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Butler
family name
Kaiser
family name
Fuller
family name
Plotnikov
Plotnikov (feminine: Plotnikova) is a Russian-language occupational surname derived from the occupation of carpenter (plotnik in Russian). Sometimes it may be transliterated as Plotnikoff.
Dudka
Dudka ( [ˈdutka])) is a Ukrainian, Russian and Polish surname derived from the Eastern Slavic word дудка for "fife", "pipe" that is also present in the Ukrainian, Polish and Russian diaspora. Notable people with the name Dudka include: Dariusz Dudka (born 1983), Polish football player Mykyta Dudka (born 2000), Ukrainian football player Stanley Dudka (1923–2008), Canadian fishery officer Vyacheslav Dudka (born 1960), Russian politician.
Milman
Milman may refer to:
Meyer
family name
Baker
family name
Suhr
Suhr can refer to:
Clark
Clark is an English language surname with historical links to England, Scotland, and Ireland, ultimately derived from the Latin clericus meaning "scribe", "secretary" or a scholar within a religious order, referring to someone who was educated. Clark evolved from "clerk". The first records of the name are found in 12th-century England. The name has many variants. It is often used as the Anglicized variant of Irish O'Cleary, Cleary.
Breuer
Breuer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Palmer
family name
Evangelista
Evangelista may refer to:
Tkachenko
Tkachenko () is a common Ukrainian surname. Tkachenko is the central and eastern Ukrainian version of the western Ukrainian surname Tkachuk, meaning "weaver". Like other Ukrainian names ending in -ko or -chenko, their heritage is rooted in the Polyans tribe that lived near modern-day Kyiv.
Murphy
Murphy is a surname of Irish origin meaning 'sea warrior'.
Kähler
Kähler may refer to:
Eisler
Eisler is a Jewish surname of German origin. Notable people with the surname include: Barry Eisler, American novelist Brenda Eisler, Canadian long jumper Georg Eisler, Austrian painter Gerhart Eisler, German journalist and politician Hanns Eisler, Austrian composer Jerzy Eisler, Polish historian Kim Isaac Eisler, American author Lloyd Eisler, Canadian figure skater Otto Eisler (1893-1968), Czech architect Paul Eisler, Austrian engineer Riane Eisler, American sociologist Robert Eisler, Austrian Jewish art historian and Biblical scholar
Weidmann
Weidmann is a German surname derived from the meaning "hunter". Notable people with the surname include:
Terzić
Terzić () is a Bosnian and Serbian surname, derived from the word terzija, meaning "tailor". Notable people with the surname include:
Bannister
Bannister is a variant spelling of banister. However, it is a relatively common proper name as well.
Parker
family name
Diller
Diller has several uses including:
Kuznetsov
Kuznetsov, Kuznyetsov, Kuznetsoff or Kouznetsov (; feminine: Kuznetsova, ) is the third most common Russian surname, an equivalent of the English "Smith" (derived from a Russian word kuznets () that means 'blacksmith').
Granata
Granata is an Italian word for “grenade”.
Keil
Keil is a surname, and may refer to:
Schaeffer
Schaeffer is a German surname. It is a variant of Schaefer, from German word schäfer ("shepherd") and of Schaffer, from a noun (meaning steward or bailiff) derived from Middle High German schaffen.
Neugebauer
Neugebauer is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
House of Kettler
The House of Ketteler (also Kettler) is the name of an old and distinguished Baltic German noble family that originated in Westphalia.
Bondar
Bondar (Cyrillic: Бондар, Бондарь) is a common surname of East Slavic origin meaning "cooper" (barrel maker). Notable people with the surname include:
Knight
family name
Gandhi
family name
Fletcher
family name
Barker
family name
Tkachuk
Tkachuk, Tkatchuk (Ukrainian: Ткачук) is a common Ukrainian surname in Ukraine and the Ukrainian diaspora. The name in Ukrainian stands for the name of occupation, weaver. The names that end in -chuk or -czuk are of the western Ukrainian origin. Polish-language variant: Tkaczuk. Notable people with the surname include:
Varga
family name
Smolar
Smolar is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Marshall
name disambiguation
Patel
Patel is an Indian surname or title, predominantly found in the state of Gujarat, representing the community of land-owning farmers and later (with the British East India Company) businessmen, agriculturalists and merchants. Traditionally the title is a status name referring to the village chieftains during medieval times, and was later retained as successive generations stemmed out into communities of landowners. Circa 2015 there are roughly 500,000 Patels outside India, including about 150,000 in the United Kingdom and about 150,000 in the United States. As of the 2000 U.S. census, nearly 1
Pastori
Pastori is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Turner
family name
Page
family name
Rotaru
Rotaru is a Romanian surname meaning "wheelwright". Notable people with the surname include:
Visser
Visser () is a Dutch occupational surname, meaning "fisherman". In 2007, nearly 50,000 people in the Netherlands carried the name, making it the eighth most populous name in the country. Common variant forms of the name are De Visser, Visscher, and Vissers.
Peltonen
Peltonen is a Finnish occupational surname, which is derived from pelto, meaning "field" in English. Notable people with the surname include:
Kovalchuk
Kovalchuk (Ukrainian and Russian: Ковальчук), Kavalchuk (), Kowalczuk, Later Kovalčuk (Polish), Covalciuc (Romanian), also transliterated as Kowalchuk (in the North American diaspora), is a common East Slavic surname (one of the most popular in Ukraine). The Kovalchuk name extends back to before 1500 AD in Kievan Rus.
Wechsler
Wechsler (German: exchanger) may refer to:
Tanner
family name
Favre
Favre is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Schütz
Schütz (also spelled Schuetz without Umlaut ü) is a German surname, deriving from Schütze (shooter/marksman). Notable people with the surname include:
Spindler
Spindler or Špindler (English, German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a spindle maker) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Kowalczyk / Kovalchyk
Kowalczyk is the fifth most common surname in Poland (98,739 people in 2009). The name comes from the word "blacksmith".
Nagel
family name
Graf
family name
Puusepp
Puusepp is an Estonian surname meaning 'carpenter' (literally, 'wood-smith') and may refer to the following individuals: Edgar Puusepp (1911–1982), Estonian wrestler Endel Puusepp (1909–1996), Estonian Soviet-era World War II pilot Ludvig Puusepp (1875–1942), Estonian surgeon, researcher and the world's first professor of neurosurgery Markus Puusepp (born 1986), Estonian orienteering competitor Priidu Puusepp (1887–1972), Estonian educator and linguist Raivo Puusepp (born 1960), Estonian architect
Wright
Wright is an occupational surname originating in England and Scotland. The term 'Wright' comes from the circa 700 AD Old English word wryhta or wyrhta, meaning "worker or shaper of wood". Later, the word referred to any occupational worker and came to be used as a surname.
Brewer
family name
Nauta
Wikimedia disambiguation page
Cordier
Cordier, De Cordier is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Spencer
family name
Ward
family name