Schneider is a very common family name

Family name

A family name is a type of surname and part of a person's name indicating the family to which the person belongs. The use of family names is widespread in cultures around the world...

 in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. Alternate spellings include: Schnieder (a German variant), Snyder

Snyder

- Cities and towns in the United States :* Snyder, Colorado* Snyder, Missouri* Snyder, Nebraska* Snyder, New York* Snyder, Oklahoma* Snyder, Texas- Persons :* Allan Snyder, an Australian professor and researcher of the human brain...

, Snider, Sneider, Sneijder

Sneijder

Sneijder is the name of:* Jeffrey Sneijder , footballer* Wesley Sneijder , footballer* Rodney Sneijder , footballer...

 (Dutch

Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...

 variants), Schnyder

Schnyder

Schnyder is used in Switzerland as an alternative spelling of the more common German surname Schneider . Immigrants to North America often spelled their name as Snyder.* Daniel Schnyder , Swiss jazz musician and composer...

, Schnider (Swiss

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

 variants), Sznajder (a Jewish variant) and Znaider (a Polish

Polish language

Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

 variant).

People

• Alexander Schneider
  Alexander Schneider
  Alexander Schneider was a violinist, conductor, and educator. Born in Vilna, Lithuania, he later moved to the United States as a member of the Budapest Quartet.- Biography :...
  
  , classical musician
• Barbara Schneider
  Barbara Schneider
  -Productions of Plays: :*Verdict on the Shooting of a Police Officer Washington Square Church, New York City...
  
  , American playwright
• Bernd Schneider (footballer), German footballer
• Bernd Schneider (racing driver), German racing driver
• Bert Schneider
  Bert Schneider
  Berton "Bert" Schneider is an American movie producer, who was behind a number of important and topical films of the late-1960s and early-1970s. The son of Abraham Schneider, onetime president of Columbia Pictures, the younger Schneider tended toward the rebellious. He briefly attended Cornell...
  
  , American film producer
• Bert Schneider (boxer) (1897–1986), Canadian olympic boxer of the 1920s
• Brent Schneider, former quarterback of the Saskatchewan Huskies
  Saskatchewan Huskies
  The University of Saskatchewan began in 1907 and has operated teams that compete with others since 1911. The term Huskie Athletics is defined as those student athletes from the University of Saskatchewan that compete in elite interuniversity competition administered by Canadian Interuniversity...
  
  
• Brian Schneider
  Brian Schneider
  Brian Duncan Schneider is an American Major League Baseball catcher.-Early life:Schneider was born in Jacksonville, Florida to Peter and Karen Schneider...
  
  , Major League Baseball player
• Camillo Karl Schneider
  Camillo Karl Schneider
  Camillo Karl Schneider was an Austrian botanist and landscape architect . A farmer's son, he was born at Gröppendorf, Saxony, and worked as a gardener at Zeitz, Dresden, Berlin and Greifswald...
  
   (1876–1951), German botanist
• Charles Schneider (disambiguation), several people
• Christoph "Doom" Schneider
  Christoph Schneider
  Christoph "Doom" Schneider is a German musician. He is the drummer of the German Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein.-Early life:...
  
  , drummer in the German band Rammstein
• Cory Schneider
  Cory Schneider
  Cory Franklin Schneider is an American professional ice hockey goaltender with the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League .Schneider was selected in the first round, 26th overall, by the Canucks in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft...
  
   (1986–), American ice hockey player
• Dan Schneider (baseball)
  Dan Schneider (baseball)
  Daniel Louis Schneider is an American former professional baseball player who played in the Major Leagues between and .-Career:...
  
   (born 1942), American baseball player
• Dan Schneider (writer)
  Dan Schneider (writer)
  Dan Schneider is a United States poet, critic, film critic, essayist, and fiction writer best known for his criticism and literary website Cosmoetica. Schneider discovered poetry as a young adult, and has since published his poetry and essays in a number of magazines and newspapers...
  
   (born 1965), American poet, writer, literary critic
• Dan Schneider (TV producer)
  Dan Schneider (TV producer)
  Daniel James "Dan" Schneider is an American songwriter, actor, writer, and producer of films and television. He is the co-president of his own production company called Schneider's Bakery....
  
   (born 1966), American actor, writer, producer
• David Schneider (disambiguation), several people
• Eddie August Schneider
  Eddie August Schneider
  Eddie August Henry Schneider set three transcontinental airspeed records for pilots under the age of twenty-one in 1930. His plane was a Cessna Model AW with a Warner-Scarab engine, one of only 48 built, that he called "The Kangaroo". He set the east-to-west, then the west-to-east, and the...
  
   (1910–1940), American aviator
• Edmund Schneider, German and Australian designer of gliders (eg. the Schneider Grunau Baby
  Schneider Grunau Baby
  -See also:* Schneider Kookaburra* Schneider Arrow* Schneider Boomerang* Schneider Platypus...
  
  )
• Edward Schneider (disambiguation), several people
• Erich Schneider
  Erich Schneider
  Dipl.-Ing. Erich SchneiderIn German an engineer's degree is called Diplom-Ingenieur was a highly decorated Generalleutnant in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves...
  
   (1900–1970), German economist
• Eugène Schneider
  Eugène Schneider
  Joseph Eugène Schneider was a French industrialist who in 1836 co-founded the Schneider company with his brother Adolphe.-Biography:...
  
   (1805–1875), French industrialist
• Florian Schneider-Esleben
  Florian Schneider
  Florian Schneider-Esleben is one of the founding members of electronic music band Kraftwerk. He left the band in November 2008.-Career:...
  
   (born 1947), German musician, former member of Kraftwerk
• Franz Schneider
  Franz Schneider
  Franz Schneider was an engineer granted the first patent on 15 July 1913 for a synchronisation device allowing a machine gun to fire between an aircraft's spinning propeller blades...
  
  , inventor of interrupter gear for German World War I aircraft
• Fred Schneider (disambiguation)
  Fred Schneider (disambiguation)
  Fred Schneider may refer to:* Fred Schneider, American rock musician, singer and cowbell player of The B52s* Fred B. Schneider, American computer scientist...
  
  , several people
• Gary Schneider
  Gary Schneider
  Gary Schneider was born in East London, South Africa and raised in Cape Town. He now lives and works in New York. His BFA is from Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town and his MFA is from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. He is Artist in Residence at Stony Brook University...
  
   (1957–), American conductor and composer
• George Schneider (disambiguation), several people
• Hannes Schneider
  Hannes Schneider
  Johann "Hannes" Schneider was an Austrian Ski instructor of the first half of the twentieth century.He was born in the town of Stuben am Arlberg in Austria as a son of a cheese maker. In 1907 he became a ski guide at the Hotel Post in St. Anton, Austria where he began work on what became known as...
  
   (1890–1955), Austrian skiing pioneer
• Helen Schneider
  Helen Schneider
  Helen Schneider is an American singer and actress working mainly in Germany.Born the daughter of Dvora and Abraham Schneider , she studied piano before starting to perform as a singer in venues in New England and New York.Between 1978 and 1984, she achieved success as a rock singer in Germany;...
  
  , American vocalist and actress
• Helge Schneider
  Helge Schneider
  Helge Schneider is a German comedian, jazz musician and multi-instrumentalist, author, film and theatre director, and actor....
  
  , German comedian and jazz musician
• Hortense Schneider
  Hortense Schneider
  Hortense Catherine Schneider, La Snédèr, was a French soprano, one of the greatest operetta stars of the 19th century, particularly associated with the works of composer Jacques Offenbach.-Biography:...
  
   (1833–1920), French operetta soprano
• Jerry Schneider
  Jerry Schneider
  Jerry N. Schneider is a social engineer and security consultant. While still in high school in 1968, Schneider started a company called "Creative Systems Enterprises" and began selling his own invented electronic communication devices. Schneider obtained parts by scavenging from Pacific Telephone...
  
  , entrepreneur and social engineer
• Johann Gottlob Schneider
  Johann Gottlob Schneider
  Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider was a German classicist and naturalist.-Biography:Schneider was born at Collm in Saxony...
  
   (1750–1822), German classical scholar and naturalist
  Naturalist
  Naturalist may refer to:* Practitioner of natural history* Conservationist* Advocate of naturalism * Naturalist , autobiography-See also:* The American Naturalist, periodical* Naturalism...
  
  
• Johann Rudolf Schneider
  Johann Rudolf Schneider
  Johann Rudolf Schneider was a Swiss physician, political leader, and initiator of the Jura water correction.-Biography:He studied medicine in Bern and Berlin....
  
   (1804–1880), Swiss Dr. in medicine & politician, initiator of the Jura water correction
• John Schneider (disambiguation), several people
• Josef Schneider (disambiguation), several people
• Juan Esnáider
  Juan Esnáider
  Juan Eduardo Esnáider is a retired Argentine footballer who played as a striker. His surname is a Spanish spelling reform of the German Schneider, which means "tailor"...
  
  , Argentine footballer of German descent
• Karl Schneider
  Karl Schneider
  Karl Joseph Schneider was a cricketer who played for Victoria and South Australia . A tiny man at just 157cm tall, he was born in the Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn and was a specialist left-hand batsman who occasionally bowled right-arm wrist spin...
  
   (1892–1945), German architect
• Kirk J. Schneider
  Kirk J. Schneider
  Kirk J. Schneider, PhD is a psychologist and psychotherapist who has taken a leading role in the advancement of existential-humanistic therapy , and existential-integrative therapy...
  
  , a psychologist and psychotherapist
• Kjell Schneider
  Kjell Schneider
  Kjell Schneider is a beach volleyball player from Germany, who won the bronze medal in the men's beach team competition at the 2005 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Berlin, Germany, partnering Julius Brink....
  
   (1976–), German beach volleyball player
• Kurt Schneider (disambiguation)
  Kurt Schneider (disambiguation)
  Kurt Schneider may refer to:* Kurt Schneider , German psychiatrist known for his writing on the diagnosis and understanding of schizophrenia* Kurt Schneider , German World War I flying ace...
  
  , several people
• Magda Schneider
  Magda Schneider
  Magda Schneider was a German actress and singer; she was the mother of the actress Romy Schneider.- Biography :Magdalena Schneider was born in Augsburg, Bavaria. After training as a stenographer, she studied singing at the Augsburg Academy and ballet at the local theater. She made her stage debut...
  
   (1909–1996), German actress, mother of Romy Schneider
• Maria Schneider (actress)
  Maria Schneider (actress)
  Maria Schneider was a French actress. She was best known for playing Jeanne, opposite Marlon Brando, in the 1972 film Last Tango in Paris.-Career:...
  
   (1952-2011), French actress
• Maria Schneider (musician)
  Maria Schneider (musician)
  Maria Schneider is an American arranger, composer, and big-band leader who has won multiple awards. In 2005, her album Concert in the Garden won a Grammy for "Best Large Ensemble Album"...
  
   (born 1960), US conductor and composer
• Maria Schneider (cartoonist)
  Maria Schneider (cartoonist)
  Maria Schneider is an American humorist, cartoonist and illustrator best known for her work with the satirical online newspaper The Onion and her comic strip Pathetic Geek Stories....
  
  , US writer and cartoonist for The Onion
• Mathieu Schneider
  Mathieu Schneider
  Mathieu Schneider is a American former professional ice hockey player. Considered an offensive defenseman, Schneider played 1289 games in the National Hockey League with ten different teams, scoring 233 goals and totalling 743 points...
  
   (born 1969), professional hockey player
• Michael Schneider (disambiguation), several people
• Paul Schneider (disambiguation), several people
• Matthew P. "Pete" Schneider, III
  Pete Schneider (Louisiana politician)
  Matthew Peter Schneider, III, known as Pete Schneider , is a Slidell, Louisiana, businessman who served four terms between 1992 and 2008 as a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 90, which encompasses his St. Tammany Parish...
  
   (born 1953), businessman and former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives
• Peter Schneider (disambiguation), several people
• Reinhold Schneider
  Reinhold Schneider
  Reinhold Schneider was a German poet who also wrote novels. Initially his works were less religious, but later his poetry had a Christian and specifically Catholic influence. His first works included Luís de Camões and Portugal He had written anti-war poems, which were banned in Nazi Germany...
  
   (1903–1958), German author
• René Schneider
  René Schneider
  General René Schneider Chereau was the commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army at the time of the 1970 Chilean presidential election, when he was assassinated during a botched kidnapping attempt. His murder virtually assured Salvador Allende's eventual overthrow and death in a coup three years later...
  
   (1913–1970), Chilean general
• Rob Schneider
  Rob Schneider
  Robert Michael "Rob" Schneider is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and director. A stand-up comic and veteran of the NBC sketch-comedy series Saturday Night Live, Schneider has gone on to a successful career in feature films, including starring roles in the comedy films Deuce Bigalow:...
  
   (born 1963), comedian
• Robert Schneider
  Robert Schneider
  Robert Peter Schneider is one of the co-founders of The Elephant 6 Recording Company, along with Will Cullen Hart, Bill Doss, and Jeff Mangum...
  
  , musician
• Romy Schneider
  Romy Schneider
  Romy Schneider was an Austrian-born German film actress who also held French citizenship.-Early life:Schneider was born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach in Nazi-era Vienna, six months after the Anschluss, into a family of actors that included her paternal grandmother Rosa Albach-Retty, her Austrian...
  
   (1938–1982), actress, daughter of Magda Schneider
• Rony Schneider
  Rony Schneider
  Ron "Rony" Schneider is an Israeli former professional association footballer who played for the Rochester Lancers and was formerly the head coach of the Israel women's national football team. Today, he is a football commentator and has been credited as being a driving force in bringing women's...
  
  , Israeli association football, coach and commentator
• Sascha Schneider
  Sascha Schneider
  Rudolph Karl Alexander Schneider, commonly known as Sascha Schneider , was a German painter and sculptor.-Biography :...
  
   (1870–1927), German painter
• Siegfried Schneider (disambiguation), several people
• Stephen Schneider
  Stephen Schneider
  Stephen Henry Schneider was Professor of Environmental Biology and Global Change at Stanford University, a Co-Director at the Center for Environment Science and Policy of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a Senior Fellow in the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment...
  
  , US Stanford University climatologist and environmental biologist
• Theodor Schneider
  Theodor Schneider
  Theodor Schneider was a German mathematician, best known for providing proof of what is now known as the Gelfond–Schneider theorem in 1935....
  
  , German mathematician
• Vreni Schneider
  Vreni Schneider
  Verena Schneider is a former ski racer from Switzerland. She is the most successful alpine ski racer of her country, the second most successful female ski racer ever and was elected "Swiss Sportswoman of the Century".She won the overall alpine skiing World Cup three times and eleven discipline...
  
  , Swiss alpine skier
• Willi Schneider
  Willi Schneider
  Willi Schneider , brother of Rudi Schneider, was an Austrian spiritualist physical medium investigated by notable psychical researchers Harry Price, Albert von Schrenck-Notzing and Eric J. Dingwall.-Bibliography:...
  
   (1903–1971), Austrian medium
• Willi Schneider (skeleton racer)
  Willi Schneider (skeleton racer)
  Wilfried "Willi" Schneider is a German skeleton racer who competed from 1992 to 2002. He won two medals in the men's skeleton event at the FIBT World Championships with a gold in 1998 and a bronze in 1999....
  
   (1963–), German skeleton racer
• William Schneider (disambiguation), several people
• Willy Schneider (singer) (1905–1989), German singer
• Duda (footballer born 1988)
  Duda (footballer born 1988)
  Carlos Eduardo Schneider known as Duda is a Brazilian footballer.-Biography:Duda started his career at Internacional. He signed a 1-year professional contract in 2006. However he did not made a debut for Inter...
  
  , Brazilian, real name Carlos Eduardo Schneider

Families

The Doll Family

The Doll Family

The Doll Family was a group of four dwarf siblings from Germany who were popular performers in circuses and sideshows in the United States from the 1920s until their retirement in the mid 1950s.They were:*Gracie The Doll Family was a group of four dwarf siblings from Germany who were popular...

, a performing group of four midget siblings from Germany

• Elly Annie "Tiny" Schneider (1914–2004)
• Frieda A. "Gracie" Schneider (1899–1970)
• Kurt Fritz "Harry" Schneider (1902–1985)
• Hilda Emma "Daisy" Schneider (1907–1980)

Fictional characters

• Dark Schneider (disambiguation), several characters
• Karl Heinz Schneider from the manga Captain Tsubasa
• Kyle Schneider, a character in the Metal Gear series
• Dwayne Schneider, often simply Schneider, is a character portrayed by Pat Harrington
  Pat Harrington, Jr.
  Pat Harrington, Jr., is an American voice, stage, and television actor most popularly known for his role as building superintendent "Schneider" on the CBS sitcom One Day At A Time. He is the son of Pat Harrington, Sr.- Biography :...
  
   on the American sitcom One Day at a Time
  One Day at a Time
  One Day at a Time is an American situation comedy on the CBS network that aired from December 16, 1975 until May 28, 1984. It portrays Ann Romano, a divorced mother, played by Bonnie Franklin, her two teenage daughters Julie and Barbara Cooper and Schneider, their building superintendent .The show...
  
  

Surname project

An effort is currently underway to genetically identify, via Y chromosome

Y chromosome

The Y chromosome is one of the two sex-determining chromosomes in most mammals, including humans. In mammals, it contains the gene SRY, which triggers testis development if present. The human Y chromosome is composed of about 60 million base pairs...

DNA testing, Schneider lineages worldwide.