Pfeiffer (surname)
Pfeiffer is a German-language occupational surname meaning "whistler" or "pipe-" or "fife-player" and etymologically akin to English Piper and Fifer; other spellings include Pfeifer. Notable people with the name include:
Arts
- Alberta Pfeiffer, Illinois architect
- Carl Pfeiffer (architect), German-born NYC architect
- Darrin Pfeiffer, American musician
- Dedee Pfeiffer, American actress
- Emil Pfeiffer, German physician
- Emily Jane Pfeiffer, Welsh poet, philanthropist
- Franz Pfeiffer (literary scholar), German literary scholar
- Georges Pfeiffer, French composer
- Ida Laura Pfeiffer, Austrian traveller and travel book author
- Johann Pfeiffer, German violinist and composer
- Kyle Pfeiffer, American musician
- Michael Traugott Pfeiffer, Swiss music pedagogue
- Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress
- Paul Pfeiffer (artist), American video artist
- Pauline Pfeiffer, American journalist and second wife of Ernest Hemingway
Military
- Hermann Pfeiffer, German aviator and flying ace
Politics and government
- Alois Pfeiffer, German trade unionist who served as a European Commissioner in the 1980s
- Burkhard Wilhelm Pfeiffer, German jurist, magistrate, and liberal politician
- Franz Georg Pfeiffer, German civil servant and legal scholar
- Harry H. Pfeiffer, American politician
- Joachim Pfeiffer, German politician
Sciences
- Carl Pfeiffer (pharmacologist), one of the founders of orthomolecular psychiatry
- Carl Jonas Pfeiffer, German conchologist and banker
- Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, biochemist active in the development of biodynamic agriculture
- Emil Pfeiffer, German physician and pediatrician
- George Adam Pfeiffer, American mathematician
- Georgii Yurii Pfeiffer, Ukrainian mathematician
- Hans Pfeiffer, German physicist
- Louis Pfeiffer, German physician, botanist and conchologist
- Paul Pfeiffer (chemist), German chemist
- Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer,, German physician and bacteriologist
- Rudolf Arthur Pfeiffer, German geneticist
- Paul Pfeiffer (biopharmacist), American CEO and salesman
Sports
- Darren Pfeiffer, Australian football player
Fictional characters
- Hans Pfeiffer, a character from the novel ''Die Feuerzangenbowle''