Springer

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Springer is the name of several places in the United States:

• Springer, New Mexico
• Springer Township, North Dakota
• Springer, Oklahoma
• Springer Mountain, southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail

Springer is the name of:

• Springer Science+Business Media, a worldwide publishing group based in Germany (including Springer-Verlag)
• Axel Springer Verlag AG, famous conservative German publishing house
• Springer Opera House, a historic live performance theater in Columbus, Georgia
• Springer (EP), a 2003 record by the Danish music band Efterklang
• Springer (Transformers), a Transformers character
• Springer (Tank), a small demolition vehicle of the German Wehrmacht in WW2
• Springer fork, a type of motorcycle fork

Springer can also refer to two breeds of dogs, both of which are commonly called simply Springer Spaniel:

• English Springer Spaniel
• Welsh Springer Spaniel

Springer can also refer to the Interstellar teleporter featured in A Million Open Doors, a science fiction novel by John Barnes.

Springer can also refer to Springer (architecture), being the first voussoir of an arch.

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People whose surname is Springer include:

• Aaron Springer
• Alvin Springer
• Anton Heinrich Springer (July 13, 1825, Prague - May 31, 1891, Leipzig)
• Axel Cäsar Springer (1912-1985), a German journalist and publisher, founder of Axel Springer Verlag
• Balthasar Springer, (b. before 1500 - 1509/11), traveller for India from Tyrol
• Christian Springer:
  • Christian Springer, soccer player
  • Christian Springer, Kabarettist, author
• Clement Springer
• Curtis Howe Springer
• Dennis (Leroy) Springer
• Eintou Pearl Springer
• F. Springer (1932), the pseudonym of Carel Jan Schneider
• Frank Springer (born December 6, 1929)
• Friede Springer, female publisher
• Haji Springer
• Sir Hugh Springer (1913 - 1994)
• James Springer White
• Jerry Springer (born 1944), a talk show host
• Julius Springer (1817-1877), a German publisher and founder of Springer-Verlag (now part of Springer Science+Business Media)
• Linda M. Springer
• Mark Springer, a British actor and composer
• Melissa Springer, an American photojournalist
• Mike Springer (born November 3, 1965)
• Moses Springer (August 21 1824 – September 5 1898)
• Nancy (Connor) Springer (born 1948 in Montclair, New Jersey)
• Nathaniel S(pringer). Berry
• Paul Richard Springer Jr., born in 1966 in Neenah, Wisconsin
• Rebecca Ruter Springer
• Robert C(lyde). Springer
• Russ Springer
• Stewart Springer
• Tony Springer
• Victor G. Springer
• Yakov Springer, also Jakub Springer (b. Poland ca. 1921 - Munich), a Polish-Israeli wrestler

There forms are Polonised forms:

• Ewa Szprynger, a Polish Jewish author
• Krystyna Szprynger, a Polish author

• Andrzej Szpringer (also Andrzej Szprynger); (pl)
• Włodzimierz Szpringer

Špringer is the Slavonised form; in Czechia, Slovakia, Croatia, Serbia, etc: