German (russian: Герман) is a
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a fa ...
, often the Slavic form of
Herman
Herman may refer to:
People
* Herman (name), list of people with this name
* Saint Herman (disambiguation)
* Peter Noone (born 1947), known by the mononym Herman
Places in the United States
* Herman, Arkansas
* Herman, Michigan
* Herman, Minne ...
. For the Spanish given name pronounced with stress in the second syllable see
Germán.
People with the name German include:
Art and music
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German Galynin
German Germanovich Galynin (russian: Ге́рман Германо́вич Галы́нин; 30 March 1922, in Tula, Russia – 18 June 1966, in Moscow) was a Russian composer, student, and continuer of the Shostakovich and Myaskovsky line in Sovi ...
, Soviet Russian composer
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German Goldenshteyn
German Goldenshteyn, or Goldenshtayn (2 September 1934 – June 10, 2006) was a Romanian-born American klezmer musician.
Goldenshteyn was born to Avrom Z. and Khaya I. Goldenshteyn in the Bessarabian shtetl of Otaci, then in Romania, now in Moldov ...
, Romanian klezmer musician
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German Moreno, Filipino actor
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German Okunev
German Grigoryevich Okunev ( rus, Ге́рман Григо́рьевич О́кунев; 12 June 1931, in Leningrad – 12 June 1973, in Leningrad) was a Soviet Union, Soviet Russian people, Russian composer, piano, pianist and teacher.
Life
Oku ...
, Soviet Russian composer
Humanities and social sciences
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German Gref, Russian economist
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German Kim, Kazakhstani historian
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German Sadulaev
German Umaralievich Sadulaev (Russian: Герман Умаралиевич Садулаев, born 2 February 1973) is a Chechen writer.
Biography
German Sadulaev was born in 1973, in the town of Shali, in the Chechen-Ingush ASSR, to a Chechen ...
, Chechen writer and lawyer
Politics
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German Galushchenko
German Valeriiovych Galushchenko, also Herman Valeriiovych Halushchenko ( uk, Герман Валерійович Галущенко; born 1 May 1973) is a Ukrainian lawyer currently serving as Minister of Energy of Ukraine since 29 April 2021 ...
(born 1973), Ukrainian lawyer and politician
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German Kuznetsov
German Serapionovich Kuznetsov (russian: Герман Серапионович Кузнецов; born 25 March 1948) is Russian politician. He was Vice President of Kyrgyzstan from 1991 to 1992 under Askar Akayev.
Kuznetsov was born in 1948 in Iv ...
, former deputy premier of Kyrgyzstan
Sport
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German Apukhtin
German Nikolayevich Apukhtin (russian: Герман Николаевич Апухтин; born 12 June 1936 - 2003
) was a Soviet Union, Soviet Russian football (soccer), footballer.
Honours
* Soviet Top League bronze: 1958, 1964.
* 1960 Europea ...
, Soviet Russian footballer
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German Fernandez, American distance runner
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German Glessner
Germán Glessner (born 8 March 1974 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine/German Olympian who represented Argentina in the Winter Olympic Games of Salt Lake City 2002, in the ice sport of Skeleton.
Glessner is a multilingual businessman who speaks Span ...
, Argentine skeleton racer
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German Kutarba
German Vasilyevich Kutarba (russian: Герман Васильевич Кутарба; born 10 September 1978) is a Russian former professional footballer.
Club career
He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1991 for FC Din ...
, Russian footballer
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German Lovchev
German Aleksandrovich Lovchev (russian: Герман Александрович Ловчев; born 10 June 1981) is a former Russian professional footballer.
He made his professional debut in the Russian Second Division in 1998 for FC Energiya ...
, Russian footballer
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German Ruano
German Giovanni Ruano González (born 17 October 1971), popularly known as ''El Chino'', is a former Guatemalan football defender who played the majority of his career for Municipal in the Guatemalan top division, and was also a member of the ...
, Costa Rican footballer
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German Skurygin, Russian race walker
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German Titov (ice hockey)
German Mikhailovich Titov (russian: Герман Михайлович Титов; born October 16, 1965) is a Russian former professional ice hockey forward.
Playing career
Titov started his career with Khimik Voskresensk of the Soviet Hoc ...
, Russian ice hockey player
Other
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Serbian Patriarch German I, Serbian Patriarch (1881–1888)
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Serbian Patriarch German
German ( sr-Cyrl, Герман, English equivalent: ''Herman''; 19 August 1899 – 27 August 1991) was the 43rd Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church from 1958 to 1990. He was successful in revitalizing the Serbian Orthodox Church to a cert ...
, Serbian Patriarch (1958–1990)
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German Gardiner
German Gardiner (Germain, Jermyn) (date of birth unknown; executed at Tyburn, 7 March 1544) was a Roman Catholic layman and nephew to Stephen Gardiner who became involved in the Prebendaries' Plot against Thomas Cranmer.
Henry VIII was beco ...
, English Catholic martyr
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German Sterligov
German Lvovich Sterligov (russian: Герман Львович Стерлигов; born 18 October 1966) is a Russian businessman.
Life and career
German Sterligov was born in Zagorsk (today Sergiyev Posad), Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. He atte ...
, Russian businessman and environmentalist
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German Titov
Gherman Stepanovich Titov (russian: Герман Степанович Титов; 11 September 1935 – 20 September 2000) was a Soviet cosmonaut who, on 6 August 1961, became the second human to orbit the Earth, aboard Vostok 2, preceded by Yu ...
, Soviet Russian cosmonaut
See also
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Germán
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Russian masculine given names