Garfinkel is a Yiddish surname with variants Garfinkle, Garfinkiel, Garfinckel, Gurfinkel, Gorfinkel, Garfield etc. Notable people with the surname include:

• Alan Garfinkel, professor

• Charles B. Garfinkel (1890–1969), New York assemblyman

• Harold Garfinkel (1917–2011), American sociologist

• Jack Garfinkel (1918–2013), American basketball player

• Lenora Garfinkel (1930–2020), American architect

• Marian Garfinkel (1932–2020), American yoga practitioner who pioneered the use of yoga to treat carpal tunnel

• Simson Garfinkel (born 1965), American computer scientist, journalist and writer specializing in the field of computer security

• Yosef Garfinkel (born 1956), Israeli archaeologist

Garfield

• Andrew Garfield (born 1983), English and American actor

Other variant forms

1. Garfinkle

2. Eddie Garfinkle, American college football coach

3. John Garfield (born Garfinkle; 1913–1952), American actor

4. Norton Garfinkle (born 1931), American economist

5. Richard Garfinkle (born 1961), American science-fiction author

6. Garfinckel

7. Julius Garfinckel (born Garfinkel; 1872–1936), American merchant, founder of Washington, D.C.–based department store chain, Garfinckel's

8. Gurfinkel

9. David Gurfinkel (born 1938), Israeli cinematographer

10. Goldie Steinberg (née Gurfinkel), Moldovan-born American supercentenarian

11. Josefa Gurfinkel (1919–1997), Soviet chess master

12. Yisrael Guri (born Gurfinkel; 1893–1965), Russian-born Israeli politician

13. Gorfinkel

14. Jordan B. Gorfinkel, aka "Gorf," (born July 7, 1967), American comic book creator, newspaper cartoonist, animation and multi-media entertainment producer.

See also

• Garfunkel

• Finkelstein

• Finkel