Schindler
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  • Alexander Schindler
    Alexander Schindler
    Alexander Schindler was a rabbi and the leading figure of American Reform Judaism during the 1970s and 1980s.Born in Germany, he came to America with his family at age 12...

     (1925-2000), leading figure of American Reform Judaism
  • Allen R. Schindler, Jr.
    Allen R. Schindler, Jr.
    Allen R. Schindler, Jr. was an Americ Radioman Petty Officer Third Class in the United States Navy who was murdered for being gay. He was killed in a public toilet in Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan by shipmate Terry M. Helvey, who acted with the aid of an accomplice, Charles Vins, in what Esquire called...

     (1969—1992), was United States Navy officer, victim of a hate crime
  • Alma Schindler (1879-1964), later known as Alma Mahler-Werfel, composer, successively married to Gustav Mahler (Alma Mahler), Walter Gropius, and Franz Werfel
  • Anton Felix Schindler
    Anton Felix Schindler
    Anton Felix Schindler was an associate, secretary, and early biographer of Ludwig van Beethoven.His Life of Beethoven was first published in 1840 and, in its subsequently expanded form , had a great deal of influence on later Beethoven biography...

     (1795-1864), secretary and early biographer of Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Bill Schindler
    Bill Schindler
    Bill Schindler was an American racecar driver.He began racing in 1931 in a sprint car. He was racing midget cars on the East Coast of the United States at their introduction in 1934...

     (1909-1952), American racecar driver
  • David Schindler
    David Schindler
    David William Schindler OC, D.Phil., FRSC, FRS is an American/Canadian limnologist. He holds the Killam Memorial Chair and is Professor of Ecology in the at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada...

    , American/Canadian ecologist
  • Hans Schindler Bellamy
    Hans Schindler Bellamy
    Hans Schindler Bellamy was a researcher and author. His books investigate the work of Austrian cosmologist, Hans Hoerbiger and German selenographer, Philipp Fauth, whose now-defunct Cosmic Ice Theory :Bellamy's first book, Moons, Myths and Man, describes Hoerbiger's theory in detail, and its...

     (1901-1982), researcher and author (H. S. Bellamy)
  • Hans Schindler (1889-1974), German musician in Berlin
  • Kevin Schindler
    Kevin Schindler
    Kevin Schindler is a German footballer who currently plays for FC St. Pauli.-External links:...

     (born 1988), German footballer
  • Kurt Schindler
    Kurt Schindler
    Kurt Schindler was a German-born American composer and conductor. He came to the United States in 1905 to serve as an assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, and founded the MacDowell Chorus. Much of his choral output consisted of folksong arrangements, though he composed original pieces...

     (1882-1935), German composer, conductor
  • Jochem Schindler
    Jochem Schindler
    Jochem Schindler was an Austrian Indo-Europeanist. In spite of his comparatively thin bibliography, he made important contributions, in particular to the theory of Proto-Indo-European language nominal inflection and ablaut.-References:*Eichner Compositiones Indogermanicae in memoriam Jochem...

     (1944-1994), Austrian Indo-Europeanist
  • Marvin Schindler
    Marvin Schindler
    Marvin Samuel Schindler was an emeritus professor of German and Slavic Studies at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan....

     (1932-2003), professor of German and Slavic Studies
  • Nicola Shindler
    Nicola Shindler
    Nicola Shindler is a British television producer and executive, the founder of Red Production Company, one of the foremost independent television drama production companies working in the UK today....

     (born 1968), British television producer
  • Oskar Schindler
    Oskar Schindler
    Oskar Schindler was an ethnic German industrialist born in Moravia. He is credited with saving over 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories, which were located in what is now Poland and the Czech Republic respectively.He is the subject of the...

     (1908–1974), Sudeten German businessman who saved his Jewish workers from the Holocaust, subject of the film Schindler's List
    • Emilie Schindler
      Emilie Schindler
      Emilie Schindler was a humanitarian who, with her husband Oskar Schindler, helped to save the lives of 1,200 to 1,700 Jews during World War II...

       (1907–2001), wife of Oskar Schindler
    • Schindlerjuden
      Schindlerjuden
      The Schindlerjuden, literally translated as "Schindler Jews", were roughly 1,000 to 1,200 Jews who were saved by Oskar Schindler during the Holocaust. Their story has been depicted in the book Schindler's Ark, by Thomas Keneally, and Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of the novel, Schindler's List...

      , the group of over 1,000 Jews saved by Oskar Schindler
  • Paul Schindler
    Paul Schindler
    Paul E. Schindler, Jr. was the software reviewer on the popular television program Computer Chronicles from 1986 to 1999. He worked for 20 years in computer journalism at CMP Technology and Ziff-Davis, including Computer Systems News, Information Systems News, Information Week, PC Week, Windows...

     (born 1952), computer journalist
  • Robert and Mary Schindler, parents of Terri Schiavo
    Terri Schiavo
    The Terri Schiavo case was a legal battle in the United States between the legal guardians and the parents of Teresa Marie "Terri" Schiavo that lasted from 1998 to 2005...

  • Rudolf Michael Schindler (1887–1953), Austrian-American architect in Los Angeles
  • Rudolph Schindler (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Solomon Schindler
    Solomon Schindler
    Solomon Schindler was a rabbi and author. He was born at Neisse, Germany, and was educated at Breslau. Coming to the United States during 1871, he was minister of congregations at Hoboken, N. J., and in Boston until 1894. He was also a member of the Boston School Board during 1888-94...

     (1842-1915), American rabbi
  • Stella Schindler
    Stella Schindler
    Stella Schindler is an American singer-songwriter, from the Washington, D.C. area. Her work has been described as "bluegrass-tinged folk"Her debut album New Horizon was released in 2001.She released her second album, Distant Hum, in 2008...

    , American singer-songwriter
  • Valentin Schindler
    Valentin Schindler
    Valentin Schindler was a Lutheran Hebraist and professor of the University of Wittenberg, where he was an important teacher of the Hebrew language. He moved by 1594 to Helmstedt....

     (died 1604), Lutheran Hebraist and professor of the University of Wittenberg
  • Werner Schindler
    Werner Schindler
    Werner Schindler was a Swiss architect.In 1948 he won a silver medal together with Edy Knupfer in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for their "Projekt ETS Magglingen, Eidgenössische Turn- und Sportschule" .-External links:*...

     (1905 – 1986), Swiss architect

Other uses

  • The Schindler Group
    Schindler Group
    thumb|200px|Schindler Test Tower in Ebikon, Lucerne, SwitzerlandSchindler was founded in Switzerland in 1874 and is the largest manufacturer of escalators and the second largest manufacturer of elevators world wide. Schindler produces, installs, maintains and modernizes elevators and escalators in...

    , founded 1874 by Robert Schindler, a Swiss producer of elevators and escalators
  • The Schindler House, a.k.a. Kings Road House in Hollywood, designed by Rudolf Schindler
  • Schindler's Ark
    Schindler's Ark
    Schindler's Ark is a Booker Prize-winning novel published in 1982 by Australian Thomas Keneally, which was later adapted into the highly successful movie Schindler's List directed by Steven Spielberg...

    , 1982 novel by Thomas Keneally, later adapted into the movie "Schindler's List".
    • Schindler's List
      Schindler's List
      Schindler's List is a 1993 American film about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg, and based on the novel Schindler's Ark...

      , a 1993 film by Steven Spielberg
      • Schindler's List (soundtrack)
        Schindler's List (soundtrack)
        Schindler's List is the original soundtrack, on the MCA label, of the 1993 film Schindler's List starring Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes and Caroline Goodall...

  • 11572 Schindler
    11572 Schindler
    11572 Schindler is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 15, 1993 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory. According to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory database, the asteroid was named after Oskar Schindler, whose actions during World War II were featured in Steven Spielberg's film...

    (1993 RM7), a main-belt asteroid, discovered in 1993
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