Reiss (name)
Reiss is a surname of Old German origin, and was most commonly used by Ashkenazic Jewish people as a metonymic occupational name for a dealer in rice (Yiddish רײַז), or as an ornamental name from the Old High German word Reis ‘twig,’ ‘branch.’
The surname Reisman is a variant.
People named Reiss
- Abraham Joseph Reiss, officially the first ordained rabbi of the United States
- Anya Reiss, British playwright
- Bob Reiss, American author
- Chen Reiss, Israeli opera singer
- Clotilde Reiss, French student held hostage in Iran from 2009-2010
- Dani Reiss, CEO of the Canadian company Canada Goose
- David Reiss, British fashion retail store founder of Reiss (brand)
- David Reiss, American Social Psychologist
- Elayne Reiss-Weimann, Elementary school teacher and co-creator (with Rita Friedman) of The Letter People
- Ellen Reiss, chair of the Aesthetic Realism Foundation
- Ephraim Cohen-Reiss, 20th century founder of the first Hebrew school system in Palestine and the Levant
- Eric Reiss, American author
- Hugo Reiss, former consul of Brazil in Shanghai, and father of Jane Engelhard
- James Reiss, American poet
- Ignace Reiss, alias of Soviet spy Ignace Poretsky
- Ira Reiss, American sociologist and sexuality researcher
- Johanna Reiss, Dutch-American writer and Holocaust survivor
- Katharina Reiss, translation scholar
- L. W. Reiss, former Virginia Tech college football coach
- Lionel S. Reiss, Polish-American artist, famous for his depictions of "Jewish Life"
- Louise Reiss, American physician who coordinated the "Baby Tooth Survey."
- Manfred Reiss, Polish-British artist
- Michael Reiss, British bioethicist, educator, and former Director of Education at the Royal Society
- Mike Reiss, American television writer (The Simpsons)
- Mitchell Reiss, American diplomat
- Paul Reiss, educator
- Piotr Reiss, Polish footballer
- Spencer Reiss, American journalist
- Tom Reiss, American author and journalist
- Uzzi Reiss, Israeli-American physician, pioneering gynecologist, and antiaging specialist
- Vivian Reiss, New York artist
- Winold Reiss, German-American artist
- Yona Reiss, American rabbi and director of the Beth Din of America, the largest rabbinical court in the United States
- Zeev Reiss Israeli micropaleontologist and geologist
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