# 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) [de] (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 (aviator), 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