Kummer is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Bernhard Kummer
Bernhard Kummer (21 January 1897, Leipzig – 1 December 1962, Bad Segeberg) was a Germanist who was appointed to a professorship in the Nazi Germany, Nazi era and whose writings have been influential among postwar Neo-Nazism, neo-Nazis. He wa ...
(1897–1962), German Germanist
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Clare Kummer
Clare Kummer (January 9, 1873 — April 21, 1958) was an American composer, lyricist, and playwright.
Early life
Kummer was born Clare Rodman Beecher in Brooklyn, New York, the granddaughter of Rev. Edward Beecher and great-granddaughter of Lyma ...
(1873—1958), American composer, lyricist and playwright
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Clarence Kummer
Clarence Joseph Kummer (August 8, 1899 – December 18, 1930) was a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame jockey who won four American Classic Races.
In early 1920, Kummer rode the 1919 Triple Crown Champion Sir Barton to a new Saratoga track record in wi ...
(1899–1930), American jockey
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Christopher Kummer (born 1975), German economist
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Corby Kummer
Corby Kummer is executive director of Food & Society at the Aspen Institute, a senior lecturer at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science, and a senior editor of ''The Atlantic''.
Kummer is the author of ''The Joy of Coffee'' and ''The ...
(born 1957), American journalist
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Dirk Kummer
Dirk Kummer (born 29 September 1966 in Hennigsdorf) is a German actor, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for directing movies ''Sugar Sand'' (2017), ''Wohin mit den Witwen'' (1999) and ''Rosenzweig's Freedom'' (1998).
Early life
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(born 1966), German actor, director, and screenwriter
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Eberhard Kummer (1940–2019), Austrian concert singer, lawyer, and medieval music expert
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Eduard Kummer, also known as the following Ernst Kummer
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Eloise Kummer
Margery Eloise Kummer (June 17, 1916 - August 24, 2008) was an American radio and television actress.
Early years
Kummer was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Kummer. After graduating in 1933 from Sheboygan High ...
(1916–2008), American actress
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Ernst Kummer
Ernst Eduard Kummer (29 January 1810 – 14 May 1893) was a German mathematician. Skilled in applied mathematics, Kummer trained German army officers in ballistics; afterwards, he taught for 10 years in a '' gymnasium'', the German equivalent of ...
(1810–1893), German mathematician
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Kummer configuration In geometry, the Kummer configuration, named for Ernst Kummer, is a geometric configuration of 16 points and 16 planes such that each point lies on 6 of the planes and each plane contains 6 of the points. Further, every pair of points is incident w ...
, a mathematical structure discovered by Ernst Kummer
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Kummer surface
In algebraic geometry, a Kummer quartic surface, first studied by , is an irreducible nodal surface of degree 4 in \mathbb^3 with the maximal possible number of 16 double points. Any such surface is the Kummer variety of the Jacobian variety o ...
, a related geometrical structure discovered by Ernst Kummer
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Ferdinand von Kummer
Rudolf Ferdinand von Kummer was a Prussian general who participated in the Austro-Prussian and Franco-Prussian wars.
Biography Early life and family
Rudolf Ferdinand was the son of the Prussian chief bailiff Ferdinand Friedrich Kummer (1787– ...
(1816-1900), German general
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Frederic Arnold Kummer
Frederic Arnold Kummer Sr. (August 5, 1873 – November 22, 1943) was an American author, playwright and screenwriter. He also wrote under the pseudonym Arnold Fredericks. Several of his works were made into films. A caricature of him is on the w ...
(1873–1943), American author, playwright, and screenwriter
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Friedrich August Kummer
Friedrich August Kummer (5 August 1797 – 22 August 1879), born in Meiningen, Germany, was a cellist, pedagogue, and composer.
Childhood and education
As a child, his family moved to Dresden on an invitation by the court chapel to his father, ...
(1797–1879), German cellist and composer
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Karl Kummer (disambiguation), more than one person
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Kaspar Kummer Kaspar Johann Kummer (1795–1870) was a German flautist, professor and composer.
Kummer was born on 10 December 1795 in Erlau in Thuringia (in Sankt Kilian.) Musicsack - http://www.musicsack.com/PersonFMTDetail.cfm?PersonPK=100007153 - has Erlau, ...
, (1795–1870), German flautist and composer
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Lilian Kummer
Lilian Kummer (born 8 July 1975 in Riederalp, Valais, Switzerland) is a retired Swiss alpine skier who competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics
The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake ...
(born 1975), Swiss skier
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Luise Kummer (born 1993), German biathlete
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Mario Kummer (born 1962), German cyclist
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Nicolas Kummer
Nicolas "Nic" Kummer (4 August 1882 – 6 September 1954) was a Luxembourgian gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics
The 1912 Summer Olympics ( sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1912), officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad ( sv, ...
(1882–1954), Luxembourgian gymnast
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Paul Kummer
Paul Kummer (22 August 1834 – 6 December 1912) was a minister, teacher, and scientist in Zerbst, Germany, known chiefly for his contribution to mycological nomenclature. Earlier classification of agarics by pioneering fungal taxonomist Elias Ma ...
(1834–1912), priest, taxonomist of Zerbst
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Patrizia Kummer
Patrizia Kummer (born 16 October 1987 in Brig) is a Swiss snowboarder.
Kummer won silver in the parallel slalom at the 2013 FIS Snowboarding World Championships, and gold in the Parallel giant slalom at the 2014 Sochi Olympics
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(born 1987), Swiss snowboarder
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Siegfried Adolf Kummer
Siegfried Adolf Kummer (born 24 September 1899 in Radeberg, died 1977 in Dresden) was a German mystic and Germanic revivalist. He is also most well known for his revivalism and use of the Armanen runes row. He, along with Friedrich Bernhard Ma ...
(1899–1977), German mystic and Germanic revivalist
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Sigrud Kummer
Sigrud Kummer is a West German sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1960s. She won a silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 1966 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
The 1966 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in the Ea ...
, (born ? ), German sprint canoeist
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Thomas Kummer
Thomas John Kummer (October 10, 1933 – August 9, 1969), known professionally as Jay Sebring, was an American celebrity hair stylist, and the founder of the hairstyling corporation Sebring International. Sebring was murdered by members of the M ...
(born 1963), American classicist and teacher
*Thomas John Kummer (1933–1969), American celebrity hair stylist known professionally as
Jay Sebring
Thomas John Kummer (October 10, 1933 – August 9, 1969), known professionally as Jay Sebring, was an American celebrity hair stylist, and the founder of the hairstyling corporation Sebring International. Sebring was murdered by members of the M ...
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Tom Kummer
Tom Kummer (born 14 January 1961) is a Swiss journalist who published numerous celebrity profiles in Germany and Switzerland.Kniebe, Tobias.Im Kino: 'Bad Boy Kummer', 'Warum darf ich kein Dichter sein?", '' Süddeutsche Zeitung''. May 6, 2011. Ku ...
(born 1963), Swiss journalist
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Wolfgang Kummer (disambiguation) Wolfgang Kummer can refer to:
* Wolfgang Kummer (bobsledder) (1914-1988), German bobsledder
* Wolfgang Kummer (ice hockey) (born 1970), German ice hockey player
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, more than one person
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Cummer (disambiguation) Cummer may refer to:
*Cummer, County Galway, a civil parish in Ireland
*Anna Cummer (born 1977), Canadian actress
*Ninah Cummer, namesake of the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens
The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens is a museum located in Jacks ...
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Kommer
Kommer is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
* Asso Kommer (born 1966), Estonian soldier and politician
* Nick Kommer (born 1990), Australian rules footballer
See also
* Kommer Damen, Dutch businessman
* Kummer, a surname
*Commer
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