Kober is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Adolf Kober
Adolf Kober (3 September 1879 in Beuthen, Oberschlesien; 30 December 1958 in New York City) was a rabbi and a historian.
Life
Kober studied History, Philosophy and Oriental Languages at the University of Breslau (Wrocław) and received a Ph ...
(1879–1958), German rabbi and medievalist
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Alice Kober
Alice Elizabeth Kober (December 23, 1906 – May 16, 1950) was an American classicist best known for her work on the decipherment of Linear B. Educated at Hunter College and Columbia University, Kober taught classics at Brooklyn College fro ...
(1906–1950), American classical scholar and archaeologist
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Amelie Kober (born 1987), German snowboarder
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Andrew Kober
Andrew Kober is an American stage and screen actor, best known for playing the role of Margaret Mead in the 2009 Broadway revival of ''Hair''.
Early life
Kober grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio. His granduncle Arthur Kober was born to a Jewish ...
(born 1984), American actor
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Annegret Kober
Annegret Kober (born 4 June 1957) is a retired German backstroke swimmer who won a bronze medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in the 4 × 100 m medley relay. In the relay, West Germany
West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the F ...
(born 1957), German backstroke swimmer
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Arthur Kober
Arthur Kober (August 25, 1900 – June 12, 1975) was an American humorist, author, press agent, and screenwriter. He was married to the dramatist Lillian Hellman.
Biography
Early life
Kober was born into a Jewish family in Brody, Galicia, in ...
(1900–1975), American humorist, author, press agent, and screenwriter
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Avi Kober (born 1950), Israeli professor and political studies researcher
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Axel Kober
Axel Kober (born 10 February 1970) is a German conductor. Since 2009 he has been the music director of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein.
Kober was born in Kronach and studied conducting under Peter Falk and Günther Wich at the Hochschule für Musik W ...
(born 1970), German conductor
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Birgit Kober (born 1971), German Paralympic athlete
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Carsten Kober (born 1967), German footballer
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Claire Kober
Claire Kober OBE (born 1978) was a Labour Party politician and ex-council leader of the London Borough of Haringey, North London, England. In May 2018 she stepped down as councillor and council leader.
Early life
Kober spent her formative yea ...
(born 1978), English politician
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Franz Kober (born 1956), German engineer (cinema)
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Franz Quirin von Kober (1821–1897), German Roman Catholic priest
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Herman Kober (1888–1973), German mathematician
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Ingo Kober Ingo Kober (born 22 July 1942 in Liegnitz, now Legnica in Poland) was the third president of the European Patent Office.
After completing his legal studies, Ingo Kober began his professional career in 1972 as judge and public prosecutor in Mannheim ...
(born 1942), former president of the European Patent Office
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Jeff Kober (born 1953), American actor
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Lars Kober
Lars Kober (born 19 October 1976 in Berlin) is a German sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He won a bronze medal in the C-2 1000 m event at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney
Sydney ( ) is the capital city of th ...
(born 1976), German flatwater canoer
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Leopold Kober
Leopold Kober (21 September 1883 – 6 September 1970), an Austrian geologist, proposed a number of (subsequently largely discredited) theories of orogeny and coined the term '' kratogen'' to describe stable continental crust, which was later s ...
(1883–1970), Austrian geologist
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Martin Kober (fl. late 17th century), Polish court painter
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Noémie Kober
Noémie Kober (born 15 December 1993) is a French rower
Rowing, sometimes called crew in the United States, is the sport of racing boats using oars. It differs from paddling sports in that rowing oars are attached to the boat using oarlo ...
(born 1979), French rower
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Ofer Kober
Ofer (, ''lit.'' Fawn) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located south of Haifa, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaCarmel Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History
The moshav was founded in 1950 by immigrants from India (mainl ...
(born 1975), Israeli translator
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Pascal Kober
Pascal Kober (born 3 July 1971) is a German military chaplain and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Baden-Württemberg from 2009 to 2013 and again since 2017.
In additi ...
(born 1971), German politician
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Sebastian Köber
Sebastian Köber (born 28 May 1979) is a German boxer, who won the Heavyweight bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Three years later, at the 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Bangkok, he once again finished in ...
(born 1993), German boxer
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Shahar Kober
Shahar Kober (born 1979) is an Israeli illustrator, art director and lecturer. He lives in Kiryat Tivon, Israel.
Biography
Kober was born in Kfar-Saba and raised in Ganei Am. He attended the Ami Assaf high school in Beit Berl and the University o ...
(born 1979), Israeli illustrator
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Theodor Kober
Theodor Kober (born 13 February 1865 in Stuttgart; died 20 December 1930 in Friedrichshafen) was a twentieth-century German aviation engineer who contributed to the building of the first Zeppelin.
Life
As an engineer Kober had worked for a ba ...
(1865–1930), German aviation engineer
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Umberto Kober Umberto is a masculine Italian given name. It is the Italian form of Humbert. People with the name include:
* King Umberto I of Italy (1844–1900)
* King Umberto II of Italy (1904–1983)
* Prince Umberto, Count of Salemi (1889–1918)
* Umberto I ...
(born 1974), Brazilian chemist
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German-language surnames
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