Nussbaum

Nussbaum is a surname of German origin. Variant spellings include Nußbaum and Nusbaum. The word means "one who dwells near trees", likely referring to hazelnut trees or walnut trees.

People surnamed Nussbaum

• A. Edward Nussbaum (1925–2009), theoretical mathematician
• Adam Nussbaum (born 1955), American jazz drummer
• Alan Nussbaum (born 1947), American linguist
• Albert Frederick Nussbaum (1934–1996), bank robber and novelist
• Alex Nussbaum, comedian, actor and writer
• Arthur Nussbaum (1877–1964), German legal scholar
• Barry D. Nussbaum, American statistician
• Bernard Nussbaum (1937–2022), former White House Counsel under Bill Clinton
• Emily Nussbaum (born 1966), American television critic
• Eugenie Nussbaum (1872–1940), Galician-Austrian philanthropist, writer and pedagogue developing and supporting Austrian girl education
• Felicity Nussbaum (born 1944), American professor of English
• Felix Nussbaum (1904–1944), a Jewish German painter
• Hedda Nussbaum (born 1942), American author of a memoir, Surviving Intimate Terrorism
• Howard Nusbaum (born 1954), American psychologist
• Joe Nussbaum (born 1973), American film director
• Johann Nepomuk von Nussbaum (1829–1890), German surgeon
• Laureen Nussbaum (born 1927), German-born American scholar and writer
• Lowell Nussbaum (1901–1987), journalist
• Martha Nussbaum (born 1947), American philosopher
• Mike Nussbaum (1923–2023), American actor and director
• Myer Nussbaum (1855–1952), New York lawyer and politician
• Paul Joseph Nussbaum (1870–1935), American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
• Roger Nussbaum, American mathematician
• Ronald Archie Nussbaum, American herpetologist
• Theo Nussbaum (1885–1956), German architect
• Tsvi C. Nussbaum (1935–2012), Holocaust survivor
• Verena Nussbaum (born 1970), Austrian politician

See also

• Nußbaum, a village in the Bad Kreuznach district in the Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
• Nußbaum, a constituent community of the municipality of Neulingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
• Nusbaum is a municipality in the district Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Surname list

This page lists people with the surname Nußbaum, Nussbaum, Nusbaum.
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