Teller (surname) explained

Teller
Meaning:	1. MHG: telle meant "gorge, ravine" - person living on or from places like gorge, ravine 2. MHG, MLG: teller "plate, turntable" - manufacturer of these products 3. Low German nickname, Low German: teller, teler means "parents, father" 4. MLG (Low German) teller, teler also meant "farmer, [cultivator], or builder" 5. Dutch teller, as in a bank teller (tellen meaning "to count" in Dutch)
Region:	Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, United States
Language origin:	Dutch, Low German, German, Jewish (Yiddish: טעֶלעֶר teler)
Variant:	Czech: [[Talíř]] (cs); Jewish: Tellermann, Tellerman, Tellering, Tellerbaum, Tellerroth (http://www.avotaynu.com/books/DJSGNames.htm)

Teller is the name of:

• Wilhelm Abraham Teller (1734–1804), a German Protestant theologian
• Henry M. Teller (1830–1914), a US politician
• Leopold Teller (1844–1908), a Hungarian actor
• Charlotte Teller (1876–1953)
• Edward Teller (1908, Budapest – 2003), a Hungarian-US nuclear physicist known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb"
• Ludwig Teller (1911, Manhattan – 1965), a US Naval lieutenant and political figure

• Teller (magician) (born Raymond Joseph Teller, in 1948, Philadelphia), a US magician, a member of the comedy and magic duo "Penn and Teller"
• Janne Teller (born 1964), a Danish author
• Juergen Teller (born 1964), a German photographer
• Miles Teller (born 1987), an American actor
• Wyatt Teller (born 1994), American football player

See also

• Teller (disambiguation)