Berger is a surname in both German and French, although there is no etymological connection between the names in the two languages. The French surname is an occupational name for a shepherd, from Old French bergier (Late Latin berbicarius, from berbex 'ram'). The German surname derives from the word Berg, the word for "mountain" or "hill", and means "a resident on a mountain or hill", or someone from a toponym Berg, derived from the same. The pronunciation of the English name may sometimes be , following the French phonetics the German one is , anglicized as . Notable people with this surname
Berger is a surname in both German and French, although there is no etymological connection between the names in the two languages. The French surname is an occupational name for a shepherd, from Old French bergier (Late Latin berbicarius, from berbex 'ram'). The German surname derives from the word Berg, the word for "mountain" or "hill", and means "a resident on a mountain or hill", or someone from a toponym Berg, derived from the same. The pronunciation of the English name may sometimes be , following the French phonetics the German one is , anglicized as . Notable people with this surname include:
==Politics== Charles W. Berger (1936–2016), American politician Gianna Berger (born 1999), Swiss politician James S. Berger (1903–1984), American politician Jan Johannis Adriaan Berger (1918–1978), Dutch politician Józef Berger (1901–1962), Polish theologian and politician Karine Berger (born 1973), French politician Laurent Berger (born 1968), French trade unionist Lieselotte Berger (1920–1989), German politician Luciana Berger (born 1981), British Liberal Democrat politician Maria Berger (born 1956), Austrian politician Markus Berger (1913–1988), German politician Mateusz Berger (born 1986), Polish politician Matthias Berger (born 1968), German politician Melanie Berger (born 1982), German politician Óscar Berger (born 1946), President of Guatemala Ossian Berger (1849–1914), Swedish politician and lawyer Phil Berger (born 1952), American politician Samuel D. Berger (1911–1980), American diplomat Sandy Berger (1945–2015), American attorney and politician Thomas R. Berger (1933–2021), Canadian politician Tina Berger (born 1981), Austrian politician Ulrich Berger (1921–2003), German politician Victor L. Berger (1860–1929), American politician
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