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United States Lindt migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Lindt Settlers in United States in the 18th Century
  • Johannes VonDer Lindt, who settled in Philadelphia in 1749
Lindt Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • Wilhelm Lindt, who arrived in Philadelphia in 1806
  • Wilhelm Lindt, who landed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1806 1
  • John Lindt, who settled in New Castle, Delaware in 1849

Contemporary Notables of the name Lindt (post 1700) +

  • Rudolf "Rodolphe" Lindt (1855-1909), Swiss chocolate manufacturer and inventor who founded the Lindt chocolate factory and invented the conching machine
  • Otto Hermann Lindt (1872-1937), Swiss politician, 9th Mayor of Bern (1920-1937)
  • Franz Lindt (1844-1901), Swiss politician, 6th Mayor of Bern (1895-1899)
  • Rosemarie Lindt, German actress and ballet dancer, active from 1963 to 1979
  • Virna Lindt, Swedish former model and singer
  • Auguste Rudolph Lindt (b. 1905), Swiss Diplomat, who was the former chairman of UNICEF, the Swiss Ambassador to the U.S.A., the USSR, India and Nepal
  • Johanna Lindt (1820-1887), Swedish soprano singer, known as "The Swedish Nightingale"


  1. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)


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