Steinmetz

Steinmetz is a German surname, meaning stonemason

People named Steinmetz

• Johann Adam Steinmetz (1689–1762), German Lutheran theologian
• Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz (1796–1877), Prussian field marshal
• Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865–1923), German-American mathematician and electrical engineer
  • Charles P. Steinmetz Academic Centre (Steinmetz High School, Chicago, IL), named for the mathematician and electrical engineer
  • Steinmetz circuit (de:Steinmetzschaltung), a method to use three-phase motors with single phase AC, invented by Charles Proteus Steinmetz
  • Steinmetz solid in geometry, the solid body generated by the intersection of two or three cylinders of equal radius at right angles, named after Charles Proteus Steinmetz
  • IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award
• Barnabás Steinmetz (born 1975), Hungarian water polo player
• Beny Steinmetz, Israeli businessman
• Christian Steinmetz (1882–1963), American collegiate basketball player
• Chris Steinmetz (born 1966), American record producer and engineer
• David Steinmetz, American historian
• Donald W. Steinmetz (born 1924), American former member of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
• Francis Steinmetz (1914–2006), Dutch officer who escaped from Colditz Castle
• Klement Steinmetz (1915–2001), Austrian football (soccer) player
• Matthias Steinmetz (born 1966), German astronomer, director of the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam (AIP)
• Miklós Steinmetz (1913–1944), Hungarian-born Soviet Red Army captain.
• Paul Steinmetz (born 1977), New Zealand rugby union player
• Pierre Steinmetz (born 1943), member of the Constitutional Council of France since 2004
• Richard Steinmetz (born 1959), American actor
• Theodore Steinmetz (1880-1951), composer and World War I veteran
• William Steinmetz (1847–1903), American Union Army soldier
• Characters in Herbie movies
  • Tennessee Steinmetz (Buddy Hackett), in The Love Bug
  • Grandma Steinmetz (Helen Hayes) in Herbie Rides Again

Other uses

• Steinmetz Opel Tuning, German company named after Klaus A. Steinmetz
• Pink Star (diamond), formerly known as the Steinmetz Pink Diamond, the largest known Vivid Pink diamond
• 1681 Steinmetz (1948 WE), a Main-belt Asteroid named after German astronomer Julius Steinmetz (1893–1965)
• Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, an academic research institution of Tel Aviv University