Baumgarten (surname)

Baumgarten is a German and Ashkenazi Jewish surname, likely indicating an ancestral lineage from a man who owned, lived or worked in an orchard; from Baum, meaning tree, and Garte(n) meaning enclosure (garden).

Notable people with the surname include:


 * Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714–1762), German philosopher
 * Alfred Baumgarten (1842–1919), Canadian chemist and businessman of German descent
 * Armin Baumgarten (born 1967), German painter and sculptor
 * Bodo Baumgarten (born 1940) German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and educator.
 * Charles Frederick Baumgarten (1739–1840), German-born violinist and organist in London
 * Fritz Baumgarten (1886–1961), German footballer
 * Hans Heinrich Baumgarten (1806 – 1875) Holstein-Danish industrialist
 * Hermann Baumgarten (1825–1893), German historian and political publicist
 * Konrad Baumgarten, hero of the Swiss liberation legend, character in the drama William Tell
 * Joseph M. Baumgarten (1928–2008), rabbi and Semitic scholar
 * Lothar Baumgarten (1944–2018), German artist
 * Ludwig Friedrich Otto Baumgarten-Crusius (1788–1843), German Protestant theologian
 * Martin Baumgarten (1507–?), German explorer
 * Michael Baumgarten (1812–1889), German Protestant theologian
 * Paul Clemens von Baumgarten (1848–1928), German pathologist
 * Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten (1706–1757), German theologian
 * Vasily Baumgarten (1879–1962), Russian and Yugoslavian architect