Courvoisier (surname)

The surname Courvoisier or de Courvoisier may refer to:

Ludwig Georg Courvoisier (1843–1918), a Swiss surgeon
Fritz Courvoisier
Leopold Courvoisier
Jean Joseph Antoine de Courvoisier
René Courvoisier
François Benjamin Courvoisier (d.1840), valet and murderer of Lord William Russell (1767–1840)
Sylvie Courvoisier

Surnames associated with the occupations of cobbler/shoemaker/cordwainer

Celtic	Quéré Gracie, Grassie, Grassick

Germanic	Schumacher, Schuhmacher, Schumaker, Shoemaker, Schoemaker, Shoemark, Schuster, Shuster (from Schuster), Knef Schoenmaker, Schoenmakers, Schoonmaker from Latin "sutor": Suter, Sutter, Souter, Sauter, Sutar, Soutar, Souttar

Romance	Sutor DeSutter, De Sutter, DeZuter, DeZutter, De Zutter De Soto, DeSoto, de Soto, Desoto Scarpa, Scarponi, Calzolaro, Calligaris, Calegari, Chaucer, Zangari Cordonnier, Courvoisier, Corviser, Corvisier, Sabatier Crispino Sapateiro, Zapatero Ciubotaru, Ciubotariu (borrowing from Slavic)

Slavic	Chebotar, Chebotaryov (Tschebotarioff), Chebotarenko Čizmar, Čižmár, Cizmar, Čižman Łatacz Sapozhnikov, Sapozhnik, Bashmachnikov Shvets, Shevchenko, Shevchuk, Shevtsov, Shautsov, Švec, Ševčík (Sevcik, Shevchik), Szewczyk, Sheuchyk Šuštar (from Schuster) Kopitar

Other	"Sandlar" (סנדלר) ("sandal-maker"): HaSandlar, Sandler, Zandler Suutari Kingsepp Varga Csizmadia

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