Wagner (surname)
Wagner is derived from the Germanic surname Waganari, meaning "wagonmaker" or "wagon driver".
This common occupational surname was often given to one who transported produce or other goods via high-sided wagons or carts. Among some German populations, especially the Pennsylvania Germans, Wagner also denoted a wagon-maker, wainwright, or cartwright.[1]
People with the surname "Wagner"
- Adolf Wagner, Nazi statesman
- Adolph Wagner, German economist
- Ashley Wagner, American figure skater
- Audrey Wagner, American baseball player and Doctor of Medicine
- Billy Wagner, American baseball player
- Charles Wagner, French pastor and author who was invited to preach at the White House
- Cosima Wagner, diarist and director of the Bayreuth Festival, daughter of Franz Liszt and widow of Richard Wagner
- David Wagner, lead singer of the rock band Crow
- David A. Wagner, computer security and cryptography researcher
- David L. Wagner, entomologist
- Eduard Wagner, quartermaster-general of the German Army in World War II
- Eric Wagner, American heavy metal vocalist
- Friedlinde Wagner writer and broadcaster, daughter of Siegfried and Winifred Wagner
- Gary Wagner, Professional Baseball player for the Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Phillies.
- George D. Wagner, Union general during the American Civil War
- Gerhard Maria Wagner, Austrian Roman Catholic priest who was nominated auxiliary bishop in Linz, but didn't accept
- Gerhard Wagner, the first Reich Doctors' Leader (Reichsärzteführer) of Nazi Germany
- Gottfried Wagner writer and critic of the Wagner family, son of Wolfgang Wagner
- Gudrun Wagner second wife of Wolfgang Wagner
- Gustav Wagner (1910–1980), Nazi SS officer at Sobibor extermination camp
- Gustav Wagner (bobsleigh) (1901-d.), Luxembourgian bobsledder
- Heinrich Leopold Wagner, dramatist and author
- John Peter "Honus" Wagner, U.S. baseball player
- Jasmin Wagner, stage name Blümchen, German singer and actress
- Jill Wagner, actress
- Johann Wagner German rococo sculptor
- Johann Andreas Wagner, German zoologist
- John Wagner, American comics writer
- Josef Franz Wagner, Austrian composer
- Josef Wagner, a Nazi Gauleiter in the Third Reich
- Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian physician, Nobel Prize laureat in medicine
- Karl Willy Wagner (1883–1953), German pioneer in the theory of electronic filters
- Katharina Wagner German opera director, daughter of Wolfgang and Gudrun Wagner
- Klaus Wagner, (1910–2000) German mathematician
- Klaus Wagner (conspiracy theorist), (1958–2007) stalker of members of the British Royal Family
- Lindsay Wagner (born 1949), American actress
- Lindsay Wagner (model) (born 1988), American model
- Matt Wagner, U.S. comics writer and artist
- Melinda Wagner, U.S. composer
- Moritz Wagner, German geographer and evolutionary biologist
- Nandor Wagner, Hungarian sculptor
- Nike Wagner, writer and arts festival director, daughter of Wieland Wagner
- Otto Wagner, Austrian architect
- Richard Wagner, German composer
- Richard Wagner, German novelist
- Richard E. Wagner, American economist
- Richard Paul Wagner, Chief of Design for Deutsche Reichsbahn 1922-1942; responsible for standard locomotive designs
- Robert Wagner, U.S. actor
- Robert Ferdinand Wagner (1877–1953), U.S. Senator (D-NY)
- Robert Ferdinand Wagner, Jr. (1910–1991), U.S. politician and mayor of New York City
- Robert Heinrich Wagner, Nazi Gauleiter and Reich Governor of Alsace
- Robin Wagner, American skating coach
- Robin Wagner, Broadway set designer
- Sandro Wagner, German footballer
- Siegfried Wagner, German composer (son of Richard and Cosima Wagner)
- Steve Wagner (disambiguation)
- Tini Wagner (born 1919), Dutch swimmer
- Veit Wagner (fl. 1492-1510), Alsatian sculptor of the Bergheim altar
- Viktor Vladimirovich Wagner , Russian mathematician
- Walter Wagner (footballer), German footballer
- Walter Wagner (notary), notary who married Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun
- Warren H. Wagner, U.S. botanist
- Webster Wagner, American railroad inventor
- Wieland Wagner, German opera producer, son of Siegfried Wagner and Winifred Wagner
- Winifred Wagner, British-born director of the Bayreuth Festival, wife of Siegfried Wagner and friend of Adolf Hitler
- Wolfgang Wagner (1919–2010), German opera festival director, younger brother of Wieland Wagner
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