Rainer (given name)
Rainer is a German name.
Notable people
Notable people with this name include:Musicians
- Rainer Bloss, German electronic musician
- Rainer Brüninghaus, German jazz musician
- Rainer Nygård, Finnish guitarist
- Rainer Ptacek, American guitarist
Nobility
- Archduke Rainer Ferdinand of Austria, Austrian prime minister
- Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria, Austrian viceroy of the kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia
- Archduke Rainer of Austria, Austrian prince imperial
- Prince Rainer of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, German prince
Sportspeople
- Rainer Adrion, German footballer and manager
- Rainer Aigner, German former footballer
- Rainer Åkerfelt, Finnish sprint canoer
- Rainer Bonhof, German footballer
- Rainer Eitzinger, Austrian tennis player
- Rainer Forss, Finnish footballer
- Rainer Nicot, German footballer
- Rainer Ohlhauser, German footballer
- Rainer Osselmann, German water polo player
- Rainer Philipp, German ice hockey player
- Rainer Schönfelder, Austrian skier
- Rainer Schüttler, German tennis player
- Rainer Torres, Peruvian footballer
- Rainer Zobel, German footballer
Other
- Rainer Arnold, German politician
- Rainer Barzel, German politician
- Rainer Brüderle, German politician
- Rainer Ludwig Claisen, German chemist
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German film director
- Rainer Fetting, German painter and sculptor
- Rainer von Fieandt, Finnish banker and politician
- Rainer Frimmel, Austrian film director and photographer
- Rainer Froese, German marine ecologist
- Rainer Lagemann, German sculptor and photographer
- Rainer Langhans, German writer and filmmaker
- Rainer Maria Latzke, German artist
- Rainer Lemström, Finnish politician
- M. Rainer Lepsius, German sociologist
- Rainer Liedtke, German physician, scientist and entrepreneur
- Rainer Mahlamäki, Finnish architect
- Rainer Masera, Italian academic and economist
- Rainer Moormann, German chemist and nuclear whistleblower
- Rainer Nõlvak, Estonian entrepreneur and environmentalist
- Rainer Offergeld, German politician
- Rainer Ortleb, German academic and politician
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist
- Rainer Sarnet, Estonian film director
- Rainer Vakra, Estonian politician
- Raniero Vanni d'Archirafi, Italian diplomat
- Rainer Weiss, German-American Nobel Prize laureate in Physics
- Rainer Wimmer, Austrian politician
- Rainer Zitelmann, German historian