Lemke (surname)

Lemke is a German surname.

Geographical distribution
As of 2014, 59.6% of all known bearers of the surname Lemke were residents of Germany (frequency 1:2,598), 27.7% of the United States (1:3,061,452), 4.6% of Brazil (1:86,475), 2.1% of Canada (1:33,211) and 2.1% of Poland (1:34,335).

In Germany, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:2,598) in the following states:
 * 1. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1:599)
 * 2. Brandenburg (1:837)
 * 3. Schleswig-Holstein (1:969)
 * 4. Berlin (1:1,102)
 * 5. Bremen (1:1,445)
 * 6. Hamburg (1:1,642)
 * 7. Lower Saxony (1:1,716)
 * 8. Saxony-Anhalt (1:1,977)

People

 * Anthony Lemke, actor
 * Birsel Lemke, environmentalist
 * Carlton E. Lemke, mathematician
 * Helmut Lemke (1907-1990), German politician
 * James Lemke (born 1988), Australian professional tennis player
 * James U Lemke (1929–2019), American physicist and entrepreneur
 * Jay Lemke, education scientist
 * LeRoy Lemke (1935–1991), American lawyer and politician
 * Leslie Lemke, musical savant
 * Lev Lemke, actor
 * Mark Lemke, baseball player
 * Peter Henry Lemke, Benedictine
 * Richard R. Lemke (1930-2016), American farmer and politician
 * Siegfried Lemke, World War II Luftwaffe ace
 * Steffi Lemke (born 1968), German politician
 * Steve Lemke, guitar player
 * Thorsten Lemke, developer of GraphicConverter for macOS, owner of LemkeSoft
 * William Lemke, politician
 * Wolf Lemke, aircraft designer
 * Dave Lemke, original bass player of Imagine Dragons