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Places

• Berger, Missouri

Berger is a city located in Franklin County, Missouri. ...

People

Berger is a relatively common last name. It means mountaineer in Dutch and German, and shepherd in French. Notable people by that name include:

Politics

• Maria Berger (born 1956), Austrian politician and Member of the European Parliament
• Óscar Berger (born 1946), current President of Guatemala
• Philip E. Berger (born 1952), US politician
• Sandy Berger (born 1945), US National Security Advisor to President Bill Clinton
• Thomas Berger (born 1933), Canadian politician
• Victor L. Berger (1860–1929), US politician

Maria Berger (born 19 August 1956 in Perg, Upper Austria) is an Austrian politician and Member of the European Parliament. ... Pres. ... Philip Edward Berger (born 8 August 1952) is a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the states twenty-sixth Senate district, including constituents in Guilford and Rockingham counties. ... This article is about the American national security advisor. ... Thomas Berger (born March 23, 1933) is a Canadian politician. ... Victor Berger, photograph and caption from a 1920 Literary Digest article Victor Louis (Luitpold) Berger (February 28, 1860 – August 7, 1929) was a United States politician and a founding member of the Socialist Party of America. ...

Sport

• David Mark Berger (1944–1972), American-born Israeli weightlifter and one of the 11 hostages murdered in the Munich massacre
• Lars Berger (born 1979), Norwegian biathlete
• Gerhard Berger (born 1959), Austrian Grand Prix racing driver
• Patrik Berger (born 1973), Czech football (soccer) player
• Sam Berger (1900–1992), Canadian football team owner

David Mark Berger (June 24, 1944 – September 6, 1972) was an American Jewish weightlifter for the Israeli Olympic team in 1972. ... Lars Berger (born May 1, 1979, in Levanger) is a Norwegian biathlete and cross country skier. ... Gerhard Berger, born August 27, 1959 in Wörgl is a popular Austrian ex-Grand Prix racing driver who owns 50% of Formula One team Scuderia Toro Rosso. ... Patrik Berger (born 10 November 1973 in Prague) is a Czech football player. ... Samuel Sam Berger (1900 - July 24, 1992) was a Canadian owner of the Canadian Football Leagues Ottawa Rough Riders and Montreal Alouettes and president of the CFL. A lawyer by profession, he was an early football fan who became involved with the Ottawa Rough Riders team as its legal...

Music

• Erna Berger (1900–1990), German soprano singer
• Henri Berger (1844–1929), Hawaii musician
• Karl Berger (born 1935), German jazz musician
• Michel Berger (1947–1992), French singer and songwriter
• Wilhelm Georg Berger (1929–1993), Romanian composer and musician
• David W. Berger (born 1984), German freestyle legend

Erna Berger (1900-1990) was a German soprano, born in Dresden. ... Henri Berger, standing in front, is the Father of the Royal Hawaiian Band, the oldest municipal band in the United States. ... Karl H. Berger (born March 19, 1935 in Heidelberg, Germany) is a musicologist with a PhD in Music Esthetics, jazz composer, jazz vibraphone and piano player. ... Michel Berger (28 November 1947, Neuilly-sur-Seine - 2 August 1992, Ramatuelle), born Michel-Jean Hamburger, was a very successful French singer and songwriter. ... Wilhelm Georg Berger was a composer, musicologist, violist, conductor (* December 4, 1929, Rupea/Reps; † March 08, 1993, Bucharest) Categories: | | | ...

Culture

• Helmut Berger (born 1944), Austrian actor
• John Berger (born 1926), British art critic, novelist, painter, and author
• Karen Berger, British comic book editor
• Oscar Berger (cartoonist) (1901–1997), Czech
• Senta Berger (born 1941), Austrian actress
• Thomas Berger (born 1924), US novelist
• Wilhelm Peterson Berger, Swedish musician

Helmut Berger (born May 29th 1944 as Helmut Steinberger in Bad Ischl, Austria) is an Austrian actor. ... John Peter Berger (born November 5, 1926) is an art critic, novelist, painter, and author. ... Karen Berger is the editor of the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics and one of the most influential comic book editors of the 1990s. ... Oscar Berger (May 12, 1901–May 15, 1997) was a well-known caricaturist and cartoonist. ... Senta Berger in When Women Had Tails / 1970. ... Thomas Louis Berger (born July 20, 1924) is a U.S. novelist. ... Wilhelm Peterson Berger was a significant Swedish composer. ...

Science

• Alwin Berger (1871–1931), German botanist
• Hans Berger (1873–1941), German neuroscientist
• Lee R. Berger (born 1965), Explorer and Paleoanthropologist
• Peter L. Berger (born 1929), American sociologist and theologian
• Richard Berger (1894–1984), Swiss professor of design, decoration, and art history

Alwin Berger (1871 - 20 April 1931) was a German botanist best known for his contribution to the nomenclature of succulent plants, particularly agaves and cacti. ... Hans Berger was born in May 21, 1873, in Neuses near Coburg, Thuringia, Germany. ... Professor Lee Rogers Berger, also known as Rod when he was younger, was born in Shawnee Mission Kansas in 1965 but grew up in Georgia in the United States but has lived in South Africa since 1989 and has been a Permanent Resident of South Africa since 1993. ... Peter Ludwig Berger (born March 17, 1929) is an American sociologist well known for his work The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (New York, 1966). ... Richard (Ric) Berger (1894-1984) was a Swiss professor of design, decoration, and art history. ...

Other people

• Gottlob Berger (1896–1975), German SS general
• Josef Berger (1903–1981), American journalist, accused of being a Soviet spy
• Roza Berger (1889–1945), 1945 Krakow pogrom victim

Gottlob Berger (July 16, 1896 - January 5, 1975) was a German SS general during World War II. From 1940, he was Chief of Staff for the military SS and head of the SS main leadership office. ... Josef Berger, or Joseph Isadore Berger (1903-1971), wrote under the pen name Jeremiah Digges, was an extraordinarily well-connected journalist employed by the United States Department of Justice in 1942 as a speech-writer for the Attorney-General, Francis Biddle, and later also secretary to the chairman of the... Roza Berger the only verified named victim of the 1945 Kraków pogrom[1], was born Reizel Leser in Kraków on 20 June 1889[2]. She was married in Kraków on 17 September 1911 to Josef Berger. ... Pogrom (from Russian: ; from громить IPA: - to wreak havoc, to demolish violently) is a form of riot directed against a particular group, whether ethnic, religious or other, and characterized by destruction of their homes, businesses and religious centres. ...

Other uses

• Berger's disease, or IgA-Nephropathie (IgAN), a form of the Glomerulonephritis disease
• Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, European strategy consultancy firm

IgA nephropathy (also known as IgA nephritis, IgAN, Bergers disease and synpharyngitic glomerulonephritis) is a form of glomerulonephritis (inflammation of the glomeruli of the kidney). ... Roland Berger Strategy Consultants founded in 1967, has grown to become one of the worlds leading strategy consultancy firms. ...

See also

• Burger
• Burgers
• Burgher
• Bürger
• Birger

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