Singer (surname)
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Singer is a surname and may refer to:
- Addie Singer, fictional character from the TV show Unfabulous
- Alvy Singer, lead character played by Woody Allen in the movie Annie Hall
- Bryan SingerBryan SingerBryan Singer is an American film director and film producer. Singer won critical acclaim for his work on The Usual Suspects, and is especially well-known among fans of the science fiction and superhero genres for his work on the X-Men films and Superman Returns.-Early life:Singer was born in New...
, film director - Burns SingerBurns SingerBurns Singer , born James Hyman Singer in New York and an American citizen all his life, was a poet usually identified as Scottish. He was brought up in Scotland from a young age, and educated in Glasgow. He had Polish, Jewish and Irish ancestry, and showed considerable interest in Polish poetry...
, poet - Charles SingerCharles SingerCharles Joseph Singer was a British historian of science, technology, and medicine.-Early years:Singer was born in Camberwell in London, where his father Simeon Singer was a minister and Hebraist. He was educated at City of London School, University College London, and Magdalen College, Oxford...
(1876-1960), British historian - Edgar Arthur Singer (1873-195?), American philosopher
- Eric SingerEric SingerEric Doyle Mensinger , better known as Eric Singer, is a hard rock and heavy metal drummer for the rock band Kiss and formerly for singer Alice Cooper...
, rock drummer - Fred SingerFred SingerSiegfried Fred Singer is an Austrian-born American physicist and emeritus professor of environmental science at the University of Virginia...
, physicist - Hans SingerHans SingerSir Hans Wolfgang Singer was a development economist best known for the Singer-Prebisch thesis, which states that the terms of trade move against producers of primary products. He is one of the primary figures of heterodox economics.-Biography:Singer was born in Elberfeld, Germany in 1910...
, German economist - Isaac SingerIsaac SingerIsaac Merritt Singer was an inventor, actor, and entrepreneur. He made important improvements in the design of the sewing machine and was the founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company...
(1811–1875), inventor of the modern sewing machine and founder of the Singer Corporation - Isaac Bashevis SingerIsaac Bashevis SingerIsaac Bashevis Singer – July 24, 1991) was a Polish Jewish American author noted for his short stories. He was one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978...
(1904–1991), American novelist - Isadore SingerIsadore SingerIsadore Manuel Singer is an Institute Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
, mathematician - Isidore SingerIsidore SingerIsidore Singer was an editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia and founder of the American League for the Rights of Man.-Biography:...
, editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia - Israel Joshua SingerIsrael Joshua SingerIsrael Joshua Singer was a Yiddish novelist. He was born Yisroel Yehoyshue Zinger, the son of Pinchas Mendl Zinger, a rabbi and author of rabbinic commentaries, and Basheva Zylberman...
, a novelist and elder brother of Isaac Bashevis Singer - Kurt SingerKurt SingerKurt Singer was a German economist and philosopher.Born in Magdeburg, he was a professor at Hamburg University .He taught at Tokyo Imperial University from 1931 to 1935.Singer died at Athens, Greece....
- Kyle SingerKyle SingerKyle Singer is an American soccer player who last played goalkeeper for the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer....
- Lori SingerLori SingerLori Singer is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Ariel Moore, the female lead in the 1984 feature film Footloose, and as Julie Miller in the television series Fame.-Film and television career:...
, American actress - Marc SingerMarc SingerMarc Singer is a Canadian-born American actor best known for his roles in the Beastmaster film series and as Mike Donovan in the original 1980s TV series V.-Personal life:...
, American TV actor - Marcus George SingerMarcus George SingerMarcus George Singer is an American philosopher, born in 1926. His works include Generalization in Ethics - An essay in the Logic of Ethics, with the Rudiments of a System of Moral Philosophy .-Personal life:...
- Margaret SingerMargaret SingerDr. Margaret Thaler Singer, was a clinical psychologist and a part-time Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, U.S....
, clinical psychologist - P. W. Singer (Peter Warren Singer, born 1973/74), American scholar of politics and war
- Peter Singer (disambiguation)Peter Singer (disambiguation)Peter Singer is an Australian philosopher concerned with treatment of animals and other ethical topics.Peter Singer also may refer to:* Peter Singer , British...
, several people - Rolf SingerRolf SingerRolf Singer was a German-born mycologist and one of the most important taxonomists of gilled mushrooms in the 20th century....
(1906–1994), mycologist - Seymour Jonathan SingerSeymour Jonathan SingerSeymour Jonathan Singer is a cell biologist and professor at the University of California, San Diego. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Linus Pauling at Caltech, where he co-discovered the basis of abnormal hemoglobin in sickle-cell anemia, reported in the famous paper "Sickle Cell...
- Stephen Singer-BrewsterStephen Singer-BrewsterStephen C. Singer-Brewster is an American astronomer.Mr. Brewster is a member of the American Association of Variable Star Observers. He participated in the Palomar Planet Crossing Asteroid Survey as an observer and astrometrist under the direction of Dr. Eleanor F. Helin from 1985 to 1988....
- Winnaretta SingerWinnaretta SingerWinnaretta Singer, Princesse Edmond de Polignac was an American musical patron and heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune.-Early Life and Family:...
, princess and daughter of Isaac Merrit Singer