Mendelssohn (surname)

The surname מענדעלסאן is transliterated to English as Mendelssohn, Mendelsson, or Mendelson. It is a common Polish/German Jewish surname. The variant spellings are used interchangeably, often even within a single family.

The name means son of Mendel ("Mendel's son"), or son of Menachem, as Mendel is a Yiddish diminutive of the Hebrew given name Menahem. Hebrew: מנחם Menachem itself means "consoling" or "one who consoles".

People[]

Mendelssohn[]

Mendelssohn family
- Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786), philosopher, a significant figure in the Age of Enlightenment in Germany, and his descendants:
- Joseph Mendelssohn (1770–1848), German Jewish banker, son of Moses, founder of Mendelssohn & Co.
- Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1776–1835), German Jewish banker, son of Moses, father of Fanny and Felix
- Brendel Mendelssohn (1763–1839), daughter of Moses, married (i) Simon Veit, (ii) Friedrich Schlegel
- Fanny Mendelssohn (1805–1847), noted early Romantic composer and pianist, daughter of Abraham
- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847), noted early Romantic composer, son of Abraham
- Rebecka Mendelssohn (1811–1858), daughter of Abraham, married Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805–1859), mathematician
- Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1841–1880), chemist, son of Felix
- Arnold Mendelssohn (1855–1933), great-grandson of Moses, German composer and music teacher
Anna Mendelssohn (1948–2009), British political activist and poet
Carol Mendelsohn (born 1951), American TV writer
Daniel Mendelsohn (born 1960), American author and classics scholar
Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn (1911–1952), British band leader
George Mendelssohn, founder of Vox Records in 1945
Heinrich Mendelssohn (1881–1959), German building tycoon
Kurt Mendelssohn (1906–1980), German-born British medical physicist
Vladimir Mendelssohn (1949–2021), Romanian composer, violist, and professor

Mendelsohn[]

Ben Mendelsohn (born 1969), Australian actor and musician
Carolyn Mendelsohn, English photographer
Erich Mendelsohn (1887–1953), Prussian architect
Fred Mendelsohn (1917–2000), US promoter of black gospel music, president of Savoy Records
Jonathan Mendelsohn, Baron Mendelsohn (born 1966), British lobbyist and Labour political organiser
Matthew Mendelsohn (birthdate unknown), Canadian civil servant
Nathan Mendelsohn (1917–2006), Canadian mathematician
Nicola Mendelsohn (born 1971), British advertising executive
Robert S. Mendelsohn (1926–1988), pediatrician and critic of medical paternalism

Mendelson[]

Curtis Lester Mendelson (1913–2002), American cardiologist who first described the pneumonia called Mendelson's syndrome
Elliott Mendelson (1931–2020), an American logician, famous for Mendelson axiom schemata for propositional Logic
Mira Mendelson (1914–1968), Russian poet, second wife of Sergei Prokofiev
Paul Mendelson, scriptwriter for television, film and radio
Phil Mendelson (born 1952), Washington, D.C., politician
Shari Mendelson (born 1961), American sculptor.

Other spellings[]

Ben Mandelson (born 1953), English world musician
Peter Mandelson (born 1953), British Labour politician
Nathan Menderson (1820–1904), German-born American business executive and baseball executive