Eckhardt
# Eckhardt

Eckhardt is a surname and less commonly a given name. Notable people with the name include:

## Surname

* Danielle Eckhardt (born 1982), American painter
* Edris Eckhardt (1905–1998), American ceramic and glass artist
* Elizabeth Eckhardt May (1899-1996), American home economist
* Franz Eckhardt (born 1927), Austrian bobsledder
* Fred Eckhardt (1926–2015), American brewer and writer
* Fritz Eckhardt (1907-1995), Austrian actor, director, and writer
* Gisela Eckhardt (born 1926), German physicist and co-developer of the Raman laser
* Jeffrey Edward Eckhardt (born 1965), English footballer
* Gregory Eckhardt (born 1989), American soccer player
* Jacob Eckhardt (1835–1881), American Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
* Johann Georg von Eckhart (1664–1730), German historian and linguist
* Johann-Heinrich Eckhardt (1896–1945), German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II
* Johnny Eckhardt (1911–1991), American freak show performer
* Julius Eckhardt Raht (1826–1879), German engineer and businessman, pioneer of the mining and smelting of copper in Eastern Tennessee
* Kai Eckhardt (born 1961), German composer and bassist
* Kate Eckhardt (born 1997), Australian slalom canoeist
* Linda West Eckhardt (born 1939), American culinary writer
* Maik Eckhardt (born 1970), German sport shooter
* Neele Eckhardt (born 1992), German triple jumper
* Ox Eckhardt (1901–1951), American baseball player
* Oliver Eckhardt (1873-1952), American actor
* Paul-Luis Eckhardt (born 2000), German football midfielder
* Peter Ralph Eckhardt (born 1960), Australian slalom canoeist
* Robert C. Eckhardt (1913–2001), Texas congressman
* Sean Eckhardt (born 1970), American former figure skater, retired boxer, and reality television personality
* Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté (1899–1974), Russian-born Canadian composer and virtuoso pianist and violinist
* Todd Eckhart, former member of the American eight-piece ska/soul band The Pietasters
* Walter Eckhardt (1906–1994), German politician of the All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights (GB/BHE) and later CSU
* William Eckhardt (lawyer), American lawyer and formerly military officer
* William Eckhardt (trader) (born 1955), American commodities and futures trader and fund manager

## Given name

* Meister Eckhart (1260–1328), German theologian, philosopher, and mystic
* Eckhardt Schultz (born 1964), West German rower
* Eckhardt Tielscher (born 1942), German volleyball player

## Fictional characters

* Lt. Max Eckhardt, in the 1989 American superhero film Batman, directed by Tim Burton
* Thomas Eckhardt, in the television series Twin Peaks
