Speer is a surname of various origins:
Notable people with the surname include:
Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer was a German architect who served as the Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II. A close ally of Adolf Hitler, he was convicted at the Nuremberg trials and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Belle Vernon is a borough in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is situated along the Monongahela River, abutting two other counties, Westmoreland to the north and Washington across the river. As of the 2020 census, Belle Vernon had a population of 1,025.
Speyer, historically known in English as Spires, is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany with approximately 50,000 inhabitants. Located on the left bank of the river Rhine, Speyer lies 25 km south of Ludwigshafen and Mannheim, and 21 km south-west of Heidelberg. Founded by the Romans, it is one of Germany's oldest cities. Speyer Cathedral, a number of other churches, and the Altpörtel dominate the Speyer landscape. In the cathedral, beneath the high altar, are the tombs of eight Holy Roman Emperors and German kings.
Noah Strausser Speer Wyle is an American actor, producer, director, and writer. He currently plays lawyer Harry Wilson in Leverage: Redemption, a revival of Leverage (2008-2012). He is best known for his role as John Carter in the television series ER (1994–2009), which earned him nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and five Primetime Emmy Awards. He is also known for his roles as Flynn Carsen in The Librarian franchise and Tom Mason in the television series Falling Skies (2011–2015). He has appeared in films such as A Few Good Men (1992), Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999), Donnie Darko (2001), and W. (2008).
Spiers is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Shapiro, and its variations such as Shapira, Schapiro, Schapira, Sapir, Sapira, Spira, Spiro, Sapiro, Szapiro/Szpiro in Polish and Chapiro in French, is a Jewish Ashkenazi surname.
Albert Speer was a German architect and urban planner. He was the son of Albert Speer (1905–1981), Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming the office of Minister of Armaments and War Production for Germany during World War II. His grandfather, Albert Friedrich Speer, was also an architect.
Hilde Schramm is a German politician for Alliance 90/The Greens. Internationally she is best known as the daughter of the German architect and high-ranked Nazi Party official Albert Speer (1905–1981), and the younger sister of Albert Speer Jr. (1934–2017).
Schultz is a German and Dutch surname derived from Schultheiß, meaning village headman or constable/sheriff in the medieval sense. It has many variations, such as Schuldt, Schulte, Schulten, Schultes, Schultheis, Schultheiss, Schultheiß, Schultze, Schulz, Schulze and Schulzke. Adapted spellings in other languages include Shultz, Šulc and Szulc.
Schumacher or Schuhmacher is an occupational surname. The variant Schumaker is also commonly seen in the USA.
Boehm is a German surname, transliterated from Böhm or reflective of a spelling adopted by a given family before the introduction of the umlaut diacritic. It may refer to:
Laing is a Scottish surname, commonly found in countries settled by Scots, such as Canada and New Zealand. It is often wrongly described as a descriptive surname, cognate with the English surname [Long but this is a mispronunciation of the name, which is pronounced layng. The name emanates from several sources: Lyne, Scottish Borders and Lyne Water (Peebles) "an Lainn" (blade) also “Laighin”, from Longus (Latin, Roman presence in Britain, i.e., Tineus Longus, or Thor Longus on Borders .. see Lynes hamlet SW of Bewcastle in Cumbria and River Lyne in Cumbria near Bewcastle and Lynes... Burgesses of Dumfries, Jedburgh, Berwick, Edinburgh... see Hawick/Ronxburgshire, Innerleithen/Selkirkshire, Tranent & Dalkeith/Edinburghshire/Lothian, Aberdeenshire, and Fife... see Ragman Roll of 1296AD "William Lang, county of Berwick"; see Edward III Roll in 1330 in Berwick "John Lang, in Berwick"... see Scottish Covenanters Lists Roxburghshire/Selkirkshire "William Laing Layng Laying Lyne Lains"
Dick is used as a surname in English, German and other languages. In English, the surname is patronymic based on the use of Dick as a first name, meaning 'son of Dick' or 'son of Richard', just like Dickson. The name can also be based on the use of the Middle English words dich, diche, dik, dike 'ditch' as a place name description. In German, surnames with the form Dick has arised through different sources: the adjective dick 'plump', the noun Dickicht 'thicket' used about someone living in such a location, as a patronymic surname based on Dick used as a first name or nick name, or as a variant of Dieck.
There have been five baronetcies created for persons with the surname Home, four in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Only one creation is extant as of 2008.
Nuremberg is a 2000 Canadian-American television docudrama in 2 parts, based on the book Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial by Joseph E. Persico, that tells the story of the Nuremberg trials. Actual footage of camps, taken from the documentary Nazi Concentration and Prison Camps (1945), was included in this miniseries.
Weinberg is a German and Jewish-Ashkenazi surname which means vineyard in German. Spellings in other languages include Wainberg, Vainberg, Vaynberg, Вайнберг and Wajnberg.
The anglicisation of personal names is the change of non-English-language personal names to spellings nearer English sounds, or substitution of equivalent or similar English personal names in the place of non-English personal names.
Spalding is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Spear is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Albert Speer (1905–1981) was a German architect and Nazi minister