Sperling is a German and Jewish surname, meaning " sparrow" in English. Notable people with the surname include: *

Alexander Sperling Alexander Sperling (19 April 1890 – 20 February 1973) was a German artistic gymnast. He competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics The 1912 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad () and commonly known as Stockholm 191 ...

(1890–1973), German gymnast * Andrea Sperling, American film producer * Bert Sperling (born 1950), American author *

Bodo Sperling Bodo Sperling (born 6 May 1952) is a German artist, painter, and inventor. Life Sperling grew up in Frankfurt am Main, Leipzig, Amsterdam and Berlin. He started his artistic career in Amsterdam. There he sold his pictures he had painted during ...

(born 1952), German artist *

Daniel Sperling Daniel Sperling (born March 27, 1951, in Albany, New York, United States) is the American founding director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis (ITS-Davis); professor of civil and environmental engine ...

(born 1951), American professor * Dee Dee Sperling, musical entertainer * Eduard Sperling (1902–1985), German wrestler *

Edward Sperling Edward J Sperling (1889 – July 22, 1946), born Ezra Sperling, was a 20th-century writer, humourist, and Zionist. Early life Ezra Sperling was born in 1889 in a Jewish community in Slutsk, Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire. As a boy, he ...

(1889–1946), official in the British Mandate of Palestine, and Zionist *

Elliot Sperling Elliot Sperling (January 4, 1951 – January 29, 2017) was one of the world's leading historians of Tibet and Tibetan- Chinese relations, and a MacArthur Fellow. He spent most of his scholarly career as an associate professor at Indiana Universi ...

(1951–2017), American associate professor *

Fritz Sperling Fritz Sperling (1 August 1945 – 16 September 2022) was an Austrian bobsledder who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. He won two medals in the four-man event at the FIBT World Championships with a silver in 1973 and a bronze i ...

(born 1945), Austrian bobsledder *

Gene Sperling Eugene Benton Sperling (born December 24, 1958) is an American lawyer who was director of the National Economic Council and assistant to the president for economic policy under Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. He is the only person to ...

(born 1958), American economist and attorney *

George Sperling George Sperling (born 1934) is an American cognitive psychologist, researcher, and educator. Sperling documented the existence of iconic memory (one of the sensory memory subtypes). Through several experiments, he showed support for his hypoth ...

(born 1934), American cognitive psychologist * Gerhard Sperling (born 1937), East German race walker *

Gladys Athena Sperling Gladys Athena Sperling (July 25, 1904 – January 17, 2003) was an American bacteriologist and nutrition researcher at Cornell University from the 1930s into the 1970s. Early life and education Sperling was born in Pulaski, New York, the daughte ...

(1904–2003), American scientist *

Godfrey Sperling Godfrey Sperling Jr. (September 25, 1915September 11, 2013) was an American journalist for ''The Christian Science Monitor''. Sperling was best known for running breakfasts in Washington, D.C. that journalists and politicians frequented. Biography ...

(1915–2013), American journalist *

Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling Hildegard Krahwinkel Sperling (née Krahwinkel; 26 March 1908 – 7 March 1981) was a German-Danish tennis player. She won three consecutive singles titles at the French Championships from 1935 to 1937. Krahwinkel Sperling is generally regarded ...

(1908–1981), German tennis player *

Jack Sperling Jack Sperling (August 17, 1922 – February 26, 2004) was an American jazz drummer who performed as a sideman in big bands and as a studio musician for pop and jazz acts, movies, and television. Career In 1941 he played with trumpeter Bunny ...

(1922–2004), American musician * James Sperling, governor of the Bank of England * Jody Sperling, American dancer *

Johann Sperling Johann Sperling (12 July 1603–12 August 1658) was a German physician, zoologist and physicist, deacon and '' Rektor'' of the University of Wittenberg. He was among the first to practise zoology as a natural science, writing a first handbook about ...

(1603–1658), German physician, zoologist, physicist, deacon, and ''rektor'' *

John Sperling John Glen Sperling (January 9, 1921 – August 22, 2014) was an American billionaire businessman who is credited with having led the contemporary for-profit education movement in the United States The fortune he amassed was based on his founding ...

(1921–2014), American billionaire and University of Phoenix founder *

Leon Sperling Leon Sperling (7 August 1900 – 15 December 1941) was a Polish footballer. Sperling was born in Kraków, and was Jewish. He was a forward, playing on the left wing. Sperling represented Cracovia, the team he led in 1921, 1930, and 1932 to th ...

(1900–1941), Polish footballer *

Lilian Sperling ''Nanny 911'' is an American reality television series that originally aired on Fox from November 3, 2004, to February 23, 2007, and on CMT from April 18 to June 6, 2009. Premise ''Nanny 911'' is loosely based on the British television program ...

, British nanny *

Marcos Von Sperling Marcos Von Sperling is a Brazilian professor in Environmental Engineering at Federal University of Minas Gerais. He is known for writing some of the most influential textbooks for wastewater treatment in Brazil and other warm climate regions, known ...

, Brazilian professor * Martijn Sperling (1873–1946), Dutch captain and diver, who rescued 15 shipwrecked victims from the SS ''Berlin'' in 1907 *

Matthew Sperling Matthew Sperling (born 1982) is a British-American novelist and academic. His first novel, ''Astroturf'', was published in 2018. It was chosen as a best summer book by Joe Dunthorne in ''The Guardian'' and as a Book of the Year by Rebecca Tamá ...

, British-American writer * Matthew Sperling (Magic: The Gathering player), American ''Magic: The Gathering'' player *

Max Sperling __NOTOC__ Max Sperling (4 September 1905 – 6 June 1984) was a German officer in the Wehrmacht during World War II who briefly commanded the 9th Panzer Division. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Awards ...

(1905–1984), German officer *

Milton Sperling Milton Sperling (July 6, 1912 – August 26, 1988) was an American film producer and screenwriter for 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros., where he had his own independent production unit, United States Pictures. Biography Sperling, who was of ...

(1912–1988), producer and screenwriter *

Norman Sperling __NOTOC__ Norman Sperling (born March 19, 1947) is an author, editor, publisher, teacher, and telescope designer living in San Mateo, California. Sperling received a BA from Michigan State University after graduating from Montgomery Blair High ...

(born 1947), American telescope designer *

Peter Sperling Peter V. Sperling (born 1960) is an American billionaire businessman. Sperling is the former chairman of Apollo Group, and CallWave, Inc. Early life and education Sperling is the son of entrepreneur and educator John Sperling, co-founder of th ...

(born 1960), founder of the Apollo Group * Rolf Sperling (born 1940), German diver * Rowland Sperling (1874–1965), British diplomat * Sacha Sperling (born 1990), French novelist and screenwriter *

Ted Sperling Ted Sperling is a musical director, conductor, orchestrator, arranger, stage director and musician, primarily for the stage and concerts. He won the Tony Award for Best Orchestrations and the Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Orchestrations, for his ...

, musical director *

Vibeke Sperling Vibeke von Sperling (26 January 1945 – 13 May 2017) was a Danish newspaper and broadcast journalist. She began working as a teaching assistant teaching about the Central and Eastern Europe as well as the Soviet Union at Aarhus University and Ro ...

, (1945–2017), Danish journalist *

Wolfram Sperling Wolfram Sperling (born 4 December 1952) is a retired German swimmer. He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in the 400 m freestyle and 200 m and 400 m individual medley and finished in eighth place in the last event. He placed fourth in the 4 ...

(born 1952), German swimmer

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Sperling, Manitoba Sperling is an unincorporated community in south central Manitoba, Canada. It is located on Provincial Trunk Highway 3 approximately 56 kilometers (36 miles) southwest of Winnipeg Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the Provin ...

, Canada

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