Garfinkel Explained

Garfinkel is a Yiddish surname with variants Garfinkle, Garfinckel, Gurfinkel, Gorfinkel, Garfield etc. Notable people with the surname include:

• Charles B. Garfinkel (1890–1969), New York assemblyman
• Harold Garfinkel (1917–2011), American sociologist
• Jack Garfinkel (1918–2013), American basketball player
• Lenora Garfinkel (1930–2020), American architect
• Marian Garfinkel (1932–2020), American yoga practitioner who pioneered the use of yoga to treat carpal tunnel
• Simson Garfinkel (born 1965), American computer scientist, journalist and writer specializing in the field of computer security
• Yosef Garfinkel (born 1956), Israeli archaeologist

Garfield

• Andrew Garfield (born 1983), English and American actor

Other variant forms

Garfinkle

• John Garfield (born Garfinkle; 1913–1952), American actor
• Norton Garfinkle (born 1931), American economist
• Richard Garfinkle (born 1961), American science-fiction author

Garfinckel

• Julius Garfinckel (born Garfinkel; 1872–1936), American merchant, founder of Washington, D.C., based department store chain, Garfinckel's

Gurfinkel

• David Gurfinkel (born 1938), Israeli cinematographer
• Goldie Steinberg (née Gurfinkel), Moldovan-born American supercentenarian
• Josefa Gurfinkel (1919–1997), Soviet chess master
• Yisrael Guri (born Gurfinkel; 1893–1965), Russian-born Israeli politician

Gorfinkel

• Jordan B. Gorfinkel, aka "Gorf," (born July 7, 1967), American comic book creator, newspaper cartoonist, animation and multi-media entertainment producer.

See also

• Garfunkel
• Finkelstein
• Finkel