Blumberg (surname)
Blumberg is a surname of German origin. The word is composed of "blum(e)" (which means "flower") and "berg" (which means "mount, mountain"), and refers to hilly places covered with flowers. German, Dutch, Scandinavian and anglicized variant spellings are Blumenberg, Blomberg, Bloemberg and Bloomberg.
List of people surnamed Blumberg
- Alan Blumberg, oceanographer
- Albert Blumberg (born 1906), philosophy professor who went on to be active within the American Communist party
- Alex Blumberg, producer for the radio and television show This American Life
- Axel Blumberg (born 1981), Argentine engineering student who was kidnapped and killed in March 2004
- Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925-2011), American scientist who identified the Hepatitis B virus
- Carol Joyce Blumberg, American statistician
- George Blumberg (1903–1960), New York politician
- Jacob Moritz Blumberg (1873–1955), German Jewish surgeon and gynaecologist
- Juan Carlos Blumberg, Argentine textile entrepreneur and father of Axel Blumberg
- Judy Blumberg (born 1960), American ice dancer
- Mark Blumberg (born 1961), American psychologist
- Rachel Blumberg, American musician
- Skip Blumberg, American video artist and TV producer
- Stephen Blumberg (born 1948), American convicted schizophrenic bibliomaniac
See also
- Blumenberg (surname)
- Bloomberg (disambiguation)
- Blomberg (surname)
- Blumbergs (masculine), Blumberga (feminine), the Latvian-language spelling of the surname
- Jeff Bloemberg (born 1968), Canadian ice-hockey player
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