# 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 Hólm, bassist for the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós
* Georg Løkkeberg, Norwegian actor
* Georg Listing, (born 1987), German bassist (Tokio Hotel)
* Georg Maier, German actor and theatre director
* 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 Tintner, Austrian conductor
* Georg Trakl, Austrian poet
* Georg von Trapp, headed the Austrian singing von Trapp family
* Georg Trump, German graphics, typeface and postage stamp designer
* Georg Joseph Vogler, German composer
* Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian composer

## 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 Hartung (c. 1822 - c. 1891), a pioneering German geologist
* Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher
* 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 Alexander Pick, Austrian mathematician
* 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

## In politics

* Georg Andersson (politician) (born 1936), Swedish politician
* Georg Bissmark (1871–1941), Swedish jurist and politician
* Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia
* 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