Voigt (mainly written
Vogt
An , sometimes simply advocate, (German, ), or (French, ), was a type of medieval office holder, particularly important in the Holy Roman Empire, who was delegated some of the powers and functions of a major feudal lord, or for an institutio ...
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Voight) is a German surname, and may refer to:
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Alexander Voigt, German football player
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Alwin Voigt (1852–1922), German school teacher, writer, and ornithologist
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Angela Voigt, East German long jumper
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Christian August Voigt (1808–1890), Austrian anatomist
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Cynthia Voigt, author of books for young adults
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Deborah Voigt, American opera singer
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Edward Voigt, born in Bremen, Germany, former U.S. Representative from Wisconsin
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Edwin Edgar Voigt, bishop
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Ellen Bryant Voigt, German American poet
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Erika Voigt, actress
*Frank Voigt, musician; flute player in the 1970s
progressive rock
Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog) is a broad genre of rock music that primarily developed in the United Kingdom through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early-to-mid-1970s. Initially termed " progressive pop", the ...
band
Think
In their most common sense, the terms thought and thinking refer to cognitive processes that can happen independently of sensory stimulation. Their most paradigmatic forms are judging, reasoning, concept formation, problem solving, and delibe ...
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Frederick Augustus Voigt
Frederick Augustus Voigt (9 May 1892 – 8 January 1957) was a British journalist and author of German descent, most famous for his work with the ''Manchester Guardian'' and his opposition to dictatorship and totalitarianism on the European conti ...
(1892–1957), British journalist and author of German descent
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Friedrich Siegmund (Sigismund) Voigt (Voight) ( 1781–1850), German botanist and zoologist
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Georg Voigt, German historian
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Harry Voigt, German Olympic athlete
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Irma Voigt (1882–1953), Dean of Women at Ohio University
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Jaap Voigt (born 1941), Dutch field hockey player
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Jack Voigt
John David Voigt (born May 17, 1966) is an American former professional baseball outfielder and the current hitting coach for the Las Vegas 51s. He played all or part of seven seasons in the majors, from 1992 until 1998, for the Baltimore Oriole ...
, American baseball player
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Jan Voigt, actor
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Jens Voigt
Jens Voigt (; born 17 September 1971) is a German former professional road bicycle racer and, upon retirement, became a cycling sports broadcast commentator. During his cycling career, Voigt raced for several teams, the last one being UCI ProTe ...
, professional road cyclist
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Joachim Otto Voigt, a Danish and German botanist
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Johannes Voigt, German historian and father of Georg(e)
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Karsten Voigt (born 1941), German politician
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Margarete Voigt-Schweikert (1887–1957), German composer and music critic
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Margit Voigt, German mathematician
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Mario Voigt
Mario Voigt (born 8 February 1977) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as the Minister-President of Thuringia since December 2024. He has also served as the leader of the CDU in the State Parliame ...
, German
CDU politician
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Noelia Voigt, former
Miss USA 2023 and daughter of Jack Voigt
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Philip Nolan Voigt, fictional character from Marvel Comics
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Stu Voigt, former NFL tight end
* (1838–1896), German painter and Royal Court photographer during the Wilhelmine Period
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Udo Voigt
Udo Voigt (; born 14 April 1952) is a German politician and former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the far-right and Neo-Nazi party National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) between 2014 and 2019. He was a member of the European Parl ...
, German ultra-conservative politician
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Werner Voigt, German football coach and former player
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Wilhelm Voigt
Wilhelm Voigt (13 February 1849 – 3 January 1922) was a German con man and impostor. In his most famous exploit, Voigt masqueraded as a military officer of the elite Prussian Guards in 1906, rounding up a number of Imperial German Army soldi ...
(1849–1922), the "Hauptmann von Köpenick", German impostor
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Woldemar Voigt
Woldemar Voigt (; 2 September 1850 – 13 December 1919) was a German mathematician and physicist.
Biography
Voigt was born in Leipzig, and died in Göttingen. He was a student of Franz Ernst Neumann.
Voigt taught at the Georg August Universi ...
(1850–1919), German physicist
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Woldemar Voigt (engineer)
Woldemar Voigt (10 February 1907 – June 1980) was a German aerospace engineer, who was responsible for some of the advanced swept wing German jet-powered aircraft at the end of World War II.
Early life
His grandfather was the German physic ...
(1907–1980), German engineer
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Wolfgang Voigt
Wolfgang Voigt (born 1961) is a German electronic music DJ and producer from Cologne, known for his output under various aliases, such as Gas. He signed on numerous record labels, including Warp, Harvest, Raster-Noton, Force Inc, Astral Ind ...
, electronic music artist
See also
*The
Voigt profile, a peak function
*The
Voigt pipe, a type of loudspeaker
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Voigt notation, a way to represent
Symmetric tensor
In mathematics, a symmetric tensor is an unmixed tensor that is invariant under a permutation of its vector arguments:
:T(v_1,v_2,\ldots,v_r) = T(v_,v_,\ldots,v_)
for every permutation ''σ'' of the symbols Alternatively, a symmetric tens ...
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Voight
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Vogt
An , sometimes simply advocate, (German, ), or (French, ), was a type of medieval office holder, particularly important in the Holy Roman Empire, who was delegated some of the powers and functions of a major feudal lord, or for an institutio ...
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Vogt (surname)
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Voit (surname)
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Kelvin–Voigt material
A Kelvin–Voigt material, also called a Voigt material, is the most simple model viscoelastic material showing typical rubbery properties. It is purely elastic on long timescales (slow deformation), but shows additional resistance to fast deformat ...
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