Georg is a male

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in mostly Northern European countries and may refer to:

In creative culture

* Georg, Baron von Ortzen, German poet and author * Georg Baselt, German actor * Georg Blomstedt, Swedish actor * Georg Böhm, German organist * Georg Büchner, German playwright * Georg Brandl Egloff, American composer * Georg Fabricius, Protestant German poet * Georg Gerster, Swiss photographer * George Frideric Handel (Georg Friedrich Händel in German), German composer * Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet * Georg Hólm, bassist for the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós * Georg Løkkeberg, Norwegian actor * Georg Listing, (born 1987), German bassist ( Tokio Hotel) * Georg Maier, German actor and theatre director * Georg Malmstén, Finnish singer, composer * Georg Matthias Monn, Austrian composer * Georg Muffat, French composer * Georg Ots, Estonian opera singer * Georg Albert Ruthenberg, guitarist for the American rock band Foo Fighters * Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor * Georg Stahlberg, Estonian opera singer and music pedagogue * Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet * Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer * Georg Tintner, Austrian conductor * Georg Trakl, Austrian poet * Georg von Trapp, headed the Austrian singing von Trapp family * Georg Trump, German graphics, typeface and postage stamp designer * Georg Joseph Vogler, German composer * Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian composer

In science

* Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate * Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist *

Georg Cantor Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor ( ; ; – 6 January 1918) was a mathematician who played a pivotal role in the creation of set theory, which has become a foundations of mathematics, fundamental theory in mathematics. Cantor establi ...

, German mathematician * Georg Forchhammer, Danish physicist and educator * Georg Groddeck, German physician whom Freud credits for the ''Id'' * Georg Hartung (c. 1822 - c. 1891), a pioneering German geologist *

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a 19th-century German idealist. His influence extends across a wide range of topics from metaphysical issues in epistemology and ontology, to political philosophy and t ...

, German philosopher * Georg Major, German Lutheran theologian * Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician *

Georg Ohm Georg Simon Ohm (; ; 16 March 1789 – 6 July 1854) was a German mathematician and physicist. As a school teacher, Ohm began his research with the new electrochemical cell, invented by Italian scientist Alessandro Volta. Using equipment of his o ...

, German physicist * Georg Pawer (Bauer), German scholar and scientist, the father of mineralogy * Georg Alexander Pick, Austrian mathematician * Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist * Georg Joachim Rheticus, cartographer and scientific instrument maker * Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist * Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist * Georg Steller, German naturalist * Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian philologist * Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

In politics

* Georg Andersson (politician) (born 1936), Swedish politician * Georg Bissmark (1871–1941), Swedish jurist and politician * Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia * Georg Gothein (1857–1940), German politician * Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany * Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of Germany * Georg Meri, Estonian diplomat, literary scholar and translator * Georg Pelisaar, Estonian journalist and politician * Georg Ritter von Schönerer, Austrian politician * Georg Schätzel (1875–1934), German jurist and politician * Georg, Count Palatine of Simmern-Sponheim * Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony * Georg, Duke of Hohenberg * Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg * Georg, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz * Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen * Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe * Georg, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt * Georg Leo Graf von Caprivi de Caprera de Montecuccoli, known as Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of the German Empire

Other

* Georg Reinbold von Aroldingen und Eltzingen, German military officer * Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish soldier * Georg Gänswein, German prelate of the Catholic Church * Georg Hackenschmidt, Estonian strongman, professional wrestler and sports philosopher * Georg Hellat, Estonian architect * Georg Linnamäe, Estonian rally driver * Georg Lurich, Estonian Greco-Roman wrestler and strongman * Georg Meri, Estonian diplomat, literary scholar and translator * Georg Niedermeier, German association football player *

Georg Simmel Georg Simmel (; ; 1 March 1858 – 26 September 1918) was a German sociologist, philosopher, and critic. Simmel was influential in the field of sociology. Simmel was one of the first generation of German sociologists: his neo-Kantian approach ...

, German thinker * Georg Thomas, German military commander * Georg, Truchsess von Waldburg, Swabian League army commander * Georg Werthner, Austrian decathlete * Spiders Georg, an Internet meme

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