Berg (surname)
Berg is a surname of North European origin. In several Germanic languages, the word means "mount", "mountain" or "cliff".Notable people sharing the surname "Berg"
In music
- Alban Berg, Austrian composer
- Andrea Berg, German singer
- Bob Berg, American jazz saxophonist
- Cia Berg, Swedish singer and television presenter
- Cy Berg vaudeville performer and the "Berg" in the group Witt & Berg
- Else Berg, Dutch painter
- Emil Berg, Swedish singer
- Espen Berg, Norwegian jazz pianist and composer
- Gunnar Berg , Swiss-born Danish composer
- Joakim Berg, lead singer of the Swedish band Kent
- Julian Berg, Belgian contemporary and pop singer
- Lillie Berg, American musician, musical educator
- Moe Berg , Canadian singer-songwriter
- Shelly Berg, American jazz pianist and educator
- Yung Berg, American rapper
In media and the arts
- A. Scott Berg, American biographer
- Adam Berg , Swedish music video director, brother of Joakim Berg
- Alan Berg, American talk radio host
- Alec Berg, American television writer
- Carol Berg, fantasy writer
- Dave Berg , American cartoonist for MAD
- Dick Berg, American screenwriter and producer
- Elizabeth Berg , American novelist
- Gertrude Berg, American radio and television actress
- Gretchen J. Berg, American television producer
- Gunnar Berg , Norwegian painter
- Guri Berg, Norwegian sculptor
- John Berg , American actor
- John Berg,, American art director
- Lene Berg,, Norwegian film director
- Mary Berg, Canadian chef and television personality
- Nancy Berg, American model and actress
- Peter Berg, American actor, film director, producer and writer
- Axel Berg, German politician
- Bruno II von Berg, Archbishop of Cologne
- Charles A. Berg, American farmer and politician
- David Berg, founder of the religious movement Children of God
- Delmer Berg, American member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War; labor union activist
- Eivinn Berg, Norwegian diplomat and politician
- Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg, Russian statesman and military figure
- Gordon Berg, American farmer and politician
- Gunnar Berg , Liberal Party politician
- Gunner Berg, Norwegian priest, writer and politician
- Harry Berg, American politician and educator
- Herbert Berg, religious studies professor at the University of North Carolina
- John Berg , American Catholic cleric
- Jónína Kristín Berg, Icelandic neopagan leader, art teacher and aromatherapist
- Julius S. Berg, New York politician
- Kim Berg, Finnish politician
- Michael Berg, politician and anti-war activist, father of Nick Berg
- Philip Berg, founder of the Kabbalah Centre
- Philip J. Berg, activist and former deputy attorney general of Pennsylvania
- Moe Berg, U.S. baseball player and spy
- Nick Berg, American businessman beheaded in Iraq
- Ove H. Berg, American politician
- Stephen Jay Berg, American Catholic bishop
In science, medicine and technology
- Gabriele Berg, German biologist and ecologist
- Jeremy M. Berg, the director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- Lev Berg, biologist and geographer
- Max Berg, German architect and urban planner
- Nathaniel Berg, president of the Guam medical society
- Otto Berg , German chemist, co-discoverer of the element rhenium
- Otto Karl Berg, German botanist and pharmacist
- Paul Berg, American biochemist
- Raissa L. Berg, Russian geneticist and evolutionary biologist
In sport
- Aki-Petteri Berg, Finnish ice hockey player
- Allen Berg, Canadian racing driver
- Andrea Berg , German volleyball player
- Dave Berg, a retired Major League Baseball player
- Henning Berg, Norwegian football player
- Herbert Berg, German bobsledder
- Jan Berg, Norwegian footballer
- Jan Berg, Norwegian footballer
- Jan Berg
- Justin Berg, Major League Baseball player
- Lindsey Berg, American volleyball player
- Marcus Berg, Swedish football player
- Moe Berg, American baseball player and spy
- Odd Berg , Norwegian football player
- Odd Berg , Norwegian cyclist
- Otto Berg , Norwegian long jumper
- Patty Berg, American golfer
- Per Berg, Danish curler
- Viktor Berg, Canadian squash player
In other fields
- Bryan Berg professional cardstacker
- Gunnar Berg , Norwegian American director of the Boy Scouts of America
- Odd Berg , Norwegian ship-owner
- Odd Berg , Norwegian ship-owner
- Paavo Berg, Finnish fighter ace
- Richard Berg, wargame designer
