Cramer
Cramer /ˈkreɪmər/ is a surname. A British surname, with variant spellings such as Cranmere, Cranmer, Crammer.[1][2] It can also be an Anglicized version of the German surname Krämer (pronounced [ˈkʁɛːmɐ]) which is an old term for the profession of traveling merchants in the Late Middle Ages. The meaning later changed to "merchants trading with different, rather small things".[3] See also: Kramer (disambiguation).
People
- Anthony Cramer, appellant in Cramer v. United States (U.S. Supreme Court, 1945)
- Carl Eduard Cramer (1831–1901), Swiss botanist
- Casey Cramer (born 1982), American football player
- Clayton Cramer, American historian and software engineer
- Daniel Cramer (1568–1637), German Lutheran theologian
- Doc Cramer (1905–1990), American baseball player
- Douglas S. Cramer, American TV producer
- Dylan Cramer (born 1958), Canadian jazz musician
- Ernst Cramer (architect) (1898–1980), Swiss landscape architect
- Ernst Cramer (politician) (1960), Dutch politician
- Floyd Cramer (1933–1997), American pianist
- Franz Cramer (violinist) (1772–1848), English violinist and Master of the Queen's Music
- Gabriel Cramer (1704–1752), Swiss mathematician, discoverer of Cramer's rule
- Cramer brothers, Gabriel and Philibert Cramer, 18th century Swiss publishers
- Grant Cramer (born 1951), American actor
- Hank Cramer (born 1953), American folk singer
- Hans Cramer (1896–1968), German general
- Harald Cramér (1893–1985), Swedish mathematician
- Jacqueline Cramer (born 1951), Dutch politician
- Jan Salomon (Mars) Cramer (born 1928), Dutch economist
- Jayme Cramer (born 1983), American backstroke and butterfly swimmer
- Jim Cramer (born 1955), American investment manager and television personality
- Joey Cramer (born 1973), Canadian former child actor
- Johann Baptist Cramer (1771–1858), German pianist and composer
- John Cramer (announcer), American television announcer
- John Cramer (Australian politician) (1896–1994)
- John Cramer (representative) (1779–1870), U.S. Representative from New York
- John Antony Cramer (1793–1848), English classical scholar and geographer
- John G. Cramer (born 1934), American physicist and science fiction author
- Johann Ulrich von Cramer (1706–1772), German judge, legal scholar, and philosopher
- Karl von Cramer (1818–1902), Bavarian politician
- Kathryn Cramer (born 1962), American science fiction author and editor
- Kevin Cramer (born 1961), North Dakota politician
- Lawrence William Cramer (1897–1978), Governor of the United States Virgin Islands
- Michael Cramer (1930-2000), German actor
- Michael Cramer (born 1949), German politician, MEP
- Morten Cramer (born 1967), Danish football player
- Patrick Cramer (born 1969), German biochemist
- Philippe Cramer (born 1970), Swiss furniture and wallpaper designer
- Philo Cramer, American guitarist
- Pieter Cramer (1721–1776), Dutch wool merchant and entomologist
- Richard Cramer (1889–1960), American actor
- Richard Ben Cramer (1950–2013), American journalist and author
- Robert E. Cramer (born 1947), U.S. Representative from Alabama
- Ronnie Cramer (born 1957), American artist, composer and filmmaker
- Walter Cramer (1886–1944), German businessman and anti-Hitler conspirator
- Wilhelm Cramer (1746–1799), German-British violinist, best known for the "Cramer bow"
- William Cramer (pathologist) (1878–1945), German-born pathologist
- William C. Cramer (1922–2003), U.S. Representative from Florida
In fiction
- Cramer family, characters on the U.S. soap opera One Life to Live
- Inspector Cramer, recurring character in the Nero Wolfe detective stories
- Jason Cramer, character on the HBO drama Oz
- Nurse Cramer, character in Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
In business
- Cramer brothers, 18th century publishers
- Cramer-Krasselt, an American marketing and communications agency
- Cramer Systems, a software company
- Cramer & Co., a former musical-related business in London
- Cramer, an American marketing studio
Also
- Corwith Cramer (ship), a tall ship
- Cramer–Shoup cryptosystem, an asymmetric key encryption algorithm
- Cramer's rule, a theorem in linear algebra
- Cramér's V, a measure of association between nominal variables
- Kudlow & Cramer, a former television program
Footnotes
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