Kinder is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Chuck Kinder
Charles Alfonso Kinder II (October 8, 1946 – May 3, 2019) was an American novelist.
Biography
Kinder was born October 8 in Montgomery, West Virginia to Charles Alfonso and Eileen Reba (Parsons) Kinder. He was educated at West Virginia University ...
(1946–2019), American novelist
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Claude W. Kinder
Claude William Kinder, (; 10 August 1852 – 9 August 1936 in Churt, England) was an English engineer. For over thirty years he was engineer-in-chief of the Kaiping Tramway and Imperial Railways of North China.
Claude William Kinder was the th ...
(1852–1936), English railway engineer in China
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Derek Kinder (born 1986), American football player
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Donald Kinder (born 1947), American political scientist
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Ellis Kinder
Ellis is a surname of Welsh and English origin. Retrieved 21 January 2014 An independent French origin of the surname is said to derive from the phrase fleur-de-lis.
Surname
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(1914–1968), American baseball pitcher
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Gary Kinder (born 1962), American decathlete
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Gary Kinder (author)
Gary Kinder is a New York Times bestselling author, a lawyer, and an entrepreneur, who created and founded WordRake, the first editing software for professionals. He authored the true crime classic, '' Victim: The Other Side of Murder'' (1980) ...
, American writer on sociology and crime
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Hermann Kinder
Hermann Kinder (18 May or 18 June 1944 – 27 August 2021) was a German writer.
Biography
Kinder was born on 18 May or 18 June 1944 in Toruń and spent his childhood in Ulm, Nuremberg, and Münster. He earned a degree in art history from the Un ...
(1944–2021), German writer
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Jan Kinder
Jan Runar Kinder (26 May 1944 – 25 May 2013) was a Norwegian ice hockey player. He was born in Oslo, Norway and represented the club Hasle/Løren IL. He played for the Norwegian national ice hockey team, and participated at the Winter Olymp ...
(1944–2013), Norwegian ice hockey player
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John Kinder
John Kinder (born September 28, 1974 in Santa Ana, California) is a Japanese American stock car racing, stock car racing driver. He is a former competitor in the NASCAR SuperTruck Series by Craftsman and the Winston West Series, and in the United ...
(born 1974), American racing driver
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John Kinder (priest) (1819–1903), New Zealand artist and photographer
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Manfred Kinder
Manfred Kinder (born 20 April 1938) is a West German
West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German r ...
(born 1938), West German sprinter
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Mary Kinder Mary Northern Kinder (August 29, 1909 – May 21, 1981) was a Prohibition era gun moll, most noted for being the girlfriend of Harry Pierpont and associate of John Dillinger. Along with Pearl Elliott, she was one of two women listed by the Chicago P ...
(1909–1981), Prohibition-era gun moll
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Peter Kinder
Peter Dickson Kinder (born May 12, 1954) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 46th Lieutenant Governor of Missouri from 2005 to 2017. He was appointed as a co-chairman of the Delta Regional Authority in August 2017, serving in ...
(born 1954), American politician
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Randy Kinder
Randolph Samuel Kinder (born April 4, 1975) is a former running back in the National Football League. He played with the Philadelphia Eagles and the Green Bay Packers 1997 NFL season. As such, he was a member of the NFC Championship team with the ...
(born 1975), American football player
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Richard Kinder
Richard Kinder (born October 19, 1944) is an American businessman. He is the co-founder and executive chairman of Kinder Morgan Inc., an energy and pipeline corporation.
Early life
Richard Kinder was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in 1944. ...
(born 1944), American businessman, CEO of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners
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Steve Kinder
Steve Kinder (born c. 1963) is a former head basketball coach of the Humboldt State University Lumberjacks.
Kinder earned a B.S. in physical education from HSU in 1985 when he also played for the basketball team that won the California Collegiate ...
, American basketball coach
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Vladimír Kinder
Vladimír Kinder (born 9 March 1969) is a retired Slovak professional footballer who last played as a left-back for FC Petržalka akadémia.
Kinder played for Middlesbrough in England between 1997 and 1999. He helped them reach three domest ...
(born 1969), Slovak footballer
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