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) Sibylle Pfeiffer (born 1951), 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
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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