Berg (surname)
Berg is a surname of North-European origin. In several Germanic languages, the word means "mount", "mountain", or "cliff".
Notable people sharing the surname "Berg"
In music
- Alban Berg, Austrian composer
- Andrea Berg, German singer
- Bill Berg (musician), American drummer
- Bob Berg, American jazz saxophonist
- Cia Berg, Swedish singer and television presenter
- Cy Berg, vaudeville performer and the "Berg" in the group Witt and Berg
- Else Berg, Dutch painter
- Emil Berg, Swedish singer
- Espen Berg, Norwegian jazz pianist and composer
- Gunnar Berg (composer), Swiss-born Danish composer
- Joakim Berg, lead singer of the Swedish band Kent
- Karin Berg, American music executive
- Lillie Berg, American musician, musical educator
- Moe Berg (musician), Canadian singer-songwriter
- Robbie Berg, American musician and member of The Fab Four
- Shelly Berg, American jazz pianist and educator
- Yung Berg, American rapper
In media and the arts
- A. Scott Berg, American biographer
- Adam Berg (director), Swedish music video director, brother of Joakim Berg
- Alan Berg, American talk radio host
- Alec Berg, American television writer
- Bengt Berg, Swedish poet and politician
- Bolette Berg, Norwegian photographer
- Carol Berg, American fantasy writer
- Dave Berg (cartoonist), American cartoonist for MAD
- Dick Berg, American screenwriter and producer
- Elizabeth Berg (author), American novelist
- Gertrude Berg, American radio and television actress
- Gretchen J. Berg, American television producer
- Gunnar Berg (painter), Norwegian painter
- Guri Berg, Norwegian sculptor
- John Berg (actor), American actor
- John Berg (art director),, American art director
- Lene Berg,, Norwegian film director
- Mary Berg, Canadian chef and television personality
- Nancy Berg, American model and actress
- Peter Berg, American actor, film director, producer and writer
- S. Berg, pseudonym of Clementine Cohn
In politics and religion
- Axel Berg, German politician
- Bill Berg (politician), Royal Canadian Mounted police man
- Bruno II von Berg, Archbishop of Cologne
- Charles A. Berg, American farmer and politician
- David Berg, founder of the religious movement Children of God
- Delmer Berg, American member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War; labor union activist
- Eivinn Berg, Norwegian diplomat and politician
- Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg, Russian statesman and military figure
- Gordon Berg, American farmer and politician
- Gunnar Berg (politician), Liberal Party politician
- Gunner Berg, Norwegian priest, writer and politician
- Harry Berg, American politician and educator
- Herbert Berg (religion), religious studies professor at the University of North Carolina
- Hermann Berg, German politician
- John Berg (priest), American Catholic cleric
- Jónína Kristín Berg, Icelandic neopagan leader, art teacher and aromatherapist
- Julius S. Berg, New York politician
- Kim Berg, Finnish politician
- Lars Patrick Berg, German politician
- Michael Berg (activist), politician and anti-war activist, father of Nick Berg
- Philip Berg, founder of the Kabbalah Centre
- Philip J. Berg, activist and former deputy attorney general of Pennsylvania
- Mike Berg, American politician
- Moe Berg, U.S. baseball player and spy
- Nick Berg, American businessman beheaded in Iraq
- Ove H. Berg, American politician
- Stephen Jay Berg, American Catholic bishop
- Thomas K. Berg, American lawyer and politician
In science, medicine and technology
- Carlos Berg, Latvian-born Argentine naturalist and entomologist
- Christine Berg, American radiation oncologist and physician-scientist
- Gabriele Berg, German biologist and ecologist
- Jeremy M. Berg, the director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- Lev Berg, biologist and geographer
- Max Berg, German architect and urban planner
- Nathaniel Berg, president of the Guam medical society
- Otto Berg (scientist), German chemist, co-discoverer of the element rhenium
- Otto Karl Berg, German botanist and pharmacist
- Paul Berg, American biochemist
- Raissa L. Berg, Russian geneticist and evolutionary biologist
In sport
- Aki-Petteri Berg, Finnish ice hockey player
- Allen Berg, Canadian racing driver
- Andrea Berg (volleyball), German volleyball player
- Axel Berg (footballer), Norwegian footballer, brother of Jan Berg (footballer born 1943)
- Bill Berg (ice hockey), Canadian ice hockey player
- Dave Berg (infielder), retired Major League Baseball player
- Esmé Emmanuel Berg, South African tennis player
- Grégoire Berg, French footballer
- Haley Lanier Berg, American soccer player
- Henning Berg, Norwegian football player
- Herbert Berg (bobsleigh), German bobsledder
- Jan Berg (footballer born 1943), Norwegian footballer
- Jan Berg (footballer born 1965), Norwegian footballer
- Jan Berg (Finnish footballer)
- Justin Berg, Major League Baseball player
- Lindsey Berg, American volleyball player
- Marcus Berg, Swedish football player
- Moe Berg, American baseball player and spy
- Odd Berg (footballer), Norwegian footballer, brother of Jan Berg (footballer born 1965)
- Odd Berg (cyclist), Norwegian cyclist
- Otto Berg (athlete), Norwegian long jumper
- Patrick Berg, Norwegian footballer
- Patty Berg, American golfer
- Per Berg, Danish curler
- Rainer Berg, German footballer
- Viktor Berg, Canadian squash player
- Wilma van den Berg, Dutch sprinter
In other fields
- Bryan Berg professional cardstacker
- Gunnar Berg (Scouting), Norwegian American director of the Boy Scouts of America
- Odd Berg (ship-owner born 1894), Norwegian ship-owner
- Odd Berg (ship-owner born 1907), Norwegian ship-owner
- Paavo Berg, Finnish fighter ace
- Richard Berg, wargame designer