// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did Sommer say when it got hot? "I'm summer-ly exhausted.

Sommer is a surname, from the German, Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian languages word for the season "summer".

Notable people with this name include:

A–L

• Alfred Sommer (born 1943), American academic
• Alice Herz-Sommer (1903–2014), Czech-born Jewish pianist, oldest Holocaust survivor
• António de Sommer Champalimaud (1918–2004), Portuguese banker and industrialist
• Bert Sommer (1949–1990), American musician and actor
• Christine Sommer (born 1970), Austrian actress
• Clifford C. Sommer (1908–1993), American businessman and politician
• Coleen Sommer (born 1960), American high jumper
• Daniel Sommer (1850–1940), American religious leader, prominent in the Restoration Movement
• Daniela Sommer (born 1978), German politician
• Édouard Sommer (1822–1866), French scholar
• Elke Sommer (born 1940), German actress
• Erik Sommer (born 1978), American artist
• Evrim Sommer (born 1971), German politician
• Frederick Sommer (1905–1999), Italian-born American photographer
• Gerhard Sommer (1921–2019), German Nazi officer accused of war crimes
• Giorgio Sommer (1834–1914), German photographer
• Günter Sommer (born 1943), German jazz musician
• Hans Sommer (SS officer) (1914–1987), German Nazi officer (SS-Obersturmführer)
• Hans Sommer (composer) (1837–1922), German opera composer
• Hans Sommer (composer, born 1904) (1904–2000), German film music composer
• Iris Sommer (born 1970), Dutch psychiatrist
• Jason Sommer, American poet and academic
• Joe Sommer (1858–1938), American baseball player
• Josef Sommer (born 1934), American film actor
• Johann Wilhelm Ernst Sommer (1881–1952), German Methodist bishop
• Juergen Sommer (born 1969), American soccer player
• Keith P. Sommer (born 1946), American politician
• Kostas Sommer (born 1975), Greek actor
• Luke Elliott Sommer (born 1986), American soldier and bank robber

M–Z

• Manfred Sommer (1933–2007), Spanish comics creator
• Michael Sommer (1952–2025), German trade unionist leader
• Mike Sommer (1934–2022), American football player
• Peter Sommer, Danish singer-songwriter
• Peter Sommer (director), British archaeologist
• Petr Sommer, Czech archaeologist
• Ralf J. Sommer, German biologist specializing in evolutionary developmental biology
• Ralph Frederick Sommer (1898–1971), American dentist, one of the endodontics pioneers
• Raymond Sommer (1906–1950), French racing driver
• Renate Sommer (born 1958), German politician
• Rich Sommer (born 1978), American actor
• Robert Sommer (1929–2021), American psychologist
• Robert Sommer (psychiatrist) (1864–1937), German psychiatrist and genealogist
• Roger Sommer (aviator), French aviator
• Roy Sommer (born 1957), American ice hockey player
• Scott Sommer (1951–1993), American author
• Sebastian Sommer (born 1994), German politician
• Thelma Thall Sommer, née Thelma Thall (born 1924), American table tennis player
• Theo Sommer (1930–2022), German journalist
• Tim Sommer, American musician and record producer
• Vladimír Sommer (1921–1997), Czech composer
• William Sommer (1867–1949), American painter
• Yann Sommer (born 1988), Swiss footballer

In fiction

• Dr Jochen Sommer, the fictional editor answering readers' questions (agony uncle) of the German youth magazine Bravo
• The Story of Mr Sommer, a German novel
• Sommer (TV series), a Danish TV-drama aired on DR1 in 2008
• Bobbi "Blade" Sommer, a character from Batman Beyond

See also

• Sommer Gentry, American mathematician
• Sommers (surname)
• Somers (surname)
• Zomer
• Eli Somer (born 1951), professor of clinical psychology