Springer (surname)
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Springer is a German surname. Szprynger and Szpringer are Polonised forms. Špringer is the Slavonised form, used for example in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Serbia.
Springer is the surname of:
- Aaron Springer, animator and storyboard artist
- Alvin Springer, builder of street and race cars
- Anton Springer (1825 - 1891), German art historian and writer
- Axel Springer (1912-1985), German journalist and publisher, founder of Axel Springer Verlag
- Clement Springer, folk musician
- Curtis Howe Springer, American radio evangelist, self-proclaimed doctor and minister
- Dennis Springer, Major League baseball pitcher
- Eintou Pearl Springer, poet
- F. Springer (b. 1932), the pseudonym of Dutch writer and diplomat Carel Jan Schneider
- Frank Springer (b. December 6, 1929), American comic book and comic strip artist
- Friede Springer, female publisher
- Haji Springer, California rapper
- Sir Hugh Springer (1913 - 1994), Barbados trade union organizer and Governor-General
- James Springer White, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
- Jerry Springer (born 1944), sensationalist talk show host and former Democratic mayor of Cincinnati
- Julius Springer (1817-1877), German publisher and founder of Springer Verlag (now part of Springer Science+Business Media)
- Linda M. Springer, eighth director of Office of Personnel Management
- Mark Springer, British actor and composer
- Melissa Springer, American photojournalist
- Mike Springer (b. November 3, 1965), American professional golfer
- Moses Springer (1824 - 1898), Canadian businessman and politician
- Nancy Springer (b. 1948), American author
- Nathaniel S. Berry (middle name Springer), American politician and two-term Governor of New Hampshire
- Rebecca Ruter Springer (1832 - 1904), American writer
- Robert C. Springer, American astronaut
- Russ Springer, Major League baseball pitcher
- Stewart Springer, shark expert
- Tonny Albert Springer, Dutch mathematician
- Tony Springer, Canadian guitarist
- Victor G. Springer, scientist specializing in fish
- Yakov Springer, also Jakub Springer (circa 1921 - 1972), Polish-Israeli wrestler killed in the infamous Munich massacre at the Summer Olympics