Schnitzer is a German noun meaning "carver" and is the surname of:
Schnitzer may also refer to:
Kohler is a surname of German origin. The name was first found in Saxony. It means, "charcoal burner" so the first "Kohlers" were most likely of that occupation. Notable people with the surname include:
Rathbone is a surname which may refer to:
Modi is a surname in India, most commonly found among people from states of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, and Uttar Pradesh.
The surname Kushner is an English-based transliteration of the Yiddish name קושנער, a variant of קושניר (Kushnir), an occupational name stemming from קירזשנער (kirzshner), a furrier. This is related to the German word Kürschner and the Ukrainian word кушнір (kushnir), with the same meaning.
See also Woolf, Woolfe, Wolff, Wolfson and Woolfson.
Paulsen is a Danish, Norwegian and German patronymic surname, from the given name Paul prefix, of Latin origin, itself derived from Paulus, meaning "small". People with the name Paulsen include:
Khoury, also transliterated as Khouri, is a Levantine surname that is common to Christians in the Middle East. The term Khoury means "priest" in Levantine Arabic. It derives from the Latin word curia.
Lewisohn is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Bass is a surname of English origin, and may refer to:
Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. is a steel manufacturing and scrap metal recycling company headquartered in Portland, Oregon.
The German surname Hecht comes from house shields. In Yiddish der hekht means spear, arms. In modern German Der Hecht is the fish known in English as a pike.
Darling is a surname that may refer to:
Weinberg is a German and Jewish-Ashkenazi surname which means vineyard in German. Spellings in other languages include Wainberg, Vainberg, Vaynberg, Вайнберг and Wajnberg.
Harold J. Schnitzer was an American businessman, civic leader, and philanthropist. Schnitzer is best remembered for having made over $80 million in charitable gifts over the course of his lifetime, including the establishment of the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon and at the University of Oregon.
Arlene Schnitzer was an American arts patron and philanthropist. She was the founder and director of the Fountain Gallery, established in Portland to showcase artists in the Pacific Northwest. She is the namesake of the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, a performing arts center in Portland, Oregon.
Sanford is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Lowell is a surname, see "Lowell family" for name origin. Notable people with the surname include:
Ginter is a both a given name and surname of German origin, derived from the name Günther. Notable people with the name include:
Loeb or Löb is a surname of German and Yiddish origin. It is derived from the word lion in German and Yiddish in different historic and dialectal forms. In Yiddish it is mostly written לייב (Leib). People with the surname include:
Stabler is a surname from several European languages. Most common among these is the English occupational surname for one who keeps livestock, from Middle English stabler, or a variant of the German occupational surname Stäbler, meaning an official who carries a staff of office.