Hartwig is a Germanic-language surname, literally meaning ''hard in battle'' (''
wikt:hart'' + ''
wikt:wig'').
Finnish variants of the name, derived from the North German form ''
Harteke'', include ''
Hartik'' (archaic), ''
Hartikka'', ''
Harto'', ''
Hartto'', ''
Harttu'', ''
Hartus'', ''
Harttula'', ''
Hartikkala'', ''
Hartoinen'', ''
Hartuinen'' and most often, ''
Hartikainen Hartikainen is a Finnish surname related to the name Hartwig (surname), Hartwig. Notable people with the surname include:
*Erkki Hartikainen (1942–2021), chairman of Atheist association of Finland
*Jani Hartikainen (born 1975), Finnish footballe ...
'', a
Savonian noble variant.
Notable people with the surname include:
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Carter Hartwig (b. 1956), American professional football player
*
Clayton Hartwig
On 19 April 1989, an explosion occurred within the Number Two 16-inch gun turret of the United States Navy battleship during a fleet exercise in the Caribbean Sea near Puerto Rico. The explosion in the center gun room killed 47 of the turret's ...
(1964–1989), American sailor accused of causing the 1989 explosion of the 16" gun turret on the ''USS Iowa''
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Edward Hartwig
Edward Hartwig (6 September 1909, Moscow– 28 October 2003, Warsaw) was a Polish photographer. Born on 6 September 1909 in Moscow and died on 28 October 2003 in Warsaw.
He was the son of Ludwik Hartwig, already an established photographer in ...
(1909–2003), Polish photographer
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Ernst Hartwig (1851–1923), German astronomer
*Eva Brigitta Hartwig, later
Vera Zorina, German prima ballerina active in America
*
Gay Hartwig (contemporary), American voice actress
*
Ina Hartwig (b. 1963), German author, journalist, culture politician
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Heike Hartwig (b. 1962), German Olympic shot putter
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Jeff Hartwig (b. 1967), American Olympic polevaulter
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Jimmy Hartwig (b. 1954), German professional football player
*
John F. Hartwig
John F. Hartwig is an American organometallic chemist who holds the position of Henry Rapoport Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. His laboratory traditionally focuses on developing transition metal-catalyzed reacti ...
(b. 1964), Henry Rapoport Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley
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Josef Hartwig
Josef Hartwig (1880–1956) was a Bauhaus sculptor and Nazi Party member best known for his 1923 minimalist chess set design, known as in German, or Bauhaus chess in English.
Personal life
Josef Hartwig was born on 19 March 1880 in Munich. Begi ...
(1880–1956), German sculptor, Bauhaus teacher, and designer of an iconic chess set
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Julia Hartwig
Julia Hartwig-Międzyrzecka (14 August 1921 – 14 July 2017) was a Polish writer, poet and translator, considered to be one of Poland's most important poets.
Life and career
She was born and raised in Lublin. She studied Polish and French lite ...
(1921–2017), Polish poet and translator
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Justin Hartwig (b. 1978), American professional football player
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Marie Hartwig
Marie Dorothy Hartwig (August 1, 1906 – December 31, 2001), known by the nickname "Pete", was an American professor of physical education at the University of Michigan, the university's first associate director of athletics for women, and a lifel ...
(1906–2001), American professor of physical education and advocate of women's sports
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Nicholas Hartwig
Baron Nicholas Genrikhovich Hartwig (, ; December 16, 1857 – July 10, 1914) was an Imperial Russian diplomat and Tsarist official who served as ambassador to Persia (1906–1908) and Serbia (1909–1914). An ardent Pan-Slavist, he was said to ...
(1857–1914), Russian diplomat; ambassador to Persia 1906–08 and to Serbia 1904–14
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Rex Hartwig (b. 1929), Australian professional tennis player
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Roland Hartwig (b. 1954), German politician
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Wolf C. Hartwig
Wolf C. Hartwig (8 September 1919, Düsseldorf, Germany – 18 December 2017, Paris, France) sometimes credited as Wolfgang C. Hartwig and Wolfgang Hartwig, was a Germans, German film producer working in exploitation film, exploitation genres.
C ...
(1921–2017), German film producer
References
{{surname, Hartwig
German-language surnames
Surnames from given names