Kiefer is
German for
jaw(-bone) or
pine-tree.
It may also be a variation of the German word ''Küfer'' for
cooper.
It may refer to:
People
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Kiefer (musician) (born 1992), American pianist and producer
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Kiefer Sutherland
Kiefer William Sutherland (born 21 December 1966) is a British-Canadian actor and musician. He is best known for his starring role as Jack Bauer in the Fox drama series '' 24'' (2001–2010, 2014), for which he won an Emmy Award, a Golden Glo ...
(born 1966), Canadian television and film actor
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Adolph Kiefer (1918–2017), American Olympic swimmer
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Anselm Kiefer
Anselm Kiefer (born 8 March 1945) is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Peter Dreher and Horst Antes at the end of the 1960s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac. The poems of Paul Celan hav ...
(born 1945), German painter and sculptor
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Bertrand Kiefer
Bertrand Kiefer (born 1955) is a Swiss medical doctor, theologian and ethicist.[David Kiefer
David Kiefer (born September 16, 1984) is the current head coach of the Southeastern Louisiana Lions basketball
The Southeastern Louisiana Lions basketball team is the men's basketball team that represents Southeastern Louisiana University in H ...]
(born 1984), American basketball coach
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Friedrich Kiefer Professor Friedrich Kiefer (9 September 1897 – 18 April 1985) was a German zoologist, specialising in freshwater copepods. For over 60 years, he was "the preeminent morphological taxonomist of continental free-living copepods".
Kiefer was born in ...
(1897–1985), German copepodologist
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George W. Kiefer
George W. Kiefer (October 9, 1891 – July 25, 1943) was an American lawyer and politician.
Kiefer was born in St. Charles, Winona County, Minnesota and graduated from St. Charles High School. He went to the College of St. Thomas and receive ...
(1891-1943), American lawyer and politician
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Kiefer Ravena (born 1993), Filipino basketball player
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George Kiefer, American soccer coach at the University of South Florida
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Jack Kiefer (golfer) (1940–1999), American professional golfer
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Jack Kiefer (statistician) (1924–1981), American mathematical-statistician and Professor at Cornell University and University of California, Berkeley
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Jakob Kiefer (1919–1991), German Olympic gymnast
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Nat G. Kiefer (1939–1985), American politician who served in the Louisiana State Senate
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Nicholas M. Kiefer
Nicholas M. Kiefer (born February 28, 1951) is an Economics professor at Cornell University. He received a fellowship award from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1986 for his "past achievements and ... promise of future accomp ...
, statistician and economics professor at Cornell University
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Nicolas Kiefer (born 1977), German Olympic tennis player
Places
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Kiefer, Oklahoma, town, United States
See also
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Keifer (disambiguation)
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Kieffer
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Kefir
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Guy-André Kieffer (born 1949) Canadian journalist
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German-language surnames