Herwig is both a masculine German given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
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Herwig Ahrendsen
Herwig Ahrendsen (born March 1, 1948 in Husum, Schleswig-Holstein) is a former West German handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics
The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commo ...
(born 1948), German handball player
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Herwig Dirnböck
Herwig Dirnböck (born 23 November 1935) is an Austrian sprint canoer who competed in the early 1960s. He finished ninth in the C-2 1000 m event at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome
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(born 1935), Austrian sprint canoeist
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Herwig Drechsel
Herwig Drechsel (born 4 September 1973) is an Austrian retired professional association football player who played as a midfielder and current manager.
In his career he made over 350 Bundesliga appearances and was called up several times for the ...
(born 1973), Austrian footballer
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Herwig Görgemanns
Herwig Görgemanns (born 1931) is a German classicist, former professor and emeritus of classical philology at Heidelberg University.
In Würzburg he presented his dissertation in classical philology: contributions to the interpretation of Plato' ...
(born 1931), German classical scholar
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Herwig Kircher
Herwig Kircher (born 18 March 1955 in Villach, Austria) is a former Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a fede ...
(born 1955), Austrian footballer
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Herwig Kogelnik
Herwig Kogelnik (born June 2, 1932) is an Austrian-American electrical and optical engineer. He is best known for his fundamental contributions to the developments in laser technology, optoelectronics, photonics and lightwave communications sys ...
(born 1932), Austrian electrical engineer
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Herwig Mitteregger
Herwig Rudolf Mitteregger (born September 6, 1953) is an Austrian musician. He became known with the Nina Hagen Band, where he played drums and percussions. He lives in Hamburg, Germany. He was also a member of German rock band Spliff. After ...
(born 1953), Austrian musician
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Herwig Reiter
Herwig Reiter (born 26 June 1941, in Waidhofen an der Thaya
Waidhofen an der Thaya (; Czech: ''Český Bejdov'') is an Austrian town located on the German Thaya river in the district of the same name in Lower Austria. It is the northernmost of ...
(born 1941), Austrian composer
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Herwig Schopper
Herwig Franz Schopper (born 28 February 1924) is a Czech-born experimental physicist and was the director general of CERN from 1981 to 1988.
Biography
Schopper was born in Lanškroun, Bohemia, to a family of Austrian descent. He obtained his d ...
(born 1924), German physicist
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Herwig van Staa
Herwig van Staa (born 10 June 1942) was the governor of Tyrol from 2002 to 2008.
Van Staa was born in Linz, Upper Austria. His father, who came from the Rhine area, worked as a technician in the steelworks in Linz and died in a sick bay in 1943 ...
(born 1942), Austrian politician
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Herwig Wolfram
Herwig Wolfram (born 14 February 1934) is an Austrian historian who is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History and Auxiliary Sciences of History at the University of Vienna and the former Director of the . He is a leading member of the Vienna Sc ...
(born 1934), Austrian historian
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Bob Herwig
Bob Herwig (December 12, 1914 – December 14, 1974) was an American football center. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1964.
Until their divorce in 1946, he was married to novelist Kathleen Winsor
Kathleen Winsor (Oct ...
(1914–1974), American football player
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Conrad Herwig (born 1959), American jazz trombonist
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Holger Herwig
Dr. Holger H. Herwig (born 1941) is a German-born Canadian historian and professor. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including the award-winning, ''The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914-1918'' and ''The Origins of World ...
(born 1941), German-Canadian historian
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Malte Herwig Malte Herwig (born 2 October 1972) is a German-born author, journalist, and literary critic. His articles have appeared widely in U.S., British and German publications, including The New York Times, The Observer, Vanity Fair, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, ...
(born 1972), German writer, journalist and literary critic
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Walther Herwig
Walther Herwig (February 25, 1838, Bad Arolsen, Waldeck – December 16, 1912) was a Prussian administrative lawyer, and the founder of the German fisheries science.
Herwig studied jurisprudence at the University of Göttingen from 1856, where ...
(1838–1912), German jurist, biologist and politician
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German-language surnames
German masculine given names