Ginter is a both a given name and surname of German origin,
[https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=ginter ] derived from the name
Günther. Notable people with the name include:
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Adam Ginter
Adam Ginter is a Polish sprint canoer who has competed since the early first decade of the 21st century. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (C-4 1000 m: 2002), a silver (C-4 500 m: 2003), an ...
, Polish sprint canoer
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Keith Ginter
Keith Michael Ginter (born May 5, 1976) is a former American Major League Baseball infielder. Ginter is a graduate of Fullerton Union High School in Fullerton, California.
College
Ginter attended and played baseball at Cypress College before tra ...
, American Major League Baseball player
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Lewis Ginter
Major Lewis Ginter (April 4, 1824 – October 2, 1897) was a prominent businessman, financier, military officer, real estate developer, and philanthropist centered in Richmond, Virginia. A native of New York City, Ginter accumulated a considerabl ...
, American philanthropist and businessman, one of the founders of
Allen & Ginter
Allen & Ginter was a Richmond, Virginia, tobacco manufacturing company formed by John F. Allen and Lewis Ginter around 1880. The firm created and marketed the first cigarette cards for collecting and trading in the United States. Some of the no ...
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Lindsey Ginter
Lindsey Lee Ginter (born December 13, 1950) is an American actor.
He is known as Crew Cut Man, a government assassin, in the TV series ''The X-Files'' and as Sam Austen, Kate Austen's father, in '' Lost''. What Kate Did, episode 9, season 2
Ear ...
, American actor
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Matt Ginter
Matthew Shane Ginter (born December 24, 1977) is a former American professional baseball pitcher.
After playing collegiately at Mississippi State, he started made his MLB debut in 2000 with the Chicago White Sox. He was signed by the Boston Red ...
, American Major League Baseball pitcher
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Matthias Ginter
Matthias Lukas Ginter (born 19 January 1994) is a German professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Bundesliga club SC Freiburg and the Germany national team.
Club career Early career
Ginter began his career with SV March before he ...
, German footballer
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Ginter Gawlik
Ginter Gawlik (born 5 December 1930 in Borsigwerk, a district of Zabrze; died 22 August 2005 in Würzburg, Germany) was a Polish soccer player, defender and midfielder. He spent most of career playing for Polish team Górnik Zabrze.
Gawlik, ...
, German-Polish soccer player
See also
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Ginter Building
The Ginter Building is a historic United States, U.S. building located at 1540 Highland Avenue, Eau Gallie, Florida, Eau Gallie, Florida. The building was constructed in 1926 by Clifford Ginter. Over the years, it was used as an apartment buildi ...
, historic building in Eau Gallie, Florida
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Ginter Park
Ginter Park is a suburban neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia built on land owned and developed by Lewis Ginter. The neighborhood's first well known resident was newspaperman Joseph Bryan, who lived in Laburnum, first built in 1883 and later rebui ...
, suburb neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia built on land owned and developed by Lewis Ginter
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Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden is a , botanical garden in Henrico County, just outside of Richmond, Virginia. It features over a dozen themed gardens, a conservatory, library, and café. Regular daily admission is $17 for adults, $14 for seniors, $ ...
, in Richmond, Virginia named after Lewis Ginter
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Günther (disambiguation) Günther, Guenther, Ginther, Gunther, and the variants Günter, Guenter, Guenther, Ginter, and Gunter, are Germanic names derived from ''Gunthere, Gunthari'', composed of '' *gunþiz'' "battle" (Old Norse ''gunnr'') and ''heri, hari'' "army". Gun ...
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German-language surnames