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. 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 , following the French phonetics
; the German one is, anglicized as . Notable people with this surname include:
Politics
- Charles W. Berger, American politician
- Gianna Berger, Swiss politician
- James S. Berger, American politician
- Jan Johannis Adriaan Berger, Dutch politician
- Józef Berger, Polish theologian and politician
- Karine Berger, French politician
- Laurent Berger, French trade unionist
- Lieselotte Berger, German politician
- Luciana Berger, British Liberal Democrat politician
- Maria Berger, Austrian politician
- Markus Berger, German politician
- Mateusz Berger, Polish politician
- Matthias Berger, German politician
- Melanie Berger, German politician
- Óscar Berger, President of Guatemala
- Ossian Berger, Swedish politician and lawyer
- Phil Berger, American politician
- Samuel D. Berger, American diplomat
- Sandy Berger, American attorney and politician
- Thomas R. Berger, Canadian politician
- Tina Berger, Austrian politician
- Ulrich Berger, German politician
- Victor L. Berger, American politician
Sports
- Alfred Berger, Austrian pair skater
- Andrea Berger, American tennis player
- Andreas Berger , Austrian sprinter
- Ann-Katrin Berger, German football goalkeeper
- Barbara Berger, American baseball player
- Chris Berger, Dutch sprinter
- Daniel Berger, American golfer
- David Mark Berger, Israeli weightlifter; one of 11 hostages murdered in the Munich massacre
- Frederick Berger, American baseball umpire
- Gerhard Berger, Austrian racing driver
- Grace Berger, American basketball player
- Guylaine Berger, French swimmer
- Han Berger, Dutch football coach
- Ike Berger, American weightlifter
- Ilana Berger, Israeli tennis player
- Jalen Berger, American football player
- Jan Berger, Czech-Swiss football player
- Jay Berger, American tennis player
- Johann Berger, Austrian chess master, theorist, endgame study composer, author and editor
- Lars Berger, Norwegian biathlete
- Mark Berger, Canadian judoka
- Maxie Berger, Canadian boxer
- Norma Berger, American baseball player, sister of Barbara
- Ola Berger, Norwegian ski mountaineer and cross-country skier
- Olia Berger, Canadian judoka
- Patrik Berger, Czech football player
- Ruud Berger, Dutch football player
- Sam Berger, Canadian football team owner
- Samuel Berger, American boxer
- Ségolène Berger, French tennis player
- Steve Berger, American mixed martial artist
- Tora Berger, Norwegian biathlete, sister of Lars
- Wally Berger, American baseball player
Music
- Arthur Berger, American composer
- Christian Wilhelm Berger, Romanian composer and musician
- Dominique II Berger, Flemish organist and carillonneur
- Erna Berger, German soprano singer
- Henri Berger, Hawaiian musician
- Karl Berger, German jazz musician and educator
- Ludwig Berger , German composer and piano teacher
- Margaret Berger, Norwegian singer, songwriter, and disc jockey
- Michel Berger, French singer and songwriter
- Wilhelm Berger, German composer
- Wilhelm Georg Berger, Romanian composer
- Wilhelm Peterson Berger, Swedish musician
Culture
- Alex Berger,, American producer, creator, consultant and entrepreneur
- Charlotta Berger, Swedish poet and novelist
- Edward Berger, Austrian-Swiss director
- Élie Berger, French archivist and palaeographer
- Erika Berger, German television presenter and writer
- Georgette Berger, Belgian wife of the painter René Magritte
- Helmut Berger, Austrian actor
- Howard Berger, American makeup artist
- John Berger, British art critic, novelist, painter, and author
- Jonah Berger, American writer and professor
- Karen Berger, American comic book editor
- Katya Berger , British actress
- Marco Berger, Argentine film director and screenwriter
- Maurice Berger American cultural historian, curator, and critic
- Nicole Berger, French actress
- Nicole Berger , American actress, model, and pianist
- Oscar Berger , Slovak cartoonist
- Pablo Berger, Spanish film director
- Petra Berger, Dutch singer, composer, photographer, and actress
- Robert Berger , American film producer
- Senta Berger, Austrian actress
- Thomas Berger , American novelist
- Wiesław Adam Berger, Polish writer
- William Berger, Austrian-American actor
- Yves Berger, French writer and editor
Academics
- Alwin Berger, German botanist
- André Berger, Belgian climatologist
- Beverly Berger, American physicist
- Hans Berger, German neuroscientist
- Harriet Berger, American political scientist
- James Berger , American statistician
- Jeffrey W. Berger, American physician and engineer
- Jerry Berger, American journalist
- Johann Gottfried von Berger, German physician
- Josef Berger , Czech biomedical engineer and haematologist
- Lee R. Berger, American-born South African explorer and paleoanthropologist
- Leszek Berger, Polish herpetologist and malacologist
- Marcel Berger, French mathematician
- Paul R. Berger, American engineer
- Peter B. Berger, American cardiologist
- Peter L. Berger, Austrian-born American sociologist and theologian
- Richard Berger, Swiss professor of design, decoration, and art history
- Robert Berger , American mathematician
- Wolfgang H. Berger, German-American oceanographer
Other professions
- Carolyn Berger, American judge
- Daniel Berger , German engraver
- David Berger , German theologian
- Gaston Berger, French futurist, industrialist, philosopher and state manager
- Georges Berger, Belgian racing driver
- Gottlob Berger, German Schutzstaffel general
- Irene Berger, American judge
- Josef Berger , American journalist, accused of being a Soviet spy
- Patricia Wilson Berger, American librarian
- Roland Berger, German entrepreneur and philanthropist
- Roza Berger, 1945 Kraków pogrom victim
- Theo Berger, German criminal
Fictional
- Erika Berger from the Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson