Berger

Berger

Berger may refer to:

Places

*Berger, Missouri

People

Berger is a relatively common last name. It means "mountaineer" in Dutch and German, and "shepherd" in French. Notable people by that name include:

Politics

*James S. Berger (born 1902), U.S. senator for Pennsylvania
*Maria Berger (born 1956), Austrian politician and Member of the European Parliament
*Óscar Berger (born 1946), former President of Guatemala
*Philip E. Berger (born 1952), US politician
*Sandy Berger (born 1945), US National Security Advisor to President Bill Clinton
*Thomas Berger (born 1933), Canadian politician
*Victor L. Berger (1860–1929), US politician

ports

*Andreas Berger (born 1961), Austrian track and field sprinter
*David Mark Berger (1944–1972), American-born Israeli weightlifter and one of the 11 hostages murdered in the Munich massacre
*Gerhard Berger (born 1959), Austrian Grand Prix racing driver
*Johann Berger (1845–1933), Austrian chess master, theorist, endgame study composer, author and editor
*Lars Berger (born 1979), Norwegian biathlete
*Olia Berger (born 1983), Canadian judoka
*Patrik Berger (born 1973), Czech football (soccer) player
*Sam Berger (1900–1992), Canadian football team owner

Music

*Christian Wilhelm Berger (b. 1964), Romanian composer and musician
*Erna Berger (1900–1990), German soprano singer
*Henri Berger (1844–1929), Hawaii musician
* Jim Berger, Swedish musician
*Karl Berger (born 1935), German jazz musician
*Michel Berger (1947–1992), French singer and songwriter
*Wilhelm Berger (1861-1911), composer
*Wilhelm Georg Berger (1929–1993), composer
*Wilhelm Peterson Berger (1867-1942), Swedish musician

Culture

*Helmut Berger (born 1944), Austrian actor
*John Berger (born 1926), British art critic, novelist, painter, and author
*Karen Berger, British comic book editor
*Oscar Berger (cartoonist) (1901–1997), cartoonist
*Robert Berger (producer), a film producer
*Senta Berger (born 1941), Austrian actress
*Thomas Berger (born 1924), US novelist
*Wiesław Adam Berger, Polish writer

cience

*Alwin Berger (1871–1931), German botanist
*Hans Berger (1873–1941), German neuroscientist
*James Berger (statistician), American statistician
*Jeffrey W. Berger (1963–2001), American physician and engineer
*Lee R. Berger (born 1965), Explorer and Paleoanthropologist
*Marcel Berger, (born 1927), French mathematician
*Peter L. Berger (born 1929), American sociologist and theologian
*Richard Berger (1894–1984), Swiss professor of design, decoration, and art history
*Robert Berger (mathematician), American mathematician
*Robert W. Berger, German mathematician

Other people

*Gottlob Berger (1896–1975), German SS general
*Josef Berger (1903–1981), American journalist, accused of being a Soviet spy
*Roland Berger (born 1937), entrepreneur, philanthropist, and founder of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants
*Roza Berger (1889–1945), 1945 Krakow pogrom victim

Other uses

*Berger's disease, or IgA-Nephropathie (IgAN), a form of the Glomerulonephritis disease
*Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, European strategy consultancy firm

ee also

*Birger
*Bürger
*Burger
*Burgers
*Burgher


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