Veit is a personal name. Notable people with the name include:

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David Veit David Veit (8 November 1771, in Breslau – 15 April 1814) was a medical doctor and writer from the Kingdom of Prussia. Life His father, Juda Veit (1716–1786), was a banker, and his brother, Simon Veit, was the husband of Moses Mendelssohn's d ...

(1771–1814) was a German doctor and writer, brother of Simon Veit * Gustav Veit (1824–1903), German gynecologist and obstetrician * Johann Veit (1852–1917), German gynecologist * Mario Veit (born 1973), German boxer * Mauro Luis Veit (born 1983), Brazilian defensive midfielder *

Philipp Veit Philipp Veit (13 February 179318 December 1877) was a German Romantic painter and one of the main exponents of the Nazarene movement. It is to Veit that the credit of having been the first to revive the nearly forgotten technique of fresc ...

(1793–1877), German Romantic painter * Sankt Veit (disambiguation), the German name for Saint Vitus and a number of derived names *

Simon Veit Simon Veit (25 May 1754, Brandenburg? - 1 October 1819, Berlin?) was a German merchant and banker of Jewish ancestry. Life and work His father, Juda Veit (1710–1786), was a wool merchant and founder of a bank. At Simon was several brothes an ...

(1754–1819), German merchant and banker of Jewish ancestry, first husband of Dorothea von Schlegel * Sixten Veit (born 1970), German football player * Stan Veit (1919–2010), entrepreneur and publisher in the early days of the personal computer industry in the US *

Václav Jindřich Veit Václav Jindřich Veit (19 January 1806 in the village of Řepnice, now part of Libochovany, near Litoměřice – 16 February 1864, Litoměřice), known in German as Wenzel Heinrich Veit, was a composer, copyist, pianist and lawyer from the Aust ...

(1806–1864), Czech composer, copyist, pianist and lawyer

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Veit Amerbach Veit Amerbach (also Vitus Amerpachius) (1503 in Wemding, Germany – September 13, 1557, in Ingolstadt, Germany) was a German Lutheran theologian, scholar and humanist, who converted to Catholicism. Life Amerbach was born at Wembdinden in 1503. ...

, professor of theology and member of Martin Luther's entourage who converted to Catholicism * Veit Arnpeck (1440–1505), Bavarian historian * Veit Bach (1550–1578), Hungarian miller who founded the Bach family of composers and musicians * Veit Erbermann (1597–1675), German theologian and controversialist *

Veit Harlan Veit Harlan (22 September 1899 – 13 April 1964) was a German film director and actor. Harlan reached the high point of his career as a director in the Nazi era; most notably his antisemitic film '' Jud Süß'' (1940) makes him controversial. W ...

(1899–1964), German film director and actor * Veit Heiduschka (born 1938), Austrian film producer *

Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff or Seckendorf (December 20, 1626December 18, 1692), German statesman and scholar, was a member of the House of Seckendorff, a noble family which took its name from the village of Seckendorf between Nuremberg and Lan ...

(1626–1692), German statesman and scholar *

Veit Stoss Veit Stoss (, also spelled Stoß and Stuoss; ; ; before 1450about 20 September 1533) was a leading German language, German sculptor, mostly working with wood, whose career covered the transition between the late Gothic art, Gothic and the North ...

(1450–1533), German sculptor, mostly in wood *

Johann Georg Veit Engelhardt Johann Georg Veit Engelhardt (November 12, 1791 – September 13, 1855), was a Germany, German Protestant theology, theologian. Life Born in Neustadt (Aisch), Neustadt-on-the-Aisch, he was educated at University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, becoming t ...

(1791–1855), German theologian

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