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Spiegel means mirror. Spiegel is an ancient German Christian surname. Family tradition says it was taken from a town or lake named Spiegel. There is a small community south of Munich named Spiegel. The name Spiegel goes back to at least the 12th century, when the Spiegel family were barons of Desenburg and Peckelsheim in Hessen; one noted person was Heinrich III Spiegel zum Desenberg (1361–80),

Bishop of Paderborn The Archdiocese of Paderborn is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany; its seat is Paderborn.house sign House signs have been used since ancient times to personalise a dwelling, turning a house into a home. Types Stone Stone signs are hard to beat for their durability. The most commonly used rock includes marble, granite, and slate. Marble and ...

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Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

('' Judengasse'') picturing a mirror. The form ''Spiegel'' is documented in Frankfurt am Main since the 16th century. Variants are ''Szpiegel, Schpiegel, Shpi(e)gel, Şpighel'', etc. Family lore, as told by the family of Joseph Spiegel scion of the Spiegel Family of catalogue fame, says that the family name in Germany had been Meyer. Big Meyer, bought a large mirror for the house. When he got it home, it was too big to fit. So, it was leaned against a nearby tree. When people came into the valley, the sun reflected off the mirror. The house became known as the Spiegel house. The family adopted the name.

People with the surname Spiegel

* Adam Spiegel aka Spike Jonze (born 1969), American film director *

Arthur Spiegel Arthur Henry Spiegel I was a Chicago mail-order businessman and early American film studio executive. Biography Spiegel was the youngest son of Jewish businessman Joseph Spiegel, founder of the Spiegel Home Furnishings merchandising house b ...

, Chicago mail-order businessman and early American film studio executive *

David Spiegel David Spiegel, M.D., is an American psychiatrist and the Wilson Professor and Associate Chair of Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he is known for his research into psycho-oncology; the neurobiology of therapeutic hypno ...

(born 1945), son of Herbert Spiegel, American psychiatrist and medical hypnotist * Edward A. Spiegel (1931–2020), American astrophysicist *

Evan Spiegel Evan Thomas Spiegel (born June 4, 1990) is an American businessman, co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc. Spiegel was the youngest billionaire in the world in 2015. Early life and education Spiegel was born in Los Angeles, California, to lawyers J ...

(born 1990), American entrepreneur, inventor of Snapchat * Friedrich (von) Spiegel (1820–1905), an orientalist at the University of Erlangen *

Giora Spiegel Giora Spiegel ( he, גיורא שפיגל), (born July 27, 1947) is an Israeli former footballer and coach. As a footballer, he holds the record for the longest Israeli international career, spanning 14 years and 357 days. Biography Born in P ...

(born 1947), a Jewish-Israeli footballer and manager * Herbert Spiegel (1914–2009), American psychiatrist and medical hypnotist, who treated the woman known as Sybil * Jacob Spiegel (1902–1984), Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court *

Joseph Spiegel Joseph Spiegel (1840–1918) was the founder of the Spiegel catalog, a Civil War veteran, the younger brother of Union Army Colonel Marcus M. Spiegel, and patriarch of the Spiegel family. Biography Spiegel was born to a Jewish family, the son ...

(1840–1918), founder of Spiegel Catalog *

Laurie Spiegel Laurie Spiegel (born September 20, 1945) is an American composer. She has worked at Bell Laboratories, in computer graphics, and is known primarily for her electronic-music compositions and her algorithmic composition software ''Music Mouse''. Sh ...

(born 1945), an American composer *

Marcus M. Spiegel Marcus M. Spiegel (December 8, 1829 – May 4, 1864) was one of the highest ranking Jewish officers in the U.S. Army during the American Civil War. He served in the 67th and 120th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. During the course of the war he bec ...

(1829–1864), Colonel in the

Union Army During the American Civil War, the Union Army, also known as the Federal Army and the Northern Army, referring to the United States Army, was the land force that fought to preserve the Union of the collective states. It proved essential to th ...

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American Civil War The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states ...

* Samuel Arthur Spiegel (born 1947), American architect *

Paul Spiegel Paul Spiegel (31 December 1937, in Warendorf, Germany – 30 April 2006, in Düsseldorf, Germany) was leader of the Central Council of Jews in Germany (Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland) and the main spokesman of the German Jews. He was widely ...

(1937–2006), leader of the Central Council of Jews in Germany *

Sam Spiegel Samuel P. Spiegel (November 11, 1901December 31, 1985) was an American independent film producer born in the Galician area of Austria-Hungary. Financially responsible for some of the most critically acclaimed motion pictures of the 20th centur ...

(1901–1985), Polish-born film producer *

Sam Spiegel (musician) Sam Spiegel (born October 31, 1979), known by the stage name Sam i, is an American DJ, producer, composer, and director from New York City. As a child, Spiegel studied classical voice, cello, and flute. By his teens, he loved hip hop music ...

, American producer/DJ and brother of Spike Jonze * Sarah Spiegel, American singer *

Tilly Spiegel Ottilie "Tilly" Spiegel (10 December 1906 - 1988) was an Austrian political activist, first as a member of the Communist Party and then as part of the wartime resistance. After her actions had earned her a term of imprisonment during the Austrofa ...

(1906–1988) European wartime resistance activist and postwar researcher into victims of Nazism

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* Spike Spiegel, Bounty hunter, pilot and former member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate; a character in Cowboy Bebop

People with the surname Spiegel

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