Cramer (surname)

Cramer /ˈkreɪmər/ is an English surname and the Anglicized version of Dutch and Low German Kramer, or German Krämer (pronounced [ˈkʁɛːmɐ]). Both refer to the profession of traveling merchants in the Late Middle Ages. The meaning later changed to "merchants trading with different, rather small things".

People

• Anthony Cramer, appellant in Cramer v. United States (U.S. Supreme Court, 1945)
• Carl Eduard Cramer (1831–1901), Swiss botanist
• Casey Cramer (born 1982), American football player
• Clayton Cramer, American historian and software engineer
• Daniel Cramer (1568–1637), German Lutheran theologian
• Doc Cramer (1905–1990), American baseball player
• Dorothy Cramer, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
• Douglas S. Cramer, American TV producer
• Dylan Cramer (born 1958), Canadian jazz musician
• Ernst Cramer (architect) (1898–1980), Swiss landscape architect
• Ernst J. Cramer (1913–2010), American journalist
• Ernst Cramer (politician) (1960), Dutch politician
• Floyd Cramer (1933–1997), American pianist
• Franz Cramer (violinist) (1772–1848), English violinist and Master of the Queen's Music
• Gabe Cramer (born 1994), Israeli-Canadian-American baseball pitcher
• Gabriel Cramer (1704–1752), Swiss mathematician, discoverer of Cramer's rule
  • Cramer's theorem (algebraic curves) in algebra
  • Cramer's rule in algebra
• Cramer brothers, Gabriel and Philibert Cramer, 18th century Swiss publishers
• Grant Cramer (born 1951), American actor
• Hank Cramer (born 1953), American folk singer
• Hans Cramer (1896–1968), German general
• Harald Cramér (1893–1985), Swedish mathematician
  • Cramer's decomposition theorem in statistics
  • Cramer's V or Cramér's phi (φ_c) in statistics
• Helene Cramer (1844–1916), German flower, landscape and portrait painter
• Jacqueline Cramer (born 1951), Dutch politician
• Jan Salomon (Mars) Cramer (born 1928), Dutch economist
• Jayme Cramer (born 1983), American backstroke and butterfly swimmer
• Jim Cramer (born 1955), American investment manager and television personality
• Joey Cramer (born 1973), Canadian former child actor
• Johann Baptist Cramer (1771–1858), German pianist and composer
• John Cramer (announcer), American television announcer
• John Cramer (Australian politician) (1896–1994)
• John Cramer (representative) (1779–1870), U.S. Representative from New York
• John Antony Cramer (1793–1848), English classical scholar and geographer
• John G. Cramer (born 1934), American physicist and science fiction author
• Johann Ulrich von Cramer (1706–1772), German judge, legal scholar, and philosopher
• Karl von Cramer (1818–1902), Bavarian politician
• Kathryn Cramer (born 1962), American science fiction author and editor
• Kevin Cramer (born 1961), North Dakota politician
• Lawrence William Cramer (1897–1978), Governor of the United States Virgin Islands
• Michael Cramer (1930–2000), German actor
• Michael Cramer (born 1949), German politician, MEP
• Molly Cramer (1852–1936), German flower, landscape and portrait painter
• Morten Cramer (born 1967), Danish football player
• Patrick Cramer (born 1969), German biochemist
• Peggy Cramer (1937–2016), All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
• Philippe Cramer (born 1970), Swiss furniture and wallpaper designer
• Philo Cramer, American guitarist
• Pieter Cramer (1721–1776), Dutch wool merchant and entomologist
• Richard Cramer (1889–1960), American actor
• Richard Ben Cramer (1950–2013), American journalist and author
• Robert E. Cramer (born 1947), U.S. Representative from Alabama
• Ronald Cramer (born 1968), Dutch cryptographer
• Ronnie Cramer (born 1957), American artist, composer and filmmaker
• Walter Cramer (1886–1944), German businessman and anti-Hitler conspirator
• Wilhelm Cramer (1746–1799), German-British violinist, best known for the "Cramer bow"
• William Cramer (pathologist) (1878–1945), German-born pathologist
• William C. Cramer (1922–2003), U.S. Representative from Florida

In fiction

• Cramer family, characters on the U.S. soap opera One Life to Live
• Inspector Cramer, recurring character in the Nero Wolfe detective stories
• Jason Cramer, character on the HBO drama Oz
• Nurse Cramer, character in Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

In business

• Cramer brothers, 18th century publishers
• Cramer-Krasselt, an American marketing and communications agency
• Cramer Systems, a software company
• Cramer & Co., a former musical-related business in London

Also

• Corwith Cramer (ship), a tall ship
• Cramer–Shoup cryptosystem, an asymmetric key encryption algorithm
• Cramer's rule, a theorem in linear algebra
• Cramér's V, a measure of association between nominal variables
• Kudlow & Cramer, a former television program