Winternitz (surname)

Winternitz is a surname of Jewish pedigree originated from Vintířov. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Adolfo Winternitz, also Adolf Gustav Winternitz (1906–1993), Austrian-Peruvian Jewish painter
  • Artur Winternitz [de] (1893–1961), British mathematician
  • Emanuel Winternitz (1898–1983) curator emeritus of the Department of Musical Instruments of the New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art; musicologist, "father of the field of musical iconography"
  • Friderike von Winternitz [de] (1882–1971), Austrian author, first wife of Stefan Zweig
  • Helen Winternitz, contemporary writer
  • Hugo Winternitz [de] (1868–1934), Austrian and German physician
  • Jill Winternitz (born 1986/1987), American actress based in England
  • Joseph Winternitz [de] (1896–1952), Marxist politician, economist
  • Judith Winternitz, Australian writer [1]
  • Martha Winternitz-Dorda [de] (1880–1958), Austrian female singer
  • Moriz Winternitz (1863–1937), Austrian Jewish indologist
  • Moshe Dovid Winternitz (1855–1944), Head of the Beth din Rabbinical Court in Satmar, Hungary; killed in Auschwitz concentration camp
  • Pavel Winternitz (born 1936), Czechoslovakian and Canadian mathematical physicist
  • Richard Winternitz [de] (1861–1929), German painter
  • Roland Winters, born Roland Winternitz (1904–1989), American actor
  • Wilhelm Winternitz, (1834–1917), Austrian balneologist