Eckhardt

Eckhardt is a surname and less commonly a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname

• Danielle Eckhardt (born 1982), American painter
• Edris Eckhardt (1905–1998), American ceramic and glass artist
• Elizabeth Eckhardt May (1899-1996), American home economist
• Franz Eckhardt (born 1927), Austrian bobsledder
• Fred Eckhardt (1926–2015), American brewer and writer
• Fritz Eckhardt (1907-1995), Austrian actor, director, and writer
• Gisela Eckhardt (born 1926), German physicist and co-developer of the Raman laser
• Jeffrey Edward Eckhardt (born 1965), English footballer
• Gregory Eckhardt (born 1989), American soccer player
• Jacob Eckhardt (1835–1881), American Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
• Johann Georg von Eckhart (1664–1730), German historian and linguist
• Johann-Heinrich Eckhardt (1896–1945), German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II
• Johnny Eckhardt (1911–1991), American freak show performer
• Julius Eckhardt Raht (1826–1879), German engineer and businessman, pioneer of the mining and smelting of copper in Eastern Tennessee
• Kai Eckhardt (born 1961), German composer and bassist
• Kate Eckhardt (born 1997), Australian slalom canoeist
• Linda West Eckhardt (born 1939), American culinary writer
• Maik Eckhardt (born 1970), German sport shooter
• Neele Eckhardt (born 1992), German triple jumper
• Ox Eckhardt (1901–1951), American baseball player
• Oliver Eckhardt (1873-1952), American actor
• Paul-Luis Eckhardt (born 2000), German football midfielder
• Peter Ralph Eckhardt (born 1960), Australian slalom canoeist
• Robert C. Eckhardt (1913–2001), Texas congressman
• Sean Eckhardt (born 1970), American former figure skater, retired boxer, and reality television personality
• Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté (1899–1974), Russian-born Canadian composer and virtuoso pianist and violinist
• Todd Eckhart, former member of the American eight-piece ska/soul band The Pietasters
• Walter Eckhardt (1906–1994), German politician of the All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights (GB/BHE) and later CSU
• William Eckhardt (lawyer), American lawyer and formerly military officer
• William Eckhardt (trader) (born 1955), American commodities and futures trader and fund manager

Given name

• Meister Eckhart (1260–1328), German theologian, philosopher, and mystic
• Eckhardt Schultz (born 1964), West German rower
• Eckhardt Tielscher (born 1942), German volleyball player

Fictional characters

• Lt. Max Eckhardt, in the 1989 American superhero film Batman, directed by Tim Burton
• Thomas Eckhardt, in the television series Twin Peaks

See also

• Eckhard