Lemke is a German surname.
Geographical distribution edit
As of 2014, 59.6% of all known bearers of the surname Lemke were residents of Germany (frequency 1:2,598), 27.7% of the United States (1:3,061,452), 4.6% of Brazil (1:86,475), 2.1% of Canada (1:33,211) and 2.1% of Poland (1:34,335).
In Germany, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:2,598) in the following states:[1]
- 1. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1:599)
- 2. Brandenburg (1:837)
- 3. Schleswig-Holstein (1:969)
- 4. Berlin (1:1,102)
- 5. Bremen (1:1,445)
- 6. Hamburg (1:1,642)
- 7. Lower Saxony (1:1,716)
- 8. Saxony-Anhalt (1:1,977)
People edit
- Anthony Lemke, actor
- Birsel Lemke, environmentalist
- Carlton E. Lemke, mathematician
- Helmut Lemke (1907-1990), German politician
- James Lemke (born 1988), Australian professional tennis player
- James U Lemke (1929–2019), American physicist and entrepreneur
- Jay Lemke, education scientist
- LeRoy Lemke (1935–1991), American lawyer and politician
- Leslie Lemke, musical savant
- Lev Lemke, actor
- Mark Lemke, baseball player
- Peter Henry Lemke, Benedictine
- Richard R. Lemke (1930-2016), American farmer and politician
- Siegfried Lemke, World War II Luftwaffe ace
- Steffi Lemke (born 1968), German politician
- Steve Lemke, guitar player
- Thorsten Lemke, developer of GraphicConverter for macOS, owner of LemkeSoft
- William Lemke, politician
- Wolf Lemke, aircraft designer
- Dave Lemke, original bass player of Imagine Dragons
References edit
This page lists people with the surname Lemke.
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