Schaefer

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Schaefer is an alternative spelling and cognate for the German word "Schäfer", meaning shepherd, 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

Arnold Schaefer (1819–1883), German historian

Germany Schaefer (1877–1919), American professional baseball player

Jacob Schaefer Sr (1850–1910), American professional billiards player

Jacob Schaefer Jr (1894–1975) American professional billiards player

Rudolph Jay Schaefer I (1863–1923), American businessman

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 state 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 national politician

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 serial killer

Born after 1950

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 (deceased), murder victim

Chris F. Schaefer aka A.B.S. (rapper)(alive), American battle rap champion/recording artist

Schäfer

Born after 1800

Wilhelm Schäfer (1868–1952), German Naturalist writer and magazine publisher

Dirk Schäfer (1873–1931), Dutch pianist and composer

Karl Emil Schäfer (1891–1917), German World War I pilot, recipient of the Pour le Mérite

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

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

Winfried Schäfer (born 1950), German football manager

Michael Schäfer (born 1959), Danish football manager

Markus Schäfer (born 1961), German tenor

Bärbel Schäfer (born 1963), German television presenter

Christine Schäfer (born 1965), German soprano

Jan Schäfer (born 1974), German Olympic canoer

Raphael Schäfer (born 1979), German footballer

Marcel Schäfer (born 1984), German footballer

Schafer

Born after 1800

Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer (1850–1935), formerly Edward Albert Schäfer, English physiologist

Born after 1900

Natalie Schafer (1900–1991), American actress

Harold Schafer (1912–2001), American entrepreneur

Roy Schafer (born 1922), 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

Tim Schafer (born 1967), American computer game designer

Arthur Schafer (living), Canadian ethicist and academic

Eric Schafer (born 1977), American mixed martial artist

Jordan Schafer (born 1986), American baseball player

Schaffer

Born after 1800

Károly Schaffer (1864–1939), Hungarian anatomist and neurologist

Alfréd Schaffer (1893–1945), Hungarian footballer

Born after 1900

Jimmie Schaffer (born 1936), American professional baseball player

Janne Schaffer (born 1945), Swedish songwriter and guitarist

Born after 1950

Simon Schaffer (born 1955), English academic

Frank Schaffer (born 1958), retired East German Olympic athlete

Bob Schaffer (born 1962), American state politician

Jon Schaffer (born 1968), American guitarist and songwriter

Daniel Schaffer (born 1969), British graphic novelist

Akiva Schaffer (born 1977), American comedy writer and songwriter

Denny Schaffer (living), American radio personality

Gail Schaffer (living), American state politician

Ken Schaffer (living), American inventor

Lewis Schaffer (born 1957), American comedian

Jonathan Schaffer (living), American-Australian philosopher

Shafer

Born after 1800

Jacob K. Shafer (1823–1876), American national politician

Orator Shafer (1851–1922), American professional baseball player

John Adolph Shafer (1863–1918), American botanist

Taylor Shafer (1866–1945), American professional baseball player

George F. Shafer (1888–1948), American state politician

Tillie Shafer (1889–1962), American professional baseball player

Phil Shafer (1891–1971), American racecar driver

Paul W. Shafer (1893–1954), American national politician

Born after 1900

Raymond P. Shafer (1917–2006), American state politician

Whitey Shafer (born 1934), American country songwriter and musician

Born after 1950

Ross Shafer (born 1954), American comedian and motivational speaker

Robert R. Shafer (born 1958), American actor

Dirk Shafer (born 1962), American model, actor, screenwriter and director

Scott Shafer (born 1967), American college football coach

David Shafer (politician) (born 1965), American state politician

Glenn Shafer (living), American mathematician, co-developer of Dempster-Shafer theory

Jack Shafer (living), American journalist and columnist

Jeremy Shafer (living), American entertainer and oragamist

Shaffer

Born after 1800

Shaffer (baseball), baseball player

John Shaffer (fl. 1870), American territorial governor

Joseph Crockett Shaffer (1880–1958), American national politician

Born after 1900

Harry G. Shaffer (US politician) (fl. 1920's), American state politician

John H. Shaffer, American government administrator

Leland Shaffer (born 1912), American retired professional football player

Robert H. Shaffer (born 1915), American educator

Earl Shaffer (1918–2002), American outdoorsman and author

Harry G. Shaffer (1919-2009), Austrian-American economics academic

Elaine Shaffer (1925–1973), American flutist

Anthony Shaffer (writer) (1926–2001), English playwright, novelist, and screenwriter

Sir Peter Shaffer (1926–2016), English dramatist and playwright

Lee Shaffer (born 1939), American retired professional basketball player

Louise Shaffer (born 1942), American actress, script writer, and author

Paul Shaffer (born 1949), Canadian-American musician, actor, author, comedian and composer

Jim G. Shaffer (living), American archeology and anthropology academic

Born after 1950

Erica Shaffer (born 1970), American actress

James Shaffer (born 1970), American guitarist

Matthew Shaffer (born 1978), American musical theatre, television, and film actor

Brian Shaffer (born 1979), missing American medical student.

Kevin Shaffer (born 1980), American professional football player

Atticus Shaffer (born June 19, 1998), American actor

Anthony Shaffer (intelligence officer) (living), American Reserve Army Lieutenant Colonel and CIA intelligence officer

Brenda Shaffer (living), American political science author

Chris Shaffer (living), American singer-songwriter

David Shaffer (living), American physician

Nicholas Shaffer (living), American actor

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