Berger
Berger is a surname in both German and French, although there is no etymological connection between the names in the two languages. The French surname is an occupational name for a shepherd, from Old French bergier. The German surname derives from the word Berg, the word for "mountain" or "hill", and means "a resident on a mountain or hill", or someone from a toponym Berg, derived from the same. The pronunciation of the English name may sometimes be following the French phonetics. Notable people with this surname include:
Politics
- Charles W. Berger, American politician
- James S. Berger, United States Senator from Pennsylvania
- Jan Johannis Adriaan Berger, Dutch Labour Party politician.
- Józef Berger, Polish theologian and politician.
- Karine Berger is a French politician, member of the French National Assembly representing Hautes-Alpes between 2012 and 2017.
- Laurent Berger is a French trade unionist.
- Luciana Berger, British Liberal Democrat politician
- Maria Berger, Austrian politician and Member of the European Parliament
- Óscar Berger, former President of Guatemala
- Philip E. Berger, 2011: President "Pro-Tem." of the North Carolina Senate
- Sandy Berger, US National Security Advisor to President Bill Clinton
- Thomas Berger, Canadian politician
- Victor L. Berger, US politician
Sports
- Alfred Berger was an Austrian pair skater.
- Andreas Berger, Austrian track and field sprinter
- Barbara Berger, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
- Chris Berger, Dutch sprinter
- Daniel Berger, American professional PGA Tour golfer
- David Mark Berger, American-born Israeli weightlifter; Maccabiah champion ; one of the 11 hostages murdered in the Munich massacre
- Frederick Berger, American professional baseball umpire
- Gerhard Berger, Austrian Grand Prix racing driver
- Guylaine Berger is a retired French swimmer who won a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m freestyle at the 1974 European Aquatics Championships.
- Han Berger, Dutch football coach
- Ilana Berger, Israeli tennis player
- Ike Berger, US Olympic champion weightlifter, 2-time silver; 2-time Pan American champion; 23 world records
- Jan Berger, Czech-Swiss football midfielder
- Jay Berger, American tennis player; highest world ranking # 7
- Johann Berger, Austrian chess master, theorist, endgame study composer, author and editor
- Lars Berger, Norwegian biathlete
- Mark Berger, Canadian Olympic silver & bronze
- Maxie Berger, Canadian world champion junior welterweight boxer
- Norma Berger, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player and sister of Barbara Berger
- Ola Berger, Norwegian ski mountaineer and cross-country skier
- Olia Berger, Canadian judoka
- Patrik Berger, Czech football midfielder
- Ruud Berger, Dutch football midfielder
- Sam Berger, Canadian football team owner
- Samuel Berger, US Olympic champion heavyweight boxer
- Ségolène Berger is a former professional tennis player from France.
- Tora Berger, Norwegian biathlete and sister of Lars Berger
- Wally Berger, mostly Boston Braves slugger of the 1930s
Music
- Arthur Berger, American composer
- Christian Wilhelm Berger, Romanian composer and musician
- Dominique II Berger, Flemish organist and carillonneur
- Erna Berger, German soprano singer
- Henri Berger, Hawaiian musician
- Karl Berger, German jazz musician
- Ludwig Berger , German composer and piano teacher
- Margaret Berger, Norwegian singer, songwriter, and disc jockey
- Michel Berger, French singer and songwriter
- Wilhelm Berger, German composer
- Wilhelm Georg Berger, Romanian composer
- Wilhelm Peterson Berger, Swedish musician
Culture
- Alex Berger, is a producer, creator, consultant and entrepreneur in the media field.
- Charlotta Berger, Swedish poet and novelist
- Élie Berger, French archivist and palaeographer
- Erika Berger, German television presenter and writer
- Georgette Berger, Belgian wife of the painter René Magritte
- Helmut Berger, Austrian actor
- Howard Berger, American make-up artist
- Katya Berger, is a film actress.
- John Berger, British art critic, novelist, painter, and author
- Jonah Berger, American writer and professor
- Karen Berger, American comic book editor
- Maurice Berger American cultural historian, curator, and critic
- Nicole Berger was a French actress.
- Nicole Berger is an American actress, model, and pianist from Palm Beach, Florida and New York City.
- Oscar Berger , Slovak cartoonist
- Pablo Berger, Spanish film director
- Petra Berger, born Petra Pierrette Burger, is a Dutch classical crossover singer, composer, photographer, and musical actress.
- Robert Berger , a film producer
- Senta Berger, Austrian actress
- Thomas Berger , American novelist
- Yves Berger, French writer and editor
- Wiesław Adam Berger, Polish writer
- William Berger, also known as Bill Berger and Wilhelm Berger, born Wilhelm Thomas Berger was an Austrian American actor, mostly associated with Euro and spaghetti Westerns, as well as travel documentaries.
Academics
- Alwin Berger, German botanist
- André Berger, Belgian climatologist
- Beverly Berger, American physicist
- Hans Berger, German neuroscientist
- James Berger , American statistician
- Jeffrey W. Berger, American physician and engineer
- Josef Berger , Czech biomedical engineer and haematologist
- Lee R. Berger, American-born South African explorer and paleoanthropologist
- Leszek Berger, Polish herpetologist and malacologist
- Marcel Berger, French mathematician
- Peter B. Berger, American cardiologist
- Peter L. Berger, Austrian-born American sociologist and theologian
- Richard Berger, Swiss professor of design, decoration, and art history
- Robert Berger , American mathematician
- Ron Berger , American marketing and management researcher
- Wolfgang H. Berger, German-American oceanographer
Other people
- Carolyn Berger, American State Supreme Court justice
- Daniel Berger was a German engraver.
- David Berger , German theologian
- Gaston Berger was a French futurist but also an industrialist, a philosopher and a state manager.
- Georges Berger was a racing driver who raced a Gordini in his two World Championship Formula One Grands Prix.
- Gottlob Berger, German Schutzstaffel general
- Irene C. Berger, United States District Judge
- Josef Berger , American journalist, accused of being a Soviet spy
- Lukas Berger, Student
- Patricia Wilson Berger, American librarian
- Roland Berger, German entrepreneur, philanthropist, and founder of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants
- Roza Berger, 1945 Kraków pogrom victim
- Theo Berger, German criminal
Fictional
- Erika Berger Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson. Editor and co-owner of Millennium, Mikael Blomqvist's lover