Lemke is a German surname.
Geographical distribution As of 2014, 59.6% of all known bearers of the surname Lemke were residents of Germany (frequency 1:2,598), 27.7% of the United States (1:3,061,452), 4.6% of Brazil (1:86,475), 2.1% of Canada (1:33,211) and 2.1% of Poland (1:34,335).
In Germany, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:2,598) in the following states:Lemke surname distribution Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1:599) Brandenburg (1:837) Schleswig-Holstein (1:969) Berlin (1:1,102) Bremen (1:1,445) Hamburg (1:1,642) Lower Saxony (1:1,716) Saxony-Anhalt (1:1,977)
People Anthony Lemke (born 1970), Canadian actor Birsel Lemke (born 1950), Turkish environmentalist Carlton E. Lemke (1920–2004), American mathematician Derek Lemke (born 1993), American racing driver Helmut Lemke (1907–1990), German politician James Lemke (born 1988), Australian professional tennis player James U Lemke (1929–2019), American physicist and entrepreneur Jay Lemke (born 1946), American education scientist Klaus Lemke (1940–2022), German film director LeRoy Lemke (1935–1991), American lawyer and politician Leslie Lemke (born 1952), American musical savant Lev Lemke (1931–1996), Russian actor Mark Lemke (born 1965), baseball player Peter Henry Lemke (1796–1882), German Benedictine Richard R. Lemke (1930–2016), American farmer and politician Siegfried Lemke (1921–1995), German World War II Luftwaffe ace Steffi Lemke (born 1968), German politician Steve Lemke, American guitar player Thorsten Lemke, developer of GraphicConverter for macOS, owner of LemkeSoft Wilfried Lemke (1946–2024), German football manager William Lemke (1878–1950), American politician Wolf Lemke (1938–2018), German aircraft designer Dave Lemke, original bass player of Imagine Dragons Egon Albrecht-Lemke, German-Brazilian Luftwaffe fighter
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