Schneider
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Schneider ("tailor" in English; literally "someone who cuts", from the verb schneiden "to cut") is a very common family name in German.
People named Schneider
Notable people by this name include
- Bennett Schneider, several members of a family of US booksellers and clowns
- Christoph Schneider, German musician (Rammstein)
- Daniel Schneider (born 1966), US actor
- Florian Schneider (born 1947), German musician (Kraftwerk)
- Fred Schneider, gay singer (The B-52's)
- Helge Schneider, German comedian and Jazz musician
- Jerry Schneider (born 1951[?]), entrepreneur and crook
- Johann Gottlob Schneider (1750-1822), German classical scholar
- John Schneider (born 1950), classical guitarist
- John Schneider, US theatre artist
- John Schneider (born 1960), US television actor and musician (country music)
- Josef Schneider (1840-1927), first German electricity producer
- Kurt Schneider (1887-1967), German psychiatrist
- Lisa Dawn Schneider Art Dealer
- Magda Schneider, Austrian actress, mother of Romy Schneider
- Maria Schneider (born 1952), actress
- Maria Schneider (born 1960), US conductor and composer
- Maria Schneider, writer and cartoonist (The Onion)
- Rob Schneider (born 1963), comedian
- Romy Schneider (1938-1982), Austrian actress
- Stephen Schneider (born 1945[?]), US environmental biologist, Stanford
- Willy Schneider, German singer
- Wolfgang Schneider, mayor of Ballenstedt, Germany representing the FDP.
Other uses
- The word schneider is also used in card games such as sheepshead -- see Schneider (Sheepshead).
- Schneider, Indiana is a small town in the United States.
- Schneider Electric is a France-based company.
- Schneider Kreuznach is a German manufacturer of (among other things) lenses for Contax, Rollei, large-format and other cameras
- Schneider Trophy
- Gelfond-Schneider theorem
- Schneider (beer) is a Brazilian brand of beer.
- G. Schneider & Sohn is a Bavarian brewery