Schneider (surname)
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Schneider (German for "tailor"; literally "someone who cuts," from the verb schneiden "to cut") is a very common family name in Germany[1].
Notable people by this name include:
- Alexander Schneider, classical musician
- Bernd Schneider (football), German footballer
- Bernd Schneider (racecar driver), German racing driver
- Bert Schneider, American film producer
- Brent Schneider, former quarterback of the Saskatchewan Huskies
- Brian Schneider , Major League Baseball Player
- Camillo Karl Schneider (1876-1951), German botanist
- Christoph "Doom" Schneider, German musician (Rammstein)
- Dan Schneider (born 1966), US actor
- Eddie August Schneider (1910-1940), American aviator
- Erich Schneider (1900-1970), German economist
- Florian Schneider-Esleben (born 1947), German musician (Kraftwerk)
- Fred Schneider, American singer (The B-52's)
- Helen Schneider, US-American vocalist and actress
- Helge Schneider, German comedian and Jazz musician
- Gary Schneider, Opera conductor (1956--)
- Jerry Schneider (born 1951[?]), entrepreneur and crook
- Johann Gottlob Schneider (1750-1822), German classical scholar
- Johannes Schneider (1890-1955), Austrian skiing pioneer
- John Schneider (born 1950), classical guitarist
- John Schneider, US theatre artist
- John Schneider (born 1960), US television actor and country musician
- Josef Schneider (1840-1927), first German electricity producer
- John R. Schneider, (1937-2002), former American politician.
- Joseph Eugène Schneider (1805-1875), French politician
- Julius Schneider, Canadian olympic boxer of the 1920s
- Karl Schneider (1892–1945), German architect
- Karl Heinz Schneider, a fictional character in the manga Captain Tsubasa
- Kjell Schneider (1976-), German beach volleyball player
- Kurt Schneider (1887-1967), German psychiatrist
- Kurt Schneider (1888-1917), German WWI flying ace
- Maria Schneider (born 1952), actress
- Maria Schneider (born 1960), US conductor and composer
- Maria Schneider, writer and cartoonist (The Onion)
- Mathieu Schneider (born 1969), professional hockey player.
- Phil Schneider (April 23, 1947 - January 1996) geologist, conspiracy theorist
- Reinhold Schneider (1903–1958), German author
- Rob Schneider (born 1963), comedian
- Robert Schneider, musician
- Romy Schneider (1938-1982), Austrian actress
- Roy Scheider American actor
- Stephen Schneider (born 1945[?]), US climatologist and environmental biologist, Stanford
- Vreni Schneider, Swiss alpine skier
- Wally Schneider (1925-1990), Teacher & creator/host of the jazz radio program, "The Good Sounds"
- Willy Schneider, German singer
- Wolfgang Schneider, mayor of Ballenstedt, Germany representing the FDP