Metzger Explained
Metzger (also Mezger) is a German/Yiddish (German-Jewish) occupational surname, meaning "butcher". Notable people with the name include:
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- , members of American indie pop band AJR
- Alex Metzger (born 1973), German bobsledder
- Alex Metzger (footballer) (fl. 1979–1984), New Zealand footballer
- Arnold Metzger, German philosopher
- Bert Metzger (1909–1986), American football player
- Bruce M. Metzger (1914–2007), American biblical scholar, Bible translator, and professor
- Butch Metzger (born 1952), American baseball pitcher
- Clark W. Metzger (1868–1946), American politician from Ohio
- David Metzger (born 1960), American orchestrator and composer
- Ed Metzger (born 1946), American actor and writer
- Erika Metzger (fl. 1927–1929), German table tennis player
- Georg Balthasar Metzger (1623–1687), German physician
- Gustav Metzger (1926–2017), German-born artist and political activist
- Heinz-Klaus Metzger (1932–2009), German music critic and theoretician
- Henri Metzger (1912–2007), French archaeologist and hellenist
- Jill Metzger (born 1973), American air force officer
- Kurt Metzger (born 1977), American comedian, actor, and writer
- Mike Metzger (born 1975), American freestyle motocross rider
- Otto Metzger (1885–1961), German-British engineer and inventor
- Radley Metzger (1929–2017), American filmmaker and film distributor
- Richard Metzger (born 1965), American television host and author
- Robert A. Metzger (born 1956), American electrical engineer and science fiction author
- Roger Metzger (born 1947), American baseball player
- Sol Metzger (1880–1932), American football coach and syndicated sports writer
- Thomas Metzger (sinologist) (born 1933), American scholar of Chinese politics and society
- Tom Metzger (1938-2020), American founder of the White Aryan Resistance
- William E. Metzger (1868–1933), American automotive pioneer, co-founder of E-M-F Company
- Wolfgang Metzger (1899–1979), German psychologist
- Yona Metzger (born 1953), Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel
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In fiction
- Karl Metzger, a Nazi correctional officer in the HBO drama series Oz
- Metzger is the name of a lawyer in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49
