Teller (surname)

Updated on Jan 20, 2024

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Meaning 1. MHG: telle meant "gorge, ravine" - person living on or from places like gorge, ravine 2. MHG, MLG: teller "plate, turntable" - manufacturer of these products 3. Low German nickname, Low German: teller, teler means "parents, father" 4. MLG (Low German) teller, teler also meant "farmer, [cultivator], or builder" 5. Dutch teller, as in a bank teller (tellen meaning "to count" in Dutch) Region of origin Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, United States Language(s) of origin Dutch, Low German, German, Jewish (Yiddish: טעֶלעֶר‎ teler) Related names Czech: Talíř (cs); Jewish: Tellermann, Tellerman, Tellering, Tellerbaum, Tellerroth ([1])

Teller is the name of:

Wilhelm Abraham Teller (1734–1804), a German Protestant theologian

Henry M. Teller (1830–1914), a US politician

Leopold Teller (1844–1908), a Hungarian actor

Edward Teller (1908, Budapest – 2003), a Hungarian-US nuclear physicist known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb"

Ludwig Teller (1911, Manhattan – 1965), a US Naval lieutenant and political figure

Teller (magician) (born Raymond Joseph Teller, in 1948, Philadelphia), a US magician, a member of the comedy and magic duo "Penn and Teller"

Janne Teller (born 1964), a Danish author

Juergen Teller (born 1964), a German photographer

Miles Teller (born 1987), an American actor

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