Berg

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Berg (in several Germanic languages: mountain) can refer to:

Contents 1 Geography 2 Miscellaneous 3 People named Berg 4 See also

[edit] Geography

• several small towns and hamlets in Belgium
• Berg, Bas-Rhin, a municipality in France
• Berg (German region), a region and a former state of the Holy Roman Empire
• several towns in Germany:
  • Berg, Baden-Württemberg, district of Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg
  • Stuttgart-Berg, a part of Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg
  • Berg am Starnberger See, district of Starnberg, Bavaria
  • Berg, Upper Franconia, district of Hof, Bavaria
  • Berg, Upper Palatinate, district of Neumarkt, Bavaria
  • Berg im Gau, district of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen, Bavaria
  • Berg, Verbandsgemeinde Altenahr, Rhineland-Palatinate
  • Berg, Verbandsgemeinde Hagenbach, Rhineland-Palatinate
  • Berg, Verbandsgemeinde Nastätten, Rhineland-Palatinate
• several small towns in the Netherlands, including:
  • Berg (Valkenburg), part of Berg en Terblijt, municipality Valkenburg, Limburg
  • Berg aan de Maas, municipality Stein, Limburg
  • Berg (Meijel), municipality Meijel, Limburg
  • Berg (Margraten), municipality Margraten, Limburg
  • Berg (North Brabant)
• Berg, Norway, a municipality in Norway
• Berg, Sweden, a town in Sweden
• several municipalties in Switzerland:
  • Berg, Thurgau
  • Berg, St. Gallen
  • Berg am Irchel, Zurich
• Berg, Lower Austria, a municipality in the Bruck an der Leitha District of Austria

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Berg School, in Oslo, Norway
• a publisher, Berg Publishers, specializing in academic books, located in Oxford, UK.
• short for iceberg
• Berg connector, a brand of electrical connector used in computer hardware

[edit] People named Berg

• Alan Berg, U.S. talk radio host assassinated in 1984
• Alban Berg (1885–1935), Austrian composer
• Axel Berg (b. 1959), German politician
• Axel Berg (1893–1979), Soviet radio technician, engineer admiral, academician and Hero of Socialist Labor
• Bruno II von Berg (1100–1137), Archbishop of Cologne
• Carol Berg, fantasy writer
• Cia Berg, Swedish singer and television presenter
• Dave Berg (1920–2002), cartoonist for MAD
• David Berg (1919–1994), founder of the new religious mouvement Children of God
• Elizabeth Berg, U.S. novelist (Open House, Talk Before Sleep)
• Eyzhen Berg (1892–1918), Russian revolutionary
• Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg (1793-1874), Russian statesman and military figure
• Gertrude Berg (1894–1966), U.S. radio and television actress
• Gunnar Berg (1909–1989), Swiss-Danish composer
• Herbert Berg, Canadian/US-based scholar of religion

• Lev Semenovich Berg, biologist
• Michael Berg, politician and anti-war activist, father of Nick Berg
• Morris "Moe" Berg (1902–1972), U.S. baseball player and spy
• Moe Berg, Canadian singer-songwriter
• Nick Berg (1978–2004), civilian American beheaded in Iraq
• Patty Berg (born 1918), U.S. golfer
• Paul Berg, American biochemist
• Richard Berg, American physicist, acoustician, and educator
• Shelly Berg, American jazz pianist and educator
• Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press

Berg is the 632nd most popular last name in the United States

See also: von Berg

[edit] See also

• Berger, Bergen, Bergmann, Bergman