Mann (surname)

This article is about the surname Mann. For Mann, see Mann (surname) (disambiguation).

Mann is a surname of Germanic and also separately of Punjab origin. The Germanic name translates roughly as "person" or "man". The first uses of the name date to approximately the 9th century. The name was often taken by common persons, and not nobility.

The Punjab surname is common among the Sikh found in the northern state of India and translates as "honour".

Persons surnamed Mann

• Aimee Mann (born 1960), American rock guitarist, bass player, singer, and songwriter
• Alex Mann (born 1976), Business leader, technology expert, and comedian
• Ammtoje Mann, Punjabi actor and director
• Anthony Mann (1906–1967), American actor and film director
• Babbu Mann, Punjabi singer and actor
• Barry Mann (born 1939), American songwriter
• Bruce Mann, American professor of law and history at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
• Bruce Mann (civil servant), senior British civil servant
• Carol Mann (born 1941), American championship golfer
• Charles C. Mann (fl. 2000s), American journalist & author
• Colette Mann (born 1950), Australian actress
• Coramae Richey Mann (1931–2004), American professor emeritus of criminal justice at the University of Illinois
• Daniel Mann (1912–1991), American film director: How the West Was Won, Butterfield 8, I'll Cry Tomorrow
• Delbert Mann (born 1920), American television and film director
• David Mann (songwriter) (1916–2002), American songwriter
• David Mann (painter) (1940–2004), American artist, painter of motorcycles and biker culture
• David S. Mann (born 1939), American politician, representative from Ohio 1993–95
• Donald Mann (1853–1934), Canadian railway contractor and entrepreneur
• Elisabeth Mann-Borgese (1918–2002), German environmentalist, daughter of Thomas Mann
• Erika Mann (1905–1969), German actress and writer, daughter of Thomas Mann
• Erika Mann (politician) (born 1950), German politician and Member of the European Parliament with the political party SPD
• Frank Mann (1888–1964), English cricketer
• Gabriel Mann (actor) (born 1972), American actor
• George Mann, Tongan rugby league footballer
• George Mann (1917–2001), English cricketer, son of Frank Mann
• Golo Mann (1909–1994), German popular historian, son of Thomas Mann
• Gurdas Mann (born 1957), Punjabi singer and actor
• Gustav Mann (1836–1916), German botanist
• Harbhajan Mann, Punjabi singer and actor
• Heinrich Mann (1871–1950), German novelist, brother of Thomas Mann
• Herbie Mann (1930–2003), American jazz flautist and practitioner of world music
• Horace Mann (1796–1859), American education reformer and abolitionist
• Horace Mann Jr. (1844–1868), American botanist, son of Horace Mann
• Jack Mann, MBE (1906–1989), Western Australian winemaker and underarm bowler.
• James Robert Mann (Illinois) (1856–1922) American legislator, representative from Illinois, author of the Mann Act
• John Mann (politician) (born 1960), British politician, Member of Parliament for the Labour Party
• John Mann (musician) (born 1962), Canadian rock musician and actor
• John Mann (actor) (contemporary), British actor
• Jonathan Mann (1947–1998), former head of the World Health Organization's global AIDS program
• Jonathan Mann (journalist) (contemporary), Canadian journalist working for CNN International
• Jonathan Mann (born 1982), American internet celebrity known as GameJew
• Kal Mann (1917–2001), American lyricist, writer of lyrics for several popular songs
• Klaus Mann (1906–1949), German, son of Thomas Mann
• Larry Mann (–1952), American racecar (NASCAR) driver
• Larry D. Mann (born 1922), Canadian radio personality & television/film actor
• Leslie Mann (born 1972), American actress
• Madeline Mann (born 1989), American who once held the record for being the smallest known premature baby to survive
• Manfred Mann (musician) (born 1940), musician from South Africa, after whom the eponymous band was named
• Matthias Mann (born 1959), German scientist in the field of mass spectrometry and proteomics
• Merlin Mann (born 1966), American writer and editor; author of productivity blog 43folders.com
• Michael Mann (sociologist) (born 1942), British-born professor of sociology at UCLA
• Michael E. Mann (contemporary), American climate scientist, professor, and member of United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
• Michael Mann (film director) (born 1943), American film director, screenwriter, and producer
• Michael Mann (scholar) (1919–1977), German-born American musician and professor of German literature, youngest son of Thomas Mann
• Monika Mann (1910–1992), German novelist, daughter of Thomas Mann
• Murray Gell-Mann (born 1929), American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics
• Otto Mann the fictional school bus driver from the animated TV comedy showThe Simpsons.
• Ron Mann (born 1959), Canadian documentary film director
• Sally Mann (born 1951), American photographer
• Sean Mann (1932–1988), American linguist and bioethicist
• Simon Mann (disambiguation)
• Steve Mann (born 1962), Canadian professor, founder of the field of wearable computing
• Terrence Mann (born 1951), American singer and actor
• Thaddeus Mann (1908–1993), Polish-English biochemist
• Thomas Mann (disambiguation):
  • Thomas Mann (1875–1955), German novelist, essayist
  • Thomas Mann (politician) (born 1946), German politician and member of the European Parliament
  • Thomas E. Mann (born 1944), American political scientist, author,
  • Tom Mann (1856–1941), British trade unionist

See also

• Henry Manne, American academic in the field of law and economics
• Robert Manne (born 1947), Australian professor of politics at La Trobe University, Melbourne
• Shelly Manne (1920–1984), American jazz drummer