Birnbaum

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

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
• 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
• Solomon Birnbaum, Yiddish linguist and son of Nathan Birnbaum
• Uriel Birnbaum, painter, caricaturist, writer and poet
• Philip Birnbaum, translator of Jewish prayer book
• Yaakov (Jacob) Birnbaum, human rights activist
• George Burns (born Nathan Birnbaum)

See also

• Daniel Barenboim
• Michael Berenbaum