Günther (given name)

The given name Günther, Guenther, Gunther, Günter, Guenter or Gunter may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Günter Bialas, German composer
Günter Brus, Austrian painter, performance artist, graphic artist, experimental filmmaker, and writer
Günter Bust, German music educator and composer
Gunter Christmann, German-born Australian painter
Gunter Demnig, German artist
Günter Eich, German lyricist, dramatist, and author
Günter Fruhtrunk, German geometric abstract painter and printmaker
Gunter Gabriel, German singer, musician, and composer
Günter Grasmück, member of the Austrian band Opus
Günter Grass, German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor
Günter Graulich, German church musician and music publisher
Gunter Hampel, German jazz vibraphonist, clarinetist, saxophonist, flautist, pianist, and composer
Günter Haumer, Austrian operatic baritone
Günther Jauch, German television presenter
Günter Jena, German choral conductor and musicologist
Günter Katzenberger, German musician, musicologist, conductor, professor, writer, and publisher
Günter Kehr, German violinist, conductor, and academic teacher of violin and chamber music
Günter Kochan, German composer
Günter Krämer, German stage director and theatre manager
Günter Lamprecht, German actor
Günter Lenz, German jazz bassist and composer
Günter Ludwig, German pianist
Günter Mack, German actor
Günter Meisner, German film and television character actor
Günter Müller, German-born Swiss sound artist
Günter Neubert, German composer and tonmeister
Günter Neuhold, Austrian conductor
Günter Pfitzmann, German film actor
Günter Pichler, Austrian violinist, teacher, and conductor
Günter Platzek, German keyboard player
Günter Raphael, German composer
Günter Reich, German-born Israeli baritone
Günther Reindorff, Estonian-Soviet graphic designer
Günter Reisch, German film director and screenwriter
Günter Rimkus, German dramaturge
Günter Rittner, German painter and illustrator
Günter Rössler, German photographer
Gunter Sachs, German photographer, author, student, industrialist, and astrologist
Günther von Scheven, German sculptor
Günther Schifter, Austrian radio presenter
Gunter Schoß, German voice and television actor
Günter Schubert, German actor and voice actor
Gunther Schuller, American musician
Günter Schulz, German musician, songwriter, and former member of the industrial band KMFDM
Gunter Sieberth, German oboist
Günter Sommer, German jazz drummer
Günter Steinke, German composer and teacher
Günther Stoll, German actor
Günter Strack, German film and television actor
Günther Uecker, German painter, sculptor, and installation artist
Günter Voglmayr, Austrian classical flutist
Gunter Waldek, Austrian composer, conductor, and music educator
Günter Wand, German orchestra conductor and composer
Günter Wewel, German operatic bass and television presenter

Sports

Günter Ambraß, East German weightlifter
Günter Anderl, Austrian figure skater
Günter Bartusch, East German motorcycle road racer
Günter Beier, German gymnast
Günter Benkö, Austrian football referee
Günter Bergau, German rower
Günter Bernard, German professional footballer
Günter Böttcher, West German handball player
Günter Bittengel, Czech football coach and former player
Günter Breitzke, German footballer
Günter Bresnik, Austrian tennis coach
Gunter Brewer, American football coach
Günter Brocker, German footballer and later manager
Günter Brümmer, West German slalom canoeist
Günter Busarello, Austrian wrestler
Günter Busch, German footballer
Günter Burghard, Austrian ice hockey player
Gunther Cunningham, American football coach for the Detroit Lions of the NFL
Gunther Danne, German sport shooter
Günter Deckert (nordic combined), East German Nordic combined skier
Günter Deuble, West German slalom canoeist
Günter Dohrow, German middle-distance runner
Günter Dreibrodt, East German handball player
Günter Drews, German footballer
Günter Flauger, German skier
Günter Friesenbichler, Austrian footballer
Günter Fronzeck, German footballer
Günter Grosswig, East German slalom canoeist
Günter Güttler, German footballer and manager
Günter Habig, German footballer
Günter Haritz, West German road and track cyclist
Günter Havenstein, German long-distance runner
Günter Heine, German water polo player
Günter Hermann, German footballer
Günter Heßelmann, German middle-distance runner
Günter Hirschmann, German footballer
Günter Hoge, German footballer
Günter Holzvoigt, East German sprint canoeist
Günter Jäger, German footballer
Günter Jochems, German professional ice hockey player
Günter Kaltenbrunner, Austrian former footballer and manager
Günther Kaschlun, West German rower
Günter Kaslowski, German cyclist
Günter Keute, German footballer
Günter Kilian, German water polo player
Günter Kirchner, West German slalom canoeist
Günter Klass, German racing driver
Günter Konzack, East German footballer
Günter Koren, Austrian ice hockey player
Günter Kowalewski, German wrestler
Günter Krammer, West German sprint canoeist
Günter Krispel, Austrian bobsledder
Günter Krivec, German athlete
Günter Kronsteiner, Austrian footballer
Günter Kubisch, East German footballer
Günter Kutowski, German professional footballer
Günter Lobing, German lightweight rower
Günter Lörke, German cyclist
Günter Lyhs, German gymnast
Günter Malcher, German athlete
Günter Mielke, West German long-distance runner
Günter Nachtigall, German gymnast
Günter Netzer, German footballer
Günter Neuburger, West German bobsledder
Günter Nowatzki, German sprint canoeist
Günter Oberhuber, Austrian ice hockey player
Günter Orschel, Bulgarian equestrian
Günter Petersmann, German rower
Günter Preuß, German footballer
Günter Pröpper, German professional footballer
Gunter Rodríguez, Cuban swimmer
Günter Sawitzki, German footballer
Günter Schaumburg, German athlete
Günter Schießwald, Austrian footballer
Günter Schlierkamp, German professional bodybuilder
Günter Schlipper, German footballer
Günter Schliwka, German weightlifter
Günter Schmid, German motorsport founder and principal
Günter Schneider, Swiss rower
Günter Schroers, German rower
Günter Schröter, German footballer and coach
Günther Schumacher, German track and road cyclist
Günter Sebert, German former footballer and manager
Günter Seibold, German footballer
Günter Siegmund, East German boxer
Günter Spies, German gymnast
Günter Spindler, German wrestler
Guenther Steiner, former team principal of the Haas F1 Team
Günter Stratmann, German fencer
Gunter Thiebaut, Belgian footballer
Gunter Thielen, German chief executive
Günter Thorhauer, East German footballer
Günter Tilch, German speed skater
Günter Tittes, East German breaststroke swimmer
Günter Traub, German speed skater
Gunter Trojovsky, West German slalom canoeist
Günter Twiesselmann, German rower
Gunter Van Handenhoven, Belgian footballer and team manager
Gunter Vanderveeren, Belgian tennis player
Gunter Verjans, Belgian footballer
Günter Wienhold, German footballer
Günter Wolf, German water polo player
Günter Zeitler, German handballer
Günter Zöller, German figure skating coach and former East German competitor

In government and politics

Gunther, semi-legendary king of Burgundy
Gunther of Bohemia, Bohemian hermit
Gunther of Cologne, Roman Catholic archbishop of Cologne
Günter Baum, German politician and LGBT rights activist
Günter Baumann, German politician
Günter Böhme (politician, born 1925), German politician
Günter Burghardt, German lawyer and EU civil servant, EU ambassador to the United States 1999–2004
Günter Deckert, German far-right political activist
Günther Denzler, German politician
Günter Gaus, German political journalist, commentator, television interviewer, diplomat, and "government fixer"
Günter Glende, East German party official
Günter Guillaume, East German spy
Gunter Hadwiger, Austrian politician
Günter Henle, German politician, pianist, and music publisher
Günther Krause, German politician and businessman
Günter Krings, German lawyer and politician
Günter Lach, German politician
Günter Mittag, German politician
Günter Nooke, German politician and former civil rights activist
Günther Oettinger, German politician
Gunter Pleuger, German diplomat and politician
Günter Rexrodt, German politician
Günter Riesen, German Nazi politician
Günter Schabowski, East German politician
Günter Stempel, German politician and lawyer
Günter Verheugen, German politician
Günter Vetter, Austrian stonemason and politician
Günter Vogt, Liechtenstein politician
Günter von Drenkmann, German lawyer
Günter Wächtershäuser, German chemist turned patent lawyer

Science and academics

Günter Abel, German philosopher and former professor
Günter Altner, German interdisciplinary active scientist, biologist, Protestant theologian, ecologist, environmentalist, writer, and lecturer
Günter Asser, German professor emeritus of logic and mathematics
Günter Behnisch, German architect
Günter Benser, German Marxist historian
Günter Bentele, German semiotician
Günter Bischof, Austrian-American historian and professor
Günter Breithardt, German physician, cardiologist, and emeritus professor
Günter Burg, German dermatologist
Günter Dreyer, German Egyptologist
Günter Dyhrenfurth, German-born, German and Swiss mountaineer, geologist, and Himalayan explorer
Günter Faltin, German economist and entrepreneur
Gunter Faure, American geochemist
Günter Grönbold, German Indologist and Tibetologist
Gunther von Hagens, German anatomist, businessman and lecturer
Günter Harder, German mathematician
Günter Heimbeck, German-Namibian professor of mathematics
Günter Heyden, German professor of philosophy and a sociologist
Günter Hirsch, German legal scholar
Günter Hotz, German pioneer of computer science
Günter Kleinen, German musicologist and professor of musicology
Gunther Köhler, German herpetologist
Günter Gerhard Lange, German typographer, teacher, and type designer
Guenter Lewy, American political historian
Günter Lüling, German Protestant theologian, philological scholar, and pioneer in the study of early Islam
Günter Lumer, German mathematician
Gunter Malle, German mathematician
Günter Maschke, German political scientist
Günter Mayer, German cultural academic and musicologist
Günter Meißner, German art historian
Günter Meyer, German Geographer and Orientalist
Günter Morge, German entomologist
Günter Nimtz, German physicist
Günter Ollenschläger, German physician, medical editor, and professor of internal medicine and clinical decision making
Günter P. Wagner, Austrian-born evolutionary biologist
Günter Pilz, Austrian mathematician and professor
Günter Reimann, German-born economist and writer
Günter Ropohl, German technology philosopher
Günter Sauerbrey, German physicist, inventor of the quartz crystal microbalance
Günter Schilder, Dutch historian
Günter Schmahl, German physicist, professor, and pioneer
Gunter Schmidt, German sexologist, psychotherapist, and social psychologist
Günter Schmidt (arachnologist), German arachnologist and author
Günter Schmölders, German economist
Gunter Schöbel, German archaeologist and museum director
Günter Tembrock, East German zoologist
Günter Theißen, German geneticist
Günter Weigand, German economist, self-proclaimed social lawyer, and amateur prosecutor
Günter Wendt, German-American mechanical engineer
Günter Wirths, German chemist
Günter Wyszecki, German-Canadian physicist
Günter M. Ziegler, German mathematician

Business

Günter Böckle, German software engineer and project manager
Günter Felke, German furniture manufacturer, numismatist, and patron of culture
Günter Fronius, Austrian entrepreneur
Günter Herlitz, German businessman
Günter Herz, German businessman
Günter Mast, German businessman
Gunter Pauli, Belgian entrepreneur, economist, and author

Military

Günter Halm, German infantryman
Günter Hessler, German naval officer
Gunter Jahn, German U-boat commander
Günter Kießling, German general
Günther von Kluge, German field marshal during World War II
Günter Kuhnke, German submarine commander
Günther Lütjens, Kriegsmarine admiral
Günter Luther, German admiral
Günther Rall, German Luftwaffe pilot and third-ranking ace in history
Günter Schwartzkopff, German World War II Luftwaffe officer considered the "father of the Stuka" dive bomber
Günter Steinhausen, German aviator
Günther Tamaschke, German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant
Günter Voigt, German military scientist and major general
Günter Vollmer, Nazi Germany officer
Günter Weiler, German army officer and lieutenant general

Writing

Gunter d'Alquen, German journalist, propagandist, and author
Günter de Bruyn, German author
Günter Herburger, German writer
Günter Kunert, German writer
Günter Ruch, German writer, journalist, politician, and author
Gunter Segers, Belgian children’s book author, non-fiction book author, graphic designer, and illustrator
Gunter Silva Passuni, Peruvian writer
Günter Simon, German journalist
Günter Wallraff, German writer and undercover journalist
Günter Weitling, Danish Lutheran theologian, historian, and author

Other fields

Günter Hermann Ewen, German mass murderer
Günter Hoffmann (disambiguation)
Günter Krüger (disambiguation)
Günter Litfin, German tailor
Günter Lorenz, Austrian murderer
Günter Neumann (disambiguation)
Gunter Prus, Polish Roman Catholic bishop
Günter Stephan (disambiguation)

Stage names

Günther (singer), stage name of Swedish singer and musician Mats Söderlund
Gunther (wrestler), Austrian professional wrestler, formerly going under WALTER, now named Gunther

Fictional characters

Gunther, king of the Burgundians in the Niebelungenlied
General Gunther von Esling, a fictional general in Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Gunter (Adventure Time), a major antagonist in the animated TV series Adventure Time
Gunther, a dinosaur in the animated series Adventure Time episode "Evergreen"
Gunter (Legends of Chima), a character in the animated TV series Legends of Chima
Gunther, the manager of the Central Perk coffee house in NBC sitcom Friends
Gunter, a character in the video game Fire Emblem Fates
Gunther, one of the main characters from the film Sing
Gunther Magnuson, a character in Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil
Günther Bachmann, a character in the film A Most Wanted Man
Gunther Berger, a character in the Luann comic strip
Gunther Breech, a character in the Canadian animated TV show Jane and the Dragon
Bernie Gunther, the protagonist of Philip Kerr's Berlin Noir novels
Welkin Gunther, a character in the video game Valkyria Chronicles
Gunther Hermann, a character in the video game Deus Ex
Gunther Hessenheffer, a character from Disney's TV series Shake It Up
Gunther Thurl, a fictional character in the webcomic Schlock Mercenary
Gunther Toody, a fictional character in the television show Car 54, Where Are You?
Gunther, a disguise used by Count Olaf in ''A Series of Unfortunate Events''