Mahler (surname)

Mahler is a German occupational surname. Mahler was a variant spelling of Maler ("painter"), particularly a stained glass painter.

The name most often refers to Gustav Mahler, Bohemian-Austrian composer and conductor. His family included:


 * Alma Mahler-Werfel (1879–1964), Austrian socialite and wife of, successively, Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel
 * Anna Mahler (1904–1988), Austrian-UK sculptor, daughter of Gustav and Alma Mahler
 * Fritz Mahler (1901–1973), Austrian conductor, and cousin once removed of Gustav Mahler
 * Otto Mahler (1873–1895), Bohemian-Austrian musician and youngest brother of Gustav Mahler
 * Joseph Mahler (1900–1981), inventor of the Vectograph stereoscopic technique, cousin of Gustav Mahler
 * Zdeněk Mahler (1936–2018), Czech pedagogue, writer, publicist and musicologist, distantly related with Gustav Mahler

Other people named Mahler include:
 * Arthur Mahler (1871–1944), Austrian archeologist
 * Bruce Mahler (born 1950), American actor
 * Eduard Mahler (1857–1945), Hungarian-Austrian orientalist, astronomer, natural scientist
 * Fanny Mahler (1854–1942), Austrian pianist and music teacher
 * Gregory Mahler (born 1950), American political scientist
 * Henry Mahler (1921–1983), Austrian-American biochemist
 * Halfdan T. Mahler (1923–2016), Danish physician
 * Hedwig Courths-Mahler (1867–1950), German writer
 * Horst Mahler (born 1936), German lawyer and political extremist
 * Kurt Mahler (1903–1988), German-British mathematician
 * Margaret Mahler (1897–1985), Hungarian psychoanalytic child psychologist
 * Mickey Mahler (born 1952), American baseball player
 * Nicolas Mahler (born 1969) Austrian artist
 * Raphael Mahler (1899–1977), Jewish historian from Poland, America, and Israel
 * Rick Mahler (1953–2005), American baseball player
 * Thomas Mahler, Austrian game developer and founder of Moon Studios
 * Vincent A. Mahler (born 1949), American political scientist