Mahler (surname)

Mahler is a German occupational surname. Mahler was a variant spelling of Maler ("painter"), particularly a painter of stained glass.

The name most often refers to Gustav Mahler, Bohemian-Austrian composer and conductor. His family included:

• Alma Mahler (1879–1964), Austrian socialite and wife of, successively, Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel
• Anna Mahler (1904–1988), Austrian-British sculptor, daughter of Gustav and Alma
• Arthur Mahler (1871–1944), Austrian archeologist, cousin of Gustav
• Fritz Mahler (1901–1973), Austrian conductor, and cousin once removed of Gustav
• Joseph Mahler (1900–1981), inventor of the Vectograph stereoscopic technique, cousin of Gustav
• Otto Mahler (1873–1895), Bohemian-Austrian musician and youngest brother of Gustav
• Zdeněk Mahler (1936–2018), Czech pedagogue, writer, publicist, and musicologist, distantly related to Gustav

Other people named Mahler include:

• Ángel Mahler (1960–2025), Argentine composer and conductor
• Bruce Mahler (born 1950), American actor
• Eduard Mahler (1857–1945), Hungarian-Austrian orientalist, astronomer, natural scientist
• Fanny Mahler (1854–1942), Austrian pianist and music teacher
• Gregory Mahler (born 1950), American political scientist
• Henry Mahler (1921–1983), Austrian-American biochemist
• Halfdan T. Mahler (1923–2016), Danish physician
• Hedwig Courths-Mahler (1867–1950), German writer
• Horst Mahler (1936–2025), German lawyer and political extremist
• Kurt Mahler (1903–1988), German-British mathematician
• Margaret Mahler (1897–1985), Hungarian psychoanalytic child psychologist
• Marian Mahler (1908–1982), British designer, commercial artist, and book illustrator
• Mickey Mahler (born 1952), American baseball player
• Nicolas Mahler (born 1969) Austrian artist
• Raphael Mahler (1899–1977), Jewish historian from Poland, America, and Israel
• Rick Mahler (1953–2005), American baseball player
• Thomas Mahler, Austrian game developer and founder of Moon Studios
• Vincent A. Mahler (born 1949), American political scientist

See also

• Mahler (disambiguation)
• Maler

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