'''Nussbaum''' is a surname of German origin. Variant spellings include '''Nußbaum''' and '''Nusbaum'''. The word means "one who dwells near trees", likely referring to hazelnut trees or walnut trees.
==People surnamed Nussbaum== * A. Edward Nussbaum (1925–2009), theoretical mathematician * Adam Nussbaum (born 1955), American jazz drummer * Alan Nussbaum (born 1947), American linguist * Albert Frederick Nussbaum (1934–1996), bank robber and novelist * Alex Nussbaum, comedian, actor and writer * Arthur Nussbaum (1877–1964), German legal scholar * Barry D. Nussbaum, American statistician * Bernard Nussbaum (1937–2022), former White House Counsel under Bill Clinton * Emily Nussbaum (born 1966), American television critic * Eugenie Nussbaum (1872–1940), Galician-Austrian philanthropist, writer and pedagogue developing and supporting Austrian girl education * Felicity Nussbaum (born 1944), American professor of English * Felix Nussbaum (1904–1944), a Jewish German painter * Hedda Nussbaum (born 1942), American author of a memoir, ''Surviving Intimate Terrorism'' * Howard Nusbaum (born 1954), American psychologist * Joe Nussbaum (born 1973), American film director * Johann Nepomuk von Nussbaum (1829–1890), German surgeon * Laureen Nussbaum (born 1927), German-born American scholar and writer * Lowell Nussbaum (1901–1987), journalist * Martha Nussbaum (born 1947), American philosopher * Mike Nussbaum (1923–2023), American actor and director * Myer Nussbaum (1855–1952), New York lawyer and politician * Paul Joseph Nussbaum (1870–1935), American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church * Roger Nussbaum, American mathematician * Ronald Archie Nussbaum, American herpetologist * Theo Nussbaum (1885–1956), German architect * Tsvi C. Nussbaum (1935–2012), Holocaust survivor * Verena Nussbaum (born 1970), Austrian politician
==See also== * Nußbaum, a village in the Bad Kreuznach district in the Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany * Nußbaum, a constituent community of the municipality of Neulingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany * Nusbaum is a municipality in the district Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
{{surname|Nußbaum, Nussbaum, Nusbaum}}
Category:German-language surnames Category:Surnames of Jewish origin Category:Topographic surnames