Georg

Georg is a male given name in mostly Northern European countries and may refer to the following people:

In creative culture

* Georg Böhm, German organist;
* Georg Büchner, German playwright;
* Georg Brandl Egloff, American composer;
* Georg Fabricius, Protestant German poet;
* Georg Gerster, photographer
* Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet;
* Georg Listing, Bassist for the German Rock Band Tokio Hotel;
* Georg Matthias Monn, Austrian composer;
* Georg Muffat, French composer;
* Georg Ots, Estonian opera singer;
* Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor;
* Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet;
* Georg Tintner, Austrian conductor;
* Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer;
* Georg Trakl, Austrian poet;
* Georg Joseph Vogler, German composer;
* Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian composer

In science

* Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine;
* Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and minerologist;
* Georg Cantor, German mathematician;
* Georg Groddeck, physician whom Freud credits for the "Id";
* Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher;
* Georg Major, German Lutheran theologian;
* Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician;
* Georg Ohm, German physicist;
* Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist;
* Georg Joachim Rheticus, cartographer and scientific instrument maker;
* Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist;
* Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist;
* Georg Steller, German naturalist;
* Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian philologist;
* Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

In politics

* Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany;
* Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of Germany;
* Georg, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

Miscellaneous

* Georg Werthner, Austrian decathlete;
* Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish soldier