Zimmer (surname)

Zimmer is German surname meaning "room" or "chamber". Derivative names include Zimmermann (Zimmerman), the occupational surname meaning Carpenter, literally translated "room man" (i.e. someone who builds wooden structures to be lived in).

• Alan E. Zimmer (1929–1993), American neuroradiologist
• Andreas Zimmer, German neurobiologist
• Carl Zimmer (born 1966), American popular science writer
• Carl Wilhelm Erich Zimmer (1873–1950), German zoologist
• Cheryl A. Zimmer (born 1954), American conservation biologist
• John Todd Zimmer (1889–1957), American ornithologist
• Karl Zimmer (1911–1988), German physicist and radiation biologist
• Louis Zimmer (1888–1970), Belgian clockmaker and astronomer
• Marc Zimmer (born 1961), South African chemist

• Adam Zimmer (1984–2022), American football coach
• Adolf Zimmer (1908–1940), Polish footballer
• André Zimmer (1912–1984), Luxembourgish sprint canoeist
• Andy Zimmer (1919–2005), American basketball player
• Bradley Zimmer (born 1992), American baseball player
• Charles Louis "Chief" Zimmer (1860–1949), American baseball player
• Cyril Zimmer (1896–1951), Australian rules footballer
• Don Zimmer (1931–2014), American baseball manager and coach
• Hans-Ludwig Zimmer (born 1950), German lightweight rower
• Heidi Zimmer, American deaf mountaineer
• Jean Zimmer (born 1993), German footballer
• Justin Zimmer (born 1992), American football player
• Kurt Zimmer (1924–2008), German sprint canoeist
• Kyle Zimmer (born 1991), American baseball player
• Madeleine Zimmer (born 2001), American field hockey player
• Maximilian Zimmer (born 1992), German footballer
• Michael Zimmer (footballer) (born 1955), German footballer
• Mike Zimmer (born 1956), American football coach, defensive coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys
• Moritz Zimmer (born 1993), German footballer
• Sabine Zimmer (born 1981), German race walker
• Tayliah Zimmer (born 1985), Australian swimmer
• Tom Zimmer (born 1952), American baseball player, coach and manager
• Werner Zimmer (1929–2019), German wrestler

• Bob Zimmer (born 1968), Canadian politician
• Dawn Zimmer (born 1968), American politician, 38th mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey
• Diana Zimmer (born 1998), German politician
• Dick Zimmer (1944–2025), American politician
• Gabi Zimmer (born 1955), German politician
• J. Eugene Zimmer (1912–1995), American politician
• Matthias Zimmer (1961–2023), German politician
• Melvin N. Zimmer (1938–2002), American politician
• Mike Zimmer (politician) (born 1960s), American politician
• Nicolas Zimmer (born 1970), German entrepreneur, lawyer and former politician
• Rod Zimmer (1942–2016), Canadian politician
• Russell Zimmer (1926–2024), American politician
• Susanne Zimmer (born 1960), Danish politician
• Walter Zimmer (born 1945), Uruguayan physician and politician

• Constance Zimmer (born 1970), American actress
• Kim Zimmer (born 1955), American actress
• Laurie Zimmer (born 1949), former American actress
• Pierre Zimmer (1927–2010), French actor and film director

• Hans Zimmer (born 1957), German composer, best known for film scores
• Ján Zimmer (1926–1993), Slovak composer and pianist
• Joana Zimmer (born 1982), German pop music singer
• Kinny Zimmer (born 1999), Polish rapper, singer, songwriter and producer
• Norma Zimmer (1923–2011), American vocalist

• Art Zimmer (born 1938), American businessman, re-founder of Zimmer (automobile)
• Ben Zimmer (born 1971), American linguist and lexicographer
• Bernard Zimmer (1893–1964), French screenwriter
• Dirk Zimmer (1943–2008), German-American artist, children's books illustrator and writer
• Dorothea Schwartz Zimmer (fl. 1800), German painter
• Emma Zimmer (1888–1948), German war criminal, overseer at the Ravensbrück concentration camp executed for war crimes
• Eyck Zimmer (born 1969), English chef
• Florian Zimmer, German magician
• Frederik Zimmer (born 1944), Norwegian legal scholar
• George Zimmer (born 1948), American businessman, founder of the Men's Wearhouse
• Gerhard Zimmer (born 1949), German classical archaeologist
• Greta Zimmer (1924–2016), Austrian-American dental assistant and subject of the photograph V-J Day in Times Square
• Hans-Peter Zimmer (1936–1992), German painter and sculptor
• Heinrich Zimmer (Celticist) (1851–1910), German Celticist
• Heinrich Zimmer (1890–1943), German Indologist
• Hermann Zimmer, German Baháʼí
• Jeremy Zimmer (born 1958), American entertainment executive
• John Zimmer (born 1984), American businessman, co-founder of Zimride
• Leone McNeil Zimmer (1916–2014), American stained glass artist
• Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930–1999), American fantasy author
• Michael Zimmer, American privacy and social media scholar
• Nathan Löb David Zimmer (1830–1895), English Kabbalist
• Nicolai Zimmer (1810–1894), Danish lawyer and Inspector of North Greenland
• Nina Zimmer (born 1973), German art historian
• Patrick Benedict Zimmer (1752–1820), German Catholic philosopher and theologian
• Pascal Zimmer (born 1995), German missing person
• Richard Zimmer (1893–1971), German military officer
• Robert Zimmer (1947–2023), American mathematician, former provost of Brown University and former president of the University of Chicago
• Robert Zimmer (philosopher) (born 1953), German philosopher and essayist
• Zachary Zimmer, Canadian sociologist and gerontologist

• Paul Zimmer (disambiguation), several people
• David Zimmer (disambiguation), several people

• Anthony Zimmer, fictional character
• David Zimmer, main character in The Book of Illusions
• Leila Kwan Zimmer, a character in the Netflix series Grand Army
• Doctor Zimmer, a fictional character from the 2008 console game Fallout 3

• Zimmer (disambiguation)