Berger
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Berger may refer to:
[edit] Places
[edit] People
Berger is a relatively common last name. It means mountaineer in Dutch and German, and shepherd in French. Notable people by that name include:
[edit] Politics
- 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), US politician
- 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
[edit] Sport
- David Mark Berger (1944–1972), American-born Israeli weightlifter and one of the 11 hostages murdered in the Munich massacre
- Johann Berger (1845–1933), Austrian chess master, theorist, endgame study composer, author and editor
- Lars Berger (born 1979), Norwegian biathlete
- Gerhard Berger (born 1959), Austrian Grand Prix racing driver
- Patrik Berger (born 1973), Czech football (soccer) player
- Sam Berger (1900–1992), Canadian football team owner
[edit] Music
- Erna Berger (1900–1990), German soprano singer
- Henri Berger (1844–1929), Hawaii musician
- Karl Berger (born 1935), German jazz musician
- Michel Berger (1947–1992), French singer and songwriter
- Wilhelm Georg Berger (1929–1993), Romanian composer and musician
[edit] Culture
- Helmut Berger (born 1944), Austrian actor
- John Berger (born 1926), British art critic, novelist, painter, and author
- Karen Berger, British comic book editor
- Oscar Berger (cartoonist) (1901–1997), cartoonist
- Senta Berger (born 1941), Austrian actress
- Thomas Berger (born 1924), US novelist
- Wiesław Adam Berger, Polish writer
- Wilhelm Peterson Berger, Swedish musician
[edit] Science
- Alwin Berger (1871–1931), German botanist
- Hans Berger (1873–1941), German neuroscientist
- Lee R. Berger (born 1965), Explorer and Paleoanthropologist
- Peter L. Berger (born 1929), American sociologist and theologian
- Richard Berger (1894–1984), Swiss professor of design, decoration, and art history
- Marcel Berger, (born 1927), French mathematician
[edit] Other people
- Gottlob Berger (1896–1975), German SS general
- Josef Berger (1903–1981), American journalist, accused of being a Soviet spy
- Roland Berger (born 1937), entrepreneur, philanthropist, and founder of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants
- Roza Berger (1889–1945), 1945 Krakow pogrom victim
[edit] Other uses
- Berger's disease, or IgA-Nephropathie (IgAN), a form of the Glomerulonephritis disease
- Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, European strategy consultancy firm
[edit] See also
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