Merten (family name)
Merten is a family name .
Origin and meaning
Merten is a variant of the name Martin .
Name bearer
- Blandine Merten (1883–1918), German nun, blessed of the Roman Catholic Church
- Christa Merten (1944–1986), German athlete
- Claudius Merten (1850–1912), German theater actor and singer
- Detlef Merten (* 1937), German legal scholar
- Eduard von Merten (1860–1933), Austrian major general
- Elke Merten (* 1954), German soccer player
- Georg Merten (1941–2018), German diplomat
- Hans Merten (1908–1967), German politician (SPD)
- Heiko Merten (* 1971), German cameraman
- Hermann Merten, pseudonym of the German writer Hermann Kasack (1896–1966)
- Johannes Merten (1857–1926), German naval officer, most recently Vice Admiral of the Imperial Navy
- Jörg Merten (* 1981), Austrian handball player
- Karl-Friedrich Merten (1905–1993), German submarine commander
- Klaus Merten (* 1940), German communication scientist
- Marieluise Deißmann-Merten (1935–2011), German ancient historian
- Max Merten (1911–1971), German lawyer who, as a war administrator, was involved in the mass murder of the Greek Jews of Salonika
- Michael Merten (* 1969), German volleyball trainer
- Michaela Merten (* 1964), German author, actress and singer
- Otto Merten (1874–1939), teacher, ministerial director and member of the German Reichstag
- Reinhold Merten (1894–1943), German conductor
- Roland Merten (* 1960), German politician, State Secretary in Thuringia
- Thomas Merten († 1626), mountain jury and city defender of Zellerfeld in the Thirty Years War
- Thorsten Merten (* 1963), German actor
- Ulrike Merten (* 1951), German politician (SPD)
- Wilhelm Merten (1879–1952), German sculptor