Birnbaum (surname)
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Birnbaum (German for pear tree) is a German, Ashkenazi Jewish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alfred Birnbaum (born 1955), American translator
- Allan Birnbaum, statistician
- Amy Birnbaum, voice actress
- Brigitte Birnbaum (born 1938), German author
- Daniel Birnbaum, curator
- Dara Birnbaum, feminist video artist
- David Birnbaum, Canadian politician
- Frank Birnbaum, cantor
- Heinrich Birnbaum, monk
- Jacob Birnbaum, human rights activist
- Jeffrey Birnbaum, columnist
- Jeremiah Birnbaum, singer/songwriter
- Henrik Birnbaum (1925–2002), American linguist and Slavist
- Karl Birnbaum (1878–1950), German neurologist
- Linda Birnbaum, toxicologist and director of the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences
- Menachem Birnbaum, book illustrator and portrait painter
- Nathan Birnbaum, Jewish philosopher
- Norman Birnbaum (born 1926), American sociologist
- Morton Birnbaum (1926–2005), American physician
- Philip Birnbaum, translator of Jewish prayer book
- Roger Birnbaum (born 1950), American film producer
- Solomon Birnbaum, Yiddish linguist and son of Nathan Birnbaum
- Stephen Birnbaum (1937–1991), travel writer and editor
- Steve Birnbaum (born 1991), Major League Soccer player
- Uriel Birnbaum, painter, caricaturist, writer and poet
- Yaakov (Jacob) Birnbaum, human rights activist
- Zygmunt Wilhelm Birnbaum, mathematician and statistician
- George Burns (born Nathan Birnbaum)