Pistorius is a surname. It is an occupational surname derived from the Latin word pistor (meaning miller or baker) and further Latinised by the suffix -ius. Pistor also appears as a surname.

The name corresponds in meaning to the Dutch surname Bakker and the German surnames Becker and Pfister.

Notable people with the surname

Pistorius

• Ashlee Pistorius (born 1985), American soccer player

• Boris Pistorius (born 1960), German politician

• Calie Pistorius (born 1958), South African electrical engineer

• Caren Pistorius (born 1990), New Zealand actress

• Charlotte Pistorius (1777–1850), German poet

• Christian Pistorius (1763/65–1823), German writer and translator

• (1796–1862), German artist

• Hermann Andreas Pistorius (1730–1798), German theologian and philosopher

• Johannes Pistorius (disambiguation), several people

• Martin Pistorius (born 1975), South African web designer and author

• Micki Pistorius (born 1961), South African forensic psychologist and author

• Oscar Pistorius (born 1986), South African double-amputee athlete and convicted murderer

• Stephen Pistorius, South African-Canadian academic and medical physicist

• Ursula Pistorius (1933–2015), German politician

Pistor

• Johann Jakob Pistor (1739–1814), German general who served in the Imperial Russian army

• Ludger Pistor (born 1959), German actor

• Maternus Pistor (1470–1534), Roman Catholic prelate

• Nestor Pistor, stage name of Don Ast, Canadian-Romanian comedian

See also

• H Pistorius & Co, a South African company

• Demian, a novel by Hermann Hesse, in which one of the characters is named Pistorius

• Pastorius (disambiguation)

References