Jörg or Joerg () is a German name, equivalent to
George
George may refer to:
People
* George (given name)
* George (surname)
* George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George
* George Washington, First President of the United States
* George W. Bush, 43rd Presiden ...
in English.
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Jörg Bergmeister
Jörg Bergmeister (born 13 February 1976, in Leverkusen) is a former racing driver from Germany and an ambassador of Porsche.
His late father, Willi Bergmeister, owned a workshop and dealership where Michael Schumacher learned his trade as a ...
, German race car driver
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Jörg Frischmann
Jörg Frischmann is a Paralympic athlete from Germany. He is classified F43, and competes mainly in shot put and javelin events.
Biography
Joerg has competed in the Paralympics on four occasions. His first was in Barcelona in 1992, wher ...
, German Paralympian athlete
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Jörg Haider
Jörg Haider (; 26 January 1950 – 11 October 2008)
was an Austrian politician. He was Governor of Carinthia on two occasions, the long-time leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) and later Chairman of the Alliance for the Future of ...
, Austrian politician
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Jörg Andrees Elten (also Swami Satyananda), German journalist and writer, follower of
Osho
Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain; 11 December 193119 January 1990), also known as Acharya Rajneesh, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and later as Osho (), was an Indian godman, mystic, and founder of the Rajneesh movement. He was viewed as a controv ...
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Jörg Kachelmann
Jörg Andreas Kachelmann (born 15 July 1958 in Lörrach, Germany) is a Swiss presenter, journalist and entrepreneur in the meteorological field.
Early life and education
Jörg Kachelmann spent his youth in Schaffhausen. His childhood ambition was ...
(born 1958), Swiss journalist and presenter
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Joerg Kalt
Joerg “Jörg” Kalt (11 January 1967 – 1 July 2007) was an Austrian film director and cinematographer best known for his film ''Crash Test Dummies''.
Kalt was born on Wednesday, 11 January 1967, in Suresnes near Paris and grew up in Switze ...
(1967–2007), Austrian film director and cinematographer
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Jörg Meuthen
Jörg Hubert Meuthen (; born 29 June 1961) is a German economist serving as a member of the European Parliament for the Centre Party. He was the leading candidate of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) for the 2019 European Parliament election. H ...
(born 1961), German politician
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Jörg Nobis
Jörg Nobis (born 9 September 1975) is a German politician from Alternative for Germany who was his party's lead candidate in the 2022 Schleswig-Holstein state election. In the election he lost his seat.
Political career
Nobis was a candidate ...
(born 1975), German politician
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Jörg Pilawa
Jörg Michael Pilawa (born 7 September 1965, in Hamburg) is a German television presenter.
Life
Pilawa studied after his school at Gymnasium Hummelsbüttel first medicine and then history, but he did not finish his university studies. From 1987 ...
(born 1965), German television presenter
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Joerg Rieger
Joerg Michael Rieger (born 1963) is a German professor of Christian theology whose work emphasizes economic justice and political movements. Rieger is also an ordained minister of the United Methodist Church.
Life and career
Born on August 3, ...
(born 1963), American professor
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Jörg Schneider (actor)
Jörg Schneider (7 February 1935 – 22 August 2015) was a Swiss stage and film actor starring usually in Swiss German-language cinema and television and stage productions. He gained great renownedness in the German-speaking area by numerous '' Ka ...
(1935), Swiss actor
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Jörgen (disambiguation)
Jörgen is a village in the municipality of Tieschen in the ''Bezirk'' of Südoststeiermark in the Federal State of Styria in Austria. Its population was 159 in 2016.
Jörgen is known for its fine white wines. Next to the more common white ...
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Joerg Peninsula
Joerg Peninsula () is a rugged, mountainous peninsula, long in a northeast–southwest direction and from wide, lying between Trail Inlet and Solberg Inlet on the Bowman Coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. Its tip is indented by Hondius Inlet. ...
of Graham Land, Antarctica
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W. L. G. Joerg, (1885-1952), American geographer and in particular expert in the geography of the Arctic and Antarctic regions
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Norton C. Joerg, lawyer and retired Read Admiral in the United States Navy
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German masculine given names