Tanner (family name)
Tanner is a family name . In the English speaking area, it comes from the verb to tan (German: tan ) and thus referred to a person who processed animal hides into leather. In Germany and Switzerland it is derived from geographical objects with the names Tann or Tanne . The name also exists as a first name .
Name bearer
A.
- Adam Tanner (1572–1632), German Jesuit and opponent of the witch hunt
- Adam Tanner (soccer player) (born 1973), English soccer player
- Adolphus H. Tanner (1833-1882), American politician
- Alain Tanner (* 1929), Swiss film director
- Anne Tanner (* 19 **), American microbiologist
- Anton Tanner (1807–1893), Swiss Catholic theologian and provost of the St. Leodegar Abbey in Lucerne
- Antwon Tanner (* 1975), American actor
- Arnold Heinrich Tanner (1831–1872), Swiss textile entrepreneur and politician
- Arthur Tanner (1903–1972), American country musician
C.
- Carl Tanner (politician) (1888–1962), Swiss politician
- Carl Daniel Tanner (Carl Tanner; 1791–1858), Royal Hannoverscher Hof-Rustmeister
- Carl Tanner (educator) (1864–1927)
- Carl Tanner (opera singer) (born 1962), American opera tenor
- Carmen Tanner (* 1965), Swiss university professor for business psychology and leadership ethics
- Conrad Zellweger-Tanner (1659–1749), Swiss businessman, textile entrepreneur, councilor, member of the government and mayor
- Craig Tanner (* 1994), English football player
D.
- David Tanner (* 1984), Australian cyclist
E.
- Ernst Tanner (Manager) (* 1946), Swiss manager and entrepreneur
- Ernst Tanner (politician) (* 1957), Swiss politician (EDU)
- Ernst Tanner (football manager) (* 1966), German football manager
- Eugen Tanner (1896–1978), Swiss textile entrepreneur and politician
- Evan Tanner (1971-2008), American martial artist
F.
- Fred Tanner (1920–1982), Swiss actor
- Fritz Tanner (1923–1996), Swiss theologian, psychotherapist and writer
G
- Gid Tanner (1885-1960), American country musician
- Gottfried Sigismund Tanner (1739–1790), electoral Braunschweig-Lüneburg armorer in Hanover
H
- Hans Jakob Tanner (1918–2003), Swiss geologist
- Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859–1937), American painter
J
- Jakob Tanner (wrestler) (* 1946), Swiss wrestler
- Jakob Tanner (historian) (* 1950), Swiss modern historian
- James M. Tanner (1920-2010), British pediatrician
- Jerald Tanner (1938-2006), American Mormon critic; see Jerald and Sandra Tanner
- Johann Casimir Tanner (1691–1764), Fürstlich Schwarzburg-Sondershausen attendant and officer as well as Electoral Hanover gunsmith
- Johann Georg Tanner (1828–1897), Swiss mayor, governor, provincial coffin master, canton councilor, governor and national councilor
- Johann Heinrich Tanner (1799–1875), Swiss politician and entrepreneur
- Johann Jakob Tanner (1865–1939), Swiss lawyer and politician
- Johannes Tanner (politician, 16th century) (fl. In the 16th century), Swiss Landammann and delegate from the Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden
- Johannes Tanner (politician, 1594) (1594 – around 1665), Swiss governor and delegate from the Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden
- Johannes Tanner (politician, 1627) (1627 – before 1671), Swiss governor and delegate from the Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden
- John Tanner (politician, † 1699) († 1699), English politician
- John Tanner (politician, 1628) (1628–1684), English politician
- John Tanner (adventurer) (~ 1780–1846?), American-Indian trader and adventurer
- John Tanner (cyclist) (* 1968), British cyclist
- John Tanner (ice hockey player) (born 1971), Canadian ice hockey player
- John Riley Tanner (1844–1901), American politician
- John S. Tanner (* 1944), American politician
- Joseph R. Tanner (* 1950), American astronaut
K
- Karl Tanner (1888–1962), Swiss engineering agronomist and councilor
- Karl Rudolf Tanner (1794–1849), Swiss lawyer, poet and statesman
- Klaudia Tanner (* 1970), Austrian lawyer and defense minister, politician (ÖVP)
- Klaus Tanner (* 1953), German theologian and university professor
- Konrad Tanner (politician) (* around 1555–1623), Swiss political official
- Konrad Tanner (1752–1825), Abbot of Einsiedeln Monastery
- Konrad IV. Tanner († 1333), provost of the Berchtesgaden monastery
L.
- Laurenz Tanner (politician, 1631) (1631–1701) Swiss politician
- Laurenz Tanner (politician, 1668) (1668–1729), Swiss political official
- Lee Tanner (1931-2013), American photographer
- Leo Tanner (* 1953), Swiss Roman Catholic priest
- Leonhard Tanner (1497 / 1507–1585), German mechanic
- Lindsay Tanner (* 1956), Australian politician
M.
- Marcel Tanner (soccer player) (* 1946), Swiss soccer player
- Marcel Tanner (* 1952), Swiss epidemiologist, malaria researcher and public health specialist
- Markus Tanner (* 1954), Swiss football player
- Mathias Tanner (1630–1692), Bohemian Jesuit
N
- Nick Tanner (* 1965), English football player
O
- Obert C. Tanner (1904–1993), American philosopher and philanthropist
- Otto Tanner , provost of the Berchtesgaden monastery
P
- Paul Tanner (1917–2013), American jazz trombonist and jazz author
- Paul Tanner (painter) (1882–1934), Swiss painter and graphic artist
- Paul Francis Tanner (1905–1994), Bishop of Saint Augustine
- Peter Tanner (gunsmith) (1660–1750), court gunsmith in Gotha and Princely Saxon kitman in Schloss Friedenstein
- Peter Tanner (1908–1991), Austrian writer and theater critic, see Hans Weigel
- Peter Tanner (film editor) (1914-2002), British film editor
R.
- Robert Tanner (* 1936), Swiss architect
- Rosalind Tanner (1900–1992), British mathematician
- Roscoe Tanner (born 1951), American tennis player
- Rudolf Tanner (1781–1853), Swiss painter
S.
- Sandra Tanner (* 1941), American Mormon critic; see Jerald and Sandra Tanner
- Simone Tanner-Chaumet (1916–1962), French peace activist
- Susan Jane Tanner , British actress
T
- Troy Tanner (* 1963), American volleyball and beach volleyball player and Olympic champion
U
- Uli Tanner (fl. 1474–1507), Swiss political official
V
- Väinö Tanner (1881–1966), Finnish politician
- Väinö Tanner (geologist) (1881–1948), Finnish geologist
- Valentin Tanner (* 1992), Swiss curler
- Vasco M. Tanner (1892-1989), American zoologist
- Volly Tanner (* 1970), German writer and entertainer
W.
- Widmar Tanner (* 1938), German cell biologist and plant physiologist
- Wilmer W. Tanner (1909-2011), American zoologist
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tanner at behindthename.com (accessed December 5, 2014)
- ↑ Tanner on ancestry.co.uk (accessed December 5, 2014)