Fischer Explained
Fischer is a German occupational surname, meaning fisherman. The name Fischer is the fourth most common German surname. The English version is Fisher.
People with the surname
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- Abraham Fischer (1850–1913) South African public official
- Adam Fischer (sculptor) (1888–1968), Danish sculptor
- Ádám Fischer (born 1949), Hungarian conductor
- Adolf Fischer (officer) (1893–1947), German Nazi general executed for war crimes
- Adolph Fischer (1858–1887) German-American anarchist
- Alfred Fischer (architect) (1881–1950), German architect
- Alfred Fischer (judge) (1919–2004), German judge
- Andrew Andika Fischer (born 1987), Indonesian actor
- Angeline Fuller Fischer (1841–1925), American writer
- Annie Fischer (1914–1995), Hungarian pianist
- Andrea Fischer (born 1960), German politician
- Andrea Fischer (scientist), (born 1973), Austrian glaciologist
- Anton Fischer (bobsleigh), German bobsledder
- Artur Fischer (1919–2016), German inventor (fischertechnik, plastic dowel)
- Axel Fischer (born 1966), German politician
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- Carl Fischer (disambiguation)
- Carlos Fischer (1903–1969), Uruguayan politician, President of the National Council of Government in 1958
- Caroline Fischer-Achten (1806–1896), Austrian opera singer
- Catherine Fischer (born 1947), American deafblind author
- Christian Fischer (born 1997), American ice hockey forward
- Christopher Fischer (born 1988), German ice hockey defenceman
- Clare Fischer (1928–2012), American composer, arranger, and pianist
- Claude S. Fischer (born 1948), American sociologist
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- Edmond H. Fischer (1920–2021), Swiss-American biochemist
- Eduard Fischer (general) (1862–1935), Austrian colonel in World War I
- Edwin Fischer (1886–1960), Swiss pianist and conductor
- Elizabeth Fischer Monastero, American mezzo-soprano
- Emil Fischer (disambiguation)
- Emily V. Fischer (born 1979 or 1980), American atmospheric chemist
- Ernst Fischer (disambiguation)
- Esther Fischer-Homberger (1940–2019), Swiss psychiatrist and medical historian
- Eugen Fischer (1874–1967), anthropologist, doctor and member of the Nazi party
- Eugen Fischer (historian) (1899–1973), geologist and historian
- Eva Fischer (1920–2015), Croatian Italian artist
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- Georg Fischer (disambiguation)
- George R. Fischer (1937–2016), US underwater archaeologist, a pioneer of the field in the National Park Service
- Gerhard Fischer (disambiguation)
- Gisela Fischer (1929–2014), German actress
- Gottfried Fischer (1944–2013), German psychologist, psychotherapist and psychoanalyst
- Gottfried Bermann Fischer (1897–1995), Jewish-German publisher of the S. Fischer Verlag
- Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (1771-1853), German palaeontologist and entomologist.
- Gotthilf Fischer (1928–2020), German choral conductor
- Greg Fischer (born 1958), American businessman and mayor of Louisville, KY
- Gustav Fischer (equestrian) (1915–1990), Swiss Olympian in equestrian
- Gustav Fischer (explorer) (1848–1886), German physician and explorer of Africa
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- H. L. Fischer (1822–1909) (Henry Lee Fischer), Pennsylvania German language writer and translator
- Hans Fischer (1881–1945), German chemist, 1930 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Heidemarie Fischer (1944–2022), German politician
- Heike Fischer (born 1982), German diver
- Heinz Fischer (born 1938), federal president of Austria
- Helene Fischer (born 1984), German pop music singer
- Hermann Emil Fischer (1852–1919), German chemist, 1902 Nobel prizewinner, and inventor of the Fischer projection
- Horst Fischer (1912–1966), German SS concentration camp doctor executed for war crimes
- Howard Fischer, curator of the New York Jazz Museum
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- Jan Fischer (politician), prime minister-designate of the Czech Republic
- James Fischer (1927–2004), American engineer
- Jason Fischer (disambiguation)
- Jean Fischer (1867 - ?), French cyclist
- Jean Chrétien Fischer (1716–1762), German-born French soldier
- Jenna Fischer (born 1974), American actress
- Jiří Fischer (born 1980), Czech ice hockey player
- Joey Fischer (1976–1993), American murder victim
- Johann Fischer (disambiguation)
- John Fischer (disambiguation)
- Joschka Fischer (born 1948), German foreign minister
- Josef Fischer (cyclist) (1865–1953), German racing cyclist
- Joseph Fischer (disambiguation)
- Julia Fischer (born 1983), German violinist
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- Manuel Fischer (born 1989), German footballer
- Marcel Fischer (born 1978), Swiss fencer
- Martin Fischer (automobile designer) (1867–1947), Swiss automobile designer
- Martin Fischer (tennis), Austrian professional tennis player
- Martin Fischer-Dieskau (born 1954), German conductor, son of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
- Mathias Fischer (basketball) (born 1971), German basketball player and coach
- Michael J. Fischer (born 1942), American computer scientist
- Minna Fischer (1858–1941), Australian soprano and singing teacher in London
- Móric Fischer de Farkasházy (1799–1880), Hungarian porcelain manufacturer
- Moses Fischer (–), Austrian rabbi
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