Mendelssohn (surname)

People

Mendelssohn

• Mendelssohn family
• *Moses Mendelssohn, philosopher, a significant figure in the Age of Enlightenment in Germany, and his descendants:
• * Joseph Mendelssohn, German Jewish banker, son of Moses, founder of Mendelssohn & Co.
• * Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy, German Jewish banker, son of Moses, father of Fanny and Felix
• * Dorothea Mendelssohn, daughter of Moses, married Simon Veit, Friedrich von Schlegel
• * Fanny Mendelssohn, noted early Romantic composer and pianist, daughter of Abraham
• * Felix Mendelssohn, noted early Romantic composer, son of Abraham
• * Rebecka Mendelssohn, daughter of Abraham, married Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, mathematician
• * Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy, chemist, son of Felix
• * Arnold Mendelssohn, great-grandson of Moses, German composer and music teacher
• Anna Mendelssohn, British political activist and poet
• Carol Mendelsohn, American TV writer
• Daniel Mendelsohn, American author and classics scholar
• Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn, British band leader
• George Mendelssohn, founder of Vox Records in 1945
• Heinrich Mendelssohn, German building tycoon
• Kurt Mendelssohn, German-born British medical physicist

  Mendelsohn

• Ben Mendelsohn, Australian actor and musician
• Carolyn Mendelsohn, English photographer
• Erich Mendelsohn, Prussian architect
• Fred Mendelsohn, US promoter of black gospel music, president of Savoy Records
• Jonathan Mendelsohn, Baron Mendelsohn, British lobbyist and Labour political organiser
• Matthew Mendelsohn, Canadian civil servant
• Nathan Mendelsohn, Canadian mathematician
• Nicola Mendelsohn, British advertising executive
• Robert S. Mendelsohn, pediatrician and critic of medical paternalism

  Mendelson

• Elliott Mendelson, an American logician, famous for Mendelson axiom schemata for Propositional Logic
• Curtis Lester Mendelson, who first described the pneumonia called Mendelson's syndrome
• Paul Mendelson, scriptwriter for television, film and radio
• Phil Mendelson, Washington, D.C., politician
• Shari Mendelson, American sculptor.