Pfeifer (family name)
Pfeifer is a German family name .
Origin and meaning
Pfeifer can be derived from the job title, see Pfeifer (musician) .
Name bearer
A.
- Adam Pfeifer (1902–1944 / 45), German resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Albert Pfeifer (1919–1943), Austrian-German ski racer
- Albert Pfeifer (publisher) (? –1964), German newspaper publisher
- Alfred Pfeifer (* 1946), Austrian singer, director and lecturer in rhetoric
- Andreas Pfeifer (* 1985), Austrian floorball player
- Annemarie Pfeifer (* 1954), Swiss psychologist, author and politician (EPP)
- Anton Pfeifer (* 1937), German politician (CDU)
- Arthur Pfeifer (1878–1962), German architect, see Architects Pfeifer and Großmann
- Arthur Pfeifer (1884–1976), German educator
- August Pfeifer (1877–1919), German Jesuit, theologian and philosopher
B.
- Bernd Pfeifer (* 1955), German soccer coach
- Bernhard Pfeifer (1834–1861), German telegraph engineer
C.
- Carl J. Pfeifer (1929–2007), American Catholic clergyman, theologian, author, and publicist
- Cathrin Pfeifer is a German accordion player
D.
- Dieter Pfeifer (1946–2011), German basketball player
- Dietmar Pfeifer (soccer player) (1940-2010), German soccer player and coach
- Dietmar Pfeifer (mathematician) (* 1953), German mathematician and university professor
E.
- Emil Pfeifer (1806–1889), German entrepreneur
- Erik Pfeifer (* 1987), German boxer
- Ernst Pfeifer (1862–1948), German sculptor
F.
- Felicitas Pfeifer (* before 1955), German biologist and university professor
- Felix Pfeifer (1871–1945), German sculptor and medalist
- Ferdinand Pfeifer (1854–1894), German architect
- Franz Julius Pfeifer (1832–1897), Bohemian-Austrian agronomist and politician
- Franz Xaver Pfeifer (1829–1902), German Catholic clergyman, theologian and philosopher
- Friedl Pfeifer (1911–1995), Austrian ski racer
- Friedrich Pfeifer (1876–1946), German entrepreneur, local researcher and museum founder
- Fritz Pfeifer (resistance fighter) (1914–1945), German resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Fritz Pfeifer , birth name of Fritz Straßner (1919–1993), German actor
G
- Gerhard Pfeifer (oral surgeon) (1921–2003), German oral surgeon
- Gerhard Pfeifer (theologian) (* 1923), German theologian
- Gottfried Pfeifer (1901–1985), German geographer and university professor
- Guido Pfeifer (* 1968), German legal scholar
- Günter Pfeifer (* 1943), German architect
- Günter Pfeifer (lawyer) (* 1952), German lawyer and university professor
H
- Hadwig Pfeifer-Lantschner (1906–2002), Austrian-German ski racer
- Hanns Pfeifer (1902–1989), German draftsman
- Hans Pfeifer (building officer) (1849–1931), German senior building officer and specialist author
- Hans Pfeifer (local history researcher) (* 1929), German teacher and local history researcher
- Hans Pfeifer (clarinetist) (1934–2019), German clarinetist and university professor
- Hans H. Pfeifer (* 1948), German politician (SPD)
- Hans-Rudolf Pfeifer (* 1949), Swiss hydrogeologist and university professor
- Hans-Wolfgang Pfeifer (1931–2002), German publisher
- Harry Pfeifer (1929–2008), German physicist
- Heinrich Pfeifer (publisher, 1837) (1837–1911), Bohemian-Austrian publisher
- Heinrich Pfeifer (publisher, 1862) (1862–1936), Austro-Czech publisher and gymnastics official
- Heinrich Pfeifer (1905–1949), German secret service agent
- Helfried Pfeifer (1896–1970), Austrian politician (VdU / FPÖ) and university professor
- Hellmuth Pfeifer (1894–1945), German officer, most recently lieutenant general in World War II
- Helmut Pfeifer (1922–2006), German dentist and surgeon
- Henrik Pfeifer (* 1968), German photographer, director and screenwriter
- Herman Pfeifer (1879–1931), American painter and illustrator
- Hermann Pfeifer (1928–2000), German manufacturer
- Hermann Ludwig Pfeifer (1859–1940), German ornament researcher and professor of architecture
I.
- Ignácz Pfeifer (1867–1941), Hungarian chemist
J
- Jens Pfeifer (* 1976), German filmmaker
- Johann Pfeifer (lyric poet) (1820–1888), Austrian poet
- Johann Pfeifer (entrepreneur) (1833–1909), German entrepreneur
- Jörg Pfeifer (* 1952), German athlete
- Josef Pfeifer (painter, 1776) (1776–1841), Austrian painter
- Josef Pfeifer (painter, 1800) (1800–1874), Austrian painter
- Josef Pfeifer (politician, 1887) (1887–1971), Austrian politician (SPÖ)
- Josef Pfeifer (politician, 1933) (* 1933), Austrian politician (SPÖ)
- Josef Pfeifer (politician, 1942) (* 1942), Austrian politician (SPÖ)
- Joseph L. Pfeifer (1892–1974), American politician
- Joseph W. Pfeifer (* before 1960), American firefighter and university professor
- Josip Pfeifer (1835–1906), Austrian local historian and administrative officer
- Judith Nika Pfeifer (* 1975), Austrian author
- Julius Pfeifer (1864–1934), Austro-Czech industrialist
- Julius Anton Pfeifer (1834–1906), Bohemian-Austrian industrialist and member of the state parliament
K
- Karl Pfeifer (painter) (1900–1983), German painter
- Karl Pfeifer (politician) (1911–2003), German politician (DP), Member of the Bundestag
- Karl Pfeifer (journalist) (* 1928), Austrian journalist
- Karl Pfeifer (actor) (* 1953), Austrian actor and cabaret artist
- Katharina Krawagna-Pfeifer (* 1956), Austrian journalist
- Klaus Pfeifer (* 1964), German sports scientist and university professor
- Klaus-Jürgen Pfeifer (* 1943), German radiologist
- Klaus-Peter Pfeifer (* 1954), German church musician, conductor, singer and singing teacher
L.
- Ludwig Pfeifer (1908–1970), resistance fighter against National Socialism, German politician (SPD), district administrator of the Dieburg district
- Ludwig Pfeifer (clergyman) (1908–1979), German Catholic clergyman, prelate and Regens
M.
- Manfred Pfeifer (1934–2003), German soccer player
- Marc-Nicolai Pfeifer (* 1980), German football manager
- Martin Pfeifer (Germanist) (1928–1994), German Germanist and literary scholar
- Martin Pfeifer (soccer player) (* 1979), Austrian soccer player
- Martin Pfeifer (floorball player) (* 1984), Austrian floorball player
- Melanie Pfeifer (* 1986), German canoeist
- Michael David Pfeifer (* 1937), American clergyman, Bishop of San Angelo
- Michael F. Pfeifer (* 1970), Austrian association official
O
- Olga Pfeifer (* 1973), German basketball player
- Otto Pfeifer (1914–1999), Swiss photographer
P
- Paul Pfeifer (engineer) (1858 – after 1892), German engineer and professor of railway construction
- Paul Pfeifer (Lawyer) ( Paul E. Pfeifer ; * 1942), American lawyer and politician
- Peter Pfeifer (chemist) (* 1939), German chemist, didactician and university lecturer
- Peter Pfeifer (engineer) (* 1970), German engineer, chemist and university professor
R.
- Richard Pfeifer ( Richard Arwed Pfeifer ; 1877–1957), German physician and brain researcher
- Roland Pfeifer (* 1964), Austrian ski racer and trainer
- Rolf Pfeifer (* 1947), Swiss computer scientist
- Rudolf Pfeifer (entrepreneur) (1862–1926), Austro-Czech entrepreneur
- Rudolf Pfeifer (writer) (1875–1935), Austrian bank manager and writer
S.
- Sabine Pfeifer (* 1980), German-Dutch singer, presenter and actress
- Samuel Pfeifer (* 1952), Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist
- Scott Pfeifer (* 1977), Canadian curler
- Sebastian Pfeifer (1898–1982), German ornithologist
- Stefan Pfeifer (* 1998), Austrian soccer player
- Stefan Pfeifer-Galilea (* 1961), German jazz musician
T
- Tadeus Pfeifer (1949–2010), Swiss writer
- Theo Pfeifer (* 1953), German actor
- Theodor Pfeifer (1867–1916), Bohemian-Austrian internist
- Thomas Pfeifer (* 1977), German physicist
- Tilo Pfeifer (* 1939), German engineer and university professor for production metrology and quality management
- Tobias Pfeifer-Helke (* 1971), German art historian and curator
U
- Ulrich Pfeifer (* 1935), German escape helper
- Uwe Pfeifer (* 1947), German painter and graphic artist
V
- Valentin Pfeifer (merchant) (1763–1840), German merchant and shipowner
- Valentin Pfeifer (entrepreneur) (1837–1909), German entrepreneur
- Valentin Pfeifer (local researcher) (1886–1964), German teacher, folklorist and local writer
- Viktor Pfeifer (* 1987), Austrian figure skater
W.
- Walter Pfeifer (radiologist) (1910–1970), German doctor and radiologist
- Walter Pfeifer (journalist) (1930 / 1931–2019), German journalist
- Walter Pfeifer (conductor) (* 1945), German conductor
- Werner Pfeifer (architect) (1919–1972), German architect
- Werner Pfeifer (actor) (1929-2016), German actor
- Werner Pfeifer (soccer player) (* 1941), German soccer player
- Wilhelm Pfeifer (1913–1999), German lawyer, politician (CDU) and author
- Wolfgang Pfeifer (etymologist) (* 1922–2020), German Germanist and linguist
- Wolfgang Pfeifer (soccer player) (* 1935), German soccer player
- Wolfgang Pfeifer (oenologist) (1952 / 1953– 2020), German oenologist
- Wolfgang Pfeifer (politician) (* 1946), German politician (CDU), MdL Saxony