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Berg (in several Germanic languages: mountain) can refer to:
[edit] Geography
- several small towns and hamlets in Belgium
- Berg, Bas-Rhin, a municipality in France
- Berg (German region), a region and a former state of the Holy Roman Empire
- several towns in Germany:
- Berg, Baden-Württemberg, district of Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg
- Stuttgart-Berg, a part of Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg
- Berg am Starnberger See, district of Starnberg, Bavaria
- Berg, Upper Franconia, district of Hof, Bavaria
- Berg, Upper Palatinate, district of Neumarkt, Bavaria
- Berg im Gau, district of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen, Bavaria
- Berg, Verbandsgemeinde Altenahr, Rhineland-Palatinate
- Berg, Verbandsgemeinde Hagenbach, Rhineland-Palatinate
- Berg, Verbandsgemeinde Nastätten, Rhineland-Palatinate
- several small towns in the Netherlands, including:
- Berg, Norway, a municipality in Norway
- Berg, Sweden, a town in Sweden
- several municipalties in Switzerland:
- Berg, Lower Austria, a municipality in the Bruck an der Leitha District of Austria
[edit] Miscellaneous
[edit] People named Berg
- Alan Berg, U.S. talk radio host assassinated in 1984
- Alban Berg (1885–1935), Austrian composer
- Axel Berg (b. 1959), German politician
- Axel Berg (1893–1979), Soviet radio technician, engineer admiral, academician and Hero of Socialist Labor
- Bruno II von Berg (1100–1137), Archbishop of Cologne
- Carol Berg, fantasy writer
- Cia Berg, Swedish singer and television presenter
- Dave Berg (1920–2002), cartoonist for MAD
- David Berg (1919–1994), founder of the new religious mouvement Children of God
- Elizabeth Berg, U.S. novelist (Open House, Talk Before Sleep)
- Eyzhen Berg (1892–1918), Russian revolutionary
- Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg (1793-1874), Russian statesman and military figure
- Gertrude Berg (1894–1966), U.S. radio and television actress
- Gunnar Berg (1909–1989), Swiss-Danish composer
- Herbert Berg, Canadian/US-based scholar of religion
- Lev Semenovich Berg, biologist
- Michael Berg, politician and anti-war activist, father of Nick Berg
- Morris "Moe" Berg (1902–1972), U.S. baseball player and spy
- Moe Berg, Canadian singer-songwriter
- Nick Berg (1978–2004), civilian American beheaded in Iraq
- Patty Berg (born 1918), U.S. golfer
- Paul Berg, American biochemist
- Richard Berg, American physicist, acoustician, and educator
- Shelly Berg, American jazz pianist and educator
- Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press
Berg is the 632nd most popular last name in the United States
- See also: von Berg
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