Berger

Berger is a surname in both German and French, although there is no etymological connection between the names in the two languages. The French surname is an occupational name for a shepherd, from Old French bergier (Late Latin berbicarius, from berbex 'ram'). The German surname derives from the word Berg, the word for "mountain" or "hill", and means "a resident on a mountain or hill", or someone from a toponym Berg, derived from the same. The pronunciation of the English name may sometimes be /ˈbɜːrdʒər/ BUR-jər following the French phonetics (the German is /ˈbɜːrɡər/ BUR-gər). Notable people with this surname include:

Politics

Charles W. Berger (born 1936), American politician
James S. Berger (1903-1984), United States Senator from Pennsylvania
Jan Johannis Adriaan Berger, Dutch Labour Party politician.
Józef Berger (1901–1962), Polish theologian and politician.
Karine Berger (born 11 March 1973) is a French politician, member of the French National Assembly representing Hautes-Alpes between 2012 and 2017.
Laurent Berger (born 27 October 1968 in Guérande, Loire-Atlantique) is a French trade unionist.
Luciana Berger (born 1981), British Liberal Democrat politician
Maria Berger (born 1956), Austrian politician and Member of the European Parliament
Óscar Berger (born 1946), former President of Guatemala
Philip E. Berger (born 1952), 2011: President "Pro-Tem." of the North Carolina Senate
Sandy Berger (born 1945), US National Security Advisor to President Bill Clinton
Thomas Berger (born 1933), Canadian politician
Victor L. Berger (1860–1929), US politician

Sports

Alfred Berger (25 August 1894 – 11 June 1966) was an Austrian pair skater.
Andreas Berger (born 1961), Austrian track and field sprinter
Barbara Berger (born 1930), All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
Chris Berger (1911–1965), Dutch sprinter
Daniel Berger (born 1993), American professional PGA Tour golfer
David Mark Berger (1944–1972), American-born Israeli weightlifter; Maccabiah champion (middleweight); one of the 11 hostages murdered in the Munich massacre
Frederick Berger (1849-?), American professional baseball umpire
Gerhard Berger (born 1959), Austrian Grand Prix racing driver
Guylaine Berger (born 12 April 1956) is a retired French swimmer who won a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m freestyle at the 1974 European Aquatics Championships.
Han Berger (born 1950), Dutch football coach
Ilana Berger (born 1965), Israeli tennis player
Ike Berger (born 1936), US Olympic champion weightlifter (featherweight), 2-time silver; 2-time Pan American champion; 23 world records
Jan Berger (footballer, born 1976), Czech-Swiss football midfielder
Jay Berger (born 1966), American tennis player; highest world ranking # 7
Johann Berger (1845–1933), Austrian chess master, theorist, endgame study composer, author and editor
Lars Berger (born 1979), Norwegian biathlete
Mark Berger (born 1954), Canadian Olympic silver & bronze (judo heavyweight)
Maxie Berger (1917–2000), Canadian world champion junior welterweight boxer
Norma Berger (born 1932), All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player and sister of Barbara Berger
Ola Berger (born 1979), Norwegian ski mountaineer and cross-country skier
Olia Berger (born 1983), Canadian judoka
Patrik Berger (born 1973), Czech football midfielder
Ruud Berger (born 1980), Dutch football midfielder
Sam Berger (1900–1992), Canadian football team owner
Samuel Berger (1884–1925), US Olympic champion heavyweight boxer
Ségolène Berger (born 25 March 1978) is a former professional tennis player from France.
Tora Berger (born 1981), Norwegian biathlete and sister of Lars Berger
Wally Berger (1905-1988), mostly Boston Braves slugger of the 1930s

Music

Arthur Berger (1912–2003), American composer
Christian Wilhelm Berger (born 1964), Romanian composer and musician
Dominique II Berger (1780–1845), Flemish organist and carillonneur
Erna Berger (1900–1990), German soprano singer
Henri Berger (1844–1929), Hawaiian musician
Karl Berger (born 1935), German jazz musician
Ludwig Berger (composer) (1777–1839), German composer and piano teacher
Margaret Berger (born 1985), Norwegian singer, songwriter, and disc jockey
Michel Berger (1947–1992), French singer and songwriter
Wilhelm Berger (1861–1911), German composer
Wilhelm Georg Berger (1929–1993), Romanian composer
Wilhelm Peterson Berger (1867–1942), Swedish musician

Culture

Alex Berger, (born (1962-03-22)March 22, 1962 in Philadelphia, USA) is a producer, creator, consultant and entrepreneur in the media field.
Charlotta Berger (1784–1852), Swedish poet and novelist
Élie Berger (1850–1925), French archivist and palaeographer
Erika Berger (1939–2016), German television presenter and writer
Georgette Berger (1901–1986), Belgian wife of the painter René Magritte
Helmut Berger (born 1944), Austrian actor
Howard Berger, American make-up artist
Katya Berger, (born 1966) (sometimes credited as Katia Berger or Katja Berger) is a film actress.
John Berger (1926–2017), British art critic, novelist, painter, and author
Jonah Berger, American writer and professor
Karen Berger (born 1958), American comic book editor
Maurice Berger (born 1956) American cultural historian, curator, and critic
Nicole Berger (born Nicole Gouspeyre– 13 April 1967) was a French actress.
Nicole Berger (American actress) (born November 27, 2003) is an American actress, model, and pianist from Palm Beach, Florida and New York City.
Oscar Berger (cartoonist) (1901–1997), Slovak cartoonist
Pablo Berger (born 1963), Spanish film director
Petra Berger, born Petra Pierrette Burger (Amstelveen, 23 October 1965), is a Dutch classical crossover singer, composer, photographer, and musical actress.
Robert Berger (producer) (born 1934), a film producer
Senta Berger (born 1941), Austrian actress
Thomas Berger (novelist) (1924–2014), American novelist
Yves Berger (1931–2004), French writer and editor
Wiesław Adam Berger (1926–1998), Polish writer
William Berger (actor), also known as Bill Berger and Wilhelm Berger, born Wilhelm Thomas Berger (June 20, 1928 – October 2, 1993) was an Austrian American actor, mostly associated with Euro and spaghetti Westerns, as well as travel documentaries.

Academics

Alwin Berger (1871–1931), German botanist
André Berger (born 1942), Belgian climatologist
Beverly Berger, American physicist
Hans Berger (1873–1941), German neuroscientist
James Berger (statistician) (born 1950), American statistician
Jeffrey W. Berger (1963–2001), American physician and engineer
Josef Berger (scientist) (born 1949), Czech biomedical engineer and haematologist
Lee R. Berger (born 1965), American-born South African explorer and paleoanthropologist
Leszek Berger (1925–2012), Polish herpetologist and malacologist
Marcel Berger (born 1927), French mathematician
Peter B. Berger (born 1956), American cardiologist
Peter L. Berger (1929–2017), Austrian-born American sociologist and theologian
Richard Berger (1894–1984), Swiss professor of design, decoration, and art history
Robert Berger (mathematician) (born 1938), American mathematician
Ron Berger (professor) (born 1968), American marketing and management researcher
Wolfgang H. Berger (1937–2017), German-American oceanographer

Other people

Carolyn Berger, American State (Delaware) Supreme Court justice
Daniel Berger (engraver) (25 October 1744 - 17 November 1825) was a German engraver.
David Berger (theologian) (born 1968), German theologian
Gaston Berger (1 October 1896 – 13 November 1960) was a French futurist but also an industrialist, a philosopher and a state manager.
Georges Berger (14 September 1918 in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, near Brussels – 23 August 1967 at the Nürburgring) was a racing driver who raced a Gordini in his two World Championship Formula One Grands Prix.
Gottlob Berger (1896–1975), German Schutzstaffel (SS) general
Irene C. Berger (born 1954), United States District Judge
Josef Berger (speechwriter) (1903–1981), American journalist, accused of being a Soviet spy
Patricia Wilson Berger (1926–2011), American librarian
Roland Berger (born 1937), German entrepreneur, philanthropist, and founder of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants
Roza Berger (1889–1945), 1945 Kraków pogrom victim
Theo Berger (1941–2003), German criminal

Fictional

Erika Berger (1957?) Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson. Editor and co-owner of Millennium, Mikael Blomqvist's lover