German (surname)

German or Germán is the surname of the following people:

Art and music

• Aleksei Yuryevich German (1938–2013), Soviet Russian filmmaker
• Aleksei Alekseivich German, Russian film director and screenwriter
• Anna German, Polish singer
• Edward German, English composer
• Lauren German, American actress
• Robert German, American singer, guitarist, and songwriter
• Tülay German (born 1935), Turkish female pop folk singer
• Yuri German, Soviet and Russian writer

Politics

• Lindsey German, British anti-war activist
• Mike German, Welsh politician
• Obadiah German, American politician and lawyer
• William Manley German, Canadian politician and lawyer
• Yael German, Israeli politician, first female mayor of Herziliya

Sport

• Antonio German, English footballer
• Bert German, American football coach
• Domingo Germán, Dominican baseball player
• Esteban Germán, Dominican baseball player
• Frank German (born 1997), American baseball player
• Jammi German, American National Football League player
• Jim German, American National Football League player
• Les German, American Major League Baseball player
• Natalya German (born 1963), Soviet sprint athlete
• Peter German, Australian rules footballer
• Ruslan German, Russian footballer
• Tamás German, Hungarian footballer

Other

• Ella German, friend of presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald
• Eugênio German, Brazilian chess master
• Jeff German (1953-2022), American journalist
• Merlin German, U.S. Marine

See also

Surnames of different origins meaning "German":

• Deutsch (surname) (German)
• Douch (English)
• Gherman (Romanian)
• Němec (Czech)
• Németh (Hungarian)
• Tedesco (surname) (Italian)