Wagner (surname)
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Wagner is derived from the Germanic
surname Waganari, meaning "wagonmaker" or "wagon driver".
This common occupational surname was often given to one who transported produce or other goods via high-sided wagons or carts. Among some German populations, especially the Pennsylvania Germans, Wagner also denoted a wagon-maker, wainwright
, or cartwright
.
Germanic languages
The Germanic languages constitute a sub-branch of the Indo-European language family. The common ancestor of all of the languages in this branch is called Proto-Germanic , which was spoken in approximately the mid-1st millennium BC in Iron Age northern Europe...
surname Waganari, meaning "wagonmaker" or "wagon driver".
This common occupational surname was often given to one who transported produce or other goods via high-sided wagons or carts. Among some German populations, especially the Pennsylvania Germans, Wagner also denoted a wagon-maker, wainwright
Wainwright
A wainwright is a tradesperson skilled in the making and repairing of wagons . The word is the combination of the archaic words "wain" and "wright" .In places:*Canada...
, or cartwright
Cartwright
Cartwright is the occupation of making and repairing carts . It can also refer to:Persons:* Edmund Cartwright, English clergyman and inventor of the power loom.In places:* Cartwright, Manitoba, Canada...
.
People with the surname "Wagner"
- Adolf WagnerAdolf WagnerAdolf Wagner was a German soldier and high-ranking Nazi Party official born in Algrange, Alsace-Lorraine.He served in World War I as an officer in the German Army...
, Nazi statesman - Adolph WagnerAdolph WagnerAdolph Wagner was a German economist and politician, a leading Kathedersozialist and public finance scholar and advocate of Agrarianism...
, German economist - Ashley WagnerAshley WagnerAshley Wagner is an American figure skater. She is the 2008 and 2010 U.S. bronze medalist and 2007 and 2009 World Junior bronze medalist.-Personal life:...
, American figure skater - Audrey WagnerAudrey WagnerGenevieve Wagner [Audrey] was an outfielder who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 7", 145 lb., she batted and threw right-handed.-Brief profile:...
, American baseball player and Doctor of Medicine - Billy WagnerBilly WagnerWilliam Edward Wagner , nicknamed "Billy the Kid", is a retired Major League Baseball relief pitcher. He pitched for the Houston Astros , the Philadelphia Phillies , the New York Mets , the Boston Red Sox , and the Atlanta Braves...
, American baseball player - Charles WagnerCharles WagnerCharles Wagner was a French reformed pastor whose inspirational writings were influential in shaping the reformed theology of his time.-Biography:...
, French pastor and author who was invited to preach at the White House - Cosima WagnerCosima WagnerCosima Francesca Gaetana Wagner, née de Flavigny, from 1844 known as Cosima Liszt; was the daughter of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt...
, diarist and director of the Bayreuth Festival, daughter of Franz Liszt and widow of Richard Wagner - David Wagner, lead singer of the rock band CrowCrow (band)Crow is a Minneapolis-based blues rock band, that was first active from 1967 to 1972. They are best known for the song "Evil Woman ," which was notably covered by Black Sabbath.-History:...
- David A. Wagner, computer security and cryptography researcher
- David L. WagnerDavid L. WagnerDavid L. Wagner is an entomologist and a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Caterpillars of Eastern North America, widely regarded as one of the most authoritative field guides on caterpillars...
, entomologist - Eduard WagnerEduard WagnerGeneral Eduard Wagner was a German Artillery officer who was the quartermaster-general of the German Army and a member of the resistance to Adolf Hitler....
, quartermaster-general of the German Army in World War II - Eric WagnerEric WagnerEric Wagner is an American heavy metal singer who is best known for his work with doom metal band Trouble. He briefly left Trouble in the mid-nineties and formed Lid with guitarist Danny Cavanagh, resulting in 1997's In The Mushroom. Wagner returned to Trouble in 2002...
, American heavy metal vocalist - Friedlinde WagnerFriedlinde WagnerFriedelind Wagner was the daughter of German opera composer Siegfried Wagner and his Welsh wife, Winifred Williams and the granddaughter of the famous composer Richard Wagner. Born in Bayreuth, she was known by the nickname "Maus" or "Mausi"...
writer and broadcaster, daughter of Siegfried and Winifred Wagner - George D. WagnerGeorge D. WagnerGeorge Day Wagner was an Indiana politician, farmer, and soldier, serving as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. His controversial actions at the Battle of Franklin in 1864 overshadowed his positive performance earlier in the war.-Early life and career:Wagner was born in...
, Union general during the American Civil War - Gerhard Maria WagnerGerhard Maria WagnerGerhard Maria Wagner — born 1954 July 17, Wartberg ob der Aist, Austria—was appointed auxiliary bishop of Linz, Austria, by Pope Benedict XVI on 2009 January 31...
, Austrian Roman Catholic priest who was nominated auxiliary bishop in Linz, but didn't accept - Gerhard Wagner, the first Reich Doctors' Leader (Reichsärzteführer) of Nazi Germany
- Gottfried WagnerGottfried WagnerGottfried Wagner is a multimedia director and publicist.Gottfried Wagner is the son of Wolfgang Wagner and a great-grandchild of Richard Wagner. His PhD is about Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht. He has concentrated on German culture and politics, as well as Jewish history of the 19th and 20th...
writer and critic of the Wagner family, son of Wolfgang Wagner - Gudrun WagnerGudrun WagnerGudrun Wagner was the wife of Wolfgang Wagner, sole director of the Bayreuth Festival since 1967. Her behind-the-scenes influence led her to be considered virtual co-director.-Biography:...
second wife of Wolfgang Wagner - Gustav WagnerGustav WagnerGustav Franz Wagner was an SS-Oberscharführer from Vienna, Austria. Wagner was a starter deputy commander of the Sobibor extermination camp in German-occupied Poland, where more than 200,000 Jews were gassed during Operation Reinhard...
(1910-1980), Nazi SS officer at Sobibor extermination camp - Gustav Wagner (bobsleigh)Gustav Wagner (bobsleigh)Gustav "Bib" Wagner was a Luxembourgian bobsledder who competed in the 1930s. He competed in the two-man event at the 1936 Winter Olympics, but crashed out during the fourth run and did not finish.-References:*...
(1901-d.), Luxembourgian bobsledder - Heinrich Leopold WagnerHeinrich Leopold WagnerHeinrich Leopold Wagner , born in Strasbourg, was a German dramatist, known for his 1776 tragedy Die Kindermörderin.-Works:* Prometheus, Deukalion und seine Rezensenten, 1775* Der wohltätige Unbekannte, 1775...
, dramatist and author - John Peter "Honus" WagnerHonus Wagner-Louisville Colonels:Recognizing his talent, Barrow recommended Wagner to the Louisville Colonels. After some hesitation about his awkward figure, Wagner was signed by the Colonels, where he hit .338 in 61 games....
, U.S. baseball player - Jasmin Wagner, stage name Blümchen, German singer and actress
- Jill WagnerJill WagnerJillian Suzanne "Jill" Wagner is an American television actress, model, and game show personality.-Early life:Wagner was raised primarily by her father, David Wagner, a Marine, and her grandmother...
, actress - Johann Wagner German rococo sculptor
- Johann Andreas WagnerJohann Andreas WagnerJohann Andreas Wagner was a German palaeontologist, zoologist and archaeologist.Wagner was a professor at the University of Munich, and curator of the Zoologische Staatssammlung ....
, German zoologist - John WagnerJohn WagnerJohn Wagner is a comics writer who was born in Pennsylvania in 1949 and moved to Scotland as a boy. Alongside Pat Mills, Wagner was responsible for revitalising British boys' comics in the 1970s, and has continued to be a leading light in British comics ever since.He is best known for his work on...
, American comics writer - Josef Franz WagnerJosef Wagner (composer)Josef Franz Wagner was an Austrian military bandmaster and composer. He is sometimes known by the sobriquet 'The Austrian March King'....
, Austrian composer - Josef WagnerJosef Wagner (Gauleiter)Josef Wagner was from 1928 the Nazi Gauleiter of the Gau of Westphalia-South, and as of January 1935 also of the Gau of Silesia.-Early life and First World War:...
, a Nazi Gauleiter in the Third Reich - Julius Wagner-JaureggJulius Wagner-JaureggJulius Wagner-Jauregg was an Austrian physician, Nobel Laureate, and Nazi supporter.-Early life:...
, Austrian physician, Nobel Prize laureat in medicine - Karl Willy WagnerKarl Willy WagnerKarl Willy Wagner was a German pioneer in the theory of electronic filters. He is noted by Hendrik Bode as being one of two Germans whose;The other German being referred to is Wilhelm Cauer...
(1883–1953), German pioneer in the theory of electronic filters - Katharina WagnerKatharina WagnerKatharina Wagner is a German opera stage-director and co-director of the Bayreuth Festival. She is the daughter of Wolfgang Wagner, great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner and great-great granddaughter of Hungarian composer Ferenc Liszt.She notably staged Der fliegende Holländer in Würzburg and...
German opera director, daughter of Wolfgang and Gudrun Wagner - Klaus WagnerKlaus WagnerKlaus Wagner is a German doctor widely known as a stalker of members of the British Royal Family, in particular Diana, Princess of Wales....
, (1910 – 2000) German mathematician - Klaus Wagner (conspiracy theorist), (1958 - 2007) stalker of members of the British Royal Family
- Lindsay WagnerLindsay WagnerLindsay Jean Wagner is an American actress. She is probably best known for her portrayal of Jaime Sommers in the 1970s television series The Bionic Woman , though she has maintained a lengthy career in a variety of other film and television productions since.-Early life:Wagner was born in Los...
(born 1949), American actress - Lindsay Wagner (model) (born 1988), American model
- Matt WagnerMatt WagnerMatt Wagner is an American comic book writer and artist, best known as the creator of the series Mage and Grendel.-Career:...
, U.S. comics writer and artist - Melinda WagnerMelinda WagnerMelinda Wagner is a US composer, and winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize in music. Her undergraduate degree is from Hamilton College....
, U.S. composer - Moritz WagnerMoritz WagnerMoritz Wagner was a German explorer, collector, geographer and natural historian. Wagner devoted three years to the exploration of Algiers: it was here that he made important observations in natural history, which he later supplemented and developed: that geographical isolation could play a key...
, German geographer and evolutionary biologist - Nandor WagnerNandor WagnerNandor Wagner ]] , nearby Mashiko, Tochigi) was a Hungarian artist and sculptor. He was the son of a dentist, born in Oradea , now Romania. Wagner studied at Budapest Art Academy before and after the World War II. He had three art periods as living in Hungary , Sweden and Japan respectively...
, Hungarian sculptor - Nike WagnerNike WagnerNike Wagner is the director of an arts festival held annually at Weimar, Germany , and a noteworthy collaborator in the Bayreuth Festival, founded in 1876 by Richard Wagner, her paternal great-grandfather...
, writer and arts festival director, daughter of Wieland Wagner - Otto WagnerOtto WagnerOtto Koloman Wagner was an Austrian architect and urban planner, known for his lasting impact on the appearance of his home town Vienna, to which he contributed many landmarks.-Life:...
, Austrian architect - Richard WagnerRichard WagnerWilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...
, German composer - Richard WagnerRichard Wagner (novelist)Richard Wagner is a Romanian-born German novelist. He has published a number of short stories, novels and essays....
, German novelist - Richard E. WagnerRichard E. WagnerRichard E. Wagner is a professor of economics at George Mason University. He works primarily in the fields of public finance and public choice....
, American economist - Richard Paul WagnerRichard Paul WagnerRichard Felix Paul Wagner was the Chief of Design in the design office of the Deutsche Reichsbahn in Germany from its inception in 1922 to 1942.. He held the rank of Reichsbahnoberrat....
, Chief of Design for Deutsche Reichsbahn 1922-1942; responsible for standard locomotive designs - Robert WagnerRobert WagnerRobert John Wagner is an American actor of stage, screen, and television.A veteran of many films in the 1950s and 1960s, Wagner gained prominence in three American television series that spanned three decades: It Takes a Thief , Switch , and Hart to Hart...
, U.S. actor - Robert Ferdinand Wagner (1877–1953), U.S. Senator (D-NY)
- Robert Ferdinand Wagner, Jr. (1910–1991), U.S. politician and mayor of New York City
- Robert Heinrich WagnerRobert Heinrich WagnerRobert Heinrich Wagner was Gauleiter of Baden and Head of the Civil Government of Alsace during the German occupation of France in World War II....
, Nazi Gauleiter and Reich Governor of Alsace - Robin Wagner, American skating coach
- Robin WagnerRobin Wagner (designer)Robin Wagner is an American scenic designer.Born Robin Samuel Anton Wagner in San Francisco, he attended art school and started his career in theatres in that city with designs for Don Pasquale, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Tea and Sympathy, and Waiting for Godot, among others...
, Broadway set designer - Sandro WagnerSandro WagnerSandro Wagner is a German footballer who can play as both a midfielder or forward, and presently plays for SV Werder Bremen.-Bayern Munich:...
, German footballer - Siegfried WagnerSiegfried WagnerSiegfried Wagner was a German composer and conductor, the son of Richard Wagner. He was an opera composer and the artistic director of the Bayreuth Festival from 1908 to 1930.-Life:...
, German composer (son of Richard and Cosima Wagner) - Steve Wagner (disambiguation)
- Tini WagnerTini WagnerCatharina "Tini" Wilhelmina Wagner was a freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands, who represented her native country at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany.She was born in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland....
(born 1919), Dutch swimmer - Veit Wagner (fl. 1492-1510), Alsatian sculptor of the Bergheim altar
- Viktor Vladimirovich WagnerViktor WagnerViktor Vladimirovich Wagner, also Vagner was a Russian mathematician, best known for his work in differential geometry and on semigroups....
, Russian mathematician - Walter Wagner (footballer)Walter Wagner (footballer)Walter Wagner was a German football striker during the 1970s and 1980s.Wagner played for Eintracht Frankfurt between 1969 and 1971...
, German footballer - Walter Wagner (notary)Walter Wagner (notary)Walter Wagner was the notary who married Adolf Hitler to Eva Braun in the Führerbunker on April 29, 1945.Wagner was a lawyer, and a member of the Nazi party. He was known to Joseph Goebbels, who had previously worked with him in Berlin. As the Allies approached Berlin he had been drafted into the...
, notary who married Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun - Warren H. WagnerWarren H. WagnerWarren H. Wagner Jr. , known as Herb Wagner, from his middle name, "Herbert," was an eminent American botanist who lived in Michigan...
, U.S. botanist - Webster WagnerWebster WagnerWebster Wagner was a postmaster, state official and inventor. He was born near Palatine Bridge, New York and worked as a wagon maker alongside of other family members....
, American railroad inventor - Wieland WagnerWieland WagnerWieland Wagner was a German opera director.- Life :Wieland was the elder of two sons of Siegfried and Winifred Wagner and grandson of composer Richard Wagner....
, German opera producer, son of Siegfried Wagner and Winifred Wagner - Winifred WagnerWinifred WagnerWinifred Wagner was an English woman married to Siegfried Wagner, Richard Wagner's son. She was the effective head of the Wagner family from 1930 to 1945, and a close friend of German dictator Adolf Hitler....
, British-born director of the Bayreuth Festival, wife of Siegfried Wagner and friend of Adolf HitlerAdolf HitlerAdolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945... - Wolfgang WagnerWolfgang WagnerWolfgang Wagner was a German opera director. He is best known as the director of the Bayreuth Festival, a position he initially assumed alongside his brother Wieland in 1951 until the latter's death in 1966...
(1919–2010), German opera festival director, younger brother of Wieland Wagner
See also
- Wagner family treeWagner family treeThe family of the composer Richard WagnerCarl Friedrich Wilhelm Wagner, * 1770 † 1813, police actuary, ∞ 1798 Johanna Rosine Pätz * 1778 † 1848, daughter of a baker .# Albert Wagner, * 1799 † 1874, opera singer and...
, the composer Richard Wagner and his family, many of whom have been active in the arts, or as supporters or critics of the Nazis - Wagner Ferreira dos SantosWagner Ferreira dos SantosWágner Ferreira dos Santos , commonly known as Wágner, is a Brazilian football player. He currently plays for Turkish Super League outfit Gaziantepspor.-Club career:...
(born 1985), Brazilian football player