Pfeiffer (surname)

Pfeiffer (/ˈfaɪfər/) 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
Emil Pfeiffer (1846–1921), German physician
Emily Jane Pfeiffer (1827–1890), Welsh poet, philanthropist
Franz Pfeiffer (1815–1868), German literary scholar
Georges Pfeiffer (1835–1908), French composer
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
Pauline Pfeiffer (1895–1951), American journalist and second wife of Ernest Hemingway

Military[]

Hermann Pfeiffer, German aviator and flying ace

Politics and government[]

Alois Pfeiffer (1924–1987), German trade unionist who served as a European Commissioner in the 1980s
Joachim Pfeiffer (born 1967), German politician (CDU)

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

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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[1] 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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