Lothar is a Danish, Finnish, German, Norwegian, and Swedish masculine given name, while Lotár is a Hungarian masculine given name. Both names are modern forms of the Germanic Chlothar (which is a blended form of Hlūdaz, meaning "fame", and Harjaz, meaning "army"). Notable people with this name include:
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Eli Lothar (more commonly "Lotar", born Eliazar Lotar Theodorescu; 1905–1969), French and Romanian photographer and cinematographer
Ernst Lothar (1890–1974), Moravian-Austrian writer
Hanns Lothar or Hanns Lothar Neutze (1929–1967), German actor
Mark Lothar (1902–1985), German composer
Rudolf Lothar (1865–1943), Hungarian-born Austrian writer
Susanne Lothar (1960–2012), German actress
Fictional characters
Lothar (Legends of Chima), a character in Legends of Chima
Lothar – comic character, sidekick to Mandrake the Magician created by Lee Falk
Lothar – a gatekeeper in the 2016 Indian film Mohenjo Daro
Lothar – a Nazi spy for Germany, sidekick to Nazi spy Neville Sinclair in the Rocketeer
Lothar – character in E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Sandman
Lothar Weiser – a spy for Socialist East Germany in Arnaldur Indriðason's book, The Draining Lake
Anduin Lothar – a historical warrior in the Warcraft Universe
Lothar – a robot in The Metabarons
Lothar – a powerful Planewalker wizard in the Planescape setting for Dungeons & Dragons, likewise appearing in the game Planescape: Torment
Lothar of the Hill People – a character in an SNL skit played by Mike Myers