Sommer

Sommer is a surname, from the German, Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian languages word for the season "summer".

Notable people with this name include:

A–L

Alfred Sommer (born 1943), American academic
Alice Herz-Sommer (1903–2014), Czech-born Jewish pianist, oldest Holocaust survivor
António de Sommer Champalimaud (1918–2004), Portuguese banker and industrialist
Bert Sommer (1949–1990), American musician and actor
Christine Sommer (born 1970), Austrian actress
Coleen Sommer (born 1960), American high jumper
Daniel Sommer (1850–1940), key figure in the Restoration Movement
Édouard Sommer (born 1822), French scholar
Elke Sommer (born 1940), German actress
Erik Sommer (born 1978), artist
Frederick Sommer (1905–1999), artist
Gerhard Sommer (born 1921), Nazi officer
Giorgio Sommer (1834–1914), 19th-century photographer
Günter Sommer (born c. 1943), German jazz musician
Hans Sommer (SS officer) (born 1914), Nazi officer (SS-Obersturmführer)
Hans Sommer (composer) (1837–1922), German opera composer
Hans Sommer (composer, born 1904) (1904–2000), German film music composer
Jason Sommer, American poet and academic
Joe Sommer (1858–1938), American baseball player
Josef Sommer (born 1934), American film actor
Johann Wilhelm Ernst Sommer (1881–1952), bishop of the Methodist Church
Juergen Sommer (born 1969) American soccer goalkeeper
Keith P. Sommer (born 1946), Republican politician
Kostas Sommer (born 1975), Greek actor
Luke Elliott Sommer (born 1986), former United States Army Ranger and bank robber

Manfred Sommer (1933–2007), Spanish comics creator
Michael Sommer (born 1952), chairman of Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (Federation of German trade unions)
Mike Sommer (born 1934), American football player
Peter Sommer, Danish singer-songwriter
Ralf J. Sommer, German biologist specializing in evolutionary developmental biology
Ralph Frederick Sommer (1898–1971), one of the endodontics pioneers
Raymond Sommer (1906–1950), French racing driver
Renate Sommer (born 1958), German politician (CDU)
Rich Sommer (born 1978), American actor
Robert Sommer, distinguished professor of psychology
Robert Sommer (psychiatrist) (1864–1937), German psychiatrist and genealogist
Roger Sommer, French aviator
Roy Sommer (born 1957), American ice hockey player
Scott Sommer (1951–1993), American author
Thelma Thall “Tybie” Sommer, née Thelma Thall (born 1924), American two-time world table tennis champion.
Theo Sommer (born 1930), German journalist
Tim Sommer, American musician and record producer
Vladimír Sommer (1921–1997), Czech composer
William Sommer (1867–1949), American modernist painter
Yann Sommer (born 1988), Swiss footballer

Dr Jochen Sommer, the fictional editor answering readers' questions (agony uncle) of the German youth magazine Bravo
The Story of Mr Sommer, a German novel
Sommer (TV series), a Danish TV-drama aired on DR1 in 2008
Bobbi "Blade" Sommer, a character from Batman Beyond

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