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 P ...
(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
Amelie Kober (born 16 November 1987, in Bad Aibling) is a German Federal Police officer and Olympic medalist in snowboarding.
Biography
At the Junior World Championships 2005 in Zermatt, Switzerland she won silver. In the World Cup sh ...
(born 1987), German snowboarder
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Andrew Kober (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 (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
Birgit Kober (born 10 July 1971) is a German Paralympic athlete. She initially competed in F34 seated throwing events, and from 2011-2013 she became the reigning champion at European, World and Paralympic level in both shot put and javelin in he ...
(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
Franz Quirin von Kober (6 March 1821 at Warthausen, Biberach, Württemberg – 25 January 1897 at Tübingen) was a German Roman Catholic priest, known as a canon lawyer and pedagogist.
Life
He first attended the Latin school in of Biberach, ...
(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
Jeff Kober (born December 18, 1953) is an American actor, known for his television roles as Dodger in ''China Beach'', Jacob Hale Jr. in ''Sons of Anarchy'', and Joe in the fourth season of '' The Walking Dead''. He is also known his movie role ...
(born 1953), American actor
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Lars Kober (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
Martin Kober (also ''Chober, Cober, Coeber, Khober, Koeber, Koebner'', pl, Marcin Kober) (ca. 1550 – before 1598) was a portrait painter and court painter to different Central European monarchs - King Stephen Báthory, Rudolf II, Holy Roman ...
(fl. late 17th century), Polish court painter
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Noémie Kober (born 1979), French rower
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Ofer Kober (born 1975), Israeli translator
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Pascal Kober (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 ...
(born 1993), German boxer
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Shahar Kober (born 1979), Israeli illustrator
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Theodor Kober (1865–1930), German aviation engineer
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Umberto Kober (born 1974), Brazilian chemist
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German-language surnames
Surnames from given names