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 commonly ...
(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
The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), offic ...
(born 1935), Austrian sprint canoeist
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Herwig Drechsel (born 1973), Austrian footballer
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Herwig Görgemanns (born 1931), German classical scholar
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Herwig Kircher (born 1955), Austrian footballer
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Herwig Kogelnik (born 1932), Austrian electrical engineer
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Herwig Mitteregger (born 1953), Austrian musician
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Herwig Reiter
Herwig Reiter (born 26 June 1941, in Waidhofen an der Thaya) is an Austrian composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupat ...
(born 1941), Austrian composer
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Herwig Schopper (born 1924), German physicist
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Herwig van Staa (born 1942), Austrian politician
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Herwig Wolfram (born 1934), Austrian historian
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Bob Herwig (1914–1974), American football player
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Conrad Herwig
Lee Conrad Herwig III (born 1959) is an American jazz trombonist from New York City.
Biography
Herwig began his career in Clark Terry's band in the early 1980s and has been a featured member in the Joe Henderson Sextet, Tom Harrell's Septet and ...
(born 1959), American jazz trombonist
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Holger Herwig (born 1941), German-Canadian historian
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Malte Herwig (born 1972), German writer, journalist and literary critic
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Walther Herwig (1838–1912), German jurist, biologist and politician
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German-language surnames
German masculine given names