Kramer (surname)
Kramer is an occupational surname of Dutch or Low German origin or it is derived from the High German surname Krämer.
In Middle Low German in the Late Middle Ages, Kramer only referred to a traveling merchant. The meaning later changed to "merchants trading with different, rather small things".
People with this name
A
- Aaron Kramer, American poet, essayist, and translator
- Adolf Kramer, Silesian German chess master
- Alex Kramer, Canadian songwriter
- Amanda Kramer, American musician
- Andreas Kramer, Swedish middle-distance runner
- Ann-Kathrin Kramer, German writer and actress
- Annemarie Kramer, Dutch sprinter
- Arlene Kramer Richards, American psychoanalyst
- Arnold Kramer was an American folk artist
- Arthur Kramer, American lawyer
- Arthur F. Kramer, American neuroscientist
- Arvid Kramer, American basketball player
B
- Barry Kramer, American basketball player and jurist
- Barry Kramer, former editor and occasional host of Game Grumps
- Ben Kramer, American basketball player
- Benjamin F. Kramer, U.S. politician
- Bert Kramer, American actor
- Bill Kramer, U.S. politician
- Billy J. Kramer, British merseybeat singer
- Boaz Kramer, Israeli wheelchair tennis player
- Bob Kramer, American knifesmith
- Bryan Jared Kramer, Member of Parliament for Madang Open, Papua New Guinea
- Bryan Jeffrey Kramer, American social media businessman
- Burton Kramer, Canadian graphic designer and artist
C
- Cecilie Breil Kramer, Danish football goalkeeper
- Charles Kramer, , Californian politician
- Charles Kramer , American economist, spy for the Soviet Union in the 1940s
- Charles Kramer , lawyer from New York
- Charles Kramer , American television producer
- Chiel Kramer, Dutch football goalkeeper
- Chris Kramer , Canadian television actor
- Chris Kramer, American basketball player
- Christian Kramer, German composer and musician at the British court
- Christina Kramer, Canadian Slavic linguist
- Christoph Kramer, German footballer
- Clare Kramer, American actress
D
- Daniel Kramer, American stage and opera director
- David Kramer , South African singer, songwriter, playwright and director
- David Kramer , American soccer goalkeeper
- David J. Kramer, United States Assistant Secretary of State for democracy, human rights, and labor, 2008–2009
- Dawn Kramer, American choreographer and dancer
- Dean Kramer , American pianist
- Denise Kramer-Scholer, Swiss fencer
- Dieter Kramer, German footballer
- Don Kramer, American comics artist
- Don Kramer , American politician
- Doug Kramer, Filipino basketball player
E
- Eddie Kramer, South African audio engineer and producer
- Edith Kramer, Austrian artist
- Edmond Kramer, Swiss footballer
- Edna Kramer, American mathematician
- Edward E. Kramer, American editor and author of science fiction, fantasy, and horror works
- Eiling Kramer, Canadian Politician
- Eitan Kramer, American Vert Skater
- Eliyahu Kramer “Vilna Gaon” Lithuanian Rabbi, the genius of Vilna
- Eric Allan Kramer, American actor
- Erik Kramer, American football quarterback
- Erwin Kramer, German politician
F
- Felix Kramer, American founder of CalCars
- Ferdinand Kramer, German architect and functionalist designer
- Francisco Villagrán Kramer, Guatemalan legal scholar and politician
- Frank Kramer , American artist and illustrator
- Frank Kramer , a pseudonym of the Italian film director Gianfranco Parolini
- Frank Kramer , German football player and coach
- Frank Louis Kramer, American cyclist and United States Bicycling Hall of Fame inductee
- Franz Kramer, United States Navy sailor
G
- Garret Kramer, American mental performance coach
- George Kramer, American philatelist
- George W. Kramer, American architect
- Georges Kramer, Swiss football player and coach
- Gordon Kramer, Australian rules footballer
- Gorni Kramer, Italian songwriter, musician, and band leader
- Greg Kramer, British-born Canadian author, actor, director, and magician
- Gustav Kramer, German zoologist and ornithologist
H
- Haije Kramer, Dutch chess master and theoretician
- Harry Kramer , American radio and television announcer
- Harry Kramer , German artist
- Harry Kramer , American artist
- Heinrich Kramer a.k.a. Heinrich Institor, Alsatian churchman and inquisitor
- Heinz Kramer, German sports shooter
- Hilaria Kramer, Swiss jazz trumpeter and composer
- Hilton Kramer, American art critic
I
- Iris Kramer, German motorcycle trials rider
J
- Jack Kramer , American baseball pitcher
- Jack Kramer , American football player
- Jack Kramer, American tennis player
- Jacob Kramer, Ukrainian-born painter in England
- Jana Kramer, American actress
- Jane Kramer, American journalist
- Jason Kramer, American radio personality
- Jeffrey Kramer, American film and television actor and producer
- Jens Kramer Mikkelsen, Danish mayor of Copenhagen
- Jeroen Kramer, Dutch photographer
- Jerry Kramer, American professional football player
- Jessy Kramer, Dutch team handball player
- Jim Kramer, American Scrabble player
- Joan Whitney Kramer, American singer and songwriter
- Joel Kramer , American basketball player
- Joey Kramer, American drummer with the musical group Aerosmith
- John Kramer , American darts player
- John R. Kramer, American law educator
- Jolly Kramer-Johansen, Norwegian composer
- Jonathan Kramer, American composer and music theorist
- Joris Kramer, Dutch footballer
- Josef Kramer, German commandant of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp executed for war crimes
K
- Kane Kramer, British inventor and businessman
- Ken Kramer, American politician
- Kenny Kramer, American stand-up comedian, on whom the Seinfeld character Cosmo Kramer was based
- Kent Kramer, American professional football player
- Kent A. Kramer, Iowan politician
- Kieran Kramer, American romance novelist
L
- Lance Kramer, an animation director on The Simpsons
- Larry Kramer, American dramatist, author and gay rights activist
- Larry Kramer , American football player and coach
- Larry Kramer , American legal scholar, dean of Stanford Law School
- Laura Shapiro Kramer, American author, producer and film maker.
- Lawrence Kramer , American musicologist
- Lawrence Francis Kramer, American politician, two-time Mayor of Paterson, New Jersey
- Leah Kramer, American craftster, author, website programmer
- Leonie Kramer, Australian academic and commentator
- Leopold Kramer, Austrian stage and film actor
- Lloyd Kramer, American filmmaker
- Louis Kramer, American baseball executive
- Louise Kramer, American sculptor
- Lud Kramer, U.S. politician in Washington State
M
- Marcia Kramer, American journalist
- Mariska Kramer, Dutch triathlete
- Mark Kramer , American jazz musician
- Mark Kramer, American alternative rock musician and producer
- Martin Kramer, American author on Islam and Arab politics
- Mary Kramer, American politician
- Matt Kramer , American singer formerly with rock band Saigon Kick
- Matt Kramer, American wine writer
- Matthew Kramer, American philosopher at the University of Cambridge
- Max Kramer, German scientist, developed Ruhrstahl X-4 missile
- Michael Kramer , German astronomer and astrophysicist
- Michael Kramer, American audiobook narrator
- Michael Eric Kramer, American film actor
- Michiel Kramer, Dutch footballer
- Mike Kramer, American football coach
N
- Nathaniel Kramer, American filmmaker
- Nicole Kramer, American swimmer
O
- Orin Kramer, American hedge fund manager
- Oscar Kramer, Argentine film producer
P
- Pascale Kramer, Swiss author
- Paul J. Kramer, American biologist and plant physiologist.
- Paul Kramer, U.S. politician
- Perry Kramer, U.S. motocross racer
- Peter Kramer , German physicist
- Peter Kramer, German priest convicted of child abuse
- Peter D. Kramer, American psychiatrist
- Philip Taylor Kramer, American physicist and bassist with the musical group Iron Butterfly
- Piet Kramer, Dutch architect
R
- Rachel Kramer, Dutch singer
- Rachel Kramer Bussel, American erotica writer
- Randy Kramer, American baseball pitcher
- Rene Kramer, German ice hockey player
- Rhonda Kramer, American air traffic reporter
- Richard Kramer , American superior court judge
- Richard Kramer , American screenwriter, novelist and television producer
- Richard J. Kramer, American CEO of Goodyear Tire Co.
- Robert Kramer, American film director, screenwriter and actor
- Roger Kramer, Canadian football player
- Ron Kramer, American football player
- Rona E. Kramer, Maryland politician
- Ronald Kramer , American businessman
- Roy Kramer, American college football coach and athletics administrator
- Rudolf Kramer, Austrian road racing cyclist
- Ruth Kramer, All-American girls professional baseball league player
S
- Samuel Noah Kramer, Ukraine-born American historian and assyriologist
- Sarah Kramer, Canadian cookbook author
- Shalom Kramer, Israeli essayist, editor, and literary critic
- Sherry Kramer, American playwright
- Shlomo Kramer, Israeli information technology entrepreneur
- Sidney B. Kramer, American publishing executive and literary agent
- Sidney Kramer, American politician
- Stanley Kramer, American movie director and producer
- Stefan Kramer , Chilean impressionist, actor, comedian and announcer
- Stella Kramer, German handball player
- Stepfanie Kramer, American actress and singer
- Steve Kramer , American basketball player
- Steve Kramer , American voice actor
- Steve Kramer , American Green Party politician
- Susan Kramer, English politician, Liberal Democrat member of parliament
- Sven Kramer, Dutch speed skater
T
- Theodor Kramer, Austrian poet
- Theodore L. Kramer, American Civil War soldier
- Thomas Kramer, German-born real estate developer and venture capitalist
- Tim Kramer, American porn star
- Todd Kramer, American film and television actor
- Tom Kramer, American baseball pitcher
- Tommy Kramer, American football quarterback
- Tosca Kramer, New Zealand-born American violinist and violist
- Trey Kramer, American football player
V
- Vjekoslav Kramer, Bosnian television chef
W
- Walter R. Kramer, U.S. badminton champion
- Wayne Kramer , American musician with the group MC5
- Wayne Kramer , South African screenwriter and film director
- Wilhelm Kramer, German otologist
- Wilhelm Heinrich Kramer, German-born Austrian Hungarian botanist, physician and military surgeon
- William M. Kramer, American rabbit and art collector
- Wolfgang Kramer, German game designer
Y
- Yep Kramer, Dutch speed skater
Fictional people
- Bernard Kramer, founder of Kramer Associates in Robert Sobel's alternate history novel For Want of a Nail
- Chas Kramer, a character played by Shia LaBeouf in the 2005 film Constantine
- Cosmo Kramer, a character in the television series Seinfeld
- Jens Kramer, character on the German soap opera Verbotene Liebe
- John Kramer, a fictional character in the Saw film series
- Lisa Kramer, a character played by Debra Messing in the 2005 film Along Came Polly
- Michael Kramer, name of a drama by Gerhart Hauptmann from 1900 and the name of the main character
- Rex Kramer, Danger Seeker, a character in the 1977 American comedy film The Kentucky Fried Movie
- Rex Kramer, a character in the 1980 American comedy film Airplane!
- Tromp Kramer, Afrikaner Detective in James McClure's Kramer and Zondi novels
- Ted, Joanna, and Billy Kramer, characters in the 1979 American drama film Kramer vs. Kramer portrayed by Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, and Justin Henry
Kramers
- Hendrik Anthony "Hans" Kramers, Dutch physicist, known for Kramers' law, Kramers' opacity law, Kramers theorem, Kramers–Heisenberg formula, Kramers–Kronig relations, and Kramers–Wannier duality.