The German word Müller () means "
miller
A miller is a person who operates a mill, a machine to grind a grain (for example corn or wheat) to make flour. Milling is among the oldest of human occupations. "Miller", "Milne" and other variants are common surnames, as are their equivalents ...
" (as a profession). It is the most common family surname in Germany, Switzerland, and the French départements of
Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin () is a department in Alsace which is a part of the Grand Est region of France. The name means 'Lower Rhine', referring to its lower altitude among the two French Rhine departments: it is downstream of the Haut-Rhin (Upper Rhine) de ...
and
Moselle
The Moselle ( , ; ; ) is a river that rises in the Vosges mountains and flows through north-eastern France and Luxembourg to western Germany. It is a bank (geography), left bank tributary of the Rhine, which it joins at Koblenz. A sm ...
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This article contains lists of the most common surnames in most of the countries of Europe, including Armenia, Kosovo, and five transcontinental countries but excluding five European microstates. Countries are arranged in alphabetical order.
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). Other forms are Miller
A miller is a person who operates a mill, a machine to grind a grain (for example corn or wheat) to make flour. Milling is among the oldest of human occupations. "Miller", "Milne" and other variants are common surnames, as are their equivalents ...
(mainly Southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland) and Möller
:''see also Müller (surname), Müller
Moller, Möller, Møller or von Möller is a surname. 'Möller' means 'Miller'. Notable people with the surname include:
*Adolf Möller, German rower
*Aksel Møller (1906–1958), Danish politician
*Ale Möl ...
(Northern and Central Germany and the Netherlands). Of the various family coats of arms that exist, many incorporate milling iconography, such as windmills or watermill wheels.
A–F
* Achim Müller (1938–2024), German chemist
* Adam Müller (1779–1829), German political economist and theorist of the state
* Adolf Müller (industrialist) (1857–1932), Croatian industrialist, manufacturer and entrepreneur
* Adolf Müller (politician, born 1916) (1916–2005), German politician
* Alexander Müller (disambiguation), multiple people
* Alexandre Müller (born 1997), French tennis player
* Alfred Müller (disambiguation), multiple people
* Andy Müller-Maguhn (born 1971), German computer expert
* Andreas Müller (1811–1890), German painter.
* Arnold Müller (1884–1934), Austrian entomologist who was born and spent his life in what is now Romania
* Axel Müller (born 1996), Uruguayan football player
* Axel Müller (born 1963), German politician
* Baal Müller (born 1969), German writer and publisher
* Bettina Müller (born 1959), German politician
* Carl Wilhelm Müller (1728–1801), also written ''Karl Wilhelm Müller'', German politician
* Carsten Müller (born 1970), German politician
* Caroline Müller (mezzo-soprano) (1755–1826), Danish/Swedish mezzo-soprano, singer, actress
*Caroline Müller (born 1964), Dutch-German pop-singer, known as C. C. Catch
* Caspar Detlef Gustav Müller (1927–2003), German Coptologist
* Cecília Müller (born 1958), Hungarian physician
* Claudia Müller (born 1981), German politician
* Detlef Müller (born 1964), German politician
*Daniel Müller
Daniel Müller (born 29 May 1965) is a Swiss curler and Olympic champion. He received a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics
The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially known as the and commonly known as Nagano 1998 (), were a winter ...
(born 1965), Swiss curler
* Daniel Jobst Müller (born 1965), German scientist
* Danny Muller (born 1969), Dutch football player
* Dieter Müller (born 1954), German football player
* Dirk Müller (disambiguation), several persons
* Eduard Müller (disambiguation), several persons
* Erwin Wilhelm Müller (1911–1977), German physicist
* Filinto Müller (1900–1973), Brazilian politician and police chief
* Filip Müller (1922–2013), Holocaust survivor
* Frank Müller (born 1968), German decathlete
*Franz Müller
Franz Müller (31 October 184014 November 1864) was a German tailor who was hanged for the murder of Thomas Briggs, the first killing on a British train. The case caught the imagination of the public due to increasing safety fears about rail tra ...
(born 1965), German film director, screenwriter and producer
* Friedrich Müller (disambiguation), several persons
*Fritz Müller
Johann Friedrich Theodor Müller (; 31 March 182221 May 1897), better known as Fritz Müller (), and also as Müller-Desterro, was a German biologist who emigrated to southern Brazil, where he lived in and near the city of Blumenau, Santa Cata ...
(1821–1897), German-born Brazilian naturalist
* Fritz Müller (doctor) (1834–1895), Swiss doctor, zoologist, and herpetologist
* Fritz Müller (rugby player), German rugby player
G–H
* Gebhard Müller (1900-1990), German lawyer and politician
* George Müller (1805–1898), Christian benefactor and missionary
* Georg Elias Müller (1850–1934), German experimental psychologist
*Gerd Müller (disambiguation) Gerd Müller (1945–2021) was a German footballer.
Gerd Müller may also refer to:
* Gerd A. Müller (1932–1991), German industrial designer
* Gerd B. Müller (born 1953), Austrian theoretical biologist
* Gerd Müller (politician) (born 1955), ...
, name of several persons
*Gerhard Friedrich Müller
Gerhard Friedrich Müller (; 29 October 1705 – ) was a Russian–German historian and pioneer ethnologist.
Early life
Müller was born in Herford and educated at Leipzig. In 1725, he was invited to St. Petersburg to co-found the Imperial ...
(1705–1783), Russian historian of German descent
*Gerhard Ludwig Müller
Gerhard Ludwig Müller (; born 31 December 1947) is a German Catholic prelate who served as the Cardinal-Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012 until 2017. Pope Francis e ...
(born 1947), German cardinal
*Gilles Müller
Gilles Müller (; born 9 May 1983) is a Luxembourgish former professional tennis player. He is a two-time major singles quarterfinalist, making him by far the most successful male tennis player in Luxembourgish history. Müller won two titles on ...
(born 1983), Luxembourgian tennis player
* Günter Müller (born 1954), German jazz percussionist
* Gustav Müller (disambiguation)
* Hanno Müller-Brachmann (born 1970), German baritone
*Hans Müller (disambiguation) Hans Müller, Mueller or Muller may refer to:
* Hans Müller von Bulgenbach (c.1490-1525), peasant leader during the German Peasants' War
* Hans Müller (politician) (1884–1961), German politician (CSU)
* Hans Müller (chess player) (1896–1971) ...
, name of several persons
* Hansjörg Müller (born 1968), German politician
*Heiner Müller
Heiner Müller (; 9 January 1929 – 30 December 1995) was a German (formerly East German) dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director. His "enigmatic, fragmentary pieces" are a significant contribution to postmodern drama and postd ...
(1929–1995), German dramatist
*Heinrich Müller (Gestapo)
Heinrich Müller (28 April 1900; date of death unknown, but evidence points to May 1945) was a high-ranking German ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) and police official during the Nazi era. For most of World War II in Europe, he was the chief of the Gestap ...
(1900–1945), German Nazi official, wartime Gestapo chief
* Heinrich Müller (physiologist) (1820–1864), German physiologist
* Henri Müller, French curler
* Herbert Müller (racing driver) (1940–1981), Swiss race car driver
* Hermann Müller (disambiguation), name of several persons
*Herta Müller
Herta Müller (; born 17 August 1953) is a Romanian-German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was born in Nițchidorf (; ), Timiș County in Romania; her native languages are German and Romanian. Si ...
(born 1953), Romanian-born German novelist and poet, Nobel Prize in Literature
I–K
* Inge Müller (1925–1966), German poet
* Jaroslav Müller, Czech swimmer
*Jens Müller (pilot)
Jens Einar Müller (30 November 1917 – 30 March 1999) was a Norwegian pilot trained in Little Norway in Canada and a prisoner of war in the German POW camp Stalag Luft III. He was one of only three men to escape to freedom in the " Gre ...
(1917–1999), Norwegian World War II pilot, POW and survivor of the "Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III
* Jens Müller (luger) (born 1965), German luger
* Jochum Nicolay Müller (1775–1848), Danish (Norwegian) Naval officer
*Joel Müller
Joel Müller (1827 – November 6, 1895) was a Germans, German rabbi and Talmudist, born in Uherský Ostroh, Ungarisch-Ostra, Moravia, and died in Berlin.Jewish Encyclopedia Bibliography:''Allg. Zeit. des Jud.'' 1895, pp. 542-543, 556-557.
He rec ...
(1827–1895), German rabbi
* Joël Müller (born 1952), football player and manager
* Johann Gotthard von Müller (1747–1830), German engraver, and his son, Johann Friedrich Müller (1782–1816), engraver
* Johann Heinrich Jakob Müller (1809–1875), German physicist
* Johannes Müller (disambiguation), several people
*Jörg Müller
Jörg Müller (, ; born 3 September 1969) is a Dutch-born German BMW factory driver.
Racing career
Born in Kerkrade, Netherlands, Müller won the titles in 1989 German Formula Opel Lotus Challenge and in 1989 European Formula Ford 1600.
Th ...
(born 1969), German race car driver
* Jörg Müller (cyclist) (born 1961), Swiss track cyclist and road bicycle racer
* Josef Müller (CSU politician) (1898–1979), German politician and resistance member
* Josef Müller (entomologist) (1880–1964), Croatian entomologist
* Julius Müller (disambiguation), several people
** Julius Müller (theologian) (1801–1878), German theologian
* Jürgen Müller (born 1963), German neurologist and forensic psychiatrist
* Karl Müller (astronomer) (1866–1942), Czechoslovakian government official and amateur astronomer
* Karl Müller (politician, born 1884) (1884–1964), German politician
*Karl Alexander Müller Karl may refer to:
People
* Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name
* Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne
* Karl of Austria, last Austrian Emperor
* Karl (footballer) (born 1993), Karl Cac ...
(1927–2023), Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize winner
* Karl H. Müller (born 1953), Austrian social scientist
* Karl Otfried Müller (1797–1840), German scholar of Spartan culture
*Karl Wilhelm Müller, written also Carl Wilhelm Müller, (1728–1801), German politician
*Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller
Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller (; 13 February 1813 in Clausthal – 1894 in Göttingen) was a German philologist and historian, best known for his Didot family, Didot editions of fragmentary Greek authors.
''Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum''
Müll ...
(1813–1894), German scholar of ancient Greek geography
* Karl von Müller (1873–1923), German naval officer, captain of SMS ''Emden''
* Klaus Müller (disambiguation), several people
*Kurt Müller (footballer)
Kurt "Kudi" Müller (born 9 May 1948) is a Swiss former footballer who was capped on 38 occasions by the Switzerland national football team, scoring eight goals.
Müller started his career with FC Emmenbrücke and then played for FC Luzern and ...
(born 1948), Swiss footballer
* Klaus Uwe Müller (1915–1989), German chess player
L–O
* Lauro Müller (1863–1926), Brazilian politician, diplomat, and military engineer
* Lena Müller (born 1987), German rower
* Leo Müller (1894–1941), Croatian industrialist and philanthropist killed during the Holocaust
* Leopold Müller (engineer) (1908–1988), Austrian tunneling engineer
* Leopold Müller (painter) (1834–1892), Austrian genre painter
* Lillian Müller (born 1951), Norwegian model and actress
*Lorenz Müller
Lorenz Müller (18 February 1868 in Mainz – 1 February 1953 in Munich) was a German herpetologist.
Professor Lorenz Müller was known for his studies on the Balearic Islands species of the genus ''Podarcis'' (wall lizards) during the 1920s, in ...
, (1868–1953), German herpetologist
* Lucian Müller (1836–1898), German classical scholar
* Ludwig Müller (disambiguation), several persons
* Maler Müller (1749–1825), German poet, dramatist and painter
* Malik Müller (born 1994), German basketball player
* Margit Müller (born 1952), German field hockey player
* Maria Müller (1898–1958), Austrian soprano
* Martin Müller (disambiguation), several people
* Martina Müller (footballer) (born 1980), German footballer
* Martina Müller (tennis), (born 1982), German professional tennis player
* Mary Ann Wilson Griffiths Müller (1819–1901) ''aka'' "Fémmina," New Zealand pamphleteer
* Matthias Müller (disambiguation), several people
*Maurice Edmond Müller
Maurice Edmond Müller (28 March 1918 – 10 May 2009Zentrum Paul Klee: Press release 2009-05-12''. In German. URL last accessed 2009-05-13.) was a Switzerland, Swiss Orthopedic surgery, orthopedic surgeon who was instrumental in the developm ...
(1918–2009), Swiss orthopedic surgeon
* Max Müller (disambiguation), several people
* Michael Müller (born 1948), German politician
* Monika Müller-Seps (born 1986), Swiss chess grandmaster
* Müller (footballer) (born 1966), Brazilian footballer nicknamed ''Müller''
* Niclas Müller (1809–1875), German-American poet
* Norbert Müller (born 1986), German politician
* Norman Müller (born 1985), German decathlete
* Nuraan Muller, South African politician
* Otto Müller (1898–1979), German artist
*Otto Friedrich Müller
Otto Friedrich Müller, also known as Otto Friedrich Mueller (2 November 1730 – 26 December 1784) was a Denmark, Danish natural history, naturalist and scientific illustrator.
Biography
Müller was born in Copenhagen. He was educated for the ch ...
(1730–1784), Danish naturalist
P–Z
* Paul Heinrich Theodor Müller (1896–?), German SS-Obersturmführer and Schutzhaftlagerführer
*Paul Hermann Müller
Paul Hermann Müller, also known as Pauly Mueller (12 January 1899 – 13 October 1965), was a Swiss chemist who received the 1948 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine for his 1939 discovery of insecticidal qualities and use of DDT in the cont ...
(1899–1965), Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize in Medicine
* Patrick Müller (disambiguation), several people
* Peter Müller (disambiguation), several people
*Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller
Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (25 April 1725 – 5 January 1776) was a German zoologist.
Statius Müller was born in Esens, and was a professor of natural science at Erlangen. Between 1773 and 1776, he published a German translation of Linnaeus' ...
(1725–1776), German zoologist
* Rabeya Müller (1957–2024), German Islamic scholar
* Renate Müller (1906–1937), German actress
* Richard Müller (singer) (born 1961), Slovak singer and musician
* Richard Müller (socialist) (1880-1943), German trade unionist and revolutionary
* Robert Müller (1980–2009), German ice hockey player
* Rosmarie Müller (born 1958), Swiss long-distance runner
* Salomon Müller (1804–1864), German naturalist
* Sándor Müller, Hungarian footballer
* Sepp Müller (born 1989), German politician
* Silke Müller (born 1978), German field hockey player
* Sophie Müller (1803–1830), German and Austrian stage actress
* Stefan Müller (born 1975), German politician
* Susanne Müller (born 1972), German field hockey player
*Theo Müller
Theo Müller (January 29, 1940) is a German businessman. He is the head of the dairy company Müller, which was founded by his grandfather.
Early life
Theo Müller was born in Aretsried, Germany, in 1940, the son of Alois Müller.
Career
The Mü ...
(born 1940), German businessman
* Thomas Müller (disambiguation), several people
* Torsten Müller (agroscientist) (born 1961), German agroscientist
* (born 1957), German musician
*Urban Müller, Swiss computer programmer, creator of the brainfuck
Brainfuck is an esoteric programming language created in 1993 by Swiss student Urban Müller. Designed to be extremely minimalistic, the language consists of only eight simple commands, a data pointer, and an instruction pointer.
Brainfuck is ...
programming language
*Vincenz Müller
Vincenz Müller (5 November 1894 – 12 May 1961) was a military officer and general who served in the Imperial German army, the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany, and after the war in the National People's Army of the (East) German Democratic Republic ...
(1894–1961), German soldier and politician
* Vít Müller, Czech athlete
* Vladimir Müller (1880–before 1943), Russian lexicographer and medieval dramaturgy scholar
* Walter Andreas Müller (born 1945), Swiss actor and comedian
* Walther Müller (1905–1979), German physicist
*Walther Otto Müller
Walther Otto Müller, also Otto Müller, (20 June 1833 – 17 July 1887, in Gera) was a German botanist and gardner.Frahm & Eggers: ''Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen.'' He was mainly interested in Cryptogamae, in particular lichen and mosses. M ...
(1833–1887), German botanist
* Wenzel Müller (1767–1835), Austrian composer
* Werner Müller (politician) (1946–2019), German businessman and politician
*Wilhelm Müller
Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Müller (7 October 1794 – 30 September 1827) was a German lyric poet, best known as the author of ''Die schöne Müllerin'' (1821) and ''Winterreise'' (1823). These would later be the source of inspiration for two song cy ...
(1794–1827), German poet
* William James Müller (1812–1845), English artist
* Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter (1816–1873), German novelist and poet
* Wolfgang Müller (1931–2021), German equestrian
* Wolfgang Philipp Müller (born 1966), German founder of VDM Publishing
*Xeno Müller
Xeno R. Müller (born 7 August 1972) is a Swiss people, Swiss Rowing (sport), rower and Olympic Games, Olympic gold medallist.
Early career and university
His first international appearance was at the 1990 World Rowing Junior Championships – ...
(born 1972), Swiss rower
See also
* Moeller (surname)
* Mueller
* Muller
* Müller (disambiguation)
References
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German-language surnames
German occupational surnames