Mahler (surname)
Mahler is a German occupational surname. Mahler was a variant spelling of Maler, particularly a stained glass painter.
The name most often refers to Gustav Mahler, Bohemian-Austrian composer and conductor. His family included:
- Alma Mahler, Austrian socialite and wife of, successively, Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel
- Anna Mahler, Austrian-UK sculptor, daughter of Gustav and Alma Mahler
- Fritz Mahler, Austrian conductor, and cousin once removed of Gustav
- Otto Mahler, Bohemian-Austrian musician and youngest brother of Gustav
- Joseph Mahler, inventor of the Vectograph stereoscopic technique, cousin of Gustav
- Zdeněk Mahler, Czech pedagogue, writer, publicist and musicologist, distantly related to Gustav
- Ángel Mahler, Argentine composer and conductor
- Arthur Mahler, Austrian archeologist
- Bruce Mahler, American actor
- Eduard Mahler, Hungarian-Austrian orientalist, astronomer, natural scientist
- Fanny Mahler, Austrian pianist and music teacher
- Gregory Mahler, American political scientist
- Henry Mahler, Austrian-American biochemist
- Halfdan T. Mahler, Danish physician
- Hedwig Courths-Mahler, German writer
- Horst Mahler, German lawyer and political extremist
- Kurt Mahler, German-British mathematician
- Margaret Mahler, Hungarian psychoanalytic child psychologist
- Marian Mahler, British designer, commercial artist, and book illustrator
- Mickey Mahler, American baseball player
- Nicolas Mahler Austrian artist
- Raphael Mahler, Jewish historian from Poland, America, and Israel
- Rick Mahler, American baseball player
- Thomas Mahler, Austrian game developer and founder of Moon Studios
- Vincent A. Mahler, American political scientist