Metzger
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Metzger is a German
word meaning "butcher
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Metzger (also Mezger) is a common German
family name, and may refer to:
Metzger also can refer to characters:
German 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....
word meaning "butcher
Butcher
A butcher is a person who may slaughter animals, dress their flesh, sell their meat or any combination of these three tasks. They may prepare standard cuts of meat, poultry, fish and shellfish for sale in retail or wholesale food establishments...
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- Metzger, OregonMetzger, OregonMetzger is a census-designated place, in Washington County. As of the 2000 census, the CDP population was 3,354. Its name is derived from the German word for "butcher".- History :...
Metzger (also Mezger) is a common German
German 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....
family name, and may refer to:
- Alex MetzgerAlex MetzgerAlexander "Alex" Metzger is a German bobsledder who has competed since 1998. He won the gold medal in the four-man event at the 2001 FIBT World Championships in St. Moritz....
, (born 22 February 1973) German bobsledder - Alex Metzger (footballer)Alex Metzger (footballer)Alex Metzger is a former association football player who represented New Zealand at international level.Metzger made his full All Whites debut in a 6-0 win over Fiji on 29 June 1979 and ended his international playing career with 10 A-international caps and 1 goal to his credit, his final cap an...
, New Zealand international football (soccer) player - Bruce MetzgerBruce MetzgerBruce Manning Metzger was a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and Bible editor who served on the board of the American Bible Society. He was a scholar of Greek, New Testament and Old Testament, and wrote prolifically on these subjects.- Biography :Metzger was born in Middletown,...
, American evangelical writer and scholar - Butch MetzgerButch MetzgerClarence Edward "Butch" Metzger is a former Major League Baseball player. Metzger was a relief pitcher, specifically a closer...
, American professional baseball player - Ed MetzgerEd MetzgerEd Metzger is an American actor and writer.Metzger is known for portrayals of famous men in history. He has portrayed Albert Einstein live on stage for over 30 years in his one-man show, Albert Einstein: The Practical Bohemian. He also portrayed Ernest Hemingway in his live on stage...
, actor - Eduard MezgerEduard MezgerFriedrich Eduard Mezger was a Bavarian architect, painter, professor and a high civil officer of the royal buildings administration, called Oberbaurat .-Biography:...
(1807–1894), Bavarian architect and professor - Erika MetzgerErika MetzgerErika Metzger was a German table tennis player. She lived in Berlin. In 1929 she and Mona Rüster won the first place medal for Germany in doubles in the Table Tennis World Championships....
, German professional table tennis player - Francis MezgerFrancis MezgerFrancis Mezger was an Austrian Benedictine academic and writer, of St. Peter's Archabbey, Salzburg.-Life:...
, Benedictine - Georg Balthasar MetzgerGeorg Balthasar MetzgerGeorg Balthasar Metzger was a German physician and scientist notable as one of the four founding members of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in Schweinfurt....
, German physician - Gustav MetzgerGustav MetzgerGustav Metzger is an artist and political activist who developed the concept of Auto-Destructive Art and the Art Strike. Together with John Sharkey, he initiated the Destruction in Art Symposium in 1966...
, outsider artist - Guy MezgerGuy MezgerGuy Mezger is a retired American martial artist who competed in professional combat sports ranging from full contact karate, kickboxing, and boxing, but is most recognized as a mixed martial arts fighter . He is associated with Lion's Den Dallas...
- Heinz-Klaus MetzgerHeinz-Klaus MetzgerHeinz-Klaus Metzger was a German music critic and theorist.Metzger studied piano under Carl Seemann in Freiburg and composition under Max Deutsch in Paris. Later, attending a summer course for new music in Darmstadt, he met Theodor W. Adorno, Edgard Varèse, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luigi Nono...
, German music critic and theoretician - Jill MetzgerJill MetzgerMajor Jill Metzger is a United States Air Force personnel officer who gained worldwide attention as the result of a still unexplained three day disappearance in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan.-Sporting achievements & family:...
, American air force officer - Johan Georg Mezger, the creator of Swedish massage
- Joseph MezgerJoseph MezgerJoseph Mezger was an Austrian Benedictine of St. Peter's Archabbey, Salzburg.-Life:Mezger was born at Eichstädt. He took vows at the same time as his brother Francis Mezger in 1651, and was ordained priest in 1659. He taught poetry in the gymnasium of Salzburg in 1660, and was master of novices...
, Benedictine - Matthew MetzgerMatthew MetzgerMatthew Frederic Metzger is an American actor. He was born in Peoria, Illinois.Metzger began singing at the age of 4. He describes his vocal style as pop-rock. In May 2002 he completed his bachelor's degree in marketing at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio...
, American actor - Mike MetzgerMike MetzgerMike Metzger is an American Freestyle Motocross rider. In the 2002 X-Games he won the Freestyle and Big Air events and got second place in Step Up, earning him an estimated $100,000 in three days. In 2003 he also got first place in Big Air...
, American freestyle motocross legend - Paul MezgerPaul MezgerPaul Mezger was an Austrian Benedictine theologian and academic of St. Peter's Archabbey, Salzburg.-Life:...
, Benedictine - Rabbi Yona MetzgerYona MetzgerYona Metzger is the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel. His counterpart is Rabbi Shlomo Amar, the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel since their appointments in 2003.-Background:...
, current Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel - Radley MetzgerRadley MetzgerRadley Metzger is an American filmmaker and distributor. He is also credited under the pseudonym Henry Paris, a name he adopted in the 1970s when he began to direct hardcore pornography....
, American filmmaker - Richard MetzgerRichard MetzgerRichard Metzger is a television host and author. He was the host of the TV show Disinformation , The Disinformation Company and its website, Disinfo.com...
, Creator of the Disinformation website - Robert A. MetzgerRobert A. MetzgerRobert A. Metzger is an electrical engineer and science fiction author. He was a Nebula Award finalist in the novel category in 2002 for his second novel, Picoverse....
, author - Roger MetzgerRoger MetzgerRoger Henry Metzger was a Shortstop for the Chicago Cubs , Houston Astros and San Francisco Giants . A light-hitting shortstop, he was known for his strong defense and good running speed.- Career :Metzger won the 1973 Gold Glove Award at Shortstop...
, American professional baseball player - Sol MetzgerSol MetzgerSol S. Metzger was an American football player, coach of football and basketball, college athletics administrator, and sports journalist...
, American football coach and syndicated sports writer. - Thomas MetzgerThomas MetzgerThomas Metzger is a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He specializes in the intellectual and institutional history of China, studying both the premodern and the modern periods. His current research focuses on contemporary China's moral-political discourse and its...
, prominent American scholar of Chinese politics and society. - Tom MetzgerTom MetzgerThomas Metzger is an American white nationalist who founded White Aryan Resistance . His far-right activist groups, including WAR, have been monitored by the Southern Poverty Law Center, an American organization that tracks hate groups...
the founder of the White Aryan ResistanceWhite Aryan ResistanceWhite Aryan Resistance is a neo-Nazi white separatist organization founded and led by former Ku Klux Klan leader Tom Metzger. Part of the American far right, it is based in Warsaw, Indiana and is incorporated as a business....
. - William E. MetzgerWilliam E. MetzgerWilliam Ernest Metzger was an automotive pioneer and salesman from Detroit. He opened one of the first automobile dealerships in the United States, and participated in the early development of a number of early automobile companies, including the Cadillac Automobile Company and the E-M-F Company,...
, early car dealer and co-founder of E-M-F CompanyE-M-F CompanyThe E-M-F Company was an early American automobile manufacturer that produced automobiles from 1909 to 1912. The name E-M-F was gleaned from the initials of the three company founders: Barney Everitt , William Metzger , and Walter Flanders .- Everitt... - Wolfgang MetzgerWolfgang MetzgerWolfgang Metzger is considered one of the main representatives of Gestalt psychology in Germany....
, German psychologist - The French-Egyptian Metzger family, founders and owners of the Cecil HotelCecil Hotel (Alexandria)The 86 room, four-star Cecil Hotel in Alexandria, Egypt, was built in 1929 by the French-Egyptian Jewish Metzger family as a romantic hotel, at Saad Zaghloul square where Cleopatra's needles had been, in front of the Corniche. Author Somerset Maugham stayed here, as did Winston Churchill and Al...
in Alexandria.
Metzger also can refer to characters:
- Karl MetzgerKarl MetzgerKarl Metzger was a fictional guard on the HBO dramatic series Oz, played by Bill Fagerbakke.-Character overview:Karl Metzger is a correctional officer assigned as supervisor of the Emerald City unit of Oswald Prison; A neo-Nazi, Metzger uses his power to intimidate prisoners and assist the Aryan...
, a Nazi correctional officer at HBO drama OzOz (TV series)Oz is an American television drama series created by Tom Fontana, who also wrote or co-wrote all of the series' 56 episodes . It was the first one-hour dramatic television series to be produced by premium cable network HBO. Oz premiered on July 12, 1997 and ran for six seasons... - Metzger is the head of the Slavers Guild in Fallout 2Fallout 2Fallout 2 is a computer role-playing game developed by Black Isle Studios and published by Interplay in 1998. The game's story takes place in 2241, 80 years after the events of Fallout...
. - Metzger is a lawyer/actor in Thomas PynchonThomas PynchonThomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. is an American novelist. For his most praised novel, Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon received the National Book Award, and is regularly cited as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature...
's novel The Crying of Lot 49The Crying of Lot 49The Crying of Lot 49 is a novel by Thomas Pynchon, first published in 1966. The shortest of Pynchon's novels, it is about a woman, Oedipa Maas, possibly unearthing the centuries-old conflict between two mail distribution companies, Thurn und Taxis and the Trystero...
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