Ackermann (surname)
Acker comes from German or Old English, meaning "field". It is related to the word "acre", and therefore Ackermann means "fieldman".
People surnamed Ackermann include:
- Anton Ackermann (1905–1973), German foreign minister
- Christian Ackermann (died 1710), Estonian sculptor
- Dorothea Ackermann (1752-1821), German actress
- Ernst Christian Wilhelm Ackermann (1761–1835), Bohemian public servant
- Franz Ackermann (born 1963), abstract artist
- Georg Christian Benedict Ackermann (1763–1833), German theologian
- Georg Friedrich Ackermann (1787–1843), German landscape painter
- Georg Ackermann (pilot) (1918–2007), German World War II bomber pilot
- Georg Ackermann (athlete) (born 1972), German long jumper
- Hans Ackermann (16th century), German dramatist
- Jacob Fidelis Ackermann (1765–1815), German doctor
- Johan Ackermann (born 1970), South African rugby union player
- Johann Adam Ackermann (1780–1853), German landscape painter
- Johann Christian Gottlieb Ackermann (1756–1801), German doctor
- Josef Ackermann (born 1948), current CEO of Deutsche Bank
- Konrad Ernst Ackermann (1712–1771), German actor
- Leopold Ackermann (Petrus Fouresius) (1771–1831), biblical archaeologist
- Liliane Ackermann (1938-2007), French scientist and author
- Louise Victorine Ackermann (1813–1819), French poet
- Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann (1757–1775), German actress
- Ronny Ackermann (born 1977), German skier
- Rosemarie Ackermann (born 1952), German high jumper
- Rudolph Ackermann (1764–1834), German-born English publisher, printer, and inventor
- Sophie Charlotte Ackermann (1714–1792), German actress
- Stefan Ackermann, German singer
- Wilhelm Ackermann (1896–1962), German mathematician
- Wilhelm Heinrich Ackermann (1789–1848), German teacher
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