Schaefer

Schaefer is an alternative spelling and cognate for the German word "Schäfer", meaning shepherd,[1] which itself descends from the Old High German scāphare. Variants "Shaefer", "Schäfer" (a standardized spelling in many German-speaking countries after 1880), the additional alternative spelling "Schäffer", and the anglicised forms "Schaeffer", "Schaffer", "Shaffer", "Shafer", and "Schafer" are all common surnames.

Schaefer

Born in 1800–1899
Born in 1900–1949
  • Walter V. Schaefer (1904-1986), American jurist and educator
  • Vincent Schaefer (1906–1993), American chemist and meteorologist who developed cloud seeding
  • Jack Warner Schaefer (1907–1991), American fiction author
  • Milner Baily Schaefer (1912–1970), American fisheries biologist
  • William Donald Schaefer (1921–2011), American politician
  • Udo Schaefer (born 1926), German Bahá'í author
  • Will Schaefer (1928–2007), American composer
  • Bill Schaefer (field hockey) (1925-2003), New Zealand field hockey player
  • Kermit Schaefer (1923–1979), American writer, broadcast producer and blooper aficionado
  • Daniel Schaefer (1936–2006), American politician
  • James Schaefer (1938-2018), American politician and rancher
  • Bob Schaefer (born 1944), American professional baseball coach
  • Henry F. Schaefer, III (born 1944), American computational and theoretical chemist, academic and Protestant educator
  • Gerard John Schaefer (1946–1995), American killer, rapist, and suspected serial killer
  • Ronald P. Schaefer (1949- ), American academic linguist and university professor.
Born after 1950
  • Vic Schaefer (born 1961), American basketball coach
  • Peter Schaefer (ice hockey) (born 1977), Canadian professional ice hockey player
  • Jarrett Schaefer (born 1979), America film director and screenwriter
  • Nolan Schaefer (born 1980), Canadian professional ice hockey player
  • Bradley E. Schaefer (living), American physics academic
  • Kurt Schaefer (living), American academic
  • Peter Schaefer (author) (living), American academic and religious history author
  • Brenda Sue Schaefer, murder victim

Schaeffer

Schäfer

Born after 1800
Born after 1900
  • Emanuel Schäfer (1900–1974), officer in the German SS, head of Serbian security police during World War II
  • Gustav Schäfer (rower) (1906–1991), German Olympic rower
  • Karl Schäfer (1909–1976), Austrian Olympic figure skater
  • Ernst Schäfer (1910–1992), German hunter, zoologist and ornithologist
  • Willy Schäfer (handball player) (1913–1980), Swiss Olympic field handball player
  • Paul Schäfer (1921–2010), German-Chilean cult leader
  • Hans Schäfer (born 1927), German retired footballer
  • Karl Heinz Schäfer (1932–1996), German-born composer and arranger working in France
  • Willy Schäfer (born 1933), German actor
  • Hans-Bernd Schäfer (born 1943), German economist and scholar
  • Manfred Schäfer (born 1943), German-Australian retired professional footballer
  • Wolfgang Schäfer (born 1945), German choral conductor and academic
Born after 1950

Schäffer

Born after 1800
Born after 1950

Schafer

Born after 1800
Born after 1900
  • Natalie Schafer (1900–1991), American actress
  • Harold Schafer (1912–2001), American entrepreneur
  • Alice Turner Schafer (1915–2009), American mathematician
  • Richard D. Schafer (1918–2014), American mathematician
  • Roy Schafer (1922–2018), American psychologist-psychoanalyst
  • R. Murray Schafer (born 1933), Canadian composer, writer, music educator and environmentalist
  • Ronald W. Schafer (born 1938), American electrical engineer and academic
  • Ed Schafer (born 1946), American state politician and United States Secretary of Agriculture
Born after 1950

Schaffer

Born after 1800
Born after 1900
Born after 1950

Shafer

Born after 1800
Born after 1900
  • Raymond P. Shafer (1917–2006), American state politician
  • Whitey Shafer (1934–2019), American country songwriter and musician
  • Ruth Shafer (1912 – 1972), American engineer


Born after 1950

Shaffer

Born after 1800
Born after 1900
Born after 1950

See also

References

  1. Morten, Oren Frederic; Cole, J.R. (1914), "III. The Old Frontier and the American Highlander", A History of Preston County, West Virginia, Part 1 (Google eBook), 1, Kingwood, West Virginia: The Journal Publishing Company, p. 312, retrieved 14 August 2011
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