What is "mertz"

Mertz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, (1905–1944), German officer and resistance fighter involved in the 20 July Plot against Adolf Hitler
• Barbara Mertz (1927–2013), author of mystery and suspense novels who writes under the pseudonyms Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels
• Dolores Mertz (born 1928), Iowan politician
• Ellen Louise Mertz (1896—1987), Danish geologist
• Elizabeth Mertz, American linguistic and legal anthropologist
• Harold Mertz, designer of the standard crash test dummy
• Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806–1856), Austrian guitarist and composer
• Lawrence Mertz, optical physicist and inventor of the Mertz corrector
• LuEsther Mertz (1905–1991), founder of Publisher's Clearinghouse
• Stephen Mertz (born 1947), American fiction author of thrillers and novels of suspense
• Xavier Mertz (1883–1913), Swiss Antarctic explorer

Fictional characters:

• Fred and Ethel Mertz, fictional couple on I Love Lucy