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Georg is a male given name in mostly Northern European countries and may refer to the following people:
[edit] In creative culture
- Georg Böhm, German organist;
- Georg Büchner, German playwright;
- Georg Fabricius, Protestant German poet;
- Georg Gerster, photographer
- Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet;
- Georg Listing, Bassist for the German Rock Band Tokio Hotel;
- Georg Matthias Monn, Austrian composer;
- Georg Muffat, French composer;
- Georg Ots, Estonian opera singer;
- Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor;
- Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet;
- Georg Tintner, Austrian conductor;
- Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer;
- Georg Trakl, Austrian poet;
- Georg Joseph Vogler, German composer;
- Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian composer
[edit] In science
- Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine;
- Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and minerologist;
- Georg Cantor, German mathematician;
- Georg Groddeck, physician whom Freud credits for the Id;
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher;
- Georg Major, German Lutheran theologian;
- Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician;
- Georg Ohm, German physicist;
- Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist;
- Georg Joachim Rheticus, cartographer and scientific instrument maker;
- Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist;
- Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist;
- Georg Steller, German naturalist;
- Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian philologist;
- Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
[edit] In politics
[edit] Miscellaneous
