Berger is a surname in both German and

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, although there is no etymological connection between the names in the two languages. The French surname is an occupational name for a shepherd, from Old French ''bergier'' (Late Latin ''berbicarius'', from ''berbex'' 'ram'). The German surname derives from the word ''Berg'', the word for "mountain" or "hill", and means "a resident on a mountain or hill", or someone from a toponym Berg, derived from the same. The pronunciation of the English name may sometimes be following the French phonetics (the German is ). Notable people with this surname include:

Politics

* Charles W. Berger (born 1936), American politician *

James S. Berger James Stanley Berger (January 3, 1903 – April 1, 1984) served as a Pennsylvania State Senator for the Republican Party from 1945 until 1968. Born in Warren County, Pennsylvania, he was a lawyer and lived in Potter County, Pennsylvania ...

(1903–1984), American politician *

Jan Johannis Adriaan Berger Jan Johannis Adriaan Berger (18 September 1918 – 6 September 1978) was a Dutch politician. During WWII he hid people who were supposed to be shipped off to Germany as forced labourers. In 1946 he became a member of the Labour Party. On 15 July ...

, Dutch Labour Party politician. *

Józef Berger Józef Berger (14 March 1901 in Orłowa – 11 June 1962 in Bratislava) was a Polish Lutheran pastor, theologian and politician from the region of Zaolzie, Czechoslovakia. He was a member of the Polish People's Party, a political party active a ...

(1901–1962), Polish theologian and politician. * Karine Berger (born 1973), French politician * Laurent Berger (born 1968), French trade unionist * Luciana Berger (born 1981), British Liberal Democrat politician *

Maria Berger Maria Berger (born 19 August 1956 in Perg, Upper Austria) is an Austrian politician and currently Judge at the European Court of Justice. She previously served as a Member of the European Parliament and Austria's Minister of Justice. Education ...

(born 1956), Austrian politician * Óscar Berger (born 1946), former President of Guatemala *

Ossian Berger Ossian Berger (13 February 1849–28 December 1914) was a Swedish politician and lawyer. He was the minister of justice between 1902 and 1905. Early life and education Berger was born in Nysund parish, Örebro county, on 13 February 1849. He gr ...

(1849–1914), Swedish politician and lawyer *

Philip E. Berger Philip Edward Berger (born August 8, 1952) is a United States Republican Party, Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's thirtieth Senate district, which includes Caswell County, North Carolina, Caswell, R ...

(born 1952), American politician * Sandy Berger (1945–2015), American attorney and politician * Thomas Berger (1933–2021), Canadian politician *

Victor L. Berger Victor Luitpold Berger (February 28, 1860August 7, 1929) was an Austrian–American socialist politician and journalist who was a founding member of the Social Democratic Party of America and its successor, the Socialist Party of America. Born in ...

(1860–1929), American politician *

Samuel D. Berger Samuel David Berger (December 11, 1911February 12, 1980) was an American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Korea from 1961 to 1964. Early life The brother of Graenum Berger, Samuel David Berger was born on December 6, 1911, in ...

(1911–1980), US Ambassador

Sport

* Alfred Berger (1894–1966), Austrian pair skater *

Andrea Berger Andrea Berger (born January 28, 1970) is an American former professional tennis player. At the 1989 Maccabiah Games in Tel Aviv, she won a gold medal in the women's doubles event, and was runner-up to Ilana Berger (no relation) in the singles, ear ...

(born 1970), American tennis player * Andreas Berger (born 1961), Austrian track and field sprinter * Barbara Berger (1930–2016), All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player * Chris Berger (1911–1965), Dutch sprinter * Daniel Berger (born 1993), American professional PGA Tour golfer * David Mark Berger (1944–1972), American-born Israeli weightlifter; Maccabiah champion (middleweight); one of the 11 hostages murdered in the Munich massacre * Frederick Berger (1849-?), American professional baseball umpire * Gerhard Berger (born 1959), Austrian Grand Prix racing driver * Guylaine Berger (born 1956), French swimmer * Han Berger (born 1950), Dutch football coach * Ilana Berger (born 1965), Israeli tennis player * Ike Berger (1936–2022), US Olympic weightlifter (featherweight) * Jan Berger (born 1976), Czech-Swiss football midfielder *

Jay Berger Jay Berger (born November 26, 1966) is an American former professional tennis player. He won three singles and one doubles title on the ATP Tour and reached his career-high singles ranking of World No. 7 in April 1990. Early and personal life ...

(born 1966), American tennis player * Johann Berger (1845–1933), Austrian chess master, theorist, endgame study composer, author and editor *

Lars Berger Lars Berger (born 1 May 1979) is a former Norwegian biathlete and cross-country skier. Life and career Fellow former biathlete Tora Berger is his sister. Berger's family moved to Lesja, Oppland, in 1985. At the age of six, Berger started cross-co ...

(born 1979), Norwegian biathlete * Mark Berger (born 1954), Canadian Olympic silver & bronze (judo heavyweight) * Maxie Berger (1917–2000), Canadian world champion junior welterweight boxer *

Norma Berger Norma A. Berger (Taylor) (born December 22, 1932) is a former pitcher who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the season. Berger was nicknamed "Bergie״. Listed at , , she batted and threw right-handed. Born in ...

(born 1932), All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player and sister of Barbara Berger * Ola Berger (born 1979), Norwegian ski mountaineer and cross-country skier * Olia Berger (born 1983), Canadian judoka * Patrik Berger (born 1973), Czech football midfielder * Ruud Berger (born 1980), Dutch football midfielder * Sam Berger (1900–1992), Canadian football team owner * Samuel Berger (1884–1925), US Olympic champion heavyweight boxer * Ségolène Berger (born 1978), professional tennis player from France. *

Steve Berger Stephen Richard Berger (born May 20, 1973) is an American retired professional mixed martial artist who competed in the Welterweight division. Berger is probably best known for fighting in the UFC, most notably participating in the first mixed ...

(born 1973), American mixed martial artist * Tora Berger (born 1981), Norwegian biathlete and sister of Lars Berger * Wally Berger (1905–1988), Boston Braves slugger of the 1930s * Ann-Katrin Berger (born 1990), German football goalkeeper

Music

* Arthur Berger (1912–2003), American composer *

Christian Wilhelm Berger Christian Wilhelm Berger (born 13 June 1964 in Bucharest) is a Romanian composer, organist, and a lecturer at the Bucharest Academy. Education Berger studied piano at George Enescu Music School in Bucharest from 1970 to 1982. He studied composi ...

(born 1964), Romanian composer and musician *

Dominique II Berger Dominique II Berger (Bruges Bruges ( , nl, Brugge ) is the capital and largest City status in Belgium, city of the Provinces of Belgium, province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country, and the si ...

(1780–1845), Flemish organist and carillonneur * Erna Berger (1900–1990), German soprano singer * Henri Berger (1844–1929), Hawaiian musician * Karl Berger (born 1935), German jazz musician *

Ludwig Berger (composer) Carl Ludwig Heinrich Berger (18 April 1777 – 16 February 1839) was a German pianist, composer, and piano teacher. He was born in Berlin, and spent his youth in Templin and Frankfurt, where he studied both flute and piano. Later, he studied c ...

(1777–1839), German composer and piano teacher * Margaret Berger (born 1985), Norwegian singer, songwriter, and disc jockey * Michel Berger (1947–1992), French singer and songwriter * Wilhelm Berger (1861–1911), German composer *

Wilhelm Georg Berger Wilhelm Georg Berger (born 4 December 1929, Rupea; died 8 March 1993, Bucharest) was a Romanian composer, musicologist, violist and Conducting, conductor. Biography Berger was born in Rupea, Romania. He learned to play the violin and viola under ...

(1929–1993), Romanian composer *

Wilhelm Peterson Berger Olof Wilhelm Peterson-Berger ( 27 February 1867, Ullånger — 3 December 1942, Östersund) was a Swedish composer and music critic. As a composer, his main musical influences were Grieg, August Söderman and Wagner as well as Swedish folk idiom ...

(1867–1942), Swedish musician

Culture

* Alex Berger, (born 1962), American producer, creator, consultant and entrepreneur in the media field *

Charlotta Berger Christina Charlotta Ulrika Berger, née ''Cronhielm af Hakunge'' (21 August 1784 – 25 May 1852), was a Swedish writer, translator, poet and songwriter. Life Charlotta Berger was born in Linköping, the daughter of the major count Carl Emil C ...

(1784–1852), Swedish poet and novelist *

Élie Berger Élie Berger (1850 in Beaucourt – 1925 in Paris) was a French palaeographer and archivist. Graduated an archivist and palaeographer of the École Nationale des Chartes in 1876, Élie Berger was first a member of the École française de Rome f ...

(1850–1925), French archivist and palaeographer *

Erika Berger Erika Berger (August 13, 1939 – May 15, 2016) was a German television presenter and author. Life Berger worked as a television presenter on German television broadcaster RTL. As a writer she wrote several books on sexuality Human se ...

(1939–2016), German television presenter and writer * Georgette Berger (1901–1986), Belgian wife of the painter René Magritte * Helmut Berger (born 1944), Austrian actor * Howard Berger, American make-up artist * Katya Berger (born 1966) (sometimes credited as Katia Berger or Katja Berger), British film actress. * John Berger (1926–2017), British art critic, novelist, painter, and author * Jonah Berger, American writer and professor * Karen Berger (born 1958), American comic book editor * Marco Berger (born 1977), Argentine film director and screenwriter * Maurice Berger (1956–2020) American cultural historian, curator, and critic *

Nicole Berger Nicole Berger (born Nicole Gouspeyre,''Le Vrai Nom des stars'' de Michel Bracquart - M.A. Editions - 1989 12 June 1934 – 13 April 1967) was a French actress. Biography Berger was born in Paris. She had a brief theatrical career, particularly ...

(born Nicole Gouspeyre, 1934–1967), French actress *

Nicole Berger (American actress) Nicole Elizabeth Berger (born November 27, 2003) is an American actress, model, and pianist who splits her time between Los Angeles, New York and Palm Beach. Her first acting role was in the comedy ''Goldberg P.I.'' starring Jackie Mason. She is ...

(born 2003), American actress, model, and pianist *

Oscar Berger (cartoonist) Oscar Berger (May 12, 1901 – May 15, 1997) was a well-known caricaturist and cartoonist. Biography Berger was born in Prešov, Slovakia. He became a cartoonist in Prague and studied art in Paris and Berlin. In Berlin, he secured an assignmen ...

(1901–1997), Slovak cartoonist *

Pablo Berger Pablo Berger Uranga (born 1963) is a Spanish film director born in Bilbao, Spain. Life and work Pablo Berger attended primary and secondary school in Artxanda Trueba, located on the outskirts of Bilbao, Spain. In 1988 he directed his first sho ...

(born 1963), Spanish film director * Petra Berger, born Petra Pierrette Burger, 1965), Dutch classical crossover singer, composer, photographer, and musical actress *

Robert Berger (producer) Robert "Buzz" Berger (born February 9, 1934, in Chicago) is an American film producer. Among other films, he was the producer for the Emmy Award-winning TV miniseries ''Holocaust''. Partial filmography * 1974 ''The Missiles of October'' * 197 ...

(born 1934), American film producer * Senta Berger (born 1941), Austrian actress * Thomas Berger (novelist) (1924–2014), American novelist *

Yves Berger Yves Berger (14 January 1931 – 16 November 2004) was a French writer and editor. From 1960 to 2000, he was the literary director of Éditions Grasset, and published several novels in which he expressed his attachment to the United States. Bio ...

(1931–2004), French writer and editor *

Wiesław Adam Berger Wiesław Adam Berger (6 June 1926 in Ostrava- Přívoz – 15 January 1998 in Ostrava) was a Polish writer connected with the Zaolzie region of Cieszyn Silesia. Biography Berger lived from 1927 to 1940 (and also several years after World War II) ...

(1926–1998), Polish writer * William Berger (actor), also known as Bill Berger and Wilhelm Berger, born Wilhelm Thomas Berger (1928–1993), Austrian-American actor

Academics

Alwin Berger Alwin Berger (28 August 1871 – 20 April 1931) was a German botanist best known for his contribution to the nomenclature of succulent plants, particularly agaves and cacti. Born in Germany he worked at the botanical gardens in Dresden and Fran ...

(1871–1931), German botanist * André Berger (born 1942), Belgian climatologist * Beverly Berger, American physicist * Hans Berger (1873–1941), German neuroscientist *

Harriet Berger Harriet Fleisher Berger (died May 4, 2012) was an American political scientist. She was a professor of History and Politics at Drexel University from 1967 to 1988. She specialized in the study of collective bargaining, union activism, and constit ...

(died 2012), American political scientist *

James Berger (statistician) James Orvis Berger (born April 6, 1950 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American statistician best known for his work on Bayesian statistics and decision theory. He won the COPSS Presidents' Award, one of the two highest awards in statistics, in ...

(born 1950), American statistician *

Jeffrey W. Berger Jeffrey W. Berger (1963 – January 25, 2001) was an American vitreoretinal surgeon and engineer. Training Jeffrey W. Berger graduated in 1985 from Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in engineering. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. ...

(1963–2001), American physician and engineer *

Jerry Berger Gerald Allen "Jerry" Berger (June 30, 1933 – January 5, 2021) was an American press agent and journalist. He was known in the St. Louis, Missouri area for his columns in the ''St. Louis Globe-Democrat'' and the ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch''. Biog ...

(1933–2021), American journalist *

Johann Gottfried von Berger Johann Gottfried von Berger (November 11, 1659 – October 2, 1736) was a German physician and writer on physiology who was an early follower of the iatromechanical explanation of human organ functioning. Berger was born in Halle an der Saale ...

(1659–1736), German physician *

Josef Berger (scientist) Josef Berger (born July 24, 1949 in Varnsdorf) is a Czech scientist. He is a full professor at the University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic. His areas are biomodel development and information gaining. Career Berger is a ...

(born 1949), Czech biomedical engineer and haematologist * Lee R. Berger (born 1965), American-born South African explorer and paleoanthropologist * Leszek Berger (1925–2012), Polish herpetologist and malacologist *

Marcel Berger Marcel Berger (14 April 1927 – 15 October 2016) was a French mathematician, doyen of French differential geometry, and a former director of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS), France. Formerly residing in Le Castera in Las ...

(1927–2016), French mathematician *

Peter B. Berger Peter B. Berger is the Senior Vice President of Clinical Research throughout the North Shore Long Island Jewish Health Care System, the nation's 14th largest health care system, and one of the largest non-profit systems. He is also a Professor of ...

(born 1956), American cardiologist * Peter L. Berger (1929–2017), Austrian-born American sociologist and theologian * Richard Berger (1894–1984), Swiss professor of design, decoration, and art history * Robert Berger (mathematician) (born 1938), American mathematician *

Wolfgang H. Berger Wolfgang "Wolf" Helmut Berger (5 October 1937, Erlangen – 6 August 2017 San Diego, California) was a German-American oceanographer, geologist, micropaleontologist and emeritus professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of ...

(1937–2017), German-American oceanographer

Other professions

* Carolyn Berger, American State (Delaware) Supreme Court justice * Daniel Berger (engraver) (1744–1825), German engraver *

David Berger (theologian) David Berger (born 8 March 1968 in Würzburg) is a German theologian, author and gay activist. Biography From 1991 to 1998, Berger studied philosophy, Catholic theology and German language and literature in Würzburg, Cologne and Dortmund. Be ...

(born 1968), German theologian * Gaston Berger (1896–1960), French futurist, industrialist, philosopher and state manager * Georges Berger (1918–1967), Belgian Grand Prix racing driver * Gottlob Berger (1896–1975), German ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) general * Irene Berger (born 1954), United States District Judge *

Josef Berger (speechwriter) Josef Berger, or Joseph Isadore Berger (May 12, 1903 – November 11, 1971), was an American journalist, author and speechwriter. Early life Berger was born in Denver, Colorado in 1903 and graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journa ...

(1903–1981), American journalist, accused of being a Soviet spy * Patricia Wilson Berger (1926–2011), American librarian *

Roland Berger Roland Berger (born 22 November 1937) is a German entrepreneur, consultant and philanthropist. Life Roland Berger was born in Berlin in 1937 as Robert Altmann; his family name changed later, after his father, Georg L. Berger, married his mot ...

(born 1937), German entrepreneur, philanthropist, and founder of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants *

Roza Berger Roza may refer to: People Last name *Fernando Luiz Roza (b. 1985), Brazilian soccer player * Lita Roza (1926–2008), British singer First name *Roza Anagnosti (born 1943) Albanian actress *Roza Baglanova (1922–2011), Soviet/Kazakh oper ...

(1889–1945), 1945 Kraków pogrom victim *

Theo Berger Theo Maximilian Berger (25 January 1941 – 20 November 2003) was a notorious Bavarian criminal, best known for his numerous escapes from prison.

(1941–2003), German criminal

Fictional

(1957?)

Millennium trilogy ''Millennium'' is a series of best-selling and award-winning Swedish crime novels, created by journalist Stieg Larsson. The two primary characters in the saga are Lisbeth Salander, an asocial computer hacker with a photographic memory, and Mik ...

Stieg Larsson Karl Stig-Erland "Stieg" Larsson (, ; 15 August 1954 – 9 November 2004) was a Swedish writer, journalist, and activist. He is best known for writing the ''Millennium'' trilogy of crime novels, which were published posthumously, starting in 2 ...

. Editor and co-owner of ''Millennium'', Mikael Blomqvist's lover