Schachter, Schächter or Schechter (from Yiddish shochet, 'to slaughter'.

Hebrew Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...

:שכטר also Shechter) is a Yiddish and German surname. Notable people with the surname include:

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Daniel Schacter Daniel Lawrence Schacter (born June 17, 1952) is an American psychologist. He is a Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. His research has focused on psychological and biological aspects of human memory and amnesia, with a particular empha ...

, psychologist, neuroscientist, researcher in human memory * Binyumen Schaechter, composer, arranger, conductor * Carl Schachter, music theorist specializing in Schenkerian analysis * Hershel Schachter, Rosh Yeshiva at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary * Hershel Schacter * Joshua Schachter, creator of the website ''Delicious'' * Mioara Mugur-Schächter, French specialist on Physics and Epistemology *

Norm Schachter Dr. Norm Schachter (April 30, 1914 – October 5, 2004), born in Brooklyn, New York, was an American football official in the National Football League (NFL) for 22 years from 1954 to 1975. Over his career in the NFL, he worked three Super B ...

, American football official in the NFL *

Oscar Schachter Oscar Schachter (1915–2003) was an American international law and diplomacy professor, and United Nations aide. Schachter was a native of New York City, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from City College of New York in 1936, and from Columbia Law School ...

, international law and diplomacy professor *

Rafael Schächter Rafael Schächter (born 25 May 1905, died on the death march during the evacuation of Auschwitz in 1945), was a Czechoslovak composer, pianist and conductor of Jewish origin, organizer of cultural life in Terezín concentration camp. Life H ...

, Czechoslovakian composer, pianist and conductor, organizer of cultural life in Terezín concentration camp *

Sam Schachter Samuel Schachter (born May 8, 1990) is a Canadian Olympic beach volleyball player. In 2010 he won the FIVB World Junior (U-21) Championship with Garrett May. At the 2013 Maccabiah Games in Israel, he and Team Canada won a silver medal. He and p ...

, Canadian Olympic beach volleyball player *

Stanley Schachter Stanley Schachter (April 15, 1922 – June 7, 1997) was an American social psychologist, who is perhaps best known for his development of the two factor theory of emotion in 1962 along with Jerome E. Singer. In his theory he states that emotions ...

, American psychologist *

Steven Schachter Steven Schachter is an American television, theatre, and film director and screenwriter. Much of Schachter's success stems from projects on which he has collaborated with William H. Macy. The two co-wrote the cable television movies '' The Con'' ...

, American director and screenwriter * Zalman Schachter

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* Aaron Schechter, rosh yeshiva of the Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin. *

Alan Schechter Alan Schechter (born 1936) is a political scientist. He is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. He was educated at Amherst College, where he received his AB, and at Columbia University, where he earned ...

, political scientist *

Ben Schechter Ben Schechter (born August 26, 1980) is an American artist and filmmaker best known as a partner in Directors Collective Weird Days. He is now based in Los Angeles. Career Ben Schechter established Weird Days with Alex Goldberg and Drew Blatma ...

, American filmmaker *

Daniel Schechter Daniel S. Schechter (born 1962 in Miami, Florida) is an American psychiatrist known for his clinical work and research on intergenerational transmission or "communication" of violent trauma and related psychopathology involving parents and very ...

, American psychiatrist, developmental neuroscientist, researcher in trauma and attachment *

Daniel Schechter (director) Daniel Schechter is an American film director, editor and screenwriter. His film ''Supporting Characters'' debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2012. His third film, ''Life of Crime'', which stars Jennifer Aniston, Tim Robbins and Isla Fisher ...

, American filmmaker and director *

Danny Schechter Daniel Isaac "Danny" Schechter (June 27, 1942 – March 19, 2015) was an American television producer, independent filmmaker, blogger, and media critic. He wrote and spoke about many issues including apartheid, civil rights, economics, foreign po ...

, American television producer and filmmaker * Harold Schechter, American writer * Itay Shechter, Israeli footballer currently playing for Beitar Jerusalem. * Jody Scheckter, retired racing driver now farmer * Martin Schechter (epidemiologist), Canadian medical epidemiologist recognized for contributions to HIV and addiction research *

Mathilde Roth Schechter Mathilde Roth Schechter (also Matilda; December 16, 1859 – August 27, 1924) was the American founder of the U.S. National Women's League of Conservative Judaism in 1918. Biography Schechter was born in Breslau, Prussia (now Wrocław, Polan ...

, American *

Ofer Shechter Ofer Shechter ( he, עפר שכטר; April 8, 1981) is an Israeli actor, stand-up comedian, television host, and former model. Early life Shechter was born and raised in moshav Hadar Am, Israel, to a family of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. At the ...

, Israeli actor, entertainer, model and TV host. *

Paul L. Schechter Paul L. Schechter (born May 30, 1948) is an American astronomer and observational cosmologist. He is the William A. M. Burden Professor of Astrophysics, Emeritus, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT. Schechter received his bachelor's d ...

, American astronomer *

Peter Schechter Peter Schechter (born 1959) is an American political consultant and the executive producer and host of Altamar, a foreign policy podcast. Until June 2017, he was the Atlantic Council's Senior Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and the fou ...

, American political consultant and author *

Sarah Schechter Sarah Schechter is the first female rabbi in the U.S. Air Force. She joined the Air Force as a chaplain candidate, and became a chaplain when she was ordained as a Reform rabbi in 2003. Her father was an Air Force chaplain in 1960. She grew ...

, American rabbi * Solomon Schechter, rabbi * Susan Schechter (1946–2004), American domestic violence activist *

Susan Schechter Bortner Susan Schechter Bortner (published as Susan Schechter) is an American survey statistician, formerly in US Government service and now a researcher at NORC at the University of Chicago, a private nonprofit social research organization. Education ...

, American statistician * Yaakov Meir Shechter leader and teacher in the Breslov Hasidic movement in Israel.

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