Rainer (given name)
Rainer (pronounced [ˈʁaɪnɐ] ⓘ) is a German male given name.
Notable people
Notable people with this name include:
Musicians
- Rainer Bloss (1946–2015), German electronic musician
- Rainer Brüninghaus (born 1949), German jazz musician
- Rainer Nygård (born 1972), Finnish guitarist (Diablo)
- Rainer Ptacek (1951–1997), American guitarist
Nobility
- Archduke Rainer Ferdinand of Austria (1827–1913), Austrian prime minister
- Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria (1783–1853), Austrian viceroy of the kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia
- Archduke Rainer of Austria (1895–1930), Austrian prince imperial
- Prince Rainer of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1900–1945), German prince
Sportspeople
- Rainer Adrion (born 1953), German footballer and manager
- Rainer Aigner (born 1967), German former footballer
- Rainer Åkerfelt (born 1934), Finnish sprint canoer
- Rainer Bonhof (born 1952), German footballer
- Rainer Eitzinger (born 1983), Austrian tennis player
- Rainer Forss (1930–2005), Finnish footballer
- Rainer Nicot (born 1954), German footballer
- Rainer Ohlhauser (born 1941), German footballer
- Rainer Osselmann (born 1960), German water polo player
- Rainer Philipp (born 1950), German ice hockey player
- Rainer Schönfelder (born 1977), Austrian skier
- Rainer Schüttler (born 1976), German tennis player
- Rainer Torres (born 1980), Peruvian footballer
- Rainer Zobel (born 1948), German footballer
Other
- Rainer Arnold (born 1950), German politician
- Rainer Barzel (1924–2006), German politician
- Rainer Brüderle (born 1945), German politician
- Rainer Ludwig Claisen (1851–1930), German chemist
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945–1982), German film director
- Rainer Fetting (born 1949), German painter and sculptor
- Rainer von Fieandt (1890–1972), Finnish banker and politician
- Rainer Frimmel (born 1971), Austrian film director and photographer
- Rainer Froese (born 1950), German marine ecologist
- Rainer Lagemann (born 1959), German sculptor and photographer
- Rainer Langhans (June 1940), German writer and filmmaker
- Rainer Maria Latzke (born 1950), German artist
- Rainer Lemström (1931–2007), Finnish politician
- M. Rainer Lepsius (1928–2014), German sociologist
- Rainer Liedtke (1943–2012), German physician, scientist and entrepreneur
- Rainer Mahlamäki (born 1956), Finnish architect
- Rainer Masera (born 1944), Italian academic and economist
- Rainer Moormann (born 1950), German chemist and nuclear whistleblower
- Rainer Neske (born 1964), German banker and business executive
- Rainer Nõlvak (born 1966), Estonian entrepreneur and environmentalist
- Rainer Offergeld (born 1937), German politician
- Rainer Ortleb (born 1944), German academic and politician
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist
- Rainer Sarnet (born 1969), Estonian film director
- Rainer Vakra (born 1981), Estonian politician
- Rainer Weiss (1932–2025), German-American Nobel Prize laureate in Physics
- Rainer Wimmer (born 1955), Austrian politician
- Rainer Woelki (born 1956), German Cardinal of the Catholic Church
- Rainer Zitelmann (born 1957), German historian