FDP leader Guido Westerwelle became the unofficial leader of the opposition by virtue of the FDP's position as the largest opposition party in the Bundestag.

Philipp Rösler is FDP chairman, having succeeded Guido Westerwelle, the party's second-longest serving chairman, in May 2011.

The FDP supports gay rights ; former party leader Guido Westerwelle is openly gay.

Angela Merkel was re-elected as chancellor, and Guido Westerwelle served as the Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor of Germany.

Because of the losses Guido Westerwelle had to resign as chair of the FDP in favor of Philipp Rösler, Federal Minister of Health, who was consequently appointed as vice chancellor.

Guido Westerwelle was born in Bad Honnef in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

** People: Guido Westerwelle ( Chancellor-Candidate of the FDP )

In January 2010, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle demonstrated the same respect when he concluded his visit to Japan with a visit of the shrine.

Die Linke has twice nominated Beate Klarsfeld for the Federal Cross of Merit, but the foreign ministers Joschka Fischer and Guido Westerwelle did not approve her.

Wulff's candidacy for President of Germany in the 2010 presidential election was formally confirmed by Angela Merkel, Guido Westerwelle and Horst Seehofer, the heads of the CDU, FDP and CSU parties, during the evening of 2010.

Michael Mronz ( left ) and his longtime partner, German foreign minister Guido Westerwelle ( 2009 )

Michael Mronz ( Born March 1, 1967 in Cologne ) is a German sports manager and longtime partner of German foreign minister Guido Westerwelle.

The Reding initiative led a group of foreign affairs ministers of the European Union to put together a reflection group animated by the German foreign minister Guido Westerwelle on the future of Europe.

* Guido Westerwelle ( 1983 – 1988 )

Early in the campaign, Guido Westerwelle, leader of the Free Democrats, declared himself a " Chancellor Candidate ," usually a title reserved for the main election leaders of the SPD and CDU / CSU.

The current office holder is Guido Westerwelle.

France's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and minister of culture and communications Frédéric Mitterrand, German foreign minister Guido Westerwelle, Canadian government, Finnish Green MP Rosa Meriläinen and Human Rights Watch have condemned the arrest.

In response to this non legally-binding direction, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said it " has nothing to do with any other cases in the world " including Cyprus.

* Guido Westerwelle ( b. 1961 ), Foreign Minister and Vice-Chancellor of Germany

Guido Westerwelle

Since 2009, Guido Westerwelle has served as Foreign Minister, and Werner Hoyer and Cornelia Pieper as Ministers of State.

Also, German politician and leader of the Free Democratic Party Guido Westerwelle was born in Bad Honnef.

Fra Angelico ( born Guido di Pietro ; c. 1395 – February 18, 1455 ) was an Early Italian Renaissance painter described by Vasari in his Lives of the Artists as having " a rare and perfect talent ".

Fra Angelico was born Guido di Pietro at Rupecanina

Pope Celestine II ( died 8 March 1144 ), born Guido di Castello, was pope from 1143 to 1144.

Guido di Castello, possibly the son of a local noble, Niccolo di Castello, was born either in Città di Castello, situated in Paterna Santa Felicità upon the Apennines, or at Macerata in the March of Ancona.

* Guido d ' Arezzo, the most notable music theorist of the Middle Ages and inventor of modern music notation, was born there around the year 991.

Most famous Belgian authors are: Guido Gezelle ( 1830 – 1899 ), Emile Verhaeren ( 1855 – 1916 ), Max Elskamp ( 1862 – 1931 ), Maurice Maeterlinck ( 1862 – 1949 ), Paul van Ostaijen ( 1896 – 1926 ), Henri Michaux ( French born and educated in Belgium, 1899 – 1984 ) and Jacques Brel ( 1929 – 1978 ) and prose writers: Hendrik Conscience ( 1812 – 1883 ), Charles de Coster ( 1827 – 1879 ), Willem Elsschot ( 1882 – 1960 ), Michel de Ghelderode ( 1898 – 1962 ), Georges Simenon 1903-1989, Louis Paul Boon ( 1912 – 1979 ), Hugo Claus ( 1929 – 2008 ), Pierre Mertens ( born in 1939 ) Ernest Claes ( 1885 – 1968 ), and, Amélie Nothomb ( born in 1967 ).

* Guido van Heulendonk ( pseudonym of Guido Beelaert ) ( born in Eeklo ), writer

* September 7-Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio, historian ( born 1579 )

Guido van Rossum ( born 31 January 1956 ) is a Dutch computer programmer who is best known as the author of the Python programming language.

Donna Leon (, born in 1942, in Montclair, New Jersey ) is the American author of a series of crime novels set in Venice and featuring the fictional hero Commissario Guido Brunetti.

Guido De Marco was born in Valletta to Emanuele and Giovanna ( née Raniolo ) De Marco.

* Guido Sala ( born 1928 ), Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and world champion kart racer

Guido von List was born in Vienna in the Austrian Empire to Karl Anton List, a prosperous middle class leather goods dealer, and Maria List ( née Killian ).

Guido Knopp ( born January 29, 1948, in Treysa, Hesse ) is a German journalist and author.

The basilica also houses many funerary monuments including the tombs of Doctor of the Church Saint Catherine of Siena ( 1347-1380 ), who was a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic, and the Dominican friar Blessed John of Fiesole ( Fra Giovanni da Fiesole, born Guido di Piero ) better known as Fra Angelico ( c. 1395-1455 ).

Guido Guinizzelli ( c. 1230 – 1276 ), born in Bologna, in present-day Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy, was an Italian poet and ' founder ' of the Dolce Stil Novo.

Verbeek was of Dutch ancestry, but was born in Nagasaki, the son of Reformed Church in America missionary Guido Verbeck.

Guido Ulrich Buchwald ( born 24 January 1961 ) is a German former football defender and manager.

Guido Calabresi ( born October 18, 1932 ) is an Italian American legal scholar and senior judge on the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

He was born in Foligno, but became a pupil of Guido Reni.