Garfinkel

Garfinkel is a Yiddish surname with variants Garfinkle, Garfinckel, Gurfinkel, Gorfinkel, Garfield etc. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Charles B. Garfinkel (1890–1969), New York assemblyman
  • Harold Garfinkel (1917–2011), American sociologist
  • Jack Garfinkel (1918–2013), American basketball player
  • Lenora Garfinkel (1930–2020), American architect
  • Marian Garfinkel (1932–2020), American yoga practitioner who pioneered the use of yoga to treat carpal tunnel
  • Simson Garfinkel (born 1965), American computer scientist, journalist and writer specializing in the field of computer security
  • Yosef Garfinkel (born 1956), Israeli archaeologist

Variant forms

Garfinkle
  • John Garfield (born Garfinkle; 1913–1952), American actor
  • Norton Garfinkle (born 1931), American economist
  • Richard Garfinkle (born 1961), American science-fiction author
Garfinckel
  • Julius Garfinckel (born Garfinkel; 1872–1936), American merchant, founder of Washington, D.C., based department store chain, Garfinckel's
Gurfinkel
  • David Gurfinkel (born 1938), Israeli cinematographer
  • Goldie Steinberg (née Gurfinkel), Moldovan-born American supercentenarian
  • Josefa Gurfinkel (1919–1997), Soviet chess master
  • Yisrael Guri (born Gurfinkel; 1893–1965), Russian-born Israeli politician
Gorfinkel
  • Jordan B. Gorfinkel, aka "Gorf," (born July 7, 1967), American comic book creator, newspaper cartoonist, animation and multi-media entertainment producer.

See also

Surname list
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