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Family names
| Language(s) | Low German, German, Jewish (Yiddish: טעֶלעֶר teler) |
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| Meaning | 1. MHG: telle meant "gorge, ravine" - person living on or from places like gorge, ravine 2. MHG, MLG: teller "plate, turntable" - manufacturer of these products 3. Low German nickname, Low German: teller, teler means "parents, father" 4. MLG (Low German) teller, teler also meant "farmer, [cultivator], or builder" |
| Region of origin | Denmark, Germany, Hungary, United States |
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| Related names | Czech: Talíř (cs); Jewish: Tellermann, Tellerman, Tellering, Tellerbaum, Tellerroth ([1]) |
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Teller is also the name of several people:
- Abraham Teller (1609, Wurzen – 1658, Leipzig), a German Protestant theologian, hymnist (de)
- Romanus Teller (1703 – 1750), a German clergy, professor
- Wilhelm Abraham Teller (1734 – 1804), a German Protestant theologian
- Henry M(oore). Teller (1830 – 1914), a U.S. politician
- Leopold Teller (1844 – 1908), a Jewish Hungarian actor
- Edward Teller (Hungarian: Teller Ede; 1908, Budapest – 2003), a Jewish Hungarian-US nuclear physicist known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb"
- Ludwig Teller (1911, Manhattan – 1965), a Jewish U.S. Naval lieutenant and political figure
- Günther Teller (1925 – 1982) (de)
- Gyula Tellér (born 1934, Budapest), a Hungarian socilogigist, translator, politician (hu)
- Dietrich Teller (born 1944), an Austrian politician (FPÖ) (de)
- Teller (born Raymond Joseph Teller, in 1948, Philadelphia), a US Jewish magician, a member of the comedy and magic duo "Penn and Teller"
- Janne (Vibeke) Teller (born 1964, Copenhagen), a Danish author (da)
- Juergen Teller (born 1964, Erlangen), a German photographer
See also
This page lists people with the surname Teller.
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