Melzer (German, derived from ''Mälzer'', meaning "
malter") is an occupational surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Gerald Melzer
Gerald Melzer (born 13 July 1990) is an Austrian professional inactive tennis player who competed mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 68 in November 2016.
Gerald is also part of Austrian Da ...
(born 1990), Austrian tennis player
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Hagen Melzer
Hagen Melzer (born 16 June 1959, in Bautzen) is a former East German middle and long-distance runner who specialised in the 3000 m steeplechase.
He won the gold medal at the 1986 European Championships in Stuttgart. A year later he won t ...
(born 1959), German long-distance runner
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Johanna Melzer
Johanna Melzer (7 April 1904 - 3 October 1960) was a German political activist and Communist Party member who participated in the German resistance to Nazism. She spent eleven of the twelve years of the Third Reich in prison, earning the soubriqu ...
(1904–1960), German anti-Nazi activist
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Iveta Benešová
Iveta Benešová () (formerly Melzer, ; born 1 February 1983) is a Czech former tennis player. She began playing tennis aged seven and turned professional in 1998. She won two WTA Tour singles and 14 doubles tournaments, and one Grand Slam tit ...
(known professionally as Iveta Melzer; born 1983), Czech tennis player
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Jean Melzer
Jean Isabel Melzer (); 7 February 1926 – 18 June 2013) was an Australian politician and activist. She was a Senator for Victoria from 1974 to 1981, representing the Australian Labor Party (ALP). A long-time supporter of the anti-war and an ...
(1926–2013), Australian senator
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Jürgen Melzer
Jürgen Melzer (born 22 May 1981) is an Austrian tennis coach and former professional tennis player. Melzer reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8 in April 2011, and a doubles ranking of world No. 6 in September 2010. He has a youn ...
(born 1981), Austrian tennis player
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Manfred Melzer
Manfred Melzer (28 February 1944 – 9 August 2018) was a German bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. Appointed by Pope Benedict XVI, Melzer was serving as an Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Cologne from 1995 to 2015.
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(1944–2018), German bishop
*Richard Melzer (born 1979), American basketball player
*Václav Melzer (1878–1968), Czech mycologist
*Werner Melzer (born 1954), German footballer
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German-language surnames
Occupational surnames