Lothar
Lothar or Lothair is a Danish, Finnish, German, Norwegian, and Swedish masculine given name, while Lotár is a Hungarian masculine given name. Both names are modern forms of the Germanic Chlothar. Notable people with this name include:
Surname
- Eli Lothar, French and Romanian photographer and cinematographer
- Ernst Lothar, Moravian-Austrian writer
- Hanns Lothar or Hanns Lothar Neutze, German actor
- Mark Lothar, German composer
- Rudolf Lothar, Hungarian-born Austrian writer
- Susanne Lothar, German actress
Given name
- Lothar Ahrendt, interior minister of the German Democratic Republic
- Lothar Albrich, Romanian hurdler
- Lothar Baumgarten, German artist
- Lothar Berg, German mathematician
- Lothar Bolz, East German politician
- Lothar Brühne, German film score composer
- Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author
- Lothar Collatz, German mathematician
- Lothar Dräger, German comic writer
- Lothar Emmerich, German football player and manager
- Lothar von Faber, German industrialist
- Lothar Forcart, Swiss zoologist
- Lothar Geisler, German football player
- Lothar Hause, East German football player
- Lothar Kolditz, German chemist and politician
- Lothar Kreyssig, German bureaucrat and opposer of "Aktion T4"
- Lothar Kurbjuweit, East German football player
- Lothar Lindtner, Norwegian actor
- Lothar Machtan, German historian, writer
- Lothar de Maizière, last Prime Minister of East Germany
- Lothar Malskat, German painter and art restorer
- Lothar Matthäus, German football player and manager, 1990 World Cup winner
- Lothar Matthes, German diver
- Lothar Meggendorfer, German illustrator
- Lothar Meyer, German chemist
- Lothar Mendes, German screenwriter and film director
- Lothar Metz, German wrestler and Olympic medalist
- Lothar Milde, East German athlete who competed mainly in the discus throw
- Lothar Müthel, German stage and film actor and director
- Lothar Osterburg, German artist
- Lothar Rendulic, Austrian war criminal and army group commander in the Wehrmacht during World War II
- Lothar von Richthofen, fighter ace and younger brother of top-scoring ace Manfred von Richthofen
- Lothar Sippel, German football player
- Lothar Späth, German politician
- Lothar Spranger, East German footballer
- Lothar von Trotha, German military commander who instigated the Herero massacre
- Lothar Ulsaß, German football player
- Lothar Wolleh, German photographer
Fictional characters
- Lothar (Legends of Chima), a character in Legends of Chima
- Lothar – comic character, sidekick to Mandrake the Magician created by Lee Falk
- Lothar – a gatekeeper in the 2016 Indian film Mohenjo Daro
- Lothar – a Nazi spy for Germany, sidekick to Nazi spy Neville Sinclair in the Rocketeer
- Lothar - character in E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Sandman
- Lothar Weiser – a spy for Socialist East Germany in Arnaldur Indriðason's book, The Draining Lake
- Anduin Lothar – a historical warrior in the Warcraft Universe
- Lothar – a robot in The Metabarons
- Lothar – a powerful Planewalker wizard in the Planescape setting for Dungeons & Dragons, likewise appearing in the game Planescape: Torment
- Lothar of the Hill People - a character in an SNL skit played by Mike Myers