Wagner (surname)

German: [ˈvaːɡnɐ] ⓘ
  • English name: /ˈwæɡnər/ WAG-nər[1][2]
    • Language(s)GermanOriginMeaningA maker or driver of wagonsRegion of originGermanyOther namesVariant form(s)
    • Carter
    • Cartwright
    • Vagner
    • Wagoner
    • Wainwright
    • Wayne

    The surname "Wagner" is derived from the Germanic surname Waganari, meaning 'wagonmaker' or 'wagon driver.' The surname is German but is also well-established in Scandinavia, the Netherlands, eastern Europe, and elsewhere as well as in all German-speaking countries, and among Ashkenazi Jews.

    The Wagner surname was first found in Saxony, where the family became a prominent contributor to the development of the area from ancient times.[3] The alternatively spelled surname Wegner has its origin in Silesia.

    This common occupational surname was often given to one who transported produce or other goods via high-sided wagons or carts. Among some German populations, especially the Pennsylvania Germans, Wagner also denoted a wagon-maker, wainwright, or cartwright.[4]

    People with the surname Wagner

    • Adolph Wagner, (1835–1917), German economist
    • Agnieszka Wagner (born 1970), Polish actress
    • Allan Wagner (born 1942), Peruvian diplomat
    • Allan R. Wagner (1934–2018), American experimental psychologist and learning theorist
    • Alex Wagner (born 1977), American television host, liberal journalist and author
    • Andreas Wagner (born 1967), Austrian-American evolutionary biologist
    • Andreas Wagner (born 1972), German politician
    • Ann Wagner (born 1962), American politician, U.S. Representative from Missouri
    • Annett Wagner-Michel (born 1955), German chess master
    • Antonio Wagner de Moraes (born 1966), Brazilian football forward
    • Arthur Wagner (1824–1902), English clergyman from Brighton
    • Ashley Wagner (born 1991), American figure skater
    • Audrey Wagner (1927–1984), American baseball player (1943–1949), obstetrician and gynecologist
    • Austin Wagner (born 1997), Canadian professional ice hockey player playing for United States teams
    • Ben Wagner (born 1980), American radio sportscaster
    • Billy Wagner (born 1971), American Major League Baseball player
    • Blake Wagner (born 1988), American soccer coach
    • Bobby Wagner (born 1990), American NFL football player
    • Carl-Ludwig Wagner (1930–2012), German politician
    • Charles Wagner (1852–1919), French pastor and author who was invited to preach at the White House
    • Chris Wagner (born 1991), American National Hockey League player
    • Cosima Wagner (1837–1930), diarist and director of the Bayreuth Festival, daughter of Franz Liszt and widow of Richard Wagner
    • Dalton Wagner (born 1998), American football player
    • Daniela Wagner (born 1957), German politician
    • Dan Wagner (born 1963), British entrepreneur
    • Dan Wagner (data scientist)
    • Danny Wagner, American basketball player
    • David Wagner, several people
    • David A. Wagner (born 1974), American computer security and cryptography researcher
    • David L. Wagner (born 1956), American entomologist
    • Dennis Wagner (born 1958), American football coach
    • Dennis Wagner (born 1997), German chess grandmaster
    • Dietrich Wagner (1945–2023), German engineer
    • Dinara Wagner (born 1999), German chess woman grandmaster
    • D. J. Wagner (born 2005), American basketball player
    • Eberhard Wagner (born 1938), German academic, linguist and author
    • Eduard Wagner (1894–1944), quartermaster-general of the German Army in World War II
    • Eric Wagner (1959–2021), American heavy metal vocalist
    • Florence Signaigo Wagner (1919–2019), American botanist who served as president of the American Fern Society
    • Franz Wagner (basketball) (born 2001), German basketball player
    • Franz Josef Wagner (born 1943), German journalist
    • Friedelind Wagner (1918–1991), German writer and broadcaster, daughter of Siegfried and Winifred Wagner
    • Fridolin Wagner (born 1997), German footballer
    • Gary Wagner (born 1940), American baseball player
    • George D. Wagner (1829–1869), American politician, farmer and Union general during the American Civil War
    • Gerhard Maria Wagner (born 1954), Austrian Roman Catholic priest who was nominated auxiliary bishop in Linz, but didn't accept
    • Gerhard Wagner (physician), (1888–1939), the first Reich Doctors' Leader (Reichsärzteführer) of Nazi Germany
    • Gottfried Wagner (born 1947) writer and critic of the Wagner family, son of Wolfgang Wagner
    • Gudrun Wagner (1944–2007), second wife of Wolfgang Wagner
    • Günter P. Wagner (born 1954), Austrian biologist
    • Guillermo Wagner Granizo (1923–1995) American ceramic tile muralist in Northern California.
    • Gustav Wagner (1911–1980), Austrian Nazi SS officer at Sobibór extermination camp
    • Gustav Wagner (disambiguation)
    • Harvey M. Wagner (1931–2017), American management scientist and professor
    • Haylie Wagner (born 1993), American softball player in the National Pro Fastpitch league
    • Heinrich Leopold Wagner (National Pro Fastpitch), German dramatist and author
    • Henry Michell Wagner (1792–1870), Vicar of Brighton 1824–1870
    • Honus Wagner (1874–1955), American baseball player
    • Ina Wagner (born 1946), Austrian scientist and university professor
    • James Elvin Wagner (1873–1969), American clergyman
    • James Wagner (poet) (born 1969), American poet
    • James W. Wagner (born 1953), president of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
    • Jane Wagner (born 1935), American writer, director and producer
    • Jaques Wagner (born 1951), Brazilian federal government's Minister of Defence
    • Jasmin Wagner (born 1980), stage name Blümchen, German singer, actress, model and spokeswoman
    • Jenny Wagner (born 1984), German physicist and cosmologist
    • Jenny Wagner (author) (born 1939), Australian writer for children
    • Jens-Christian Wagner (born 1966), German historian
    • Jill Wagner (born 1979), American actress
    • Johann Wagner (born 1990), Australian rules footballer
    • Johann Peter Alexander Wagner (1730–1809), German rococo sculptor
    • Johann Andreas Wagner (1797–1861), German zoologist
    • Johann Philipp Wagner (1799-1879), German merchant and inventor
    • John Wagner (born 1949), American-born British comics writer
    • Josef Wagner, several people
    • Kai Wagner (born 1997), German footballer
    • Karl Willy Wagner (1883–1953), German pioneer in the theory of electronic filters
    • Karl Edward Wagner (1945–1994), American horror, science fiction and fantasy writer
    • Katharina Wagner (born 1949), German opera director, daughter of Wolfgang and Gudrun Wagner
    • Klaus Wagner, (1910–2000) German mathematician
    • Kurt Wagner (1904-1989), German general
    • Lindsay Wagner (born 1949), American actress
    • Martin Wagner, several people
    • Mary Wagner (born 1949), American politician and jurist
    • Matt Wagner (born 1961), American comics writer and artist
    • Melinda Wagner (born 1957), American composer
    • Mike Wagner (born 1949), American retired football player, retired football coach, and bank officer
    • Mirel Wagner (born 1987) Ethiopia-born Finnish singer-songwriter
    • Moritz Wagner (1813–1887), German German explorer, collector, geographer and evolutionary biologist
    • Moritz Wagner (basketball) (born 1997), German basketball player
    • Nándor Wagner (1922–1997), Hungarian sculptor
    • Neil Wagner (born 1986), South African-born New Zealand cricketer
    • Neil Wagner (baseball) (born 1984), American Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball player
    • Nike Wagner (born 1945), German dramaturge, daughter of Wieland Wagner
    • Nikolai Wagner (1829–1907), Russian zoologist, writer and psychic researcher
    • Otto Wagner (1841–1918), Austrian architect and urban planner
    • Paul Wagner (born 1967), American baseball player
    • Paula Wagner (born 1946), American film and theatre producer and film executive
    • Renan Wagner (born 1991), Brazilian footballer
    • Richard Wagner (1813–1883), German composer
    • Richard Wagner (judge) (born 1957), Canadian judge and 18th Chief Justice of Canada (2017–present)
    • Richard Wagner (novelist) (1952–2023), Romanian-German novelist
    • Richard E. Wagner (born 1941), American economist
    • Richard K. Wagner, American psychologist and professor
    • Richard Paul Wagner (1882–1953), Chief of Design for Deutsche Reichsbahn 1922–1942; responsible for standard locomotive designs
    • Robert Wagner (born 1930), American actor
    • Robert Wagner (disambiguation), several people
    • Robert F. Wagner (1877–1953), American politician, U.S. Senator from New York
    • Robert F. Wagner Jr. (1910–1991), American politician and mayor of New York City
    • Robert Heinrich Wagner (1895–1946), German Nazi Gauleiter and Reich Governor of Alsace, executed for war crimes
    • Robin Wagner (figure skater), American retired skater and skating coach
    • Robin Wagner (designer) (born 1933), Broadway set designer
    • Ruth Wagner (born 1940), German politician
    • Ryan Wagner (born 1982), Major League Baseball player
    • Sandro Wagner (born 1987), German footballer
    • Siegfried Wagner (1869–1930), German composer and conductor, son of Richard and Cosima Wagner
    • Stanley Wagner, several people
    • Steve Wagner (disambiguation)
    • Sue Wagner (born 1940), American politician
    • Thomas Wagner (disambiguation)
    • Tini Wagner (1919–2004), Dutch swimmer
    • Tyler Wagner (born 1991), American Major League Baseball and Atlantic League of Professional Baseball player
    • Viktor Wagner (1908–1981), Russian mathematician
    • Vladimir Wagner (1849 –1934), Russian psychologist and naturalist
    • Walter Wagner (footballer) (born 1949), German footballer
    • Walter Wagner (notary) (1907–1945), German notary who married Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun
    • Warren H. Wagner (1920–2000), American botanist
    • Warren Lambert Wagner (born 1950), American botanist and botanical curator for the National Museum of Natural History
    • Webster Wagner (1817–1882), American railroad inventor, manufacturer and politician
    • Wieland Wagner (1917–1966), German opera director and producer, son of Siegfried Wagner and Winifred Wagner
    • Wilhelm Richard Wagner, full name of German composer Richard Wagner
    • Wilhelm Wagner (scholar) (1843–1880), a German scholar of Greek poetry
    • Wilhelm Wagner (entomologist) (1895–1977), German entomologist
    • Willi Wagner (born 1941), German Olympic athlete
    • Winifred Wagner (1897–1980), British-born director of the Bayreuth Festival, wife of Siegfried Wagner and friend of Adolf Hitler
    • Wolfgang Wagner (1919–2010), German opera festival director, younger brother of Wieland Wagner
    • Wolfgang Wagner (social psychologist), Austrian social psychologist

    Fictional characters

    See also

    • Wagner family tree, the composer Richard Wagner and his family, many of whom have been active in the arts
    • Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857–1940), Austrian physician, Nobel Prize laureate in medicine
    • Vagner (name)
    • Waggoner (disambiguation), includes list of people with surname Waggoner
    • Von Wagner, ring name of professional wrestler Calvin Bloom

    References

    1. ^ Jones, Daniel (2011). Roach, Peter; Setter, Jane; Esling, John (eds.). Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary (18th ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-15255-6.
    2. ^ Wells, John C. (2008). Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (3rd ed.). Longman. ISBN 978-1-4058-8118-0.
    3. ^ "FamilyTreeDNA - Genetic Testing for Ancestry, Family History & Genealogy".
    4. ^ WAGNER - Surname Meaning | Origin for the Surname Wagner Genealogy
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