Pistorius or Pistor (from Latin ''pistor'' meaning
miller
A miller is a person who operates a mill, a machine to grind a grain (for example corn or wheat) to make flour. Milling is among the oldest of human occupations. "Miller", "Milne" and other variants are common surnames, as are their equivalents ...
or
baker
A baker is a tradesperson who baking, bakes and sometimes Sales, sells breads and other products made of flour by using an oven or other concentrated heat source. The place where a baker works is called a bakery.
History
Ancient histo ...
) are Latinized surnames, corresponding to the Dutch
Bakker or the German
Becker
Becker () is one of the German-language surnames, along with Bäcker and Baecker, that derive from the root, which refers to baking. The surname began as a name for a baker (and thus his family). In northern Germany, it can also derive from th ...
and German
Müller
Müller may refer to:
Companies
* Müller (company), a German multinational dairy company
** Müller Milk & Ingredients, a UK subsidiary of the German company
* Müller (store), a German retail chain
* GMD Müller, a Swiss aerial lift manufacturi ...
.
Notable people with the surname include:
Pistorius
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Boris Pistorius
Boris Ludwig Pistorius (; born 14 March 1960) is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who has been serving as Federal Minister of Defence in the governments of successive Chancellors Olaf Scholz and Fri ...
(born 1960), German politician
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Calie Pistorius, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria
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Caren Pistorius, South African actress
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Charlotte Pistorius (1777–1850), German poet
* , German artist
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Hermann Andreas Pistorius (1730–1798), German Protestant-Lutheran theologian and philosopher
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Johannes Pistorius (disambiguation), several people
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Martin Pistorius, South African web designer and author
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Micki Pistorius, South African forensic psychologist and author
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Oscar Pistorius
Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius ( , ; born 22 November 1986) is a South African double amputee, former professional sprinter, and convicted murderer. He was the 10th athlete to compete at both the Paralympic Games and Olympic Games. Pistorius r ...
(born 1986), South African double-amputee athlete and convicted murderer
Pistor
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Johann Jakob Pistor, 18th-century German general who served in the Imperial Russian army
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Ludger Pistor (born 1959), German actor
See also
* ''
Demian
''Demian: The Story of a Boyhood'' is a bildungsroman by Hermann Hesse, first published in 1919 in literature, 1919; a prologue was added in 1960 in literature, 1960. ''Demian'' was first published under the pseudonym "Emil Sinclair", the name of ...
'', a novel by
Hermann Hesse
Hermann Karl Hesse (; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a Germans, German-Swiss people, Swiss poet and novelist, and the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His interest in Eastern philosophy, Eastern religious, spiritual, and philosophic ...
, in which one of the characters is named Pistorius
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Pastorius (disambiguation)
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H Pistorius & Co, a South African company
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