Johanna Kinkel (1810–1858), German composer, writer, and revolutionary
Gerrit Kinkel Productions' music and sound effects have been used in trailers and motion picture advertising for such movies as GI Joe: Retaliation, Turbo, Evil Dead, The Grey (Best Thriller - Golden Trailer Awards 2012), Sinister, The Apparition, Silent House, The Darkest Hour, The Devil Inside (Winner Golden Trailer Award 2012), Paranormal Activity 3 and more.
On 10 January 1977, he was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and was made additionally a life peer with the title Baron Keith of Kinkel, of Strathummel in the District of Perth and Kinross, following in the footsteps of his father, Lord Keith of Avonholm.
Throughout that morning Kinkel repeatedly played a recording of "Liebestod", the final dramatic aria from Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde, on the family's sound system.