Graf (surname)

Graf is an ancient German and Swiss rooted name. In the United States, there are 16,620 people with this last name making it the 2445th most popular surname. Some notable people with this surname include:

  • Anton Graf (1811-1867), German theologian, private docent at University of Tübingen
  • Andreas Christoph Graf (1701–1776 Augsburg), teacher, poet & author of "The Polite Student" (1745)
  • Andreas Graf (born 1985), Australian track cyclist
  • Conrad Graf (1782–1851), Austrian-German pianoforte builder
  • Christian Ernst Graf (1723–1804), from 1764 on called "Graaf", German/Netherland composer (Johann's son)
  • Daniel Graf (born 1977), German football player
  • Ernst Graf (1909–1988), Swiss artist
  • Erwin Graf (1917–2005), American basketball player
  • Friedrich Graf (17th cent), German politician Bavaria
  • Friedrich Hartmann Graf (1727–1795), German Composer (Johann's son)
  • Haakon Graf (born 1955), Norwegian musician
  • Holly Graf (born c. 1963), U.S. naval officer
  • Johann Graf (born 1946), German composer (father of Friedrich C. and Christian E. Graf)
  • Jürgen Graf (born 1951), Swiss historian
  • Karl Heinrich Graf (1815–1869), German Old Testament scholar and orientalist
  • Leopold Graf-Selinger (born 1967), Austrian Architect & Urbanist (Arch. without Frontiers), former diplomat. service, later on Ambassador of "good will", Researcher & Author
  • Martin Graf (born 1960), Austrian politician
  • Mirosław Graf (born 1959), Polish Ski Jumper
  • Oskar Maria Graf (1894–1967), German poet and novelist
  • Paul David Graf (1950–2001), American actor
  • Rahel Graf (born 1989), Swiss footballer
  • Randy Graf (born 1957), former member of the Arizona State House
  • Rolf Graf (born 1932), Swiss cyclist
  • Rolf Graf (musician) (1960–2013), Norwegian musician
  • Steffi Graf (born 1969), German tennis player
  • Stephanie Graf (born 1973), Austrian athlete
  • Willi Graf (1918–1943), German martyr of 20th century, member of the White Rose resistance group in Nazi Germany
  • Wolfram Graf (16th cent), German lawyer Nördlingen
  • Urs Graf (1485 – c. 1529), Swiss Renaissance painter and engraver

See also
  • Graff (disambiguation)
  • Graaf (disambiguation)
  • Graf
  • Grafs (disambiguation)
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