Sassoon (name)

Sassoon as a name may refer to:

Surname
Sassoon family, a Jewish business family originating in Baghdad, Iraq, including:
 * David Sassoon (David Ben Sassoon) (1792–1864)
 * Sir Albert Abdullah David Sassoon (1818–1896), 1st Baronet of Kensington Gore, married Hannah Moses, daughter of Meyer Moses.
 * Flora (Farha) Abraham (1856–1936), married Solomon David Sassoon (1841–1894) (see below)
 * Sir Edward Sassoon (1856–1912), 2nd Baronet of Kensington Gore.
 * Sir Philip Sassoon (1888–1939), 3rd Baronet of Kensington Gore
 * Sybil Cholmondeley, Marchioness of Cholmondeley (1894–1989)
 * Elias David Sassoon (1820–1880), businessman
 * Jacob Elias Sassoon (1844–1916), first Baronet
 * Sir Edward Elias Sassoon (1853–1924), 2nd Baronet of Bombay
 * Sir Victor Sassoon (Ellice) (1881–1961), 3rd Baronet
 * Sassoon David Sassoon (1832–1867), British Indian merchant
 * James Sassoon (born 1955), British businessman and government minister.
 * Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967), poet.
 * George Sassoon (1936–2006), English scientist, electronic engineer, linguist, translator and author.
 * Reuben David Sassoon (1835–1905).
 * Arthur Sassoon (1840–1912)
 * Solomon David Sassoon (1841–1894)
 * David Suleiman Sassoon (1880–1942) married Selina Sophie Prins, a granddaughter of Eliezer Liepman Philip Prins
 * Rabbi Solomon David Sassoon (1915–1985), Talmudic scholar and writer
 * Rabbi Isaac S.D. Sassoon, Sephardic Orthodox rabbi
 * Frederick David Sassoon (1853–1917), married the daughter of Edward L. Raphael.

Not part of the above family tree:
 * Kathryn Harrison (born 1961), American writer, descended from the Sassoon family via her grandmother
 * Rosemary Sassoon (born 1931), creator of the Sassoon series of typefaces
 * Vidal Sassoon (1928–2012), English hairdresser and businessman
 * Catya Sassoon (1968–2002), American actress
 * David Sassoon (designer) (born 1932)

Given name

 * Sassoon David Sassoon (1832–1867), British Indian merchant (see surname section above)
 * Sassoon Eskell (1860–1932), Iraqi statesman and financier regarded in Iraq as the Father of Parliament
 * Sir Sassoon David, 1st Baronet (1849–1926), Iraqi-born Indian businessman and statesman