# Karcher

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**Karcher** or **Kärcher** is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

- [Alfred Kärcher](/source/Alfred_K%C3%A4rcher), German industrialist
- [Alan Karcher](/source/Alan_Karcher) (1943–1999), New Jersey politician (father of Ellen Karcher)
- [Amalie Kärcher](/source/Amalie_K%C3%A4rcher) (1819–1887), German artist
- [Carl Karcher](/source/Carl_Karcher) (1917–2008), restaurateur, founder of the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain
- [Ellen Karcher](/source/Ellen_Karcher) (born 1964), New Jersey politician, state senator (daughter of Alan Karcher)
- [Ernst Friedrich Kärcher](/source/Ernst_Friedrich_K%C3%A4rcher) (1789–1855), German educator and philologist
- [J. Clarence Karcher](/source/J._Clarence_Karcher) (1894-1978), geophysicist and inventor of the reflection seismograph and founder of what would become [Texas Instruments](/source/Texas_Instruments)
- [Jim Karcher](/source/Jim_Karcher) (1914–1997), American football player
- [Karl-Ehrhart Karcher](/source/Karl-Ehrhart_Karcher) (1918–1973), German World War II Schnellboot commander
- [Ken Karcher](/source/Ken_Karcher) (born 1963), American football player
- [Mark Karcher](/source/Mark_Karcher) (born 1978), American basketball player
- [Margaret Karcher](/source/Margaret_Karcher) (1915–2006), American restaurateur

## See also

- [Kärcher](/source/K%C3%A4rcher), a German cleaning equipment manufacturer best known for high-pressure cleaning products

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