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Prager

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David Prager Revision3 was a San Francisco, California, San Francisco–based Multi-channel network, multi-channel television network that created, produced and distributed streaming television shows on niche topics. Founded in 2005, it operated as a subsidia ...
(born 1977), American TV producer and blogger *
Dennis Prager Dennis Mark Prager (; born August 2, 1948) is an American conservative radio talk show host and writer. He is the host of the nationally syndicated radio talk show ''The Dennis Prager Show''. In 2009, he co-founded PragerU, which primarily cre ...
(born 1948), U.S. conservative radio talk show host, columnist and public speaker **
PragerU The Prager University Foundation, known as PragerU, is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit advocacy group and media organization that creates content promoting conservative and capitalist viewpoints on various political, economic, and sociological ...
, a right-wing conservative non-profit organization that creates videos on various political, economic and philosophical topics * Joshua P. Prager (born 1949), US physician * Joshua Harris Prager, US journalist * Mark Prager Lindo (1819–1879), Anglo-Dutch prose writer of English-Jewish descent * Richard Prager (1883–1945), German-American astronomer * Richard Prager (skier), West German para-alpine skier * Susan Westerberg Prager (born 1942), Association of American Law Schools Executive Vice President and executive director from 2008 * Walter Prager (1910–1984), Swiss alpine skier *
William Prager William Prager, before 1940 Willy Prager (23 May 1903 – 17 March 1980), was a German-born American applied mathematician. In the field of mechanics he is well known for the Drucker–Prager yield criterion. Biography Willy Prager was born on 2 ...
(1903–1980), German-born US physicist


Fictional characters

* Nick Prager, a character from '' Dead to Me'', portrayed by
Brandon Scott Brandon Maurice Scott (born April 8, 1984) is an American politician serving as the Mayor of Baltimore, mayor of Baltimore, Maryland, since 2020. He was the president of the Baltimore City Council from 2019 to 2020, having been elected to the p ...


Präger

* Moses Präger (17th and 18th centuries), rabbi * Roy Präger (b. 1971), German footballer


Praeger

* Charles Praeger (1877–1940), architect *
Cheryl Praeger Cheryl Elisabeth Praeger (born 7 September 1948, Toowoomba, Queensland) is an Australian mathematician. Praeger received BSc (1969) and MSc degrees from the University of Queensland (1974), and a doctorate from the University of Oxford in 197 ...
(born 1948), mathematician *
Emil Praeger Emil H. Praeger (August 2, 1892 – October 16, 1973) was an American architect and civil engineer. Biography He was born in 1892. Praeger graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1915. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War I ...
(1882–1973), architect *
Ferdinand Praeger Ferdinand Praeger (22 January 1815 – 2 September 1891) (aka Ferdinand Christian Wilhelm Praeger) was a composer, music teacher, pianist and writer. He is now best known for his controversial biography of Richard Wagner, ''Wagner As I Knew Him ...
(1815–1891), composer and writer. *
Robert Lloyd Praeger Robert Lloyd Praeger (25 August 1865 – 5 May 1953) was an Irish naturalist, writer and librarian. Biography Early life and education From a Unitarian background, he was born and raised in Holywood, County Down; he had four brothers and a ...
(1865–1953), Irish naturalist and historian * Rosamond Praeger (1867–1954), artist * Sandy Praeger, Kansas Insurance Commissioner


Preger, Preager

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Andreja Preger Andreja Preger (20 March 1912 – 18 December 2015) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Yugoslav and Serbian pianist and Holocaust survivor. Preger, who was Jewish, survived the Holocaust by joining the Yugoslav Partisans, led by Josip Broz Tito, during ...
(1912–2015), Austro-Hungarian-born pianist * Jack Preger (born 1930), British doctor working in the Indian city of Kolkata *
Lou Preager Louis Jacob Preager (12 January 1906 – 14 November 1978), known as Lou Preager, was an English pianist, dance band leader, disc jockey and businessman. He was active from the 1930s to the 1950s; with his band he made many recordings. They als ...
(1906–1978), British dance band leader


See also

* Prager (crater), an impact crater on the Moon's far side * Praeger Publishing, an imprint of the
Greenwood Publishing Group Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG) was an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which was part of ABC-Clio. Since 2021, ABC-Clio and its suite of imprints, including GPG, are collectively imprints of ...
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