Garfinkel

Garfinkel is a Yiddish surname with variants Garfinkle, Garfinckel, Gurfinkel, Gorfinkel, Garfield etc. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Charles B. Garfinkel (1890–1969), New York assemblyman
 * Harold Garfinkel (1917–2011), American sociologist
 * Jack Garfinkel (1918–2013), American basketball player
 * Lenora Garfinkel (1930–2020), American architect
 * Marian Garfinkel (1932–2020), American yoga practitioner who pioneered the use of yoga to treat carpal tunnel
 * Simson Garfinkel (born 1965), American computer scientist, journalist and writer specializing in the field of computer security
 * Yosef Garfinkel (born 1956), Israeli archaeologist

Variant forms

 * Garfinkle


 * John Garfield (born Garfinkle; 1913–1952), American actor
 * Norton Garfinkle (born 1931), American economist
 * Richard Garfinkle (born 1961), American science-fiction author


 * Garfinckel
 * Julius Garfinckel (born Garfinkel; 1872–1936), American merchant, founder of Washington, D.C., based department store chain, Garfinckel's


 * Gurfinkel
 * David Gurfinkel (born 1938), Israeli cinematographer
 * Goldie Steinberg (née Gurfinkel), Moldovan-born American supercentenarian
 * Josefa Gurfinkel (1919–1997), Soviet chess master
 * Yisrael Guri (born Gurfinkel; 1893–1965), Russian-born Israeli politician


 * Gorfinkel
 * Jordan B. Gorfinkel, aka "Gorf," (born July 7, 1967), American comic book creator, newspaper cartoonist, animation and multi-media entertainment producer.