Nussbaum

Nussbaum is a surname of German origin. Variant spellings include Nußbaum and Nusbaum. The word means "one who dwells near trees", likely referring to hazelnut trees or walnut trees.

People surnamed Nussbaum

 * A. Edward Nussbaum (1925–2009), theoretical mathematician
 * Adam Nussbaum (born 1955), American jazz drummer
 * Alan Nussbaum (born 1947), American linguist
 * Albert Frederick Nussbaum (1934–1996), bank robber and novelist
 * Alex Nussbaum, comedian, actor and writer
 * Arthur Nussbaum (1877–1964), German legal scholar
 * Barry D. Nussbaum, American statistician
 * Bernard Nussbaum (1937–2022), former White House Counsel under Bill Clinton
 * Emily Nussbaum, American television critic
 * Eugenie Nussbaum (1872–1940), Galician-Austrian philanthropist, writer and pedagogue developing and supporting Austrian girl education
 * Felicity Nussbaum, American professor of English
 * Felix Nussbaum (1904–1944), a Jewish German painter
 * Hedda Nussbaum, American author of a memoir, Surviving Intimate Terrorism
 * Howard Nusbaum (born 1954), American psychologist
 * Joe Nussbaum, American film director
 * Johann Nepomuk von Nussbaum (1829–1890), German surgeon
 * Lowell Nussbaum (1901–1987), journalist
 * Martha Nussbaum (born 1947), American philosopher
 * Mike Nussbaum (1923–2023), American actor and director
 * Myer Nussbaum (1855–1952), New York lawyer and politician
 * Paul Joseph Nussbaum (1870–1935), American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
 * Roger Nussbaum, American mathematician
 * Ronald Archie Nussbaum, American herpetologist
 * Theo Nussbaum (1885–1956), German architect
 * Tsvi C. Nussbaum (1935–2012), Holocaust survivor