# Feder

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**Feder** is the German word for "feather", "quill", and secondarily for "[mechanical] spring", and may refer to:

## Surname

- [Abraham Hyman Feder](/source/Abe_Feder) (1908–1997), American lighting designer
- [Adolphe Féder](/source/Adolphe_F%C3%A9der) (1886–1943), Jewish-Ukrainian painter and illustrator
- [Dege Feder](/source/Dege_Feder) (born 1978), a multi-disciplinary Ethiopian-born artist based in Israel
- [Donald A. Feder](/source/Don_Feder) (born 1946), American media consultant, free-lance writer and World Congress of Families Communications Director
- [Ed Feder](/source/Ed_Feder) (1896–1968), Australian rules footballer
- [Essener Feder](/source/Essener_Feder) (or Feather), award for German-style board games
- [Eva Feder Kittay](/source/Eva_Feder_Kittay), American philosopher and academic
- [Galila Ron-Feder Amit](/source/Galila_Ron-Feder_Amit) (born 1949), Israeli children books author
- [Gottfried Feder](/source/Gottfried_Feder) (1883–1941), German economist and key member of the Thule Society and of the Nazi Party
- [Janet Feder](/source/Janet_Feder), American composer and guitarist
- [Gottfried Jens Feder](/source/Jens_Feder) (1939–2019), Norwegian physicist
- [Johann Georg Heinrich Feder](/source/Johann_Georg_Heinrich_Feder) (1740–1821), German philosopher
- [Johann Michael Feder](/source/Johann_Michael_Feder) (1753–1824), German Roman Catholic theologian
- [Judy Feder](/source/Judy_Feder), professor of Public Policy
- [Kenneth Feder](/source/Kenneth_Feder), professor of archaeology
- [Naftali Feder](/source/Naftali_Feder) (1920–2009), Israeli politician, member of the Knesset for the Alignment (1977–84)
- [Paula Marie Mathilde Illemann Feder](/source/Paula_Illemann_Feder) (1893–1967), Danish actor and educator
- [Robert Feder](/source/Robert_Feder) (born 1956), media blogger
- [Robert Arthur Feder](/source/Robert_Arthur_Feder) (1909–1986), American screenwriter and film producer
- [Tobias Gutmann Feder](/source/Tobias_Gutmann_Feder) (c. 1760–1817), Maskilic writer, poet, and grammarian
- [Galila Ron-Feder Amit](/source/Galila_Ron-Feder_Amit) (born 1949), Israeli author

## Others

- [Feder (DJ)](/source/Feder_(DJ)), French DJ and music producer
- [Feder (fencing)](/source/Feder_(fencing)), an early modern practice or sparring weapon derived from the longsword
- Feder Grotesk, a "stressed" sans-serif type introduced by [Jakob Erbar](/source/Jakob_Erbar) in 1910
- [Olami–Feder–Christensen model](/source/Olami%E2%80%93Feder%E2%80%93Christensen_model), an earthquake model conjectured to be an example of self-organized criticality

## See also

- [Olami–Feder–Christensen model](/source/Olami%E2%80%93Feder%E2%80%93Christensen_model), an earthquake model
- [Fader (disambiguation)](/source/Fader_(disambiguation))

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