Garfinkel

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

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

## Other variant forms

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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

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* Garfunkel
* Finkelstein
* Finkel

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