The surname Kruse may refer to:
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Anine Kruse
Anine Susanne Kruse Skatrud (born 1 November 1977) is a Norwegian musician and choral conductor, the daughter of Professor of Music Gro Shetelig and the composer Bjørn Kruse, sister of actress and singers Jannike Kruse, Jannike and Benedikte Sh ...
(born 1977), Norwegian music conductor
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August von Kruse (1779–1848), German general during the
Napoleonic Wars
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Frank Kruse, German sound engineer
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Frederik Vinding Kruse (1880–1963), Danish jurist
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George Kruse (1880–1965), Australian footballer
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Kai Kruse (born 1991), German former cyclist and rower
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Käthe Kruse
Käthe Kruse, born Katharina Simon (17 September 1883, in Dąbrowa, Opole County, Dambrau – 19 July 1968, in Murnau am Staffelsee) was a notable pioneer of German doll-making and went on to establish manufacturing principles which persist to this ...
(1883–1968), German dollmaker
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Kevin M. Kruse, American historian
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Max Kruse
Max Bennet Kruse (; born 19 March 1988) is a German former professional association football, footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or forward (association football), forward.
Early years
Kruse was born in Reinbek, Stormarn (district ...
, several people
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Michael Kruse (judge)
Lealaialoa Fredrickus Michael Kruse (born January 27, 1948) is the Chief Justice of the High Court of American Samoa. Kruse made history as the first person of Samoan descent to be appointed Chief Justice of the High Court of American Samoa. Kr ...
(born 1948), chief justice of the High Court of American Samoa
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Michael Kruse (politician) (born 1983), German politician
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Robbie Kruse
Robbie Thomas Kruse ( ; ; born 5 October 1988) is an Australian former professional association football, footballer who played as a forward (association football), forward. He played his junior football with Pine Rivers Soccer Club in the Pine ...
(born 1988), Australian footballer
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Rüdiger Kruse
Rüdiger Kruse (born 10 June 1961) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the German Bundestag from 2009 to 2021.
Education and early career
Kruse was born in Hamburg, West Germany. After attend ...
(born 1961), German politician
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Sigrid Kruse
Sigrid Maria Kruse (2 September 1867 – 19 September 1950) was a Swedish educator, children's writer and suffragist. In addition to her teaching activities in Karlskrona, she strongly supported the suffrage movement, contributing articles to mag ...
(1867–1950), Swedish educator, children's writer and suffragist
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Tom Kruse (inventor)
Hoveround is an American corporation that manufactures and distributes the Hoveround brand of power wheelchairs (also known as motorized wheelchairs) and sells scooters, lifts, ramps and power chair accessories.
The company, founded in 1992 by ...
, inventor of the Hoveround, a type of electric wheelchair
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Tom Kruse (mailman)
Esmond Gerald "Tom" Kruse MBE (28 August 1914 – 30 June 2011) was a mail carrier on the Birdsville Track in the border area between South Australia and Queensland. He became known nationally as the result of John Heyer's 1954 film '' The Ba ...
(1914–2011), Australian mailman, featured in documentary ''The Back of Beyond''
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William F. Kruse (1894–1952), American socialist journalist and functionary
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Wulf Traugott Kruse (1936–2025), German politician
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