Famous People with Name Berg

Lev Semyonovich Berg            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Lev Semyonovich Berg: was a leading Soviet geographer and biologist who served as President of the Soviet Geographical Society between 1940 and 1950.

Paul Naim Berg            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Paul Naim Berg: is an American biochemist and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1943, received his B.S. in biochemistry from Penn State University in 1948 and Ph.D. in biochemistry from Case Western Reserve University in 1952. In 1980 he shared half of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry with the team of Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger. All three were recognized for their important contributions to basic research in nucleic acids.

Gertrude Berg            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gertrude Berg: was an American pioneer of classic radio, one of the first if not the first woman to create, write, produce and star in a long-running hit when she premiered the serial comedy-drama The Rise of the Goldbergs (1929), later known as The Goldbergs.Americans of all stripes identified with the situations in The Goldbergs even if they weren't urban lower-middle-class Jews trying to assimilate into the new world. The show's characters received fan mail as often as the actors who played them did, and thousands of letters poured into the show's network when Berg herself was forced to miss time on the air due to illness.

Jonatan Berg            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Jonatan Berg: a Swedish football midfielder.After playing for a local club and Torsby IF, he joined IFK Göteborg in 2002, a club he has played for since. His younger brother Marcus Berg also played a few years for the club. Jonatan was on loan to GAIS in 2006 and on loan to Trelleborgs FF in 2007.

Marcus Berg            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Marcus Berg: a Swedish football striker who currently represents FC Groningen. He is nicknamed Svarte-Marcus due to scoring a lot of goals in the junior teams, in reference to Filip 'Svarte-Filip' Johansson.Marcus started to play for a local club Torsby IF in 2002. After that, he moved to IFK Göteborg in 2003. After spending two years in the youth team, in the season 2005, he was promoted to the regular squad and played for IFK Göteborg in the Allsvenskan. During the time playing for IFK Göteborg, Marcus played alongside with his older brother, Jonatan Berg, a Swedish football midfielder.