Merten is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Alan G. Merten (born 1941), American official *

Bjorn Merten Bjorn Merten is a former American football placekicker who played college football at the University of California, Los Angeles and attended Centreville High School in Clifton, Virginia. He was a consensus All-American in 1993 as a freshman. He a ...

, American football player * Christa Merten (1944–1986), West German athlete * Helena Merten (born 1995), Australian high diver *

Karl-Friedrich Merten Karl-Friedrich Merten (15 August 1905 – 2 May 1993) commanded the U-boat in Nazi Germany's ''Kriegsmarine'' during World War II. He received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. Merten was credited with the sinking of ...

(1905-1993), German U-boat commander *

Ken Merten Kenneth Owen Merten (born May 4, 1945) is an American former competition swimmer, three-time Pan American Games medalist, and former world record-holder. Merten won three medals in his breaststroke specialty at the Pan American Games. At the ...

(born 1945), American swimmer * Kenneth H. Merten, American diplomat *

Lauri Merten Lauri Merten (born July 6, 1960) is an American professional golfer. She also competed under the names Lauri Peterson (1983–87) and Lauri Merten-Peterson (1988). Merten was born in Waukesha, Wisconsin. She attended Arizona State University and ...

(born 1960), American golfer *

Merten de Keyser Merten de Keyser (born Martin Lempereur; died 1536) was a 16th-century French printer and publisher working mainly in Antwerp, who printed the first complete French and the first complete English Bible translations as well as a number of works by E ...

, French painter

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