Surname Müller
The German word Müller means miller (as a profession).
It is the most common family surname in Germany, Switzerland, and the French départements of Bas-Rhin and Moselle (with the spelling Müller, Mueller or Muller) and is the fifth most common surname in Austria (see List of most common surnames in Europe). Other forms are Miller (mainly Southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland) and Möller (Northern and Central Germany and the Netherlands). Of the various family coats of arms that exist, many incorporate milling iconography, such as windmills or watermill wheels.
Number by country
| Rank | Country[citation needed] | number |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Germany | 949,666 |
| 2 | Switzerland | 77,549 |
| 3 | South Africa | 77,153 |
| 4 | Brazil | 71,032 |
| 5 | France | 61,127 |
| 6 | United States | 38,806 |
| 7 | Austria | 29,506 |
| 8 | Argentina | 14,306 |
| 9 | Netherlands | 10,885 |
| 10 | Australia | 9,410 |
A–F
- Achim Müller (born 1938), German chemist
- Adam Müller (1779–1829), German political economist and theorist of the state
- Adolf Müller (industrialist) (1857–1932), Croatian industrialist, manufacturer and entrepreneur
- Alexander Müller (disambiguation), multiple people
- Alexandre Müller (born 1997), French tennis player
- Alfred Müller (disambiguation), multiple people
- Andy Müller-Maguhn (born 1971), German computer expert (Chaos Computer Club)
- Andreas Müller (1811–1890), German painter.
- Arnold Müller (1884–1934), Austrian entomologist who was born and spent his life in what is now Romania.
- Axel Müller (born 1996), Uruguayan football player
- Axel Müller (born 1963), German politician
- Baal Müller (born 1969), German writer and publisher
- Bettina Müller (born 1959), German politician
- Carsten Müller (born 1970), German politician
- Caroline Müller (mezzo-soprano) (1755–1826), Danish/Swedish mezzo-soprano, singer, actress
- Caroline Müller (born 1964), Dutch-German pop-singer, known as C. C. Catch
- Cecília Müller (born 1958), Hungarian physician
- Claudia Müller (born 1981), German politician
- Detlef Müller (born 1964), German politician
- Daniel Müller (born 1965), Swiss curler
- Daniel Jobst Müller (born 1965), German scientist
- Danny Muller (born 1969), Dutch football player
- Dieter Müller (born 1954), German football player
- Dirk Müller (disambiguation), several persons
- Eduard Müller (disambiguation), several persons
- Erwin Wilhelm Müller (1911–1977), German physicist
- Filinto Müller (1900–1973), Brazilian politician and police chief
- Filip Müller (1922–2013), Holocaust survivor
- Frank Müller (born 1968), German decathlete
- Friedrich Müller (disambiguation), several persons
- Fritz Müller (1821–1897), German-born Brazilian naturalist
- Fritz Müller (doctor) (1834–1895), Swiss doctor, zoologist, and herpetologist
- Fritz Müller (rugby player), German rugby union international
G–H
- Gebhard Müller (1900-1990), German lawyer and politician (CDU)
- George Müller (1805–1898), Christian benefactor and missionary
- Georg Elias Müller (1850–1934), German experimental psychologist
- Gerd Müller (disambiguation), name of several persons
- Gerhard Friedrich Müller (1705–1783), Russian historian of German descent
- Gerhard Ludwig Müller (born 1947), German cardinal
- Gilles Müller (born 1983), Luxembourgian professional tennis player
- Günter Müller (born 1954), German jazz percussionist
- Gustav Müller (disambiguation)
- Hanno Müller-Brachmann (born 1970), German baritone
- Hans Müller (disambiguation), name of several persons
- Hansjörg Müller (born 1968), German politician
- Heiner Müller (1929–1995), German dramatist
- Heinrich Müller (Gestapo) (1900–1945), German Nazi official, wartime Gestapo chief
- Heinrich Müller (physiologist) (1820–1864), German physiologist
- Henri Müller, French curler
- Herbert Müller (racing driver) (1940–1981), Swiss race car driver
- Hermann Müller (disambiguation), name of several persons
- Herta Müller (born 1953), Romanian-born German novelist and poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature
I–K
- Inge Müller (1925–1966), German poet
- Jaroslav Müller, Czech swimmer
- Jens Müller (pilot) (1917–1999), Norwegian World War II pilot, POW and survivor of the "Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III
- Jens Müller (luger) (born 1965), German luger
- Jochum Nicolay Müller (1775–1848), Danish (Norwegian) Naval officer
- Joel Müller (1827–1895), German rabbi
- Joël Müller (born 1952), former football player and manager, currently working as a technical director for FC Metz
- Johann Gotthard von Müller (1747–1830), German engraver, and his son, Johann Friedrich Müller (1782–1816), engraver
- Johann Heinrich Jakob Müller (1809–1875), German physicist
- Johannes Müller (disambiguation), several persons
- Jörg Müller (born 1969), German race car driver
- Jörg Müller (cyclist) (born 1961), Swiss track cyclist and road bicycle racer
- Josef Müller (CSU politician) (1898–1979), German politician and resistance member
- Josef Müller (entomologist) (1880–1964), Croatian entomologist
- Julius Müller (disambiguation), several people
- Julius Müller (theologian) (1801–1878), German Protestant theologian
- Jürgen Müller (born 1963), German neurologist and forensic psychiatrist
- Karl Müller (astronomer) (1866–1942), Czechoslovakian government official and amateur astronomer
- Karl Alexander Müller (1927–2023), Swiss physicist, 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Karl H. Müller (born 1953), Austrian social scientist
- Karl Otfried Müller (1797–1840), German scholar of Spartan culture
- Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller (1813–1894), German scholar of ancient Greek geography
- Karl von Müller (1873–1923), German naval officer, captain of SMS Emden
- Klaus Müller (disambiguation), name of several persons
- Kurt Müller (footballer) (born 1948), Swiss international footballer
- Klaus Uwe Müller (1915–1989), German chess player
L–O
- Lauro Müller (1863–1926), Brazilian politician, diplomat, and military engineer
- Lena Müller (born 1987), German rower
- Leo Müller (1894–1941), Croatian industrialist and philanthropist killed during the Holocaust
- Leopold Müller (engineer) (1908–1988), Austrian tunneling engineer
- Leopold Müller (painter) (1834–1892), Austrian genre painter
- Lillian Müller (born 1951), Norwegian model and actress
- Lorenz Müller, (1868–1953), German herpetologist
- Lucian Müller (1836–1898), German classical scholar
- Ludwig Müller (disambiguation), several persons
- Maler Müller (1749–1825), German poet, dramatist and painter, really Friedrich Müller
- Malik Müller (born 1994), German basketball player
- Margit Müller (born 1952), German field hockey player
- Maria Müller (1898–1958), Austrian soprano
- Martin Müller (disambiguation), several people
- Martina Müller (footballer) (born 1980), German footballer
- Martina Müller (tennis), (born 1982), German professional tennis player
- Mary Ann Wilson Griffiths Müller (1819–1901) aka "Fémmina," New Zealand pamphleteer
- Matthias Müller (disambiguation), several persons
- Maurice Edmond Müller (1918–2009), Swiss orthopedic surgeon
- Max Müller (disambiguation), several people
- Monika Müller-Seps (born 1986), Swiss chess grandmaster
- Müller (footballer) (born 1966), Brazilian footballer nicknamed Müller
- Niclas Müller (1809–1875), German-American poet
- Norbert Müller (born 1986), German politician
- Norman Müller (born 1985), German decathlete
- Nuraan Muller, South African politician
- Otto Müller (1898–1979), German artist
- Otto Friedrich Müller (1730–1784), Danish naturalist
P–Z
- Paul Heinrich Theodor Müller (1896–?), German SS-Obersturmführer and Schutzhaftlagerführer
- Paul Hermann Müller (1899–1965), Swiss chemist, 1948 Nobel Prize in Medicine
- Patrick Müller (disambiguation), several people
- Peter Müller (disambiguation), several people
- Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (1725–1776), German zoologist
- Renate Müller (1906–1937), German actress
- Richard Müller (singer) (born 1961), Slovak singer and musician
- Robert Müller (1980–2009), German ice hockey player
- Rosmarie Müller (born 1958), Swiss long-distance runner
- Salomon Müller (1804–1864), German naturalist
- Sándor Müller, Hungarian footballer
- Sepp Müller (born 1989), German politician
- Silke Müller (born 1978), German field hockey player
- Sophie Müller (1803–1830), German and Austrian stage actress
- Stefan Müller (born 1975), German politician
- Susanne Müller (born 1972), German field hockey player
- Theo Müller (born 1940), German businessman
- Thomas Müller (disambiguation), several people
- Torsten Müller (agroscientist) (born 1961), German agroscientist
- Torsten Müller (musician) (born 1957), German musician
- Urban Müller, Swiss computer programmer, creator of the brainfuck programming language
- Vincenz Müller (1894–1961), German soldier and politician
- Vít Müller, Czech athlete
- Vladimir Müller (1880–before 1943), Russian lexicographer and medieval dramaturgy scholar
- Walter Andreas Müller (born 1945), Swiss actor and comedian
- Walther Müller (1905–1979), German physicist
- Walther Otto Müller (1833–1887), German botanist
- Wenzel Müller (1767–1835), Austrian composer
- Werner Müller (politician) (1946–2019), German businessman and politician, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy from 1998 to 2002, CEO of RAG AG
- Wilhelm Müller (1794–1827), German poet
- William James Müller (1812–1845), English artist
- Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter (1816–1873), German novelist and poet
- Wolfgang Müller (1931–2021), German equestrian
- Wolfgang Philipp Müller (born 1966), German founder of VDM Publishing
- Xeno Müller (born 1972), Swiss rower
See also
References
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