Sommer
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Sommer is a surname, from the German and Scandinavian languages word for the season "summer".
Notable people with this name include:
A–L
- Alfred Sommer (born 1943), American academic
- Alice Herz-Sommer (1903–2014), Jewish pianist, oldest Holocaust survivor
- António de Sommer Champalimaud (1918–2004), Portuguese banker and industrialist
- Bert Sommer (1949–1990), American musician and actor
- Coleen Sommer (born 1960), American high jumper
- Daniel Sommer (1850–1940), key figure in the Restoration Movement
- Elke Sommer (born 1940), German actress
- Erik Sommer (born 1978), artist
- Frederick Sommer (1905–1999), artist
- Gerhard Sommer (born 1921), Nazi officer
- Giorgio Sommer (1834–1914), 19th-century photographer
- Günter Sommer (born c. 1943), German Jazz musician
- Hans Sommer (born 1914), Nazi officer (SS-Obersturmführer)
- Hans Sommer (composer) (1837–1922), German composer
- Jason Sommer, American poet and academic
- Joe Sommer (1858–1938), American baseball player
- Josef Sommer (born 1934), American film actor
- Johann Wilhelm Ernst Sommer (1881–1952), bishop of the Methodist Church
- Juergen Sommer (born 1969) American soccer goalkeeper
- Keith P. Sommer (born 1946), Republican politician
- Kostas Sommer (born 1975), Greek actor
- Luke Elliott Sommer (born 1986), former United States Army Ranger and bank robber
M–Z
- Manfred Sommer (1933–2007), Spanish comics creator
- Michael Sommer (born 1952), chairman of Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (Federation of German trade unions)
- Mike Sommer (born 1934), American football player
- Peter Sommer, Danish singer-songwriter
- Ralf J. Sommer, German biologist specializing in evolutionary developmental biology
- Ralph Frederick Sommer (1898–1971), one of the endodontics pioneers
- Raymond Sommer (1906–1950), French racing driver
- Rebecca Sommer, German artist, journalist and human rights activist
- Renate Sommer (born 1958), German politician (CDU)
- Rich Sommer (born 1978), American actor
- Robert Sommer, distinguished professor of psychology
- Robert Sommer (psychiatrist) (1864–1937), German psychiatrist and genealogist
- Roy Sommer (born 1957), American ice hockey player
- Scott Sommer (1951–1993), American author
- Theo Sommer (born 1930), German journalist
- Tim Sommer, American musician and record producer
- Vladimír Sommer (1921–1997), Czech composer
- William Sommer (1867–1949), American modernist painter
- Yann Sommer (born 1988), Swiss footballer
In fiction
- Jochen Sommer, Dr. Jochen Sommer, the fictional consultor of the German youth magazine Bravo (so-called Dr. Sommer Team)
- The Story of Mr Sommer, a German novel
- Sommer (TV series), a Danish TV-drama aired on DR1 in 2008