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Contemporary Notables of the name Cordes (post 1700)+

  • Nancy Cordes, née Weiner, American CBS News congressional correspondent, based in Washington, D.C
  • Kevin Cordes (b. 1993), American gold and bronze medalist breast stroke swimmer at the 2012 World Championships
  • Paul Josef Cordes (1934-2024), German cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as president of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum (1995-2010)
  • Michel Cordes (1945-2023), French actor, author, and stage director from Siran, France
  • Otto Cordes (1905-1970), German gold and silver medalist water polo player at the 1928 and 1932 Summer Olympics, father of Burkhard Cordes
  • Charlott Cordes (b. 1988), German fashion model
  • Colin Cordes, New Zealand silver medalist rower at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
  • Burkhard Cordes (b. 1939), Brazilian bronze medalist sailor in the Flying Dutchman Class at the 1968 Summer Olympics
  • Ulrich Cordes (b. 1980), German tenor
  • ... (Another 1 notables are available in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.)


  1. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)


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