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Prager

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ913360
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Prager (variants: Praeger, Preger) is a surname, which may refer to:

Prager

David Prager (born 1977), American TV producer and blogger

Dennis Prager (born 1948), U.S. conservative radio talk show host, columnist and public speaker

PragerU, a right-wing conservative non-profit organization that creates videos on various political, economic and philosophical topics

Joshua P. Prager (born 1949), US physician

Joshua Harris Prager, US journalist

Mark Prager Lindo (1819–1879), Anglo-Dutch prose writer of English-Jewish descent

Richard Prager (1883–1945), German-American astronomer

Richard Prager (skier), West German para-alpine skier

Stanley Prager (1917–1972), American actor and a television and theatre director

Susan Westerberg Prager (born 1942), Association of American Law Schools Executive Vice President and executive director from 2008

Walter Prager (1910–1984), Swiss alpine skier

William Prager (1903–1980), German-born US physicist

Fictional characters

Nick Prager, a character from Dead to Me, portrayed by Brandon Scott

Präger

Moses Präger (17th and 18th centuries), rabbi

Roy Präger (b. 1971), German footballer

Praeger

Charles Praeger (1877–1940), architect

Cheryl Praeger (born 1948), mathematician

Emil Praeger (1882–1973), architect

Ferdinand Praeger (1815–1891), composer and writer.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1977, 1948, 1949, 1819—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Prager, Wikimedia and disambiguation.
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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 Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q913360. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1977, 1948, 1949 and 1819.

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This entry incorporates text from Prager” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.