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Worms, Germany Worms () is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, situated on the Upper Rhine about south-southwest of Frankfurt am Main. It had about 82,000 inhabitants . A pre-Roman foundation, Worms is one of the oldest cities in northern Europe. It wa ...

. Notable people with the surname include: *

André Wormser André Alphonse Toussaint Wormser (1 November 1851 – 4 November 1926) was a French Romantic composer. Life and career André Wormser was born in Paris and studied with Antoine Marmontel and François Bazin at the Paris Conservatoire. As a ver ...

(1851–1926), French banker and Romantic composer *

Baron Wormser Baron Wormser (born 1948, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American poet. Biography Baron Wormser was born in Baltimore on February 15, 1948. He earned his BA from Johns Hopkins University, later doing graduate studies at the University of Califor ...

(born 1948), American poet *

Felix Wormser Felix Edgar Wormser (died June 29, 1981) was an American engineering and former government official who served as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Mineral Resources in the United States Department of the Interior from 1954 to 1957. Biography ...

(died 1981), American engineer and government official *

Frances Dewey Wormser Frances Dewey Wormser (June 23, 1903 – January 28, 2008) was an American stage actress, entertainer and vaudeville performer. Personal life Frances Dewey was born in New York City on June 23, 1903, the daughter of Alfred James Dewey (1874 ...

(1903–2008), American actress, entertainer, and vaudeville performer *

Lewis Wormser Harris Lewis Wormser Harris (1812–1876) was an Irish bill-broker, financier, member of the Dublin Corporation and prominent member of the Dublin Hebrew Congregation. He was the first Jew elected Lord Mayor of Dublin, but died before he could take off ...

(1812-1876), bill-broker, financier, member of Dublin Corporation, and member of the Dublin Hebrew Congregation *

Paul Wormser Paul Wormser (11 June 1905 – 17 August 1944) was a French fencer. He won a bronze medal in the team épée event at the 1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the ...

(1905–1944), French fencer *

Richard Wormser Richard Edward Wormser (February 2, 1908 in New York City, New York – July, in Tumacaciori, Arizona) was an American writer of pulp fiction, detective fiction, screenplays, and Westerns, some of it written using the pseudonym of Ed Friend ...

(1908–1977), American writer *

Sekl Loeb Wormser Sekl Loeb Wormser (1768–1846) was a rabbi, talmudist, kabbalist, and Baal Shem (worker of miracles through the Name of God). Biography He was born in Michelstadt. He received his talmudic education in Frankfurt, in the yeshiva of Rabbi N ...

(1768-1846), German rabbi

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