Matz may refer to:

First names

Matz Sandman Matz Sandman (born 19 January 1948) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was Minister of Family and Consumer Affairs 1990–1991, and Minister of Children and Family Affairs in 1991. He earned a degree in economics from the Norwegia ...

(born 1948), Norwegian politician *

Matz Robert Eriksson Robert Eriksson or simply Robban as he is often called, is best known as the drummer of Swedish rock band The Hellacopters, who were active between 1994 and 2008. Eriksson is currently playing With his new band called Tramp and recently reunited ...

(born 1972), Swedish musician

Surnames

* Evelyn Matz (born 1955), German handballer * Howard Matz (born 1943), American judge * Jeff Matz (born 1977), American bass guitarist *

Johnny Matz Reinhold Jean Matz (June 1, 1892 – December 21, 1969) was an American- born Canadian ice hockey player. Matz played senior amateur and professional ice hockey from 1911 until 1928, including one season in the National Hockey League for the Mont ...

(1892–1969), American ice hockey player * Klaus-Dieter Matz (20th century), German handballer *

Mary Jane Phillips-Matz Mary Jane Phillips-Matz (January 30, 1926 – January 19, 2013) was an American biographer and writer on opera. She is mainly known for her biography of Giuseppe Verdi, a result of 30 years' research and published in 1992 by Oxford University Pres ...

(1926–2013), American biographer *

Michael R. Matz Michael R. Matz (born January 23, 1951) is an American race horse trainer and former Olympic equestrian team member who was inducted into the show jumping Hall of Fame. He lives in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. As a trainer, he has scored two ...

(born 1951), American equestrian *

Peter Matz Peter Matz (November 6, 1928 – August 9, 2002) was an American musician, composer, arranger and conductor. His musical career in film, theater, television and studio recording spanned fifty years, and he worked with a number of prominent ...

(1928–2002), American musician, composer, arranger and conductor *

Rudolf Matz Rudolf Matz (19 September 1901 – 22 March 1988) was a Croatian composer who wrote about 500 instrumental and vocal compositions. Matz lived in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia. He was born in Zagreb, 1901 and d ...

(1901–1988), Croatian composer * Steven Matz (born 1991), American baseball player

Places

* , a river in the French department of

Oise Oise ( ; ; pcd, Oése) is a department in the north of France. It is named after the river Oise. Inhabitants of the department are called ''Oisiens'' () or ''Isariens'', after the Latin name for the river, Isara. It had a population of 829,419 ...

with the following communes: * Canny-sur-Matz * Marest-sur-Matz * Margny-sur-Matz * Ressons-sur-Matz * Roye-sur-Matz

Pseudonyms

Yukihiro Matsumoto , also known as Matz, is a Japanese computer scientist and software programmer best known as the chief designer of the Ruby programming language and its original reference implementation, Matz's Ruby Interpreter (MRI). His demeanor has brough ...

, Japanese computer scientist, creator of the programming language Ruby * Alexis Nolent, French comics writer

Other

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