Mass (surname)

Mass is a surname with either following meaning and origin:

• North German and Dutch: from a short form of the personal name Thomas. Compare Maas, Mas.
• Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name from German 'measure', 'measurement'.

People surnamed Mass include:

• Jochen Mass (1946–2025), German racing driver and broadcaster
• Lawrence D. Mass (born 1946), American physician and writer who wrote the first press reports on the disease AIDS
• Wayne Mass (1946–2019), American football player
• Wendy Mass (born 1967), American author of young adult and children's books

Fictional characters include:

• Miss Mass, in the Marvel Comics universe
• Sayla Mass, in the Universal Century Gundam universe

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