Burger (surname)

Burger is a West Germanic surname. It is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for freeman/burgher (German Bürger, Low German Börger) and the surname is equivalent to the English surname Burgess. In Dutch and German speaking countries it may be a toponymic surname, indicating origin from any of a number of towns ending in -burg. Notable people with the surname include:

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