Bitter (surname)
family name
The surnames Bitter, de Bitter or Von Bitter may refer to:
Billy Bitter (born 1988), an American lacrosse player
Francis Bitter (1902–1967), an American physicist who invented the Bitter electromagnet, which uses circular metal plates instead of wire coils
Friedrich August Georg Bitter (1873–1927), a German botanist and lichenologist
Johannes Bitter (born 1982), a German team handball player
Karl Bitter (1867–1915), an Austrian-born United States sculptor
Karl Hermann Bitter (1813–1885), Prussian statesman
Kees Bitter (1919–1945), Dutch resistance fighter forced to collaborate with the German regime after his capture
Peter von Bitter (living), a German-born Canadian palaeontologist
Pieter de Bitter (ca. 1620–1666), a 17th-century Dutch officer of the Dutch East India Company
Susan Bitter Smith (living), an Arizona Republican politician
Theo Bitter (1916–1994), a Dutch graphic artist, painter and draftsman.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2018. The linked authority identifier is Q16860038. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1988, 1902, 1967 and 1873.
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