Prager (variants: Praeger, Preger) is a surname, which may refer to:
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David Prager
David Lawrence Prager (born January 17, 1977) is one of the co-founders and Vice President of Special Projects for Revision3. He has also worked for ZDTV, TechTV, and G4.
Early life
Prager graduated from Trinity University in San Antonio, Te ...
(born 1977), American TV producer and blogger
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Dennis Prager
Dennis Mark Prager (; born August 2, 1948) is an American conservative radio talk show host and writer. He is the host of the nationally syndicated radio talk show ''The Dennis Prager Show''. In 2009, he co-founded PragerU, which creates five-m ...
(born 1948), U.S. conservative radio talk show host, columnist and public speaker
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PragerU
PragerU is an American advocacy group that creates videos promoting a conservative viewpoint on various political, economic, and sociological topics. It was co-founded by Allen Estrin and talk show host and writer Dennis Prager in 2009.
Despi ...
, a right-wing conservative non-profit organization that creates videos on various political, economic and philosophical topics
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Felice Prager (born 1953), nee Klein, U.S. author, journalist, educational therapist
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Joshua P. Prager (born 1949), US physician
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Joshua Harris Prager
Joshua Harris Prager (born 1971) is an American journalist and author.
Biography
Joshua Harris Prager was born in a Jewish family in Eagle Butte, South Dakota. Prager is the son of Columbia University physician and medical ethics expert Kennet ...
, US journalist
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Mark Prager Lindo
Mark Prager Lindo (18 September 1819 — 9 March 1877) was a Dutch prose writer of English-Jewish descent. He was born in London, England.
Early life
He went to the Netherlands aged nineteen, became established there as a private teacher of the E ...
(1819–1879), Anglo-Dutch prose writer of English-Jewish descent
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Richard Prager
Richard A. Prager (November 30, 1883 – July 20, 1945) was a German- American astronomer.
Career
Prager was born in Hannover, Germany. He became an assistant in the German Academy of Sciences in 1908. The following year he became division ...
(1883–1945), German-American astronomer
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Richard Prager (skier)
Richard Prager is a West German para-alpine skier. He represented West Germany at alpine skiing at the 1976 Winter Paralympics
Alpine skiing at the 1976 Winter Paralympics consisted of 28 events, 15 for men and 13 for women.
Medal table
M ...
, West German para-alpine skier
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Susan Westerberg Prager (born 1942), Association of American Law Schools Executive Vice President and Executive Director from 2008
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Walter Prager
Walter Prager (2 April 1910 - 1984) was a Swiss alpine skier.
At the 1931 World Championship in Mürren, Prager became the first World Champion in downhill skiing. He also won the 1933 downhill championship.
Later on, Prager successful ...
(1910–1984), Swiss alpine skier
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William Prager
William Prager, (before 1940) Willy Prager, (May 23, 1903 in Karlsruhe – March 17, 1980 in Zurich) was a German-born US applied mathematician. In the field of mechanics he is well known for the Drucker–Prager yield criterion.
Willy Prager st ...
(1903–1980), German-born US physicist
Fictional characters
* Nick Prager, a character from ''
Dead to Me'', portrayed by
Brandon Scott
Brandon Maurice Scott (born April 8, 1984) is an American politician serving as the mayor of Baltimore, Maryland since 2020. The city of Baltimore uses a strong mayor-council structure for their government, meaning Scott holds strong mayoral po ...
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Roy Präger (b. 1971), German footballer
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Charles Praeger
Charles Emil Praeger, Sr. (August 18, 1877 – January 3, 1940) was an American architect from Victoria, Texas. He worked for part of his career in partnership with architect James Hull as Praeger & Hull and Hull & Praeger. He was also in partnersh ...
(1877-1940), architect
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Cheryl Praeger
Cheryl Elisabeth Praeger (born 7 September 1948, Toowoomba, Queensland) is an Australian mathematician. Praeger received BSc (1969) and MSc degrees from the University of Queensland (1974), and a doctorate from the University of Oxford in 197 ...
(born 1948), mathematician
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Emil Praeger (1882-1973), architect
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Ferdinand Praeger
Ferdinand Praeger (22 January 1815 – 2 September 1891) (aka Ferdinand Christian Wilhelm Praeger) was a composer, music teacher, pianist and writer. He is now best known for his controversial biography of Richard Wagner, ''Wagner As I Knew Hi ...
(1815-1891), composer and writer.
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Robert Lloyd Praeger
Robert Lloyd Praeger (25 August 1865 – 5 May 1953) was an Irish naturalist, writer and librarian.
Biography
From a Unitarian background, he was born and raised in Holywood, County Down. He attended the school of the Reverend McAlister and t ...
(1865–1953), Irish naturalist and historian
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Rosamond Praeger
Sophia Rosamond Praeger, MBE, HRHA, MA (17 April 1867 – 16 April 1954) was an Irish artist, sculptor, illustrator, poet and writer.
Early life and education
Praeger was born in Holywood, County Down, Ireland on 17 April 1867. Her parents ...
(1867-1954), artist
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Sandy Praeger
Sandy Praeger (born October 21, 1944) is a former politician from the U.S. state of Kansas who served as the Kansas Insurance Commissioner from 2003 to 2015. Prior to her term as insurance commissioner, she was a member of the Kansas Senate and ...
, Kansas Insurance Commissioner
Preger, Preager
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Andreja Preger
Andreja Preger (20 March 1912 – 18 December 2015) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Yugoslav and Serbian pianist and Holocaust survivor. Preger, who was Jewish, survived the Holocaust by joining the Yugoslav Partisans, led by Josip Broz Tito, during ...
(1912–2015), Austro-Hungarian-born pianist
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Jack Preger
Jack Preger (born 25 July 1930, in Manchester, England) is a British doctor who has been offering medical treatment as well as vocational training to the poor in the Indian city of Kolkata and in other parts of West Bengal since 1972. He establi ...
(born 1930), British doctor working in the Indian city of Kolkata
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Lou Preager
Louis Jacob Preager (12 January 1906 – 14 November 1978), known as Lou Preager, was an English pianist, dance band leader, disc jockey and businessman. He was active from the 1930s to the 1950s; with his band he made many recordings. They also ...
(1906–1978), British dance band leader
See also
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Prager (crater)
Prager is an impact crater on the Moon's far side. It was named after German-American astronomer Richard Prager. It is located just to the northeast of the crater Love. Farther to the south-southeast lies Lane
In road transport, a lane is ...
, an impact crater on the Moon's far side
* Praeger Publishing, an imprint of the
Greenwood Publishing Group
Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio. Established in 1967 as Gr ...
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