Oppenheimer is a toponymic surname, derived from the German town Oppenheim, common among Germans and Ashkenazi Jews.

Contents

• In arts and media
• In business
• Minerals
• Other businesses
• In fiction
• In government and law
• In science and academia
• In sport
• In other fields
• See also

Most uses refer to J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967), the American physicist who headed the Manhattan Project.

Other notable people with the surname include:

In arts and media

• Alan Oppenheimer (born 1930), American film actor
• Andrés Oppenheimer (born 1951), Argentine author and journalist known for his analysis of Latin American politics
• Deborah Oppenheimer an American film and television producer
• George Oppenheimer (1900–1977) was an American screenwriter, playwright, and journalist.
• Jerry Oppenheimer (fl. 1980s–2010s), American biographer
• Jess Oppenheimer (1913–1988), American radio and television writer, producer, and director, creator of I Love Lucy
• Joel Oppenheimer (1930–1988), American writer
• Joshua Oppenheimer (born 1974), American film director
• Mark Oppenheimer, American author and editor
• Joshua Oppenheimer (fl. 2000s–2020s), American screenwriter
• Lillian Oppenheimer (1898–1992), American origami pioneer
• Max Oppenheimer (1885–1954), Austrian painter and graphic artist
• Meaghan Oppenheimer (born 1986), American screenwriter and producer
• Stephen Oppenheimer (born 1947), British paediatrician, geneticist, and writer on genetics and human prehistory

In business

In fiction

• Norman Oppenheimer, a fixer and the lead character in the 2016 film Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer

In government and law

• Charles Cuprill Oppenheimer (1916–2011), lawyer and Rotary District Governor for Puerto Rico
• David Oppenheimer (1834–1897), second mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Kay Oppenheimer (fl. 2000s), member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
• Reuben Oppenheimer (1897–1982), justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals
• Santiago Oppenheimer (1869 – ca. 1930), mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, in 1906
• Simon Wolf Oppenheimer (died 1726), German Jewish banker and Court Jew of the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg
• Suzi Oppenheimer (born 1934), New York politician

In science and academia

• Amy Oppenheimer (born 1952), American lawyer
• Clive Oppenheimer (born 1964), British volcanologist
• Daniel M. Oppenheimer (fl. 2000s–2020s), American professor of psychology at UCLA
• David B. Oppenheimer (born 1950), American professor of law at UC Berkeley
• Frank Oppenheimer (1912–1985), American physicist, brother of J. Robert Oppenheimer, founder of the Exploratorium in San Francisco
• Franz Oppenheimer (1864–1943), German sociologist and political economist
• Hillel Oppenheimer (1899–1971), Israeli professor of botany, son of Franz
• Jane M. Oppenheimer (1911–1996), American embryologist and historian of science
• Katherine Oppenheimer (1910–1972), German-American biologist, wife of J. Robert Oppenheimer
• Melanie Oppenheimer (born 1957), Australian historian
• Michael Oppenheimer (born 1946), American professor of geosciences at Princeton University, authority on climate change
• Rebecca Oppenheimer (born 1972), American astrophysicist
• Stephen Oppenheimer (born 1947), British popular science writer in prehistory

In sport

• Carlos Javier Correa Oppenheimer Jr. (born 1994), Puerto Rican-American professional baseball player
• Damon Oppenheimer (born 1962), Vice President and Director of Amateur Scouting for the New York Yankees
• Josh Oppenheimer (born 1969), Israeli-American basketball coach, and former basketball player
• Thomas Oppenheimer (born 1988), German ice hockey player

In other fields

• David Oppenheim (rabbi) (1664–1736), also called Oppenheimer, rabbi of Prague and bibliophile
• Isabel Luberza Oppenheimer (1901–1974), also known as Isabel la Negra, Puerto Rican madam

See also

• Oppenheim (surname)

Surname list

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