Lothar

Lothar or Lothair is a Danish, Finnish, German, Norwegian, and Swedish masculine given name, while Lotár is a Hungarian masculine given name. Both names are modern forms of the Germanic Chlothar (which is a blended form of Hlūdaz, meaning "fame", and Harjaz, meaning "army"). Notable people with this name include:

Surname

 * Ernst Lothar (1890–1974), Moravian-Austrian writer
 * Hanns Lothar or Hanns Lothar Neutze (1929–1967), German actor
 * Mark Lothar (1902–1985), German composer
 * Rudolf Lothar (1865–1943), Hungarian-born Austrian writer
 * Susanne Lothar (1960–2012), German actress

Given name

 * Lothar Ahrendt (born 1936), former interior minister of the German Democratic Republic
 * Lothar Albrich (1905–1978), Romanian hurdler
 * Lothar Baumgarten (1944–2018), German artist
 * Lothar Berg (1930–2015), German mathematician
 * Lothar Bolz (1903–1986), East German politician
 * Lothar-Günther Buchheim (1918–2007), German author
 * Lothar Collatz (1910–1990), German mathematician
 * Lothar Dräger (1927–2016), German comic writer
 * Lothar Emmerich (1941–2003), German football player and manager
 * Lothar von Faber (1817–1896), German industrialist
 * Lothar Forcart (1902–1990), Swiss zoologist
 * Lothar Geisler (1936–2019), German football player
 * Lothar Hause (born 1955), East German football player
 * Lothar Kreyssig, German bureaucrat and opposer of Aktion T4
 * Lothar Kurbjuweit (born 1950), East German football player
 * Lothar Lindtner (1917–2005), Norwegian actor
 * Lothar Machtan (born 1949), German historian, writer
 * Lothar Malskat (1913–1988), German painter and art restorer
 * Lothar Matthäus (born 1961), German football player and manager, 1990 World Cup winner
 * Lothar Matthes (born 1947), German diver
 * Lothar de Maizière (born 1940), last Prime Minister of East Germany (1990)
 * Lothar Meggendorfer (1847–7 July 1925), German illustrator
 * Lothar Meyer (1830–1895), German chemist
 * Lothar Mendes (1894–1974), German screenwriter and film director
 * Lothar Metz (1939–2021), German wrestler and Olympic medalist
 * Lothar Milde (born 1934), East German athlete who competed mainly in the discus throw
 * Lothar Müthel (1896–1964), German stage and film actor and director
 * Lothar Osterburg (born 1961), German artist
 * Lothar Rendulic (1887–1971), Austrian Nazi General in the Wehrmacht, one of the principal commanders of Courland Pocket, Lapland War, Continuation War, Operation Kutuzov and Prague Offensive
 * Lothar von Richthofen (1894–1922), fighter ace and younger brother of top-scoring ace Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron)
 * Lothar Sippel (born 1965), German football player
 * Lothar Späth (1937–2016), German politician
 * Lothar Spranger, East German footballer
 * Lothar von Trotha (1848–1920), a German military commander who instigated the Herero massacre
 * Lothar Ulsaß (1940–1999), German football player
 * Lothar Wolleh (1930–1979), German photographer

Fictional characters

 * Lothar (Legends of Chima), a character in Legends of Chima
 * Lothar – comic character, sidekick to Mandrake the Magician created by Lee Falk
 * Lothar – a gatekeeper in the 2016 Indian film Mohenjo Daro
 * Lothar – a Nazi spy for Germany, sidekick to Nazi spy Neville Sinclair in the Rocketeer
 * Lothar - character in E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Sandman
 * Lothar Weiser – a spy for Socialist East Germany in Arnaldur Indriðason's book, The Draining Lake
 * Anduin Lothar – a historical warrior in the Warcraft Universe
 * Lothar – a robot in The Metabarons
 * Lothar – a powerful Planewalker wizard in the Planescape setting for Dungeons & Dragons, likewise appearing in the game Planescape: Torment
 * Lothar of the Hill People - a character in an SNL skit played by Mike Myers