Kushner
Appearance
The surname Kushner is an English-based transliteration of the Yiddish name קושנער, a variant of קושניר (Kushnir), an occupational name stemming from the Ukrainian word кушнір (kushnir), meaning furrier.
People
Notable people with the surname include:
- Alexander Kushner, Russian poet
- Bernard Kouchner, French politician and physician
- Boris Kushner, mathematician, poet, and essayist
- Burton J. Kushner, ophthalmologist
- Charles Kushner, real estate mogul
- Dave Kushner, U.S. guitarist
- David Kushner, writer
- David Howard Kushner, American gynecologist-obstetrician and infertility specialist
- Donald Kushner, American film producer
- Ellen Kushner, U.S. fantasy author
- Eva Bella Kushner, American child actress and voice actress
- Harold (Samuel) Kushner, Conservative rabbi and author
- Harold J. Kushner, U.S. applied mathematics professor at Brown University
- Jared Kushner, senior White House official and husband of Ivanka Trump
- Lawrence Kushner, Reform rabbi and author
- Rachel Kushner, U.S. author
- Tony Kushner, U.S. playwright
- Yvonne Levy Kushner, American actress and fundraiser
Other uses
- Kushner Companies, a New York City-based real estate development company
- Kushner equation, equation for the conditional probability density of the state of a stochastic non-linear dynamical system
- Kushner Studios, a New York City-based architectural firm
See also
- Kushnir (Ukrainian form)