Famous People with Name Bergen

Edgar John Bergen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edgar John Bergen: was an Academy Award-winning American actor and radio performer, best known as a ventriloquist.Bergen was born Edgar John Bergren in Chicago, Illinois, to a Swedish family and grew up in Decatur, Michigan. He taught himself ventriloquism from a pamphlet when he was eleven. A few years later he commissioned Chicago woodcarver Theodore Mack to sculpt a likeness of a rascally Irish newspaperboy he knew. The head went on a puppet named Charlie McCarthy, who became Bergen's lifelong sidekick. At age sixteen, he came to Chicago, where he attended Lake View High School and worked at a silent movie house.

Polly Bergen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Polly Bergen: is an American Emmy Award-winning actress, singer, and entrepreneur.She had roles in three Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis comedy films in the early 1950s: At War with the Army, That's My Boy and The Stooge.

Jörg Bergen            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Jörg Bergen: is a German football coach and a player. As of February 2009, he plays with an amateur club TuS Holzkirchen. He spent 2 seasons in the Bundesliga with SpVgg Unterhaching.