# 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