Kupper or Kuppers (also Küpper and Küppers) is a surname of Germanic origin meaning maker or repairer of wooden vessels. It is related to the English surname
Cooper
Cooper, Cooper's, Coopers and similar may refer to:
* Cooper (profession), a maker of wooden casks and other staved vessels
Arts and entertainment
* Cooper (producers), an alias of Dutch producers Klubbheads
* "Cooper", a song by Roxette from ...
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Last name: Kupper
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People
*Alex Kupper
Alex Kupper (born February 14, 1990) is a former American football offensive guard. Kupper played offensive line for the University of Louisville and was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Houston Texans in 2013. He spent the majority of t ...
(born 1990), American football player
* András Kupper (born 1964), Hungarian physician and politician
* Annelies Kupper (1906-1987), German operatic soprano
*Anneliese Küppers
Anneliese Küppers (6 August 1929 – 24 September 2010) was a German equestrian. She was born in Duisburg. She competed in equestrian at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Stockholm
Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urba ...
(1929–2010), German equestrian and Olympic medalist
* Daniel Kupper (1952), American psychologist
* Eduardo Ferreyros Kuppers, Peruvian politician and Minister of Foreign Commerce and Tourism
*Eileen Küpper
Eileen Küpper is a South Africa-born soprano singer, known for her work with metal bands Therion and The Kovenant.
Discography Solo
* ''Shapes'' (2003)
With Therion
* '' Vovin'' (1998)
* '' Crowning of Atlantis'' (1999)
* '' Deggial'' (2000)
...
, South African singer
*Eric Kupper
Eric Kupper is an American keyboardist, arranger, songwriter, remix artist, DJ, and record producer of French descent.
Biography
Eric Kupper began playing in bands in his formative years, and got his real start in the mid-1980s working as a keyb ...
, American remixer
* Ernst-Joachim Küppers (1942–2025), German swimmer
* Hans Küppers (1938–2021), German footballer
* Herbert Kupper (1914–1994), American psychoanalyst
*Jochen Küpper
Jochen Küpper FRSC (born 1971) is a German chemist and physicist, group leader at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, and Professor of Physics and Professor by courtesy of Chemistry at the Universi ...
(born 1971), German physicist and chemist
* Josef Kupper (1932-2017), Swiss chess master
* Ketti Kupper (born 1951), American artist and designer
* Kurt Küppers (1894–1971), German World War I fighter pilot
*Martin Kupper
Martin Kupper (born 31 May 1989, in Tallinn) is an Estonian track and field athlete who competes in the discus throw. He has a personal best of , set in 2015. He is a member of the Audentese SK sports club.
He competed in the discus as a teenage ...
(born 1989), Estonian discus thrower
*Petra Kuppers
Petra Kuppers (born 1 April 1968) is a community performance artist and a disability culture activist. She is a professor of English, Women's and Gender Studies, Theater and Dance, and Art and Design, teaching mainly in Performance Studies and ...
(born 1968), German-American artist and disability culture activist
*Paul Kupper (died 1908), American sculptor and creator of '' Eight Stone Lions''
*Stephan Küppers
Stephan Küppers is a West German slalom canoeist who competed in the 1980s. He won a gold medal in the C-2 event at the 1985 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Augsburg
Augsburg ( , ; ; ) is a city in the Bavaria, Bavarian part of Sw ...
, West German slalom canoer
* Thomas Kupper (born 1953), American physician and medical researcher
*Topsy Küppers
Topsy Küppers (17 August 1931 – 14 June 2025) was an Austrian writer, singer, soubrette, actress and theatre director of German origin.
Life
Born in Aachen, Germany, the foundation stone for Küppers' career as an actress was laid by Ursula ...
(1931–2025), Austrian actress, singer, and writer
Places
* Nowa Kopernia, a village in Poland whose German name is ''Küpper''
References
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Germanic-language surnames