Mahler (surname)

Last updated July 28, 2025

Mahler is a German occupational surname. Mahler was a variant spelling of Maler ("painter"), particularly a stained glass painter.^[1]

The name most often refers to Gustav Mahler, Bohemian-Austrian composer and conductor. His family included:

Alma Mahler-Werfel (1879–1964), Austrian socialite and wife of, successively, Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel
Anna Mahler (1904–1988), Austrian-UK sculptor, daughter of Gustav and Alma Mahler
Fritz Mahler (1901–1973), Austrian conductor, and cousin once removed of Gustav Mahler
Otto Mahler (1873–1895), Bohemian-Austrian musician and youngest brother of Gustav Mahler
Joseph Mahler (1900–1981), inventor of the Vectograph stereoscopic technique, cousin of Gustav Mahler
Zdeněk Mahler (1936–2018), Czech pedagogue, writer, publicist and musicologist, distantly related with Gustav Mahler

Other people named Mahler include:

Ángel Mahler (1960–2025), Argentine composer and conductor
Arthur Mahler (1871–1944), Austrian archeologist
Bruce Mahler (born 1950), American actor
Eduard Mahler (1857–1945), Hungarian-Austrian orientalist, astronomer, natural scientist
Fanny Mahler (1854–1942), Austrian pianist and music teacher
Gregory Mahler (born 1950), American political scientist
Henry Mahler (1921–1983), Austrian-American biochemist
Halfdan T. Mahler (1923–2016), Danish physician
Hedwig Courths-Mahler (1867–1950), German writer
Horst Mahler (1936–2025), German lawyer and political extremist
Kurt Mahler (1903–1988), German-British mathematician
Margaret Mahler (1897–1985), Hungarian psychoanalytic child psychologist
Marian Mahler (1908–1982), British designer, commercial artist, and book illustrator
Mickey Mahler (born 1952), American baseball player
Nicolas Mahler (born 1969) Austrian artist
Raphael Mahler (1899–1977), Jewish historian from Poland, America, and Israel
Rick Mahler (1953–2005), American baseball player
Thomas Mahler, Austrian game developer and founder of Moon Studios
Vincent A. Mahler (born 1949), American political scientist

Notes

↑ Mahler in the Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press

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[1] Mahler in the Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press

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