Lingg, like its variants Link and Linck, is a German language nickname surname for a left-handed person (from German: link "left", cf. English: leftie, southpaw). It may refer to:
- Christoph Lingg [de] (born 1964), Austrian photographer
- Hermann Lingg (1820–1905), German poet
- Louis Lingg (1864–1887), German-born American anarchist
- Louise Lingg (1871–after 1946), German actress, opera singer and screenwriter
- Maximilian von Lingg (1842–1930), Roman Catholic bishop of Augsburg
- Walter Lingg [de] (1925–2000), Austrian politician
See also
- Lingg Brewer (born 1944), American politician and educator
- Johann Baptiste Lingg, a 1920 German silent historical film
References
- "Lingg Name Meaning". ancestry.com. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
South German: variant of Link.
- "Link Name Meaning". ancestry.com. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a left-handed person, from Middle High German linc, Dutch linker, links, Yiddish link 'left (side)'. In Europe left-handed people were long regarded with suspicion as clumsy, awkward, deviant, and even untrustworthy.
- "Lingg Surname Meaning & Statistics". forebears.io. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
Approximately 2,500 people bear this surname. Most prevalent in: Germany; Highest density in: Liechtenstein.
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