Spengler is a German-language
occupational surname
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, literally meaning "
metal worker
Metalworking is the process of shaping and reshaping metals to create useful objects, parts, assemblies, and large scale structures. As a term it covers a wide and diverse range of processes, skills, and tools for producing objects on every scale ...
" or "
tin knocker
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Alexander Spengler
Alexander Spengler (20 March 1827 – 1 November 1901) was a German physician and the first physician specializing in tuberculosis in Davos.
Spengler was born as the eldest son of Johann Philipp Spengler, a teacher at a school in Mannheim
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(1827–1901), the first Davos doctor specializing in tuberculosis
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Bruno Spengler
Bruno Spengler (born August 23, 1983) is an Alsatian-born Canadian racing driver, currently racing for the BMW factory/works team. Nicknamed 'The Secret Canadian', he won the 2012 DTM Drivers' Championship.
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Early career
Spengler was b ...
(born 1983), a Canadian racecar driver
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Egon Spengler, a character from the ''Ghostbusters'' films
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John Spengler
John Daniel Spengler is an American health scholar currently serving as the Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and a faculty member in the Harvard Department of En ...
, the Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Jörg Spengler
Jörg Spengler (23 December 1938 – 26 November 2013) was a German sailor. He won a bronze medal in the Tornado class with Jörg Schmall at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the lar ...
(born 1938), German sailor
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Joseph J. Spengler
Joseph John Spengler (19 November 1902 – 2 January 1991) was an American economist, statistician, and historian of economic thought.Kelley (March 1992), p. 142 A recipient of the 1951 John Frederick Lewis Award of the American Philosophical Socie ...
(1912–1991), American economist, statistician and historian of economic thought
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Lorenz Spengler
Lorenz Spengler (22 September 1720 – 20 December 1807) was a Danish turner and naturalist.
Born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland he arrived at Copenhagen in 1743 and became a tutor to Christian VI of Denmark and later Frederick V of Denmark in the ...
(1720–1807), Swiss-born Danish decorative artist and naturalist
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Oswald Spengler
Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler (; 29 May 1880 – 8 May 1936) was a German historian and philosopher of history whose interests included mathematics, science, and art, as well as their relation to his organic theory of history. He is best known ...
(1880–1936), German author, writer of ''The Decline of the West''
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Pierre Spengler
Pierre Spengler (born 5 June 1947) is a French film producer. He initiated the first three ''Superman'' films starring Christopher Reeve and produced them with Alexander and Ilya Salkind.
Overview
Pierre Spengler started in the movie industr ...
, a European film producer
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Volker Spengler
Volker Spengler (; 16 February 1939 – 8 February 2020) was a German stage and film actor. Spengler was best known to international audiences as a member of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder's acting ensemble, including his role as the transse ...
(1939-2020), German actor
* Spengler, pen name of
David P. Goldman
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German-language surnames