Schrader is a family name very common roughly within the Triangle
Hannover-
Hamburg-
Berlin within
Germany (so-called "
Eastfalia", part of today's states of
Lower Saxony and
Saxony-Anhalt). It means
tailor.
[ Carriers of this name have spread all over the world due to emigration from Germany. It is especially common in the United States, but there are also occurrences in France, Britain, and the Netherlands. Notable people with the surname include:
* August Schrader (inventor) (1807–1894), inventor of "Schrader valve" for bicycle and auto tires
*]Bernhard Schrader
Bernhard Schrader (15 March 1931 – 8 January 2012) was a German professor of Theoretical and Physical Chemistry and teaching until his retirement in 1996 at the University of Essen, where he died. Schrader was an internationally acclaimed p ...
(1931–2012), German chemist, pioneer of Raman spectroscopy
*Bertha Schrader
Bertha Schrader (11 June 1845 – 11 May 1920) was a German painter, lithographer, and woodblock print-maker.
Biography
Schrader was born on 11 June 1845 in Memel, Lithuania. She studied with Carl Graeb's son Paul Graeb (1842-1892) in Berlin, ...
(1845–1920), German painter, lithographer, and woodblock print-maker
*Carl Voss-Schrader
Carl Voss-Schrader (9 October 1880–7 February 1955) was a Finnish colonel, business director and lawyer who briefly served as the Minister of the Interior (Finland), minister of interior between 17 April and 15 August 1919.
Biography
Voss-Schra ...
(1880–1955), Finnish colonel, business director, lawyer and short-term interior minister
*Carol Schrader Carol A. Schrader (born 1951) is an Omaha, Nebraska native and former news anchor who worked at KETV from 1977 to 1996.
Education and early career
Schrader was initially a radio reporter in the 1970s after attending the University of Nebraska-Omaha ...
(born 1951), American TV presenter
*Christian Schrader
Christian Schrader is an American sound engineer. He won four Primetime Emmy Awards
The Primetime Emmy Awards, or Primetime Emmys, are part of the extensive range of Emmy Awards for artistic and technical merit for the American televisio ...
, American sound engineer
* Clement Schrader (1820–1875), German Jesuit theologian
*David Schrader
David Schrader (born September 15, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American harpsichordist, organist, and fortepianist. He is a professor at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University where he teaches music history and conducts ...
(born 1952), American harpsichordist, organist, and fortepianist
* Dicken Schrader (born 1973), Colombian-American video artist
*Eberhard Schrader
Eberhard Schrader (7 January 1836 – 4 July 1908) was a German orientalist primarily known for his achievements in Assyriology.
Biography
He was born at Braunschweig, and educated at Göttingen under Ewald. In 1858 he won a university prize ...
(1836–1908), German orientalist
*Ed Schrader Ed L. Schrader was the president of Brenau University, a university and women's college in Gainesville, Georgia established in 1878, from 2005 to 2019. He is a geologist by profession.
Early life and education
He is a native of Mississippi. He rec ...
, American academic and university administrator
*Friedrich Schrader
Friedrich Schrader (19 November 1865 – 28 August 1922) was a German philologist of oriental languages, orientalist, art historian, writer, social democrat, translator and journalist. He also used the pseudonym Ischtiraki (Arabic/ Ottoman fo ...
(1865–1922), German-Ottoman translator, orientalist and writer
* Gerhard Schrader (1903–1990), German chemist
* Gus Schrader (1895–1941), American racecar driver
* Heinrich Schrader (botanist) (1767–1836), German botanist
* Heinrich Schrader (sportsman) (1893–1980), Australian footballer and cricketer
* Hermann T. Schrader (1860–1934), Australian pianist, violinist and cellist
* Hilde Schrader (1910–1966), German swimmer
* Jim Schrader (1932–1972), American football player
*Julius Schrader
Julius Friedrich Antonio Schrader (16 June 1815 in Berlin – 16 February 1900 in Groß-Lichterfelde) was a German painter, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
Biography
He studied at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin, then ...
(1815–1900), German painter
* Ken Schrader (born 1955), American racecar driver
* Kurt Schrader (born 1951), American politician
* Leonard Schrader (1943–2006), American screenwriter and director
* Libbie Schrader, American musician
*Maria Schrader
Maria Schrader (born 27 September 1965) is a German actress, screenwriter, and director. She directed the award-winning 2007 film ''Love Life'' and the 2020 Netflix miniseries '' Unorthodox'', for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for O ...
(born 1965), German actress
*Otto Schrader (philologist)
Otto Schrader (born 28 March 1855 in Weimar; died 21 March 1919 in Breslau) was a German philologist best known for his work on the history of German and Proto-Indo-European vocabulary dealing with various aspects of material culture, such as the ...
(1855–1919), German philologist
* Otto von Schrader (1888–1945), German naval officer
*Paul Schrader
Paul Joseph Schrader (; born July 22, 1946) is an American screenwriter, film director, and film critic. He first received widespread recognition through his screenplay for Martin Scorsese's ''Taxi Driver'' (1976). He later continued his collabo ...
(born 1946), American film director
* Warren Schrader (1921–2009), New Zealand flying ace of the Second World War
Fictional
*Hank Schrader
Henry R. Schrader ASAC is a fictional character in the AMC drama series '' Breaking Bad'' and its spin-off series ''Better Call Saul''. He is portrayed by Dean Norris and was created by series creator Vince Gilligan. Hank's character development ...
, police officer in TV series ''Breaking Bad''
* Marie Schrader, character in TV series ''Breaking Bad''
See also
References
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Low German surnames
Occupational surnames