Pfeiffer

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. Pfeiffer is the surname of several notable people:

People

Arts

Alberta Pfeiffer (1899–1994), Illinois architect
Carl Pfeiffer (architect) (1834–1888), German-born NYC architect
Johann Pfeiffer (1697–1791), German violinist and composer
Darrin Pfeiffer (born 1969), American musician
Dedee Pfeiffer (born 1964), American actress
Emily Jane Pfeiffer (1827–1890), Welsh poet, philanthropist
Franz Pfeiffer (1815–1868), German literary scholar
Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797–1858), Austrian traveller and travel book author
Michelle Pfeiffer (born 1958), American actress
Paul Pfeiffer (artist) (born 1966), American video artist

Sciences

Carl Pfeiffer (malacologist) (?-1852), German malacologist
Carl Pfeiffer (pharmacologist) (1908–88), one of the founders of orthomolecular psychiatry
Carl Jonas Pfeiffer (1779–1836), German malacologist, uncle of Ludwig Karl Georg Pfeiffer
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

Other uses

Pfeiffer University in Misenheimer, North Carolina
Pfeiffer Lake, Minnesota
Infectious mononucleosis, also known as the kissing disease, or Pfeiffer's disease
Pfeiffer, Arkansas
Pfeiffer, Ohio, an unincorporated community
Pfeiffer Effect, an optical phenomenon
Pfeiffer House (disambiguation)
Pfeiffer Vacuum, a German manufacturer of vacuum pumps
Pfeiffer syndrome, a rare genetic disorder characterized by the premature fusion of certain bones of the skull