Birnbaum
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Birnbaum (German: "pear tree") may refer to:
- Birnbaum an der Warthe and Kreis Birnbaum (today Międzychód), a city and county in Posen district, Poland
- Birnbaum (Frankenwald), an unincorporated area in the district of Kronach, Bavaria, Germany
- Birnbaum (Gummersbach), a district of Gummersbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Birnbaum (Lesachtal), a village in the municipality Lesachtal, Carinthia, Austria
- Birnbaumer Wald, the German name for Hrušica, an elevated plain on the edge of the Alps in Slovenia
[edit] As a surname
Birnbaum is a German and Ashkenazi Jewish surname that can refer to:
- Alfred Birnbaum, translator
- Allan Birnbaum, statistician
- Amy Birnbaum, voice actress
- Daniel Birnbaum, curator
- Frank Birnbaum, cantor
- Heinrich Birnbaum, monk
- Jeffrey Birnbaum, columnist
- Jeremiah Birnbaum, singer/songwriter
- Karl Birnbaum (1878–1950), German neurologist
- Menachem Birnbaum, book illustrator and portrait painter.
- Nathan Birnbaum, Jewish philosopher
- Norman Birnbaum (born 1926), US sociologist
- Philip Birnbaum, translator of Jewish prayer book
- Solomon Birnbaum, Yiddish linguist and son of Nathan Birnbaum
- Stephen Birnbaum (1937–1991), travel writer and editor
- Uriel Birnbaum, painter, caricaturist, writer and poet
- Yaakov (Jacob) Birnbaum, human rights activist
- George Burns (born Nathan Birnbaum)
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