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Cramer is an English surname and the Anglicized version of Dutch and Low German Kramer, or German Krämer (pronounced [ˈkʁɛːmɐ]). Both refer to the profession of traveling merchants in the Late Middle Ages. The meaning later changed to "merchants trading with different, rather small things.[citation needed]
Notable people with the name include:
People
- Anthony Cramer, appellant in Cramer v. United States (U.S. Supreme Court, 1945)
- Carl Eduard Cramer (1831–1901), Swiss botanist
- Casey Cramer (born 1982), American football player
- Chris Cramer (1948–2021), British news journalist and executive
- Christopher J. Cramer (born 1961), American chemist
- Clayton Cramer, American historian and software engineer
- Daniel Cramer (1568–1637), German Lutheran theologian
- Doc Cramer (1905–1990), American baseball player
- Dorothy Cramer, American baseball player
- Douglas S. Cramer, American TV producer
- Dylan Cramer (born 1958), Canadian jazz musician
- Ernst Cramer (architect) (1898–1980), Swiss landscape architect
- Ernst J. Cramer (1913–2010), American journalist
- Ernst Cramer (politician) (1960), Dutch politician
- Floyd Cramer (1933–1997), American pianist
- Franz Cramer (violinist) (1772–1848), English violinist and Master of the Queen's Music
- Gabe Cramer (born 1994), Israeli-Canadian-American baseball player
- Gabriel Cramer (1704–1752), Swiss mathematician, discoverer of Cramer's rule
- Cramer brothers, Gabriel and Philibert Cramer, 18th century Swiss publishers
- Gail Cramer, American agricultural economist
- Grant Cramer (born 1961), American actor
- Hank Cramer (born 1953), American folk singer
- Hans Cramer (1896–1968), German general
- Harald Cramér (1893–1985), Swedish mathematician
- Harriet L. Cramer (1847-1922), American newspaper publisher
- Helene Cramer (1844–1916), German painter
- Hugh B. Cramer (1915–2000), American politician
- Jacqueline Cramer (born 1951), Dutch politician
- Jayme Cramer (born 1983), American swimmer
- Jim Cramer (born 1955), American investment manager and television personality
- Joey Cramer (born 1973), Canadian child actor
- Johann Baptist Cramer (1771–1858), German pianist and composer
- John Cramer (announcer), American television announcer
- John Cramer (Australian politician) (1896–1994)
- John Cramer (representative) (1779–1870), American politician from New York
- John Antony Cramer (1793–1848), English classical scholar and geographer
- John G. Cramer (born 1934), American physicist and science fiction author
- Johann Ulrich von Cramer (1706–1772), German judge, legal scholar, and philosopher
- Karl von Cramer (1818–1902), Bavarian politician
- Kathryn Cramer (born 1962), American science fiction author and editor
- Kevin Cramer (born 1961), American politician from North Dakota
- Lawrence William Cramer (1897–1978), Governor of the United States Virgin Islands
- Lea-Sophie Cramer (born 1987), German entrepreneur
- Mars Cramer (1928–2014), Dutch economist
- Michael Cramer (actor) (1930–2000), German actor
- Michael Cramer (politician) (born 1949), German politician
- Molly Cramer (1852–1936), German painter
- Morten Cramer (born 1967), Danish football player
- Patrick Cramer (born 1969), German biochemist
- Peggy Cramer (1937–2016), American baseball player
- Philippe Cramer (born 1970), Swiss furniture and wallpaper designer
- Philo Cramer, American guitarist
- Pieter Cramer (1721–1776), Dutch wool merchant and entomologist
- Richard Cramer (1889–1960), American actor
- Richard Ben Cramer (1950–2013), American journalist and author
- Rie Cramer (1887–1977), Dutch writer and illustrator
- Robert E. Cramer (born 1947), American politician from Alabama
- Ronald Cramer (born 1968), Dutch cryptographer
- Ronnie Cramer (1957–2021), American artist, composer and filmmaker
- Walter Cramer (1886–1944), German businessman and anti-Hitler conspirator
- Wilhelm Cramer (1746–1799), German-British violinist, best known for the "Cramer bow"
- William Cramer (pathologist) (1878–1945), German-born pathologist
- William C. Cramer (1922–2003), American politician from Florida
- Zadok Cramer (1773–1813), American author and publisher
In fiction
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