of France) on the first day of July 1902. ... Wyler became a US citizen in 1928."</ref>
	* ] – Broadway impresario, notable for his series of theatrical revues, the ]<ref>John Arthur Garraty and Mark Christopher Carnes (eds.), ''American National Biography, Vol. 24''. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 239–240.</ref>
	===Humorists===
	* ] (born Michael Ian Schwartz) – comedian, actor, writer, and director<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/48/Michael-Ian-Black.html |title=Michael Ian Black Biography (1971–) |publisher=Filmreference.com |date= |accessdate=2013-03-15}}</ref>''
	* ] – late-night talk show host and comedian and the host of '']''<ref> "Ancestry of David Letterman"</ref>
	* ] – comedian, host of ]'s '']''<ref> "16 Things You Didn't Know About Daniel Tosh"</ref>
	===Models===
	]]]
	* ] – model<ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/CindyCrawford/status/15444100073 |title=Twitter/CindyCrawford |date=June 4, 2010}}</ref>
	* ] – male model and entrepreneur
	* ] – model<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-84162333.html |title=Isch geh als isch |last=Von Kühn, Alexander |date=2012-02-27 |work=] |language=German |accessdate=18 February 2014}}</ref>
	* ] – former fashion model in the 1950s and 1960s; of German and Swedish descent;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wargs.com/other/thurman.html |title=Ancestry of Uma Thurman |publisher=William Addams Reitwiesner Genealogical Services |date= |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref> mother of actress ]
	===Composers and musicians===
	]]]
	], singer and song-writer]]
	], singer and song-writer]]
	]]]
	], composer]]
	* ] – ] ], ], author and ] whose modernist musical compositions explored the modern sounds – musical, industrial, mechanical – of the early 20th century<ref name="greene">{{cite book |last=Greene |first=David Mason |title=Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers |publisher=Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. |year=1985 |pages=1297–98 |isbn=978-0-385-14278-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m3S7PIxe0mwC&pg=PA1297}}</ref>
	* ] — punk rock
	* ] – jazz cornet player and a classical and jazz pianist
	* ] – singer and musician<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3670222/Jon-Bon-Jovi-New-hair-old-roots.html|title=Jon Bon Jovi: New hair, old roots|last=Nikkhah|first=Roya|date=2007-12-30|access-date=2018-03-05|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}</ref>
	* ] – singer<ref>{{cite news |title=Eva Cassidy and her incredible after-life |url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/eva-cassidy-and-her-incredible-afterlife-26698916.html |work=Independent.ie |date=February 12, 2011}}</ref>
	* ] – sing, song-writer, and actress
	* ] – bassist for the band ]<ref>"Dahlheimer – York, PA" {{cite web |url=http://www.progenealogists.com/palproject/pa/1738glas.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2010-09-16 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100927101752/http://www.progenealogists.com/palproject/pa/1738glas.htm |archivedate=2010-09-27 |df=}}</ref>
	* ] – conductor<ref>{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} "German-American conductor and composer"</ref>
	* ] – born Henry John Deutschendorf Jr., musician<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wargs.com/other/denver.html |title=Ancestry of John Denver |publisher=William Addams Reitwiesner Genealogical Services |date= |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref>
	* ] – co-founder of thrash metal band Megadeth
	* ] – conductor<ref> "German-born US composer, pianist, and conductor"</ref>
	* ] – musician and record producer; the drummer for both ] and the ]
	* ] – acclaimed pianist and music teacher<ref>{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} "Frauenheim was the fifth of seven children born to Edward J. and Antoinette Marie "Nettie" Vilsack Frauenheim whose own parents were the co-founders of the Pittsburgh Brewing Company"</ref>
	* ] – band member of ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ace-frehley.com/bio.html |title={An Unofficial Website} Biography |publisher=Ace-frehley.com |accessdate=March 8, 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120613183654/http://www.ace-frehley.com/bio.html |archivedate=June 13, 2012 |df= }}</ref>
	* ] – film music composer<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.germanhollywood.com/abc_index1.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2007-07-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070720225543/http://www.germanhollywood.com/abc_index1.html |archivedate=2007-07-20 |df=}} "... born in San Francisco. His father was a cellist trained in Dresden, Germany; his mother, Eva König, was born in Germany. Because he could speak German, Warner Bros. assigned Friedhofer to work with the Austrian composers Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Max Steiner. Despite his own strong skills, he remained in their shadow for many years. Friedhofer won an Academy Award for his score for The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)."</ref>
	* ] – composer
	* ] – musician
	* ] – guitarist of ]
	* ] – film and television composer<ref> "Reinhold Heil was born in a small town in West Germany."</ref>
	* ] – manager for the U.S. branch of German-owned Odeon Records
	* ] – vocalist, rhythm guitarist and co-founder of ]
	* ] – songwriter<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.entpresents.com/artists.php?id%3D54 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2007-05-02 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070407144815/http://www.entpresents.com/artists.php?id=54 |archivedate=2007-04-07 |df=}} "Elbert Joseph Higgins of Portuguese, Irish and German descent ..."</ref>
	* ] – composer, violinist and teacher<ref> "... one of the most important figures in 20th century music, and an influential teacher. Hindemith was born in Hanau on Nov. 16, 1895, and studied at the Hock Conservatory in Frankfurt. ... He went to the US in 1940 and taught at Yale University"</ref>
	* ] – choreographer<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061121055549/http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9367238/Hanya-Holm |date=2006-11-21 }} "German-born American choreographer of modern dance and Broadway musicals"</ref>
	* ] – photographer<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.artnet.com/artist/8526/horst-p-horst.html |title=Horst P. Horst on artnet |publisher=Artnet.com |date= |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref>
	* ] – first guitarist of the rock band ], 1966–1978; German mother
	* ] – singer-songwriter and ] winner of ]'s '']''
	* ] – first drummer of the punk rock band ]
	* ] – conductor<ref> "Naturalized US Citizen – Birthplace: Breslau, Silesia, Germany"</ref>
	* ] – bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and musician
	* ] – pop singer<ref> "German descendant pop singer Nick Lachey was first popular as a member of the multi-platinum selling boy band 98 Degrees ..."</ref>
	* ] – Member of musical band ]
	* ] – composer<ref> "Charles Martin Loeffler (1861–1935) was a German-American violinist and composer"</ref>
	* ] – actress and frontwoman of ]<ref>{{cite episode |series=Conversations from the Edge with Carrie Fisher |title=Courtney Love |airdate=2002-03-03 |network=Oxygen}}</ref>
	* ] – front man of rock band Marilyn Manson; father is of German descent
	* ] – rock singer
	* ] – actress, singer-songwriter, and guitarist<ref name="autogenerated2"> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100922031613/http://alyandajland.com/ |date=2010-09-22 }} "Their last name is German and is pronounced Miss-Shall-Car."</ref>
	* ] – actress, singer-songwriter, and guitarist<ref name="autogenerated2" />
	* ] – rudimental drummer, national champion, educator, author and ] veteran
	* ] – producer and guitar player, known for work with ], ], ], ]
	* ] – co-founder of thrash metal band ] and first lead guitarist for thrash metal band ]
	* ] – trombone player for the rock band ]
	* ] – musician and songwriter widely acknowledged for his virtuosity with the ]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jacop.net/faq.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2009-09-30 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090522003452/http://www.jacop.net/faq.html |archivedate=2009-05-22 |df=}} "The Latin name PASTORIUS was once the German Schäfer, meaning shepherd. Jaco's father, John Francis Pastorius II, was born in Pennsylvania from German and Irish descendants."</ref>
	* ] – founder of the ] label, also known as Undress Béton
	* ] – Perry has English, German, Irish, and Portuguese ancestry.
	* ] (]) – singer, songwriter, dancer and actress<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/megan-smolenyak-smolenyak/willow-tree-the-roots-of-_b_876357.html|title=Willow Tree: The Roots of Pink and Carey Hart's Baby Girl|last=Smolenyak|first=Megan|date=2011-06-14|website=Huffington Post|language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-07}}</ref>
	* ] – musician, composer, comedian and lead singer of the ]
	* ] – singer, songwriter, actor<ref> "Elvis' descends from the PRESSLER family of the Southern Palatinate, Johann Valentin Pressler changed his name to PRESLEY during the Civil War."</ref>
	* ] – bassist for ]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kauhajoki.fi/~jplaitio/members/deedee.html |title=Ramones: Facts Of Dee Dee Ramone |publisher=Kauhajoki.fi |date= |accessdate=2014-05-22 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080919233704/http://www.kauhajoki.fi/~jplaitio/members/deedee.html |archivedate=2008-09-19 |df= }}</ref>
	* ] – musician, film score composer and founder of ]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wargs.com/other/reznor.html |title=Ancestry of Trent Reznor compiled by William Addams Reitwiesner |publisher=William Addams Reitwiesner Genealogical Services |date= |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref>
	* ] – composer, in 1942 he won the ] for ] for '']''<ref> "Born Heinrich Erich Roemheld in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he was one of four children of German immigrant Heinrich Roemheld and his wife Fanny Rauterberg Roemheld."</ref><ref> "Milwaukee-born Heinz Roemheld followed a circuitous route to a career as a film composer. At age four he was identified as a piano prodigy; he later studied with Ferruccio Busoni and Egon Petri in Berlin, and performed as a guest soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic at 23."</ref>
	* ] – singer, songwriter<ref> "Father was Federico (Fred) Ronstadt – 1868–1954. His father was Herr Frederick Augustus Ronstadt, a German mining engineer, who came to the West in the 1850s from Hamburg, Germany. He settled in Las Delcias, Sonora, and married Margarita Redondo. She gave birth to Federico, known later as Fred, on January 30, 1868. Fred was brought to Tucson in 1882, when he was 14, to work and help support the family of four children: Gretchen, Peter, Linda & Mike. During the 1960s, Gretchen, Peter & Linda played and sang at coffeehouses in Tucson."</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/fordtimes.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-10-30 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071205083748/http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/fordtimes.htm |archivedate=2007-12-05 |df=}} "(The German surname comes from a grandfather who married into the Mexican family.)"</ref>
	* ] – singer-songwriter and musician, best known as the lead vocalist of indie rock band ]
	* ] – composed scores for some 150 Hollywood movies<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.germanhollywood.com/alphindx_5.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2007-07-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070810232526/http://www.germanhollywood.com/alphindx_5.html |archivedate=2007-08-10 |df=}} "Salter came to the United States in 1937 and composed scores for some 150 Hollywood movies."</ref>
	* ] – expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School<ref>{{cite web |url=http://schoenberg.at/1_as/bio/biographie_e.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-12-02 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090118074748/http://schoenberg.at/1_as/bio/biographie_e.htm |archivedate=2009-01-18 |df=}} "1941 – Birth of his son Lawrence on 27 January. Arnold, Gertrud and Nuria are granted American citizenship."</ref>
	* ] – guitarist and lead vocalist for the American folk rock band ]
	* ] – folk singer
	* ] – composer and conductor of the late ], known particularly for American military and patriotic marches<ref> "His father, John Antonio Sousa, was born in Spain of Portuguese parents, and his mother, Marie Elizabeth Trinkaus, was born in Bavaria."</ref>
	* ] – musician from the band KISS, of Jewish descent, his mother was born in Berlin
	* ] – composer and conductor with the ]
	* ] – musician, producer and singer-songwriter; bassist for alternative rock band the Killers<ref> "Stoermer Name Meaning North German (Störmer): nickname for a hot-tempered person, from a derivative of Middle Low German storm 'storm'."</ref>
	* ] – guitarist from the metalcore band ]
	* ] – singer-songwriter<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://famouskin.com/ahnentafel.php?name=27010+taylor+swift|title=Taylor Swift Ancestor Chart (27010)|website=famouskin.com|access-date=2018-03-05}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Taylor Swift Royal Ancestry|last=Miller|first=Thomas|publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform|year=2017|isbn=978-1546558644|location=|pages=}}</ref>
	* ] – conductor<ref> "German-born American conductor who was largely responsible for the role of symphony orchestras in many American cities."</ref>
	* ] – lead singer of Aerosmith
	* ] – ] of ]
	* ] – composer<ref> "German composer, American citizen from 1943"</ref>
	* ] – bandleader<ref> "Lawrence Welk, German-American bandleader"</ref>
	* ] – bassist for ]; of partial paternal German descent<ref name="ancestry.com"> "German: from a pet form of the personal name Werner, or, especially in eastern regions, from a short form of the Slavic personal name Wenceslaw."</ref>
	* ] – Oscar-winning film composer, German immigrant
	==Businesspeople and entrepreneurs==
	], IV]]
	], ketchup founder and businessman]]
	], industrialist]]
	], entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer, a pioneer of the ]]]
	], civil engineer]]
	], blue jeans]]
	], ] inventor and pioneer of the ]]]
	* ] – business magnate, merchant and investor and the first multi-millionaire in the United States<ref name="germanheritage.com"> "German-American merchant and financier, born near Heidelberg, Germany."</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Johnson |first=Rossiter (ed.) |title=The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans |publisher=The Biographical Society |location=Boston |year=1904 |pages=unpaginated |quote=ASTOR, John Jacob, merchant, was born at Walldorf near Heidelberg, Germany, July 17, 1768 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vmlmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PT159&dq=john+jacob+astor+born+(waldorf+OR+walldorf) |accessdate=June 7, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |year=1865 |title=John Jacob Astor |journal=Harper's New Monthly Magazine |volume=30 |pages=308–323 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tX8CAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA309&dq=john+jacob+astor+born+(waldorf+OR+walldorf) |accessdate=June 7, 2009 |author1=Alden |first1=Henry Mills |last2=Allen |first2=Frederick Lewis |last3=Hartman |first3=Lee Foster |last4=Wells |first4=Thomas Bucklin}}</ref>
	* ] – millionaire businessman, real estate developer, inventor, writer and a lieutenant colonel in the ]<ref name="germanheritage.com" />
	* ] – financier and statesman
	* ] – lawyer, Social Darwinist railroad baron (former President of the ])<ref> "German Heritage"</ref>
	* ] – father of the home video game console, of Jewish descent<ref> "German Heritage"</ref>
	* ] – optician who co-founded Bausch & Lomb<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bausch.com/en_US/corporate/corpcomm/general/story.aspx |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2007-04-19 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070501210602/http://www.bausch.com/en_US/corporate/corpcomm/general/story.aspx |archivedate=2007-05-01 |df=}} "One of the oldest continually operating companies in the US today, Bausch & Lomb traces its roots to 1853, when John Jacob Bausch, a German immigrant, set up a tiny optical goods shop in Rochester, New York."</ref>
	* ] – co-founder of ] and one of the first investors in ]<ref> "German-born electrical engineer invested $200,000 in a quirky search engine in 1998. Google returned the favor—and $1.5 billion."</ref>
	* ] – Berlitz Language School<ref name="about.com-germans">{{cite web |url=http://german.about.com/library/blfam_geramABC.htm |title=Famous German-Americans &#124; Profiles – Biographies |publisher=German.about.com |date=2014-03-13 |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref>
	* ] – businessman notable for starting the I. W. Harper brand of premium bourbon whiskey<ref> "The story of the Bernheim family: A book written in 1910 by Isaac Wolfe Bernheim presenting a history of the Bernheim family. Includes stories and portraits of various family members."</ref>
	* ] – ], stock-market ], ], and ]<ref>Blum, Nava. (2006). "The Development of PM&R in the USA" in the book: ''ha — Shikum asah historia: maarakhot shikum refui be Yisrael 1940–1956.''(Tsefat)pp. 25–26.</ref>
	* ] – aviation pioneer who founded ]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.boeing.com/commercial/boeing_bio/index.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2010-01-15 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100118172605/http://www.boeing.com/commercial/boeing_bio/index.html |archivedate=2010-01-18 |df=}} "William E. Boeing was born in Detroit to Wilhelm and Marie Boeing in 1881. His father, who arrived in the United States in 1868, had come from an old and well-to-do family in Hohenlimburg, Germany, and had served a year in the German army. He had a lust for adventure, however, and left his family, emigrating to the United States when he was 20 years old."</ref>
	* ] – founder of ] department store in New York City<ref> "Bonwit, Paul J. (29 Sept. 1862-11 Dec. 1939), retail merchant, was born Paul Joseph (or Josef) Bonwit near Hanover, Germany, the son of Bernard Bonwit."</ref>
	* ] – newspaper publisher and businessman in Milwaukee, Wisconsin<ref>{{cite web|title=Brumder, George 1839 – 1910|url=http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=1092&search_term=brumder|publisher=Wisconsin Historical Society|accessdate=2009-09-23}}</ref><ref>Bruce, William George. ''History of Milwaukee, city and county, Volume 2.'' Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1922.</ref>
	* ] – aircraft designer, aviator, and founder of the Cessna Aircraft Corporation<ref>{{cite web |last1=Chance |first1=Carl |title=CLYDE VERNON CESSNA |url=http://www.wingsoverkansas.com/profiles/a70/}}</ref>
	* ] – ] automobile developer<ref name="about.com-germans" /><ref> "The American founder of Chrysler was a descendent of the German Johann Phillip Kreisler (1672–1742) who sailed to the New World in 1709."</ref>
	* ] – whiskey distributor; born in ]<ref> "Kay Baker Gaston, "George Dickel Tennessee Sour Mash Whiskey: The Story Behind the Label", Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol. 57, No. 2 (Fall 1998), pp. 51–64."</ref>
	* ] – businessman and marketer best known for his role as president of ] Computer Entertainment Europe<ref name="MCVUK: Chris Deering"> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117013928/http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/mcv-legends-chris-deering-2/01305, |date=2015-11-17 }}, MCVUK.com, (Retrieved 12 November 2015)</ref>
	* ] – CEO of the Howard Hughes empire<ref> "Noah Dietrich was born February 28, 1889 in Madison, Wisconsin and was the fourth of six children born to Sarah Peters and German-born evangelical Lutheran minister John Dietrich."</ref>
	* ] – film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, and philanthropist<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.justdisney.com/WaltDisney100/biography/01.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060317193523/http://www.justdisney.com/WaltDisney100/biography/01.html|dead-url=yes|archive-date=2006-03-17|title=Walt Disney – 100 Years of Walt Disney|date=2006-03-17|access-date=2018-03-05}}</ref>
	* ] – venture capitalist at ]
	* ] – chairman of Driehaus Capital Management LLC<ref>{{cite web |url=http://turtletrader.com/trader-driehaus/ |title=Driehaus at Turtletrader |publisher=Turtletrader.com |date= |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref>
	* ] – automobile pioneer manufacturer<ref name="helipad-consulting.com"> "The property No. 34, today Salzufler Strasse 48, since 1995 private home and office of HELIPAD.consulting/Germany, is the house where the brothers Fritz and August Düsenberg lived until emigration to America in the year 1885 "</ref><ref name="lippe-auswanderer.de"> "Emigration from Lippe to the USA"</ref><ref name="lemgo.net"> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929002340/http://www.lemgo.net/259.html |date=2007-09-29 }} "Fritz und August Duesenberg aus Kirchheide"</ref>
	* ] – automobile pioneer designer, manufacturer and sportsman<ref name="helipad-consulting.com" /><ref name="lippe-auswanderer.de" /><ref name="lemgo.net" />
	* ] – businessman, ] and ]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newburyport.k12.ma.us/~jsharland/grade3/WilliamFilene.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2012-03-19 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060109045010/http://www.newburyport.k12.ma.us/~jsharland/grade3/WilliamFilene.htm |archivedate=2006-01-09 |df=}} "William Filene"</ref>
	* ] – founder of the ]<ref> "The Firestone family goes back to German immigrants named Feuerstein. Harvey Firestone's great-great-great grandfather was Hans Nikolaus Feuerstein, born March 25, 1712 in Berg, Alsace, a German-speaking region now in France. Hans and his wife Catharina arrived in America in September 1753 and Hans is believed to have died in Pennsylvania in 1763."</ref>
	* ] – one of the founding partners of Forstmann Little & Company, a private equity firm<ref name="songwritershalloffame.org"> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101217234825/http://songwritershalloffame.org/ceremony/entry/C3107/5059 |date=2010-12-17 }} "The grandson of German and Italian immigrants, he embodies the entrepreneurial spirit of risking it all for a shot at success."</ref>
	* ] – one of the founding partners of ], a private equity firm, and chairman and CEO of ], a leading global sports and media company<ref name="songwritershalloffame.org" />
	* ] – software magnate and investor, founder and former chairman of Microsoft
	* ] – banker and founder of the Young Men's Progressive Civic Association in 1915 and the United States Junior Chamber in 1920<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.usjayceefoundation.org/founders/giessenbier.htm |title=His father was a stern, yet kind German immigrant. Hy's mother was highly respected for her gentle and kindhearted nature. |access-date=2018-06-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925010945/http://www.usjayceefoundation.org/founders/giessenbier.htm |archive-date=2015-09-25 |dead-url=yes }}</ref>
	* ] – piano manufacturer (]) and inventor
	* ] – ] ketchup founder<ref name="about.com-germans-GHI">{{cite web |url=http://german.about.com/library/blfam_geramGHI.htm |title=Famous German-Americans – Part 3: G-H-I |publisher=German.about.com |date= |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref>
	* ] – best known as Jack Heinz, a business executive and CEO of the ]
	* ] – President and CEO of VISA U.S.A. and ]
	* ] – educator, newspaper publisher, and banker<ref>"Robson, Charles (1876), Biographical Encyclopædia of Ohio of the Nineteenth Century, Galaxy Publishing Co."</ref>
	* ] – ] chocolate founder<ref name="about.com-germans-GHI" /><ref> "Like most of the people whom he knew, he was the descendant of people who had come to Pennsylvania from Switzerland and Germany in the 1700s. He grew up speaking the "Pennsylvania Dutch" dialect and inherited from these people characteristics such as a zest for hard work, diligence, and thriftiness."</ref>
	* ] – chairman of the ] chain and grandfather of ]
	* ] – founder of the Hilton Hotel chain and great grandfather of ] and ]<ref name="celeberty.aol.com-germans" /><ref> Father: Augustus Holver Hilton (Norwegian) – Mother: Mary Laufersweiler (German)</ref>
	* ] – hotelier and real estate entrepreneur, father of ]
	* ] – founder of ]<ref> "George Albert Hormel, the son of German immigrants, used the knowledge, skills, and values he learned from his family to succeed as an independent meatpacker in an industry dominated by corporate giants."</ref>
	* ] – software tycoon, co-founder and CEO of ]<ref> "When a baby was born to the 23-year-old Jandali – now known as John – and his 23-year-old German-American girlfriend, Joanne Schieble, in 1955, there was no chance he'd be able to grow up with his biological parents."</ref>
	* ] – pharmaceutical tycoon, endowed the ]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www2.ku.edu/~maxkade/maxkade.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2007-08-13 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513153714/http://www2.ku.edu/~maxkade/maxkade.htm |archivedate=2008-05-13 |df=}} "Having made a fortune in the pharmaceutical industry, he endowed the Max Kade foundation with the goal of promoting the mutual understanding of the people and cultures of Germany and the United States."</ref>
	* ] – investment banker<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/90.3/br_89.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-05-18 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060309211258/http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/90.3/br_89.html |archivedate=2006-03-09 |df=}} "Born a middle-class, assimilated German Jew ..."</ref><ref> "Otto Kahn was the son of banker Bernard Kahn in Mannheim, southwestern Germany."</ref>
	* ] – co-founder of YouTube and designer of key parts of PayPal.
	* ] – department store entrepreneur
	* ] – oil ] and ] who is now best known for giving his name to the ], one of the largest philanthropic foundations<ref> "German: nickname from Middle High German kec 'lively', 'active' (cognate of English quick), which later changed its meaning to 'bold', 'forward', 'fresh'."</ref>
	* ] – confectioner and mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee<ref>East Tennessee Historical Society, Mary Rothrock (ed.), ''The French Broad-Holston Country: A History of Knox County, Tennessee'' (Knoxville, Tenn.: East Tennessee Historical Society, 1972), p. 436.</ref>
	* ] – pioneer in the use of fibre shipping containers and one of the wealthiest men in America in 1957
	* ] – television industry mogul<ref> "Kluge, a German-born billionaire, donated a whopping $60 million to start the ..."</ref>
	* ] – business executive<ref> "Born in Bremen in Germany, Kleinfeld began his career as a marketing consultant in 1982 but before long had joined Siemens, the global engineering and technology services firm, and one of Germany's greatest companies."</ref>
	* ] – industrialist and piano-manufacturer<ref> "From music have come – beside the piano- and organ-makers, Steinway, Knabe"</ref>
	* ] – comedian<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lynnekoplitzcomedy.com/ |title=Lynne Koplitz – Out of the Pink |publisher=Lynnekoplitzcomedy.com |date= |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref>
	* ] – first to patent processed cheese; founder of ]<ref>. ''The Fundraising Journal'' (January 2010).</ref>
	* ] – chain grocer founder of the ] chain<ref> "Kroger was born in Cincinnati, Ohio the fifth of ten children in a family of German immigrants."</ref><ref> "When he was 13, in the Panic of 1873, Bernard Kroger's German immigrant father's Cincinnati dry goods store failed."</ref>
	* ] – major publisher of chromolithographs in the late 19th century
	* Henry Emanuel Lutterloh – Quartermaster General under George Washington<ref> "Born 1743 in Germany"</ref>
	* ] – father of modern brewing in St. Louis, started the William J. Lemp Brewing Company<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lemplager.com/lemp/history.asp |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2012-03-18 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208052353/http://lemplager.com/lemp/history.asp |archivedate=2012-02-08 |df= }} "Johan Adam Lemp was born in Gruningen, Germany"</ref>
	* ] – president of ]
	* ] – co-founder of ]<ref name="npr.org"> "It's a bit of an irony that the Blue Note label — synonymous with jazz, the seminal American music form — was created by two German immigrants. In Blue Note Records, The Biography, author Richard Cook tells the story of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, who formed the label in 1939."</ref>
	* ] – banker, co-founder of ], of Jewish descent
	* ] – aircraft manufacturer<ref>{{cite journal |journal=Flying Magazine |title=The Founding Father |date=Aug 1976 |page=76}}</ref>
	* ] – co-founded Bausch & Lomb<ref name="gamhof.org"> "Famous German-Americans"</ref><ref> "Bausch & Lomb Incorporated, one of the oldest continuously operating companies in the U.S. today. Bausch & Lomb traces its roots to 1853, when John Jacob Bausch, a German immigrant, set up a tiny optical goods shop in Rochester, New York."</ref>
	* ] – developer of the menthol cough drop, the first ever, Luden's Menthol Cough Drops<ref> "Ludens"</ref>
	* ] – Chicago businessman of A.L. Luetgert Sausage & Packing Company
	* ] – steak restaurateur<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.greatunclepeters.com/aboutus.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-01-30 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080417030352/http://greatunclepeters.com/aboutus.html |archivedate=2008-04-17 |df=}} "Among the black-and-whites is a shot of a burly German man. That would be Great Uncle Peter – more specifically, Peter Luger, who in 1887 opened a beer garden in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York, that started off selling sandwiches and steak tidbits before graduating to full-fledged steak dinners."</ref>
	* ] – philanthropist<ref>Scheiffarth, Engelbert: "''Der New Yorker Gouverneur Nelson A. Rockefeller und die Rockenfeller im Neuwieder Raum''". ''Genealogisches Jahrbuch'', '''9''' (1969), pp. 16–41.</ref>
	* ] – meat entrepreneur<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kraftfoods.com/oscarmayer/omm_history2.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-01-08 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071222024520/http://www.kraftfoods.com/oscarmayer/omm_history2.htm |archivedate=2007-12-22 |df=}} "Soon Oscar's brother Gottfried, a "wurstmacher" (or sausage-maker) from Nuremberg, Germany, would join Oscar in the states, and together they leased the Kolling Meat Market on Chicago's north side. Before long, customers in their German neighborhood were standing in line for Mayer specialties like bockwurst, liverwurst, and weisswurst. By the time a third brother, Max, joined them from Germany, the brothers had moved into their own establishment."</ref>
	* ] – founder of the ] Company
	* ] – scientist and former president of Merck & Co.
	* ] – founder of ]
	* ] – founder of ] and CEO of ]
	* ] – co-founder of ]; founder of ], ], ], and ]
	* ] – co-founder of the Neiman-Marcus department store<ref>. Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies.</ref>
	* ]-Sulzberger – newspaper publisher and former owner of '']'' and ''The Chattanooga Times'' (now the '']'')
	* ] – shipping magnate and owner of ] Shipping<ref> "Bremen, Germany Merchant"</ref>
	* ] – consultant to large software vendors<ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070203205000/http://www.dbdebunk.com/about.html |date=February 3, 2007 }}</ref>
	* ] – founded the ] ] company<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pfizer.com/about/history/charles_pfizer |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2017-05-10 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510151810/http://www.pfizer.com/about/history/charles_pfizer |archivedate=2017-05-10 |df= }} "In 1849, a young German chemist, Charles Pfizer, and his cousin Charles Erhart, who had come to America seeking new opportunities, founded the business that bears the Pfizer name."</ref>
	* ] – founder of the ], the largest wholesale hardware store in the ] until its closure in 1958<ref name="Watrous1909">{{cite book|author=Jerome Anthony Watrous|title=Memoirs of Milwaukee County: From the Earliest Historical Times Down to the Present, Including a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Representative Families in Milwaukee County|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yp4yAQAAMAAJ|year=1909|publisher=Western Historical Association|pages=777–778}}</ref>
	* ] – builder of the ]
	* ] – banker, civic leader, and philanthropist<ref> "Son of John Augustus Reitz, born on December 17, 1815, in Dorlar, Prussia. He grew up in a German family that emphasized skill, thrift, and hard work. He came to the United States in the 1830s when many other Germans came, and for the same reasons: to find better business opportunities and a more "republican" form of government."</ref>
	* ] – known as the "Lumber Baron", an entrepreneur, industrialist, banker, civic leader, and philanthropist<ref> "John Augustus Reitz was born on December 17, 1815, in Dorlar, Prussia. He grew up in a German family that emphasized skill, thrift, and hard work. He came to the United States in the 1830s when many other Germans came, and for the same reasons: to find better business opportunities and a more "republican" form of government."</ref>
	* ] – famous ] lawyer and bootlegger during the Prohibition era
	* ] – created the electric guitar manufacturer, ]
	* ] – built the first paper mill in America<ref> "William Rittenhouse was born in what is now Germany, near the Dutch border. His name was then Wilhelm Rittenhausen, later changed in America"</ref>
	* ] – banker, philanthropist, world statesman, and the current ] of the ]
	* ] – oil magnate and philanthropist
	* ] – industrialist and philanthropist
	* ] – industrialist and philanthropist
	* ] – venture capitalist, financier, philanthropist and major conservationist
	* ] – civil engineer, one of the pioneers in the construction of suspension bridges<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.germanheritage.com/biographies/mtoz/roebling.html |title=German American Corner: ROEBLING, John Augustus (1806–69) |publisher=Germanheritage.com |date=1926-07-21 |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref>
	* ] – civil engineer best known for his work on the ]
	* ] – chairman and CEO of ] (PNC Bank)
	* ] – brewer, businessman, ] colonel and United States Congressman, owner of ] from 1915 until 1939<ref name="frommer">{{cite web |url=http://www.travel-watch.com/1927yanks1.htm |author=Harvey Frommer |title=1927 New York Yankees: The Greatest Baseball Team Ever |accessdate=2008-07-08 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080207094322/http://travel-watch.com/1927yanks1.htm |archivedate=2008-02-07 |quote=The team had a pronounced German-American flavor from its owner beer baron Jacob Ruppert to Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, Mark Koenig, Bob Meusel, George Pipgras, Dutch Ruether and half Germans Waite Hoyt and Earle Combs.}}</ref><ref> "Popular, wealthy, and well-connected within the German-American community, Ruppert was a natural for politics."</ref><ref>"The son of German immigrants Jacob Ruppert and Anna Gillig, Ruppert was born August 5, 1867, attended Columbia Grammar School in New York, and went to work in the small Jacob Ruppert's family brewery in 1887."</ref>
	* ] – founded The ] in 1860, the second oldest family-owned brewery in America
	* ] – Founder of ]
	* ] – banker and philanthropist
	* ] – creator of the ] and the ]<ref name=slate>{{cite web |date=September 29, 2006 |url=http://www.slate.com/id/2150552/ |title=The Other Trojan War – What's the best-selling condom in America? |quote=Jules Schmid, a onetime sausage-maker who'd started making lamb-gut condoms in the 1880s; by the time Trojan debuted, he was manufacturing rubber condoms under the Ramses and Sheik brand names. Schmid's packages often featured romantic Egyptian or Arab images.... |publisher=] |accessdate=2007-07-21 |author=]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/schmid_hi.html |title=Julius Schmid |accessdate=2011-09-25 |quote=Born into poverty in Schorndorf, Germany, in 1865, the half-paralyzed Jewish immigrant arrived in New York at the age of 17 to make his fortune.... |publisher=]}}</ref>
	* ] – executive chairman and former CEO of ] (the parent company of ]) and a former member of the Board of Directors of ], and 136th-wealthiest person in the world in 2011
	* ] – steel magnate (])<ref> "Pauline Farabaugh and John Schwab, both of whose parents were German-born Catholics, were married in western Pennsylvania a week after the president appealed for volunteers to put down the rebellious Southern states. John wanted to join the Union Army with his pals. Pauline talked him out of it."</ref>
	* ] – businessman and investor; founder of the ]
	* ] – private equity mogul, financier and founder of ]
	* ] – inventor and founder of the ], ], ]
	* ] – founder and inventor of one of the first reaping machines
	* ] – inventor, actor, and ] entrepreneur<ref> "The roll call of German-American leaders in business and finance includes names like Astor, Boeing, Chrysler, Firestone, Fleischman, Guggenheim, Heinz, Hershey, Kaiser, Rockefeller, Steinway, Strauss (of-blue jeans fame), Singer
	(originally Reisinger)..."</ref>
	* ] – Internet entrepreneur who is the co-founder and CEO of the mobile application ]<ref> "Middle High German spiegel, German Spiegel 'mirror' (via Old High German from Latin speculum, a derivative of specere 'to look')."</ref>
	* ] – founder of Spiegel catalog<ref>. Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies.</ref>
	* ] – industrialist<ref> "Claus Spreckels was born on July 9, 1828 and started off as a poor German immigrant who first settled in North Carolina upon arriving in America in 1846."</ref>
	* ] – shipping and sports franchise entrepreneur and late owner of the New York Yankees
	* ] – Steinway pianos manufacturer<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160122024724/http://www.hanlet.com/marqhist.lasso?Lang=UK&MarqueID=1 |date=2016-01-22 }} "Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, a German master-carpenter, builds his first instrument in his Seesen..."</ref>
	* ] – glassmaker and ironmaster and an active lay Lutheran and associate of ]
	* ] – founder and president of Arhoolie Records<ref> "http://www.wargs.com/noble/strachwitz.html"</ref>
	* ] – creator of the first company to manufacture blue jeans;<ref> "the founder of the modern day denim industries"</ref> of German-Jewish descent
	* ] – founded ], a wagon, carriage and car manufacturer<ref> "Pennsylvania-German-built Conestoga wagons carried the pioneers westward, some armed with "Kentucky rifles", also made in Pennsylvania by Germans. A leading German-American wagon builder, Clement Studebaker, later produced the popular car that bore his name."</ref>
	* ] – publisher of '']'', 1935–1961<ref name="usa.usembassy.de"> "The roll call of German-American leaders in business and finance includes names like Astor, Boeing, Chrysler, Firestone, Fleischman, Guggenheim, Heinz, Hershey, Kaiser, Rockefeller, Steinway, Strauss (of-blue jeans fame), Singer (originally Reisinger), Sulzberger, Wanamaker, and Weyerhaueser."</ref>
	* ] – pioneer settler/colonizer<ref> "German-born Swiss pioneer settler and colonizer in California..."</ref>
	* ] – co-founder of ] and the first outside investor in ]
	* ] – aircraft manufacturer
	* ] – heir, businessman, polo player and philanthropist<ref name="sussex">Mike Reilly, {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130311215637/http://www.slahs.org/uihlein/family_history1.htm |date=2013-03-11 }}, Sussex-Lisbon Area Historical Society, Inc., 1/17/00</ref>
	* ] – snack food entrepreneur
	* ] – ] and businessman from ], ] who spent a single one-year term as a member of the ].<ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061209014416/http://www.legis.state.wi.us/lrb/pubs/ib/99ib1.pdf |date=December 9, 2006 }}</ref><ref>"German immigrants prospered in other industries too. Guido Pfister and Frederick Vogel owned the largest of Milwaukee's numerous tanning companies in the late nineteenth century."</ref>
	* ] – co-founder of the ] Supermarket chain<ref name="vons">{{cite web |url=http://www.vons.com/ShopStores/Our-Story.page |title=Our Story |publisher=Vons}}</ref>
	* ] – co-founder of the ] Supermarket chain<ref name="vons" />
	* ] – bankers, of Jewish descent
	* ] – founder of Wanamaker's department store
	* ] – engineer and electricity pioneer<ref>{{cite web |url=http://german.about.com/library/blfam_geramCat.htm |title=Famous German-Americans by Category |publisher=German.about.com |date=2014-03-13 |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref><ref>"...descendant of a Westphalian named Wistinghausen"</ref>
	* ] – founder and first president of the ] in ]<ref>{{cite web | title=MSOE's presidents – Only four in 100 years | publisher = Milwaukee School of Engineering | accessdate=2007-04-17 | date=2003 | url=http://www.msoe.edu/centennial/history/oscar_werwath.shtml |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070314113145/http://www.msoe.edu/centennial/history/oscar_werwath.shtml <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2007-03-14}}</ref>
	* ] – timber mogul and founder of the ]<ref> "1914 – ...Frederick Weyerhaeuser, German-born lumber king, dies. His fortune: $300,000,000."</ref>
	* ] – co-founder of ]<ref name="npr.org" />
	* ] – musical instrument entrepreneur<ref> "Rudolph Wurlitzer (born January 30, 1831, Schöneck, Saxony —d. January 14, 1914, Cincinnati, Ohio), emigrated to the United States in 1853, settling in Cincinnati."</ref>
	* ] – real estate developer
	=== Brewers ===
	]
	]
	* ] – soap and candle maker, president and CEO of Eberhard Anheuser and Company, which eventually became ]<ref> "German-born American cofounder of the firm later to be known as Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., one of the largest breweries in the world."</ref>
	* ] – beer baron, started the ]<ref> "Valentin was a German-American brewer and banker. He was born in Bavaria and worked at his father's brewery in his youth. He started a brewery which became home to Blatz Beer. Valentin was one of the many "beer barons" of Milwaukee. So many, in fact, that there is a section at Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee called 'Beer Baron's Hill' which houses a few of these men."</ref>
	* ] – ] brewing company founder<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.missouricivilwarmuseum.org/germancause.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-05-18 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060810221611/http://www.missouricivilwarmuseum.org/germancause.htm |archivedate=2006-08-10 |df= }} "Adolphus Busch, was a Corporal Co. E 3rd Regiment US Reserve Infantry Corps (3 months, 1861) after the war became St. Louis most famous German immigrant."</ref>
	* ] – brewing magnate who was the President and CEO of ], 1934–1946
	* ] – brewing magnate who served as the President and CEO of ], 1913–1934
	* ] – president and CEO of ]
	* ] – brewing magnate who built the Anheuser-Busch Companies into the largest brewery in the world as company chairman, 1946–1975, and became a prominent sportsman as owner of the ] franchise in MLB
	* ] – ] beer empire founder<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alabev.com/coorstry.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2016-05-10 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309024508/http://www.alabev.com/coorstry.htm |archivedate=2016-03-09 |df=}} "And so it was with Adolph Coors, the young German immigrant who founded Coors Brewing Company..."</ref>
	* ] – New York City brewer, formerly located at the ] in the ]<ref name=james> The Bronx and its people A History 1609–1927 Board of Editors: James L. Wells, Louis F. Haffen Josiah A. Briggs. Historian: Benedict Fitspatrick Publisher: The Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc. New York 1927</ref>
	* ] – founder of ]
	* ] – ] creator<ref> "Frederick Miller, a German immigrant who started his own brewery in 1855..."</ref>
	* ] – founder of Pabst Brewery (with Philip Best)
	* ] – founded ] (Pennsylvania Brewing Co.)<ref>* ] – Businessman who developed the ]
	{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071205192008/http://www.pennbrew.com/data/english/history.htm |date=2007-12-05 }} "The history of Penn Brewery making great German beers began with Tom Pastorius' great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather, Franz Daniel Pastorius. Today considered the father of German-Americans, Franz Daniel Pastorius was an idealistic scholar..."</ref>
	* ] – beer baron, started ]<ref> "'F. & M.', as most breweriana buffs know, stands for Frederick and Maximilian, the brothers who founded Schaefer. Frederick Schaefer, a native of Wetzlar, Prussia, Germany, emigrated to the US in 1838. When he arrived in New York City on October 23rd he was 21 years old and had exactly $1.00 to his name. There is some doubt as to whether or not he had been a practicing brewer in Germany, but there is no doubt that he was soon a practicing brewer in his adopted city."</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pmphoto.to/WorldsFairTour/Zone-3/203.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-04-23 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512063637/http://www.pmphoto.to/WorldsFairTour/Zone-3/203.htm |archivedate=2008-05-12 |df=}} Schaefer Center at the 1939 World's Fair</ref>
	* ] – beer baron, founded ]<ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706130532/http://www.schlitzgusto.com/history.asp |date=July 6, 2008 }}</ref>
	* ] – brewer, Shiner Brewery<ref> "Kosmos Spoetzl, a German immigrant brewmaster, learned of the Shiner operation and coleased the facility with Oswald Petzold with an option to buy in 1915."</ref><ref> "According to Texas historian Patrick J. Wagner, an organization founded by German investors known as the Shiner Brewing Association wanted to drink home brew, rather than city brew. "So they recruited Kosmos Spoetzl, a Bavarian brewmaster with an old-world brewing recipe that had been in his family for generations." "</ref>
	* ] – founder of ]<ref> "Peter STRAUB – Christening: 29 Jun 1850, Katholisch, Felldorf, Schwarzwaldkreis, Wuerttemberg. Father: Anton STRAUB; Mother: M. Anna EGER. Source: Kirchenbuch, 1801–1968. Katholische Kirche Felldorf (OA. Horb)"</ref>
	* ] – ] and ] brewer, business executive and horse breeder<ref name="detroitsuddenlystricken">{{cite news|title=Mrs M. Rohnert's Uncle Is Dead. August Uihlein, of Milwaukee, is Suddenly Stricken in Switzerland.|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/119659472/?terms=%22August%2BUihlein%22|accessdate=May 29, 2016|work=Detroit Free Press|location=Detroit, Michigan|date=October 12, 1911|via=]|url-access=registration |page=1}}</ref>
	* ] – first ] in Shiner, Texas; hired in 1909 by the ] to start the brewery; later took the same position at the ]
	=== Distillers ===
	* ] – founder of the ], which has produced a number of notable brands, and as of 2017 houses the welcome center and public tour for ] Bourbon, as part of the ]<ref> "Germans in Louisville: A History"</ref><ref>"Dead Distillers: A History of the Upstarts and Outlaws Who Made American Spirits"</ref>
	==Historical figures==
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	* ] – astronaut, first human to speak on the Moon<ref> "Brigitte Wambsganß, "Buzz Aldrin: Mond-Mann mit Trupbacher Wurzeln", Der Westen (Germany), July 17, 2009." {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090802080324/http://www.germanna.org/germana_message_board#comment-166 |date=August 2, 2009 }}</ref>
	* ] – United States government official who served as the first commissioner of the ]'s ], supporter of prohibition and the criminalization of drugs, and played a pivotal role in ] prohibition<ref>"Unsung Partner against Crime: Harry J. Anslinger and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 1930-1962"</ref><ref>"Anslinger’s zeal for law and order manifested early. He was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, in 1892 to Swiss German parents."</ref>
	* ] – astronaut, first human to set foot on the Moon<ref>, CBC News, May 24, 2012. Retrieved May 24, 2012.</ref>
	* ] – assassin, conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/lincolnconspiracy/atzerodt.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2016-02-14 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110124155531/http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/lincolnconspiracy/atzerodt.html |archivedate=2011-01-24 |df= }} "German-born George Atzerodt immigrated to the United States with his family in 1843, at the age of eight."</ref>
	* ] – socialist organizer<ref>"Meta Schlichting was born in Milwaukee in 1873 to parents who came to the city from Germany during their childhood. Schlichting's father, Bernard, who served on Milwaukee's school board, hired Victor Berger to teach German."</ref>
	* ] (1876–1961) – female ] ]
	* ] (1907–1995) – Chief Justice of the United States, 1969–1986<ref name=autogenerated1> "Ethnicity Swiss/German"</ref>
	* ] – politician and lawyer, served as the 45th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, as a U.S. senator from Ohio, and as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States<ref> "Hitz Name Meaning German: from a pet form of a Germanic personal name formed with the first element hild 'strife', 'battle'."</ref>
	* ] aka Matt Warner – Old West outlaw, deputy sheriff<ref> "Willard Erastus Christiansen was born in Ephraim, Utah to a Swedish father and German mother – both Mormon converts."</ref>
	* ] – bank robber in the Depression
	* ] – educational reformer, abolitionist, newspaper editor, and labor leader<ref> "This biography joins the ranks of several others on second-echelon German-American political and intellectual figures such as Frederick Hecker and Francis Hoffmann that have recently appeared."</ref>
	* ] – ] pioneer and author, the first woman to receive the ]<ref> "The ancestral home of the Earhart family is in the German province of Bavaria. Earhart is a German nickname surname. Such names came from eke-names, or added names, that described their initial bearer through reference to a physical characteristic or other attribute."</ref>
	* ] – "Father of German Immigration to Texas", arriving in 1831<ref> "In Texas, there were several substantial waves of German immigration. The first, when Friedrich Ernst, "Father of German Immigration to Texas", arrived in Texas in 1831 and received a grant of more than 4,000 acres (16&nbsp;km²) in what is now Austin County. He set about encouraging other Germans to join him. This tract of land formed the nucleus of what is now known as the German Belt."</ref><ref> "The German Belt is the product of concepts and processes well known to students of migration, particularly the concept of "dominant personality", the process called "]", and the device of "America letters." Voluntary migrations generally were begun by a dominant personality, or "true pioneer." This individual was forceful and ambitious, a natural leader, who perceived emigration as a solution to economic, social, political, or religious problems in his homeland. He used his personality to convince others to follow him in migration. In the case of the Texas Germans, Friedrich Diercks, known in Texas under his alias, Johann Friedrich Ernst, was the dominant personality."</ref>
	* ] – chess prodigy, grandmaster, and the eleventh ]<ref>{{cite web |last=Reitwiesner |first=William Addams |url=http://www.wargs.com/other/fischer.html |title=Ancestry of Bobby Fischer (Extracts from the U.S. Federal Decennial Census) |publisher=ancestry.com |accessdate=January 28, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Quinn |first=Ben |author2=Alan Hamilton |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3261419.ece |title=Bobby Fischer, chess genius, heartless son |newspaper=The Sunday Times |date=January 28, 2008 |accessdate=September 14, 2008}}{{subscription required}}</ref>
	* ] – German Texan in Houston, Texas, where he was consul for the ], became acting treasurer of the San Saba Company<ref> "... born in Kassel, Hesse, in 1805. He left Europe late in 1833 and spent a year each in London and New York and two years in New Orleans. In 1837 or early 1838 he came to Houston, Texas, where he was consul for the Hanseatic League (modern-day Germany). He became interested in the exploration and colonization of the San Saba area and in 1839 was acting treasurer of the San Saba Company, which was later reorganized as the San Saba Colonization Company."</ref>
	* ] – United States federal judge
	* ] (1828–1905) – statesman, patriarch of what became known as the Guggenheim family<ref> "Meyer, though a native speaker of German, was Swiss-German."</ref>
	* ] – gangster and a victim of the ] in ]<ref name="myalcaponemuseum.com"> "Peter Gusenberg (Gusenberger) 'Goosey'. 434 Roscoe St. Born September 28, 1888 in Chicago, Illinois. Married to Myrtle Coppleman Gorman. He tells her he is salesman and uses the last name Gorman. His father was named Peter Gusenberg also. He was from Germany."</ref>
	* ] – member of Chicago's ], the main rival to the ]<ref name="myalcaponemuseum.com" />
	* ] – Lindbergh kidnapper<ref> "German-born American carpenter and burglar"</ref>
	* ] – revolutionary<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.germanheritage.com/biographies/atol/hecker.html |title=German American Corner: HECKER, Friedrich Karl Franz (1811–1881) |publisher=Germanheritage.com |date= |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref>
	* ] – first ]<ref> "A Pennsylvania German named Michael Hillegas was the first Continental Treasurer. "</ref>
	* ] – successor as Head of the ]<ref> "Alexander Friedrich Antonius Johannes Prinz von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was born on 16 March 1987 at New York City, New York, U.S.A."</ref>
	* ] – labor union leader and author<ref> "Hoffa's father was a coal miner and of Pennsylvania "Dutch" (German) lineage"</ref>
	* ] – first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
	* ] – jewel thief
	* ] – ] leader<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005684 |title=German American Bund |publisher=Ushmm.org |date=2013-06-10 |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref>
	* ] – pioneer of ] education in the United States, and helped promote ] training as suitable for study at university level
	* ] – considered the "father of modern bank robbery"
	* ] – explorer<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vahistorical.org/lederer.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-06-29 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060717233049/http://www.vahistorical.org/lederer.htm |archivedate=2006-07-17 |df=}} "Lederer, a German-born physician"</ref><ref> "The unknown interior of the latter colony was first explored by a young German scholar, Johann Lederer. who, born in Hamburg, came to Jamestown in 1668."</ref>
	* ] – colonist<ref> "German-born Jacob Leisler"</ref>
	* ] – law enforcement official, reformer and a founder of the ]
	* ] – head of the "Joe K" spy ring in the United States in 1940–41
	* ] – German-Texan, rancher and civic leader
	* ] – entrepreneur and criminal
	* ] – designer of the first national flag and uniform of the Confederacy<ref>"Hume, Edgar Erskine, "The German Artist Who Designed the Confederate Flag and Uniform". The American-German Review, August 1940."</ref>
	* ] – aka "Kid Glove Rosey", famous thief and associate of "Black" ]
	* ] – philanthropist<ref> "Miller, Benjamin Kurtz"</ref>
	* ] – Texas land pioneer
	* ] – ] of the Dutch colony of ]<ref> "German-American"</ref>
	* ] – pharmacist<ref> "Charles Mohr (1824–1901), German-born Mobile pharmacist and botanist, is best known for the monumental Plant Life of Alabama"</ref>
	* ] – former ] of the United States<ref> "Irish, German; Pat Nixon's mother immigrated from the Ober Rosbach region of Germany ..."</ref>
	* ] – CEO of the ] (NYSE)<ref>{{cite news |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2008_Sept_11/ai_n28091316?tag=content;col1 |work=Business Wire |title=Hessen is the Official Partner State of the 51st Annual German-American Steuben Day Parade in NYC |year=2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=EUM |url=http://www.germanparadenyc.org/about.html |title=German-American Steuben Parade of New York |publisher=Germanparadenyc.org |date= |accessdate=2014-05-22 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140522222949/http://www.germanparadenyc.org/about.html |archivedate=2014-05-22 |df=}}</ref>
	* ] – schoolteacher who worked for the state of Indiana on adult literacy
	* ] – outlaw, robber, and criminal<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.censusdiggins.com/genealogy_bonnie_parker.html |title=Bonnie Parker's Genealogy |publisher=Censusdiggins.com |date= |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref>
	* ] – pioneer and founder of ], Pennsylvania<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ushistory.org/germantown/people/pastorius.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-11-08 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151220155003/http://www.ushistory.org/germantown/people/pastorius.htm |archivedate=2015-12-20 |df=}} "In 1683 Francis Daniel Pastorius was commissioned by the Frankfort Land Company and a group of merchants from Crefeld, Germany to form a settlement in America. They purchased fifteen thousand acres in Pennsylvania and Germantown was born."</ref>
	* ] – born Mary Ludwig, American Revolutionary War hero<ref name="gamhof.org" />
	* ] – Illinois coal miner lynched during ] because of ]
	* ] – Chicago politician, editor, and abolitionist
	* ] – safecracker
	* ] – labor leader<ref> "In future years many leaders of American labor were German American, including Walter Reuther"</ref>
	* ] – industrial and political family that made one of the world's largest fortunes in the oil business during the late 19th and early 20th centuries
	* ] – ], ], and ]<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=December 20, 2011|url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2000/dec/21/the-age-of-schlesinger/|title=The Age of Schlesinger by James Chace |website=The New York Review of Books|date=December 21, 2000}}</ref>
	* ] – 1950s UFO "contactee"
	* ] – engineer and mechanic<ref> "The founder, August Schrader was a creative and inventive German immigrant"</ref>
	* ] – politician, newspaper editor, Civil War general<ref> "Carl Schurz, one of the most celebrated German Americans"</ref>
	* ] – Lindbergh kidnapping investigator<ref> "the Schwarzkopfs emigrated to the US long before the rise of Nazism, are not known to have voiced Nazi leanings, and were a respected part of the substantial German-American community in New Jersey."</ref>
	* ] – born Arthur Flegenheimer, New York City-area gangster<ref> "Dutch Schultz (August 6, 1902 – October 25, 1935) was a New York City-area gangster of the 1920s and 1930s. Born Arthur Flegenheimer into a German Jewish family in the Bronx, he made his fortune in bootlegging illegal alcohol and the numbers racket in Harlem."</ref><ref name="five families book">{{cite book |title=The Five Families |publisher=MacMillan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5nAt6N8iQnYC&printsec=frontcover |accessdate=June 22, 2008 |isbn=978-0-312-36181-5 |date=September 5, 2006}}</ref>
	* ] – established the kindergarten system in the United States
	* ] – alleged hitman who had been known to work for ], the organized crime family in Chicago<ref> "Prolific mob hitman Frank "the German" Schweihs has been indicted for alleged involvement with organized crime, including 19 unsolved homicides."</ref>
	* ] – "Texas-Carl" was an ] Lieutenant General and founder of the town ]
	* ] – historian and one of the original ]
	* ] – victim of the sinking of the ]
	* ] – former co-owner of Macy's and victim of the sinking of the RMS ''Titanic''
	* ] – prolific contract killer for ]
	* ] – commercial airline pilot, safety expert, and accident investigator; piloted ] to a safe ditching in the Hudson River in New York City
	* ] – settler/colonizer<ref> "German-born Swiss pioneer settler and colonizer in California"</ref>
	* ] – ] astronaut, one of the 24 persons who have flown to the ]
	* ] – German ] descended from a line of ] and nobles dating back to the 13th century, organized the ], to promote German emigration to Texas<ref> "Accordingly, in May 1842 the association sent two of its members, counts Joseph of Boos-Waldeck and Victor August of Leiningen-Westerburg-Alt-Leiningen to Texas to investigate the country firsthand and purchase a tract of land for the settlement of immigrants."</ref>
	* ] – Boston mobster<ref> "The Baron told the curt his grandfather was a count in Czarist Russia and that his father is a German nobleman."</ref>
	* ] – banker<ref> "In 1910, a German immigrant, Paul Warburg"</ref>
	* ] – chief witnesses for the prosecution in the conspiracy trial of the ]
	* ] – pioneer, farmer, monk, tanner, judge, and soldier
	* ] – frontiersman and Indian fighter<ref> "John Wetzel was a German Palatine emigrant who had survived indentured servitude and had become successful enough to win the hand of Captain Bonnet's daughter in marriage."</ref>
	* ] – St. Louis mobster<ref>"Murdered German-American Mobsters: Frank Gusenberg, Peter Gusenberg, Gus Winkler, Andrew Von Etter"</ref>
	* ] – gentleman criminal
	* ] – employee of Newell Plumbing & Heating, "the most famous plumber in the nation", rose to national attention when he was mentioned by Republican United States Senator John McCain and Democratic Senator Barack Obama at least 23 times, during the third and final presidential debate on October 15, 2008<ref> "Wurzelbach (from Wurzel = root and Bach = creek) is a town in Germany. Wurzelbacher just means person from Wurzelbach."</ref>
	* ] – printer, publisher, editor and journalist in New York City<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/zenger/zengeraccount.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-04-15 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080420160211/http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/zenger/zengeraccount.html |archivedate=2008-04-20 |df= }} "German immigrant printer named John Peter Zenger"</ref>
	* ] – first mayor of Cincinnati; Revolutionary War Veteran and aide to president George Washington
	== Military ==
	], U.S. cavalry commander]]
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	* ] – Judge, ]swoman, Michigan's first female member of the ]<ref name="SJ2">{{cite news|url=https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/opinion/columnists/judy-putnam/2018/01/12/putnam-ingham-judge-rosemarie-aquilina-publishes-new-crime-thriller/1027682001/|title=Ingham judge has creative life off the bench with new crime thriller|author=Judy Putnam|first=|date=January 12, 2018|newspaper=Lansing State Journal|quote= father was born in Malta, a Mediterranean country near Sicily, and her mother in Germany.}}</ref>
	* ] – ] private awarded the ] for actions during the ] during the ]
	* ] – Major in the Confederate army<ref>{{cite web |url=http://aotw.org/officers.php?officer_id=1082 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2007-04-29 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928081212/http://aotw.org/officers.php?officer_id=1082 |archivedate=2007-09-28 |df= }} "German-Prussian officer, served under General Jeb Stuart"</ref>
	* ] (1839–1876) – ] cavalry commander<ref>] "Originally his ancestry came from Westphalia in Northern Germany. They emigrated and arrived in America in the 17th century. The original family name was 'Küster'."</ref><ref name="Wert, Jeffry D. 1996">{{cite book |author=Wert, Jeffry D. |title=Custer: The Controversial Life of George Armstrong Custer |year=1996 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York |isbn=978-0-684-81043-0}}, p. 15.</ref><ref name="Connell, Evan S. 1984">{{cite book |author=Connell, Evan S. |title=Son Of The Morning Star |location=San Francisco, California |publisher=North Point Press |year=1984 |isbn=978-0-86547-160-3}}, p. 352.</ref>
	* ] – United States Army officer and two-time recipient of the Medal of Honor for bravery during the American Civil War; a younger brother of George Armstrong Custer, perishing with him at Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory<ref name="Wert, Jeffry D. 1996" /><ref name="Connell, Evan S. 1984" /><ref>"Originally his ancestry came from Westphalia in Northern Germany. They emigrated and arrived in America in the 17th century. The original family name was 'Küster'."</ref>
	* ] – rocket pioneer and member of the ], brought to the U.S. under ]
	* ] – German born United States Navy Naval aviator during the ]
	* ] – decorated artillerist in the ] during the ]<ref> "Dilger was born march 5, 1836 in Eugen, a Black Forest town. Named Hubert Anton Casimir Dilger, taking the two middle names from the boys paternal and maternal grandparents."</ref>
	* ] – leader of Germany's ] rocket program and other projects at the ] Army Research Center, brought to the U.S. under ]
	* ] – Major General in the ]<ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071018075539/http://cazoo.org/Germans/JohanndeKalb.html |date=October 18, 2007 }}</ref>
	* ] – claimed to be the only white survivor of the ]<ref>{{cite web |last=Koster |first=John P. |url=http://www.historynet.com/survivor-frank-finkels-lasting-stand.htm |title=Survivor Frank Finkel's Lasting Stand |publisher=Historynet.com |date= |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref>
	* ] – senior ] officer, ] president, and bridge player.<ref></ref>
	* ] – ], lawyer and officer in the ]
	* ] – lawyer, politician, revolutionary and Civil War colonel
	* ] – commissioned Surgeon's Mate in the ] 8 February 1802; in 1942, the ] {{USS|Heermann|DD-532|6}} was named in his honor
	* ] – commanding general at Battle of Oriskany, American Revolutionary War
	* ] – political and military leader from the ] period to the early 19th century
	* ] – military leader from the ] period to the early 19th century
	* ] – soldier, of Polish descent, World War II veteran, best friend of ]
	* ] – military strategist and systems theorist
	* ] – Brigadier General /] officer<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.delawaresaengerbund.org/GermanAmericanHTML/GermanImmigrationInThe19thCentury.html |title=German-American History |publisher=Delawaresaengerbund.org |date= |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref>
	* ] – Admiral of the ], appointed to the ] by President ] in 1863
	* ] – captain, Medical Corps, U.S. Navy and a former NASA astronaut
	* ] – Vice Admiral in the U.S. Navy; served as commander of the Fast Carrier Task Force in the Pacific in the latter half of World War II
	* ] – American Army flight nurse during World War II, second-most decorated woman in American military history.
	* ] – ], soldier and a politician of the ], ], and ] eras in ]<ref>Archiv der Franckeschen Stiftungen, AF St/S B I 94 I, 575–577</ref>
	* ] – Commander in Chief of Pacific Forces for the United States and Allied forces during World War II<ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060907032715/http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/KADE/unit19/apen19-j.html |date=September 7, 2006 }}</ref>
	* ] – ] general in the ], later serving as a U.S. diplomat<ref>"Peter Osterhaus was born in Germany in 1823. After graduating from military school in Berlin Osterhaus took part in the 1848 German Revolution and was afterwards forced to flee the country. Osterhaus emigrated to the United States and became a bookkeeper in Missouri."</ref>
	* ] – officer in the ], rose to the highest rank ever held in the U.S. Army – ]<ref> "Notable among many German-Americans who have shaped our military to meet later challenges were John J. Pershing, whose ancestral family name was Pfoerschin."</ref>
	* ] (Mary Ludwig Hays) – American Revolutionary soldier
	* ] – regiment commander of the ] (Braunschweig) unit hired by the British during the ]
	* ] – Union brigadier general in the American Civil War, of Jewish descent{{Citation needed|date=September 2008}}
	* ] – Union brigadier general in the American Civil War{{Citation needed|date=September 2008}}
	* ] – American Civil War general in the Union Army<ref>"Alexander Schimmelfennig was born in Germany in 1824. A graduate of the German military academy he joined Franz Sigel, Carl Schurz, August Willich, Peter Osterhaus, Max Weber in taking part in the failed 1848 German Revolution. Schimmelfennig emigrated to America and on the outbreak of the American Civil War he joined the Union Army."</ref>
	* ] – U.S. Marine Corps general
	* ] – World War II pilot who served as ] of ] at ] and as Professor of ] at the ]
	* ] – ] in the ] in the ] and a vice-president of the ]<ref> "Schoonmaker, German..."</ref>
	* ] – officer in the ], recipient of the ], the nation's second highest award for valor, and a combat veteran of World War II and the ]; one of the six Marines who raised the first ] on ], during the ] on February 23, 1945
	* ] – officer who served with distinction during the American Civil War, Spanish–American War and the Philippine–American War
	* ] – United States Army General
	* ] – Chief of Scouts for much of the Apache Wars and tracked Geronimo
	* ] – teacher, newspaperman, politician, and served as a Union general in the American Civil War<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061104054216/http://www.russscott.com/%7Erscott/26thwis/fransigl.htm |date=2006-11-04 }} "military officer/Union general"</ref>
	* ] – airshow dare-devil in the 1930s; perfected a way of gliding through the air with a home-made wingsuit<ref>]: "a German word meaning "son""</ref>
	* ] – general in World War II<ref name=Boatner>
	{{citation |last=Boatner III |first=Mark M. |title=The Biographical Dictionary of World War II |isbn=978-0891415480 |publisher=Presidio |year=1996 |pages=518–519}}
	</ref>
	* ] – served as a Union general in the American Civil War{{Citation needed|date=September 2008}}
	* ] – ]–]n General; served with ] in the ]; credited with teaching the ] the essentials of military drill and discipline<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181228070758/http://steubensociety.org/ |date=2018-12-28 }} "German-Prussian General who served with George Washington in the American Revolutionary War and is credited with teaching the Continental Army the essentials of military drill and discipline. He reorganised the Continental Army and guided it to victory."</ref>
	* ] – retired United States Marine Corps officer
	* ] – colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War<ref></ref>
	* ] – U.S. Army general, served with the ] during the ]; born in (West) Germany<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/03/18/battle-brings-soldier-closer-to-his-ethnic-roots/c08af4d6-9c62-4a6e-8192-5b6eefc34532/|title=Battle Brings Soldier Closer to His Ethnic Roots|first=Thomas E.|last=Ricks|date=March 18, 2002|work=Washington Post}}</ref>
	* ] – Brigadier General in the Union army during the American Civil War<ref name="appletons">{{Cite Appletons'|wstitle=Weber, Max|year=1889}}</ref> He settled in ] and worked as proprietor of the Konstanz Hotel in New York.<ref name="Eicher p.558">Eicher p.558</ref><ref name="Antietam on the Web"></ref>
	* ] – frontiersman and Indian fighter who roamed the hills of western ] and ]; ], West Virginia, is named for him
	* ] – Major General in the Union army during the American Civil War<ref> "Weitzel was born on November 1, 1835, in Germany. His family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio when he was quite young. He was educated in public schools and received an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1851."</ref>
	* ] – general in the Union Army during the ]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/ArticlesWillich.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2013-11-27 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202223331/http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/ArticlesWillich.htm |archivedate=2013-12-02 |df=}} "His last real name was von Willich. His father was an officer in the Prussian army. He was born in Braunsberg, Prussia in 1810."</ref><ref>"August Willich was born in Germany in 1810. A graduate of the German military academy he joined Franz Sigel, Carl Schurz, Peter Osterhaus, Alexander Schimmelfennig, Max Weber in taking part in the failed 1848 German Revolution."</ref>
	* ] – Union Army officer during the ]<ref> "Jurgen Wilson was born in Hamburg, Germany, on 18th December, 1836. His parents were English and he lived for a time in Norway before emigrating to America in 1858. He settled in Madison, Wisconsin, and found work as a clerk in a drug store."</ref>
	* ] – ] in the ] during the ] who was nominated and confirmed for appointment to the grade of ] ] in 1866. He later became a member of the ]<ref>"He was born in 1838 in Bremen, Germany, and came to the U.S. with his family in 1844."</ref>
	* ] – born Heinrich Hartmann Wirz; Confederate officer tried and executed in the aftermath of the American Civil War<ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080610103328/http://www.us-civilwar.com/wirz.htm |date=June 10, 2008 }}</ref>
	* ] – Admiral and later the 19th Chief of Naval Operations in the U.S. Navy, playing a major part in the Vietnam War, the ], a ] was named in his honor<ref> "Zumwalt Family Name"</ref>
	==Philosophers==
	* ] – rationalist intellectual<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ecfs.org/125/felixadler.asp |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-06-29 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060213084100/http://www.ecfs.org/125/felixadler.asp |archivedate=2006-02-13 |df=}} "Felix Adler, a German-American educator"</ref>
	* ] – political theorist<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/arendt.htm |title=Hannah Arendt |website=Books and Writers ''(kirjasto.sci.fi)'' |first=Petri |last=Liukkonen |publisher=] Public Library |location=Finland |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070206114923/http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/arendt.htm |archivedate=6 February 2007 |dead-url=yes |df=}}. Quote: "Arendt, a Jew, gained fame as a German-Jewish refugee scholar"</ref>
	* ] – philosopher<ref> "Rudolf Carnap, a German-born philosopher and naturalized US citizen"</ref>
	* ] – philosopher
	* ] – jurist/political philosopher<ref> "Francis Lieber German-born US political philosopher"</ref>
	* ] – philosopher (1898–1979)
	* ] – philosopher
	==Politicians==
	], Member of the ] from ]]]
	], ] ]]]
	], ] ]]]
	], Congressman from ]]]
	], ] ]]]
	], ] ]]]
	], Senator from ] and former ] Governor and Presidential candidate ]]
	], ] ]]]
	], 13th ]]]
	], ]]]
	* ] – former Union troop, ] governor and leading figure of the ] movement
	* ] – politician who served as mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey
	* ] – Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs 1999–2001
	* ] – physician, politician, and diplomat<ref name=Kerstein73>Edward S. Kerstein, ''Milwaukee's All-American Mayor: Portrait of Daniel Webster Hoan.'' Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1966; pg. 73.</ref>
	* ] – ]<nowiki/>member of the ] for ] from 1833 to 1835<ref></ref><ref>"A family genealogy reports that John George Carl Barnitz was the son of John Leonard Barnitz. John George Carl Barnitz born at Falkenstein, Germany on August 14, 1722, as stated in his will, dated October 12, 1796, probated January 4, 1797 (York County Will 1-J-235). However, the will of Charles Barnitz, with the dates noted, was recorded, but the recorded version makes no mention of the birthplace of Charles."</ref>
	* ] – politician
	* ] – former Mayor of ], fought with General ] at the ]<ref> "1806 – ...Martin Baum, riverboat pioneer on the Ohio and Mississippi, becomes mayor of Cincinnati"</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cetconnect.org/television/zinzinnati.asp |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-05-02 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516034342/https://www.cetconnect.org/television/zinzinnati.asp |archivedate=2008-05-16 |df=}} "Beginning in 1795, when Martin Baum, a Maryland German industrialist, came to Cincinnati and quickly established himself as one Cincinnati's wealthiest and most influential citizens. Through his agents in Baltimore, New Orleans and Philadelphia, Baum attracted even greater numbers of German immigrants to work in his various enterprises – steamboats, a sugar refinery, a foundry and real estate. Soon, Cincinnati's German population began to soar."</ref>
	* ] – Republican House Majority Leader in the 109th Congress, and a U.S. representative from Ohio's 8th congressional district<ref> Rep. John Boehner Gets Huge Overnight</ref>
	* ] – ] who served as ] of ], from 1942 to 1948.<ref>"John L. Bohn, the son of German Luthern immigrants..."</ref>
	* ] – Governor of the New York, 1843–1844<ref> "1842 – William Bouck (Bauk) becomes Governor of New York"</ref>
	* ] – Mayor of Buffalo, New York, serving 1876–1877 and 1886–1889<ref name="bflo">{{cite web|url=http://www.buffalonian.com/history/industry/mayors/Becker.htm|title=Philip Becker|date=2009-05-27|work= Through The Mayor's Eyes, The Only Complete History of the Mayor's of Buffalo, New York, Compiled by Michael Rizzo|publisher=The Buffalonian is produced by The Peoples History Union}}</ref>
	* ] – politician and the 41st ]<ref>"Racial Origin, German"</ref>
	* ] – Pennsylvania's 25th Governor (Republican)<ref>Earl C. Kaylor, Jr. 1996. Martin Grove Brumbaugh: A Pennsylvanian's Odyssey from Sainted Schooman to Bedeviled World War I Governor, 1862–1930. Teaneck, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson Press, p. 311.</ref>
	* ] – former Chief Justice of the United States<ref name=autogenerated1 />
	* ] – former ] member of the ] from ]
	* ] – U.S. President (2001–2009)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wargs.com/political/bush.html |title=Ancestry of George W. Bush (b. 1946) |publisher=Wargs.com |date= |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref>
	* ] – ] under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford
	* ] (1827–1884) US Congressman from the ]
	* ] – U.S. Senator from ]
	* ] – Missouri politician<ref></ref>
	* ] – U.S. Senator from South Dakota, 1987–2005, former Senate Majority Leader<ref>{{cite web|last=Reitwiesner|first=William|title=The Ancestors of Tom Daschle|url=http://www.wargs.com/political/daschle.html|accessdate=November 6, 2007}}</ref>
	* ] – served as Mayor of Pittsburgh, 1899–1901, a thirty-third degree ]<ref>"His Great-Grandfather was one of the organizers of the German Lutheran Church in Pittsburgh."</ref>
	* ] – U.S. Representative from Michigan.
	* ] – U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 7th congressional district
	* ] – journalist, editor, author, lawyer, United States Congress representative of New York City, United States Treasury auditor and New York City Fire Commissioner<ref>{{cite news |author= |agency= |title=Anthony Eickhoff |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/File:Anthony_Eickhoff_(1847-1901)_obituary_in_the_New_York_Times.png |quote=Anthony Eickhoff, aged seventy-four, ex-Fire Commissioner and ex-Coroner, who lived at 118 West Ninety-fourth Street, died Tuesday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Miehling, 854 West End Avenue. ... |newspaper=] |date=November 7, 1901 |accessdate=2015-07-06 }}</ref>
	* ] – Five-star Army general and U.S. president<ref> "... a descendant of Hans Nikolas Eisenhauer."</ref>
	* ] – judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana and a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
	* ] – U.S. Congresswoman from Hawaii's 2nd Congressional District
	* ] – U.S. Secretary of the Treasury<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022165943/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Ebattle/celeb/geithner.htm |date=2012-10-22 }}, rootsweb</ref>
	* ] – U.S. Congressman, 1977–2005<ref> "His father, Lou Gephardt, was the grandson of German immigrants"</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wargs.com/political/gephardt.html |title=Ancestry of Dick Gephardt |publisher=Wargs.com |date= |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref>
	* ] – member of the ] from ]<ref></ref>
	* ] – controversial politician who served as ] for a few days in 1900 before being ]
	* ] – 19th-century politician and pharmacist from ]
	* ] – Mayor of New York, 1864–1866
	* ] – ] political activist and newspaper publisher<ref name=Keil165>Harmut Keil, "The German Immigrant Working Class of Chicago, 1875–90: Workers, Labor Leaders, and the Labor Movement," in Dirk Hoerder (ed.), ''American Labor and Immigration History, 1877-1920s: Recent European Research.'' Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983; pg. 165.</ref>
	* ] – U.S. Senator and Secretary of Defense<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thehill.com/under-the-dome/glenn-close-and-chuck-norris-push-pet-projects-2006-05-11.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2007-08-07 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071114225118/http://thehill.com/under-the-dome/glenn-close-and-chuck-norris-push-pet-projects-2006-05-11.html |archivedate=2007-11-14 |df=}} "Hagel's name is German."</ref>
	* ] – two-time Bronx, New York Borough President, 1898–1909<ref name=twomey>Bill Twomey pages 77, 78 Picturing America</ref>
	* ] – served for 13 terms in the ] from Arkansas<ref> "John Paul Hammerschmidt was born on May 4, 1922, in Harrison to Arthur Paul and Junie M. Hammerschmidt. Hammerschmidt was the fourth of five children. Both sets of grandparents migrated to Boone County in the early years of the twentieth century and were of German descent."</ref>
	* ] – served three times as the Mayor of New York City: 1845–1846, 1848–1849 and 1873–1874
	* ] – Governor of Wisconsin, 1939–1943
	* ] – Governor, Federal Reserve System, 1986–1989 and President of VISA U.S.A.
	* ] (1747–1804) US Congressman
	* ] (1749–1824) Pennsylvania political leader
	* ] (1824–1871) US Congressman
	* ] (1745–1821) US Congressman
	* ] (1752–1832) US Congressman and Governor of Pennsylvania<ref> "1820 – Joseph Heister becomes Governor of Pennsylvania"</ref>
	* ] (1774–1834) US Congressman
	* ] (1790–1853) US Congressman
	* ] – (1818–1878) political and military leader in the ]
	* ] – member of the ] from Pennsylvania (1971–1977) and the ] (1977–1991) and son of ] (heir to the ])
	* ] (1852{{spaced ndash}}1930) = German-born American politician and businessman active in ]<ref name=Leighton>{{cite news |url=http://tucson.com/news/blogs/streetsmarts/road-honors-husband-of-tucson-s-first-christian-scientist/article_3f5eba80-afa2-5844-9d6e-2093a811f199.html |first=David |last=Leighton |title=Street Smarts: Road honors husband of Tucson's first Christian Scientist |newspaper=Arizona Daily Star |date=June 15, 2015}}</ref>
	* ] – U.S. President<ref> "German-American Corner"</ref>
	* ] – prominent physician and political leader in ]<ref></ref><ref></ref><ref>"The most important Democratic leader in the early German community, physician Franz Hübschmann,championed the cause of voting rights for white immigrant men who were not citizens, believing that they should be able to vote as long as they had lived in the state for a year and had begun the naturalization process."</ref>
	* ] – U.S. ambassador
	* ] – businessman and politician
	* ] – businessman and U.S. Representative from California
	* ] – former U.S. diplomat
	* ] – 45th mayor of Portland, Oregon
	* ] – U.S. Representative
	* ] – former mayor of ] which included Deutschtown, annexed by ]<ref>"Charles Frederick Kirschler was born in Beaver County in 1864 to a two-generation family of German immigrant farmers from Gemmingen in the Duchy of Baden."</ref>
	* ] – former Secretary of State, of Jewish-German descent<ref>"Born in Fürth, Germany to Jewish parents. Naturalized as US citizen in 1943"</ref>
	* ] – ] ] who served two terms as mayor of ], ]<ref></ref>
	* ] leader of the American Nazi Party, which in 1983, influenced by esoteric Nazism, he renamed as the New Order
	* ] – Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, 1853–1857, U.S. ambassador to Spain, and one of the original ]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gustavekoerner.org/koernerliberalism.htm |first=Wolf D |last=Fuhrig |title=Gustav Koerner, a German-American Liberal |publisher=34th Symposium of the Society of German-American Studies |location=] |at=Belleville Heritage Society |date=24 April 2010 |accessdate=17 August 2013 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004213331/http://www.gustavekoerner.org/koernerliberalism.htm |archivedate=4 October 2013 |df=}}</ref>
	* ] – politician; considered a pioneer in the growing resort town of Atlantic City in the late 1880s
	* ] – former ] and ] member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
	* ] – former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from central Texas
	* ] – U.S. Senator from ]
	* ] – 22nd Governor of ]
	* ] – first ], 1861–1864<ref>{{citation |last=Capers |first=Henry D. |year=1893 |title=The Life and Times of C. G. Memminger |place=Richmond |publisher=Everett Waddey Co. |lccn=12030042 |oclc=4790450 |url=https://archive.org/details/cgmemminger00caperich |via=]}}</ref>
	* ] – ]n ], later an American farmer, politician, and member of the ]
	* ] – minister and politician who was the first ]
	* ] – clergyman, a soldier and a politician of the Colonial, ], and Post-Revolutionary eras in Pennsylvania*
	* ] – U.S. Senator and Congressman
	* ] – Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/nit0bio-1 |title=Paul Nitze Biography – Academy of Achievement |publisher=Achievement.org |date= |accessdate=2014-05-22 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140423215728/http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/nit0bio-1 |archivedate=2014-04-23 |df=}}</ref>
	* ] – U.S. President; of English, Irish and German ancestries
	* ] – U.S. President; mother, Ann Dunham, has German ancestors who arrived in America in 1750<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-06-04-obama-roots_N.htm |work=USA Today |title=Researchers: Obama has German roots |date=June 4, 2009}}</ref>
	* ] – former Governor of Alaska; Republican nominee for Vice President in 2008; both parents are of partial German ancestry
	* ] – former U.S. Congressman from Texas
	* ] – U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
	* ] – former Governor of Minnesota; mother was of German descent
	* ] – decorated Union soldier and diplomat; son of David Rittenhouse Porter, a wealthy ironmaster who later served as Governor of Pennsylvania
	* ] – chairman of the ] and also a previous chair of the ]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theticket/20110103/pl_yblog_theticket/live-blogging-the-rnc-chairmans-debate |title=Live blogging the RNC chairman's debate |publisher=Yahoo! News}}</ref><ref name=Huey-Burns>{{cite news |author=Huey-Burns, Caitlin |title=10 Things You Didn't Know About Reince Priebus |url=https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2011/01/24/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-reince-priebus |date=January 24, 2011 |work=U.S. News & World Report |accessdate=December 4, 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120912030845/http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2011/01/24/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-reince-priebus |archivedate=September 12, 2012 |df=}}</ref>
	* ] – ] ] who served as mayor of ], ]<ref>'History of Milwaukee, City and County,' Josial Curry Seymour, S.J. Clarke Company: Milwaukee, 1922, Biographical Sketch of William C. Rauschenberger, pg. 578–579</ref>
	* ] – Pittsburgh mayor<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wqed.org/mag/features/1106/ravenstahl.shtml |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2007-06-11 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080110112849/http://www.wqed.org/mag/features/1106/ravenstahl.shtml |archivedate=2008-01-10 |df=}} "The surname Ravenstahl, of German origin, might be translated as "steadfast raven" or "steel raven." ... one of only a few German-American mayors in Pittsburgh's history."</ref><ref> "The prefix -stahl, in German, actually means steel to begin with."</ref>
	* ] – Lieutenant Governor of ], 1991–1997 and U.S. representative for Montana's at-large congressional district, 2001–2013
	* ] – former Governor of ]
	* ] – ] of the commonwealth of ], elected as a member of the ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/gen/mn/m23131x23132.htm|title=Joseph Ritner-Susan Alter, Marriage, Family, Genealogy, 26 May 1801, Pennsylvania|website=www-personal.umich.edu}}</ref>
	* ] – Governor of New York and forty-first ]
	* ] – politician and philanthropist who served as the first Republican ] since ]
	* ] – spokesman at the ] under the administration of ]<ref name="German_Joys"> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080123115848/http://andrewhammel.typepad.com/german_joys/2007/04/americans_with_.html |date=2008-01-23 }} "Americans with Odd German Names"</ref>
	* ] – Republican member of the ] since 1989, currently representing ]<ref name="German_Joys" />
	* ] – Governor of Massachusetts
	* ] – U.S. President<ref>''], born in Krefeld, Germany is the 4th great-grandfather of American President Theodore Roosevelt."</ref>
	* ] – member of the ] from ]
	* ] – former Secretary of Defense
	* ] – Governor of Wisconsin during the Civil War
	* ] – Union brigadier general in the Civil War, later became governor of Washington Territory and a California legislator
	* ] – Senator and Congressman from Illinois; served in various elected public offices, 1972–1994
	* ] – lawyer, Wisconsin State Senator, also served in the United States House of Representatives
	* ] – U.S. Representative from Texas, serving briefly in Texas legislature and veteran of the Confederate Army<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000129 |title=''Biographical Directory of the United States Congress'' |publisher=Bioguide.congress.gov |date= |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref>
	* ] – mayor of Buffalo, New York, in office 1878–1880
	* ] – campaign strategist
	* ] – former ] from the state of ]
	* ] – industrialist and politician<ref>Many sources give March 10 as Schroeder's date of birth, but M. Isay (1901). ''Der Lebenslauf eines Trierischen Auswanderers''. In: ''Trierisches Archiv, Ergänzungsheft''. Vol. 1. PP. 14–28 who quotes from the birth certificate is probably the most reliable source.</ref><ref> "This snapshot of Frederick A Schroeder's life was captured by the 1940 U.S. Census. Frederick A Schroeder was born about 1873 in Germany. On April 1, 1940, he was 67 years old and lived in New York, New York."</ref>
	* ] – politician who served as the mayor for the city of Portland, Oregon, 1957–1973
	* ] – 44th Governor of the ]
	* ] – former U.S. Congressman and Senator representing the state of Pennsylvania, later the ] in the Cabinet of President ]
	* ] – statesman and reformer, and Union Army general in the American Civil War<ref> "
	SCHURZ, Carl, a senator from Missouri; born in Liblar, near Cologne, Germany, March 2, 1829; educated at the gymnasium of Cologne and the University of Bonn; having taken part in the German revolutionary movement of 1848, he was compelled to flee from Germany; was a newspaper correspondent in Paris and later taught school in London; immigrated to the United States in 1852 and settled in Philadelphia, Pa.; moved to Watertown, Wis., in 1855; studied law; admitted to the bar and practiced in Milwaukee, Wis ..."</ref>
	* ] – diplomat, politician and activist, as the husband of ], he was part of the ]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,906202-1,00.html |title=The New Nominee No Longer Half a Kennedy |work=] |date=August 14, 1972 |accessdate=September 27, 2008 }}</ref>
	* ] – Pennsylvania political leader and 6th Governor of Pennsylvania, a member of the ] political dynasty
	* ] – Mayor of Milwaukee, 1910–1912; the first ] mayor of a major city in the United States, and ran as the Vice Presidential candidate for the ] in the ]<ref name="Ohio">"Our Candidates Emil Seidel", ''Cleveland Socialist'', whole no. 48 (September 21, 1912), pg. 2.</ref><ref>"...born in Pennsylvania of Pomeranian immigrants, lived in Germany from 1886 to 1892..."</ref>
	* ] – writer, political leader and ]
	* ] – Governor of New York
	* ] – U.S. Representative, California's 12th and 14th districts, serving since 2008; father was a German immigrant<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?pid=159673775 |title=MANFRED SPEIER Obituary |website=SFGate.com |publisher=Legacy.com |id=Originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle issue dated September 6, 2012}}</ref>
	* ]<ref>''A Nation Divided: The 1968 Presidential Campaign'', by Darcy G. Richardson page 219</ref><ref name="penn">{{cite web |url=http://www.archives.upenn.edu/faids/upt/upt50/stassen_harold_e.html |title=Guide, Harold Edward Stassen Papers, 1940–1957, 1914–1919, University of Pennsylvania University Archives |publisher=Archives.upenn.edu |accessdate=2010-10-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/05/us/harold-e-stassen-who-sought-gop-nomination-for-president-9-times-dies-at-93.html?pagewanted=all |work=The New York Times |title=Harold E. Stassen, Who Sought G.O.P. Nomination for President 9 Times, Dies at 93 |first=Albin |last=Krebs |date=March 5, 2001 |accessdate=May 4, 2010}}</ref><ref>https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M2L5-72R</ref> was the ], 1939–1943
	* ] – judge of the ] for the ]<ref name="German_Joys" />
	* ] – served as the 23rd Governor of ]
	* ] – U.S. Senator
	* ] – ] ] of the United States.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2016/02/16/politics/donald-trump-german-roots-kallstadt/index.html|title=Donald Trump's German Roots|last=|first=|date=|work=www.cnn.com|access-date=February 20, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://m.dw.com/en/donald-trumps-german-roots/a-19015570|title=Donald Trump's German Ancestry|last=|first=|date=|work=www.m.dw.com|access-date=August 3, 2019}}</ref>
	* ] – former Governor of Minnesota (1999–2003), his mother is of Hungarian-German descent
	* ] – Mayor of Pittsburgh, 1854–1856
	* ] – U.S. Senator from New York, 1927–1949<ref> "Birthplace: Nastatten, Hessen-Nassau, Germany"</ref>
	* ] – mayor of ] from 1884 to 1888, during the ]<ref></ref>
	* ] – politician who has served as a U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and Governor of Connecticut
	* ] – lawyer and the Republican nominee for the ]
	* ] – mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from 1940 to 1942<ref>http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=2143&keyword=zeidler</ref>
	* ] – mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, serving three terms from April 20, 1948 to April 18, 1960<ref>http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=2143&keyword=zeidler</ref>
	* ] – eleventh president of the ], former United States Deputy ] and ]
	==Religious==
	* ] – leader of the Orthodox Jewish community of Washington Heights, Manhattan; very well known for his involvement in setting up an Orthodox Jewish infrastructure in post-World War&nbsp;II America
	* ] – religious leader who in 1732 founded the Ephrata Community in Pennsylvania<ref> "Conrad Beissel, founder of Ephrata, was born in Eberbach am Neckar, Germany, in March 1691."</ref>
	* ] – Roman Catholic Archbishop and author
	* ] – Baptist missionary in ], ]<ref>''American anthropologist'', Volume 10 (1908), ]</ref>
	* ] – Lutheran clergyman<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223022525/http://www.biography.com/people/robert-graetz-21397007 |date=2015-12-23 }} "His German grandfather was an ardent Lutheran who, upon seeing that his own son had chosen a career in chemical engineering, prepped his grandson for a life in the ministry."</ref>
	* ] – theologian, ethicist, and public intellectual<ref>"The Hauerwas Family migrated from Germany."</ref>
	* ] – 1768 – founder of the first Methodist church in New York<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/GermAmChron.htm |title=GermAmChron |publisher=Cloudnet.com |date= |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref>
	* ] – philosopher and rabbi
	* ] – Christian missionary to China and ]
	* ] – pietist, mystic, musician, and writer, interested in the occult, botany, and astronomy, came to believe with his followers in the "Society of the Woman in the Wilderness"
	* ] – 20th-century faith healer and Pentecostal arm of Protestant Christianity<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204094942/http://www.online-bibleconcordance.com/Ministers/KathrynKuhlman.aspx |date=2008-12-04 }} "She was born in Concordia, Missouri to German parents and died in Tulsa, following open-heart surgery."</ref>
	* ] – spiritual leader of the ]
	* ] – Germantown, Pennsylvania New World religious leader<ref> "Mack was born in the obscure agricultural village of Schriesheim, a few miles from Heidelberg, Germany in 1679..."</ref>
	* ] – inspirationalist<ref>{{cite web |url=http://amanacolonies.com/history.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-03-16 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080220221021/http://amanacolonies.com/history.htm |archivedate=2008-02-20 |df=}} "Led by Christian Metz, they hoped to find religious freedom in America and left Germany in 1843–44"</ref>
	* ] – Roman Catholic Archbishop of Chicago
	* ] – Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cincinnati
	* ] – Lutheran clergyman<ref> "German-born American clergyman"</ref>
	* ] – clergyman (first a Lutheran pastor and then a Roman Catholic priest), theologian, and ethicist
	* ] – ] (1852–60) and the first American bishop to be ]
	* ] – Protestant theologian best known for his work relating the Christian faith to the realities of modern politics and diplomacy
	* ] – Lutheran minister noted for bringing the Lutheran Deaconess movement to the United States<ref>''The Passavant House'' (Zelienople Historical Society) http://www.zelienoplehistoricalsociety.com/index.html</ref>
	* ] – founder of the religious sect called Harmonists, Harmonites, Rappites, or the ]<ref>Robert Paul Sutton, ''Communal Utopias and the American Experience: Religious Communities'' (2003) p. 38</ref>
	* ] – Roman Catholic Archbishop and Cardinal of the Church, desegregated schools in his two archdioceses in the mid-1940s
	* ] – educator and theologian, the former President of ] and later of ], and president of the ]
	* ] – Lutheran minister, educator, author and Church theologian, one of the organizers of the Pennsylvania Dutch Society (1891)
	* ] – second bishop of the Metropolitan Washington, D.C., synod of the ]
	* ] – Roman Catholic missionary priest beatified in 2000<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161025023129/http://redemptorists.net/saints-seelos.cfm |date=2016-10-25 }}</ref>
	* ] – founder of what is today ], which was called the Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost until 1911<ref name="nytimes">{{cite news |title=The Very Rev. Joseph Strub |work=The New York Times |date=January 28, 1890 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1890/01/28/103226280.pdf |accessdate=January 30, 2008 |format=PDF}}</ref>
	* ] – evangelist
	* ] – Protestant theologian and ] philosopher
	* ] – Lutheran clergyman, professor, seminary president, editor, and first president of the ]
	* ] – prelate of the Roman Catholic Church<ref> "Wuerl Surname"</ref>
	* ] – founded the town of ], where his daughter Benigna organized the school that would become ]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.zinzendorf.com/countz.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2007-08-06 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070803095613/http://www.zinzendorf.com/countz.htm |archivedate=2007-08-03 |df=}} "Zinzendorf himself visited St. Thomas, and later visited America. There he sought to unify the German Protestants of Pennsylvania, even proposing a sort of "council of churches" where all would preserve their unique denominational practices, but would work in cooperation rather than competition. He founded the town of Bethlehem, where his daughter Benigna organized the school which would become Moravian College."</ref>
	* ] – apostle and current second counselor in the First Presidency within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; born in the Czech Republic to German parents, Uchtdorf immigrated to the United States as a retired pilot to serve full-time as a general authority for his Church and became an American citizen shortly after joining the First Presidency in 2008.
	==Scientists and inventors==
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	* ] – inventor, physicist and doctor<ref> "German-Swiss Heritage"</ref>
	* ] – chemical engineer and publisher of '']''<ref> "Reinhold Albert Aman was born on April 8, 1936, in Fürstenzell (Bavaria), Germany. He grew up in Straubing and Oberschneiding, studied chemical engineering in Augsburg, and worked in Frankfurt and Munich."</ref>
	* ] – civil engineer<ref>{{de icon}} </ref>
	* ] – author, art and film theorist, and perceptual psychologist; learned Gestalt psychology from studying under Max Wertheimer and Wolfgang Köhler at the University of Berlin and applied it to art<ref name="Uta Grundmann"></ref>
	* ] – astronomer<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aas.org/publications/baas/v25n4/aas183/abs/S3402.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-06-29 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051103101854/http://www.aas.org/publications/baas/v25n4/aas183/abs/S3402.html |archivedate=2005-11-03 |df=}} "Baade wanted to go there to observe with it himself, but his German citizenship prevented him"</ref>
	* ] – inventor of rodeo equipment<ref>http://www.theinventors.org/od/bstartinventors/a/Earl_Bascom.htm</ref>
	* ] – pioneer in the field of jet aircraft turbines and mechanical engineering<ref>{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}} "Dr. Max Bentele (born Ulm, Germany January 15, 1909 – died New York May 19, 2006, at age 97) was a pioneer in the field of jet aircraft turbines and mechanical engineering"</ref>
	* ] – nuclear physicist who won a Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the nuclear energy sources of stars (1967)
	* ] – anthropologist and ethnologist best known for his work with the Kwakiutl Indians in British Columbia, Canada
	* ] – economist<ref> "German-born American citizen"</ref>
	* ] – chemical engineer, ] ], and ] at ], the ], and after emigrating to the United States via ], at ]; brother of ]<ref name=Ordway>{{cite book |last=Ordway |first=Frederick I, III |author2=Sharpe, Mitchell R |title=The Rocket Team |series=Apogee Books Space Series 36 |year=1979 |publisher=Thomas Y. Crowell |location=New York |pages=4,7–12,53,311,391,423 |isbn=978-0-690-01656-7}}</ref>
	* ] – ], ], ]<ref> "Wernher von Braun, the German physicist who oversaw most of the achievements of the US space program until his death in 1977"</ref>
	* ] – mathematician<ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060208103128/http://140.90.235.27/edocs/HASSLER7.htm |date=February 8, 2006}}</ref>
	* ] – NASA rocket scientist<ref> "Werner K. Dahm, an internationally recognized rocket pioneer whose work in Germany and the United States made important contributions to the nation's ballistic missile programs ..."</ref><ref> "Werner K. Dahm, an internationally recognized rocket pioneer whose work in Germany and the United States."</ref>
	* ] – physicist<ref> "German-born American physicist who shared one-half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1989 with the German physicist Wolfgang Paul"</ref>
	* ] – biophysicist<ref> "Max Delbruck German-born US biologist, a pioneer in the study of molecular genetics."</ref><ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081029022241/http://www.mdc-berlin.de/en/about_the_mdc/history/index.html |date=2008-10-29 }} "The MDC is named after the German-American Nobel Prize winner Max Delbrück."</ref>
	* ] – rocket-propulsion engineer<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.astronautix.com/astros/ehricke.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2010-08-29 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101019013520/http://astronautix.com/astros/ehricke.htm |archivedate=2010-10-19 |df= }} "Krafft Arnold Ehricke American Engineer. Born 24 March 1917. Died December 1984. Personal: Male, Married, Three daughters. Born in Berlin, Germany. BEng"</ref>
	* ] – scientist<ref>{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} "Nationality: United States, Germany"</ref>
	* ] – economist<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/eckstein.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-12-02 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090104064702/http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/eckstein.htm |archivedate=2009-01-04 |df=}} "German-born Harvard economist and developer of large-scale macroeconometric models (for which he founded a forecasting corporation, Data Resources Inc. (DRI))"</ref>
	* ] – theoretical physicist, philosopher and author of Jewish ethnicity<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1921/einstein-bio.html |title=Albert Einstein – Biographical |publisher=Nobelprize.org |date=1955-04-18 |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref>
	* ] – botanist<ref>{{cite web |url=http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/manuscripts/mlc/engelmann/engelmann.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-06-29 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901125137/http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/manuscripts/mlc/engelmann/engelmann.html |archivedate=2006-09-01 |df=}} "German-born botanist"</ref>
	* ] – botanist<ref> "The city was named originally after Katherine the Great who promoted agriculture in the steppes of the Ukraine by inviting settlers from Germany, among them the Mennonites. Dr. Esau's family is Mennonite. Dr. Esau's great-grandfather Aron Esau immigrated to the Ukraine In 1804 from Prussia"</ref>
	* ] – biochemist<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/march98/fischer.html |title=Edmond Fischer |publisher=University of Washington |date= |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref>
	* ] – physicist<ref> "James Franck German-born American physicist"</ref>
	* ] – pioneer of iron and steel technology<ref name=ExplorePA> John F. Fritz </ref><ref name=Duffy>Sandra E. Duffy (2012) {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018234901/http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/Fritz.html |date=2014-10-18 }} from ]</ref> who has been referred to as the "Father of the U.S. Steel Industry"<ref> "There was no reason to think there was anything extraordinary about the boy born to George Fritz and Mary Meharg on Aug. 21, 1822. Little Johannes Fritzius, named after his German grandfather, soon found that there was plenty to do on his family's farm in rural Chester County. Under the stern but loving eye of their Scotch-Irish mother, John Fritz and his six brothers and sisters grew to maturity."</ref>
	* ] – psychoanalyst, founded ]<ref> "Born in Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1890, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann graduated from medical school at Königsberg, Eastern Prussia, in 1913."</ref>
	* ] – NASA aerospace engineer<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.astronautix.com/astros/geissler.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2010-08-29 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101019045720/http://astronautix.com/astros/geissler.htm |archivedate=2010-10-19 |df= }} "German engineer in WW2, member of the Rocket Team in the United States thereafter."</ref>
	* ] – sanitary engineer
	* ] – physicist and electrical engineer, credited (along with Roger L. Easton and Bradford Parkinson) with the development of the ] (GPS)
	* ] – economist and Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at ]<ref>, ''The New York Times'', September 27, 2007</ref>
	* ] – precision mechanic and inventor, who was long seen as an early pioneer who independently developed designs for an ], though this claim is seen as unlikely today
	* ] – ]-winning physicist<ref> "German-born American physicist"</ref>
	* ] – Fletcher Jones Professor of Geology at California Institute of Technology under the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
	* ] – ] and ], currently associated with many departments at ]
	* ] – ] or wristwatch maker; founded the Gruen Watch Company in Ohio<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pixelp.com |title=pixel panache &#124; design, illustration, photography, websites – Cincinnati, Ohio |publisher=Pixelp.com |date= |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref>
	* ] – rocket scientist
	* ] – literary theorist and professor at Stanford University
	* ] – NASA rocket scientist<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.astronautix.com/astros/haermann.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2010-08-29 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100715042158/http://www.astronautix.com/astros/haermann.htm |archivedate=2010-07-15 |df= }} "German-American engineer. Worked on V-2 gyro platform at Peenemünde 1939–1942. Returned to von Braun's team in US in 1948, working on Hermes II and Redstone guidance systems, becoming Director, Guidance and Control Division, at Huntsville."</ref>
	* ] – aerospace engineer
	* ] – regarded as the father of modern immunology
	* ] – political scientist
	* ] – inventor of tabulating machines<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060813032328/http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0241%2Cblack%2C39111%2C1.html |date=2006-08-13}} "Herman Hollerith was the German American who first automated US census information"</ref>
	* ] – psychoanalyst<ref> "German-American psychiatrist"</ref>
	* ] – naturalist
	* ] – astrophysicist
	* ] – aviation technologist, civilian employee and consultant with the ] for over twenty years
	* ] – psychologist<ref> "German psychologist"</ref>
	* ] – psychologist, largely credited with introducing Gestalt psychology to the United States in the early 20th century<ref> "Heinrich Klüver, son of Wilhelm and Dorothes (Wübbers) Klüver, was born on May 25, 1897, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He arrived in the United States in 1923, married Cessa Feyerabend on February 4, 1927, and was naturalized as a US citizen in 1934."</ref>
	* ] – physicist<ref> "Naturalized US Citizen – Birthplace: Blankenburg, Germany"</ref>
	* ] – anthropologist, historical geographer
	* ] – science writer and space advocate who helped popularise rocketry and spaceflight<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.astronautix.com/astros/ley.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-12-20 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081220144843/http://www.astronautix.com/astros/ley.htm |archivedate=2008-12-20 |df= }} "Willy Ley was an extremely effective populariser of the idea of space flight – first in Germany and then in the United States. Ley was born in Berlin. Fluent in German, English, Italian, French, and Russian, he studied astronomy, physics, zoology, and paleontology at the University of Berlin."</ref><ref> "German engineer who was a founder of the German Rocket Society. In 1934, he emigrated to the United States rather than pursuing military applications of rocketry. In the U.S., he became a popularizer of space exploration and travel, writing many popular books."</ref>
	* ] – biologist, Nobel Prize candidate
	* ] – biologist, pathologist
	* ] – ] inventor<ref> "Ottmar Mergenthaler, a German inventor"</ref>
	* ] – psychologist, pioneered applied psychology
	* ] – mathematician
	* ] – physicist and director of the ], also known as "The Father of the ]"<ref> "Julius Robert Oppenheimer was born in New York City on April 22, 1904. His parents, Julius S. Oppenheimer, a wealthy German textile merchant, and Ella Friedman, an artist, were of Jewish descent but did not observe the religious traditions."</ref>
	* ] – test pilot and USAF and NASA astronaut<ref> "The Ancestry of Overmire Tifft Richardson Bradford Reed"</ref>
	* ] – chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, educator<ref>. ''The Special Collections & Archives Research Center - Oregon State University Libraries''. Retrieved 2019-7-29.</ref>
	* ] – seismologist, inventor of the Richter magnitude scale
	* ] – astronomer, inventor, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrument craftsman, public official and first director of the ]<ref> "The first approximately accurate calculation of the distance from the earth to the sun was made by David Rittenhouse in 1769"</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ushistory.org/germantown/people/rittenhouse.htm |title=William Rittenhouse |publisher=Ushistory.org |date=1995-07-04 |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref>
	* ] – founder and former president of the ]
	* ] – military historian, professor at ] and elsewhere, of Jewish descent<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Gunther Eric Rothenberg |title=Contemporary Authors Online |location=] |publisher=] |year=2001 |accessdate=2014-02-01 |chapter-url=http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query=&prodId=BIC1&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&mode=view&displayGroupName=Reference&limiter=&currPage=&disableHighlighting=false&displayGroups=&sortBy=&search_within_results=&p=BIC1&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CH1000085240&source=Bookmark&u=fairfax_main&jsid=b43395e8f85d2425010cfc836411ceac |id=Gale Document Number: <nowiki>GALE|H1000085240</nowiki> |format=fee, via ] |chapter-url-access=subscription |title-link=Contemporary Authors Online }} Biography in Context.</ref>
	* ] – Egyptologist<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723033634/http://www.online-dictionary.biz/german/english/meaning/schaden |date=2011-07-23 }} "German to English definition of schaden"</ref>
	* ] – inorganic chemist, working in boron chemistry, co-discovered sodium borohydride in 1940
	* ] – astronomer<ref>]: "Asked how to say his name, he told The Literary Digest "The name is so difficult for those who do not speak German that I am usually called sles'in-jer, to rime with messenger. It is, of course, of German origin and means 'a native of Schlesien' or Silesia. In that language the pronunciation is shlayzinger, to rime with singer." (], What's the Name, Please?, Funk & Wagnalls, 1936.)"</ref>
	* ] – philosopher/sociologist<ref>{{cite journal |first=Christian |last=Knudsen |url=http://rss.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/16/1/45 |title=Alfred schutz, Austrian Economists and the Knowledge Problem – Knudsen |volume=16 |issue=1 |journal=Rationality and Society |publisher=Sage Publications |date=2004-02-01 |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref>
	* ] – astronaut
	* ] – botanist and mycologist, "Father of American Mycology"
	* ] – physicist, co-inventor of the ], which is an important concept in ]<ref> "Seitz grew up in San Francisco, where he was born on July 4, 1911, to a German immigrant baker."</ref>
	* ] – political scientist{{citation needed|date=September 2008}}
	* ] – theoretical physicist, astronomer and mountaineer
	* ] – electrical engineer, fostered development of alternating current{{Citation needed|date=September 2008}}
	* ] – NASA engineer who works for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), flight projects including ], ], ], ]<ref name="bilger">{{cite news |url=http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/04/22/130422fa_fact_bilger?currentPage=all |title=The Martian Chroniclers |work=] |first=Burkhard |last=Bilger |date=April 22, 2013 |accessdate=April 15, 2013}}</ref>
	* ] – structural engineer and designer, chief engineer of the ]<ref> "Two of San Francisco's best-known landmarks were built by Germans: Joseph Strauss designed the 1937 Golden Gate Bridge, and Bernard Maybeck, son of a German immigrant, designed the Palace of Fine Arts."</ref>
	* ] – physicist and Nobel laureate, known for his studies of molecular beams<ref> "Stern was born in Sorau, Germany (now Zary, Poland), and educated at the University of Breslau. He taught at Technische Hochschule in Zürich and at the universities of Frankfurt and Hamburg. In 1933 he moved to the U.S., accepting the position of research professor of physics at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University) in Pittsburgh, Pa."</ref>
	* ] – botanist<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/plants/wildflwr/species/cleoserr.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2014-11-15 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129032542/http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/plants/wildflwr/species/cleoserr.htm |archivedate=2014-11-29 |df=}} "German botanist"</ref>
	* ] – physician, allergy and fluoride specialist
	* ] – psychologist<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.faqs.org/qa/qa-5864.html |title=what is wais Who is wais For? What does 'Wais'... – Q&A |publisher=Faqs.org |date= |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref>
	* ] – engineer who pioneered research into rocket engines and gas turbines<ref> "In 1960 he emigrated to the United States and joined the Worthington Biochemical Corporation in Harrison, New Jersey, eventually becoming vice-president. During his life he was awarded numerous scientific medals and awards, and he published over 200 patents. Hellmuth Walter died on 16 December 1980."</ref>
	* ] – World War II physicist of Jewish ethnicity<r, working at Los Alamos on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb, and later campaigned against the proliferation of nuclear weapons; medal received in 1979<ref> "Growing up in Vienna in a well-to-do Jewish family ..." "One of the most brilliant Jewish scientists to be driven from Germany by Nazi persecution ..."</ref>
	* ] – aviation pioneer, built first motorized plane<ref> "Gustave Whitehead, a poor, German immigrant"</ref>
	* ] – ], Distinguished Professor of molecular genetics and microbiology at ]; known for the first chemical synthesis of a viral genome capable of infection and subsequent production of live viruses
	* ] – sociologist
	* ] – physician and anatomist
	* ] – nuclear scientist{{citation needed|date=September 2008}}
	* ] – algebraist, group theorist, and numerical analyst{{citation needed|date=September 2008}}
	==Sports==
	===Baseball===
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	* ] – best known as the owner of the St. Louis Brown Stockings of the American Association, now known as the St. Louis Cardinals
	* ] – professional baseball pitcher in MLB
	* ] – pitcher for the Chicago White Sox
	* ] – Major League Baseball first baseman who played for the ] (1943, 1945–46) and ] (1946–47)<ref> "Heinz Becker, the only German-born big-leaguer who played during the years of World War II."</ref>
	* ] – Major League Baseball third baseman, shortstop and first baseman who went on to become a minor league manager and baseball scout<ref> "Zinn is the German word for tin"</ref>
	* ] – former MLB catcher
	* ] – former pitcher for the ]; threw a no-hitter<ref> "The Benz family was of German Catholic stock, Joe's grandfather, also named Michael, having emigrated from the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1849."</ref>
	* ] – former second baseman in MLB during the late 1880s and 1890s; credited with giving the ] their name<ref></ref>
	* ] – former MLB third baseman and first baseman; current Seattle Mariners radio commentator
	* ] – professional baseball outfielder in MLB<ref> "German origins of the Boesch surname"</ref>
	* ] – former MLB pitcher and part of the "Pretzel Battery" with ]<ref name=TB>{{cite news |title=Breitenstein, 65, Dies; Once Noted Pitcher |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 4, 1935 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1935/05/04/95502841.pdf}}</ref>
	* ] – MLB pitcher for the ]
	* ] – MLB pitcher
	* ] – MLB pitcher
	* ] – former MLB
	* ] – former MLB player
	* ] – MLB pitcher for the ]<ref> "The Bumgarners began arriving from southwest Germany a couple of hundred years ago."</ref>
	* ] – former MLB pitcher<ref>https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-27868-18168-72?cc=2000219</ref>
	* ] – former MLB shortstop<ref> "His father, Daniel, was a German immigrant; his mother, Rosina (née Shellhorn), was the daughter of a German immigrant."</ref>
	* ] – first baseman in Major League Baseball<ref> "Father Peter Danzig emigrated to the United States in 1880, he was considered and listed himself in the 1900 census as German"</ref>
	* ] – MLB pitcher
	* ] – former MLB pitcher<ref> "His father, Fred, was a salesman at a drugstore in Burleson, Texas, in 1920. Ten years later the 1930 census shows him as a salesman in a garage. Fred was a native Texan, too, but his father had been born in Berlin and his mother was Moravian. Both German and Bohemian were spoken in the household."</ref>
	* ] - MLB 2nd Baseman<ref>https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=dietrich</ref>
	* ] – baseball executive<ref>{{sabrbio1|29ceb9e0|Barney Dreyfuss|Sam Bernstein|November 8, 2013}}, "Not bad press for a man who just twenty-four years before had arrived from Freiburg, Germany with just a few dollars in his pocket."</ref>
	* ] – former relief pitcher in MLB
	* ] – MLB pitcher
	* ] – MLB player and 2006 ] MVP<ref> "David Eckstein was born to German-American parents in Sanford, Florida. He is a MLB shortstop and current leadoff hitter for the St. Louis Cardinals. Eckstein was named the World Series MVP in 2006."</ref>
	* ] – second baseman in Major League Baseball<ref> "Elmer Albert Eggert was born and died in Rochester, New York – born on January 29, 1902 to parents of German ancestry. His mother Theresa Felgner Eggert had been born in Rochester, and his father Fred was born in New York City to two German parents."</ref>
	* ] – former MLB outfielder
	* ] – "The Tabasco Kid", former shortstop in MLB<ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928063522/http://www.beckett.com/news/reportcard/archive.asp?a=7792&s=62 |date=September 28, 2007 }}</ref>
	* ] – professional baseball center fielder
	* ] – former left-handed pitcher and scout in MLB who spent nearly his entire career with the ]
	* ] – 60 years in professional baseball as player, manager, owner, innovator and groundskeeper<ref> "Henry Fabian"</ref><ref> "Perhaps his landscaping skills were inherited. His mother, Sophie Finck, came from a long line of wine growers. Born in 1832 among the fertile soils of Alsace-Lorraine in present day France, Sophie immigrated to the United States and settled in New Orleans where she met and married Heinrich Fabian. Himself a German immigrant, Heinrich arrived in the Crescent City in 1851 as a 15-year-old from Bavaria."</ref>
	* ] – center fielder for the Chicago White Sox, best known for his involvement in the 1919 ]<ref> "Oscar Emil Felsch, who grew up to be arguably the best baseball player ever produced by Milwaukee's north side, was born in 1891 in a German working-class neighborhood – Reference: Felsch's Application for Social Security Account Number, December 3, 1943; Wisconsin Original Certificate of Death #'64 024373; and 1900 and 1930 United States Censuses."</ref>
	* ] – professional baseball player, 2011 NL Championship Series MVP Award and the 2011 World Series MVP Award winner<ref>{{cite web |url=http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/r/e/Guy-R-Freese/ |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-02-10 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150210223008/http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/r/e/Guy-R-Freese/ |archivedate=2015-02-10 |df=}} "The Guy Richard Freese Family Home Page"</ref>
	* ] – former MLB player and manager<ref> "1929 — ...baseball stars: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Honus Wagner, Frank Frisch, all of German descent"</ref>
	* ] – Major League Baseball Special Assistant to the Vice President on Umpiring, after having served as an umpire in Major League Baseball<ref> "Froemming Name Meaning North German (Frömming): patronymic from Fromm."</ref>
	* ] – former MLB player
	* ] – former New York Mets player and current Minnesota Twins manager
	* ] – MLB player<ref> "Lou Gehrig's life, from the poor German boy in Yorkville to the famous star playing America's favorite pastime. Christina was born in 1881 in Wiltser, Schleswig-Holstein, a province of pre-World War I Germany, near the German-Danish border. She emigrated to the United States in 1899. Heinrich Ludwig Gehrig was born in 1867 in Adelsheim, Baden, and came to America in October of 1888."</ref>
	* ] – MLB second baseman who played nineteen seasons (1924–1942) for the ]<ref name="gamhof.org" />
	* ] – former MLB pitcher<ref name=TSN>{{cite news |title=Sketch of the Men Who Now wear the Dauvray Medals |newspaper=The Sporting Life |year=1887 |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1887/VOL_10_NO_04/SL1004003.pdf}}</ref><ref> "Pretzels Getzien"</ref>
	* ] – former MLB third baseman
	* ] – MLB first baseman
	* ] – former MLB player
	* ] – MLB relief pitcher
	* ] – third baseman for the Cincinnati Reds and New York Giants
	* ] – Cleveland Indians designated hitter
	* ] – former pitcher in MLB
	* ] – second baseman for the Chicago Cubs.<ref>http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=happ</ref>
	* ] – MLB player 1906–1916
	* ] – former shortstop in MLB
	* ] – Hall of Fame MLB player and World War I Veteran<ref>] surname</ref>
	* ] – former MLB pitcher and part of the "]" Yankee teams
	* ] – nicknamed "The Clutch" and "Old Reliable", was a professional baseball player<ref> "German Americans {{sic|comprised |hide=y|of}} 30% of the U.S. Armed Forces, among them such high profile players such as Charlie Gehringer, Tommy Henrich, Pete Reiser and Red Ruffing."</ref>
	* ] – former second baseman in MLB
	* ] – executive in Major League Baseball<ref> "German American assistants Rudolph Hynicka and August Hermann"</ref><ref>
	"Young August, a good Cincinnati German, worked for another good Cincinnati German..."</ref>
	* ] – former MLB pitcher<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ofspirit.com/tw-betweenthelines.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2013-08-26 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129054817/http://www.ofspirit.com/tw-betweenthelines.htm |archivedate=2014-11-29 |df= }} "... before I sat down to enjoy my first home – cooked meal in weeks, my dad let me know, 'If you're going to live here, you're going to work and then you're going back to school.' He wasn't angry, but true to his German roots, he spoke with unwavering resolve. I didn't argue. I knew better than to argue."</ref>
	* ] – infielder and manager in MLB
	* ] – MLB outfielder, scout, coach, manager, general manager and farm system director
	* ] – baseball player
	* ] – MLB first baseman<ref>{{sabrbio1|cb3838ec|Dick Hoblitzell|Tom Simon|November 8, 2013}}, "The middle of three sons, Richard Carleton Hoblitzell was born on October 26, 1888. His mother, the former Laura Alcock, was of English descent, while his father, Henry Hoblitzell, whose ancestors hailed from the oft-disputed Alsace-Lorraine region, was part German, Swiss, and French."</ref>
	* ] – former pitcher in MLB
	* ] – All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
	* ] – former Atlanta Braves and Oaklands Athletics player and current Braves' coach
	* ] – Hall of Fame screwball pitcher in MLB
	* ] – former MLB ]
	* ] – MLB free agent
	* ] – relief pitcher in MLB
	* ] – pitcher in MLB
	* ] – former professional baseball shortstop who played 20 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB)<ref> "part German mother"</ref>
	* ] – pitcher in MLB
	* ] – college professor who spoke seven languages; prolific scout in Major League Baseball<ref> "Rising out of a Pennsylvania Dutch farm background, Kelchner went on to be both a college professor and to sign 86 major-league players, believed to be the most in history. Charles Schaeffer Kelchner ...was the son of Martin and Maria (Schaeffer) Kelchner, of Pennsylvania Dutch (German) descent."</ref>
	* ] – MLB Pitcher<ref name="sabr.org"> "His paternal great-grandfather, Johann Justus Kellner, a German immigrant."</ref>
	* ] – MLB Pitcher<ref name="sabr.org"/>
	* ] – MLB relief pitcher
	* ] – former MLB outfielder
	* ] – former MLB catcher
	* ] – former MLB all-star pitcher<ref> "The Knepper Family. Among the German Baptists who in 1729 accompanied their founder, Alexander Mack, from Europe to Pennsylvania was a certain Wilhelm Knepper. ... 'Bob' Knepper, the noted baseball player, is a descendant"</ref>
	* ] – former second baseman in MLB
	* ] – former shortstop for the New York Yankees, 1925–1936<ref name="frommer"/>
	* ] – Howie best known as the Base Ball Pitcher for the 1961 Tigers and then the Senators until 1966<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=kopliho01 |title=Howie Koplitz Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac |publisher=Baseball Almanac |date= |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref>
	* ] – MLB pitching coach
	* ] – MLB pitcher<ref>"Eugene Hamlet Krapp was born to Frederick “Fritz” and Bertha (Hettig) Krapp on May 12, 1887 in Rochester, New York. His father was born in Wurtemberg, Germany in 1854 and came to the United States three years later. His mother was a native New Yorker whose family had come from the same area in Germany."</ref>
	* ] – MLB catcher
	* ] – player, coach and manager in MLB<ref> "The Kuenns were the typical German-American blue-collar family that so heavily populated Milwaukee."</ref>
	* ] – former MLB pitcher
	* ] – MLB pitcher
	* ] – former commissioner of MLB<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/16/sports/baseball/16kuhn.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 |first=Richard |last=Goldstein |title=Bowie Kuhn, 80, former baseball commissioner |work=The New York Times |date=2007-03-16 |accessdate=2013-11-08}}</ref>
	* ] – while serving as a Federal judge, Landis, an ardent baseball fan, was selected as chairman of a new National Commission of baseball
	* ] – American League catcher and hitting coach, authored 'How to Hit .300'<ref> "The Art of Hitting .300 (Paperback) by Charley Lau (Author)..."</ref>
	*] – former MLB pitcher<ref> "Leibrandt Surname"</ref>
	* ] – former MLB pitcher
	* ] – MLB pitcher
	* ] – MLB pitcher
	* ] – infielder, coach, manager and scout in MLB
	* ] – MLB pitcher
	* ] – former Cleveland Indians pitcher<ref>{{cite news |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/players/40519/ |work=Sports Illustrated |title=MLB – Chuck Machemehl Player Page}}</ref>
	* ] – Hall of Fame left-fielder in MLB
	* ] – outfielder for the ]<ref> "Markakis, who is half Greek and half German, led the Greek Olympic team..."</ref>
	* ] – MLB pitcher<ref name=autogenerated2></ref>
	* ] – sometimes "Heinie" Meine, was a professional baseball player<ref> "Henry William Meine was born on May 1, 1896 in an unincorporated area called Luxemburg in the predominantly German neighborhood known as Carondelet bordering the Mississippi River in south St. Louis, Missouri. Meine's parents were both children of German immigrants; Henry (born in 1864) and Louisa (nee Kulhman, born in 1873) married in 1891 and had seven children, Lilly, Henry, Edwin, Arthur, Charles, Ferdinand, and Walter, born between 1892 and 1908."</ref>
	* ] – first baseman in Major League Baseball, 1907–1926<ref>. familysearch.org. Retrieved July 29, 2013.</ref>
	* ] – former MLB shortstop
	* ] – former MLB outfielder
	* ] – retired MLB third baseman
	* ] – infielder in Major League Baseball<ref> "Frederick William Muller was born on December 21, 1907, a son of German immigrants George and Mary Muller."</ref>
	* ] – former MLB pitcher<ref>{{sabrbio1|58f0af66|Les Mueller|Jim Sargent|November 8, 2013}}</ref>
	* ] – former professional baseball player who played outfield in MLB 1922–1926
	* ] – former starting pitcher in MLB
	* ] – pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays
	* ] – MLB pitcher
	* ] – MLB pitcher
	* ] – MLB pitcher
	* ] – pitcher in MLB 1934–1948
	* ] – MLB pitcher
	* ] – former MLB catcher and part of the "Pretzel Battery" with ]<ref name=CE>{{cite book |author=Mike Eisenbath and Stan Musial |title=Cardinals Encyclopedia |pages=258–259}}</ref><ref>Census entry for Henry Peitz, ball-player, born November 1870. Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census . Census Place: Cincinnati Ward 23, Hamilton, Ohio; Roll: T623_1279; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 193.</ref><ref>Census entry for Henry Peitz and family. Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census . Census Place: Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri; Roll: 733; Family History Film: 1254733; Page: 509C; Enumeration District: 306; Image: 0189.</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Heinie Peitz Is A Favorite |newspaper=The Pittsburgh Press |date=March 16, 1905 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iQgbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=okgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2871,2989744&dq=heinie+peitz&hl=en}}</ref>
	* ] – "The Monster" or "Moose", relief pitcher in MLB
	* ] – former MLB pitcher
	* ] – former Pittsburgh Pirate pitcher and current golf professional
	* ] – former MLB reliever and controversial figure
	* ] – first baseman and right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball<ref name="houseofnames.com"> "Roettger surname from Hesse, DE"</ref><ref name="ReferenceA"> "Roettger Name Meaning North German (also Röttger): variant of Rudiger or Roger."</ref>
	* ] – outfielder in Major League Baseball<ref name="houseofnames.com"/><ref name="ReferenceA"/>
	* ] – MLB Pitcher
	* ] – MLB player 1914–1935<ref> "... born George Herman Ruth in Baltimore, Maryland to parents of German background. His mother, Katie Schaumberger, was the daughter of Pius and Anna Schaumberger, both born in Germany. Babe Ruth's father, saloon owner George Ruth, had German grandparents. Although Babe Ruth's German background is certain ..."</ref>
	* ] – catcher for the ], seen as a top prospect for the 2019 MLB Draft
	* ] – former second baseman in MLB who played fifteen seasons<ref>{{sabrbio1|2594238c|Germany Schaefer|Dan Holmes|November 13, 2013}}, "Herman A. Schaefer was born to German immigrant parents in Chicago's South Side Levee District, on February 4, 1876."</ref>
	* ] – MLB player
	* ] – MLB catcher
	* ] – MLB pitcher
	* ] – outfielder in the ] organization
	* ] – baseball player, coach, manager and front-office executive
	* ] – MLB pitcher<ref> "to PRer free7694, "Scherzer" is German for "joker". If Mad Max doesn't catch on, what about The Joker?"</ref>
	* ] – MLB pitcher
	* ] – former ] and MLB infielder<ref>, Oxford University Press, 2013. Retrieved on 16 January 2016.</ref>
	* ] – MLB manager
	* ] – MLB baseball pitcher
	* ] – former Philadelphia Phillies third baseman and Hall of Famer
	* ] – pitcher in Major League Baseball<ref>Bill Lamb. . Society for American Baseball Research.</ref>
	* ] – MLB catcher
	* ] – former player, coach and manager in MLB
	* ] – MLB relief pitcher
	* ] – managing general partner, president and CEO of Major League Baseball's ] franchise, 1984–1999
	* ] – MLB umpire
	* ] – MLB baseball pitcher<ref>Bill Nowlin. . Society for American Baseball Research.</ref>
	* ] – former MLB infielder
	* ] – general manager of the Atlanta Braves
	* ] – right fielder in Major League Baseball<ref> "...to German immigrant John Schulte"</ref>
	* ] – catcher, coach and manager in MLB
	* ] – Joe "Germany" Schultz, outfielder and farm system director in MLB and a manager in minor league baseball
	* ] – outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals
	* ] – former ] pitcher and contract killer
	* ] – MLB catcher<ref>http://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/kyle-schwarber-7-things-you-might-not-know/</ref>
	* ] – outfielder for the Chicago White Sox
	* ] – pitcher for the Atlanta Braves<ref> "Americans of German descent, like John Smoltz"</ref>
	* ] – outfielder in MLB
	* ] – Hall of Fame pitcher in MLB
	* ] – relief pitcher
	* ] – MLB player for 23 seasons (1963–1985)
	* ] – former catcher in MLB
	* ] – art-owner and Senior Vice President of the New York Yankees, along with his brother Hal Steinbrenner
	* ] – MLB utility infielder<ref>{{sabrbio1|c1dc8fd5|Harry Steinfeldt|Tom Simon|November 8, 2013}}, "The son of a German immigrant, Henry M. Steinfeldt was born on September 29, 1877, in St. Louis."</ref>
	* ] – MLB player and manager, early 1910s – 1960s.
	* ] – MLB pitcher
	* ] – ] right-handed relief pitcher in MLB
	* ] – infielder in MLB
	* ] – Hall of Fame MLB center fielder<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thesportgallery.com/sport-stories/dukesnider.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-12-02 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081208130741/http://www.thesportgallery.com/sport-stories/dukesnider.html |archivedate=2008-12-08 |df=}} "Ed (his mother never calls him Duke, a nickname coined by his father when the boy was five) is named Edwin Donald and has German-Dutch bloodlines on the paternal side and Scotch-Irish on the maternal side."</ref>
	* ] – MLB pitcher<ref> "He was born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, on May 20, 1879, to Leonard and Mary Thielman. Leonard was a hardware dealer at the time of the 1900 census, a German immigrant who had come to the United States around 1858. Mary had been born in New York to German immigrant parents."</ref>
	* ] – reserve outfielder / infielder in Major League Baseball who played from 1902 through 1911<ref> "Elias Thoeny was a painter, a German immigrant as was his wife. National boundaries have, of course, changed over time. The Thoenys appear to have come from the southern part of current Germany..."</ref>
	* ] – executive, served as commissioner of MLB, 1984–1989<ref> "His father, Victor, half German and half Viennese, with his hearty manner and curious mind, was the biggest influence in his life, says Ueberroth."</ref>
	* ] – former MLB player and award-winning sportscaster, comedian, and actor
	* ] – former MLB pitcher<ref> "James “Jim” Umbricht was born in Chicago on September 17, 1930, to Mr. and Mrs. Eduard Umbricht. Eduard's parents were from Illinois and he was born and raised in the state. Jantina Frank, Eduard's wife, was born in Holland to a Dutch mother and German father. She was a native German speaker."</ref>
	* ] – former starting pitcher in MLB
	* ] – entrepreneur and owner of the St. Louis Browns of the National League, now known as the Cardinals
	* ] – Major League Baseball third baseman<ref> "The story of Alfred Holmes "Fritz" Von Kolnitz illustrates ethnic ambivalence. Sensitive to his obviously Prussian-sounding name, he used the name "R. H. Holmes" when entering professional baseball in 1913..."</ref>
	* ] – MLB pitcher, currently a free agent
	* ] – MLB closer
	* ] – former MLB shortstop for the New York Giants and the Boston Red Sox
	* ] – former Pittsburgh Pirate ] shortstop, manager and hitting instructor<ref> "In sports there have been such memorable figures as baseballers Honus Wagner, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Casey Stengel ..."</ref>
	* ] – second baseman in MLB<ref> "The Wambsganss name was German in origin, though the best a German professor at Concordia College in Fort Wayne, Indiana, could tell him was that it seemed to combine components of the word for overcoat, or at least a word that might have been used as overcoat in early 20th century German usage."</ref>
	* ] – MLB pitcher
	* ] – MLB outfielder
	* ] – former MLB first baseman and outfielder
	* ] – Hall of Fame knuckleball pitcher in MLB
	* ] – pitcher with the Miami Marlins
	* ] – former MLB player
	* ] – MLB pitcher
	* ] – MLB outfielder, great-grandson of ]<ref name="wikitree.com"> "Fred's father Fred Richard Gehrke was born to August Gehrke and Elizabeth Bergau in Konigsberg, Germany (which was renamed in 1949, Kalininggrad, part of the Russian Federation)."</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Rodriguez|first1=Juan C.|title=Marlins notes: Yelich branches off family football tree|url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2014-03-04/sports/fl-marlins-0305-20140304_1_christian-yelich-reeves-pioneer-award-fred-gehrke|accessdate=July 3, 2016|work=Sun Sentinel|date=March 4, 2014}}</ref>
	* ] – MLB player
	* ] – MLB pitcher
	* ] – MLB second baseman
	* ] – MLB pitcher, 1936–1947
	===Football===		== 2017 shows ==
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	* ] – former offensive tackle in the NFL
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	* ] – NFL defensive end
			| Globe Hall
	* ] – quarterback, one of only two players to win five Super Bowls<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2017/03/04/tom-brady-roots-run-deep-into-century-boston/fnXhdw7Sxj1JKTMknQgVfK/story.html|title=Tom Brady's roots run deep into 19th-century Boston – The Boston Globe|work=BostonGlobe.com|access-date=2018-02-18}}</ref>
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	* ] – NFL defensive lineman, selected to the ]
			| September 5, 2017
	* ] – American football head coach<ref> "Born: June 19, 1946 (Age: 70-313d) in Munich, Germany"</ref>
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	* ] – NCAA football coach
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	* ] – football player and NFL offensive lineman<ref> "Chronicle: Dave, you are Croatian American, tell us about your background? Diehl: I grew up on the south side of Chicago. I'm fifty percent Croatian and fifty percent German. I went to grammar school and High School (Brother Rice) with some Croatian friends. So I have been following Croatian heritage ever since I can remember. That's why people couldn't figure out why I have Diehl as my last name and Croatian GRB tattooed on my left arm. I grew up going to St. Jerome's Croatian Catholic Church with my Grandmother. Her maiden name was Semanic and she was from one of the Croatian islands. I remember going to St. Jerome's and having palacinke for breakfast. My grandmother married Grandpa who was Ante Bekavac from small village Bekavci near Lovrec in Imotski, Dalmacija, Croatia. My father Jerry who passed away in August was hundred percent German on both sides."</ref>
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	* ] – former NFL football player and current television sportscaster
			| September 6, 2017
	* ] – former offensive lineman
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	* ] – former college and professional football player; wide receiver in the NFL<ref> "Thuringia region (located between Hessen and Lower Saxony in the west and Saxony in the east). Doering name is an ethnic name for someone from Thuringia (German Thüringen). The region is named from its former occupation by the T(h)uringii, a Germanic tribe. The meaning is from a personal name based on cognate of the German turren, or 'to dare'."</ref>
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	* ] – safety in the NFL, two-time Super Bowl Champion
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	* ] – tight end in the NFL<ref> "Ertz Name Meaning German: variant of Ersch, from a pet form of Aro or Arez."</ref>
			| September 7, 2017
	* ] – head coach of University of Iowa Hawkeyes football
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	* ] – NFL halfback / defensive back and executive. Great-grandfather of Milwaukee Brewers left fielder, ]<ref name="wikitree.com"/>
			| El Club
	* ] – quarterback<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151002050818/http://www.familytree.com/surnames/Goff |date=2015-10-02 }} "... the Goff name comes from the Old German term 'goff', which means a priest, god-like person or a powerful warrior."</ref>
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	* ] – Hall of Fame quarterback
			| September 8, 2017
	* ] – NCCA Virginia football head coach and former NFL coach
			| ]
	* ] – NFL player and MLB player
			| The Stache
	* ] – NFL
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	* ] – NFL football player
			| September 10, 2017
	* ] – ESPN analyst and former professional quarterback
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	* ] – NFL tight end
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	* ] – football player, coach, and namesake of the ]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pabook2.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Heisman__John.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2016-10-06 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160122024724/http://pabook2.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Heisman__John.html |archivedate=2016-01-22 |df= }} "Born Johann Wilhelm Heisman on October 23, 1869, in Cleveland, Ohio, he was the son of John M. Heisman and Sara Lehr. The name John William was later adopted in order to make less apparent the fact that he was the son of immigrants. His father was the estranged son of German aristocrats and husband to his lower-class wife, for whom he gave up his family, inheritance, and surname."</ref>
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	* ] – former ] quarterback and analyst for ]'s ]
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	* ] – running back and receiver for the Los Angeles Rams and Chicago Rockets, nicknamed for his unusual running style
			| September 11, 2017, two shows
	* ] – NFL wide receiver
			| ]
	* ] – former NFL quarterback<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hostetler.net/origins/fdescend2.cfm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2007-08-06 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070821193212/http://www.hostetler.net/origins/fdescend2.cfm |archivedate=2007-08-21 |df=}} "Hostelter is a descendant of the Amish-Mennonite immigrant Jacob Hochstetler."</ref>
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	* ] – football player and ] Veteran who was a 'highly decorated veteran' of both World War II and later in his career the ], elected to the ] in 1978<ref>http://azstrong.tripod.com/harry_alice/legacy/1109.htm</ref><ref>1900 Census, St. Louis, Missouri, FHL Film No. 1,240,888, Central Twp, E. D. 119, Sheet 5A, Family 105 at Lines 28–33.</ref>
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	* ] – defensive end for the Pittsburgh Steelers
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	* ] – fullback in the NFL
			| September 12, 2017
	* ] – former NFL Seattle Seahawks quarterback
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	* ] – linebacker in the NFL
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	* ] – linebacker in the National Football League<ref> "Kuechly Surname : 19th Century Germanic Immigrants to USA"</ref>
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	* ] – fullback, currently playing for the Green Bay Packers
			| September 13, 2017
	* ] – NFL center
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	* ] – former football player and professional wrestler
			| The Foundry
	* ] – former NFL American and Canadian football quarterback
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	* ] – LSU and NFL quarterback
			| September 15, 2017, two shows
	* ] – NFL defensive end
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	* ] – group of football playing brothers who helped make up the most famous football family in the United States, 1907–mid-1920s
			| Rock & Roll Hotel
	**John Nesser: born April 25, 1875 in Triere, Germany, and died August 1, 1931, in Columubus, Ohio
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	**John Peter Nesser: born October 22, 1877 in Triere, Germany, and died May 29, 1954, in Columbus, Ohio
			| September 18, 2017
	**Philipp Gregory Nesser: born December 10, 1880, in Triere, Germany, and died May 9, 1959, in Columbus, Ohio
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	**Theodore H. (Ted) Nesser: born April 8, 1883, in Dennison, Ohio, and died June 7, 1941, in Columbus, Ohio
			| Come and Take It Live
	**Frederick William Nesser: born September 10, 1887, in Columbus, Ohio, and died July 2, 1967, in Columbus, Ohio
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	**Francis Raymond (Frank) Nesser: born June 3, 1889, in Columbus, Ohio, and died January 1, 1953, in Columbus, Ohio
			| September 19, 2017
	**Alfred Louis Nesser: born June 6, 1893, in Columbus, Ohio, and died March 11, 1967, in Columbus, Ohio
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	**Raymond Joseph Nesser: born March 22, 1898, in Columbus, Ohio, and died September 2, 1969, in Columbus, Ohio<ref> ''The Man Who Built the National Football League: Joe F. Carr'', page 29 et seq.</ref><ref> "Their father, Theodore Nesser, was lured from Germany by the railroad and designed the steam engine the Pennsy used for years"</ref>
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	* ] – football coach
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	* ] – Hall of Fame football player
			| September 20, 2017
	* ] – NFL quarterback
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	* ] – long snapper<ref> "Ott is a family name with Bavarian roots."</ref>
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	* ] – former Oakland Raider offensive lineman
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	* ] – college football coach<ref name="forebears.io"> "Pflugrad Surname Distribution"</ref>
			| September 22, 2017
	* ] – former NFL wide receiver, two-time Super Bowl Champion
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	* ] – former player in the All-America Football Conference and the NFL
			| Pub Rock
	* ] – Pittsburgh Steelers Quarterback of Swiss-German descent, two-time Super Bowl Champion
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	* ] – former American football player, coach, college sports administrator, and professional football executive<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.norka-russland.net/george-h-sauer-sr.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-11-16 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117032133/http://www.norka-russland.net/george-h-sauer-sr.html |archivedate=2015-11-17 |df=}} "Norka – a German colony in Russia"</ref>
			| September 24, 2017
	* ] – wide receiver who played six seasons for the American Football League's New York Jets<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.norka-russland.net/george-sauer-jr.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-11-16 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117032244/http://www.norka-russland.net/george-sauer-jr.html |archivedate=2015-11-17 |df=}} "Norka – a German colony in Russia"</ref>
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	* ] – NFL quarterback
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	* ] – former NCAA football coach at the University of Michigan
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	* ] – former linebacker<ref> "German: from Middle High German slegel 'hammer', 'tool for striking' (Old High German slegil, a derivative of slahan 'to strike'), hence a metonymic occupational name for a smith or mason, or a nickname for a forceful person."</ref>
			| September 25, 2017
	* ] – NFL fullback
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	* ] – former American football and NCAA TCU center
			| ]
	* ] – college football coach inducted into the ]
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	* ] – former 1950s NFL football player and coach
			| September 27, 2017
	* ] – NFL fullback
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	* ] – professional ] player in the ] and the early ] for the ]
			| Canada
	* ] – professional American football executive
			| Biltmore Cabaret
	* ] – linebacker<ref> "German Surname – (Schöbert): variant of Schober.variant of Schubert."</ref>
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	* ] – former NFL quarterback
			| September 28, 2017
	* ] – former professional quarterback in the NFL
			| ]
	* ] – NFL offensive lineman
			| rowspan="4"| United States
	* ] – NFL offensive tackle
			| Chop Suey
	* ] – NFL head coach
			|-
	* ] – NFL tight end<ref> "Spach Family Name"</ref>
			| September 29, 2017
	* ] – tight end for the Pittsburgh Steelers
			| ]
	* ] – Heisman Trophy winner and Hall of Fame quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys
			| Wow Hall
	* ] – NFL offensive lineman
			|-
	* ] – NFL offensive lineman
			| October 1, 2017
	* ] – ] player, coach, and college athletics administrator<ref></ref>
			| San Francisco
	* ] – NFL tight end
			| Social Hall SF
	* ] – quarterback
			|-
	* ] – professional football executive, who is currently the Executive Vice President of Football Operations for the Miami Dolphins and former general manager for the New York Jets
			| October 2, 2017
	* ] – college head football coach
			| ]
	* ] – ] linebacker for the Chicago Bears
			| The Observatory
	* ] – NFL offensive Lineman
			|-
	* ] – NFL linebacker
			! colspan="4"|Late 2017 California shows <ref name="ERTandLYP">{{Cite web|url=https://www.brckhmptn.com/dates/|title=Love Your Parents Tour: BROCKHAMPTON|website=Brockhampton Tour Dates|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129103326/https://www.brckhmptn.com/dates/|archivedate=January 29, 2018|access-date=June 2, 2019}}</ref> <ref> ''LA Weekly'', August 14, 2017. Retrieved June 4, 2019.</ref> <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.observatoryoc.com/shows/7875795/tyler-the-creator-with-brockhampton-steve-lacy-taco-bane-s-world/|title=Tyler The Creator with Brockhampton, Steve Lacy, Taco, Bane's World, Clairo - Observatory OC|website=Observatory OC|access-date=June 4, 2019}}</ref>
	* ] – former NFL kicker
			|-
	* ] – safety for the ], 1971–1980; member of the famed ] defense; played in two ]
			| October 28, 2017{{efn|The concert on October 2, 2017 at ] in ] was apart of ].}}
	* ] – NFL football coach
			| rowspan="4"| ]
	* ] – NFL wide receiver, punt returner, and kick returner
			| rowspan="5"| United States
	* ] – football quarterback for the North Dakota State Bison<ref name="ancestry.com" />
			| ]
	* ] – NFL linebacker<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.tagesspiegel.de/sport/football-hoffnung-bjoern-werner-berliner-mauer-vor-dem-durchbruch/7572716.html |title=Berliner Mauer vor dem Durchbruch |first=Axel |last=Gustke |date=December 31, 2012 |newspaper=] |language=de}}</ref>
			|-
	* ] – NFL linebacker
			| December 27, 2017
	* ] – former NFL quarterback and 1996 Heisman Trophy winner
			| rowspan="3"| ]
	* ] – NFL running back
			|-
	* ] – Seattle Seahawks quarterback
			| December 28, 2017
			|-
			| December 29, 2017{{efn|The concert on December 29, 2017 at the ] in ] was apart of the Brockhampton Prom.}}
			|-
			| December 30, 2017{{efn|The concert on December 30, 2017 at The Observatory in ] was as an opener for ].}}
			| ]
			| The Observatory
			|-
			|}
	===Basketball===		== 2018 shows ==
	]]]
	]]]
	]]]
	* ] – former NBA center
	* ] – German player for ] in ] who applied for U.S. citizenship in 2011
	* ] – ] guard<ref name="lifeinthefingerlakes.com">"The Boeheims were German in an Italian neighborhood, but honestly, it's not like my family celebrated their cultural heritage much."</ref>
	* ] – ] NCAA basketball coach<ref name="lifeinthefingerlakes.com"/>
	* ] – professional basketball player born in ] in a U.S. Army base
	* ] – former center in the ] and for the ]
	* ] – professional basketball player and coach
	* ] – professional basketball player
	* ] – former guard/forward with the NBA ]
	* ] – professional basketball player
	* ] – professional basketball player for the German national team
	* ] – NBA Power Forward / Center<ref> "Notes: He is the son of Florian Hartenstein, a German former professional basketball player and basketball coach... His mother is American and he was born in Eugene, Oregon ... He lived in USA until 2008, when he followed his family in Germany where his father was playing professionally... He has been a member of the German junior national teams since 2014, when he was 16 years old."</ref>
	* ] – retired NBA basketball player
	* ] – NBA guard for the Chicago Bulls
	* ] – ] team president, former NBA player and coach; Jackson's mother was part of a German ] family<ref>Phil Jackson, "Sacred Hoops", p. 27</ref>
	* ] – center for the Los Angeles Clippers in the NBA and for the ] (] of the United States and of Germany)<ref>. ''Los Angeles Times''. 2008-07-03.</ref>
	* ] – professional and college basketball coach<ref>]</ref>
	* ] – professional basketball player
	* ] – television basketball analyst and a former player in the professional Women's National Basketball Association<ref>"...described herself as German..."</ref>
	* ] – All-American NCAA basketball player
	* ] – ] NCAA basketball coach
	* ] – NBA center
	* ] – college basketball coach<ref> "Prevalence of Prohm Surname in Deutschland"</ref>
	* ] – professional basketball player born in ] in a U.S. Army base
	* ] – college basketball coach and ] member<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bigbluehistory.net/bb/statistics/Coaches/Adolph_Rupp.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2009-04-21 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090312051429/http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/Statistics/Coaches/Adolph_Rupp.html |archivedate=2009-03-12 |df=}} "Unlike some coaches, Mr. Rupp rarely played the role of a substitute father to his players. He was not the chummy sort. He had stern and demanding qualities, inherited from his German-immigrant father. He had reverence for order and precision and demanded it from his players. To some person, he appeared to be a mean old man."</ref>
	* ] – former NBA All-Star forward
	* ] – professional basketball player for the German national team
	* ] – head coach of the women's basketball team at the University of Louisville
			{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
	===Ice hockey===
			! width="225"| Date
	* ] – professional NHL hockey player<ref> "Backes is a surname of German immigrants to America."</ref>
			! width="175"| City
	* ] — professional NHL hockey player
			! width="150"| Country
	* ] – professional NHL hockey player
			! width="250"| Venue
	* ] – professional NHL hockey player<ref> "German: topographic name of uncertain origin, possibly related to modern German Eichel 'acorn'. German: habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of an acorn."</ref>
			|-
	* ] – professional ice hockey player<ref>"...became a U.S.-German dual citizen before the move."</ref>
			! colspan="4"|''"Love Your Parents Tour"'' North American dates <ref name="ERTandLYP" />
	* ] – hockey player<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.houseofnames.com/kreider-family-crest |title=Kreider Family Crest and History |publisher=Houseofnames.com |date=2013-11-26 |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref>
			|-
	* ] – professional ice hockey player<ref>{{Cite web |title=Die Kultfigur bei den Pinguins – Sport in Bremen – WESER-KURIER |url=http://www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/bremen-sport_artikel,-Die-Kultfigur-bei-den-Pinguins-_arid,1284456.html |website=www.weser-kurier.de |access-date=2016-02-13 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160213090148/http://www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/bremen-sport_artikel%2C-Die-Kultfigur-bei-den-Pinguins-_arid%2C1284456.html |archivedate=2016-02-13 |df=}}</ref>
			| January 16, 2018
	* ] – NHL and U.S. Olympic hockey player
			| ]
	* ] – professional NHL hockey player<ref> "German (Müller) and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a miller, Middle High German müller, German Müller. In Germany Müller, Mueller is the most frequent of all surnames; in the U.S. it is often changed to Miller."</ref>
			| rowspan="17"| ]
	* ] – professional hockey player
			| rowspan="2"| ]
	* ] – professional hockey player
			|-
	* ] – ice hockey player
			| January 17, 2018
	* ] – professional NHL hockey player<ref> "German: topographic or habitational name of unexplained origin."</ref>
			| ]
	* ] – professional NHL hockey player
			|-
	* ] – professional NHL hockey player<ref> "German: nickname from Middle High German schallære 'braggart', 'orator', 'babbler'. Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a trumpeter or a shofar player, from an agent derivative of Yiddish shaln 'to sound'."</ref>
			| January 19, 2018
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| January 20, 2018
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| January 22, 2018
			| ]
			| House of Blues
			|-
			| January 23, 2018
			| rowspan="2"| ]
			| rowspan="2"| ]
			|-
			| January 24, 2018
			|-
			| January 25, 2018
			| ]
			| Revolution
			|-
			| January 26, 2018
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| January 28, 2018
			| ]
			| The Fillmore
			|-
			| January 29, 2018
			| ]
			| The Ritz
			|-
			| January 30, 2018
			| rowspan="2"| ]
			| rowspan="2"| ]
			|-
			| January 31, 2018
			|-
			| February 2, 2018
			| rowspan="3"| ]
			| rowspan="3"| ]
			|-
			| February 3, 2018
			|-
			| February 4, 2018
			|-
			| February 5, 2018
			| ]
			| House of Blues
			|-
			| February 6, 2018
			| ]
			| rowspan="2"| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| February 8, 2018
			| ]
			| Rebel Theater
			|-
			| February 10, 2018
			| ]
			| rowspan="12"| United States
			| ]
			|-
			| February 11, 2018
			| rowspan="2"| ]
			| rowspan="2"| ]
			|-
			| February 12, 2018
			|-
			| February 13, 2018
			| ]
			| The Intersection
			|-
			| February 15, 2018
			| ]
			| Music Hall
			|-
			| February 16, 2018
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| February 18, 2018
			| rowspan="2"| ]
			| rowspan="2"| House of Blues
			|-
			| February 19, 2018
			|-
			| February 20, 2018
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| February 21, 2018
			| ]
			| The Truman
			|-
			| February 22, 2018
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| February 24, 2018
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| February 26, 2018
			| ]
			| Canada
			| ]
			|-
			| February 27, 2018
			| rowspan="2"| ]
			| rowspan="8"| United States
			| rowspan="2"| ]
			|-
			| February 28, 2018
			|-
			| March 2, 2018
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| March 3, 2018
			| rowspan="2"| ]
			| rowspan="2"| ]
			|-
			| March 4, 2018
			|-
			| March 5, 2018
			| ]
			| Ace of Spades
			|-
			| March 7, 2018
			| rowspan="2"| ]
			| rowspan="2"| The Van Buren
			|-
			| March 8, 2018
			|-
			! colspan="4"|''"Stereo Spirit Tour"'' North American dates. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.brckhmptn.com/dates/|title=BROCKHAMPTON|website=Brockhampton Tour Dates|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180318045203/http://brckhmptn.com/dates/|archivedate=April 6, 2018|access-date=June 2, 2019}}</ref> <ref name="stereoSpirit"> ''Hypebeast'', March 15, 2018. Retrieved June 4, 2019.</ref>
			|-
			| April 14, 2018{{efn|name="Coachella"|The concerts on April 14 and 21, 2018 at ] in ] was apart of the ].}}
			| ]
			| rowspan="6"| United States
			| ]
			|-
			| April 17, 2018
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| April 21, 2018{{efn|name="Coachella"}}
			| Indio
			| Empire Polo Club
			|-
			| May 12, 2018{{efn|The concert on May 12, 2018 at ] in ] was apart of Blurry Vision.}}
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| May 25, 2018
			| ]
			| Upstate Concert Hall
			|-
			| May 26, 2018{{efn|The concert on May 26, 2018 at ] in ] was apart of ].}}
			| Boston
			| ]
			|-
			! colspan="4"|Following the ejection of Ameer Vann from the group, Brockhampton cancelled the following US tour dates. <ref name="stereoSpirit" /> <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.brckhmptn.com/dates/|title=BROCKHAMPTON|website=Brockhampton Tour Dates|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180531062758/https://www.brckhmptn.com/dates/|archivedate=May 31, 2018|access-date=June 2, 2019}}</ref> <ref> ''Consequence of Sound'', May 28, 2018. Retrieved June 4, 2019.</ref>
			|-
			| <s>May 27, 2018{{efn|The concert on May 27, 2018 at ] in ] would have been apart of ].}}</s>
			| <s>]</s>
			| rowspan="16"| <s>United States</s>
			| <s>]</s>
			|-
			| <s>May 29, 2018</s>
			| <s>]</s>
			| <s>Town Ballroom</s>
			|-
			| <s>May 30, 2018</s>
			| <s>]</s>
			| <s>]</s>
			|-
			| <s>May 31, 2018</s>
			| <s>]</s>
			| <s>House of Blues</s>
			|-
			| <s>June 2, 2018{{efn|The concert on June 2, 2018 at ] in ] would have been apart of the ].}}</s>
			| <s>New York</s>
			| <s>]</s>
			|-
			| <s>June 3, 2018</s>
			| <s>]</s>
			| <s>]</s>
			|-
			| <s>June 4, 2018</s>
			| <s>]</s>
			| <s>]</s>
			|-
	===Wrestling, mixed martial arts, and boxing===
			| <s>June 5, 2018</s>
	]]]
			| <s>]</s>
	]]]
			| <s>]</s>
	* ] – boxer, ]<ref> "Maximillian Adelbert Baer, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, to German immigrant parents. His father was a butcher, and Baer often credited his powerful shoulders to working as a butcher."</ref>
			|-
	* ] – professional wrestler and mixed martial artist, her father is of German descent
			| <s>June 7, 2018</s>
	* ] – professional ] fighter and instructor, and is a former lightweight champion for the ] and Gladiator Challenge mixed martial arts organizations
			| <s>]</s>
	* ] – former professional wrestler
			| <s>]</s>
	* ] – Former professional wrestler
			|-
	* ] – boxer, ] champion. Nicknamed "The Pittsburgh Windmill"
			| <s>June 8, 2018</s>
	* ] – professional wrestler, professional wrestling valet and fitness and glamour model
			| <s>]</s>
	*] – professional wrestler<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.sport1.de/kampfsport/wrestling/2017/02/nia-jax-vor-der-wwe-deutschland-tour-tim-wiese-ist-geruestet.amp|title=An XL model mixes up the WWE stars|last=|first=|date=|work=www.sport1.de|access-date=February 20, 2019}}</ref>
			| <s>Iron City Bham</s>
	*] – professional wrestler and MMA fighter
			|-
	* ] – professional wrestler known in the ] as "Sasha Banks" and formerly known as "Mercedes KV"<ref>{{cite podcast |url=http://podcastone.com/pg/jsp/program/episode.jsp?programID=593&pid=529861 |time=48:09 |title=TIJ – EP168 – Sasha Banks |website=Talk is Jericho |publisher=Podcastone |author=] |accessdate=February 2, 2016}}</ref>
			| <s>June 9, 2018{{efn|The concert on June 9, 2018 at ] in ] would have been apart of ].}}</s>
	* ] – retired professional wrestler, known by his ring name "Dr. D"
			| <s>]</s>
	* ] – professional ] (MMA) fighter, currently fighting for the ] of the ]
			| <s>]</s>
	* ] – professional ] (MMA) fighter, politician and actor
			|-
	* ] – professional wrestler and boxer<ref>] "German for 'sunny hill'"</ref>
			| <s>June 11, 2018</s>
	* ] – Professional Wrestler
			| <s>]</s>
			| <s>]</s>
			|-
			| <s>June 12, 2018</s>
			| <s>]</s>
			| <s>]</s>
			|-
			| <s>June 14, 2018</s>
			| <s>]</s>
			| <s>]</s>
			|-
			| <s>June 15, 2018</s>
			| <s>]</s>
			| <s>]</s>
			|-
			| <s>June 16, 2018</s>
			| <s>]</s>
			| <s>]</s>
			|-
			! colspan="4"|Continued ''"Stereo Spirit"'' North American dates <ref name="stereoSpirit" /> <ref name="june18Onwards">{{Cite web|url=https://www.brckhmptn.com/dates/|title=BROCKHAMPTON|website=Brockhampton Tour Dates|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180713191528/https://brckhmptn.com/dates/|archivedate=June 29, 2018|access-date=June 2, 2019}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://concordmusichall.com/calendar/brockhampton/|title=Brockhampton: Concord Music Hall|website=Concord Music Hall|access-date=June 4, 2019}}</ref>
			|-
			| June 30, 2018{{efn|The concert on June 30, 2018 at ] in ] was apart of Agenda Festival.}}
			| ]
			| United States
			| ]
			|-
			| July 5, 2018{{efn|The concert on July 5, 2018 at ] in ] was apart of ].}}
			| ]
			| rowspan="3"| Canada
			| ]
			|-
			| July 6, 2018{{efn|The concert on July 6, 2018 at LeBreton Flats Park in ] was apart of ].}}
			| ]
			| LeBreton Flats Park
			|-
			| July 7, 2018{{efn|The concert on July 7, 2018 at ] in ] was apart of FVDED In The Park.}}
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| July 21, 2018{{efn|The concert on July 21, 2018 at ] in Seattle was apart of ].}}
			| Seattle
			| rowspan="6"| United States
			| ]
			|-
			| July 29, 2018{{efn|The concert on July 21, 2018 at West Riverfront Park in ] was apart of ].}}
			| Detroit
			| West Riverfront Park
			|-
			| July 31, 2018
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| August 1, 2018
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| rowspan="2"| August 3, 2018{{efn|The concert on August 3, 2018 at ] in ] was apart of ].}}
			| rowspan="2"| Chicago
			| ]
			|-
			| Concord Music Hall
			|-
			| August 5, 2018{{efn|The concert on August 5, 2018 at ] in ] was apart of ].}}
			| Montreal
			| Canada
			| ]
			|-
			! colspan="4"|''"Stereo Spirit"'' European dates <ref name="stereoSpirit" /> <ref name="june18Onwards"></ref>
			|-
			| August 8, 2018{{efn|The concert on August 8, 2018 at ] in ] was apart of ].}}
			| ]
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| August 9, 2018{{efn|The concert on August 9, 2018 at ] in ] was apart of ].}}
			| ]
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| August 10, 2018{{efn|The concert on August 10, 2018 at ] in ] was apart of Haven Festival.}}
			| ]
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| August 12, 2018{{efn|The concert on August 12, 2018 at ] in ] was apart of ].}}
			| ]
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| August 14, 2018
			| ]
			| ]
			| Festsaal Kreuzberg
			|-
			| August 16, 2018{{efn|The concert on August 16, 2018 at ] in ] was apart of ].}}
			| ]
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| August 17, 2018{{efn|The concert on August 17, 2018 at ] in ] was apart of ].}}
			| ]
			| rowspan="2"| ]
			| Spijk en Bremerberg
			|-
			| August 18, 2018
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| August 20, 2018
			| rowspan="2"| ]
			| rowspan="2"| ]
			| rowspan="2"| ]
			|-
			| August 21, 2018
			|-
			| August 22, 2018
			| ]
			| ]
			| Helix
			|-
			| August 24, 2018{{efn|The concert on August 24, 2018 at ] in ] was apart of Summer Jam.}}
			| ]
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| August 25, 2018{{efn|The concerts on August 25, 2018 at ] in ] was apart of ].}}
			| ]
			| rowspan="2"| England
			| ]
			|-
			| August 26, 2018{{efn|The concert on August 26, 2018 at ] in ] was apart of ].}}
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			! colspan="4"|''"Brockhampton: Live in Australia / New Zealand"'' dates <ref name="september18Onwards">{{Cite web|url=https://www.brckhmptn.com/dates/|title=BROCKHAMPTON|website=Brockhampton Tour Dates|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180930043332/https://www.brckhmptn.com/dates/|archivedate=September 30, 2018|access-date=June 2, 2019}}</ref> <ref> ''Coup De Main'', June 21, 2018. Retrieved June 4, 2019.</ref>
			|-
			| September 21, 2018
			| ]
			| ]
			| Logan Campbell Centre
			|-
			| September 22, 2018{{efn|name="Listen Out"|The concerts on September 22, 23, 29 and 30, 2018 in ] were apart of Listen Out.}}
			| ]
			| rowspan="6"| ]
			| Catani Gardens
			|-
			| September 23, 2018{{efn|name="Listen Out"}}
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| September 25, 2018
			| Melbourne
			| ]
			|-
			| September 26, 2018
			| rowspan="2"| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| September 29, 2018{{efn|name="Listen Out"}}
			| ]
			|-
			| September 30, 2018{{efn|name="Listen Out"}}
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			! colspan="4"|''"I'll Be There"'' North American dates <ref name="september18Onwards" /> <ref> ''Complex'', August 31, 2018. Retrieved June 4, 2019.</ref>
			|-
			| October 3, 2018
			| ]
			| rowspan="21"| United States
			| ]
			|-
			| October 5, 2018{{efn|name="ACL"|The concerts on October 5 and 12, 2018 at ] in ] were apart of Austin City Limits Music Festival.}}
			| rowspan="2"| Austin
			| ]
			|-
			| October 6, 2018
			| Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheatre
			|-
			| October 7, 2018
			| Houston
			| ]
			|-
			| October 9, 2018
			| Kansas City
			| ]
			|-
			| October 10, 2018
			| Dallas
			| South Side Ballroom
			|-
			| October 12, 2018{{efn|name="ACL"}}
			| Austin
			| Zilker Park
			|-
			| October 13, 2018
			| New Orleans
			| ]
			|-
			| October 14, 2018
			| Atlanta
			| Coca-Cola Roxy
			|-
			| October 16, 2018
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| October 17, 2018
			| rowspan="2"| Philadelphia
			| rowspan="2"| ]
			|-
			| October 18, 2018
			|-
			| October 20, 2018
			| Boston
			| ]
			|-
			| October 21, 2018
			| rowspan="3"| New York
			| rowspan="3"| ]
			|-
			| October 22, 2018
			|-
			| October 24, 2018
			|-
			| October 26, 2018
			| Detroit
			| ]
			|-
			| October 28, 2018
			| Chicago
			| ]
			|-
			| October 30, 2018
			| Minnneapolis
			| ]
			|-
			| November 1, 2018
			| Denver
			| ]
			|-
			| November 3, 2018
			| Seattle
			| ]
			|-
			| November 5, 2018
			| Vancouver
			| Canada
			| ]
			|-
			| November 7, 2018
			| Boise
			| rowspan="8"| United Stated
			| Revolution Concert House
			|-
			| November 8, 2018
			| San Francisco
			| ]
			|-
			| November 11, 2018{{efn|The concert on November 11, 2018 at ] in ] was apart of the ].}}
			| rowspan="3"| Los Angeles
			| ]
			|-
			| November 28, 2018
			| rowspan="2"| ]
			|-
			| November 29, 2018
			|-
			| December 1, 2018
			| San Diego
			| ]
			|-
			| December 3, 2018
			| ]
			| The Observatory
			|-
			| December 6, 2018
			| Seattle
			| ]
			|-
			|}
	===Soccer===		== 2019 shows ==
	]]]
	*] – long-time captain of the ], played in the ] when the U.S. defeated England 1–0<ref></ref>
	* ] – Olympic medalist and professional soccer player
	* ] – midfielder
	* ] – forward for Chivas USA
	* ] – soccer player who currently plays for ] in ]
	* ] – Olympic medalist and professional soccer player
	* ] – right back for ] in the ]<ref name="Yanks Abroad">{{cite web | url = http://yanks-abroad.com/get.php?mode=content&id=7318 | title = Chandler Emerging at FC Nurnberg | date= January 26, 2011 | accessdate =March 5, 2011 | publisher= Yanks Abroad}}</ref>
	* ] – center back
	* ] – U.S. national team
	* ] – long-time member and former captain of the United States national team
	* ] – American soccer player in Finland
	* ] – professional soccer player
	* ] – ], ] goalkeeper for ]
	* ] – professional soccer player
	* ] – soccer goalkeeper for the ] and ] in the ]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.baldyank.com/article.php |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2007-12-11 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080102035747/http://www.baldyank.com/article.php |archivedate=2008-01-02 |df=}} "Marcus' surname comes from his German roots, with his parents leaving Hamburg 35 years ago"</ref>
	* ] – soccer player who currently plays for ] in the ]
	* ] – soccer player currently playing for ] in ]
	* ] – goalkeeper
	* ] – ] currently playing for ] in the ] in Germany<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vfb.de/en/aktuell/meldungen/news/2012/verfplichtung-kiesewetter/page/1470-0-1-1337166981.html |title=VfB sign Jerome Kiesewetter |publisher=] |date=16 May 2012 |accessdate=28 September 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150530050602/http://www.vfb.de/en/aktuell/meldungen/news/2012/verfplichtung-kiesewetter/page/1470-0-1-1337166981.html |archivedate=30 May 2015 |df=}}</ref>
	* ] – professional soccer player
	* ] – professional soccer player
	* ] – professional soccer player for the U.S. national team, born and raised in Berlin
	* ] – soccer player for the ]
	* ] – professional soccer player
	* ] – member of the ] at the ] and ] of the ]<ref></ref>
	* ] – American soccer player playing in Denmark
	* ] – Major League Soccer manager<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.prostamerika.com/2010/01/01/sigi-schmid-interview-part-1-17342/ |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2009-01-03 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100317134808/http://www.prostamerika.com/2010/01/01/sigi-schmid-interview-part-1-17342/ |archivedate=2010-03-17 |df=}} "Born in Tübingen, West Germany, he moved with his family to America at the age of four."</ref>
	* ] – goalkeeper for the ]
	* ] – Soccer (football) player for the ] and ] in the Premier League<ref name=YAMature>. Yanks Abroad. November 9, 2005. Retrieved August 20, 2012.</ref><ref name=espn1>Winner, Andrew (September 19, 2005). . ESPN FC. Retrieved May 17, 2015. Archived from on May 15, 2010.</ref>
	* ] – plays for the New York Red Bulls
	* ] – retired professional soccer player
	* ] – Olympic medalist and professional soccer player
	* ] – currently plays for ] in ]
	* ] – forward, currently a free agent
			{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
	===Golf===
			! width="225"| Date
	]]]
			! width="200"| City
	* ] – professional golfer and ] winner<ref> "German: variant of Duffner."</ref>
			! width="150"| Country
	* ] – golf legend
			! width="250"| Venue
	* ] – professional golfer; won 18 career major championships on the PGA Tour over a span of 24 years<ref> "Golden wonder"</ref>
			|-
	* ] – professional golfer, 2015 Masters Tournament winner with a score of 18 under par<ref>{{cite web |url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KD7P-LLM |title=Germans to America Passenger Data file, 1850–1897, Ship Normannia, departed from Hamburg, arrived in New York, New York, New York, United States, NAID identifier 1746067, National Archives at College Park, Maryland |date= |work=] |accessdate=23 June 2015}}</ref>
			! colspan="4"| Early 2019 US festival dates <ref name="may19onwards">{{Cite web|url=https://www.brckhmptn.com/dates/|title=BROCKHAMPTON|website=Brockhampton Tour Dates|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190516155118/https://www.brckhmptn.com/dates/|archivedate=May 16, 2019|access-date=June 2, 2019}}</ref>
	* ] – professional golfer
			|-
			| May 31, 2019{{efn|The concert on May 31, 2019 at ] in ] was apart of ].}}
			| ]
			| rowspan="3"| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| June 14, 2019{{efn|The concert on June 14, 2019 at ] in ] was apart of ].}}
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| June 22, 2019{{efn|The concert on June 22, 2019 at The Woodlands of ] in ] was apart of ].}}
			| ]
			| The Woodlands of ]
			|-
			! colspan="4"|2019 European festival dates <ref name="may19onwards" />
			|-
			| June 27, 2019{{efn|The concert on June 27, 2019 at Festivalpark in ] was apart of ].}}
			| ]
			| ]
			| Festivalpark
			|-
			| June 28, 2019{{efn|The concert on June 28, 2019 at ] in ] was apart of ].}}
			| ]
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| June 29, 2019{{efn|The concert on June 29, 2019 at St. Gallen in ] was apart of ].}}
			| ]
			| ]
			| St. Gallen
			|-
			| July 2, 2019{{efn|The concert on July 2, 2019 at ] in ] was apart of Kadetten Festival.}}
			| ]
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| July 4, 2019{{efn|The concert on July 4, 2019 at Roskilde in ] was apart of ].}}
			| ]
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| July 5, 2019{{efn|The concert on July 5, 2019 at ] in ] was apart of ].}}
			| ]
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| July 6, 2019{{efn|The concert on July 6, 2019 at Ericeira Camping in ] was apart of Sumol Summer Fest.}}
			| ]
			| ]
			| Ericeira Camping
			|-
			| July 7, 2019{{efn|The concert on July 7, 2019 at ] in ] was apart of ].}}
			| ]
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| July 11, 2019{{efn|The concert on July 11, 2019 at ] in ] was apart of ].}}
			| ]
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| July 12, 2019{{efn|The concert on July 12, 2019 at ] in ] was apart of ].}}
			| ]
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| July 13, 2019{{efn|The concert on July 13, 2019 at ] in ] was apart of ].}}
			| ]
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| July 14, 2019{{efn|The concert on July 14, 2019 at ] in ] was apart of Woo Hah! Festival.}}
			| ]
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			! colspan="4"|2019 Japanese festival dates <ref name="august19onwards">{{Cite web|url=https://www.brckhmptn.com/dates/|title=BROCKHAMPTON|website=Brockhampton Tour Dates|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190625160029/https://www.brckhmptn.com/dates/|archivedate=June 25, 2019|access-date=July 13, 2019}}</ref>
			|-
			| August 15, 2019
			| ]
			| rowspan="3" | ]
			| ]
			|-
			| August 17, 2019{{efn|name="Summer Sonic"|The concerts on August 17 and 18, 2019 in ] were apart of ].}}
			| ]
			| Maishima Sonic Park
			|-
			| August 18, 2019{{efn|name="Summer Sonic"}}
			| Tokyo
			| ] & ]
			|-
			! colspan="4"| Late 2019 US festival dates <ref name="august19onwards" />
			|-
			| August 23, 2019{{efn|The concert on August 23, 2019 at Montrose Beach in ] was apart of Mamby On The Beach.}}
			| ]
			| rowspan="2" | United States
			| Montrose Beach
			|-
			| November 3, 2019{{efn|The concert on July 14, 2019 at ] in ] was apart of Day N Night.}}
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			|}
			== 2020 shows ==
			{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
	===Tennis===
			! width="225"| Date
			! width="200"| City
			! width="150"| Country
			! width="250"| Venue
			|-
			! colspan="4"| Australian & New Zealand 2020 festival dates <ref name="august19onwards" />
			|-
			| January 4, 2020{{efn|name="FOMO"|The concerts on January 4, 5, 11, 12 & 15, 2020 in ] and ] were apart of FOMO Festival.}}
			| ]
			| rowspan="5" | ]
			| ]
			|-
			| January 5, 2020{{efn|name="FOMO"}}
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| January 10, 2020
			| ]
			| Belvoir Amphitheatre
			|-
			| January 11, 2020{{efn|name="FOMO"}}
			| ]
			| Paramatta Park
			|-
			| January 12, 2020{{efn|name="FOMO"}}
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			| January 15, 2020{{efn|name="FOMO"|The concerts on January 4, 5, 11, 12 & 15, 2019 in ] and ] were apart of FOMO Festival.}}
			| ]
			| ]
			| ]
			|-
			|}
			== Notes ==
	* ] – tennis player and 1948 ] Champion
			{{Reflist|group=lower-alpha}}
	* ] – professional tennis player
	* ] – tennis player
	* ] – former professional tennis player
	* ] – former professional tennis player
	===Other sports===		== References ==
			{{reflist}}
	* ] – professional bodybuilder and powerlifter
	* ] – professional rodeo cowboy, inductee in several rodeo halls of fame
	* ] and his race-driving sons ], ], and ]; Tony was at times nicknamed "Der Panzer" due to his ancestry and driving style
	* ] – two-time World Champion artistic gymnast
	* ] – professional halfpipe snowboarder and pioneer
	* ] – Olympic snowboarder
	* ] – gymnastics teacher associated from 1854 to 1915 with the Milwaukee Turnverein, he served in the Union Army from 1861 to 1864<ref>"Turnen is simply the German word for gymnastics, but the Turner movement has been defined by its compelling combination of physical exercise, cultural activity, and civic engagement. The German-American group played a leading role in the public life of Milwaukee, especially in the late nineteenth century."</ref>
	* ] – race car driver in NASCAR's top division<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wargs.com/other/earnhardt.html|title=Ancestry of Dale Earnhardt Jr.|publisher=}}</ref>
	* ] – semi-retired professional ] driver, team owner, author analyst for '']''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wargs.com/other/earnhardt.html|title=Ancestry of Dale Earnhardt Jr.|publisher=}}</ref>
	* ] – Olympic Gold Medal winner and first woman to swim the English Channel<ref> "was the first woman to swim the English Channel. The German-American swimming champ was born on October 23, 1905 in New York City, one of six children. Her father was a butcher from Germany. When Gertrude was eight, while visiting her grandmother in Germany, she fell into a pond, a fateful experience that led her to learn to swim. At the Paris Olympics in 1924 she won gold in the 400-meter freestyle relay, and bronze in the 100&nbsp;m and 400&nbsp;m individual freestyle events. In her 1926 Channel swim she beat the men's record by more than two hours. She held the women's record until 1950, when Florence Chadwick crossed the Channel in 13 hours and 20 minutes."</ref>
	* ] – gymnast who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics with a wooden leg
	* ] – ] and ] between 1972–1975
	* ] – Army captain who won a bronze medal at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi as a member of the famed Team Night Train<ref> "Recorded in several forms including Fogt, Foit, Vogt, Vogts, Veogt, Voigt and Voight, this is a German surname, but of pre 5th century Roman (Latin) origins. It derives from the ancient word "advocatus.""</ref>
	* ] – alpine ski racer; first American to win an Olympic gold medal for skiing
	* ] – ] in the early 20th century
	* ] – Olympic fencer<ref name=autogenerated3> West Coast Fencing Archive.</ref>
	* ] – ] and ] race car driver
	* ] – Olympic swimmer
	* ] – Olympic medal-winning swimmer
	* ] – soccer referee in ] in the United States and Canada, as well as ] and the ]
	* ] – professional boxer, nicknamed "The ] Windmill", he was the American Light Heavyweight Champion, 1922–1923 and World Middleweight Champion, 1923–1926<ref> "Both of Harry Greb's parents came from German families ..."</ref>
	* ] – ] driver and former professional ] driver
	* ] – motorcycle daredevil<ref> "Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel was the first of two children born to Robert E. and Ann Keough "Zippy" Knievel. His surname is of German origin; his great-great-grandparents on his father's side emigrated to the United States from Germany and on his mother's side from Ireland."</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~gustaf/knievel.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-03-11 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071205210147/http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~gustaf/knievel.html |archivedate=2007-12-05 |df=}} "Knievel"</ref>
	* ] – racewalker
	* ] – Olympic champion fencer
	* ] – U.S. national champion figure skater
	* ] – IndyCar Series driver, driving the 21 car for Ed Carpenter Racing
	* ] – amateur golfer currently playing collegiate ] at ]<ref></ref>
	* ] – professional ]
	* ] – swimmer; has won 16 Olympic medals<ref>{{cite web |url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/olympics08/phelps.htm |title=michael phelps |publisher=ancestry.com |date= |accessdate=2014-05-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120808192320/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/olympics08/phelps.htm |archive-date=2012-08-08 |dead-url=yes |df= }}</ref>
	* ] – sports journalist for TNT and TBS
	* ] – swimmer
	* ] – Olympic skier<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.fc/qx/schnoor-family-crest.htm |title=Schnoor Family Crest and History |publisher=Houseofnames.com |date=2012-09-25 |accessdate=2014-05-22}}</ref>
	* ] – swimmer and Olympic gold medalist
	* ] – ] who has competed on the World Cup circuit
	* ] – swimmer and Olympic gold medalist
	* ] – alpine skier
	* ] – alpine skier
	* ] (1913–1996) – perhaps the best known pool player in the United States<ref> "The Wanderones were German-Swiss"</ref>
	* ] – bowling professional and a founding member of the ] (PBA), father of Pete Weber
	* ] – bowling professional on the ] (PBA) Tour
	* ] – slalom canoer
	* ] – swimmer, Olympic gold medalist
	* ] – bodybuilder
	* ] – German-born American bridge player and administrator<ref>
	{{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140531144037/http://web5.acbl.org/about-acbl/hall-of-fame/members/von-zedtwitz-waldemar/ |date=2014-05-31 }}. ''Hall of Fame''. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-12-04.</ref>
			== External links ==
	==First Ladies of the United States==
	(in order by their husband's presidency)
	* ]<ref> "Ancestry:
	German, Welsh, English, Irish; Lucretia Garfield's parental great-grandfather immigrated to Pennsylvania (in a part that is now Delaware) from Württemberg, Germany. Her mother's family all originated in New England, the latest immigrating from England six generations before her own. Among her American ancestors were James and Mary Chilton, Pilgrims on the Mayflower."</ref>
	* ]
	* ]
			* {{Official website|https://www.brckhmptn.com/|name=Official website}}
	==See also==
	* ]
	* ]
	* ]
	* ]
	* ]s
	* ]
	* ]
	* ]
			{{Brockhampton}}
	==References==
	{{Reflist|30em}}
			{{authority control}}
	==External links==
	*
	]		]
	]
	]
	]
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Vocalists Kevin Abstract (top) and Matt Champion (bottom) performing at Quebec City Summer Festival in 2018.

This is a chronological list of Brockhampton's known live performances.

2017 shows

Date	City	Country	Venue
"Jennifer's Tour" North American dates
September 3, 2017	Denver	United States	Globe Hall
September 5, 2017	Minneapolis		7th Street Entry
September 6, 2017	Chicago		Bottom Lounge
September 7, 2017	Detroit		El Club
September 8, 2017	Grand Rapids		The Stache
September 10, 2017	Toronto	Canada	Danforth Music Hall
September 11, 2017, two shows	New York	United States	Highline Ballroom
September 12, 2017	Cambridge		Middle East
September 13, 2017	Philadelphia		The Foundry
September 15, 2017, two shows	Washington		Rock & Roll Hotel
September 18, 2017	Austin		Come and Take It Live
September 19, 2017	Houston		Warehouse Live
September 20, 2017	Dallas		Trees
September 22, 2017	Phoenix		Pub Rock
September 24, 2017	San Francisco		Social Hall SF
September 25, 2017	Portland		Peter's Room
September 27, 2017	Vancouver	Canada	Biltmore Cabaret
September 28, 2017	Seattle	United States	Chop Suey
September 29, 2017	Eugene		Wow Hall
October 1, 2017	San Francisco		Social Hall SF
October 2, 2017	San Diego		The Observatory
Late 2017 California shows
October 28, 2017	Los Angeles	United States	Exposition Park
December 27, 2017			El Rey Theatre
December 28, 2017
December 29, 2017
December 30, 2017	Santa Ana		The Observatory

2018 shows

Date	City	Country	Venue
"Love Your Parents Tour" North American dates
January 16, 2018	Dallas	United States	House of Blues
January 17, 2018	Houston
January 19, 2018	San Antonio		Aztec Theatre
January 20, 2018	Austin		Emo's
January 22, 2018	New Orleans		House of Blues
January 23, 2018	Atlanta		Buckhead Theatre
January 24, 2018
January 25, 2018	Fort Lauderdale		Revolution
January 26, 2018	Tampa		The Ritz Ybor
January 28, 2018	Silver Spring		The Fillmore
January 29, 2018	Raleigh		The Ritz
January 30, 2018	Philadelphia		Theatre of Living Arts
January 31, 2018
February 2, 2018	New York		Irving Plaza
February 3, 2018
February 4, 2018
February 5, 2018	Boston		House of Blues
February 6, 2018	Montreal	Canada	Corona Theatre
February 8, 2018	Toronto		Rebel Theater
February 10, 2018	Indianapolis	United States	The Egyptian Room
February 11, 2018	Detroit		Majestic Theater
February 12, 2018
February 13, 2018	Grand Rapids		The Intersection
February 15, 2018	Minneapolis		Music Hall
February 16, 2018	Milwaukee		The Rave/Eagles Club
February 18, 2018	Chicago		House of Blues
February 19, 2018
February 20, 2018	St. Louis		The Pageant
February 21, 2018	Kansas City		The Truman
February 22, 2018	Denver		Ogden Theatre
February 24, 2018	Salt Lake City		The Depot
February 26, 2018	Vancouver	Canada	Vogue Theatre
February 27, 2018	Seattle	United States	The Showbox
February 28, 2018
March 2, 2018	Portland		Crystal Ballroom
March 3, 2018	San Francisco		Warfield Theater
March 4, 2018
March 5, 2018	Sacramento		Ace of Spades
March 7, 2018	Phoenix		The Van Buren
March 8, 2018
"Stereo Spirit Tour" North American dates.
April 14, 2018	Indio	United States	Empire Polo Club
April 17, 2018	Los Angeles		The Novo
April 21, 2018	Indio		Empire Polo Club
May 12, 2018	Oakland		Middle Harbor Shoreline Park
May 25, 2018	Clifton Park		Upstate Concert Hall
May 26, 2018	Boston		Harvard Athletic Complex
Following the ejection of Ameer Vann from the group, Brockhampton cancelled the following US tour dates.
May 27, 2018	Falcon Heights	United States	Minnesota State Fairgrounds
May 29, 2018	Buffalo		Town Ballroom
May 30, 2018	Pittsburgh		Stage AE
May 31, 2018	Cleveland		House of Blues
June 2, 2018	New York		Randalls Island
June 3, 2018	Baltimore		Rams Head Live!
June 4, 2018	Richmond		The National
June 5, 2018	Norfolk		The NorVa
June 7, 2018	Charlotte		The Fillmore
June 8, 2018	Birmingham		Iron City Bham
June 9, 2018	Manchester		Great Stage Park
June 11, 2018	Tulsa		Cain's Ballroom
June 12, 2018	Oklahoma City		Diamond Ballroom
June 14, 2018	Albuquerque		Sunshine Theater
June 15, 2018	Tucson		Rialto Theatre
June 16, 2018	Ventura		Ventura Theater
Continued "Stereo Spirit" North American dates
June 30, 2018	Long Beach	United States	Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center
July 5, 2018	Quebec City	Canada	Plains of Abraham
July 6, 2018	Ottawa		LeBreton Flats Park
July 7, 2018	Surrey		Holland Park
July 21, 2018	Seattle	United States	Capitol Hill
July 29, 2018	Detroit		West Riverfront Park
July 31, 2018	Cincinnati		Bogarts
August 1, 2018	Louisville		Mercury Ballroom
August 3, 2018	Chicago		Grant Park
			Concord Music Hall
August 5, 2018	Montreal	Canada	Parc Jean-Drapeau
"Stereo Spirit" European dates
August 8, 2018	Oslo	Norway	Tøyen Park
August 9, 2018	Gothenburg	Sweden	Slottsskogen
August 10, 2018	Copenhagen	Denmark	Refshaleøen
August 12, 2018	Helsinki	Finland	Suvilahti
August 14, 2018	Berlin	Germany	Festsaal Kreuzberg
August 16, 2018	Hasselt	Belgium	Kiewit
August 17, 2018	Biddinghuizen	Netherlands	Spijk en Bremerberg
August 18, 2018	Amsterdam		Melkweg
August 20, 2018	London	England	KOKO
August 21, 2018
August 22, 2018	Dublin	Ireland	Helix
August 24, 2018	Paris	France	U Arena
August 25, 2018	Reading	England	Little John's Farm
August 26, 2018	Leeds		Bramham Park
"Brockhampton: Live in Australia / New Zealand" dates
September 21, 2018	Auckland	New Zealand	Logan Campbell Centre
September 22, 2018	Melbourne	Australia	Catani Gardens
September 23, 2018	Perth		HBF Stadium
September 25, 2018	Melbourne		Forum Theatre
September 26, 2018	Sydney		Enmore Theatre
September 29, 2018			Centennial Parklands
September 30, 2018	Brisbane		Victoria Park
"I'll Be There" North American dates
October 3, 2018	Tempe	United States	Marquee Theatre
October 5, 2018	Austin		Zilker Park
October 6, 2018			Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheatre
October 7, 2018	Houston		Revention Music Center
October 9, 2018	Kansas City		Arvest Bank Theatre
October 10, 2018	Dallas		South Side Ballroom
October 12, 2018	Austin		Zilker Park
October 13, 2018	New Orleans		Orpheum Theater
October 14, 2018	Atlanta		Coca-Cola Roxy
October 16, 2018	Washington D. C.		The Anthem
October 17, 2018	Philadelphia		The Fillmore
October 18, 2018
October 20, 2018	Boston		Agganis Arena
October 21, 2018	New York		Terminal 5
October 22, 2018
October 24, 2018
October 26, 2018	Detroit		Masonic Temple
October 28, 2018	Chicago		Aragon Ballroom
October 30, 2018	Minnneapolis		The Armory
November 1, 2018	Denver		Fillmore Auditorium
November 3, 2018	Seattle		WaMu Theater
November 5, 2018	Vancouver	Canada	PNE Forum
November 7, 2018	Boise	United Stated	Revolution Concert House
November 8, 2018	San Francisco		Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
November 11, 2018	Los Angeles		Dodgers Stadium
November 28, 2018			Shrine Exposition Hall
November 29, 2018
December 1, 2018	San Diego		Valley View Casino Center
December 3, 2018	Santa Ana		The Observatory
December 6, 2018	Seattle		The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan

2019 shows

Date	City	Country	Venue
Early 2019 US festival dates
May 31, 2019	New York	United States	Randall's Island
June 14, 2019	Manchester		Great Stage Park
June 22, 2019	Dover		The Woodlands of Dover International Speedway
2019 European festival dates
June 27, 2019	Werchter	Belgium	Festivalpark
June 28, 2019	Stockholm	Sweden	Gärdet
June 29, 2019	St. Gallen	Switzerland	St. Gallen
July 2, 2019	Sandvika	Norway	Kadettangen
July 4, 2019	Roskilde	Denmark	Roskilde Festival
July 5, 2019	Turku	Finland	Ruissalo
July 6, 2019	Ericeira	Portugal	Ericeira Camping
July 7, 2019	Dublin	Ireland	Marlay Park
July 11, 2019	Grafenhainichen	Germany	Ferropolis
July 12, 2019	Bilbao	Spain	Mount Cobetas
July 13, 2019	London	England	Gunnersbury Park
July 14, 2019	Hilvarenbeek	Netherlands	Safaripark Beekse Bergen
2019 Japanese festival dates
August 15, 2019	Tokyo	Japan	Studio Coast
August 17, 2019	Osaka		Maishima Sonic Park
August 18, 2019	Tokyo		Zozo Marine Stadium & Makuhari Messe
Late 2019 US festival dates
August 23, 2019	Chicago	United States	Montrose Beach
November 3, 2019	Las Vegas		Las Vegas Festival Grounds

2020 shows

Date	City	Country	Venue
Australian & New Zealand 2020 festival dates
January 4, 2020	Brisbane	Australia	Brisbane Showgrounds
January 5, 2020	Adelaide		Elder Park
January 10, 2020	Perth		Belvoir Amphitheatre
January 11, 2020	Sydney		Paramatta Park
January 12, 2020	Melbourne		Melbourne Showgrounds
January 15, 2020	Auckland	New Zealand	Trust Arena Outdoors

Notes

1. The concert on October 2, 2017 at Exposition Park in Los Angeles was apart of Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival.
2. The concert on December 29, 2017 at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles was apart of the Brockhampton Prom.
3. The concert on December 30, 2017 at The Observatory in Santa Ana was as an opener for Tyler, The Creator.
4. ^ The concerts on April 14 and 21, 2018 at Empire Polo Club in Indio was apart of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.
5. The concert on May 12, 2018 at Middle Harbor Shoreline Park in Oakland was apart of Blurry Vision.
6. The concert on May 26, 2018 at Harvard Athletic Complex in Boston was apart of Boston Calling Music Festival.
7. The concert on May 27, 2018 at Minnesota State Fairgrounds in Falcon Heights would have been apart of Soundset Music Festival.
8. The concert on June 2, 2018 at Randalls Island in New York would have been apart of the Governors Ball Music Festival.
9. The concert on June 9, 2018 at Great Stage Park in Manchester would have been apart of Bonnaroo Music Festival.
10. The concert on June 30, 2018 at Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center in Long Beach was apart of Agenda Festival.
11. The concert on July 5, 2018 at Plains of Abraham in Quebec City was apart of Quebec City Summer Festival.
12. The concert on July 6, 2018 at LeBreton Flats Park in Ottawa was apart of Ottawa Bluesfest.
13. The concert on July 7, 2018 at Holland Park in Surrey was apart of FVDED In The Park.
14. The concert on July 21, 2018 at Capitol Hill in Seattle was apart of Capitol Hill Block Party.
15. The concert on July 21, 2018 at West Riverfront Park in Detroit was apart of Mo Pop Festival.
16. The concert on August 3, 2018 at Grant Park in Chicago was apart of Lollapalooza.
17. The concert on August 5, 2018 at Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal was apart of Osheaga Festival.
18. The concert on August 8, 2018 at Tøyen Park in Oslo was apart of Oya Festival.
19. The concert on August 9, 2018 at Slottsskogen in Gothenburg was apart of Way Out West.
20. The concert on August 10, 2018 at Refshaleøen in Copenhagen was apart of Haven Festival.
21. The concert on August 12, 2018 at Suvilahti in Helsinki was apart of Flow Festival.
22. The concert on August 16, 2018 at Kiewit in Hasselt was apart of Pukkelpop.
23. The concert on August 17, 2018 at Suvilahti in Biddinghuizen was apart of Lowlands Festival.
24. The concert on August 24, 2018 at U Arena in Paris was apart of Summer Jam.
25. The concerts on August 25, 2018 at Little John's Farm in Reading was apart of Reading Festival.
26. The concert on August 26, 2018 at Bramham Park in Leeds was apart of Leeds Festival.
27. ^ The concerts on September 22, 23, 29 and 30, 2018 in Australia were apart of Listen Out.
28. ^ The concerts on October 5 and 12, 2018 at Zilker Park in Austin were apart of Austin City Limits Music Festival.
29. The concert on November 11, 2018 at Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles was apart of the Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival.
30. The concert on May 31, 2019 at Randalls Island in New York was apart of Governors Ball Music Festival.
31. The concert on June 14, 2019 at Great Stage Park in Manchester was apart of Bonnaroo Music Festival.
32. The concert on June 22, 2019 at The Woodlands of Dover International Speedway in Dover was apart of Firefly Music Festival.
33. The concert on June 27, 2019 at Festivalpark in Werchter was apart of Rock Werchter.
34. The concert on June 28, 2019 at Gärdet in Stockholm was apart of Lollapalooza Stockholm.
35. The concert on June 29, 2019 at St. Gallen in St. Gallen was apart of Open Air St. Gallen.
36. The concert on July 2, 2019 at Kadettangen in Sandvika was apart of Kadetten Festival.
37. The concert on July 4, 2019 at Roskilde in Roskilde was apart of Roskilde Festival.
38. The concert on July 5, 2019 at Ruissalo in Turku was apart of Ruisrock Festival.
39. The concert on July 6, 2019 at Ericeira Camping in Ericeira was apart of Sumol Summer Fest.
40. The concert on July 7, 2019 at Marlay Park in Dublin was apart of Longitude Festival.
41. The concert on July 11, 2019 at Ferropolis in Grafenhainichen was apart of Splash! Festival.
42. The concert on July 12, 2019 at Mount Cobetas in Bilbao was apart of Bilbao BBK Live.
43. The concert on July 13, 2019 at Gunnersbury Park in London was apart of Lovebox Festival.
44. The concert on July 14, 2019 at Safaripark Beekse Bergen in Hilvarenbeek was apart of Woo Hah! Festival.
45. ^ The concerts on August 17 and 18, 2019 in Japan were apart of Summer Sonic Festival.
46. The concert on August 23, 2019 at Montrose Beach in Chicago was apart of Mamby On The Beach.
47. The concert on July 14, 2019 at Las Vegas Festival Grounds in Las Vegas was apart of Day N Night.
48. ^ The concerts on January 4, 5, 11, 12 & 15, 2020 in Australia and New Zealand were apart of FOMO Festival. Cite error: The named reference "FOMO" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).

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