Fischer is a German
occupational surname
In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give ...
, meaning fisherman. The name Fischer is the fourth most common German surname. The English version is
Fisher.
People with the surname
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Abraham Fischer (1850–1913) South African public official
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Adam Fischer (sculptor) (1888–1968), Danish sculptor
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Ádám Fischer (born 1949), Hungarian conductor
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Adolf Fischer (officer) (1893–1947), German Nazi general executed for war crimes
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Adolph Fischer (1858–1887) German-American anarchist
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Alfred Fischer (architect) (1881–1950), German architect
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Alfred Fischer (judge)
Alfred Fischer (14 December 1919 – 17 June 2004) was a German judge
A judge is a person who wiktionary:preside, presides over court proceedings, either alone or as a part of a judicial panel. In an adversarial system, the judge hears all the ...
(1919–2004), German judge
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Andrew Andika Fischer (born 1987), Indonesian actor
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Angeline Fuller Fischer (1841–1925), American writer
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Annie Fischer (1914–1995), Hungarian pianist
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Andrea Fischer (born 1960), German politician
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Andrea Fischer (scientist), (born 1973), Austrian glaciologist
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Anton Fischer (bobsleigh), German bobsledder
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Artur Fischer
Artur Fischer (31 December 1919 – 27 January 2016) was a German inventor. He is best known for inventing an expanding plastic version of the wall plug.
Born in Tumlingen, Artur Fischer was the son of the village tailor Georg Fischer. His ...
(1919–2016), German inventor (fischertechnik, plastic dowel)
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Axel Fischer (born 1966), German politician
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Batty Fischer (1877–1958), Luxembourg dentist and amateur photographer
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Benjamin Fischer (disambiguation)
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Bernd Fischer (disambiguation)
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Birgit Fischer (born 1962), German kayaker
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Bobby Fischer
Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943January 17, 2008) was an American Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Championship, World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight US Chess Champi ...
(1943–2008), American world chess champion 1972–1975
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Bram Fischer
Abraham Louis Fischer (23 April 19088 May 1975) was a South African Communist lawyer of Afrikaner descent with partial Anglo-African ancestry from his paternal grandmother, notable for anti-apartheid activism and for the legal defence of anti- ...
(1908–1975), South African lawyer
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Carl Fischer (disambiguation)
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Carlos Fischer (1903–1969), Uruguayan politician, President of the National Council of Government in 1958
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Caroline Fischer-Achten (1806–1896), Austrian opera singer
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Catherine Fischer (born 1947), American deafblind author
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Christian Fischer (born 1997), American ice hockey forward
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Christopher Fischer (born 1988), German ice hockey defenceman
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Clare Fischer
Douglas Clare Fischer (October 22, 1928 – January 26, 2012) was an American keyboardist, composer, arranger, and bandleader. After graduating from Michigan State University (from which, five decades later, he would receive an honorary doctorat ...
(1928–2012), American composer, arranger, and pianist
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Claude S. Fischer (born 1948), American sociologist
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D'or Fischer (born 1981), Israeli-American basketball player in the Israeli National League
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Dale S. Fischer (born 1951), US district court judge
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Dana Fischer (born 2010), American ''Magic: The Gathering'' player
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David Fischer (disambiguation)
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Deb Fischer (born 1951), American politician
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Debra Fischer
Debra Ann Fischer is an American astronomer who is the Eugene Higgins professor of astronomy at Yale University researching detection and characterization of exoplanets. She has detected hundreds of exoplanets and was part of the team to disc ...
, American astronomer
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Diego Fischer (born 1961), Uruguayan journalist and writer
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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (; 28 May 1925 – 18 May 2012) was a German lyric baritone and conductor of classical music. One of the most famous Lieder (art song) performers of the post-war period, he is best known as a singer of Franz Schubert's ...
(1925–2012), German baritone and conductor
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Dirk Fischer (politician) (born 1943), German politician
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Edmond H. Fischer (1920–2021), Swiss-American biochemist
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Eduard Fischer (general) (1862–1935), Austrian colonel in World War I
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Edwin Fischer (1886–1960), Swiss pianist and conductor
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Elizabeth Fischer Monastero, American mezzo-soprano
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Emil Fischer (disambiguation)
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Emily V. Fischer (born 1979 or 1980), American atmospheric chemist
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Ernst Fischer (disambiguation)
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Esther Fischer-Homberger (1940–2019), Swiss psychiatrist and medical historian
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Eugen Fischer
Eugen Fischer (5 July 1874 – 9 July 1967) was a German professor of medicine, anthropology, and eugenics, and a member of the Nazi Party. He served as director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics, ...
(1874–1967), anthropologist, doctor and member of the Nazi party
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Eugen Fischer (historian)
Dr. Eugen Fischer (pseudonym: A. Helm), (3 March 1899, Berchtesgaden – 19 March 1973, Berchtesgaden) was a German geologist and historian. His pseudonym was created from the name of his wife Helma.
Literary works
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(1899–1973), geologist and historian
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Eva Fischer (1920–2015), Croatian Italian artist
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Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (1877–1948), chemist, famous for the Fischer-Tropsch process
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Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer
Friedrich Ernst Ludwig Fischer (20 February 1782, Halberstadt – 17 June 1854) was a Russian botanist, born in the Holy Roman Empire. He was director of the St Petersburg botanical garden from 1823 to 1850.
In 1804 he obtained his medical docto ...
(1782–1854), botanist
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Fritz Fischer (historian) (1908–1999), German historian
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Fritz Fischer (biathlete)
Friedrich "Fritz" Fischer (born 22 September 1956) is a former Biathlon, biathlete from Germany. He won a gold medal with Germany in the 4 × 7.5 km relay in the 1992 Winter Olympics. After ending his competitive career Fischer served as a ...
(born 1956), sportsman
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Georg Fischer (disambiguation)
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George R. Fischer (1937–2016), US underwater archaeologist, a pioneer of the field in the National Park Service
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Gerhard Fischer (disambiguation)
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Gisela Fischer (1929–2014), German actress
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Gottfried Fischer (1944–2013), German psychologist, psychotherapist and psychoanalyst
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Gottfried Bermann Fischer (1897–1995), Jewish-German publisher of the S. Fischer Verlag
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Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim
Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (; 13 October 1771 – 18 October 1853) was a Saxon anatomist, entomologist and paleontologist.
Fischer was born as Gotthilf Fischer in Waldheim, Saxony, the son of a linen weaver. He studied medicine at Leipz ...
(1771-1853), German palaeontologist and entomologist.
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Gotthilf Fischer (1928–2020), German choral conductor
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Greg Fischer (born 1958), American businessman and mayor of Louisville, KY
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Gustav Fischer (equestrian)
Gustav Fischer (8 November 1915 – 22 November 1990) was a Switzerland, Swiss Equestrian at the Summer Olympics, equestrian athlete who competed at five Summer Olympics, Summer Olympic Games, winning a total of five medals. He won medals in ...
(1915–1990), Swiss Olympian in equestrian
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Gustav Fischer (explorer) (1848–1886), German physician and explorer of Africa
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H. L. Fischer (1822–1909) (Henry Lee Fischer), Pennsylvania German language writer and translator
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Hans Fischer (1881–1945), German chemist, 1930 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Heidemarie Fischer (1944–2022), German politician
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Heike Fischer (born 1982), German diver
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Heinz Fischer
Heinz Fischer Order of Prince Henry, GColIH, Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, OMRI, Order of the Seraphim, RSerafO, Military Order of Saint James of the Sword, GCollSE (; born 9 October 1938) is an Austrian politician who served as the pre ...
(born 1938), federal president of Austria
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Helene Fischer (born 1984), German pop music singer
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Hermann Emil Fischer
Hermann Emil Louis Fischer (; 9 October 1852 – 15 July 1919) was a German chemist and List of Nobel laureates in Chemistry, 1902 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He discovered the Fischer esterification. He also developed the Fisch ...
(1852–1919), German chemist, 1902 Nobel prizewinner, and inventor of the Fischer projection
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Horst Fischer (1912–1966), German SS concentration camp doctor executed for war crimes
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Howard Fischer, curator of the New York Jazz Museum
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Ignjat Fischer (1870–1948), Croatian architect
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Ilse Fischer (born 1975), Austrian mathematician
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Iván Fischer (born 1951), Jewish-Hungarian conductor
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Ivana Fišer or Ivana Fischer (1905–1967), Croatian conductor
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Jan Fischer (politician)
Jan Fischer (; born 2 January 1951) is a Czech politician who served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic from April 2009 to July 2010, heading a caretaker government. Later he was the minister of Finance from July 2013 to January 2014 i ...
, prime minister-designate of the Czech Republic
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James Fischer (1927–2004), American engineer
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Jason Fischer (disambiguation)
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Jean Fischer (1867–?), French cyclist
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Jean Chrétien Fischer (1716–1762), German-born French soldier
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Jenna Fischer (born 1974), American actress
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Jiří Fischer (born 1980), Czech ice hockey player
* Joey Fischer (1976–1993), American
murder victim
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Johann Fischer (disambiguation)
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John Fischer (disambiguation)
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Joschka Fischer (born 1948), German foreign minister
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Josef Fischer (cyclist) (1865–1953), German racing cyclist
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Joseph Fischer (disambiguation)
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Julia Fischer (born 1983), German violinist
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Karl Fischer (disambiguation)
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Kate Fischer (born 1973), Australian model and actress
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Klaus Fischer
Klaus Fischer (born 27 December 1949) is a German former professional footballer and coach. He was a key player on the West Germany national team that lost the 1982 World Cup final to Italy. As a forward, he was noted for his bicycle kicks, ...
(born 1949), German football (soccer) player and coach
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Kuno Fischer (1824–1907), German philosopher
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Kurt Fischer (politician) (1900–1950), German Communist politician
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Kurt Rudolf Fischer (1922–2014), Jewish-Austrian philosopher
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Kurt W. Fischer (1943–2020), American developmental psychologist
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Laurence Fischer (born 1973), French karateka
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Leni Fischer (1935–2022), German politician
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Lisa Fischer (born 1958), American singer
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Lothar Fischer (1933–2004), German sculptor
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Louis Fischer (1896–1970), American journalist
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Ludwig Fischer (1905–1947), German Nazi lawyer and government official executed for war crimes
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Ludwig Fischer (bass) (1745–1825), German opera singer
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Ludwig Fischer (racing driver) (1915–1991), German racing driver
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Ludwig Hans Fischer (1848–1915), Austrian landscape painter and etcher
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Manuel Fischer (born 1989), German footballer
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Marcel Fischer (born 1978), Swiss fencer
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Martin Fischer (automobile designer) (1867–1947), Swiss automobile designer
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Martin Fischer (tennis), Austrian professional tennis player
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Martin Fischer-Dieskau (born 1954), German conductor, son of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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Mathias Fischer (basketball) (born 1971), German basketball player and coach
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Michael J. Fischer (born 1942), American computer scientist
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Minna Fischer (1858–1941), Australian soprano and singing teacher in London
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Móric Fischer de Farkasházy (1799–1880), Hungarian porcelain manufacturer
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Moses Fischer (–), Austrian rabbi
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Nilla Fischer
Åsa Nilla Maria Fischer (born 2 August 1984) is a Swedish former Association football, footballer. Her last club was Linköpings FC. She played in the Sweden women's national football team, Swedish national team between 2001 and 2022. She was pr ...
(born 1984), Swedish (soccer) football player
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Oskar Fischer (disambiguation), multiple people
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Ottfried Fischer (born 1953), German actor and cabaret artist
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Otto Fischer (footballer) (1901–1941), Austrian (soccer) football player and coach
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O. W. Fischer, Otto Wilhelm Fischer (1915–2004), Austrian actor
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Øystein Fischer (1942–2013), Norwegian physicist
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Pat Fischer (born 1940), American football player
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Patrick Fischer (disambiguation)
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Paul Fischer (disambiguation)
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Rainer Fischer (born 1949), German-Canadian judoka
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Ralf-Dieter Fischer (1948–2025), German politician
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Ricardo Fischer
Ricardo Fischer (born May 16, 1991) is a Brazilian professional basketball player who currently plays for Flamengo in the Novo Basquete Brasil (NBB). Fischer has also represented the senior Brazilian national basketball team.
Professional care ...
(born 1991), Brazilian basketball player
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Richard Fischer (1917–1969), Austrian footballer
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Robert Fischer (disambiguation)
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Ruth Fischer (1895–1961), German communist
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Samuel von Fischer (1859–1934), German publisher, founder of the S. Fischer Verlag
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Sascha Fischer (born 1971), German rugby union player
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Scott Fischer (1956–1996), American mountain guide
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Simone Fischer (born 1979), German politician
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Stanley Fischer (1943–2025), American and Israeli central banker
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Steven Thomas Fischer (born 1972) American filmmaker and cartoonist of German descent
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Stewart "Dirk" Fischer (1924–2013), American composer, musician and jazz educator
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Sven Fischer (born 1971), German biathlete
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Sven Fischer (footballer), German football defender
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Tex Fischer, American politician
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Theobald Fischer (1846–1910), German geographer
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Theodor Fischer (1862–1938), German architect
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Theodor Fischer (fencer), German Olympic épée and foil fencer
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Thomas Fischer (disambiguation), several people
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Thierry Fischer
Thierry Fischer (born 28 September 1957) is a Swiss orchestra conductor and flutist.
Early life and education
Fischer was born in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (Zambia) to Swiss parents. He studied flute with Aurèle Nicolet and bega ...
(born 1957), Swiss conductor and flautist
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Tim Fischer
Timothy Andrew Fischer (3 May 1946 – 22 August 2019) was an Australian politician and diplomat who served as leader of the National Party of Australia, National Party from 1990 to 1999. He was the tenth Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, d ...
(1946–2019), Australian politician
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Danish Film Institute from August 2024
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Vera Fischer (actress) (born 1951), Brazilian actress
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Vera Fischer (sculptor) (1925–2009), Croatian sculptor
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Viktor Fischer (born 1994), Danish football player
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Viktor Fischer (wrestler) (1892–1977), Austrian Olympic wrestler
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Werner Fischer (crystallographer) (born 1931)
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Werner Fischer (sailor) (1940–2011)
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Wild Man Fischer (1945–2011), Outsider musician
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Wilhelm Fischer (boxer) ("Willi" Fischer) (born 1972), German boxer
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Wilhelm Fischer (politician) ("Willy" Fischer) (1904–1951), German politician
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Zel M. Fischer (born 1963), Missouri Supreme Court judge
See also
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Fischler
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German-language surnames
German occupational surnames