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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
  • 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
  • Marie Charlotte Schaefer (1874-1927), American physician
  • 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 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 and Pardon My Blooper record series producer
  • 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

Schaeffer

Main article: Schaeffer (surname)

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
  • 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
  • Winfried Schäfer (born 1950), German football manager
  • Klaus Schäfer SAC (born 1958), German catholic Theologian, Priest and Author
  • Michael Schäfer (born 1959), Danish football manager
  • Markus Schäfer (born 1961), German tenor
  • Thomas Schäfer (1966−2020) German lawyer and politician, Minister of Finance in Hesse
  • 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
  • Sakura Schafer-Nameki, German physicist

Schäffer

Born after 1800
  • Saint Anna Schäffer (1882–1925), German mystic, canonized by Pope Benedict in 2012
  • Charles Schäffer (1838–1903), American physician and botanist
  • Fritz Schäffer (1888–1967), German politician
  • Julius Schäffer (1882–1944), German mycologist
  • Mary T. S. Schäffer (1861–1939), American naturalist, illustrator, and explorer in Canada
Born after 1950
  • Andreas Schäffer (born 1984), German footballer

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
  • William J. Schafer (born 1948), Actor in film and on Stage
Born after 1950
  • Avi Schafer (born 1998), Japanese professional basketball player
  • 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
  • Hunter Schafer (born 1999), American model, activist, and actress
  • Andrew Schaefer (born 1961), American business leader
Born after 1800
Born after 1900
Born after 1950

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 (1934–2019), American country songwriter and musician
  • Ruth Shafer (1912 – 1972), American engineer


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
  • Justin Shafer (born 1992), American baseball player

Shaffer

Born after 1800
  • Shaffer (baseball), baseball player
  • John Shaffer (1827–1870), American territorial governor
  • Joseph Crockett Shaffer (1880–1958), American national politician
  • Harry G. Shaffer (politician) (1885–1971), American state politician
Born after 1900
  • Jack Shaffer (1909–1963), American professional basketball player
  • Leland Shaffer (1912–1993), American professional football player
  • Robert H. Shaffer (1915–2017), American educator
  • Earl Shaffer (1918–2002), American outdoorsman and author
  • Harry G. Shaffer (1919-2009), Austrian-American economics academic
  • John H. Shaffer (1919–1997), American government administrator
  • 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
  • Juliet Popper Shaffer (born 1932), American psychologist and statistician
  • David Shaffer (born 1936), American physician
  • Lee Shaffer (born 1939), American professional basketball player
  • Louise Shaffer (born 1942), American actress, script writer, and author
  • Jim G. Shaffer (born 1944), American archeology and anthropology academic
  • Mary Shaffer (born 1947), American artist
  • Paul Shaffer (born 1949), Canadian-American musician, actor, author, comedian and composer
Born after 1950
  • Anthony Shaffer (intelligence officer) (born 1962), American Reserve Army Lieutenant Colonel and CIA intelligence officer
  • 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 1998), American actor
  • Brenda Shaffer (living), American political science author
  • Chris Shaffer (living), American singer-songwriter
  • Deborah Shaffer (living), American filmmaker

See also

  • Shafer Valve Company
  • Schafferer
  • Schieffer
  • Sheaffer
  • Shepherd (surname)

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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