Georg (given name)

Georg is a male given name in mostly Northern European countries and may refer to:

In creative culture

 * Georg, Baron von Ortzen, German poet and author
 * Georg Baselt, German actor
 * Georg Blomstedt, Swedish actor
 * Georg Böhm, German organist
 * Georg Büchner, German playwright
 * Georg Brandl Egloff, American composer
 * Georg Fabricius, Protestant German poet
 * Georg Gerster, Swiss photographer
 * George Frideric Handel (Georg Friedrich Händel in German), German composer
 * Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet
 * Georg Løkkeberg, Norwegian actor
 * Georg Maier, German actor and theatre director
 * Georg Listing, bassist for the German Rock Band Tokio Hotel
 * Georg Malmstén, Finnish singer, composer
 * Georg Matthias Monn, Austrian composer
 * Georg Muffat, French composer
 * Georg Ots, Estonian opera singer
 * Georg Albert Ruthenberg, guitarist for the American rock band Foo Fighters
 * Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor
 * Georg Stahlberg, Estonian opera singer and music pedagogue
 * Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet
 * Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer
 * Georg von Trapp, headed the Austrian singing von Trapp family
 * Georg Tintner, Austrian conductor
 * Georg Trakl, Austrian poet
 * Georg Trump, German graphics, typeface and postage stamp designer
 * Georg Joseph Vogler, German composer
 * Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian composer
 * Georg Hólm, bassist for the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós

In science

 * Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate
 * Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist
 * Georg Cantor, German mathematician
 * Georg Forchhammer, Danish physicist and educator
 * Georg Groddeck, German physician whom Freud credits for the Id
 * Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher
 * Georg Hartung (c. 1822 - c. 1891), a pioneering German geologist
 * Georg Major, German Lutheran theologian
 * Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician
 * Georg Ohm, German physicist
 * Georg Pawer (Bauer), German scholar and scientist, the father of mineralogy
 * Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist
 * Georg Joachim Rheticus, cartographer and scientific instrument maker
 * Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist
 * Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist
 * Georg Steller, German naturalist
 * Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian philologist
 * Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
 * Georg Alexander Pick, Austrian mathematician

In politics

 * Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia
 * Georg Andersson (politician) (born 1936), Swedish politician
 * Georg Bissmark (1871–1941), Swedish jurist and politician
 * Georg Gothein (1857–1940), German politician
 * Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany
 * Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of Germany
 * Georg Meri, Estonian diplomat, literary scholar and translator
 * Georg Pelisaar, Estonian journalist and politician
 * Georg Ritter von Schönerer, Austrian politician
 * Georg Schätzel (1875–1934), German jurist and politician
 * Georg, Count Palatine of Simmern-Sponheim
 * Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony
 * Georg, Duke of Hohenberg
 * Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
 * Georg, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
 * Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen
 * Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
 * Georg, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
 * Georg Leo Graf von Caprivi de Caprera de Montecuccoli, known as Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of the German Empire

Other

 * Georg Reinbold von Aroldingen und Eltzingen, German military officer
 * Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish soldier
 * Georg Gänswein, German prelate of the Catholic Church
 * Georg Hackenschmidt, Estonian strongman, professional wrestler and sports philosopher
 * Georg Hellat, Estonian architect
 * Georg Linnamäe, Estonian rally driver
 * Georg Lurich, Estonian Greco-Roman wrestler and strongman
 * Georg Meri, Estonian diplomat, literary scholar and translator
 * Georg Niedermeier, German association football player
 * Georg Simmel, German thinker
 * Georg Thomas, German military commander
 * Georg, Truchsess von Waldburg, Swabian League army commander
 * Georg Werthner, Austrian decathlete
 * Spiders Georg, an Internet meme