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or Swedish

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. It means "mountain man" in both languages, as well as "miner" in German. '' Bergman'' is also a common surname in the

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and the

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. The surname may refer to: *

Art Bergmann Arthur Frank Bergmann (born February 8, 1953, in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter who was one of the key figures in Canadian punk rock in the late 1970s.Michael Barclay, Ian A.D. Jack and Jason Schneider, '' Have ...

(born 1953), Canadian rock singer-songwriter * Carl Bergmann, (1814–1865) German anatomist, physiologist, and biologist who developed

Bergmann's rule Bergmann's rule is an ecogeographical rule that states that, within a broadly distributed taxonomic clade, populations and species of larger size are found in colder environments, while populations and species of smaller size are found in warmer ...

* Carl Bergmann (1821–1876), German-American cellist and conductor * Carl Bergmann (1874–1935), German secretary of state * Daniel Bergmann (born 1962), Czech filmmaker and media mogul (son of Pavel) * Eirikur Bergmann (born 1969), Icelandic writer and professor of political science * Ernst Bergmann (1881–1945), German philosopher and proponent of Nazism * Ernst David Bergmann (1903–1975), Israeli nuclear scientist and chemist who found a nuclear program (brother of Theodor, the agronomist) *

Ernst von Bergmann Ernst Gustav Benjamin von Bergmann (16 December 1836 – 25 March 1907) was a Baltic German surgeon. He was the first physician to introduce heat sterilisation of surgical instruments and is known as a pioneer of aseptic surgery. Early life ...

(1836–1907), Baltic German surgeon who introduced principles of

aseptic surgery Asepsis is the state of being free from disease-causing micro-organisms (such as pathogenic bacteria, viruses, pathogenic fungi, and parasites). There are two categories of asepsis: medical and surgical. The modern day notion of asepsis is deri ...

* * Frithjof Bergmann (1930–2021), German philosophy professor *

Gretel Bergmann Gretel Lambert (born Margarethe Bergmann; April 12, 1914 – July 25, 2017)high jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...

er in Germany during the 1930s *

Heinrich Bergmann Heinrich may refer to: People * Heinrich (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) * Heinrich (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) *Hetty (given name), a given name (including a list of peo ...

(?–?), head of the Criminal Division of the German

Kripo ''Kriminalpolizei'' (, "criminal police") is the standard term for the criminal investigation agency within the police forces of Germany, Austria, and the German-speaking cantons of Switzerland. In Nazi Germany, the Kripo was the criminal polic ...

in German-occupied Estonia * Franz Xaver Bergmann (1861–1936), Austrian foundry owner *

Hugo Bergmann Hugo Bergmann (Hebrew language, Hebrew: שמואל הוגו ברגמן; December 25, 1883 – June 18, 1975) was an Israeli philosopher, born in Prague. Biography Hugo Samuel Bergmann was born and raised in Prague, Austria-Hungary. He was a mem ...

(1883–1975), German-Israeli Jewish philosopher (father of Martin S.) *

Gustav Bergmann Gustav Bergmann (; May 4, 1906 – April 21, 1987) was an Austrian-American philosopher. He studied at the University of Vienna and was a member of the Vienna Circle. Bergmann was influenced by the philosophers Moritz Schlick, Friedrich W ...

(1906–1987), Austrian-born American philosopher * Jason Bergmann (born 1981), American baseball player * Júlia Bergmann (born 2001), German-Brazilian volleyball player * Juliette Bergmann (born 1958), Dutch bodybuilder * Karl Bergmann (1907–1979), German politician * Martin S. Bergmann (1913–2014), American psychoanalyst (son of Hugo) * Michael Bergmann, American filmmaker (grandson of Hugo) * Pavel Bergmann (1930–2005), Czech philosopher & historian, signatory of

Charter 77 Charter 77 (''Charta 77'' in Czech language, Czech and Slovak language, Slovak) was an informal civic initiative in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic from 1976 to 1992, named after the document Charter 77 from January 1977. Founding members ...

(father of Daniel and nephew of Hugo) * Peter Bergmann (?–2009), alias used by an unidentified German-speaking man who died under mysterious circumstances * Peter Gabriel Bergmann (1915–2002), German-American physicist * Ralph Bergmann (born 1970), German volleyball player *

Sabine Bergmann-Pohl Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (née Schulz; ; born 20 April 1946) is a German doctor and politician. A member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), she was president of the People's Chamber of East Germany from April to October 1990. Dur ...

(born 1946), German conservative politician who served as the last head of state of the German Democratic Republic * Stefan Bergmann (1895–1977), mathematician * Thaisa Storchi Bergmann (born 1955), leading Brazilian astrophysicist *

Theodor Bergmann Theodor Bergmann (May 21, 1850 in Sailauf – March 23, 1931 in Gaggenau)Erich Keyser; Heinz Stoob, ''Deutsches Städtebuch, Handbuch städtischer Geschichte'', Stuttgart, Kohlhammer Verlag, 1939. (page 239) was a Germans, German busi ...

(1850–1931), German businessman and industrialist *

(1916–2017), German agronomist and published author (brother of Ernst David) *

(born 1996), German footballer * Walter Bergmann (1902–1988), German composer and musician

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