Othmar
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Othmar, also spelled Otmar or Ottmar, is a German
given name
, meaning "happy fame" http://www.babynamestats.com/search.php?startchar=o&page=13.
Famous people with the given name Othmar include:
People or characters with the surname include:
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....
given name
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...
, meaning "happy fame" http://www.babynamestats.com/search.php?startchar=o&page=13.
Famous people with the given name Othmar include:
- Saint OthmarSaint OthmarSt. Othmar, O.S.B., was a monk and priest appointed as the first abbot of the Abbey of St. Gall, a Benedictine monastery in St. Gall, Switzerland....
- Othmar AmmannOthmar AmmannOthmar Hermann Ammann was a American structural engineer whose designs include the George Washington Bridge, Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, and Bayonne Bridge.-Biography:...
- Otmar Freiherr von VerschuerOtmar Freiherr von VerschuerOtmar Freiherr von Verschuer was a German human biologist and eugenicist concerned primarily with "racial hygiene" and twin research...
- Otmar HaslerOtmar HaslerOtmar Hasler was the Prime Minister of Liechtenstein from 5 April 2001 to 25 March 2009. He was educated at the University of Fribourg. He was appointed on 5 April 2001, replacing Mario Frick, and led a government of the Progressive Citizens' Party in Liechtenstein and the Patriotic Union...
- Ottmar HörlOttmar HörlOttmar Hörl is a notable German artist, art professor and writer.From 1975 to 1978, he studied at the "Städelschule" in Frankfurt and from 1978 to 1981 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf...
- Ottmar HitzfeldOttmar HitzfeldOttmar Hitzfeld is a German former football player and manager, nicknamed der General ....
- Otmar IssingOtmar IssingOtmar Issing is a German economist, presintent of the Center for Financial Studies and former member of the board of the Deutsche Bundesbank and of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank . He is advisor for Goldman Sachs...
- Othmar KarasOthmar KarasOthmar Karas is an Austrian politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Austrian People's Party, vice-chair of the EPP-ED group, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.He is also a substitute for the Committee on the Internal...
- Ottmar LiebertOttmar LiebertOttmar Liebert is a German-born composer and guitarist, born to a Chinese-German father and a Hungarian mother. As a child, he spent most of his time traveling Europe and Asia with his family...
- Ottmar MergenthalerOttmar MergenthalerOttmar Mergenthaler was an inventor who has been called a second Gutenberg because of his invention of the Linotype machine, the first device that could easily and quickly set complete lines of type for use in printing presses...
- Othmar SchoeckOthmar SchoeckOthmar Schoeck was a Swiss composer and conductor.He was known mainly for his considerable output of art songs and song cycles, though he also wrote a number of operas and instrumental compositions including two string quartets and...
- Othmar SpannOthmar SpannOthmar Spann was a conservative Austrian philosopher, sociologist and economist whose radical anti-liberal and anti-Socialist views, based on early 19th century Romantic ideas expressed by Adam Müller et al...
- Othmar ZeidlerOthmar ZeidlerOthmar Zeidler was an Austrian chemist credited with the first synthesis of DDT.He was a son of the Viennese pharmacist Franz Zeidler. Othmar's brother, Franz Zeidler Jr. , also became a chemist and would collaborate with him on several projects...
- Otmar SzafnauerOtmar SzafnauerOtmar Szafnauer is the incoming Chief Operating Officer of Force India F1 team for 2010 Formula One season.He was formerly the Vice President of Honda Racing Developments and a member of the Management Board of the Honda F1 team.He was born in Romania, but moved to Detroit when he was seven years...
People or characters with the surname include:
- Miss Othmar in the comic strip PeanutsPeanutsPeanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward...
- King Ottmar in the Legacy of Kain series