Cramer (surname)

Cramer Template:IPAc-en is an English surname and the Anglicized version of Dutch and Low German Kramer, or German Krämer (pronounced {{#invoke:IPA|main}}). 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.Template:Citation needed

Notable people with the name include:

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People

• 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), American chemist
• Clayton Cramer, American historian and software engineer
• Daffi Cramer (born 1954), German singer
• Daniel Cramer (1568–1637), German Lutheran theologian
• Doc Cramer (1905–1990), American baseball player
• Dorothy Cramer, American baseball 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 player
• Gabriel Cramer (1704–1752), Swiss mathematician, discoverer of Cramer's rule
• Cramer brothers, Gabriel and Philibert Cramer, 18th century Swiss publishers
• Gail Cramer, American agricultural economist
• Grant Cramer (born 1961), American actor
• Hank Cramer (born 1953), American folk singer
• Hans Cramer (1896–1968), German general
• Harald Cramér (1893–1985), Swedish mathematician
• Harriet L. Cramer (1847–1922), American newspaper publisher
• Helene Cramer (1844–1916), German painter
• Hugh B. Cramer (1915–2000), American politician
• Jacqueline Cramer (born 1951), Dutch politician
• Jayme Cramer (born 1983), American swimmer
• Jim Cramer (born 1955), American investment manager and television personality
• Joey Cramer (born 1973), Canadian child actor
• Johann Baptist Cramer (1771–1858), German pianist and composer
• Johann Cramer (1905–1987), German politician
• John Cramer (announcer), American television announcer
• John Cramer (Australian politician) (1896–1994)
• John Cramer (representative) (1779–1870), American politician 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), American politician from North Dakota
• Lawrence William Cramer (1897–1978), Governor of the United States Virgin Islands
• Lea-Sophie Cramer (born 1987), German entrepreneur
• Mars Cramer (1928–2014), Dutch economist
• Michael Cramer (actor) (1930–2000), German actor
• Michael Cramer (politician) (born 1949), German politician
• Molly Cramer (1852–1936), German painter
• Morten Cramer (born 1967), Danish football player
• Patrick Cramer (born 1969), German biochemist
• Peggy Cramer (1937–2016), American baseball 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), American politician from Alabama
• Ronald Cramer (born 1968), Dutch cryptographer
• Ronnie Cramer (1957–2021), 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), American politician from Florida
• Zadok Cramer (1773–1813), American author and publisher

In fiction

• Cramer family, characters on the U.S. soap opera One Life to Live
• Inspector Cramer, recurring character in the Nero Wolfe detective stories
• Jason Cramer, character on the HBO drama Oz
• Jerry Cramer, a character in the 1990 American comedy movie Ski Patrol
• Nurse Cramer, character in Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

See also

• Cremer, surname
• Kramer (surname)