Cramer (surname) – Wikipedia

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Cramer is an English surname and the Anglicized version of Dutch and Low German Kramer, or German Krämer (pronounced [ˈkʁɛːmɐ]). Both refer to the profession of traveling merchants in the Late Middle Ages. The meaning later changed to “merchants trading with different, rather small things.[citation needed]

Notable people with the name include:

  • Anthony Cramer, appellant in Cramer v. United States (U.S. Supreme Court, 1945)
  • Carl Eduard Cramer (1831–1901), Swiss botanist
  • Casey Cramer (born 1982), American football player
  • Chris Cramer (1948–2021), British news journalist and executive
  • Christopher J. Cramer (born 1961), University of Minnesota chemistry professor and vice president
  • Clayton Cramer, American historian and software engineer
  • Daniel Cramer (1568–1637), German Lutheran theologian
  • Doc Cramer (1905–1990), American baseball player
  • Dorothy Cramer, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
  • Douglas S. Cramer, American TV producer
  • Dylan Cramer (born 1958), Canadian jazz musician
  • Ernst Cramer (architect) (1898–1980), Swiss landscape architect
  • Ernst J. Cramer (1913–2010), American journalist
  • Ernst Cramer (politician) (1960), Dutch politician
  • Floyd Cramer (1933–1997), American pianist
  • Franz Cramer (violinist) (1772–1848), English violinist and Master of the Queen’s Music
  • Gabe Cramer (born 1994), Israeli-Canadian-American baseball pitcher
  • Gabriel Cramer (1704–1752), Swiss mathematician, discoverer of Cramer’s rule
  • Cramer brothers, Gabriel and Philibert Cramer, 18th century Swiss publishers
  • Grant Cramer (born 1951), American actor
  • Hank Cramer (born 1953), American folk singer
  • Hans Cramer (1896–1968), German general
  • Harald Cramér (1893–1985), Swedish mathematician
  • Helene Cramer (1844–1916), German flower, landscape and portrait painter
  • Jacqueline Cramer (born 1951), Dutch politician
  • Jayme Cramer (born 1983), American backstroke and butterfly swimmer
  • Jim Cramer (born 1955), American investment manager and television personality
  • Joey Cramer (born 1973), Canadian former child actor
  • Johann Baptist Cramer (1771–1858), German pianist and composer
  • John Cramer (announcer), American television announcer
  • John Cramer (Australian politician) (1896–1994)
  • John Cramer (representative) (1779–1870), U.S. Representative from New York
  • John Antony Cramer (1793–1848), English classical scholar and geographer
  • John G. Cramer (born 1934), American physicist and science fiction author
  • Johann Ulrich von Cramer (1706–1772), German judge, legal scholar, and philosopher
  • Karl von Cramer (1818–1902), Bavarian politician
  • Kathryn Cramer (born 1962), American science fiction author and editor
  • Kevin Cramer (born 1961), North Dakota politician
  • Lawrence William Cramer (1897–1978), Governor of the United States Virgin Islands
  • Lea-Sophie Cramer (born 1987), German entrepreneur
  • Mars Cramer (born 1928), Dutch economist
  • Michael Cramer (1930–2000), German actor
  • Michael Cramer (born 1949), German politician, MEP
  • Michael Cramer (Born 1986), Adult film star, alias. mikeoxlong
  • Molly Cramer (1852–1936), German flower, landscape and portrait painter
  • Morten Cramer (born 1967), Danish football player
  • Patrick Cramer (born 1969), German biochemist
  • Peggy Cramer (1937–2016), All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
  • Philippe Cramer (born 1970), Swiss furniture and wallpaper designer
  • Philo Cramer, American guitarist
  • Pieter Cramer (1721–1776), Dutch wool merchant and entomologist
  • Richard Cramer (1889–1960), American actor
  • Richard Ben Cramer (1950–2013), American journalist and author
  • Rie Cramer (1887–1977), Dutch writer and illustrator
  • Robert E. Cramer (born 1947), U.S. Representative from Alabama
  • Ronald Cramer (born 1968), Dutch cryptographer
  • Ronnie Cramer (born 1957), American artist, composer and filmmaker
  • Walter Cramer (1886–1944), German businessman and anti-Hitler conspirator
  • Wilhelm Cramer (1746–1799), German-British violinist, best known for the “Cramer bow”
  • William Cramer (pathologist) (1878–1945), German-born pathologist
  • William C. Cramer (1922–2003), U.S. Representative from Florida

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