Klemperer (surname)
Klemperer is a German-language occupational surname literally meaning "tinker". It is suggested that in the case of the conductor's immediate family the original name was Klopper - one who knocks on doors to get people to go to Synagogue.
The surname may refer to:
- Members of the prominent German family:
- * Otto Klemperer, Jewish German-born conductor and composer
- ** Johanna Klemperer, his wife, known professionally as Johanna Geisler
- ** Werner Klemperer, German-American actor, their son, best known for playing Colonel Klink in Hogan's Heroes, and musician
- * Georg Klemperer, Jewish German medical consultant, brother of Victor and cousin to the conductor Otto Klemperer, advised his cousin in America concerning his brain tumour.
- * Victor Klemperer, Jewish German businessman, journalist, author and literary critic
- *Otto Klemperer (physicist), German physicist and cousin to the conductor Otto Klemperer
- David Klemperer, German beach volleyball player
- Felix Klemperer, German internist
- Gustav Klemperer von Klemenau, German banker
- James von Klemperer, American architect
- Klemens von Klemperer, German-American historian
- Paul Klemperer, English economist and Edgeworth Professor of Economics at Oxford University
- Ralph von Klemperer, German banker
- Simon Klemperer, Geophysicist and Stanford University professor, brother of Paul Klemperer
- Viktor Klemperer von Klemenau, German banker
- Walter G. Klemperer, American chemist, professor at Columbia University and the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
- Wilhelm Klemperer, Rabbi
- William Klemperer, American chemist and Harvard University professor
- Wolfgang Klemperer, German-American physicist and aerospace engineer