Krebs
Krebs is the German language word for "crab" and "cancer" (both the disease and the sign of the zodiac). It is also a common Austrian and German surname:
People
- Arthur Constantin Krebs (1850–1935), French officer and pioneer in automotive engineering
- Brian Krebs (born 1972), American computer security journalist
- Diether Krebs (1947–2000), German actor
- Edward H. Krebs (Pennsylvania politician) (born 1944), former Pennsylvania legislator
- Edwin G. Krebs (1918–2009), biochemist
- Ernst T. Krebs (1912–1996), chemist
- Georg Ludwig Engelhard Krebs (1792-1844), German apothecary and natural history collector
- Gerhard Krebs (born 1943), German historian de:Gerhard Krebs
- Germaine Émilie Krebs (1903-1993), fashion designer
- Hans Krebs (Wehrmacht general) (1898–1945), German general
- Hans Adolf Krebs (1900–1981), biochemist (Krebs cycle / citric acid cycle)
- Hans Krebs (SS general) (1888–1947), Moravian-born Nazi SS Brigadeführer executed for war crimes
- Helmut Krebs (1913–2007), German tenor
- Henrik J. Krebs (1847–1929), Danish-born American industrialist
- Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713–1780), German composer, student of J.S. Bach
- Johann Tobias Krebs (1690–1762), composer, father of J. L.
- Johann Tobias Krebs (literary scholar) (1718–1782), scholar of classical and Hebrew literature
- John Hans Krebs (born 1926), California politician
- John Krebs (born 1945), scientist and Principal of Jesus College, Oxford
- Mitch Krebs, television anchor
- Nathalie Krebs (1895-1978), Danish potter
- Nicholas of Cusa, birth name Nicholas Krebs (1401–1464), cardinal, philosopher, jurist, mathematician and astronomer
- Richard Krebs (1906–1996), German athlete
- Ricardo Krebs Wilckens (1918–2011), German Chilean historian
- Richard Julius Hermann Krebs, known as Jan Valtin, spy
- Rick Krebs (born 1949), RPG-game designer
- Robert Krebs, railroad company president
- Susan W. Krebs (born 1959), Maryland politician
- Werner G. Krebs, American data scientist
Fictional people
- Karl Krebs, character in Robert Harris' alternate history Fatherland
- Maynard G. Krebs, television sitcom character (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis)
- Main character of Ernest Hemingway's story "Soldier's Home"
Other uses
- Krebs, Oklahoma, city
- Krebs cycle, a biochemical system important for the metabolism of sugars and fats
- Krebs, was an armed German trawler that was sunk in 1941 in Operation Claymore
See also
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- Related surnames
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