Zimmer (surname)
Zimmer is German surname meaning "room" or "chamber". Derivative names include Zimmermann, the occupational surname meaning Carpenter, literally translated "room man".
List of people with this surname
Sciences
- Alan E. Zimmer, American neuroradiologist
- Andreas Zimmer, German neurobiologist
- Carl Zimmer, American popular science writer
- Carl Wilhelm Erich Zimmer, German zoologist
- Cheryl A. Zimmer, American conservation biologist
- John Todd Zimmer, American ornithologist
- Karl Zimmer, German physicist and radiation biologist
- Louis Zimmer, Belgian clockmaker and astronomer
- Marc Zimmer, South African chemist
Sports
- Adam Zimmer, American football coach
- Adolf Zimmer, Polish footballer
- André Zimmer, Luxembourgish sprint canoeist
- Andy Zimmer, American basketball player
- Bradley Zimmer, American baseball player
- Charles Louis "Chief" Zimmer, American baseball player
- Cyril Zimmer, Australian rules footballer
- Don Zimmer, American baseball manager and coach
- Hans-Ludwig Zimmer, German lightweight rower
- Heidi Zimmer, American deaf mountaineer
- Jean Zimmer, German footballer
- Justin Zimmer, American football player
- Kurt Zimmer, German sprint canoeist
- Kyle Zimmer, American baseball player
- Madeleine Zimmer, American field hockey player
- Maximilian Zimmer, German footballer
- Michael Zimmer (footballer), German footballer
- Mike Zimmer, American football coach, defensive coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys
- Moritz Zimmer, German footballer
- Sabine Zimmer, German race walker
- Tayliah Zimmer, Australian swimmer
- Tom Zimmer, American baseball player, coach and manager
- Werner Zimmer, German wrestler
Politics
- Bob Zimmer, Canadian politician
- Dawn Zimmer, American politician, 38th mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey
- Diana Zimmer, German politician
- Dick Zimmer, American politician
- Gabi Zimmer, German politician
- J. Eugene Zimmer, American politician
- Matthias Zimmer, German politician
- Melvin N. Zimmer, American politician
- Mike Zimmer (politician), American politician
- Nicolas Zimmer, German entrepreneur, lawyer and former politician
- Rod Zimmer, Canadian politician
- Russell Zimmer, American politician
- Susanne Zimmer, Danish politician
- Walter Zimmer, Uruguayan physician and politician
Acting
- Constance Zimmer, American actress
- Kim Zimmer, American actress
- Laurie Zimmer, former American actress
- Pierre Zimmer, French actor and film director
Music
- Hans Zimmer, German composer, best known for film scores
- Ján Zimmer, Slovak composer and pianist
- Joana Zimmer, German pop music singer
- Kinny Zimmer, Polish rapper, singer, songwriter and producer
- Norma Zimmer, American vocalist
Other
- Art Zimmer, American businessman, re-founder of Zimmer (automobile)
- Ben Zimmer, American linguist and lexicographer
- Bernard Zimmer, French screenwriter
- Dirk Zimmer, German-American artist, children's books illustrator and writer
- Dorothea Schwartz Zimmer, German painter
- Emma Zimmer, German war criminal, overseer at the Ravensbrück concentration camp executed for war crimes
- Eyck Zimmer, English chef
- Florian Zimmer, German magician
- Frederik Zimmer, Norwegian legal scholar
- George Zimmer, American businessman, founder of the Men's Wearhouse
- Gerhard Zimmer, German classical archaeologist
- Greta Zimmer, Austrian-American dental assistant and subject of the photograph V-J Day in Times Square
- Hans-Peter Zimmer, German painter and sculptor
- Heinrich Zimmer (Celticist), German Celticist
- Heinrich Zimmer, German Indologist
- Hermann Zimmer, German Baháʼí
- Jeremy Zimmer, American entertainment executive
- John Zimmer, American businessman, co-founder of Zimride
- Leone McNeil Zimmer, American stained glass artist
- Marion Zimmer Bradley, American fantasy author
- Michael Zimmer, American privacy and social media scholar
- Nathan Löb David Zimmer, English Kabbalist
- Nicolai Zimmer, Danish lawyer and Inspector of North Greenland
- Nina Zimmer, German art historian
- Patrick Benedict Zimmer, German Catholic philosopher and theologian
- Pascal Zimmer, German missing person
- Richard Zimmer, German military officer
- Robert Zimmer, American mathematician, former provost of Brown University and former president of the University of Chicago
- Robert Zimmer (philosopher), German philosopher and essayist
- Zachary Zimmer, Canadian sociologist and gerontologist
Multiple people
- Paul Zimmer (disambiguation), several people
- David Zimmer (disambiguation), several people
Fictional characters
- Anthony Zimmer, fictional character
- David Zimmer, main character in The Book of Illusions
- Leila Kwan Zimmer, a character in the Netflix series Grand Army
- Doctor Zimmer, a fictional character from the 2008 console game ''Fallout 3''