Kurt
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Kurt is a given name
. Its principal English variant is Curt, while others include Cord, Curd, and Kort. It originated as a short form of Curtis
, Konrad
(Conrad
), and Kunibert. Curt also means to be impolitely brief.
The meaning of the name is: "Full of wisdom"
Its name day
s are November 12 (Sweden), November 26 (Norway) and September 13 (Australia).
Kurt also appears as a surname
and means wolf in Turkish.
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
. Its principal English variant is Curt, while others include Cord, Curd, and Kort. It originated as a short form of Curtis
Curtis
Curtis is a common given name and surname of English origin derived from the Old French "curteis," which means 'polite, courteous, or well-bred.' It's related with the spanish and portuguese surname Cortes. It was brought to England via the Norman Conquest...
, Konrad
Konrad
Konrad is a given name and surname that is often spelled Conrad in English.-First name:*Konrad Adenauer , German politician*Konrad Bloch , German-born American biochemist*Konrad Boehmer , Dutch composer...
(Conrad
Conrad
- Other uses :* Conrad Editora, Brazilian publisher* Conrad Hotels, global luxury brand of Hilton Hotels* Conrad * Conrad , German manufacturer of diecast toys and promotional models...
), and Kunibert. Curt also means to be impolitely brief.
The meaning of the name is: "Full of wisdom"
Its name day
Name day
A name day is a tradition in many countries in Europe and Latin America that consists of celebrating the day of the year associated with one's given name....
s are November 12 (Sweden), November 26 (Norway) and September 13 (Australia).
Kurt also appears as a surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
and means wolf in Turkish.
Given name
- Kurt AngleKurt AngleKurt Steven Angle is an American professional wrestler, amateur wrestler, and 1996 Olympic gold medalist. He is currently under contract with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he is recognized as a 15-time World Heavyweight Champion...
(born 1968), American wrestler - Kurt BeckKurt BeckKurt Beck is a German politician , serving as the Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1994 and as President of the Bundesrat in 2000/01. On May 14, 2006, he succeeded Matthias Platzeck as Chairman of the German Social Democratic Party...
(born 1949), German politician - Kurt BiedenkopfKurt BiedenkopfKurt Hans Biedenkopf is a German politician. He was Ministerpräsident of the Free State of Saxony from 1990 until 2002, as such serving as President of the Bundesrat in 1999/2000.- Biography :...
(born 1930), German politician - Kurt BrowningKurt BrowningKurt Browning, CM is a Canadian figure skater, choreographer and commentator. He is a four-time World Champion and four-time Canadian national champion.-Life and career:...
(born 1966), Canadian figure-skater - Kurt BuschKurt BuschKurt Thomas Busch is an American NASCAR and NHRA driver. He drives the No. 22 Shell Oil Company/Pennzoil Dodge Charger in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, and will race on an "opportunity permitting" basis in the Pro Stock division of NHRA...
(born 1978), American NASCAR Driver - Kurt CobainKurt CobainKurt Donald Cobain was an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the grunge band Nirvana...
(1967-1994), American musician, member of the band Nirvana - Kurt EpsteinKurt EpsteinKurt Epstein was a Czechoslovakian Olympic water polo player.-Early life:Epstein was Jewish, and born to Maximilian and Helena Epstein. He grew in Roudnice near the Elbe River, 22 miles north of Prague, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian province of Bohemia...
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(1906-1978), German mathematician - Kurt HahnKurt HahnKurt Martin Hahn was a German educator whose philosophies are considered internationally influential.-Biography:...
(1886-1974), German educator, creator of Outward Bound - Kurt HenselKurt HenselKurt Wilhelm Sebastian Hensel was a German mathematician born in Königsberg, Prussia.He was the son of the landowner and entrepreneur Sebastian Hensel, brother of the philosopher Paul Hensel, grandson of the composer Fanny Mendelssohn and the painter Wilhelm Hensel, and a descendant of the...
(1861-1941), German mathematician - Kurt JamesKurt JamesKurt James is an American Heavy metal–rock guitarist and composer.Mr. James has recorded many different styles of music over the years, including Rockabilly, in the form of a collaboration with the Christian rockabilly band The Pioneers.-Musical career:James has performed in Japan, Europe...
(born 1972), American musician - Kurt JaraKurt JaraKurt Jara is a retired Austrian footballer.-Club career:Jara started his professional career with local side FC Wacker Innsbruck before moving to Spanish outfit Valencia CF in 1973. After two seasons in La Liga he joined German Bundesliga team MSV Duisburg where he spent 5 seasons and reached the...
(born 1950), Austrian football player and coach - Curd JürgensCurd JürgensCurd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens was a German-Austrian stage and film actor. He was usually billed in English-speaking films as Curt Jurgens.-Early life:...
(1915-1982), German-Austrian actor - Kurt Georg KiesingerKurt Georg KiesingerKurt Georg Kiesinger was a German politician affiliated with the CDU and Chancellor of West Germany from 1 December 1966 until 21 October 1969.-Early career and wartime activities:...
(1904–1988), German politician, Chancellor of West Germany 1966-1969 - Kurt KrakowianKurt KrakowianKurt Krakowian is an American former child actor and a guest star in a few TV programs: Days of our Lives, Cheers, Vega$, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, The Love Boat, According to Jim and a few episodes of Saved by the Bell...
(born 1964), Child actor - Kurt KrennKurt KrennKurt Krenn is an Austrian Roman Catholic prelate and Bishop who ran a priests seminary in Sankt Pölten, near Vienna.-Views:...
(born 1936), Austrian bishop - Kurt (Kubrat)KubratKubrat or Kurt was a Bulgar ruler credited with establishing the confederation of Old Great Bulgaria in 632. He is said to have achieved this by conquering the Avars and uniting all the Bulgar tribes under one rule....
(632–665 AD), Bulgar statesman - Kurt LammKurt LammKurt Lamm was a German-born American soccer player, coach, manager, and administrator.-Early and family life:Lamm was Jewish, and was born in Salmünster, Germany. He came to the United States as a youth, in 1936...
(1919–87), German-born American soccer player, coach, manager, and administrator - Kurt LoderKurt LoderKurt Loder is an American film critic, author, columnist, and television personality. He served in the 1980s as editor at Rolling Stone, during a tenure that Reason later called "legendary". He has contributed to articles in Reason, Esquire, Details, New York, and Time. He has also made cameos on...
(born 1945), American media correspondent - Kurt MasurKurt MasurKurt Masur is a German conductor, particularly noted for his interpretation of German Romantic music.- Biography :Masur was born in Brieg, Lower Silesia, Germany and studied piano, composition and conducting in Leipzig, Saxony. Masur has been married three times...
(born 1927), German conductor - Kurt NilsenKurt NilsenThe following is a discography of albums and singles released by Norwegian music artist Kurt Nilsen.-Albums:-Singles:-Other releases:*1998 Shoe...
(born 1978), Norwegian singer - Kurt RussellKurt RussellKurt Vogel Russell is an American television and film actor. His first acting roles were as a child in television series, including a lead role in the Western series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters...
(born 1951), American actor - Curt SchillingCurt SchillingCurtis Montague "Curt" Schilling is a former American Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. He helped lead the Philadelphia Phillies to the World Series in and won World Series championships in with the Arizona Diamondbacks and in and with the Boston Red Sox. Schilling retired with a...
(born 1966), American baseball player - Kurt von SchleicherKurt von SchleicherKurt von Schleicher was a German general and the last Chancellor of Germany during the era of the Weimar Republic. Seventeen months after his resignation, he was assassinated by order of his successor, Adolf Hitler, in the Night of the Long Knives....
(1882-1934), German general and politician, Chancellor of Germany 1932-1933 - Kurt SchwittersKurt SchwittersKurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters was a German painter who was born in Hanover, Germany. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dada, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography and what came to be known as...
(1887-1948), German painter - Kurt SinetteKurt SinetteKurt Sinette is a retired male boxer from Trinidad and Tobago, who won the bronze medal in the men's light middleweight category at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata.-References:*...
(born 1974), Trinidad and Tobago boxer - Curt SmithCurt SmithCurt Smith is an English musician. He is best known for forming the band Tears for Fears, along with childhood friend Roland Orzabal. Also a solo artist, he released his third album Halfway, Pleased in May 2008....
(born 1961), British musician, member of Tears for Fears - Curt StoneCurt StoneCurtis Charles Stone is a retired long-distance runner from the United States...
(born 1922), American long-distance runner - Kurt StudentKurt StudentKurt Student was a German Luftwaffe general who fought as a fighter pilot during the First World War and as the commander of German Fallschirmjäger during the Second World War.-Biography:...
(1890-1978), German air force general - Kurt SuzukiKurt Suzukiis a Major League Baseball catcher for the Oakland Athletics.-College career:Suzuki played at Cal State Fullerton. Cal State Fullerton captured the 2004 College World Series championship, thanks to Suzuki's two-out RBI single in the bottom of the seventh inning, giving the Titans a 3-2 win over the...
(born 1983), American baseball player - Kurt TucholskyKurt TucholskyKurt Tucholsky was a German-Jewish journalist, satirist and writer. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger and Ignaz Wrobel. Born in Berlin-Moabit, he moved to Paris in 1924 and then to Sweden in 1930.Tucholsky was one of the most important journalists of...
(1890-1935), German journalist - Kurt VonnegutKurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut, Jr. was a 20th century American writer. His works such as Cat's Cradle , Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions blend satire, gallows humor and science fiction. He was known for his humanist beliefs and was honorary president of the American Humanist Association.-Early...
(1922-2007), American writer - Kurt VossKurt VossKurt Voss is an American film director, screenwriter and musician/songwriter. He often works with fellow UCLA alumnus Allison Anders...
(born 1963), American film director - Kurt WaldheimKurt WaldheimKurt Josef Waldheim was an Austrian diplomat and politician. Waldheim was the fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and the ninth President of Austria, from 1986 to 1992...
(1918-2007), Austrian politician, UN Secretary General 1972-1981, convicted Nazi war criminal. - Kurt WarburtonKurt WarburtonCurt Warburton is an English mixed martial artist from Coundon, County Durham. He trains at Wolfslair MMA Academy in Liverpool, England. Warburton is best known for his performances on the domestic circuit and he holds a TKO victory over The Ultimate Fighter 9 lightweight winner Ross Pearson.-Early...
, English mixed martial arts fighter - Kurt WarnerKurt WarnerKurtis Eugene "Kurt" Warner is a retired American football player. He played quarterback for three National Football League teams: the St. Louis Rams, the New York Giants, and the Arizona Cardinals. He was originally signed by the Green Bay Packers as an undrafted free agent in 1994 after playing...
(born 1971), American football player - Kurt WeillKurt WeillKurt Julian Weill was a German-Jewish composer, active from the 1920s, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht...
(1900-1950), German-American composer - Kurt WestergaardKurt WestergaardKurt Westergaard is a Danish cartoonist who created the controversial cartoon of the Islamic prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb in his turban. This cartoon was the most contentious of the 12 Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons, which met with strong and sometimes violent reactions from Muslims worldwide...
(born 1935), Danish cartoonist - Kurt WolffKurt WolffKurt Wolff was a German publisher, editor, writer and journalist.Wolff was born in Bonn, Rhenish Prussia. Together with Ernst Rowohlt he began to work in publishing in Leipzig in 1908. He was the first to promote and publish the authors Franz Kafka and Franz Werfel...
(1887-1963), German publisher - Kurt WubbenKurt WubbenKurt Wubben is a Dutch marathon speed skater.As of today Wubben won eight marathons on artificial speed skating tracks, including one during the 2006 Six Days of the Greenery....
(born 1972), Dutch marathon ice speed skater - KurtKubratKubrat or Kurt was a Bulgar ruler credited with establishing the confederation of Old Great Bulgaria in 632. He is said to have achieved this by conquering the Avars and uniting all the Bulgar tribes under one rule....
(KubratKubratKubrat or Kurt was a Bulgar ruler credited with establishing the confederation of Old Great Bulgaria in 632. He is said to have achieved this by conquering the Avars and uniting all the Bulgar tribes under one rule....
), 7th century Khan of BulgarsBulgarsThe Bulgars were a semi-nomadic who flourished in the Pontic Steppe and the Volga basin in the 7th century.The Bulgars emerge after the collapse of the Hunnic Empire in the 5th century....
Surname
- Kemal KurtKemal KurtKemal Kurt was an author, translator and photographer.- Vita :* 1966-72 studies in Turkey and in USA* since 1975 living in Berlin* since 1977 artistic photography...
(1947-2002), author, translator and photographer - Seyhan KurtSeyhan Kurt- Biography :Born in Grenoble, Isère, France, he started his primary education at La Verpillere, Ecole Les Marronnier and completed it at Ecole Jean Jaures in Lyon. He graduated from Dumlupinar High School in Mersin and continued his education in Selcuk University in Konya and studied French...
, French-Turkish poet, writer and sociologist - Yaşar KurtYaşar Kurt-Biography:He studied in 1990 at the Faculty of Economics of Eskişehir University but did not graduate.He founded the alternative musical group Beyaz Yunus . In 1993, he had his first studio recording in Germany and in 1994, released the album Sokak Şarkıları recorded in Cologne, Germany...
, Turkish rock artist - Sabahudin KurtSabahudin KurtSabahudin Kurt is a Bosnian singer who representated the former Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964 with the entry "Život je sklopio krug". He finished 13th with the dreaded nul points....
, Bosnian singer
Fictional characters
- Kurt-051, character in Halo: Ghosts of OnyxHalo: Ghosts of OnyxGhosts of Onyx is a novel by Eric Nylund, set in the universe of the Halo video game series and released on October 31, 2006. Ghosts of Onyx was the fourth Halo novel published, and Nylund's third contribution to the series...
- Kurt HummelKurt HummelKurt Hummel is a fictional character and one of the male leads in the Fox musical comedy-drama series Glee. Series creators Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan initially conceived of him as a fashionable gay countertenor who is routinely bullied at school...
, character in the TV series GleeGlee (TV series)Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that airs on Fox in the United States, and on GlobalTV in Canada. It focuses on the high school glee club New Directions competing on the show choir competition circuit, while its members deal with relationships, sexuality and social issues... - Colonel Kurt Von Strohm, a character in the BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!'Allo 'Allo!'Allo 'Allo! is a British sitcom broadcast on BBC One from 1982 to 1992 comprising eighty-five episodes. It is a parody of another BBC programme, the wartime drama Secret Army, and was created by David Croft, who also wrote the theme music, and Jeremy Lloyd. Lloyd and Croft wrote the first 6...
- Kurt Wagner (comics), also known as Nightcrawler, Marvel comic book superhero
- Kurt WallanderKurt WallanderKurt Wallander is a fictional character created by Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell. The protagonist of several mystery novels, set in and around the town of Ystad, 60 km south-east of the city of Malmö, in the southern province of Skåne...
, detective in the works of Henning Mankell - Curt Wild, character in the movie Velvet GoldmineVelvet GoldmineVelvet Goldmine is a 1998 British/American drama film directed and co-written by Todd Haynes. The film tells the story of a pop star based mainly on David Bowie's 'Ziggy Stardust' character and is set in Britain during the days of glam rock in the early 1970s.Sandy Powell received another Academy...
- Kurt Dierker, a character from the game The Saboteur