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Cramer (
/ˈkreɪmər/) is a surname. It is a variation of the German surname Krämer (pronounced [ˈkʁɛːmɐ]) which is an old term for the profession of traveling merchants in the Late Middle Ages. The meaning later changed to "merchants trading with different, rather small things". [1] See also: Kramer.Contents
People
- Anthony Cramer, appellant in Cramer v. United States (U.S. Supreme Court, 1945)
- Carl Eduard Cramer (1831-1901), Swiss botanist
- Casey Cramer (1982- ), American football player
- Clayton Cramer, American historian and software engineer
- Craig Cramer, American organist
- Daniel Cramer (1568–1637), German Lutheran theologian
- Doc Cramer (1905-1990), American baseball player
- Douglas S. Cramer, American TV producer
- Dylan Cramer (1958- ), Canadian jazz musician
- Ernst Cramer (architect) (1898-1980), Swiss landscape architect
- Ernst Cramer (politician) (1960), Dutch politician
- Floyd Cramer (1933-1997), American pianist
- Franz Cramer (violinist) (1772-1848), English violinist and Master of the Queen's Music
- Gabriel Cramer (1704-1752), Swiss mathematician, discoverer of Cramer's rule
- Gabriel and Philibert Cramer, 18th century Swiss publishers
- Grant Cramer (1951- ), Anerican actor
- Hans Cramer (1896–1968), German general
- Harald Cramér (1893-1985), Swedish mathematician
- Jacqueline Cramer (1951- ), Dutch politician
- Jayme Cramer (1983- ), American backstroke and butterfly swimmer
- Jim Cramer (1955- ), American investment manager and television personality
- Joey Cramer (1973- ), Canadian former child actor
- Johann Baptist Cramer (1771-1858), German composer
- John Cramer (Australian politician) (1896-1994)
- John Cramer (entertainer), American television announcer
- John Cramer (representative) (1779-1870), U.S. Representative from New York
- John Antony Cramer (1793-1848), English classical scholar and geographer
- John G. Cramer (1934- ), American physicist
- Johann Ulrich von Cramer (1706-1772), German judge, legal scholar, and philosopher
- Karl von Cramer (1818–1902), Bavarian politician
- Kathryn Cramer (1962- ), American science fiction author and editor
- Kevin Cramer (1961- ), North Dakota politician
- Lawrence William Cramer (1897-1978), Governor of the United States Virgin Islands
- Michael Cramer (1949- ), German politician, MEP
- Morten Cramer (1967- ), Danish football player
- Patrick Cramer (1969- ), German biochemist
- Philippe Cramer (1970- ), Swiss furniture and wallpaper designer
- Philo Cramer, American guitarist
- Pieter Cramer (1721-1776), Dutch wool merchant and entomologist
- Richard Cramer (1889-1960), American actor
- Richard Ben Cramer (1950- ), American journalist and author
- Robert E. Cramer (1947- ), U.S. Representative from Alabama
- Walter Cramer (1886-1944), German businessman and anti-Hitler conspirator
- Wilhelm Cramer (1746-1799), German-British violinist, best known for the "Cramer bow".
- William Cramer (1878-1945), German-born pathologist
- William C. Cramer (1922-2003), U.S. Representative from Florida
In fiction
- Nurse Cramer, character in Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Cramer family, characters on the U.S. soap opera One Life to Live
- Inspector Cramer, recurring character in the Nero Wolfe detective stories
- Jason Cramer, character on the HBO drama Oz
Also
- Corwith Cramer (ship), a tall ship
- Cramer-Krasselt, an American marketing and communications agency
- Cramer-Shoup cryptosystem, an asymmetric key encryption algorithm
- Cramer's rule, a theorem in linear algebra.
- Cramér's V, a measure of association between nominal variables.
- Cramer & Co., a former musical-related business in London
- Cramer Systems, a software company
- Kudlow & Cramer, a former television program
- Cramer brothers, 18th century publishers
Footnotes
This page or section lists people with the surname Cramer. If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link. Categories:- Surnames
- Occupational surnames
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