Einstein (surname)

Einstein is a German-Jewish surname. "Ein stein" is German for "a rock". It is strongly associated with German-born American physicist Albert Einstein. People with the surname include:

• Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
• Einstein family, including:
  • Mileva Einstein (née Marić) (1875–1948), Serbian physicist and mathematician, first wife of Albert Einstein
    • Hans Albert Einstein (1904–1973), Swiss-American engineer, son of Albert and Mileva
      • Bernhard Caesar Einstein (1930–2008), German-American physicist, son of Hans Albert Einstein, grandson of Albert Einstein
        • Thomas Helmut Einstein (born 1955), anesthesiologist and physician, son of Bernhard Caesar Einstein, great-grandson of Albert Einstein
    • Eduard Einstein (1910–1965), second son of Albert and Mileva
  • Elsa Einstein (1876–1936), cousin and second wife of Albert Einstein
• Hans Einstein (1923–2012), physician, grandson of a first cousin of Albert Einstein
• Alfred Einstein (1880–1952), musicologist and distant cousin of Albert Einstein

Others

• An American entertainment family:
  • Harry Einstein (1904–1958), comedian and writer, and father of:
    • Bob Einstein (1942–2019), actor best known for portraying Super Dave Osborne
    • Albert Einstein, professionally known as Albert Brooks (born 1947), actor
• Arik Einstein (1939–2013), Israeli singer
• Carl Einstein (1885–1940), author and art critic
• Edwin Einstein (1842–1905), U.S. congressperson from Massachusetts
• Hannah Bachman Einstein (1862–1929), American social worker and activist
• Izzy Einstein (c. 1880–1938), American police officer
• Lewis Einstein (1887–1967), American diplomat and historian
• Napoleon Einstein (born 1989), Indian cricketer
• Siegbert Einstein (1889–1968), German civil servant and politician
• Siegfried Einstein (1919–1983), German writer