Nussbaum

Nussbaum is a surname of German origin. Variant spellings include Nußbaum and Nusbaum. The word means "one who dwells near trees", likely referring to hazelnut trees or walnut trees.

People surnamed Nussbaum

  • A. Edward Nussbaum (1925–2009), theoretical mathematician
  • Adam Nussbaum (born 1955), American jazz drummer
  • Alan Nussbaum (born 1947), American linguist
  • Albert Frederick Nussbaum (1934–1996), bank robber and novelist
  • Alex Nussbaum, comedian, actor and writer
  • Arthur Nussbaum (1877–1964), German legal scholar
  • Barry D. Nussbaum, American statistician
  • Bernard Nussbaum (1937–2022), former White House Counsel under Bill Clinton
  • Emily Nussbaum, American television critic
  • Eugenie Nussbaum (1872–1940), Galician-Austrian philanthropist, writer and pedagogue developing and supporting Austrian girl education
  • Felicity Nussbaum, American professor of English
  • Felix Nussbaum (1904–1944), a Jewish German painter
  • Hedda Nussbaum, American author of a memoir, Surviving Intimate Terrorism
  • Howard Nusbaum (born 1954), American psychologist
  • Joe Nussbaum, American film director
  • Johann Nepomuk von Nussbaum (1829–1890), German surgeon
  • Lowell Nussbaum (1901–1987), journalist
  • Martha Nussbaum (born 1947), American philosopher
  • Mike Nussbaum (1923–2023), American actor and director
  • Myer Nussbaum (1855–1952), New York lawyer and politician
  • Paul Joseph Nussbaum (1870–1935), American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
  • Roger Nussbaum, American mathematician
  • Ronald Archie Nussbaum, American herpetologist
  • Theo Nussbaum (1885–1956), German architect
  • Tsvi C. Nussbaum (1935–2012), Holocaust survivor

See also

  • Nußbaum, a village in the Bad Kreuznach district in the Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
  • Nußbaum, a constituent community of the municipality of Neulingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
  • Nusbaum is a municipality in the district Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Surname list
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