Lothar

Lothar or Lothair is a Danish, Finnish, German, Norwegian, and Swedish masculine given name, while Lotár is a Hungarian masculine given name. Both names are modern forms of the Germanic Chlothar (which is a blended form of Hlūdaz, meaning "fame", and Harjaz, meaning "army"). Notable people with this name include:

Surname

• Eli Lothar (more commonly "Lotar", born Eliazar Lotar Theodorescu; 1905–1969), French and Romanian photographer and cinematographer
• Ernst Lothar (1890–1974), Moravian-Austrian writer
• Hanns Lothar or Hanns Lothar Neutze (1929–1967), German actor
• Mark Lothar (1902–1985), German composer
• Rudolf Lothar (1865–1943), Hungarian-born Austrian writer
• Susanne Lothar (1960–2012), German actress

Given name

• Lothar Ahrendt (born 1936), interior minister of the German Democratic Republic
• Lothar Albrich (1905–1978), Romanian hurdler
• Lothar Baumgarten (1944–2018), German artist
• Lothar Berg (1930–2015), German mathematician
• Lothar Bolz (1903–1986), East German politician
• Lothar-Günther Buchheim (1918–2007), German author
• Lothar Collatz (1910–1990), German mathematician
• Lothar Dräger (1927–2016), German comic writer
• Lothar Emmerich (1941–2003), German football player and manager
• Lothar von Faber (1817–1896), German industrialist
• Lothar Forcart (1902–1990), Swiss zoologist
• Lothar Geisler (1936–2019), German football player
• Lothar Hause (born 1955), East German football player
• Lothar Kolditz (1929–2025), German chemist and politician
• Lothar Kreyssig, German bureaucrat and opposer of "Aktion T4"
• Lothar Kurbjuweit (born 1950), East German football player
• Lothar Lindtner (1917–2005), Norwegian actor
• Lothar Machtan (born 1949), German historian, writer
• Lothar de Maizière (born 1940), last Prime Minister of East Germany (1990)
• Lothar Malskat (1913–1988), German painter and art restorer
• Lothar Matthäus (born 1961), German football player and manager, 1990 World Cup winner
• Lothar Matthes (1947–2025), German diver
• Lothar Meggendorfer (1847–1925), German illustrator
• Lothar Meyer (1830–1895), German chemist
• Lothar Mendes (1894–1974), German screenwriter and film director
• Lothar Metz (1939–2021), German wrestler and Olympic medalist
• Lothar Milde (born 1934), East German athlete who competed mainly in the discus throw
• Lothar Müthel (1896–1964), German stage and film actor and director
• Lothar Osterburg (born 1961), German artist
• Lothar Rendulic (1887–1971), Austrian war criminal and army group commander in the Wehrmacht during World War II
• Lothar von Richthofen (1894–1922), fighter ace and younger brother of top-scoring ace Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron)
• Lothar Sippel (born 1965), German football player
• Lothar Späth (1937–2016), German politician
• Lothar Spranger, East German footballer
• Lothar von Trotha (1848–1920), German military commander who instigated the Herero massacre
• Lothar Ulsaß (1940–1999), German football player
• Lothar Wolleh (1930–1979), German photographer

Fictional characters

• Lothar (Legends of Chima), a character in Legends of Chima
• Lothar – comic character, sidekick to Mandrake the Magician created by Lee Falk
• Lothar – a gatekeeper in the 2016 Indian film Mohenjo Daro
• Lothar – a Nazi spy for Germany, sidekick to Nazi spy Neville Sinclair in the Rocketeer
• Lothar - character in E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Sandman
• Lothar Weiser – a spy for Socialist East Germany in Arnaldur Indriðason's book, The Draining Lake
• Anduin Lothar – a historical warrior in the Warcraft Universe
• Lothar – a robot in The Metabarons
• Lothar – a powerful Planewalker wizard in the Planescape setting for Dungeons & Dragons, likewise appearing in the game Planescape: Torment
• Lothar of the Hill People - a character in an SNL skit played by Mike Myers

See also

• Luther (disambiguation)
• Ludwig (disambiguation)
• Lotar (name)
• Louis