Lothar
Lothar is Danish, Finnish, German, Norwegian, and Swedish masculine given name, while Lothár is Hungarian masculine given name. Both names are modern forms of the Germanic Chlothar, Hlothar or Lothaire. People with this name include:Surname
- Ernst Lothar, German writer
- Hanns Lothar or Hanns Lothar Neutze, German actor
- Mark Lothar, German composer
- Rudolf Lothar, German writer
- Susanne Lothar, German actress
Given name
- Lothar Ahrendt, former interior minister of the German Democratic Republic
- Lothar Bolz, East German politician
- Lothar Collatz, German mathematician
- Lothar Hause, East German football player
- Lothar Kreyssig, German bureaucrat and opposer of Aktion T4
- Lothar Kurbjuweit, East German football player
- Lothar Lindtner, Norwegian actor
- Lothar Machtan, German historian, writer
- Lothar Malskat, German painter and art restorer
- Lothar Matthäus, German football player and manager, 1990 World Cup winner
- Lothar Matthes, German diver
- Lothar de Maizière, last Prime Minister of East Germany
- Lothar Meyer, German chemist
- Lothar Milde, East German athlete who competed mainly in the discus throw
- Lothar Mendes, German screenwriter and film director
- Lothar Metz, German wrestler and Olympic medalist
- Lothar Müthel, German stage and film actor and director
- Lothar Rendulic, German Nazi General in the Wehrmacht, one of the principal commanders of Courland Pocket, Lapland War, Continuation War, Operation Kutuzov and Prague Offensive
- Lothar von Richthofen, fighter ace and younger brother of top-scoring ace Manfred von Richthofen
- Lothar Späth, German politician
- Lothar von Trotha, a German military commander who instigated the Herero massacre
Fictional characters
- Lothar – comic character, sidekick to Mandrake the Magician created by Lee Falk
- Lothar – a Nazi spy for Germany, sidekick to Nazi spy Neville Sinclair in the Rocketeer
- Lothar Weiser – a spy for Socialist East Germany in Arnaldur Indriðason's book, The Draining Lake
- Anduin Lothar – a historical warrior in the Warcraft Universe
- Lothar - a robot in The Metabarons
