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Rothschild (variant: Rothchild) is a German
Germany

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 surname
Surname

A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases a surname is a family name; the family-name meaning first appeared in 1375....
. It is a habitational name from a house distinguished with a red sign (Middle High German
Middle High German

Middle High German , abbreviated MHG , is the term used for the period in the history of the German language between 1050 and 1350. It is preceded by Old High German and followed by Early New High German....
 rot (or roth)= "red" + schild = "sign", "shield"), the earliest recorded example dating from the 13th century.

The standard German
Standard German

Standard German is the standard language of the German language used as a written language, in formal contexts, and for communication between different dialect areas....
 pronunciation, , can be rendered in English pronunciation spelling
Pronunciation spelling

A pronunciation spelling of a word is a spelling intentionally different from the standard spelling, used to emphasize a particular pronunciation of the word....
 as approximately "Rote-shilt". Note that the "s" in the middle belongs to the second syllable "schild", not the first "roth".






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Rothschild (variant: Rothchild) is a German
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 surname
Surname

A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases a surname is a family name; the family-name meaning first appeared in 1375....
. It is a habitational name from a house distinguished with a red sign (Middle High German
Middle High German

Middle High German , abbreviated MHG , is the term used for the period in the history of the German language between 1050 and 1350. It is preceded by Old High German and followed by Early New High German....
 rot (or roth)= "red" + schild = "sign", "shield"), the earliest recorded example dating from the 13th century.

The standard German
Standard German

Standard German is the standard language of the German language used as a written language, in formal contexts, and for communication between different dialect areas....
 pronunciation, , can be rendered in English pronunciation spelling
Pronunciation spelling

A pronunciation spelling of a word is a spelling intentionally different from the standard spelling, used to emphasize a particular pronunciation of the word....
 as approximately "Rote-shilt". Note that the "s" in the middle belongs to the second syllable "schild", not the first "roth". In English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 the surname is usually "Roth-child" or "Roth's-child".

The German surnames "Rothschild" and "Rothchild" are not related to the Scottish surname "Rothchilds": roth or rot [Germanic] = red. roe [Old Gaelic] = red-hair or red-head. roe in the ancient Danish language, signifies a king. childs = child or children. The name childs was given to youths, page boys and valets/varlets from seven to fourteen years of age, while receiving their education for knighthood. Therefore "Rothchilds" = red-headed child/children or child of a king receiving an education. The Rothchilds families are principally from Scotland.

People


Rothschild banking families

The most notable family with this surname are the descendants of Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who formed a European financial dynasty. See also
  • Rothschild banking family of Naples
    Rothschild banking family of Naples

    The Rothschild banking family of Naples was founded by Carl Mayer von Rothschild who was sent to the Two Sicilies from Frankfurt in 1821 by his father, Mayer Amschel Rothschild....
  • Rothschild banking family of England
    Rothschild banking family of England

    The Rothschild banking family of England was founded in 1798 by Nathan Mayer Rothschild who first settled in Manchester but then moved to London....
  • Rothschild banking family of Austria
    Rothschild banking family of Austria

    The Rothschild banking family of Austria was founded by Salomon Mayer von Rothschild in 1820 in Vienna in what was then the Austrian Empire. Salomon had been sent there from his home in Frankfurt, Germany by his father, Mayer Amschel Rothschild ....
  • Rothschild banking family of France
    Rothschild banking family of France

    The Rothschild banking family of France was founded in 1812 in Paris by James Mayer de Rothschild . James was sent there from his home in Frankfurt, Germany by his father, Mayer Amschel Rothschild ....


Other Rothschilds

The name has also been adopted by many Ashkenazi Jews
Ashkenazi Jews

File:Juden 1881.JPGAshkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim , are the Jews descended from the medieval Jewish ethnic divisions of the Rhineland in the west of Germany....
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  • Abraham Rothschild
  • Jean-Pierre de Rothschild
    Jean-Pierre de Rothschild

    Jean-Pierre de Rothschild is a French astrophysicist turned impressionist Painting. His mother is Diana von Rothschild.External links...
    , French astrophysicist turned impressionist painter, mother Diana von Rothschild
  • Paul A. Rothchild
    Paul A. Rothchild

    Paul A. Rothchild was a prominent American record producer of the late 1960s and 1970s. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Rothchild grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey, and he graduated from Teaneck High School in 1953....
    , producer of The Doors, Janis Joplin, Rhinoceros
  • Winston Rothschild, III
    The Red Green Show

    The Red Green Show was a Canadian television comedy that aired on CBC Television in Canada and on Public Broadcasting Service in the United States from 1991 until the series finale April 7, 2006 on CBC....
     (fictional character from The Red Green Show)
Eric Rothschild (lawyer for Kitzmiller in Kitzmiller vs. Dover School Board)

Other uses


Banks

  • L.F. Rothschild
    L.F. Rothschild

    L.F. Rothschild was a merchant bank and investment bank firm based in the United States and founded in 1899.Following its merger with C.E. Unterberg, Towbin in 1977, the firm was known as L....
    , a defunct U.S. investment bank, acquired in 1988
  • N M Rothschild & Sons
    N M Rothschild & Sons

    N M Rothschild & Sons is the investment bank company of the Rothschild family. It was founded in the City of London in 1811, and is now a global firm with over 40 offices around the world....
     in London
    London

    London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
    , known as Rothschild


Locations

  • Château Lafite Rothschild, French vineyard
  • Château Mouton Rothschild
    Château Mouton Rothschild

    Ch?teau Mouton Rothschild is a wine estate located in the village of Pauillac in the M?doc, 50 km north-west of the city of Bordeaux, France....
    , French vineyard
  • Palais Rothschild
    Palais Rothschild

    Palais Rothschild refers to a number of palaces in Vienna built and owned by the titled Austria branch of the Rothschild family banking family....
    , palace in Vienna
    Vienna

    Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
  • Rothschild Boulevard
    Rothschild Boulevard

    File:Rothschild Boulevard 2.jpgRothschild Boulevard is a boulevard in Tel Aviv, Israel, built in 1910. It runs from Neve Tzedek at its southwestern edge to Habima Theatre at its northern edge....
  • Rothschild Island
    Rothschild Island

    Rothschild Island is an island 24 miles long, mainly ice covered but surmounted by prominent peaks of Desko Mountains, 5 miles west of the north part of Alexander Island in the north entrance to Wilkins Sound....
  • Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum
    Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum

    The Natural History Museum at Tring was the private museum of Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, today it is under the control of the Natural History Museum....
    , Tring
    Tring

    Tring is a small market town in the Chiltern Hills in Hertfordshire, England. Situated 30 miles north-west of London and linked to London by the old Roman road of Akeman Street, by the modern A41 road, by the Grand Union Canal and by rail lines to Euston station, Tring is now largely a commuter town in the London commuter belt....


Miscellaneous

  • Rothschild giraffe
    Rothschild giraffe

    The Rothschild Giraffe, named after Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum's founder, Lord Walter Rothschild, also known as the Baringo Giraffe, after the Lake Baringo area of Kenya, or as the Ugandan Giraffe, is the second most endangered giraffe subspecies with only a few hundred members....


People in alphabetical order


A

  • Abraham Rothschild
  • Albert Rothschild
    Albert Rothschild

    Albert Rothschild, born 1961, Wilmington, N.C. Albert Rothschild began his three decade career as a abstract expressionist where he established a deeply personal style in abstract form and symbolic themes where he created unusual textures in his works from the 1980s with dynamic fields of color and turbulent gesture style....
     (b. 1961)
  • Albert Salomon von Rothschild
    Albert Salomon von Rothschild

    Albert Salomon von Rothschild was a banker in Austria-Hungary and a member of the Rothschild banking family of Austria....
     (1844-1911)
  • Alfred de Rothschild
    Alfred de Rothschild

    Alfred Charles de Rothschild was the second son of Lionel de Rothschild and Charlotte von Rothschild of the prominent Mayer Amschel Rothschild family....
     (1842-1918)
  • Alice Charlotte von Rothschild
    Alice Charlotte von Rothschild

    Alice Charlotte von Rothschild was a socialite and member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of Austria. Born in Frankfurt, she was the 8th and youngest child of Anselm von Rothschild and Charlotte Rothschild ....
      (1847-1922)
  • Alphonse James de Rothschild
    Alphonse James de Rothschild

    Mayer Alphonse James Rothschild , was a banker and philanthropist and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of France.Known as Alphonse, he was the eldest son of James Mayer de Rothschild ....
      (1827–1905)
  • Amschel Mayor James Rothschild (1955-1996)
  • Amschel Mayer Rothschild (1773–1855)
  • Anselm von Rothschild
    Anselm von Rothschild

    Anselm Salomon von Rothschild, baron was an Austrian banker, and a member of the Rothschild banking family of Austria of the Rothschild family....
     (1803-1874)
  • Anthony Gustav de Rothschild
    Anthony Gustav de Rothschild

    Anthony Gustav de Rothschild was a United Kingdom banker. Born in London, England, he was the third and youngest of the three sons of Leopold de Rothschild and Marie Perugia ....
     (1887-1961)
  • Anthony James de Rothschild
    Anthony James de Rothschild

    Anthony James de Rothschild is Co-managing Director of Brighton based A7 music and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England....
     (b. 1977)
  • Anthony Nathan de Rothschild (1810-1876) and Sir Anthony Rothschild (1810–1876)

B



C

  • Carl Mayer von Rothschild born Calmann Mayer Rothschild (1788–1855)
  • Charles Rothschild
    Charles Rothschild

    Charles Rothschild was an England banker and entomologist and a member of the Rothschild banking family of England....
     (1877-1923)
  • Charlotte Henriette de Rothschild
    Charlotte Henriette de Rothschild

    Charlotte Henriette de Rothschild is a United Kingdom soprano specializing in the recital and oratorio repertoire who is a member of the Rothschild banking family of England....
     (b. 1955)
  • Charlotte von Rothschild
    Charlotte von Rothschild

    Charlotte von Rothschild was a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland socialite born in Frankfurt, Germany but who was a member of the Rothschild banking family of Naples....
     (1819-1884)


D

  • David Lionel de Rothschild
    David Lionel de Rothschild

    David Lionel de Rothschild is an England horticulturist, writer and photographer who is a member of the Rothschild banking family of England. The second son of the four children of Edmund Leopold de Rothschild and Elizabeth Edith Lentner , he is a twin of Charlotte Henriette de Rothschild....
     (b. 1955), British horticulturist
  • David Mayer de Rothschild (b. 1978)
  • David René de Rothschild
    David René de Rothschild

    David Ren? James de Rothschild is a banker and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of France. He is the son of Guy de Rothschild and his first wife and distant cousin, the former Baroness Alix Hermine Jeannette Schey de Koromla ....
      (b. 1942)
  • Dorothy de Rothschild
    Dorothy de Rothschild

    Dorothy de Rothschild was an England philanthropist and activist for Jewish affairs who married into the Mayer Amschel Rothschild family international financial dynasty....
     (1895-1988)
  • Dorothy Parker
    Dorothy Parker

    Dorothy Parker was an American writer and poet, best known for her caustic wit, wisecracks, and sharp eye for 20th century urban foibles.From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary output in such venues as The New Yorker and as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table, a group she later...
    , (1893-1967) née Rothschild


E

  • Edmond James de Rothschild
    Edmond James de Rothschild

    Baron Edmond Benjamin James de Rothschild was a France member of the Rothschild family. A strong supporter of Zionism, his genorous donations lent significant support to the movement during its early years which helped lead to the establishment of the Israel....
     (1845–1934)
  • Edmund Leopold de Rothschild
    Edmund Leopold de Rothschild

    Edmund Leopold de Rothschild, Order of the British Empire, Territorial Decoration , was an England financier, a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England, and a recipient of the Victoria Medal of Honour , given by the Royal Horticultural Society....
     (b. 1916)
  • Elie de Rothschild
    Élie de Rothschild

    Baron ?lie de Rothschild was a French people banker, a member of the Rothschild banking family of France of the Rothschild family. He followed his father as a partner in the family bank, de Rothschild Fr?res, and ran the Ch?teau Lafite-Rothschild premier cru claret vineyard from 1946 to 1974....
     (1917–2007)
  • Elisabeth de Rothschild
    Elisabeth de Rothschild

    Elisabeth de Rothschild was a member by marriage of the wine-making branch of the Rothschild family.Born in Paris as Elisabeth Pelletier de Chambure and known as Lili, she was a daughter of Auguste Pelletier de Chambure, mayor of Escrignelles, a member of a Catholic family whose roots were in the Burgundy region....
     (1902–1945)
  • Ellen Katherine Rothschild (b. 1994)
  • Emma Georgina Rothschild
    Emma Georgina Rothschild

    The Hon. Emma Georgina Rothschild Order of St Michael and St George is a United Kingdom Economic history and professor at Harvard University and Cambridge University universities who is a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England....
     (b. 1948)
  • Eric Rothschild (b.1967)
  • Evelina de Rothschild
    Evelina de Rothschild

    Evelina Gertrude de Rothschild was an England socialite and a member of the Rothschild banking family of England....
     (1839-1866)
  • Evelyn Achille de Rothschild
    Evelyn Achille de Rothschild

    Evelyn Achille de Rothschild Born into wealth and privilege, Evelyn de Rothschild was expected to play a major role with the N M Rothschild & Sons bank....
     (1886-1917)
  • Sir Evelyn de Rothschild
    Evelyn Robert de Rothschild

    Sir Evelyn Robert Adrian de Rothschild is a United Kingdom financier and a member of the Rothschild banking family of England.Early life...
     (b. 1931)


G

  • Guy de Rothschild
    Guy de Rothschild

    Baron Guy ?douard Alphonse Paul de Rothschild was a French banker and member of the Rothschild family. He chaired the bank de Rothschild Fr?res from 1967 to 1979, when it was nationalized by the French government, and maintained possessions in other French and foreign companies including Imerys....
     (1909–2007)


F

  • Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild
    Ferdinand James von Rothschild

    Ferdinand James Anselm Freiherr von Rothschild was an United Kingdom politician and art collector, and a member of the prominent Mayer Amschel Rothschild family of bankers....
     (1839–1898)


H

  • Hannah de Rothschild, Countess of Rosebery
    Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery

    Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery was the daughter of Mayer Amschel de Rothschild and his wife Juliana, n?e Cohen . Upon the death of her father in 1874 she became the richest woman in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland....
     (1851-1890)


J

  • Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild
    Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild

    Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild , Baronet Order of Merit Order of the British Empire Fellow of the British Academy is a United Kingdom investment banker, philanthropist and a member of the prominent Rothschild family of bankers....
     (b. 1936)
  • James Armand de Rothschild
    James Armand de Rothschild

    James Armand Edmond de Rothschild, Distinguished Conduct Medal, DL, was a French-born United Kingdom politician and philanthropist, from the wealthy Rothschild family international banking dynasty....
     (1878–1957)
  • James Mayer Rothschild (1792–1868)
  • Jeanne Stuart von Rothschild or Jeanne de Rothschild
    Jeanne Stuart

    Jeanne Stuart was a British stage and film actress.Using the stage name Jeanne Stuart, she performed on the London stage, on Broadway theatre, and in motion pictures....
    , actress (1908-2003)
  • Jean-Pierre de Rothschild
    Jean-Pierre de Rothschild

    Jean-Pierre de Rothschild is a French astrophysicist turned impressionist Painting. His mother is Diana von Rothschild.External links...
    , French astrophysicist


L

  • Leopold de Rothschild
    Leopold de Rothschild

    Leopold de Rothschild Royal Victorian Order was a United Kingdom banker, thoroughbred race horse breeder, and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England....
     (1845-1917)
  • Leopold David de Rothschild
    Leopold David de Rothschild

    Leopold David de Rothschild, Order of the British Empire, Royal College of Music is a United Kingdom financier, musician, and a member of the Rothschild banking family of England....
     (b. 1927)
  • Lionel de Rothschild
    Lionel de Rothschild

    Lionel Nathan de Rothschild was a British politician. The son of Nathan Mayer Rothschild and Hanna Barent Cohen, he was a member of the prominent Rothschild family....
     (1808-1879)
  • Lionel Nathan de Rothschild
    Lionel Nathan de Rothschild

    Lionel Nathan de Rothschild was an England banker and Conservative Party politician best remembered as the creator of Exbury Gardens. He was the eldest of the three sons of Leopold de Rothschild and Marie Perugia and a part of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England....
     (1882-1942)
  • Ludwig (Louis) von Nathaniel (1882-1955)


M

  • Mayer Amschel de Rothschild (1818–1874)
  • Miriam Louisa Rothschild
    Miriam Rothschild

    Dame Miriam Louisa Rothschild Order of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal Society was a United Kingdom zoologist, entomologist and author....
     (1908–2005)


N

  • Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777–1836)
  • Nathaniel de Rothschild
    Nathaniel de Rothschild

    Nathaniel de Rothschild, , known as "Nat," was the founder of the France wine-making branch of the Rothschild family.Born in London, Nathaniel Rothschild was the fourth child of Nathan Mayer Rothschild and Hannah Cohen ....
     (1812–1870)
  • Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild of the United Kingdom (1840–1915)
  • Nathaniel Mayer Anselm von Rothschild (1836-1905)
  • Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild
    Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild

    Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild , Baronet Order of Merit Order of the British Empire Fellow of the British Academy is a United Kingdom investment banker, philanthropist and a member of the prominent Rothschild family of bankers....
     of the United Kingdom (born 1936)
  • Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild of the United Kingdom (1910–1990)
  • Nathaniel Philip Rothschild
    Nathaniel Philip Rothschild

    The Honourable Nathaniel Philip Victor James Rothschild, known as Nat, is a United Kingdom financier who is Co-Chairman of Atticus Capital LP, a 2004 Young Global Leader, and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England....
     (born 1971-)
  • Kathleen Annie Pannonica Rothschild
    Nica de Koenigswarter

    Baroness Pannonica "Nica" de Koenigswarter was a United Kingdom bebop enthusiast and member of the prominent Rothschild family international financial dynasty....
     (Baroness Nica de Koenigswarter) (1913–1988)


P

  • Paul A. Rothchild
    Paul A. Rothchild

    Paul A. Rothchild was a prominent American record producer of the late 1960s and 1970s. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Rothchild grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey, and he graduated from Teaneck High School in 1953....
    , producer
  • Pauline de Rothschild
    Pauline de Rothschild

    Pauline de Rothschild was a fashion icon and tastemaker who also was known as a writer, a fashion designer, and a translator of both Elizabethan poetry and the plays of Christopher Fry....
     (1908–1976)
  • Philippe de Rothschild
    Philippe de Rothschild

    Baron Philippe de Rothschild was a member of the Rothschild family Rothschild banking family of France who became a Grand Prix motor racing race-car driver, a scriptwriter, a theatrical producer, a film producer, a poet, and one of the most successful wine growers in the world....
     (1902-88)
  • Philippine de Rothschild
    Philippine de Rothschild

    Baroness Philippine Pascale de Rothschild is the owner of the French winery Ch?teau Mouton Rothschild. She also has acted under the stage name Philippine Pascale....
     (1935-)


R

  • Robert Rothschild
    Robert Rothschild

    Baron Robert Rothschild was a Belgium diplomat. He helped to draft the Treaty of Rome of 1957, the foundation of the European Economic Community in 1958....
    , (1911-1978) Belgian diplomat


S

  • Salomon Mayer Rothschild or Salomon Mayer von Rothschild (1774–1855)


W

  • Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild
    Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild

    Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild , a scion of the Mayer Amschel Rothschild family family, was a United Kingdom banker, politician and zoologist....
     of the United Kingdom (1868–1937)
  • Winston Rothschild, III
    The Red Green Show

    The Red Green Show was a Canadian television comedy that aired on CBC Television in Canada and on Public Broadcasting Service in the United States from 1991 until the series finale April 7, 2006 on CBC....
     (fictional character from The Red Green Show)


V

  • Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild
    Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild

    Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, Order of the British Empire, George Medal, Royal Society was a biologist by training, a cricketer and a member of the prominent Rothschild family....
     (1910-1990)