List of Famous people named Gottfried

Name Gottfried is among the most common names in Austria. Similar names: Gottfrid, Gotfrid, Gotfred. Here are some famous Gottfrieds:

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

First Name Gottfried
Last Name Leibniz
Born on July 1, 1646
Died on November 14, 1716 (aged 70)
Born in Germany, Saxony

Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz was a prominent German polymath and one of the most important logicians, mathematicians and natural philosophers of the Enlightenment. As a representative of the seventeenth-century tradition of rationalism, Leibniz developed, as his most prominent accomplishment, the ideas of differential and integral calculus, independently of Isaac Newton's contemporaneous developments. Mathematical works have consistently favored Leibniz's notation as the conventional expression of calculus. It was only in the 20th century that Leibniz's law of continuity and transcendental law of homogeneity found mathematical implementation. He became one of the most prolific inventors in the field of mechanical calculators. While working on adding automatic multiplication and division to Pascal's calculator, he was the first to describe a pinwheel calculator in 1685 and invented the Leibniz wheel, used in the arithmometer, the first mass-produced mechanical calculator. He also refined the binary number system, which is the foundation of nearly all digital computers, including the Von Neumann machine, which is the standard design paradigm, or "computer architecture", followed from the second half of the 20th century, and into the 21st.

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Gottfried John

First Name Gottfried
Last Name John
Born on August 29, 1942
Died on September 1, 2014 (aged 72)
Born in Germany
Height 188 cm | 6'2

Gottfried John was a German stage, screen, and voice actor. A long-time collaborator of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, John appeared in many of the filmmaker's projects between 1975 and his death in 1982, including Eight Hours Don't Make a Day, Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven, Despair, The Marriage of Maria Braun, and Berlin Alexanderplatz. His distinctive, gaunt appearance saw him frequently cast as villains, and he is best known to audiences for his role as the corrupt General Arkady Ourumov in the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye, and for his comedic turn as Julius Caesar in Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar, the latter for which he won the Bavarian Film Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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Gottfried Küssel

First Name Gottfried
Last Name Küssel
Born on September 10, 1958 (age 66)
Born in Austria

Gottfried Küssel is an Austrian far-right political activist who also gained some notoriety in Germany. He has been a leading figure in neo-Nazism and Holocaust denial since the 1970s.

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Gottfried von Cramm

First Name Gottfried
Last Name Cramm
Born on July 7, 1909
Died on November 9, 1976 (aged 67)

Gottfried Alexander Maximilian Walter Kurt Freiherr von Cramm, was a German amateur tennis champion who won the French Open twice. He was ranked number 2 in the world in 1934 and 1936, and number 1 in the world in 1937. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1977, an organisation which considers that he is "most remembered for a gallant effort in defeat against Don Budge in the 1937 Interzone Final at Wimbledon".

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Gottfried Curio

First Name Gottfried
Last Name Curio
Born on September 2, 1960 (age 64)
Born in Germany

Gottfried Curio is a German politician for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and since 2017 member of the Bundestag.

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Gottfried Böhm

First Name Gottfried
Last Name Böhm
Born on January 23, 1920 (age 104)
Born in Germany, Hesse

Gottfried Böhm is a German architect and sculptor. His reputation is based on creating highly sculptural buildings made of concrete, steel, and glass. Böhm's first independent building was the Cologne chapel "Madonna in the Rubble". Böhm's most influential and recognized building is the Maria, Königin des Friedens or Nevigeser Wallfahrtsdom.

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Gottfried Helnwein

First Name Gottfried
Last Name Helnwein
Born on October 8, 1948 (age 76)
Born in Austria

Gottfried Helnwein is an Austrian-Irish visual artist. He has worked as a painter, draftsman, photographer, muralist, sculptor, installation and performance artist, using a wide variety of techniques and media.

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Gottfried von Einem

First Name Gottfried
Last Name Einem
Born on January 24, 1918
Died on July 12, 1996 (aged 78)

Gottfried von Einem was an Austrian composer. He is known chiefly for his operas influenced by the music of Stravinsky and Prokofiev, as well as by jazz. He also composed pieces for piano, violin and organ.

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Gottfried, 8th Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg

First Name Gottfried,
Born on March 24, 1897
Died on January 1, 1960 (aged 62)

Gottfried, 8th Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg was the only surviving son of Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.

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Gottfried Honegger

First Name Gottfried
Last Name Honegger
Born on June 12, 1917
Died on January 17, 2016 (aged 98)

Gottfried Honegger was a Swiss artist and graphic designer. He was married to the Swiss illustrator Warja Lavater. He studied shop-window display at the Zurich Kunstgewerbeschule and taught there from 1948. His early work was commercial graphic design.

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