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German painter Werner Tubke famously known for his 360° Peasants' War Panorama at Bad Frankenhausen, Germany.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (31 May 1945 – 10 June 1982) was a West German filmmaker, actor, playwright and theatre director, who was a catalyst of the New German Cinema movement.
Wernher von Braun, German Royal and Nazi Aerospace Engineer. Practically created NASA!
Fictional bearer: Werner is the eponymous main character of a famous German series of comic books and animated films by Rötger "Brösel" Feldmann.
A variant of this name was borne by famous rocket scientist and engineer Wernher von Braun (1912-1977).
Werner Klemperer was an actor best known for his portrayal of the incompetent commandant of Stalag 13, Col. Klink. His father was a composer who moved his family to America to escape anti-Semitic pressure in Europe.
Werner Herzog is a film maker, famous most recently for "Grizzly Man." Most notable in my own mind for eating his shoe.
Werner von Trapp (born 1915) was the younger son in the famous von Trapp family, whose story was immortalised in the musical "The Sound of Music". He is represented in the movie by the character Kurt.

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