Karl Marx | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Otto von Bismarck | Friedrich Nietzsche | Friedrich Schiller | Alexander von Humboldt | Wernher von Braun | Carl Maria von Weber | Herbert von Karajan | Friedrich Engels | Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher | John von Neumann | Lars von Trier | Karl Pilkington | Karl Lagerfeld | Ferdinand von Mueller | Paul von Hindenburg | Karl G. Heider | Carl Friedrich Gauss | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation | Karl Rove | Karl Pearson | Karl May | Karl Liebknecht | Karl Friedrich Schinkel | Karl Dönitz | Heinrich von Kleist | Anne Sofie von Otter | Karl Jenkins | Friedrich Dürrenmatt |
The Brentano family, of Italian (Lombard) origin, had settled in the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt in the 17th century and were recognized as Hessian nobles, with close contact to important figures of the German Romanticism, including Goethe, Savigny and Arnim.