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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 (Late Latin berbicarius, from berbex ‘ram’). 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 /ˈbɜːrdʒər/ BUR-jər. Notable people with this surname include:

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Politics

  • Charles W. Berger, American politician
  • James S. Berger (born 1902), U.S. senator for Pennsylvania
  • Józef Berger, Polish theologian and politician
  • Luciana Berger, British Labour Party politician
  • Maria Berger (born 1956), Austrian politician and Member of the European Parliament
  • Óscar Berger (born 1946), former President of Guatemala
  • Philip E. Berger (born 1952), 2011: President "Pro-Tem" of the North Carolina Senate
  • Sandy Berger (born 1945), US National Security Advisor to President Bill Clinton
  • Thomas Berger (born 1933), Canadian politician
  • Victor L. Berger (1860–1929), US politician

    • Sports

  • Andreas Berger (born 1961), Austrian track and field sprinter
  • Barbara Berger (born 1930), All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
  • David Mark Berger (1944–1972), American-born Israeli weightlifter; Maccabiah champion (middleweight); one of the 11 hostages murdered in the Munich massacre
  • Frederick Berger (1849-?), American professional baseball umpire
  • Gerhard Berger (born 1959), Austrian Grand Prix racing driver
  • Ilana Berger (born 1965), Israeli tennis player
  • Ike Berger (born 1936), US Olympic champion weightlifter (featherweight), 2-time silver; 2-time Pan American champion; 23 world records
  • Jay Berger (born 1966), American tennis player; highest world ranking # 7
  • Johann Berger (1845–1933), Austrian chess master, theorist, endgame study composer, author and editor
  • Lars Berger (born 1979), Norwegian biathlete
  • Mark Berger (born 1954), Canadian Olympic silver & bronze (judo heavyweight)
  • Maxie Berger (1917–2000), Canadian world champion junior welterweight boxer
  • Norma Berger (born 1932), All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player and sister of Barbara Berger
  • Ola Berger (born 1979), Norwegian ski mountaineer and cross-country skier
  • Olia Berger (born 1983), Canadian judoka
  • Patrik Berger (born 1973), Czech football (soccer) player
  • Sam Berger (1900–1992), Canadian football team owner
  • Samuel Berger (1884–1925), US Olympic champion heavyweight boxer
  • Tora Berger (born 1981), Norwegian biathlete and sister of Lars Berger
  • Wally Berger (1905-1988), mostly Boston Braves slugger of the 1930s

    • Music

  • Arthur Berger, composer
  • Christian Wilhelm Berger (b. 1964), Romanian composer and musician
  • Erna Berger (1900–1990), German soprano singer
  • Henri Berger (1844–1929), Hawaii musician
  • Jim Berger (singer), Swedish musician
  • Karl Berger (born 1935), German jazz musician
  • Ludwig Berger (composer) (1777–1839), German composer and piano teacher
  • Margaret Berger (b. 1985), Norwegian singer, songwriter, and DJ
  • Michel Berger (1947–1992), French singer and songwriter
  • Wilhelm Berger (1861–1911), composer
  • Wilhelm Georg Berger (1929–1993), composer
  • Wilhelm Peterson Berger (1867–1942), Swedish musician

    • Culture

  • Charlotta Berger, Swedish poet and novelist
  • Élie Berger, (1850–1925), French archivist and palaeographer
  • Erika Berger, (1939–2016), German television presenter and writer
  • Pablo Berger, Spanish film director
  • Howard Berger, American make-up artist
  • Helmut Berger (born 1944), Austrian actor
  • John Berger (1926–2017), British art critic, novelist, painter, and author
  • Karen Berger, British comic book editor
  • Maurice Berger (born 1956) American cultural historian, curator, and critic
  • Oscar Berger (cartoonist) (1901–1997), cartoonist
  • Robert Berger (producer), a film producer
  • Senta Berger (born 1941), Austrian actress
  • Thomas Berger (novelist) (1924–2014), US novelist
  • Yves Berger (1931–2004); French writer and editor
  • Wiesław Adam Berger, Polish writer

    • Science

  • Alwin Berger (1871–1931), German botanist
  • Hans Berger (1873–1941), German neuroscientist
  • James Berger (statistician), American statistician
  • Jeffrey W. Berger (1963–2001), American physician and engineer
  • Josef Berger (scientist) (1949), Czech biomedical engineer and haematologist
  • Lee R. Berger (born 1965), explorer and paleoanthropologist
  • Marcel Berger, (born 1927), French mathematician
  • Peter B. Berger (born 1956), American cardiologist
  • Peter L. Berger (born 1929), American sociologist and theologian
  • Richard Berger (1894–1984), Swiss professor of design, decoration, and art history
  • Robert Berger (mathematician), American mathematician
  • Wolfgang H. Berger (born 1936), German-American oceanographer
  • Edo Berger (born 1978), American astronomer

    • Other people

  • Gottlob Berger (1896–1975), German SS general
  • Roza Berger (1889–1945), 1945 Kraków pogrom victim
  • Josef Berger (speechwriter) (1903–1981), American journalist, accused of being a Soviet spy
  • Roland Berger (born 1937), entrepreneur, philanthropist, and founder of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants
  • Theo Berger (1941–2003), German criminal
  • David Berger (theologian) (born 1968), German theologian

    • Fictional

  • Erika Berger (1957?) Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson. Editor and co-owner of Millennium, Mikael Blomqvist's lover

    • References

    Berger Wikipedia
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