Berger
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People
Berger is a relatively common last name. It means mountaineer in GermanGerman language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
, and shepherd in French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
. The pronunciation of the English name is ˈbɜrdʒər . Notable people by that name include:
Politics
- James S. BergerJames S. BergerJames Stanley Berger served as a Pennsylvania State Senator as a Republican from 1945 until 1968. He was born Warren County, PA. He was a lawyer and lived in Potter County, PA.-References:...
(born 1902), U.S. senator for Pennsylvania - Luciana BergerLuciana BergerLuciana Clare Berger is a British Labour Co-operative politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Liverpool Wavertree since 2010...
, British Labour Party politician - Maria BergerMaria BergerMaria Berger is an Austrian politician and currently Judge at the European Court of Justice. She was a member of the European Parliament and a Minister of Justice....
(born 1956), Austrian politician and Member of the European Parliament - Óscar BergerÓscar BergerÓscar José Rafael Berger Perdomo, born on 11 August 1946 in Guatemala City, is a former President of Guatemala.-Early years:Of Belgian descent, Berger was born to an upper class family with large sugar and coffee holdings...
(born 1946), former President of Guatemala - Philip E. BergerPhilip E. BergerPhilip Edward Berger is a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's twenty-sixth Senate district, including constituents in Guilford and Rockingham counties....
(born 1952), US politician - Sandy BergerSandy BergerSamuel Richard "Sandy" Berger was United States National Security Advisor, under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001. In his position, he helped to formulate the foreign policy of the Clinton Administration...
(born 1945), US National Security Advisor to President Bill Clinton - Thomas BergerThomas Berger (Canadian politician)Thomas Rodney Berger, OC, OBC is a Canadian politician and jurist of Swedish descent. Berger was the leader of the British Columbia New Democratic Party for most of 1969, prior to Dave Barrett.-Background:...
(born 1933), Canadian politician - Victor L. BergerVictor L. BergerVictor Luitpold Berger was a founding member of the Socialist Party of America and an important and influential Socialist journalist who helped establish the so-called Sewer Socialist movement. The first Socialist elected to the U.S...
(1860–1929), US politician
Sports
- Andreas BergerAndreas BergerAndreas Berger is a former Austrian track and field sprinter, who ran in the 100m and 200m.His biggest success came in 1989 when he won the European Indoor Championship's 60 meter dash. In 1987 and 1989 he reached the semi-finals and 1989...
(born 1961), Austrian track and field sprinter - David Mark BergerDavid Mark BergerDavid Mark Berger was an American-born weightlifter for the Israeli Olympic team in 1972. A lawyer by education, Berger was one of 11 members of Israel’s Olympic team who were taken hostage and subsequently murdered by Arab terrorists at the Munich Olympic Games.Berger was born in Cleveland, Ohio...
(1944–1972), American-born Israeli weightlifter; Maccabiah champion (middleweight); one of the 11 hostages murdered in the Munich massacre - Frederick BergerFrederick BergerFrederick G. Berger was a professional baseball umpire.Berger umpired 1 National League game on August 24, as the home plate umpire. The game featured the Philadelphia Phillies and the Detroit Wolverines, and saw the Phillies defeat Detroit 10-2...
(1849-?), American professional baseball umpire - Gerhard BergerGerhard BergerGerhard Berger, is an Austrian former Formula One racing driver, who previously owned 50% of the Scuderia Toro Rosso Formula One team until he sold his share back to energy drink owner Dietrich Mateschitz in November 2008....
(born 1959), Austrian Grand Prix racing driver - Ilana BergerIlana BergerIlana Berger is an Israeli tennis player. Berger reached her highest individual ranking on the WTA Tour on August 10, 1992, when she became # 149 in the world.-Biography:Ilana Berger was born on December 31, 1965, in Mexico City, Mexico...
(born 1965), Israeli tennis player - Ike Berger (born 1936), US Olympic champion weightlifter (featherweight), 2-time silver; 2-time Pan American champion; 23 world records
- Jay BergerJay BergerJay Berger is a former professional tennis player from the United States. He won three singles and one doubles title on the ATP Tour and reached his career-high singles ranking of world # 7 in April 1990....
(born 1966), American tennis player; highest world ranking # 7 - Johann BergerJohann BergerJohann Nepomuk Berger was an Austrian chess master, theorist, endgame study composer, author and editor.In September 1870, he won the first tournament in the Austro-Hungarian Empire at Graz...
(1845–1933), Austrian chess master, theorist, endgame study composer, author and editor - Lars BergerLars BergerLars Berger is a Norwegian biathlete and cross-country skier. Fellow biathlete Tora Berger is his sister. Berger's family moved to Lesja, Oppland, in 1985. At the age of six, Berger started cross-country skiing, but during his teens he decided to try out the biathlon.Berger joined the national...
(born 1979), Norwegian biathlete - Mark Berger (judoka)Mark Berger (judoka)Sensei Mark Berger is a Canadian judoka.He immigrated to Canada from Ukraine and East Germany.-Judo career:...
(born 1954), Canadian Olympic silver & bronze (judo heavyweight) - Maxie BergerMaxie BergerMaxie Berger was a Canadian boxer. He was born in Montreal, Canada.He fought as a flyweight, junior welterweight, and welterweight from 1935–46, and in 134 fights had a record of: Won 99 , Lost 24, Drawn 9.Berger was selected for the 1934 British Empire Games...
(1917–2000), Canadian world champion junior welterweight boxer - Ola BergerOla BergerOla Berger is a Norwegian ski mountaineer and cross-country skier.Berger was born in Trondheim. He started ski mountaineering in 1997 and competed first in 2006.- Selected results :* 2006:** 2nd, Oppdal race...
(b. 1979), Norwegian ski mountaineer and cross-country skier - Olia BergerOlia BergerOlia Berger is a female judoka from Canada, who won the bronze medal in the women's heavyweight division at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, alongside Ecuador's Carmen Chalá.-References:*...
(born 1983), Canadian judoka - Patrik BergerPatrik BergerPatrik Berger is a retired Czech footballer. He has played in Czech Republic, Germany, and England. He is best remembered for his time at Liverpool....
(born 1973), Czech football (soccer) player - Sam BergerSam BergerSamuel "Sam" Berger, CM, FRSC, QC was a Canadian owner of the Canadian Football League's Ottawa Rough Riders and Montreal Alouettes and president of the CFL....
(1900–1992), Canadian football team owner - Samuel Berger (boxer)Samuel Berger (boxer)Samuel Berger was an American professional heavyweight boxer who competed in the early twentieth century.He was born in Chicago, Illinois and died in San Francisco, California.-Olympics:...
(1884–1925), US Olympic champion heavyweight boxer - Tora BergerTora BergerTora Berger is a World Cup level biathlete and Olympic Champion. She has been a member of the Norwegian women's biathlon team since 1999. She has 5 individual victories in the World Cup. She is the sister of biathlete and cross-country skier Lars Berger...
(born 1981), Norwegian biathlete and sister of Lars Berger
Music
- Arthur BergerArthur BergerArthur Victor Berger was an American composer who has been described as a New Mannerist.-Biography:Born in New York City, of Jewish descent, Berger studied as an undergraduate at New York University, during which time he joined the Young Composer's Group, as a graduate student under Walter Piston...
, composer - Christian Wilhelm BergerChristian Wilhelm BergerChristian Wilhelm Berger is a Romanian composer, organist, and a Lecturer at the Bucharest Academy.-Education:...
(b. 1964), Romanian composer and musician - Erna BergerErna BergerErna Berger , was a prominent German coloratura lyric soprano. She is most famous for her Queen of the Night and her Konstanze....
(1900–1990), German soprano singer - Henri BergerHenri BergerHenry or Henri Berger was a Prussian Kapellmeister composer and royal bandmaster of the Kingdom of Hawaii from 1872 to his death....
(1844–1929), Hawaii musician - Jim BergerJim BergerJim Berger is a Swedish black metal singer who goes by the stage name All. His original project was Abruptum. He also performed in many side-projects including Ophthalamia, Vondur, War, usually with Tony Särkkä.-Sources:...
, Swedish musician - Karl BergerKarl BergerKarl Hanns Berger is a musicologist with a PhD in Music Sociology, jazz composer, jazz vibraphone and piano player.-Biography:...
(born 1935), German jazz musician - Ludwig Berger (composer) (1777–1839), German composer and piano teacher
- Michel BergerMichel BergerMichel Berger , born Michel Jean Hamburger, was a very successful French singer and songwriter. He was a central figure of France's pop music scene for two decades both as a singer and as a songwriter for well-known French artists like his wife France Gall, Françoise Hardy and Johnny Hallyday...
(1947–1992), French singer and songwriter - Wilhelm BergerWilhelm BergerWilhelm Berger was a German composer, pianist and conductor.-Life:Berger's father, originally a merchant from Bremen, worked in Boston as a music shopkeeper and made a name for himself as an author after the family had returned to Bremen in 1862. Early on, his son showed signs of musical interest...
(1861–1911), composer - Wilhelm Georg BergerWilhelm Georg BergerWilhelm Georg Berger was a Romanian composer, musicologist, violist and conductor.-Biography:...
(1929–1993), composer - Wilhelm Peterson Berger (1867–1942), Swedish musician
Culture
- Helmut BergerHelmut BergerHelmut Berger is an Austrian-born German film and television actor. He is most famous for his work with Luchino Visconti, particularly in his performance as King Ludwig II of Bavaria in Ludwig, for which he received a special David di Donatello award.He appears primarily in European cinema, but...
(born 1944), Austrian actor - Helmut Berger (born 1949), Austrian actor, film director, playwright
- John BergerJohn BergerJohn Peter Berger is an English art critic, novelist, painter and author. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to a BBC series, is often used as a university text.-Education:Born in Hackney, London, England, Berger was...
(born 1926), British art critic, novelist, painter, and author - Karen BergerKaren BergerKaren Berger is an American comic book editor. She is best known as the Executive Editor of DC Comics' Vertigo imprint.-Biography:...
, British comic book editor - Oscar Berger (cartoonist)Oscar Berger (cartoonist)Oscar Berger was a well-known caricaturist and cartoonist.Berger was born in Prešov, Slovakia. He became a cartoonist in Prague and studied art in Paris and Berlin....
(1901–1997), cartoonist - Robert Berger (producer)Robert Berger (producer)Robert "Buzz" Berger is an American film producer.Among other films, he was the producer for the Emmy award winning TV miniseries Holocaust.-Partial filmography:* 1974 The Missiles of October* 1978 Holocaust...
, a film producer - Senta BergerSenta BergerSenta Berger is an Austrian film, stage and television actress, producer and author.Regarded by critics as one of the greatest actresses of the post-war period, and frequently named as one of the leading German-speaking actresses in polls, Berger has received many award nominations for her acting...
(born 1941), Austrian actress - Thomas BergerThomas Berger (US novelist)-Biography:Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Berger was in Europe with the United States Army and then studied at the University of Cincinnati, and at Columbia University. He worked as a librarian and a journalist before publishing his first novel, Crazy in Berlin, in 1958. Berger may be best known for...
(born 1924), US novelist - Wiesław Adam Berger, Polish writer
Science
- Alwin BergerAlwin BergerAlwin Berger was a German botanist best known for his contribution to the nomenclature of succulent plants, particularly agaves and cacti. Born in Germany he worked at the botanical gardens in Dresden and Frankfurt...
(1871–1931), German botanist - Hans BergerHans BergerHans Berger was born in Neuses near Coburg, Bavaria, Germany. He is best known as the first to record human electroencephalograms in 1924, for which he invented the electroencephalogram , and the discoverer of the alpha wave rhythm known as "Berger's wave".- Biography :After attending...
(1873–1941), German neuroscientist - James Berger (statistician), American statistician
- Jeffrey W. BergerJeffrey W. BergerJeffrey W. Berger was an inspirational vitreoretinal surgeon and engineer.-Training:Jeffrey W. Berger graduated in 1985 from Princeton University with a bachelors degree in engineering. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992...
(1963–2001), American physician and engineer - Josef Berger (scientist)Josef Berger (scientist)Josef Berger is a Czech scientist. Heis a full professor at the University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic. His areas are biomodel development and information gaining....
(1949), Czech biomedical engineer and haematologist - Lee R. BergerLee R. BergerLee Rogers Berger is a paleoanthropologist, physical anthropologist and archeologist and is best known for his discovery of Australopithecus sediba and his work on Australopithecus africanus body proportions and the Taung Bird of Prey Hypothesis.-Background:Berger was born in Shawnee Mission,...
(born 1965), Explorer and Paleoanthropologist - Marcel BergerMarcel BergerMarcel Berger is a French mathematician, doyen of French differential geometry, and a former director of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques , France...
, (born 1927), French mathematician - Peter B. BergerPeter B. BergerPeter B. Berger, M.D. is the Associate Chief Research Officer at Geisinger Clinic and Director of the Center for Clinical Studies, and is in charge of clinical research throughout the 3 hospital 40 clinic Geisinger Health System. He is also an interventional cardiologist at Geisinger...
(born 1956), American cardiologist - Peter L. BergerPeter L. BergerPeter Ludwig Berger is an Austrian-born American sociologist well known for his work, co-authored with Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge .-Biography:...
(born 1929), American sociologist and theologian - Richard BergerRichard BergerRichard "Ric" Berger was a Swiss professor of design, decoration, and art history. He is best known for his numerous newspaper articles about historical monuments, mainly in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, including his own drawings of the buildings...
(1894–1984), Swiss professor of design, decoration, and art history - Robert Berger (mathematician)Robert Berger (mathematician)Robert Berger is known for inventing the first aperiodic tiling using a set of 20,426 distinct tile shapes.The unexpected existence of aperiodic tilings, although not Berger's explicit construction of them, follows from another result proved by Berger: that the so-called domino problem is...
, American mathematician - Robert W. BergerRobert W. BergerRobert W. Berger is a German mathematician. He received his Ph.D. in 1958 at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; it was titled,"Derivationen mehrstufiger diskreter Bewertungsringe von Primzahlcharakteristik." He published a number of geometry textbooks...
, German mathematician
Other people
- David Berger (theologian)David Berger (theologian)David Berger is a German theologian and author.- Biography :From 1991 to 1998 Berger studied philosophy, Roman Catholic theology and German language and literature in Würzburg, Cologne and Dortmund. Berger is a German neo-Thomist and a former professor of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas...
(born 1968), German theologian - Gottlob BergerGottlob BergerGottlob Berger was a German Nazi who held the rank of Obergruppenführer during World War II and was later convicted of war crimes.In 1939, he was Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler's main recruiting officer...
(1896–1975), German SS general - Josef Berger (speechwriter) (1903–1981), American journalist, accused of being a Soviet spy
- Roland BergerRoland Berger-References:...
(born 1937), entrepreneur, philanthropist, and founder of Roland Berger Strategy ConsultantsRoland Berger Strategy ConsultantsRoland Berger Strategy Consultants is a global strategy consulting firm headquartered in Munich, with 43 offices in 31 countries. Roland Berger Strategy Consultants was founded in 1967 by Prof. Roland Berger... - Roza BergerRóza BergerRoza Bergerthe only verified named victim of the 1945 Kraków pogrom, was born Reizel Leser in Kraków on 20 June 1889. She was married in Kraków on 17 September 1911 to Josef Berger. She escaped Kraków during the war and was deported to Auschwitz in August of 1944 with her daughter and granddaughter...
(1889–1945), 1945 Krakow pogrom victim - Theo BergerTheo BergerTheo Maximilian Berger was a notorious Bavarian criminal, best known for his numerous escapes from prison. Despite escaping four times, Berger spent 36 years in jail and eventually committed suicide there...
(1941–2003), German criminal
Other uses
- Berger's disease, or IgA-Nephropathie (IgAN), a form of the Glomerulonephritis disease
- George Berger, fictional character in the HairHair (musical)Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot. A product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement...
muscial. (In the filmHair (film)Hair is a 1979 American film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical of the same name about a Vietnam war draftee who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army induction center...
played by Treat WilliamsTreat WilliamsRichard Treat Williams is a Screen Actors Guild Award–nominated American actor and children's book author who has appeared on film, stage and television...
). - Roland Berger Strategy ConsultantsRoland Berger Strategy ConsultantsRoland Berger Strategy Consultants is a global strategy consulting firm headquartered in Munich, with 43 offices in 31 countries. Roland Berger Strategy Consultants was founded in 1967 by Prof. Roland Berger...
, European strategy consultancy firm - Berger CookiesBerger CookiesBerger Cookies are a kind of cookie made and distributed by DeBaufre Bakeries. It is a vanilla wafer topped with a thick layer of chocolate ganache that derives from a German recipe, and are a cultural icon of Baltimore.- History :...
, made by DeBaufre Bakeries in Baltimore, MD - Berger (grape), another name for the California/French wine grape Burger
See also
- BirgerBirgerBirger is a Scandinavian name from Old Norse, bjarga, meaning "to help, to save, to protect". The Swedish variant is Börje, Icelandic Birgir. Birger is primarily a masculine given name, but can also be found as a surname...
- BürgerBürgerBürger may refer to:* Ernst Moritz Buerger, founder, Missouri Synod of the Lutheran Church* Gottfried August Bürger, German poet* Heinrich Bürger, German physicist and biologist* Karl-Heinz Bürger, German SS-Oberführer...
- Burger (disambiguation)
- Burgers (disambiguation)
- Burgher (disambiguation)