Metzger
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Metzger (or alternately Mezger) is a common German family name. It refers to the occupation Butcher. Another German family name with the same meaning is Fleischer.
[edit] Metzgers
- Ambrosius Metzger, German composer and singer
- Balthasar Metzger, German medical doctor
- Bruce Metzger, American evangelical writer and scholar
- Ed Metzger, actor
- Erika Metzger, German professional table tennis player
- Giovanni Metzger, German-Italian engraver and art dealer (DE)
- Gustav Metzger, outsider artist
- Heinz-Klaus Metzger, German music critic and theoretician
- Jill Metzger, American Air Force Officer
- Ludwig Metzger, German Politician (DE)
- Matthew Metzger, American actor
- Max Josef Metzger, German Catholic priest, victim of the Nazi NS-Justiz, the quelling of the Catholic resistance to the National Socialists party during WWII in Germany. (DE)
- Mike Metzger, American Freestyle Motocross legend
- Oswald Metzger, German Politician (German Green Party) (DE)
- Ottilie Metzger, German Singer (DE)
- Rabbi Yona Metzger, current Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel
- Radley Metzger, American filmmaker
- Thomas Metzger, prominent American scholar of Chinese politics and society
- Tom Metzger (Thomas L. Metzger), leader of the White supremacist group White Aryan Resistance
- Wolfgang Metzger, German Psychologist
- Metzger, Oregon, named after Henry Metzger
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- Guy Mezger, mixed martial arts fighter
- Werner Mezger, German folklorist (DE)