Fischer
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Introduction
Fischer is a German surname, derived from the profession of the fisherman. The name Fischer is the fourth most common German surname. The English version is Fisher.
Geographical distribution
As of 2014, 62.7% of all known bearers of the surname Fischer were residents of Germany (frequency 1:215), 17.0% of the United States (1:3,581), 3.7% of Switzerland (1:372), 3.5% of Austria (1:405), 2.9% of Brazil (1:11,899), 2.6% of France (1:4,246) and 1.2% of Canada (1:5,355).
In Germany, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:215) in the following states:
- 1. Thuringia (1:138)
- 2. Bavaria (1:157)
- 3. Saxony (1:157)
- 4. Baden-Württemberg (1:184)
- 5. Saxony-Anhalt (1:199)
- 6. Hesse (1:208)
People
A–E
- Abraham Fischer (1850–1913) South African public official
- Adam Fischer (1888–1968), Danish sculptor
- Ádám Fischer (born 1949), Hungarian conductor
- Adolf Fischer (officer) (1893–1947), German Nazi general executed for war crimes
- Alfred Fischer (judge) (1919–2004), German judge
- Alfred Fischer (architect) (1881–1950), German architect
- Annie Fischer (1914–1995), Hungarian pianist
- Andrea Fischer (born 1960), German politician
- Anton Fischer (bobsleigh), German bobsledder
- Artur Fischer (1919–2016), German inventor (fischertechnik, plastic dowel)
- Axel Fischer (born 1966), German politician
- Batty Fischer (1877–1958), Luxembourg dentist and amateur photographer
- Bernd Fischer (disambiguation)
- Bernd Fischer (mathematician) (born 1936), German mathematician
- Birgit Fischer (born 1962), German kayaker
- Bobby Fischer (1943–2008), American world chess champion 1972–1975
- Abram "Bram" Fischer (1908–1975), South African lawyer
- Carl Fischer (disambiguation)
- Christian Fischer (born 1997), American ice hockey forward
- Christopher Fischer (born 1988), German ice hockey defenceman
- Clare Fischer (1928–2012), American Composer, arranger, pianist
- Claude S. Fischer (born 1948), American sociologist
- D'or Fischer (born 1981), Israeli basketball player
- David Hackett Fischer, professor of history
- Diego Fischer (born 1961), Uruguayan journalist and writer
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (born 1925), German baritone and conductor
- Edmond H. Fischer (born 1920), Swiss-American biochemist
- Eduard Fischer, 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 1980), American atmospheric chemist
- Ernst Fischer (disambiguation)
- Eugen Fischer (historian) (1899–1973), geologist and historian
- Eugen Fischer (1874–1967), anthropologist, doctor and member of the Nazi party
- Eva Fischer (1920–2015), Croatian Italian artist
F–J
- Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (1877–1948), chemist, famous for the Fischer-Tropsch process
- Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer, botanist
- Fritz Fischer (biathlete) (born 1956), biathlon-sportsman
- Fritz Fischer (1908–1999), German historian
- Georg Fischer (born 1960), West German cross country skier
- George R. Fischer (born 1937), US underwater archaeologist, a pioneer of the field in the National Park Service
- Gerhard Fischer (disambiguation)
- Gottfried Fischer (1944–2013), German psychologist, psychotherapist and psychoanalyst
- Gottfried Bermann Fischer (1897–1995), Jewish-German publisher of the S. Fischer Verlag
- Greg Fischer 2011 mayor of Louisville, KY
- Gustav Fischer (equestrian) (1915–1990), Swiss Olympian in equestrian
- Gustav Fischer (1848–1886), German physician and explorer of Africa
- 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
- 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
- Ignjat Fischer (1870–1948), Croatian architect
- Ilse Fischer (born 1975), Austrian mathematician
- Iván Fischer, Jewish-Hungarian conductor
- Ivana Fischer (1905–1967), Croatian conductor
- Jan Fischer (politician), former 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), an American student murdered
- Johann Fischer (disambiguation)
- John Fischer (disambiguation)
- John Fischer (Christian musician), musician
- John Fischer (pianist) (1930–2016), musician
- Joschka Fischer (born 1948), former foreign minister of Germany
- Josef Fischer (cyclist)
- Joseph Fischer (disambiguation)
- Julia Fischer (born 1983), German violinist
K–O
- Karl Fischer (disambiguation)
- Kate Fischer (born 1973), Australian model and actress
- Klaus Fischer (born 1949), German football (soccer) player and coach
- Kuno Fischer (1824–1907), German philosopher
- Kurt Rudolf Fischer (1922–2014), Jewish-Austrian philosopher
- Laurence Fischer
- Lisa Fischer (born 1958), American singer
- Lothar Fischer (1933–2004), German sculptor
- Louis Fischer (1896–1970), American journalist
- Ludwig Fischer (1905–1947), German Nazi lawyer and government official executed for war crimes
- Ludwig Fischer (bass) (1745–1825), German opera singer
- Ludwig Fischer (racing driver) (1915–1991), German racing driver
- Ludwig Hans Fischer (1848–1915), Austrian landscape painter and etcher
- 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 (born 1971), German basketball player and coach
- Móric Fischer de Farkasházy (1799–1880), Hungarian porcelain manufacturer
- Nilla Fischer (born 1984), Swedish (soccer) football player
- Ottfried Fischer (born 1953), German actor and cabaret artist
- Otto Fischer (footballer) (1901–1941), Austrian (soccer) football player and coach
- O. W. Fischer, Otto Wilhelm Fischer (1915–2004), Austrian actor
- Øystein Fischer (1942–2013), Norwegian physicist
P–Z
- Pat Fischer (born 1940), American football player
- Patrick Fischer (born 1975), Swiss NHL Hockey player
- Patrick C. Fischer (1935–2011), American computer scientist and Unabomber target
- Patrick F. Fischer, American judge
- Paul Gustav Fischer (1860–1934), Danish painter
- Paul Henri Fischer (1835–1893) French physician, zoologist and paleontologist
- Rainer Fischer (born 1949), German-Canadian judoka
- Ricardo Fischer (born 1991), Brazilian basketball player
- Robert Fischer (politician) (fl. 1982–2001), Canadian politician
- Ruth Fischer (1895–1961), German communist
- Samuel von Fischer (1859–1934), German publisher, founder of the S. Fischer Verlag
- Sascha Fischer (born 1971), German rugby union player
- Scott Fischer (1956–1996), American mountain guide
- Stanley Fischer (born 1943), American and Israeli central banker
- Steven Thomas Fischer (born 1972) American filmmaker and cartoonist of German descent
- Stewart "Dirk" Fischer (1924–2013), American composer, musician and jazz educator
- Sven Fischer (born 1971), German biathlete
- Sven Fischer (footballer), German football defender
- Theobald Fischer (1846–1910), German geographer
- Theodor Fischer (1862–1938), German architect
- Thomas Fischer (disambiguation), several people
- Thierry Fischer (born 1957), Swiss conductor and flautist
- Tim Fischer (born 1946), Australian politician
- Vera Fischer (actress) (born 1951), Brazilian actress and former Miss Brazil
- Vera Fischer (sculptor) (1925–2009), Croatian sculptor
- Viktor Fischer (born 1994), Danish football player
- Werner Fischer (born 1939), German professor
- Wild Man Fischer (born 1945), Outsider musician
- Wilhelm Fischer ("Willy" Fischer) (born 1972), German boxer
- Zel M. Fischer (born 1963), Missouri Supreme Court judge