Nussbaum

Nussbaum is a Jewish surname of German origin. Variant spellings include Nußbaum and Nusbaum. The word literally means "nut tree", a generic term which could refer to hazelnut trees or walnut trees.

People surnamed Nussbaum

• A. Edward Nussbaum (1925–2009), theoretical mathematician
• Adam Nussbaum (born 1955), American jazz drummer
• Alan Nussbaum (born 1947), American linguist
• Albert Frederick Nussbaum (1934–1996), bank robber and novelist
• Alex Nussbaum, comedian, actor and writer
• Arthur Nussbaum (1877–1964), German legal scholar
• Bernard W. Nussbaum (born 1937), former White House Counsel under Bill Clinton
• Emily Nussbaum, American television critic
• Eugenie Nussbaum (1872–1940), Galician-Austrian philanthropist, writer and pedagogue developing and supporting Austrian girl education
• Felix Nussbaum (1904–1944), a Jewish German painter
• Hedda Nussbaum, American masochist and child abuser, author of a memoir, Surviving Intimate Terrorism
• Howard Nusbaum (born 1954), American psychologist
• Joe Nussbaum, American film director
• Johann Nepomuk von Nussbaum (1829–1890), German surgeon
• Lowell Nussbaum (1901–1987), journalist
• Martha Nussbaum (born 1947), American philosopher
• Mike Nussbaum (born 1923), American actor and director
• Myer Nussbaum (1855–1952), New York lawyer and politician
• Paul Joseph Nussbaum (1870–1935), American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
• Theo Nussbaum (1885–1956), German architect
• Tsvi C. Nussbaum (born 1935), Holocaust survivor

See also

• Nußbaum, a village in the Bad Kreuznach district in the Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
• Nusbaum is a municipality in the district Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany