Pfeiffer (surname)
Pfeiffer is a German-language occupational surname meaning "whistler" or "pipe-" or "fife-player" and etymologically akin to English Piper and Fifer; other spellings include Pfeifer.[1] Notable people with the name include:
Arts
- Alberta Pfeiffer (1899–1994), Illinois architect
- Carl Pfeiffer (architect) (1834–1888), German-born NYC architect
- Darrin Pfeiffer (born 1969), American musician
- Dedee Pfeiffer (born 1964), American actress
- Emily Jane Pfeiffer (1827–1890), Welsh poet, philanthropist
- Georges Pfeiffer (1835–1908), French composer
- Franz Pfeiffer (1815–1868), German literary scholar
- Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797–1858), Austrian traveller and travel book author
- Johann Pfeiffer (1697–1791), German violinist and composer
- Michelle Pfeiffer (born 1958), American actress
- Paul Pfeiffer (artist) (born 1966), American video artist
Politics and government
- Alois Pfeiffer (1924–1987), German trade unionist who served as a European Commissioner in the 1980s
Sciences
- Carl Pfeiffer (pharmacologist) (1908–88), one of the founders of orthomolecular psychiatry
- Ehrenfried Pfeiffer (1891–1961), biochemist active in the development of biodynamic agriculture
- Emil Pfeiffer (1846-1921), German physician and pediatrician
- George Adam Pfeiffer (1889–1943), American mathematician
- Georgii Yurii Pfeiffer (1872–1946), Ukrainian mathematician
- Ludwig Karl Georg Pfeiffer (AKA Louis Pfeiffer, 1805–77), German physician, botanist and conchologist, nephew of Carl Jonas
- Paul Pfeiffer (chemist) (1875–1951), German chemist
- Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer, (1858–1945), German physician and bacteriologist
- Rudolf Arthur Pfeiffer, German geneticist
Sports
- Darren Pfeiffer (born 1987), Australian football player
Fictional characters
- Hans Pfeiffer, a character from the novel Die Feuerzangenbowle
See also
- Pfeiffer (disambiguation)
- Halley Feiffer, American actress and playwright
- Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist
- Yann Peifer, German trance musician better known as "Yanou"
- Pfeifer, a surname
- Pfeffer, a surname
- Pfeiffer House (disambiguation)
- William T. Pheiffer (1898–1986), American lawyer, Republican politician and diplomat
- Willem Pijper, Dutch composer, music critic and music teacher
References
- ^ Hanks, Patrick (8 May 2003). Dictionary of American Family Names: 3-Volume Set. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 84. ISBN 978-0-19-508137-4.
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