Wasserstein

Wasserstein is a surname and can refer to:


 * Abraham Wasserstein (1921–1995), a German-born British and Israeli classicist
 * Bernard Wasserstein (born 1948), a British historian
 * Bruce Wasserstein (1947–2009), an American former investment banker and former CEO of Lazard
 * Wendy Wasserstein (1950–2006), an American playwright
 * Leonid Nasonovich Vasershtein, a Russian-American mathematician

It is also used to name:
 * Wasserstein metric, a mathematical distance measure
 * Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, an investment bank, part of Dresdner Bank
 * Wasserstein Perella & Co., an investment bank built by Bruce Wasserstein and Joseph R. Perella