Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:In arts and media
Minerals
- Bernard Oppenheimer, South African and British diamond merchant and philanthropist, brother of Ernest
- Ernest Oppenheimer, diamond and gold mining entrepreneur and financier; controlled De Beers and founded the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa, brother of Bernard
- Harry Frederick Oppenheimer, South African businessman of De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited, son of Ernest
- Nicky Oppenheimer, chairman of De Beers and of The Diamond Trading Company, son of Harry
Other businesses
- Damon Oppenheimer, Vice President and Director of Amateur Scouting for the New York Yankees
- Joseph Suss Oppenheimer, financial adviser to Karl Alexander, Duke of Württemberg
- Samuel Oppenheimer, Jewish banker
- Peter Oppenheimer, senior vice president and chief financial officer of Apple Computer
In government and law
- Charles Cuprill Oppenheimer, lawyer and Rotary District Governor for Puerto Rico
- David Oppenheimer, second mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Kay Oppenheimer, member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
- Santiago Oppenheimer, mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1906.
- Suzi Oppenheimer, former New York politician.
In science and academia
- Clive Oppenheimer, British volcanologist
- Daniel M. Oppenheimer, professor of psychology at UCLA
- Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist, brother of J. Robert Oppenheimer, founder of the Exploratorium in San Francisco
- Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist and political economist
- Hillel Oppenheimer, Israeli professor of botany, son of Franz
- Jane M. Oppenheimer, American embryologist and historian of science
- J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist who headed the Manhattan Project, known as the "Father of the Atomic Bomb"
- Michael Oppenheimer, American professor of geosciences at Princeton University, authority on climate change
- Rebecca Oppenheimer, American astrophysicist
- Stephen Oppenheimer, British popular science writer in prehistory
In other fields
- Damon Oppenheimer, Vice President and Director of Amateur Scouting for the New York Yankees
- David Oppenheim , also called Oppenheimer, rabbi of Prague and bibliophile
- Isabel la Negra, also known as Isabel Luberza Oppenheimer, Puerto Rican criminal
- Josh Oppenheimer, Israeli-American professional basketball coach, and former professional basketball player
- Thomas Oppenheimer, a German professional ice hockey player
