Pfeiffer (surname)

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. 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 (literary scholar) (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
• Kyle Pfeiffer (born 1990), American musician
• Michael Traugott Pfeiffer (1771–1849), Swiss music pedagogue
• 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
• Burkhard Wilhelm Pfeiffer (1777–1852), German jurist, magistrate, and liberal politician
• Franz Georg Pfeiffer (1784–1856), German civil servant and legal scholar
• Harry H. Pfeiffer (died 1970), American politician
• Joachim Pfeiffer (born 1967), German politician (CDU)

Sciences

• Carl Pfeiffer (pharmacologist) (1908–88), one of the founders of orthomolecular psychiatry
• Carl Jonas Pfeiffer (1779–1836), German conchologist and banker
• 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
• Hans Pfeiffer (1937–2022), German physicist
• Louis Pfeiffer (1805–77), German physician, botanist and conchologist
• Paul Pfeiffer (chemist) (1875–1951), German chemist
• Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer, (1858–1945), German physician and bacteriologist
• Rudolf Arthur Pfeiffer, German geneticist
• Paul Pfeiffer (biopharmacist) (1972), American CEO and salesman

Sports

• Darren Pfeiffer (born 1987), Australian football player

Fictional characters

• Hans Pfeiffer, a character from the novel Die Feuerzangenbowle

See also

• Pfeiffer (disambiguation)
• Halley Feiffer, American actress and playwright
• Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist
• Yann Peifer, German trance musician better known as "Yanou"
• Pfeifer, a surname
• Pfeffer, a surname
• Pfeiffer House (disambiguation)
• William T. Pheiffer (1898–1986), American lawyer, Republican politician and diplomat
• Willem Pijper, Dutch composer, music critic and music teacher
• Pfeiffer Georgi, English race cyclist

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