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 S ...

(born 1972), Swedish musician

Surnames

* Evelyn Matz (born 1955), German handballer *

Howard Matz Alvin Howard Matz (born August 3, 1943) is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Education and career Matz was born in Brooklyn, New York. He received an Artium Baccala ...

(born 1943), American judge * Jeff Matz (born 1977), American bass guitarist *

Johanna Matz Johanna Matz (5 October 1932 – 21 April 2025) was an Austrian actress. Matz was born in Vienna, Austria on 5 October 1932. She began as a dancer and from 1950 to 1993 acted at the Burgtheater. Matz died on 21 April 2025, at the age of 92. S ...

(1932–2025), Austrian actress *

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 Montr ...

(1892–1969), American ice hockey player * Klaus-Dieter Matz (born 1932), 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 Press ...

(1926–2013), American biographer * Michael R. Matz (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. He worked with a number of prominent ar ...

(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 Steven Jakob Matz (born May 29, 1991) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the New York Mets and Toronto Blue Jays. Matz was born and raised ...

(born 1991), American baseball player

Places

* , a river in the French department of

Oise Oise ( ; ; ) 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 in 2019.< ...

with the following communes: *

Canny-sur-Matz Canny-sur-Matz () is a commune in the Oise department in northern France. See also * Communes of the Oise department The following is a list of the 680 Communes of France, communes of the Oise Departments of France, department of France. T ...

Marest-sur-Matz Marest-sur-Matz is a commune in the Oise department in northern France. See also *Communes of the Oise department The following is a list of the 680 Communes of France, communes of the Oise Departments of France, department of France. The ...

Margny-sur-Matz Margny-sur-Matz () is a commune in the Oise department in northern France. See also *Communes of the Oise department The following is a list of the 680 Communes of France, communes of the Oise Departments of France, department of France. T ...

Ressons-sur-Matz Ressons-sur-Matz () is a commune in the Oise department in northern France. See also *Communes of the Oise department *The works of Maxime Real del Sarte This article is a list of public sculptures designed by Maxime Real del Sarte. War Me ...

Roye-sur-Matz Roye-sur-Matz () is a commune in the Oise department in northern France. See also *Communes of the Oise department The following is a list of the 680 Communes of France, communes of the Oise Departments of France, department of France. The ...

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). , Matsumoto is the Ch ...

, Japanese computer scientist, creator of the programming language Ruby *

Alexis Nolent Alexis Nolent (a.k.a. Matz) is a French writer. He writes scripts for video games and has also written a novel and, under the pen name Matz, a number of comics. Life and career Nolent was born in Rouen, France, and grew up in the Caribbean, bef ...

, French comics writer

Other

Me at the zoo "Me at the zoo" is a YouTube video uploaded on April 23, 2005, recognized as the first video uploaded to the platform. The 19-second video features Jawed Karim, one of the co-founders of YouTube, being recorded by his high school friend, Yakov ...

, the first video on YouTube *

Military Aerodrome Traffic Zone A military aerodrome traffic zone (MATZ) is the airspace surrounding a military aerodrome in the United Kingdom. Purpose Military aerodrome traffic zones have been established as detailed by the UK AIS and are listed in ENR 6-17. They provide p ...

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