Bergmann

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Bergmann is an Austrian, German or Swedish surname. It means "mountain man" in both languages, as well as "miner" in German. Bergman is also a common surname in the United States, Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands.

The surname may refer to:

  • Art Bergmann (born 1953), Canadian rock singer-songwriter
  • Carl Bergmann, (1814–1865) German anatomist, physiologist and biologist who developed the Bergmann's rule
  • Carl Bergmann (1821–1876), German-American cellist and conductor
  • Carl Bergmann (1874–1935), German secretary of state
  • (born 1962), Czech filmmaker and media mogul (son of Pavel)
  • Eirikur Bergmann (born 1969), Icelandic writer and professor of political science
  • Ernst Bergmann (1881–1945), German philosopher and proponent of Nazism
  • Ernst David Bergmann (1903–1975), Israeli nuclear scientist and chemist who found a nuclear program (brother of Theodor, the agronomist)
  • Ernst von Bergmann (1836–1907), Baltic German surgeon who introduced principles of aseptic surgery
  • Frithjof Bergmann (1930–2021), German philosophy professor
  • Gretel Bergmann (1914–2017), Jewish athlete who competed as a high jumper in Germany during the 1930s
  • (?–?), head of the Criminal Division of the German Kripo in German-occupied Estonia
  • Franz Xaver Bergmann (1861–1936), Austrian foundry owner
  • Hugo Bergmann (1883–1975), German-Israeli Jewish philosopher (father of Martin S.)
  • Gustav Bergmann (1906–1987), Austrian-born American philosopher
  • Jason Bergmann (born 1981), American baseball player
  • Juliette Bergmann (born 1958), Dutch bodybuilder
  • Martin S. Bergmann (1913–2014), American psychoanalyst (son of Hugo)
  • Michael Bergmann, American filmmaker (grandson of Hugo)
  • Pavel Bergmann (1930–2005), Czech philosopher & historian, signatory of Charter 77 (father of Daniel and nephew of Hugo)
  • Peter Bergmann (?–2009), alias used by an unidentified German-speaking man who died under mysterious circumstances
  • Peter Gabriel Bergmann (1915–2002), German-American physicist
  • Ralph Bergmann (born 1970), German volleyball player
  • Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (born 1946), German conservative politician who served as the last head of state of the German Democratic Republic
  • Stefan Bergmann (1895–1977), mathematician
  • Thaisa Storchi Bergmann (born 1955), leading Brazilian astrophysicist
  • Theodor Bergmann (1850–1931), German businessman and industrialist
  • Theodor Bergmann (1916–2017), German agronomist and published autor (brother of Ernst David)
  • Theodor Bergmann (born 1996), German footballer
  • Walter Bergmann (1902–1988), German composer and musician

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