Mendelssohn (surname)

The surname מענדעלסאן is transliterated to English as Mendelssohn, Mendelsson, Mendelson, or Mandelson. It is a common Polish/German Jewish surname. The variant spellings are used interchangeably, often even within a single family.

The name means son of Mendel ("Mendel's son"), or son of Menachem, as Mendel is a Yiddish diminutive of the Hebrew given name Menahem. מנחם Menachem itself means "consoling" or "one who consoles".

Mendelssohn

 * Mendelssohn family
 * Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786), philosopher, a significant figure in the Age of Enlightenment in Germany, and his descendants:
 * Joseph Mendelssohn (1770–1848), German Jewish banker, son of Moses, founder of Mendelssohn & Co.
 * Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1776–1835), German Jewish banker, son of Moses, father of Fanny and Felix
 * Brendel Mendelssohn (1763–1839), daughter of Moses, married (i) Simon Veit, (ii) Friedrich Schlegel
 * Fanny Mendelssohn (1805–1847), noted early Romantic composer and pianist, daughter of Abraham
 * Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847), noted early Romantic composer, son of Abraham
 * Rebecka Mendelssohn (1811–1858), daughter of Abraham, married Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805–1859), mathematician
 * Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1841–1880), chemist, son of Felix
 * Arnold Mendelssohn (1855–1933), great-grandson of Moses, German composer and music teacher
 * Anna Mendelssohn (1948–2009), British political activist and poet
 * Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn (1911–1952), British band leader
 * George Mendelssohn, founder of Vox Records in 1945
 * Heinrich Mendelssohn (1881–1959), German building tycoon
 * Kurt Mendelssohn (1906–1980), German-born British medical physicist
 * Vladimir Mendelssohn (1949–2021), Romanian composer, violist, and professor

Mendelsohn

 * Ben Mendelsohn (born 1969), Australian actor and musician
 * Carol Mendelsohn (born 1951), American TV writer
 * Carolyn Mendelsohn, English photographer
 * Daniel Mendelsohn (born 1960), American author and classics scholar
 * Erich Mendelsohn (1887–1953), Prussian architect
 * Everett Mendelsohn (1931–2023), American historian
 * Fred Mendelsohn (1917–2000), US promoter of black gospel music, president of Savoy Records
 * Jonathan Mendelsohn, Baron Mendelsohn (born 1966), British lobbyist and Labour political organiser
 * Matthew Mendelsohn (birthdate unknown), Canadian civil servant
 * Nathan Mendelsohn (1917–2006), Canadian mathematician
 * Nicola Mendelsohn (born 1971), British advertising executive
 * Robert Mendelsohn (disambiguation), multiple people

Mendelson

 * Curtis Lester Mendelson (1913–2002), American cardiologist who first described the pneumonia called Mendelson's syndrome
 * Elliott Mendelson (1931–2020), American logician, known for the Mendelson axiom schemata for propositional Logic
 * Mira Mendelson (1914–1968), Russian poet, second wife of Sergei Prokofiev
 * Paul Mendelson, British scriptwriter for television, film and radio
 * Phil Mendelson (born 1952), Washington, D.C., politician
 * Shari Mendelson (born 1961), American sculptor

Other spellings

 * Ben Mandelson (born 1953), English world musician
 * Peter Mandelson (born 1953), British Labour politician
 * Nathan Menderson (1820–1904), German-born American business executive and baseball executive