Schindler

Schindler is a German surname that is derived from the German word "schindel" which means "shingle". This suggests that the original bearers of the name were in the roofing business. Variations and alternate spellings of the name include: Shindler, Schindel, and Schindelle.

• Adam Schindler (born 1983), American mixed martial artist
• Alexander Schindler (1925–2000), American Reform rabbi
• Allen R. Schindler, Jr. (1969–1992), American navy petty officer, victim of a hate crime
• Alma Schindler (1879–1964), later known as Alma Mahler-Werfel, Austrian composer
• Ambrose Schindler (born c. 1920), American football (American football) player
• Anton Felix Schindler (1795–1864), secretary and early biographer of Ludwig van Beethoven
• Anton Karl Schindler (1879–1964), German botanist
• Christopher Schindler (born 1990), German footballer
• Bill Schindler (1909–1952), American race car driver
• David Schindler (born 1940), American-Canadian ecologist
• Emil Jakob Schindler (1842–1892), Austrian landscape painter, father of Alma Mahler
• Emilie Schindler (1907–2001), German humanitarian, wife of Oskar Schindler
• Frederic Schindler (born 1980), French-Argentinean music supervisor and entrepreneur
• George Schindler (born 1929), American stage magician, magic consultant, comedian, actor, ventriloquist and writer
• Hans Schindler Bellamy (1901–1982), Austrian researcher and author
• Hans Schindler (1889–1974), German musician
• Harold Schindler (1929–1998), American journalist and historian
• Kevin Schindler (born 1988), German footballer
• Kurt Schindler (1882–1935), German composer and conductor
• Jan Schindler (born 1978), Czech rower
• Jochem Schindler (1944–1994), Austrian Indo-Europeanist
• Lisa Schindler (born 1929), Austrian sprint canoer
• Lynn Schindler (1944-2018), American politician and businesswoman
• Marvin Schindler (1932–2003), American professor of German and Slavic studies
• Osmar Schindler (1869–1927), German painter
• Oskar Schindler (1908–1974), German businessman who saved his Jewish workers from the Holocaust, subject of the film Schindler's List
• Otto Schindler (1906-1956), German zoologist
• Otto Schindler (born 1925), Austrian sprint canoer
• Paul Schindler (born 1952), American computer journalist
• Peter Schindler (born 1960), German composer, musician and author
• Poul Christian Schindler (1648–1740), Danish composer
• Rudolf Michael Schindler (1887–1953), Austrian-American architect
• Rudolph Schindler (disambiguation), multiple people
• Solomon Schindler (1842–1915), American rabbi
• Steve Schindler (born 1954), American football (American football) player
• Szabolcs Schindler (born 1974), Hungarian football (soccer) player
• Valentin Schindler (died 1604), German Lutheran Hebraist and professor
• Walter Schindler (1897–1991), American navy officer

See also

• Schindler Group, founded 1874 by Robert Schindler, a Switzerland producer of elevators and escalators
• Schindler House, a house in Hollywood, California, United States, designed by Rudolf Schindler
• Schindler disease, a congenital metabolic disorder in humans
• Schindler's Ark, 1982 novel by Thomas Keneally about Oskar Schindler, later adapted into the movie "Schindler's List"
  • Schindler's List, a 1993 film by Steven Spielberg
    • Schindler's List (soundtrack), the original soundtrack of the 1993 film
• Schindlerjuden, the group of over 1,000 Jews saved by Oskar Schindler
• 11572 Schindler (1993 RM7), a main-belt asteroid, discovered in 1993
• All pages with titles containing Schindler
• Shindler (disambiguation)