Hartwig (surname)
Hartwig is a Germanic-language surname, literally meaning hard in battle.
Finnish variants of the name, derived from the North German form Harteke, include Hartik, Hartikka, Harto, Hartto, Harttu, Hartus, Harttula, Hartikkala, Hartoinen, Hartuinen and most often, Hartikainen, a Savonian noble variant.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Carter Hartwig, American professional football player
- Clayton Hartwig, American sailor accused of causing the 1989 explosion of the 16" gun turret on the USS Iowa
- Edward Hartwig, Polish photographer
- Ernst Hartwig, German astronomer
- Eva Brigitta Hartwig, later Vera Zorina, German prima ballerina active in America
- Gay Hartwig, American voice actress
- Grant Hartwig, American professional baseball player
- Gus Hartwig, American football player
- Ina Hartwig, German author, journalist, culture politician
- Heike Hartwig, German Olympic shot putter
- Jeff Hartwig, American Olympic polevaulter
- Jimmy Hartwig, German professional football player
- John F. Hartwig, Henry Rapoport Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley
- Josef Hartwig, German sculptor, Bauhaus teacher, and designer of an iconic chess set
- Julia Hartwig, Polish poet and translator
- Justin Hartwig, American professional football player
- Marie Hartwig, American professor of physical education and advocate of women's sports
- Nicholas Hartwig, Russian diplomat; ambassador to Persia 1906–08 and to Serbia 1904–14
- Rex Hartwig, Australian professional tennis player
- Ingmar Hartwig, German designer
- Peter Hartwig, Dutch painter
- Peter Hartwig (missionary), 19th century German missionary to Africa
- Roland Hartwig, German politician
- Wolf C. Hartwig, German film producer