German or Germán is the surname of the following people:
Art and music
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Aleksei Yuryevich German
Aleksei Yuryevich German ( rus, Алексей Юрьевич Герман, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej ˈjʉrʲjɪvʲɪdʑ ˈɡʲermən; 20 July 193821 February 2013) was a Soviet Russian film director and screenwriter.
Biography
German was born in Lenin ...
(1938–2013), Soviet Russian filmmaker
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Aleksei Alekseivich German
Aleksei Alekseivich German (russian: Алексей Алексеевич Герман, born 4 September 1976) is a Russian film director. His last name is pronounced with a hard "g" and in English is sometimes spelled Guerman or Gherman to avoid c ...
, Russian film director and screenwriter
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Anna German
Anna Wiktoria German-Tucholska (14 February 1936 – 26 August 1982) was a Polish singer, immensely popular in Poland and in the Soviet Union in the 1960s–1970s. She released over a dozen music albums with songs in Polish, as well as several ...
, Polish singer
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Edward German
Sir Edward German (17 February 1862 – 11 November 1936) was an English musician and composer of Welsh descent, best remembered for his extensive output of incidental music for the stage and as a successor to Arthur Sullivan in the field of En ...
, English composer
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Lauren German
Lauren Christine German is an American actress. She had her first major role in the 2002 teen romantic drama film ''A Walk to Remember'', followed by roles in the horror films '' The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' (2003) and '' Hostel: Part II'' (200 ...
, American actress
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Robert German, American singer, guitarist, and songwriter
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Tülay German (born 1935), Turkish female pop folk singer
Politics
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Lindsey German, British anti-war activist
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Mike German
Michael James German, Baron German, OBE (born 8 May 1945) is a British politician, serving currently as a member of the House of Lords and formerly as a member of the National Assembly for Wales for the South Wales East region. He was leader ...
, Welsh politician
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Obadiah German
Obadiah German (April 22, 1766September 24, 1842) was an American lawyer and politician. He was most notable for his service as a U.S. Senator from New York (1809-1815) and Speaker of the New York State Assembly in 1819.
Life
He was born on Apri ...
, American politician and lawyer
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William Manley German, Canadian politician and lawyer
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Yael German
Yael German ( he, יעל גרמן, born 4 August 1947) is an Israeli politician and diplomat who served as a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid and the Blue and White alliance between 2013 and 2020. She was Minister of Health between 2013 and ...
, Israeli politician, first female mayor of Herziliya
Sport
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Antonio German, English footballer
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Bert German, American football coach
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Domingo Germán, Dominican baseball player
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Esteban Germán, Dominican baseball player
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Frank German (born 1997), American baseball player
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Jammi German, American National Football League player
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Jim German, American National Football League player
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Les German
Lester Stanley "Les" German (June 1, 1869 – June 10, 1934) was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He played in all or part of six seasons in the majors between and . He played for the Baltimore Orioles in 1890, then spent four seasons pitching fo ...
, American Major League Baseball player
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Natalya German
Natalya German (russian: Наталья Герман; born 10 November 1963) is a Ukrainian former track and field sprinter who competed for the Soviet Union.
Born in Dniprodzerzhynsk, Ukrainian SSR, she had a very brief period of success in spr ...
(born 1963), Soviet sprint athlete
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Peter German, Australian rules footballer
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Ruslan German, Russian footballer
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Tamás German, Hungarian footballer
Other
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Ella German, friend of presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald
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Eugênio German, Brazilian chess master
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Jeff German (1953-2022), American journalist
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Merlin German, U.S. Marine
See also
Surnames of different origins meaning "German":
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Deutsch (surname)
Deutsch is a surname, meaning ''German'' in German. When transliterated to other languages, it may also be spelled as Deutch, Deitch, Deich, Teutsch.
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Deutsch
* Adam Deutsch,
* Adolph Deutsch, Academy Award-winning composer
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Douch (English)
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Němec (Czech)
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Németh (Hungarian)
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Tedesco (surname) (Italian)
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