Ritter (surname)

Ritter is a German family name.

Variants

• Ridder

Bearers of the name

A

• Adolf Martin Ritter ( born 1933), German theologian and church historian
• Alexander Ritter (1833-1896), German composer and violinist
• Alfred Theodor Ritter (* 1953), German entrepreneur
• Andrea Ritter (born 1978 ), German flutist
• Anna Ritter (1865-1921), German poet
• Arpad Ritter ( born 1975 ), Hungarian wrestler
• August Ritter (1826-1908), German physicist
• August Gottfried Ritter (1811-1885), German composer and organist

B

• Bernhard Ritter ( born 1950 ), German politician ( CDU)
• Bill Ritter (born 1958 ), American politician
• Bruce Ritter (1927-1999), American Catholic priest
• Burwell C. Ritter (1810-1880), American politician (Democrat )

C

• Carl Ritter (1779-1859), German geographer
• Caspar Ritter (1861-1923), German painter
• Carl Adolph Ritter (1794-1863), German landowner and politician
• Christa Ritter ( b. 1942 ), German filmmaker and journalist
• Christian Ritter (Composer ) ( 1645/1650-1725 ), German organist and composer
• Christian Ritter (Author ) (* 1983), German slam poet and presenter
• Christian Ritter ( triathlete ) (* 1983), German triathlete
• Christiane Ritter (1897-2000), Austrian painter and writer
• Christof Ritter ( born 1981 ), a Liechtenstein football player
• Christoph Ritter (1610-1676), German goldsmith
• Constantin Ritter (1859-1936), German historian of philosophy

D

• Daniel Ritter (1822 -? ), German politician
• Dieter Ritter (* 1941), German biathlete and cross-country skiers
• Don Ritter ( born 1959 ), Canadian installation artist and author
• Donald L. Ritter ( born 1940 ), American politician ( Republican)
• Dorothea Ritter (1714-1762), German friend of Frederick the Great
• Dorothea Störr Knight ( born 1955 ), German politician (CDU ), Member of Parliament

E

• Eduard Ritter ( 1808/9-1853 ), Austrian artist
• Emil Ritter (1858-1914), German landowner and politician, MdR
• Emil Ritter ( journalist ) ( 1881-1968 ), German journalist and writer
• Emma Knight (1878-1972), German painter
• Erasmus Ritter ( around 1481-1546 ), German -Swiss theologian
• Erasmus Ritter ( architect) ( 1726-1805 ), Swiss architect, engineer and archaeologist
• Erich Ritter (born 1958 ), Swiss biologist and behavioral scientist
• Erika Ritter ( born 1948 ), Canadian playwright and humorist
• Ernest Augustus Knight (* 1890), South African historian
• Ernst- Hasso Knight (1936-2010), German jurist and civil servant
• Erwin Ritter (1876-1936), German jurist and politician
• Eugène Knight (1836-1928), Swiss historian and theologian
• Ewald Knight ( born 1953 ), Austrian politician ( SPÖ), Burgenländischer Member of Parliament

F

• Fabian A. Ritter (born 1967 ), German biologist
• Florian Ritter ( born 1962 ), German politician ( SPD)
• Florian Knight (musician ) (* 1989), German guitarist and music teacher
• Floyd Knight (1870-1943), American baseball player
• Franz Ritter ( philologist ) ( 1803-1875 ), German philologist Classic
• Franz Ritter ( historian ) ( 1851-1932 ), Austrian art historian
• Franz Carl Ritter (1844 - after 1903 ), German farmer and member of the German Reichstag
• Fried Bert Knight (1900-1981), German chemist and industrialist
• Friedrich Ritter (1898-1989), German botanist
• Adolf Friedrich Ritter (1886-1934), German physician see Galapagos Affair
• Fritz Ritter (1868-1888), German painter

G

• Georg Wenzel Ritter (1748-1808), German bassoonist and composer
• Gerhard Ritter (1888-1967), German historian
• Gerhard Ritter ( medical historian ) (* 1920 ), German historian of medicine
• Gerhard Ritter (chemist), German chemist
• Gerhard A. Ritter ( born 1929 ), German historian
• Gottfried Ritter von Rittershain (1820-1883), German pediatrician
• Gudrun Ritter ( b. 1936 ), German actress
• Gunter Ritter ( * 1922 ), German football player
• Guillaume Knight (1835-1912), Swiss hydraulic engineer, architect and politician
• Gustav Ritter ( engineer), engineer and entrepreneur
• Gustav Ritter ( producer and writer ) ( 1867-1945 ), German producer and writer
• Gustav A. Ritter, German Publisher

B

• Hans Ritter ( district administrator ) ( 1886-1972 ), German officer and district
• Hans Ritter ( politician ) ( 1891-1978 ), German jurist and politician ( SPD)
• Hans Ritter (General ) ( 1893-1991 ), German general of the Luftwaffe
• Hans Ritter ( physician) ( 1897-1988 ), German physician and university teacher
• Hans Ritter ( sports official ) ( 1905-1999 ), Liechtenstein sports official
• Hans Ritter (actor), German actor
• Hans Ritter ( anthropologist ) ( born 1944 ), German physician and anthropologist
• Hans -Joachim Ritter ( b. 1949 ), German politician ( ODP )
• Hans Martin Ritter ( b. 1936 ), German speaking researchers and theater pedagogue
• Heinrich Ritter ( philosopher) ( 1791-1869 ), German philosopher
• Heinrich Ritter ( politician ) ( 1891-1966 ), German politician (NSDAP ), Mayor of Mainz
• Heinz Ritter ( district administrator ) ( 1905-1967 ), German civil servant
• Heinz Ritter ( cameraman) ( 1912-1958 ), German cinematographer of the 1930s and 40s
• Heinz Ritter ( Liberal Democratic Party ) (* 1924), German politician ( Liberal Democratic Party )
• Heinz Ritter ( MdA ) (* 1924), German politician ( SPD)
• Heinz Ritter ( journalist), German theater critic
• Heinz Ritter (mayor) ( 1930-2009 ), German politician (SPD ), Mayor of Dorsten
• Heinz Ritter (sculptor ) ( 1932-1995 ), sculptor
• Heinz Ritter ( FBP), a Liechtenstein politician ( FBP)
• Heinz Ritter - Schaumburg (1902-1994), German private scholar
• Heinz Peter Knight ( born 1952 ), Austrian politician ( ÖVP)
• Helge Ritter (born 1958 ), German neuroinformatics
• Hellmut Ritter (1892-1971), German Orientalist
• Henning Ritter (1943-2013), German journalist, writer and editor
• Henry Knight (1823-1853), German - Canadian painter
• Hermann Ritter (musician ) ( 1849-1926 ), German violist
• Hermann Ritter ( writer ) ( 1864-1925 ), German writer
• Hermann Ritter ( Senator ) ( 1878-1949 ), German businessman and politician ( DNVP )
• Hermann Ritter ( SF writer ) (born 1965 ), German science fiction author
• Hubert Ritter (1886-1967), German architect and construction officer, Mr
• Hugo Ritter (1926-1992), German graphic artist
• Huntley Ritter ( born 1977 ), American actor

I

• Ilse Ritter ( b. 1941 ), German actress
• Immanuel Henry Knight (1825-1890), German rabbi, historian and translator
• Iosif Ritter ( b. 1921 ), the Romanian football player and referee

J

• Jacob Ritter (1627-1669), German jurist and writer
• Jacob Ritter (1886-1951), German politician ( USPD, KPD) and a resistance fighter
• Jakob Ulrich Ritter (1810-1858), Swiss politician (radical liberals )
• Jason Ritter ( born 1980 ), American actor
• Joachim Ritter (1903-1974), German philosopher
• Joachim Friedrich Ritter (1905-1985), German diplomat
• Johann Ritter ( mayor) ( 1622-1700 ), German lawyer and politician, mayor of Lübeck
• Johann Ritter ( Pastor ) ( 1799-1880 ), German clergyman, farmer and politician
• Johann Daniel Ritter (1709-1775), German historian and ethnologist
• Johann Georg Ritter (1772-1840), German -American printer and bookseller
• Johann Heinrich Ritter (1685/1690-1751), German painter
• Johann Nikolaus Ritter (1702-1782), German organ builder
• Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776-1810), German physicist and philosopher
• John Ritter (1896-1962), German politician, Mayor of Leverkusen
• John Ritter ( politician ) ( 1779-1851 ), American politician (Democrat )
• John Ritter (1948-2003), American actor
• John H. Ritter ( born 1951 ), American writer
• Jörg Ritter ( born 1918 ), German journalist and writer
• Josef Ritter ( 1859.1911 ), Austrian singer
• Joseph Elmer Ritter (1892-1967), American clergyman
• Joseph Ignaz Ritter (1787-1857), German theologian and church historian
• Josh Ritter (born 1976 ), American singer and songwriter
• Julius Ritter ( politician) (1827 - after 1898 ), German landowner and politician, MdR
• Julius Knight ( member of the SS ) (1893? -1943 ), German SS officer

K

• Karin- Huberta Knight ( born 1937 ), German lawyer
• Karl Ritter (businessman) ( 1788-1839 ), German merchant
• Karl Ritter ( resistance fighters ) ( 1877-1933 ), German construction workers (SPD )
• Karl Ritter (military lawyer) († 1936), Real power. Go. Council of War, Army director
• Karl Ritter ( diplomat ) ( 1883-1968 ), German diplomat
• Karl Ritter (director) ( 1888-1977 ), German film producer and director
• Charles Knight (musician ) ( born 1959 ), Austrian musician
• Karl Ritter ( District ), German local politician (SPD )
• Karl Ritter von Short (1873-1946), an Austrian officer and SS brigade leader
• Karl Albrecht Ritter (1836-1917), Bavarian Forest Officer, Government Director and Founding Chairman of the Palatinate Forest Association
• Karl Bernhard Ritter (1890-1968), German theologian and politician ( DNVP )
• Karl Hermann Ritter (1931-2006), German politician ( SPD)
• Karl Wilhelm Ritter (1847-1906), Swiss civil engineer and university teacher
• Kaspar Knight (Book Binder ) (before 1563-1598 ), German Buchbinder
• Kaspar Knight (1861-1923), German painter, see Caspar Ritter
• Kaspar Ritter ( architect ) ( 1863-1954 ), Austrian cabinet maker and architect
• Klaus -Peter Knight (born 1964 ), German ice hockey player and coach
• Krysten Ritter ( born 1981 ), American actress
• Kurt Ritter ( resistance fighters ) ( 1909-1944 ), German resistance fighter
• Kurt Ritter, pseudonym of Kurt Reis ( b. 1928 ), German writer
• Kurt Ritter ( Hotelier ) ( b. 1947 ), Swiss hotelier
• Kurt Ritter ( footballer ) ( born 1948 ), German football player

L

• Laszlo Ritter (1937-2003), Hungarian painter
• Lawrence Ritter (1922-2004), American sports journalist
• Lina Knight (1888-1981), French poet
• Lorenz Ritter (1832-1921), German painter and engraver
• Louise Ritter ( born 1958 ), American high jumper
• Ludwig Ritter (* 1935), German politician ( CSU)

M

• Magdalena Ritter ( b. 1960 ), German actress
• Manfred Ritter (1940-2002), Austrian psychologist and university lecturer
• Manuel Toussaint y Ritter (1890-1955), Mexican art historian and author
• Marie Louise Ritter ( born 1952 ), German author and theater founder
• Markus Ritter ( Anglist ) (* 1963), German Anglist and media scholar
• Markus Ritter ( art historian ) ( born 1967), German art historian and orientalist
• Markus Ritter ( politician) (born 1967 ), Swiss politician (CVP )
• Martina Ritter ( b. 1982 ), Austrian cyclist
• Max Ritter ( civil engineer ) ( 1884-1946 ), Swiss Civil
• Max Ritter ( float ) ( 1886-1974 ), German swimmer
• Maya Ritter ( * 1993), Canadian actress
• Michel Ritter (1949-2007), Swiss curator
• Moriz Ritter (1840-1923), German historian

N

• Nina Ritter ( * 1981 ), German ice hockey player

O

• Ole Ritter ( born 1941 ), Danish Cyclists
• Oskar Ritter (1901-1985), German football player

P

• Paul de Ritter, German sculptor
• Paul Ritter ( painter) ( 1829-1907 ), German painter
• Paul Knight the Younger (1859-1888), German painter
• Paul Knight (philosopher ) ( 1872-1954 ), German philosopher and historian
• Paul Ritter ( writer ) ( 1887 -? ), German writer
• Paul Ritter ( actor), British actor
• Paul Knight Vitezović (1650-1713), Croatian writers
• Peter Knight ( composer ) ( 1763-1846 ), German composer
• Peter Knight ( politician ) ( born 1959 ), German politician (SED, PDS, The Left )
• Petra Black Knight (born 1972 ), Austrian tennis player

R

• Ralf- Peter Ritter (1938-2011), German linguist
• Reinhold Ritter (1903-1987), German dentists and teachers
• Renate Basch - Knight ( b. 1942 ), Austrian historian and author
• Robert Knight (1901-1951), German race theorists
• Robert Ritter (actor) (born 1973 ), Czech actor
• Robert Ritter (1862-1945), German art historian, art collector and patron of the arts
• Roman knight (* 1943), German writer
• Rosa Dorothea Ritter (1759-1833), German mistress of Elector Wilhelm IX.
• Rudolf Ritter (1878-1966), German singer

S

• Samuel Knight (1624-1657), German jurist
• Scott Ritter ( b. 1961 ), American officer
• Sepp Knight (1912-1984), Liechtenstein veterinarian and politician ( VDBL )
• Sina Knight (* 1993), German handball player
• Stefan Ritter (* 1959), German classical archaeologist
• Steffen Ritter ( b. 1968 ), German business coach, author and speaker
• Stephen Knight ( born 1986 ), German - American professional ice hockey goaltender
• Sylvester Ritter (1952-1998), American professional wrestler

T

• Tex Ritter (1905-1974), American country singer and actor
• Thelma Ritter (1902-1969), American actress
• Théodore Ritter ( Toussaint Prévost; 1840-1886 ), French pianist and composer
• Thomas Ritter (born 1967 ), German football player
• Toni Ritter ( * 1990), German ice hockey player

U

• Ulrich Ritter ( Boxer ), German Boxer
• Ulrich Ritter ( cameraman), German cameraman
• Ulrich Ritter ( actor) ( 1945-2007 ), German actor
• Ulrich Ritter ( makeup artist) ( b. 1963 ), German artist

W

• Walter Ritter (1904-1986), Austrian sculptor
• Wilhelm Ritter ( civil engineer ) ( 1847-1906 ), Swiss Civil
• Wilhelm Ritter (painter) ( 1860-1948 ), German painter
• Wilhelm Georg Ritter (1850-1926), German painter
• William Emerson Ritter (1856-1944), American biologist
• Wolfgang Ritter ( entrepreneur ) ( 1905-1993 ), German entrepreneur
• Wolfgang Ritter ( jurist ) ( 1927-2009 ), German administrative and tax lawyer
• Wolfgang Ritter ( biologist ) ( b. 1948 ), German bee watchers
• Wolf Peter Ritter (1949-1998), German writer

• Family name