Pfeiffer (surname)

Pfeiffer is a German-language occupational surname meaning "whistler" or "pipe-" or "fife-player" and etymologically akin to English Piper and Fifer; other spellings include Pfeifer. Notable people with the name include:

Arts

 * Alberta Pfeiffer (1899–1994), Illinois architect
 * Carl Pfeiffer (architect) (1834–1888), German-born NYC architect
 * Darrin Pfeiffer (born 1969), American musician
 * Dedee Pfeiffer (born 1964), American actress
 * Emil Pfeiffer (1846–1921), German physician
 * Emily Jane Pfeiffer (1827–1890), Welsh poet, philanthropist
 * Franz Pfeiffer (literary scholar) (1815–1868), German literary scholar
 * Georges Pfeiffer (1835–1908), French composer
 * Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797–1858), Austrian traveller and travel book author
 * Johann Pfeiffer (1697–1791), German violinist and composer
 * Kyle Pfeiffer (born 1990), American musician
 * Michael Traugott Pfeiffer (1771–1849), Swiss music pedagogue
 * Michelle Pfeiffer (born 1958), American actress
 * Paul Pfeiffer (artist) (born 1966), American video artist
 * Pauline Pfeiffer (1895–1951), American journalist and second wife of Ernest Hemingway

Military

 * Hermann Pfeiffer, German aviator and flying ace

Politics and government

 * Alois Pfeiffer (1924–1987), German trade unionist who served as a European Commissioner in the 1980s
 * Burkhard Wilhelm Pfeiffer (1777-1852), German jurist, magistrate, and liberal politician
 * Franz Georg Pfeiffer (1784-1856), German civil servant and legal scholar
 * Harry H. Pfeiffer (died 1970), American politician
 * Joachim Pfeiffer (born 1967), German politician (CDU)

Sciences

 * Carl Pfeiffer (pharmacologist) (1908–88), one of the founders of orthomolecular psychiatry
 * Carl Jonas Pfeiffer (1779-1836), German conchologist and banker
 * Ehrenfried Pfeiffer (1891–1961), biochemist active in the development of biodynamic agriculture
 * Emil Pfeiffer (1846-1921), German physician and pediatrician
 * George Adam Pfeiffer (1889–1943), American mathematician
 * Georgii Yurii Pfeiffer (1872–1946), Ukrainian mathematician
 * Louis Pfeiffer (1805–77), German physician, botanist and conchologist
 * Paul Pfeiffer (chemist) (1875–1951), German chemist
 * Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer, (1858–1945), German physician and bacteriologist
 * Rudolf Arthur Pfeiffer, German geneticist
 * Paul Pfeiffer (biopharmacist) (1972), American CEO and salesman

Sports

 * Darren Pfeiffer (born 1987), Australian football player

Fictional characters

 * Hans Pfeiffer, a character from the novel Die Feuerzangenbowle