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Teller
Family name
Meaning 1. MHG: telle meant "gorge, ravine" - person living on or from places like gorge, ravine
2. MHG, MLG: teller "plate, turntable" - manufacturer of these products
3. Low German nickname, Low German: teller, teler means "parents, father"
4. MLG (Low German) teller, teler also meant "farmer, [cultivator], or builder"
Region of origin Denmark, Germany, Hungary, United States
Language of origin [[Low German, German, Jewish (Yiddish: טעֶלעֶר teler) language|Low German, German, Jewish (Yiddish: טעֶלעֶר teler)]]
Related names Czech: Talíř (cs); Jewish: Tellermann, Tellerman, Tellering, Tellerbaum, Tellerroth ([1])

Teller is the name of:

  • Abraham Teller (1609, Wurzen  – 1658, Leipzig), a German Protestant theologian, hymnist
  • Romanus Teller (1703  – 1750), a German clergy, professor
  • Wilhelm Abraham Teller (1734  – 1804), a German Protestant theologian
  • Henry M. Teller (1830  – 1914), a U.S. politician
  • Leopold Teller (1844  – 1908), a Jewish Hungarian actor
  • Edward Teller (1908, Budapest  – 2003), a Jewish Hungarian-US nuclear physicist known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb"
  • Ludwig Teller (1911, Manhattan  – 1965), a Jewish U.S. Naval lieutenant and political figure
  • Teller (magician) (born Raymond Joseph Teller, in 1948, Philadelphia), a US Jewish magician, a member of the comedy and magic duo "Penn and Teller"
  • Juergen Teller (born 1964, Erlangen), a German photographer

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