Oppenheimer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

In arts and media

Alan Oppenheimer Alan Oppenheimer (born April 23, 1930) is an American actor. He has performed numerous roles on live action television since the 1960s, and he has had an active career doing voice work since the 1970s. Early life Oppenheimer was born in New Yor ...

(born 1930), American film actor * Andrés Oppenheimer (born 1951), Argentine author and journalist known for his analysis of Latin American politics *

Jerry Oppenheimer Jerry Oppenheimer is an American author who has written several unauthorized biographies of public figures including Hillary and Bill Clinton, Anna Wintour, Rock Hudson, Martha Stewart, Barbara Walters, Ethel Kennedy, Jerry Seinfeld and the Hilto ...

, American biographer *

Jess Oppenheimer Jessurun James Oppenheimer (November 11, 1913 – December 27, 1988) was an American radio and television writer, producer, and director. He was the producer and head writer of the CBS sitcom ''I Love Lucy''. Lucille Ball called Oppenheime ...

(1913–1988), American radio and television writer, producer, and director, creator of ''I Love Lucy'' * Joel Oppenheimer (1930–1988), American writer *

Joshua Oppenheimer Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer (born September 23, 1974) is an American-British film director based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is known for his Oscar-nominated films ''The Act of Killing'' (2012) and ''The Look of Silence'' (2014), Oppenheimer was ...

(born 1974), American film director *

Lillian Oppenheimer Lillian Rose Vorhaus Kruskal Oppenheimer (October 24, 1898 in New York City – July 24, 1992) was an American origami pioneer. She popularized origami in the West starting in the 1950s, and is credited with popularizing the Japanese term ''origami ...

(1898–1992), American origami pioneer * Max Oppenheimer (1885–1954), Austrian painter and graphic artist *

Stephen Oppenheimer Stephen Oppenheimer (born 1947) is a British paediatrician, geneticist, and writer. He is a graduate of Balliol College, Oxford and an honorary fellow of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. In addition to his work in medicine and tropica ...

(born 1947), British paediatrician, geneticist, and writer on genetics and human prehistory

In business

Minerals

* Bernard Oppenheimer (1866–1921), South African and British diamond merchant and philanthropist, brother of Ernest *

Ernest Oppenheimer Sir Ernest Oppenheimer (22 May 1880 – 25 November 1957), KStJ was a diamond and gold mining entrepreneur, financier and philanthropist, who controlled De Beers and founded the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa. Career Ernest Oppenhe ...

(1880–1957), diamond and gold mining entrepreneur and financier; controlled De Beers and founded the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa, brother of Bernard * Harry Frederick Oppenheimer (1908–2000), South African businessman of De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited, son of Ernest * Nicky Oppenheimer (born 1945), chairman of De Beers and of The Diamond Trading Company, son of Harry

Other businesses

Damon Oppenheimer Damon T. Oppenheimer (born 1962) is Vice President and Director of Amateur Scouting for the New York Yankees. Playing career Oppenheimer attended the University of Southern California (USC), where he played college baseball as a catcher for the USC ...

(born 1962), Vice President and Director of Amateur Scouting for the New York Yankees *

Joseph Süß Oppenheimer Joseph Süß Oppenheimer (1698? – February 4, 1738) was a German Jewish banker and court Jew for Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg in Stuttgart. Throughout his career, Oppenheimer made scores of powerful enemies, some of whom conspired to ...

(1698–1738), financial adviser to Karl Alexander, Duke of Württemberg * Samuel Oppenheimer (1635–1703), Jewish banker * Peter Oppenheimer, American business executive, first CFO of Apple Inc

In government and law

Charles Cuprill Oppenheimer Charles Cuprill Oppenheimer (September 12, 1916 – October 7, 2011) was a lawyer, Rotary District Governor for Puerto Rico, a war veteran, and a retired major general in the Puerto Rico National Guard. Background On September 12, 1916 C ...

(1916–2011), lawyer and Rotary District Governor for Puerto Rico *

David Oppenheimer David Oppenheimer (January 1, 1834 – December 31, 1897) was a successful entrepreneur, the second mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, and a National Historic Person of Canada. Early life David Oppenheimer was born in Blieskastel, then in th ...

(1834–1897), second mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada *

Kay Oppenheimer Kay Oppenheimer is a Democratic member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives The New Hampshire House of Representatives is the lower house in the New Hampshire General Court, the bicameral legislature of the state of New Hampshire. ...

, member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives *

Santiago Oppenheimer Santiago Oppenheimer Van RhynAccording to Fay Fowlie de Flores (''Ponce, Perla del Sur: Una Bibliográfica Anotada.'' Second Edition. 1997. Ponce, Puerto Rico: Universidad de Puerto Rico en Ponce. p. 330. Item 1650. ), Santiago Oppenheimer's se ...

(1869 – ca. 1930), mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, in 1906 *

Suzi Oppenheimer Suzanne "Suzi" Oppenheimer (born December 13, 1934) is an American politician from New York, who served from 1985 to 2012 in the New York State Senate. Early life and education Oppenheimer was born on December 13, 1934, in New York City. She at ...

(born 1934), New York politician

In science and academia

Clive Oppenheimer Clive Oppenheimer (born 1964) is a British volcanologist, and Professor of Volcanology in the Department of Geography of the University of Cambridge. Education Oppenheimer studied the Natural Sciences Tripos at the University of Cambridge wher ...

(born 1964), British volcanologist * Daniel M. Oppenheimer, American professor of psychology at UCLA *

Frank Oppenheimer Frank Friedman Oppenheimer (August 14, 1912 – February 3, 1985) was an American particle physicist, cattle rancher, professor of physics at the University of Colorado, and the founder of the Exploratorium in San Francisco. A younger brother ...

(1912–1985), American physicist, brother of J. Robert Oppenheimer, founder of the Exploratorium in San Francisco *

Franz Oppenheimer Franz Oppenheimer (March 30, 1864 – September 30, 1943) was a German Jewish sociologist and political economist, who published also in the area of the fundamental sociology of the state. Life and career After studying medicine in Freiburg and ...

(1864–1943), German sociologist and political economist *

Hillel Oppenheimer Hillel Oppenheimer ( he, הלל אופנהיימר, born Heinz Reinhard Oppenheimer; 4 April 1899 – 15 June 1971), was an Israeli professor of botany. Biography Hillel Oppenheimer was born in Berlin, Germany. His father was Franz Oppenheimer, ...

(1899–1971), Israeli professor of botany, son of Franz *

Jane M. Oppenheimer Jane Marion Oppenheimer (1911–1996) was an American embryologist and historian of science. Early life, interests, and education Oppenheimer was born in Philadelphia, the only child of James H. Oppenheimer and Sylvia Stern. Her father, a phys ...

(1911–1996), American embryologist and historian of science *

J. Robert Oppenheimer J. Robert Oppenheimer (; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist. A professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, Oppenheimer was the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory and is often ...

(1904–1967), American physicist who headed the Manhattan Project, known as the "Father of the Atomic Bomb" *

Katherine Oppenheimer Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer ( Puening; August 8, 1910 – October 27, 1972) was a German American biologist, botanist, and a member of the Communist Party of America. She is best known as the common-law wife of activist Joe Dallet, and then the ...

(1910–1972), German-American biologist, wife of J. Robert Oppenheimer * Michael Oppenheimer, American professor of geosciences at Princeton University, authority on climate change *

Rebecca Oppenheimer Rebecca Oppenheimer is an American astrophysicist and one of four curator/professors in the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Oppenheimer is a comparative exoplanetary sci ...

(born 1972), American astrophysicist *

(born 1947), British popular science writer in prehistory

In other fields

(born 1962), Vice President and Director of Amateur Scouting for the New York Yankees *

David Oppenheim (rabbi) David Oppenheim (1664 – 12 September 1736) was the chief rabbi of Nikolsburg in 1689 and later of Prague. His book collection constitutes an important part of the Hebrew section of the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Personal background Oppenheim ...

(1664–1736), also called Oppenheimer, rabbi of Prague and bibliophile * Isabel la Negra (1901–1974), also known as Isabel Luberza Oppenheimer, Puerto Rican criminal * Joseph Oppenheimer (1820–1893), German-British businessman and inventor of telegraphic equipment * Josh Oppenheimer (born 1970), Israeli-American basketball coach, and former basketball player * Thomas Oppenheimer (born 1988), German ice hockey player

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