Georg (given name)

Georg

Pronunciation	German: [ˈɡeːɔʁk] Swedish: [ˈjěː.ɔrj]
Gender	Male
Language(s)	German
Origin
Meaning	"Farmer"
Other names
See also	Đorđe, George, Georges, Georgios, Georgy, Giorgio, Gorka, Jerzy, Jörg, Jorge, Jørgen, Jürgen, Jüri, Örjan, Yrjö, Yuri

Georg is a male given name in mostly Northern European countries and may refer to:

In creative culture

• Georg, Baron von Ortzen, German poet and author
• Georg Baselt, German actor
• Georg Blomstedt, Swedish actor
• Georg Böhm, German organist
• Georg Büchner, German playwright
• Georg Brandl Egloff, American composer
• Georg Fabricius, Protestant German poet
• Georg Gerster, Swiss photographer
• George Frideric Handel (Georg Friedrich Händel in German), German composer
• Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet
• Georg Løkkeberg, Norwegian actor
• Georg Maier, German actor and theatre director
• Georg Listing, bassist for the German Rock Band Tokio Hotel
• Georg Malmstén, Finnish singer, composer
• Georg Matthias Monn, Austrian composer
• Georg Muffat, French composer
• Georg Ots, Estonian opera singer
• Georg Albert Ruthenberg, guitarist for the American rock band Foo Fighters
• Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor
• Georg Stahlberg, Estonian opera singer and music pedagogue
• Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet
• Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer
• Georg von Trapp, headed the Austrian singing von Trapp family
• Georg Tintner, Austrian conductor
• Georg Trakl, Austrian poet
• Georg Trump, German graphics, typeface and postage stamp designer
• Georg Joseph Vogler, German composer
• Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian composer
• Georg Hólm, bassist for the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós

In science

• Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist
• Georg Cantor, German mathematician
• Georg Forchhammer, Danish physicist and educator
• Georg Groddeck, German physician whom Freud credits for the Id
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher
• Georg Hartung (c. 1822 - c. 1891), a pioneering German geologist
• Georg Major, German Lutheran theologian
• Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician
• Georg Ohm, German physicist
• Georg Pawer (Bauer), German scholar and scientist, the father of mineralogy
• Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist
• Georg Joachim Rheticus, cartographer and scientific instrument maker
• Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist
• Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist
• Georg Steller, German naturalist
• Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian philologist
• Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• Georg Alexander Pick, Austrian mathematician

In politics

• Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia
• Georg Andersson (politician) (born 1936), Swedish politician
• Georg Bissmark (1871–1941), Swedish jurist and politician
• Georg Gothein (1857–1940), German politician
• Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany
• Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of Germany
• Georg Meri, Estonian diplomat, literary scholar and translator
• Georg Pelisaar, Estonian journalist and politician
• Georg Ritter von Schönerer, Austrian politician
• Georg Schätzel (1875–1934), German jurist and politician
• Georg, Count Palatine of Simmern-Sponheim
• Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony
• Georg, Duke of Hohenberg
• Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
• Georg, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
• Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen
• Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
• Georg, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
• Georg Leo Graf von Caprivi de Caprera de Montecuccoli, known as Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of the German Empire

Other

• Georg Reinbold von Aroldingen und Eltzingen, German military officer
• Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish soldier
• Georg Gänswein, German prelate of the Catholic Church
• Georg Hackenschmidt, Estonian strongman, professional wrestler and sports philosopher
• Georg Hellat, Estonian architect
• Georg Linnamäe, Estonian rally driver
• Georg Lurich, Estonian Greco-Roman wrestler and strongman
• Georg Meri, Estonian diplomat, literary scholar and translator
• Georg Niedermeier, German association football player
• Georg Simmel, German thinker
• Georg Thomas, German military commander
• Georg, Truchsess von Waldburg, Swabian League army commander
• Georg Werthner, Austrian decathlete
• Spiders Georg, an Internet meme

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Georg
• Georg (disambiguation)
• George (disambiguation)
• Örjan (given name)