Kramer (surname)
Kramer /ˈkreɪmər/ is an occupational surname of Dutch or Low German origin (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈkraːmər]) or it is derived from the High German surname Krämer (German pronunciation: [ˈkʁɛːmɐ] or [ˈkʁeːmɐ]).
In Middle Low German in the Late Middle Ages, Kramer only referred to a traveling merchant. The meaning later changed to "merchants trading with different, rather small things".
People with this name
A
- Aaron Kramer (1921-1997), American poet, essayist, and translator
- Alex Kramer (1903–1998), Canadian songwriter
- Ann-Kathrin Kramer (b. 1966), German writer and actress
- Annemarie Kramer (b. 1975), Dutch sprinter
- Arnold Kramer (1882–1976) was an American folk artist
- Arthur Kramer (1927-2008), American lawyer
- Arvid Kramer (b. 1956), American basketball player
B
- Barry Kramer (b. 1942), American basketball player and jurist
- Barry Kramer, former editor and occasional host of Game Grumps
- Ben Kramer (1913–99), American basketball player
- Benjamin F. Kramer (b. 1957), American (Maryland) politician
- Bert Kramer (1934-2001), American actor
- Bill Kramer (b. 1965), American (Wisconsin) politician
- Bill Kramer (fund raiser), American fund raiser
- Billy J. Kramer (b. 1943), British merseybeat singer
- Boaz Kramer (b. 1978), Israeli wheelchair tennis player
- Burton Kramer (b. 1932), Canadian graphic designer and artist
C
- Charles Kramer, (1879–1943), Californian politician
- Charles Kramer (1906-?), American economist, spy for the Soviet Union in the 1940s
- Charles Kramer (1916-1988), American lawyer from New York
- Chiel Kramer (b. 1992), Dutch football goalkeeper
- Chris Kramer (b. 1988), American basketball player
- Christina Kramer, Canadian Slavic linguist
- Christoph Kramer (b. 1991), German footballer
- Clare Kramer (b. 1974), American actress
D
- Daniel Kramer (b. 1977), American stage and opera director
- David Kramer (born 1951), South African singer, songwriter, playwright and director
- David Kramer (born 1972), American soccer goalkeeper
- David J. Kramer, United States Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, 2008–2009
- Dean Kramer (b. 1952), American pianist
- Doug Kramer (b. 1983), Filipino basketball player
E
- Eddie Kramer (b. 1941), South African audio engineer and producer
- Edith Kramer (b. 1916), Austrian artist
- Edmond Kramer (1906-?), Swiss footballer
- Edna Kramer (1902-1984), American mathematician
- Edward E. Kramer (b. 1961), American editor and author of science fiction, fantasy, and horror works
- Eiling Kramer (1914–1999), Canadian Politician
- Eric Allan Kramer (b. 1962), American actor
- Erik Kramer (b. 1964), American football quarterback
- Erwin Kramer (1902-1979), German politician
F
- Felix Kramer (b. 1949), American founder of CalCars
- Ferdinand Kramer (1898-1985), German architect and functionalist designer.
- Frank Kramer (1905-1993), American artist and illustrator
- Frank Kramer (b. 1925), a pseudonym of the Italian film director Gianfranco Parolini
- Frank Kramer (b. 1972), German football player and coach
- Frank Louis Kramer (1880-1952), American cyclist and United States Bicycling Hall of Fame inductee
G
- George W. Kramer (1848-1938), American architect
- Georges Kramer (1898-?), Swiss football player and coach
- Gorni Kramer (1913–1995), Italian songwriter, musician, and band leader
- Greg Kramer (1961-2013), British-born Canadian author, actor, director, and magician
H
- Haije Kramer (1917-2004), Dutch chess master and theoretician
- Harry Kramer (1911–1996), American radio and television announcer
- Harry Kramer (1925–1997), German artist
- Harry Kramer (b. 1939), American artist
- Heinrich Kramer a.k.a. Heinrich Institor (c. 1430–1505), Alsatian churchman and inquisitor
- Hilton Kramer (1928–2012), American art critic
J
- Jack Kramer (1918-1995), American baseball pitcher
- Jack Kramer (1919-1978), American football player
- Jack Kramer (1921-2009), American tennis player
- Jacob Kramer (1892-1962), Ukrainian-born painter in England
- Jana Kramer (b. 1983), American actress
- Jane Kramer (b. 1938), American journalist
- Jeroen Kramer (b. 1967), Dutch photographer
- Jerry Kramer (b. 1936), American professional football player
- Jessy Kramer (b. 1990), Dutch team handball player
- Jim Kramer (b. 1958), American Scrabble player
- Joan Whitney Kramer (1914-1990), American singer and songwriter
- Joel Kramer (b. 1955), American basketball player
- Joey Kramer (b. 1950), American drummer with the group Aerosmith
- Jonathan Kramer (1942-2004), American composer and music theorist
- Josef Kramer (1906–1945), German commander of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
K
- Kane Kramer (b. 1956), British inventor and businessman
- Ken Kramer (b. 1942), American politician
- Kenny Kramer (b. 1943), American stand-up comedian, on whom the Seinfeld character Cosmo Kramer was based
- Kent Kramer (b. 1944), American professional football player
L
- Lance Kramer, an animation director on The Simpsons
- Larry Kramer (b. 1935), American dramatist, author and gay rights activist
- Larry Kramer (b. 1942), American football player and coach
- Larry Kramer (b. 1958), American legal scholar, dean of Stanford Law School
- Lawrence Francis Kramer, American politician, two-time Mayor of Paterson, New Jersey
- Leonie Kramer (b. 1924), Australian academic and commentator
- Leopold Kramer (1869-1942), Austrian stage and film actor
- Lud Kramer (1932-2004), American politician in Washington State
M
- Marcia Kramer (b. 1948), American journalist
- Mariska Kramer (b. 1974), Dutch triathlete
- Mark Kramer (b. 1945), American jazz musician
- Mark Kramer (b. 1958), American alternative rock musician and producer
- Martin Kramer (b. 1954), American author on Islam and Arab politics
- Mary Kramer (b. 1935), American (Iowa) politician
- Matt Kramer (b. 1968), American singer formerly with rock band Saigon Kick
- Matt Kramer, American wine writer
- Matthew Kramer (b. 1959), American philosopher at the University of Cambridge
- Max Kramer (1903–1986), German scientist, developed Ruhrstahl X-4 missile (1943–1945)
- Michael Kramer (astronomer) (b. 1967), german astronomer and astrophysicist, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Manchester and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy in Bonn
- Michael Kramer, American audiobook narrator
- Michael Eric Kramer, American film actor
- Michiel Kramer (b. 1988), Dutch footballer
- Mike Kramer (b. 1955), American football coach
O
- Oscar Kramer (1935-2010), Argentine film producer
P
- Paul Kramer (b. 1933), American (New Jersey) politician
- Perry Kramer (b. 1959), American Motocross racer
- Peter Kramer (b. 1933), German physicist
- Peter Kramer, German priest convicted of child abuse
- Peter D. Kramer (b. 1948), American psychiatrist
- Philip Taylor Kramer (1952–1995), American physicist and bassist with the group Iron Butterfly
- Piet Kramer (1881-1961), Dutch architect
R
- Rachel Kramer (b. 1980), Dutch singer
- Rachel Kramer Bussel (b. 1975),
- Rene Kramer (b. 1987), German ice hockey player
- Richard Kramer (b. 1947), American superior court judge
- Richard Kramer (b. 1952), American screenwriter, novelist and television producer
- Robert Kramer (1939-1999), American film director, screenwriter and actor
- Roger Kramer (b.~1939), Canadian football player
- Ron Kramer (1935-2010), American football player
- Ronald Kramer (b. ~1959), American businessman
- Roy Kramer, American college football coach and athletics administrator
S
- Samuel Noah Kramer (1897–1990), Ukraine-born American historian and Assyriologist
- Sarah Kramer (b. 1968), Canadian cookbook author
- Sherry Kramer, American playwright
- Sidney Kramer (b. 1925), American (Maryland) politician
- Stanley Kramer (1913–2001), American movie director and producer
- Stepfanie Kramer (b. 1956), American actress and singer
- Steve Kramer (b. 1945), American basketball player
- Steve Kramer (b. 1948), American voice actor
- Steve Kramer (b. 1966), American Green Party politician
- Susan Kramer (b. 1950), English politician, Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament
- Sven Kramer (b. 1986), Dutch speed skater
T
- Thomas Kramer (b. 1957), German-born real estate developer and venture capitalist
- Tom Kramer (b. 1968), American baseball pitcher
- Tommy Kramer (b. 1955), American football quarterback
- Tosca Kramer (1903-1976), New Zealand-born American violinist and violist
- Trey Kramer (b. 1988), American football player
- Theodor Kramer (1897-1958), Austrian poet
W
- Walter R. Kramer (1914–1995), U.S. badminton champion
- Wayne Kramer (b. 1948), American musician with the group MC5
- Wayne Kramer (b. 1965), South African screenwriter and film director
- Wilhelm Heinrich Kramer (–1765), German-born Austrian Hungarian botanist, physician and military surgeon
- Wolfgang Kramer (b. 1942), German game designer
Y
- Yep Kramer (b. 1957), Dutch speed skater
Fictional people
- Bernard Kramer, founder of the corporation Kramer Associates in Robert Sobel's alternate history novel For Want of a Nail
- Chas Kramer, a character played by Shia LaBeouf in the 2005 film Constantine (film)
- Cosmo Kramer, a character in the television series Seinfeld
- John Kramer, a fictional character in the Saw film series
- Lisa Kramer, a character played by Debra Messing in the 2005 film Along Came Polly
- Michael Kramer (play), name of a drama by Gerhart Hauptmann from 1900 and the name of the main character
- Rex Kramer, Danger Seeker, a character in the 1977 American comedy film The Kentucky Fried Movie
- Rex Kramer, a character in the 1980 American comedy film Airplane!
- Tromp Kramer, Afrikaner Detective in James McClure's Kramer and Zondi novels
See also
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