Kunz, Künz, or Kunze is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Kunz (singer)
Marco Kunz (born 14 August 1985 in Mauensee), better known as simply Kunz, is a Swiss singer from Lucerne.
Biography
Marco Kunz was born in Mauensee, Switzerland into a musical family. His father was a yodeller, and the family commonly sang t ...
(Marco Kunz, born 1985), Swiss singer
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Adrian Kunz
Adrian Kunz (born 7 July 1967) is a Swiss former footballer and an ex-manager of several Swiss clubs, most recently Swiss Challenge League side FC Wohlen in 2011–12. Kunz played as a forward in a playing career that included spells at domest ...
(born 1967), Swiss international footballer
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Alfred Kunz (Catholic priest) (1931–1998), American murdered Catholic priest
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Alfred Kunz (composer)
Alfred Leopold Kunz (26 May 1929 – 16 January 2019) was a German-Canadian composer, conducting, conductor, and arts administrator from New Hamburg, Ontario.
Early life
Kunzwas born in Neudorf, Saskatchewan, and grew up in this rural area. (1929–2019), Canadian composer and conductor
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Andreas Kunz (1946-2022), German skier
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Andreas Kunze (1952-2010), German actor
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Anita Kunz
Anita E. Kunz, OC, DFA, RCA is a Canadian-born artist and illustrator. She was the first woman and first Canadian to have a solo exhibit at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.Dabu, Christl“Anita Kunz: Illustrator Illuminator” ‘’ ...
(born 1956), Canadian artist and illustrator
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Charlie Kunz
Charles Leonard Kunz (August 18, 1896 – March 16, 1958) was an American-born British musician popular during the British dance band era, and who became a pianist.
Life and career
Kunz was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States, the on ...
(1896–1958), American pianist
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Dana Kunze
Dana Kunze (born 1960–1961) is an American champion high-diver. He has held the world records for the highest dives. Kunze began his professional high diving career in 1974 at the age of 13. He won his first world championship in 1977 and main ...
, American high diver
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Drew Kunz (born 1969), American poet and artist
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Earl Kunz
Earl Dewey Kunz (December 25, 1898 – April 14, 1963 in Sacramento, California), nicknamed "Pinches", was a professional baseball pitcher who spent one season in Major League Baseball. In total, Kunz spent 13 season in professional baseball ...
(1898–1963), American professional baseball pitcher
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Eddie Kunz
Edward Cory Kunz (born April 8, 1986) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets.
Early life and amateur career
Kunz was born in Portland, Oregon. He attended Parkrose Hig ...
(born 1986), American professional baseball pitcher
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Eric Kunze
Eric Kunze (pronounced "Koon-zee"; born May 22, 1971) is an American stage actor and singer. He showed an early aptitude for singing and was involved in choir and theater at Rancho Buena Vista High School. He is best known for his roles on Broad ...
(born 1971), American Broadway actor and singer
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Erich Kunz
Erich Kunz (20 May 1909 in Vienna – 8 September 1995 in Vienna) was an Austrian operatic baritone, particularly associated with the roles of Papageno and Beckmesser.
Life and career
Born in Vienna, Kunz was educated at the Vienna Music Acad ...
(1909–1995), Austrian operatic baritone
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Ernst Künz (1912–1944), Austrian football (soccer) player
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Florian Kunz
Florian Kunz (born 22 February 1972, in Leverkusen) is a former field hockey defender from Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europ ...
(born 1972), German field hockey player
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George Kunz
George Kunz (born July 5, 1947) is a former American football offensive lineman in the National Football League from 1969–1978 and 1980 with the Atlanta Falcons 1969–1974 and History of the Indianapolis Colts, Baltimore Colts 1975-1978 & 1 ...
(born 1947), American football player
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George Frederick Kunz
George Frederick Kunz (September 29, 1856 – June 29, 1932) was an American mineralogist and mineral collector.
Biography
Kunz was born in Manhattan, New York City, USA, and began an interest in minerals at a very young age. By his teens, he ...
(1856–1932), American mineralogist
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Gustav Kunze
Gustav Kunze (4 October 1793, Leipzig – 30 April 1851, Leipzig)
was a German professor of zoology, an entomologist and botanist with an interest mainly in ferns and orchids.
Kunze joined the Wernerian Natural History Society in Edinburgh in 181 ...
(1793–1851), German zoologist, botanist and entomologist
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Hansjörg Kunze
Hansjörg Kunze (born 28 December 1959) is a German track and field athlete. He represented East Germany as a long distance runner.
His biggest success was the bronze medal in the 5,000 meter run at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, ...
(born 1959), German track and field athlete
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Heinz Rudolf Kunze
Heinz Rudolf Erich Arthur Kunze (born 30 November 1956, in Espelkamp-Mittwald, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German writer and rock singer. His greatest hit was ''Dein ist mein ganzes Herz'' (not to be confused with the homonymous song from the op ...
(born 1956), German writer and rock singer
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Helmut Kunz
Helmut Kunz (26 September 1910 – 23 September 1976) was an SS dentist who, after the suicide of Adolf Hitler, was ordered to administer anesthetic to the six children of Joseph Goebbels before they were killed.
Early years
Kunz was born in ...
, (1910–1976), Nazi doctor
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John Christopher Kunze
John Christopher Kunze (August 4, 1744 – July 24, 1807) was an American Lutheran minister, educator, author and theologian.
Life
Kunze was born in Artern, a town in the Kyffhäuserkreis district of the Electorate of Saxony, to Jahn Godfried K ...
(1744–1807), German-American Lutheran pietist theologian
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Johannes Kunze
Wilhelm Reinhold Johannes Kunze (March 5, 1904 – November 4, 1943) was a German World War II prisoner of war (POW) held at Camp Tonkawa, Oklahoma.[Kahena Kunze
Kahena Kunze (born 12 March 1991) is a Brazilian sailor in the 49er FX class. Together with Martine Grael she won the 49er FX class at the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships and a gold medal in the inaugural 49er FX race, during the 2016 Rio ...](_blank)
(born 1991), Brazilian sailor, 2 times olympic gold medalist (2016 - Rio, 2020 - Tokyo)
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Kerstin Kunze
Kerstin Kunze (born 23 August 1971) is a German chess Woman International Master (2003) who won East Germany Women's Chess Championship (1989).
Chess career
At the age of fifteen, Kerstin Kunze took part in a East Germany Women's Chess Champ ...
(born 1971), German chess master
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Michael Kunze
Michael Rolf Kunze (born 9 November 1943, in Prague) is a foremost German musical theater lyricist and librettist.
He is best known for the hit musicals '' Elisabeth'' (1992), '' Dance of the Vampires'' (1996), ''Mozart!'' (1999), ''Marie Antoine ...
(born 1943), German lyricist, book writer and librettist
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Reiner Kunze
Reiner Kunze (born 16 August 1933 in Oelsnitz, Erzgebirge, Saxony) is a German writer and GDR dissident. He studied media and journalism at the University of Leipzig. In 1968, he left the GDR state party SED following the communist Warsaw Pact ...
(born 1933), German writer and GDR dissident
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Richard Kunze
Richard Kunze (5 February 1872 in Żagań, Sagan – May 1945) was a German right-wing politics, right-wing politician known for his anti-Semitism.
Early years
Kunze's political career began around 1914 when he was employed by the German Conser ...
(1872-1945), German politician
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Rudibert Kunz
Rudibert Kunz (born 1943) is a German investigator, journalist and television editor.
Kunz is known for being the first journalist to write about the use Chemical weapons in the Rif War. Since 1979, he has been researching the history of weapons o ...
(born 1943), German investigator, journalist and television editor
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Rudolf Kunz
Rudolf Kunz was a German former professional motorcycle road racer. He competed in Grand Prix motorcycle racing from 1964 to 1977.
In 1965, Kunz set a land speed record of riding a supercharged 50 cc Kreidler motorcycle at Bonneville Spee ...
, German motorcycle road racer
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Terry Kunz
Terry Tim Kunz (born October 26, 1952) is a former American football running back who played one season with the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Oakland Raiders in the eighth round of the 1976 NFL Draft. K ...
(born 1952), American football player
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Stanley H. Kunz
Stanley Henry Kunz (September 26, 1864 – April 23, 1946) was an American politician who served 6 terms a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1921 to 1933.
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(1864–1946), American politician from
Illinois
Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolita ...
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Stephanie Kunze (born 1970), American politician from
Ohio
Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...
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Urs Kunz (born 1974), Swiss skier
See also
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Kuntze Kuntze is a surname of German origin. People with that name include:
* Carl Kuntze (1922-2006), Dutch rower who competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics
* Edward J. Kuntze (1826-1870), Prussian-born American sculptor
* Otto Kuntze (1843-1907), German ...
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Cuntz, a surname
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Kuntz (disambiguation)
*Kunze, California, former name of
Greenwater, California
Greenwater (formerly, Ramsey, The Camp, and Kunze) was an unincorporated community near Death Valley located in the eastern side of the Inyo County, California. It is now a deserted ghost town.
Geography
Greenwater is located north of Funeral ...
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Kunz v. New York'', United States Supreme Court case concerning free speech
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6847 Kunz-Hallstein, main belt asteroid
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Koontz (surname) Koontz is the surname of the following notable people:
* Charley Koontz (born 1987), American actor
*Dean Koontz (born 1945), American author
*Elizabeth Duncan Koontz
Elizabeth Duncan Koontz (June 3, 1919 – January 6, 1989) was a national figure ...
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Surnames of German origin
German-language surnames
Surnames from given names