Pistorius

Pistorius is a surname. It is an occupational surname derived from the Latin word pistor (meaning miller or baker) and further Latinised by the suffix -ius. ^[1] Pistor also appears as a surname.

The name corresponds in meaning to the Dutch surname Bakker and the German surnames Becker and Pfister.

Notable people with the surname

Pistorius

• Ashlee Pistorius (born 1985), American soccer player
• Boris Pistorius (born 1960), German politician
• Calie Pistorius (born 1958), South African electrical engineer
• Caren Pistorius (born 1990), New Zealand actress
• Charlotte Pistorius (1777–1850), German poet
• Christian Pistorius (1763/65–1823), German writer and translator
• Eduard Pistorius  [ de ] (1796–1862), German artist
• Hermann Andreas Pistorius (1730–1798), German theologian and philosopher
• Johannes Pistorius (disambiguation), several people
• Martin Pistorius (born 1975), South African web designer and author
• Micki Pistorius (born 1961), South African forensic psychologist and author
• Oscar Pistorius (born 1986), South African double-amputee athlete and convicted murderer
• Stephen Pistorius, South African-Canadian academic and medical physicist
• Ursula Pistorius (1933–2015), German politician

Pistor

• Johann Jakob Pistor (1739–1814), German general who served in the Imperial Russian army
• Ludger Pistor (born 1959), German actor
• Maternus Pistor (1470–1534), Roman Catholic prelate
• Nestor Pistor, stage name of Don Ast, Canadian-Romanian comedian

See also

• H Pistorius & Co, a South African company
• Demian , a novel by Hermann Hesse, in which one of the characters is named Pistorius
• All pages with titles containing Pistorius
• Pastorius (disambiguation)

References

1. Rita Heuser (2025-11-05). "Pistorius". Digital family name dictionary of Germany. Retrieved 2025-11-13.