List of Famous people with last name Kunkel

Carlos Kunkel is an Argentine lawyer and politician. He was part of the Montoneros organization, and was a national deputy from 2005 to 2017 for the Front for Victory - PJ. He was head of the Peronist Youth in the city of La Plata in the 1970s.

Thor Kunkel, a German author, was born in Frankfurt am Main on 2 September 1963. Kunkel claims to have spent his youth associating with drug friends and American soldiers stationed in the then West Germany. In 1981, on a scholarship to the United States, he enrolled in the creative writing programme of the San Francisco Art Institute.

Louis Martens Kunkel is an American geneticist and member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). His father and grandfather were also scientists and NAS members. Kunkel came from a Lutheran background and attended Lutheran schools in youth. He later graduated from Gettysburg College in 1971. He obtained his PhD from Johns Hopkins University. He is noted for discovering dystrophin, which is relevant to muscular dystrophy research.

Leah Kunkel is an American singer, songwriter and entertainment law attorney.

Peter Kunkel is a German former footballer who is now manager of Rot-Weiß Oberhausen.