Birnbaum (surname)

Birnbaum (German: "pear tree") is a German-language family name common among Ashkenazi Jews. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Adam Birnbaum (born 1979), American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger
  • Alfred Birnbaum (born 1955), American translator
  • Allan Birnbaum (1923–1976), American statistician
  • Amy Birnbaum (born 1975), American voice actress
  • Arved Birnbaum (1962–2021), German actor and director
  • Brigitte Birnbaum (1938–2024), German author
  • Clemens Birnbaum (born 1963), German musicologist and cultural manager
  • Daniel Birnbaum (born 1963), curator
  • Dara Birnbaum (1946–2025), American feminist video artist
  • David Birnbaum (born 1956), Canadian politician
  • Dieter Birnbaum (born 1931), German biologist
  • Dietrich Birnbaum (1942–2017), German cardiac surgeon
  • Eduard Birnbaum (1855–1920), German musicologist
  • Effi Birnbaum (born 1954), Israeli professional basketball coach
  • Ferdinand Birnbaum (1892–1947), Austrian pedagogue and psychologist
  • Frank Birnbaum (1922–2005), cantor
  • Fritz Birnbaum (1912 – 2006) Highly decorated German Panzer Officer WWII
  • Georg Birnbaum (1890–1948), German dermatologist and university professor
  • George E. Birnbaum (born 1970), American international political consultant, one of "Arthur's Kid"
  • Hans Birnbaum (1912–1980), German lawyer, Ministerialbeamter and manager
  • Heinrich Birnbaum (1403–1473), monk
  • Henrik Birnbaum (1925–2002), American linguist and Slavist
  • Heinz Birnbaum (1920–1943), German worker and resistance fighter against Nazism
  • Immanuel Birnbaum (1894–1982), German journalist and publicist
  • Jacob Birnbaum (1926–2014), human rights activist
  • Jeffrey Birnbaum (born 1955), American columnist
  • Jeremiah Birnbaum (born 1978), American singer/songwriter
  • Johann Michael Franz Birnbaum (1792–1877), German legal scholar and playwright
  • Johanna Birnbaum (1904–1978), German non-fiction - writer and novelist
  • Johann Birnbaum (1763–1832), German jurist
  • Karl Birnbaum (1878–1950), German neurologist
  • Karl Birnbaum (agronomist) (1829–1907), German agronomist
  • Karl Birnbaum (chemist) (1839–1887), German chemist
  • Lillian Birnbaum (born 1955), Austrian - American film director and producer and photographer
  • Linda Birnbaum (born 1946), toxicologist and director of the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences
  • Lucas Birnbaum (born 1997), Austrian ice hockey player
  • Maria Birnbaum (politician) (1872–1959), German National Liberal politician ( DVP )
  • Martin Birnbaum (actor) (born 1970), German actor and musical actor
  • Menachem Birnbaum (1893–1944), book illustrator and portrait painter
  • Menucha Birnbaum (born 1948), Israeli educator
  • Morton Birnbaum (1926–2005), American physician
  • Nathan Birnbaum (1864–1937), Jewish philosopher
  • George Burns (born Nathan Birnbaum, 1896–1996), American singer and actor
  • Nico Birnbaum (born 1977), German actor
  • Norman Birnbaum (1926–2019), American sociologist
  • Paula Birnbaum (born 1986), German actress and entrepreneur
  • Philip Birnbaum (1904–1988), American translator of Jewish prayer book
  • Roger Birnbaum (born 1950), American film producer
  • Solomon Birnbaum, Yiddish linguist and son of Nathan Birnbaum
  • Stephen Birnbaum (1937–1991), American travel writer and editor
  • Steve Birnbaum (born 1991), American Major League Soccer player
  • Uriel Birnbaum (1894–1956), painter, caricaturist, writer and poet
  • Uta Birnbaum (1933–2022), German theater and film director
  • Walter Birnbaum (theologian) (1893–1987), German theologian and university professor
  • Walter Birnbaum (physicist) (1897–1925), German physicist
  • Wilhelm Birnbaum (1895–1980), German politician of the SPD
  • Yaakov (Jacob) Birnbaum (1926–2014), human rights activist
  • Zdzisław Birnbaum (1878–1921), Polish violinist and conductor
  • Zygmunt Wilhelm Birnbaum (1903–2000), Polish-American mathematician and statistician

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