Famous people named Reinhardt

Django and the Reinhardt jazz family

Django Reinhardt (1910–1953) was born in Belgium into a Manouche family and became the first great European jazz musician. With violinist Stéphane Grappelli he founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France, and he developed his famous two-finger technique after a caravan fire badly burned his left hand. His son Babik Reinhardt (1944–2001) continued the family's guitar tradition.

Stage and canvas

• Max Reinhardt (1873–1943), Austrian-born director who ran the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, co-founded the Salzburg Festival and directed the 1935 Hollywood film of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Reinhardt was a stage name; he was born Maximilian Goldmann.
• Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967), American painter known for his near-black "black paintings".
• Carl Reinhardt (1818–1877), German author, painter and caricaturist.
• Max Reinhardt (1915–2002), a different man, a British publisher.

Science and stage

Two Danish zoologists shared the name: Johannes Christopher Hagemann Reinhardt (1778–1845) and his son Johannes Theodor Reinhardt (1816–1882), who studied the fauna of Brazil and Greenland. Max Reinhardt's son Gottfried Reinhardt (1911–1994) produced and directed films in Hollywood and Europe. Chess has Heinrich Reinhardt (1903–1990), a German master who settled in Argentina, and in American diplomacy G. Frederick Reinhardt (1911–1971) served as US ambassador to South Vietnam and later to Italy, a long way from the name's German heartland.

Public life and sport

• Augustus M. Reinhardt (1842–1923), who gave his name to Reinhardt University in Georgia.
• Klaus Reinhardt (1941–2021), German general who commanded the NATO-led KFOR force in Kosovo.
• Alois Reinhardt (born 1961) and Bastian Reinhardt (born 1975), German footballers.
• Althea Reinhardt (born 1996), Danish handball goalkeeper.

The surname comes from the given name Reinhard, so many families adopted it independently; the Manouche Reinhardts, in particular, have their own history. Read the meaning on our Reinhardt coat of arms page, or see how to trace a line in Reinhardt family history and genealogy.