Birnbaum (surname)
Birnbaum is a German, Ashkenazi Jewish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Adam Birnbaum, American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger
- Alfred Birnbaum, American translator
- Allan Birnbaum, statistician
- Amy Birnbaum, voice actress
- Arved Birnbaum, German actor and director
- Brigitte Birnbaum, German author
- , German musicologist and cultural manager
- Daniel Birnbaum, curator
- Dara Birnbaum, feminist video artist
- David Birnbaum, Canadian politician
- , German biologist
- , German cardiac surgeon
- Eduard Birnbaum, German musicologist
- Effi Birnbaum, Israeli professional basketball coach
- , Austrian pedagogue and psychologist
- Frank Birnbaum, cantor
- , German dermatologist and university professor
- George E. Birnbaum, American international political consultant, one of "Arthur's Kid"
- , German lawyer, Ministerialbeamter and manager
- Heinrich Birnbaum, monk
- Henrik Birnbaum, American linguist and Slavist
- , German worker and resistance fighter against Nazism
- , German journalist and publicist
- Jacob Birnbaum, human rights activist
- Jeffrey Birnbaum, columnist
- Jeremiah Birnbaum, singer/songwriter
- , German legal scholar and playwright
- , German non-fiction - writer and novelist
- Johann Birnbaum, German jurist
- Karl Birnbaum, German neurologist
- , German agronomist
- , German chemist
- , Austrian - American film director and producer and photographer
- Linda Birnbaum, toxicologist and director of the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences
- , Austrian ice hockey player
- , German National Liberal politician
- , German actor and musical actor
- Menachem Birnbaum, book illustrator and portrait painter
- , Israeli educator
- Michael Birnbaum, journalist for The Washington Post
- Morton Birnbaum, American physician
- Nathan Birnbaum, Jewish philosopher
- , German actor
- Norman Birnbaum, American sociologist
- , German actress and entrepreneur
- Philip Birnbaum, translator of Jewish prayer book
- Roger Birnbaum, American film producer
- Solomon Birnbaum, Yiddish linguist and son of Nathan Birnbaum
- Stephen Birnbaum, travel writer and editor
- Steve Birnbaum, Major League Soccer player
- Uriel Birnbaum, painter, caricaturist, writer and poet
- , German theater and film director
- , German theologian and university professor
- , German physicist
- , German politician of the SPD
- Yaakov Birnbaum, human rights activist
- Zdzisław Birnbaum, Polish violinist and conductor
- Zygmunt Wilhelm Birnbaum, mathematician and statistician
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