Garfinkel
Garfinkel is a Yiddish surname with variants Garfinkle, Garfinkiel, Garfinckel, Gurfinkel, Gorfinkel, Garfield etc. Notable people with the surname include:
- Charles B. Garfinkel, New York assemblyman
- Harold Garfinkel, American sociologist
- Jack Garfinkel, American basketball player
- Lenora Garfinkel, American architect
- Marian Garfinkel, American yoga practitioner who pioneered the use of yoga to treat carpal tunnel
- Simson Garfinkel, American computer scientist, journalist and writer specializing in the field of computer security
- Yosef Garfinkel, Israeli archaeologist
Garfield
- Andrew Garfield, English and American actor
Other variant forms
;Garfinkle- John Garfield, American actor
- Norton Garfinkle, American economist
- Richard Garfinkle, American science-fiction author
- Julius Garfinckel, American merchant, founder of Washington, D.C.–based department store chain, Garfinckel's
- David Gurfinkel, Israeli cinematographer
- Goldie Steinberg, Moldovan-born American supercentenarian
- Josefa Gurfinkel, Soviet chess master
- Yisrael Guri, Russian-born Israeli politician
- Jordan B. Gorfinkel, aka "Gorf,", American comic book creator, newspaper cartoonist, animation and multi-media entertainment producer.