Nussbaum
Nussbaum is a surname of German origin. The correct German spelling is Nußbaum; a variant spelling used in other languages is Nusbaum. The word literally means "nut tree", a generic term which could refer to hazelnut trees or walnut trees.
People surnamed Nussbaum
- A. Edward Nussbaum (1925–2009), theoretical mathematician
- Adam Nussbaum (born 1955), American jazz drummer
- Alan Nussbaum (born 1947), American linguist
- Albert Frederick Nussbaum (1934–1996), bank robber and novelist
- Alex Nussbaum, comedian, actor and writer
- Arthur Nussbaum (1877–1964), German legal scholar
- Bernard W. Nussbaum (born 1937), former White House Counsel under Bill Clinton
- Emily Nussbaum, American television critic
- Eugenie Nussbaum (1872–1940), Galician-Austrian philanthropist, writer and pedagogue developing and supporting Austrian girl education
- Felix Nussbaum (1904–1944), a Jewish German painter
- Hedda Nussbaum, American masochist and child abuser, author of a memoir, Surviving Intimate Terrorism
- Howard Nusbaum (born 1954), American psychologist
- Joe Nussbaum, American film director
- Johann Nepomuk von Nussbaum (1829–1890), German surgeon
- Lowell Nussbaum (1901–1987), journalist
- Martha Nussbaum (born 1947), American philosopher
- Mike Nussbaum (born 1923), American actor and director
- Myer Nussbaum (1855–1952), New York lawyer and politician
- Paul Joseph Nussbaum (1870–1935), American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
- Theo Nussbaum (1885–1956), German architect
- Tsvi C. Nussbaum (born 1935), Holocaust survivor
See also
- Nußbaum, a village in the Bad Kreuznach district in the Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
- Nusbaum is a municipality in the district Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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