Goethe (surname)
Goethe is a German surname. It is best known for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .
It belongs to the group of surnames derived from given names, in this case given names in Got-, in most cases likely Gottfried. Variants of the surname include Göth, Goeth and Göthke, Götke.
The name is comparatively rare; the German phonebook has 176 entries for Göthe and 168 entries for Goethe; 179 entries for Göth and 28 entries for Goeth; 11 entries for Götke and 2 entries for Göthke.
List of people with the surname
Members of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's family bearing the surname:- his great-grandfather, Hans Christian Göthe, a blacksmith of Kannawurf, Thuringia, married Sibylla Werner
- his grandfather Friedrich Georg Göthe, lived in Lyon but in 1685 with the suspension of the Edict of Nantes was forced to move to Frankfurt.
- his parents, Johann Caspar Goethe and Catharina Elisabeth Goethe, née Textor
- his wife and former mistress Christiane von Goethe née Vulpius
- their son August von Goethe, and his wife Ottilie von Goethe, née von Pogwisch.
- Amon Göth, SS functionary
- Bror Geijer Göthe, Swedish artist
- Charles Goethe, American activist
- Dieter Göthe, East German slalom canoer
- Erik Gustaf Göthe Swedish sculptor
- Florian Gothe retired German football defender
- Franz Goethe, German artist
- Johann Friedrich Eosander von Göthe — German Late-Baroque architect
- Jurgen Gothe Canadian radio host
- Matthias Goethe German-Australian pastor
- Odd Christian Gøthe Norwegian civil servant and politician
- Oliver Goethe Danish-German racing driver
- Staffan Göthe Swedish playwright, actor and director