Sommer

Sommer is a surname, from the German and Scandinavian languages word for the season "summer".

Notable people with this name include:

A–L

• Alfred Sommer (born 1943), American academic
• Alice Herz-Sommer (1903–2014), Jewish pianist, oldest Holocaust survivor
• António de Sommer Champalimaud (1918–2004), Portuguese banker and industrialist
• Bert Sommer (1949–1990), American musician and actor
• Coleen Sommer (born 1960), American high jumper
• Daniel Sommer (1850–1940), key figure in the Restoration Movement
• Elke Sommer (born 1940), German actress
• Erik Sommer (born 1978), artist
• Frederick Sommer (1905–1999), artist
• Gerhard Sommer (born 1921), Nazi officer
• Giorgio Sommer (1834–1914), 19th-century photographer
• Günter Sommer (born c. 1943), German Jazz musician
• Hans Sommer (born 1914), Nazi officer (SS-Obersturmführer)
• Hans Sommer (composer) (1837–1922), German composer
• Jason Sommer, American poet and academic
• Joe Sommer (1858–1938), American baseball player
• Josef Sommer (born 1934), American film actor
• Johann Wilhelm Ernst Sommer (1881–1952), bishop of the Methodist Church
• Juergen Sommer (born 1969) American soccer goalkeeper
• Keith P. Sommer (born 1946), Republican politician
• Kostas Sommer (born 1975), Greek actor
• Luke Elliott Sommer (born 1986), former United States Army Ranger and bank robber

M–Z

• Manfred Sommer (1933–2007), Spanish comics creator
• Michael Sommer (born 1952), chairman of Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (Federation of German trade unions)
• Mike Sommer (born 1934), American football player
• Peter Sommer, Danish singer-songwriter
• Ralf J. Sommer, German biologist specializing in evolutionary developmental biology
• Ralph Frederick Sommer (1898–1971), one of the endodontics pioneers
• Raymond Sommer (1906–1950), French racing driver
• Rebecca Sommer, German artist, journalist and human rights activist
• Renate Sommer (born 1958), German politician (CDU)
• Rich Sommer (born 1978), American actor
• Robert Sommer, distinguished professor of psychology
• Robert Sommer (psychiatrist) (1864–1937), German psychiatrist and genealogist
• Roy Sommer (born 1957), American ice hockey player
• Scott Sommer (1951–1993), American author
• Susan Sommer-Luarca (born 1967) American painter and sculpter
• Theo Sommer (born 1930), German journalist
• Tim Sommer, American musician and record producer
• Vladimír Sommer (1921–1997), Czech composer
• William Sommer (1867–1949), American modernist painter
• Yann Sommer (born 1988), Swiss footballer

In fiction

• Jochen Sommer, Dr. Jochen Sommer, the fictional consultor of the German youth magazine Bravo (so-called Dr. Sommer Team)
• The Story of Mr Sommer, a German novel
• Sommer (TV series), a Danish TV-drama aired on DR1 in 2008

See also

• Sommers (surname)