Sommer

Sommer is a surname, from the German, Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian languages word for the season "summer".

Notable people with this name include:

A–L

 * Alfred Sommer (born 1943), American academic
 * Alice Herz-Sommer (1903–2014), Czech-born Jewish pianist, oldest Holocaust survivor
 * António de Sommer Champalimaud (1918–2004), Portuguese banker and industrialist
 * Bert Sommer (1949–1990), American musician and actor
 * Christine Sommer (born 1970), Austrian actress
 * Clifford C. Sommer (1908–1993), American businessman and politician
 * Coleen Sommer (born 1960), American high jumper
 * Daniel Sommer (1850–1940), American religious leader, prominent in the Restoration Movement
 * Édouard Sommer (1822–1866), French scholar
 * Elke Sommer (born 1940), German actress
 * Erik Sommer (born 1978), American artist
 * Evrim Sommer (born 1971), German politician (The Left)
 * Frederick Sommer (1905–1999), Italian-born American photographer
 * Gerhard Sommer (1921–2019), German Nazi officer accused of war crimes
 * Giorgio Sommer (1834–1914), German photographer
 * Günter Sommer (born 1943), German jazz musician
 * Hans Sommer (SS officer) (1914–1987), German Nazi officer (SS-Obersturmführer)
 * Hans Sommer (composer) (1837–1922), German opera composer
 * Hans Sommer (composer, born 1904) (1904–2000), German film music composer
 * Iris Sommer (born 1970), Dutch psychiatrist
 * Jason Sommer, American poet and academic
 * Joe Sommer (1858–1938), American baseball player
 * Josef Sommer (born 1934), American film actor
 * Johann Wilhelm Ernst Sommer (1881–1952), German bishop of the Methodist Church
 * Juergen Sommer (born 1969), American soccer goalkeeper
 * Keith P. Sommer (born 1946), Republican politician
 * Kostas Sommer (born 1975), Greek actor
 * Luke Elliott Sommer (born 1986), former United States Army Ranger and bank robber

M–Z

 * Manfred Sommer (1933–2007), Spanish comics creator
 * Michael Sommer (born 1952), German trade unionist leader
 * Mike Sommer (1934–2022), American football player
 * Peter Sommer, Danish singer-songwriter
 * Peter Sommer (director), British archaeologist
 * Petr Sommer, Czech archaeologist
 * Ralf J. Sommer, German biologist specializing in evolutionary developmental biology
 * Ralph Frederick Sommer (1898–1971), American dentist, one of the endodontics pioneers
 * Raymond Sommer (1906–1950), French racing driver
 * Renate Sommer (born 1958), German politician (CDU)
 * Rich Sommer (born 1978), American actor
 * Robert Sommer (1929–2021), American professor of psychology
 * Robert Sommer (psychiatrist) (1864–1937), German psychiatrist and genealogist
 * Roger Sommer, French aviator
 * Roy Sommer (born 1957), American ice hockey player
 * Scott Sommer (1951–1993), American author
 * Thelma Thall “Tybie” Sommer, née Thelma Thall (born 1924), American two-time world table tennis champion
 * Theo Sommer (1930–2022), German journalist
 * Tim Sommer, American musician and record producer
 * Vladimír Sommer (1921–1997), Czech composer
 * William Sommer (1867–1949), American modernist painter
 * Yann Sommer (born 1988), Swiss footballer

In fiction

 * Dr Jochen Sommer, the fictional editor answering readers' questions (agony uncle) of the German youth magazine Bravo
 * The Story of Mr Sommer, a German novel
 * Sommer (TV series), a Danish TV-drama aired on DR1 in 2008
 * Bobbi "Blade" Sommer, a character from Batman Beyond