Reimer is a family name of Germanic or Dutch origin.
Notable people with this surname
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Al Reimer Elmer E. 'Al' Reimer (1927-2015) was a Mennonite writer from Steinbach, Manitoba. Reimer was an important literary critic and writer in the emergence of southern Manitoba Mennonite literature during the 1970s and 80s. Born in Landmark, Manitoba, Rei ...
(1927-2015), Canadian writer
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Andrea Reimer Andrea Reimer is a Canadian politician, who served on Vancouver, British Columbia's City Council from 2008 to 2018. She was first elected in 2002 to the Vancouver School Board as a Green Party candidate. , Canadian politician
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A. James Reimer
Allen James Reimer (August 10, 1942 – August 28, 2010) was a Canadian Mennonite theologian who held a dual academic appointment as Professor of Religious Studies and Christian Theology at Conrad Grebel University College, a member college of the ...
(1942–2010), Canadian Mennonite theologian
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Arthur E. Reimer
Arthur Elmer Reimer (January 15, 1882 – November 25, 1969) was an American socialist political activist and politician who served as the presidential candidate of the Socialist Labor Party of America twice.
Biography Early years
Arthur Reim ...
(1882–1969), American political candidate for the Socialist Labor Party of America
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Bennett Reimer
Bennett Reimer (June 19, 1932 – November 18, 2013) was an American music educator. He held the John W. Beattie Endowed Chair in Music at Northwestern University from 1978 until retirement in 1997, where he was chair of the Music Education Depa ...
, American musician
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Birgitte Reimer
Birgitte Reimer (8 February 1926 – 19 April 2021) was a Danish film actress. She appeared in 17 films between 1947 and 1964. Reimer died in April 2021 at the age of 95.
Filmography
* ''Soldaten og Jenny'' (1947)
* ''I de lyse nætter'' (1948 ...
(1926-2021), Danish actress
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Brittany Reimer (born 1988), Canadian swimmer
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Christine Reimer, Danish journalist
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Daniela Reimer, German rower
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David Reimer
David Reimer (born Bruce Peter Reimer; 22 August 1965 – 4 May 2004) was a Canadian man born male but raised as a girl following medical advice and intervention after his penis was severely injured during a botched circumcision in infancy. ...
(1965–2004), Canadian man raised as a girl who became a famous case study in sexology
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David Dale Reimer
David Dale Reimer is an American diplomat and member of the Senior Foreign Service. He has served as the List of ambassadors of the United States to Sierra Leone, United States ambassador to Sierra Leone since 2021. He previously served concurre ...
, American diplomat
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Dennis Reimer
Dennis Joe Reimer (born July 12, 1939) is a retired general of the United States Army, who served as the 33rd Chief of Staff of the Army from June 20, 1995 to June 21, 1999. He is also a graduate of Ranger and Airborne school.
Early life and edu ...
(born 1939), Chief of Staff of the United States Army 1995-1999
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Doug Reimer, Canadian volleyball player
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Erwin Reimer
Erwin Reimer (29 May 1914 – 23 April 1997) was a Chilean athlete. He competed in the men's decathlon at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
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1914 births
1997 deaths
Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics
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, Chilean athlete
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Eugene Reimer
Eugene "Gene" Reimer (21 January 1940 – 9 June 2008) was a Canadian wheelchair Paralympic athlete who won 10 Paralympic medals and 50 Canadian and Pan-American medals from 1968 to 1980. Having polio at an early age, he was a member of the wh ...
, Canadian athlete
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Jack Reimer
Jack F. Reimer is a Progressive Conservative politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (MLA) from 1990 to 2007, and served in the government of Gary Filmon.
The son of Jacob Frank Reimer, a Russian ...
, Canadian politician
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Jakob Reimer
Jakob (Jack) Reimer (November 6, 1918 – August 3, 2005) was a Trawniki camp guard who later emigrated to the United States and became a salesman and restaurant manager.
Biography Early life in USSR
Born to Russian Mennonite parents in Frieden ...
(1918–2005), a
Trawniki concentration camp
The Trawniki concentration camp was set up by Nazi Germany in the village of Trawniki about southeast of Lublin during the occupation of Poland in World War II. Throughout its existence the camp served a dual function. It was organized on the gr ...
guard
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James Reimer
James is a common English language surname and given name:
*James (name), the typically masculine first name James
* James (surname), various people with the last name James
James or James City may also refer to:
People
* King James (disambiguat ...
, Canadian ice hockey player
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Jeffrey Reimer, American chemist
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John Reimer
John Henry Reimer (born July 16, 1936) is a Canadian politician. He served in the House of Commons of Canada from 1979 to 1980, and again from 1984 to 1993, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.
Reimer was born to a Mennonite f ...
, Canadian politician
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Josef Ludwig Reimer, Austrian writer
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Georg Reimer
Georg Friedrich Reimer (17 May 1828, Leipzig – 17 September 1866, Berlin) was a German genre painter from the Düsseldorf School.
Life
Reimer was the only son of the bookseller Karl August Reimer (1801–1858) from his first marriage to Augus ...
, German painter
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Helmut Reimer
Helmut Reimer is a German computer scientist. He was professor of microelectronics at the Technische Universität Ilmenau from 1971. From 1980 to 1990, he also led the department for microchip production of the VEB Mikroelektronik Erfurt. From ...
, German computer scientist
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Klaas Reimer Klaas Reimer (1770–1837) was the founder of the Kleine Gemeinde, a Mennonite denomination that still exists in Latin America, but underwent radical changes in Canada where it is now called the Evangelical Mennonite Conference. Ethnic Mennonite rem ...
(1770–1837), founder of the
Kleine Gemeinde Kleine Gemeinde is a Mennonite denomination founded in 1812 by Klaas Reimer in the Russian Empire. The current group primarily consists of Plautdietsch-speaking Russian Mennonites in Belize, Mexico and Bolivia, as well as a small presence in Canada ...
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Linda Reimer
Linda Reimer (born 1959 or 1960) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2013 provincial election. She represented the electoral district of Port Moody-Coquitlam as a member of the Briti ...
, Canadian politician
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Luke Reimer
Luke Reimer is an Australian rugby union player who plays for the in Super Rugby. His playing position is flanker. He was named in the Brumbies squad for the 2021 Super Rugby AU season. He made his debut in the qualifying final of the 2021 Sup ...
, Australian rugby player
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Mary Jean Reimer
Mary Jean Reimer (born 22 May 1964), also known as Yung Jing-Jing, is a Hong Kong solicitor and actress. She has American-Chinese-Vietnamese ancestry.
Early life and film career
Reimer was born in South Vietnam (or the United States) to an America ...
(born 1964), Hong Kong actress
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Martin Reimer
Martin Reimer (born 14 June 1987) is a German former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally from 2008 to 2011 and from 2013 to 2015. In 2009 he was the unlikely winner of the German National Road Race Championship.
In Novembe ...
, German cyclist
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Neil Reimer
Neil Reimer (July 3, 1921 – March 29, 2011) was an activist, trade unionist and politician in Canada.
Reimer attended the University of Saskatchewan, but left in 1942 at the age of 19 to work at the Consumers Co-operative Refinery in Regina, Sa ...
(1921-2011), Canadian politician
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Nele Reimer
Nele Reimer (born 9 September 1996) is a German handballer who plays for SG BBM Bietigheim
SG BBM Bietigheim is a German handball club from Bietigheim-Bissingen, Baden-Württemberg. Its women's team is playing in the Handball-Bundesliga Frauen ...
, German handballer
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Patrick Reimer, German hockey player
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Paula Reimer
Paula Jo Reimer is a radiocarbon and archaeological scientist. Reimer is the former director of the 14Chrono Centre for Climate, the Environment, and Chronology at Queen's University Belfast.
Biography
Reimer has a BSc in Physics (1974) and MSc ...
, American scientist
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Rebecca Reimer
Rebecca Reimer is an American politician and a Republican member of the South Dakota House of Representatives
The South Dakota House of Representatives is the lower house of the South Dakota Legislature. It consists of 70 members, two from each ...
, American politician and member of the
South Dakota House of Representatives
The South Dakota House of Representatives is the lower house of the South Dakota Legislature. It consists of 70 members, two from each legislative district. Two of the state's 35 legislative districts, Districts 26 and 28, are each subdivided int ...
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Uwe Reimer Uwe Reimer (* 16 February 1948 in Hamburg; † 23 February 2004 in Göttingen) was a German writer who wrote numerous books about history and social studies.
Biography
Reimer was born in 1948 in Hamburg. He visited the "Gymnasium Altona" which he f ...
, German writer
Fictional characters
* Wendy Reimer, protagonist of
Casey Plett
Casey Plett (born June 20, 1987) is a Canadian writer, best known for her novel '' Little Fish'' and Giller Prize-nominated short story collection ''A Dream of a Woman''.
Personal life
Plett was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and grew up in a Menno ...
's novel
Little Fish
See also
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Reimer's index X-rays of hip dysplasia are one of the two main methods of medical imaging to diagnose hip dysplasia, the other one being medical ultrasonography. Ultrasound imaging yields better results defining the anatomy until the cartilage is ossified. When th ...
of hip dislocation
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Remer (disambiguation) Remer may refer to:
People
* Carola Remer (born 1991), German model
* John Remer (1883–1948), British politician
* Otto Ernst Remer (1912–1997), Nazi officer
* Richard Remer (1883–1973), American athlete
* Tim Remer (born 1985), Dutch han ...
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Reimers Reimers is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Bruce Reimers (born 1960), former American football guard
* Dieter Reimers (born 1943), German astronomer and director of the Hamburg Observatory, who gave his name to 6163 Reimers, ...
, a surname
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Surnames
German-language surnames
Russian Mennonite surnames