Egon (first name)
Egon is a male name .
origin
Egon has been a subsidiary form of Egino , which has been used since the end of the Middle Ages , an independent short form of names that are formed with Egin- . These in turn are derived from the Germanic * agi- (“fear”, “horror”). Name day is July 15th .
Name bearer
First name
- Egon Adler (1937–2015), German racing cyclist
- Egon Ammann (1941–2017), Swiss publisher
- Egon Bahr (1922–2015), German politician and Federal Minister
- Hugo Egon Balder (* 1950), German television presenter
- Egon Brestian (* 1964), Austrian chess player
- Egon Denu (1932–2018), German jazz musician
- Egon Eiermann (1904–1970), German architect and furniture designer
- Egon Franke (1913–1995), German politician
- Egon Friedell (1878–1938), Austrian journalist and writer
- Egon Geerkens (* 1944), German entrepreneur
- Egon Günther (1927–2017), German writer and film director
- Egon Hoegen (1928–2018), German actor and television announcer
- Egon Homm (* 1947), German national basketball player
- Egon Kapellari (* 1936), bishop of the Graz-Seckau diocese
- Egon Erwin Kisch (1885–1948), Czech journalist
- Egon Krenz (* 1937), German politician (SED)
- Egon Lorenz (1934–2019), German lawyer and university lecturer
- Egon Lustgarten (1887–1961), Austrian conductor and composer
- Egon Matt (cross-country skier) (1925-2004), Liechtenstein cross-country skier
- Egon Matt (politician) (* 1952), Liechtenstein politician (FL)
- Egon Oehri (* 1940), Liechtenstein middle-distance runner
- Egon Olsen , a pseudonym of Erich Virch (* 1950), German musician, producer and writer
- Egon Petri (1881–1962), German pianist
- Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer (1894–1957), Austrian diplomat
- Egon Rusina (* 1949), Italian painter and illustrator
- Egon Schiele (1890–1918), Austrian painter
- Egon Schweidler (1873–1948), Austrian physicist
- Egon von Eickstedt (1892–1965), German anthropologist
- Egon von Tübingen (Egno von Tübingen), regional commander of Bozen and brother of the Teutonic order
- Egon von Vietinghoff (1903–1994), German-Swiss painter and author
- Egon Zimmermann (ski racer, 1933) (1933–2016), Austrian ski racer
- Egon Zimmermann (ski racer, 1939) (1939–2019), Austrian ski racer
Fictional characters
- Egon Olsen , main character in the films about the Olsen gang
- Egon Spengler , one of the main characters in the Ghostbusters films
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rosa Kohlheim, Volker Kohlheim: Duden - Lexicon of first names: origin, meaning and use of over 8000 first names. Bibliographisches Institut, Berlin 2014, p. 119.