Finkelstein ( or , , French: Finchelstein) is a German and Yiddish surname originating from Old High German funko (spark) and stein (stone).

Fünkelstein meant pyrite (George J. Adler, A Dictionary of the German and English Languages, 1848).

Notable people

Notable people with the surname include:

• Abraham Finkelstein alias Arthur Fields (1884–1953), American singer and songwriter

• Amy Finkelstein (born 1973), American professor of economics

• Anthony Finkelstein (born 1959), British software engineer

• Arthur J. Finkelstein (1945–2017), American political strategist

• Avram Finkelstein, American gay rights activist

• Ben-Ami Finkelstein (1910–1975), Swiss psychiatrist

• Bernie Finkelstein (born 1944), Canadian music executive and talent manager

• Beatrice Finkelstein, American nutritionist

• Claire Finkelstein, American legal scholar

• Clive Finkelstein (–2021), Australian computer scientist

• Daniel Finkelstein (born 1962), British journalist and politician

• David Finkelstein (1929–2016), American physicist

• Eric Finkelstein (born 1970), American health economist

• Federico Finchelstein (born 1975), Argentine historian

• Gabriel Finkelstein (born 1963), American professor of history

• Hans Finkelstein (1885–1938), German chemist

• Heinrich Finkelstein (1865–1942), German pediatrician

• Israel Finkelstein (born 1949), Israeli archaeologist

• Jacob Finkelstein alias Jackie Fields (1908–1987), American boxer

• Jerry Finkelstein (1916–2012), American publisher, businessman and political power broker

• Levana Finkelstein (born 1947), Israeli actress

• Louis Finkelstein (1895–1991), American Talmud scholar

• Louis Finkelstein (artist) (1923–2000), American painter and academic

• Max Finkelstein (1884–1940), American policeman from New York

• Meir Finkelstein, Israeli-American cantor and composer of Jewish liturgical music

• Mel Finkelstein, American photojournalist

• Menachem Finkelstein (born 1951), Israeli judge

• Mendel Finkelstein (c.1878–1949), Australian cinema entrepreneur, founder of the Greater Wondergraph Company

• Nat Finkelstein (1933–2009), American photographer and photojournalist

• Norman Finkelstein (born 1953), American political scientist and writer

• Norman H. Finkelstein (1941–2024), American author and educator

• Norman Finkelstein (poet) (born 1954), poet and writer

• Peter Max Finkelstein alias Peter Max (born 1937), American artist

• Raymond Finkelstein (born 1946), Australian lawyer and judge

• Salo Finkelstein (1896/7–unknown), Russian-American mental calculator

• Samuel Finkelstein (1895–1942), Polish painter

• Shimcha Finkelstein (1917–1987), Polish-Israeli table tennis player

• Sidney Finkelstein (1909–1974), American writer

• Tamara Finkelstein (born 1967), British civil servant

• Vic Finkelstein (1938–2011), South African-British disabled activist and writer

• William Zorach alias Finkelstein (1889–1966), Lithuanian-American sculptor, painter, printmaker and writer

See also

• Finkel

• Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates

• Finkelstein reaction, named after Hans Finkelstein

• Finkelstein's test, a method to diagnose DeQuervain's syndrome

• Garfinkel

• Garfunkel

References

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