Lowenstein (surname)

Lowenstein or Loewenstein (German: Löwenstein) is a German-language and Yiddish-language surname meaning "lion stone". A dialect form of the name is Lewenstein, which is also the original Yiddish form. Other variants are Levenstein and Levenshtein.

Notable people with the name include:

Loewenstein

Alfred Loewenstein (1877–1928), Belgian financier, remembered for his mysterious disappearance and death
Antony Loewenstein (born 1974), Australian political activist and journalist
George Loewenstein (born 1955), American educator and economist
Jason Loewenstein (born 1971), American rock musician and a member of the indie-rock band Sebadoh
Karl Loewenstein (1891–1973), German-American professor of government and law
Karl Loewenstein (banker) (1887–1975/1976), German banker and naval officer
Meir David Loewenstein (1904–1995), Israeli politician
Regina Loewenstein (1916–1999), American public health statistician
Rudolph Loewenstein (psychoanalyst) (1898–1976), American psychoanalyst
Rupert Loewenstein (1933–2014), Spanish-born Bavarian aristocrat and financial manager of The Rolling Stones

Lowenstein

Arts and entertainment

Jaron Lowenstein (born 1974), American singer
Jon Lowenstein (born 1970), American documentary photographer, filmmaker, and visual artist
Maria Lowenstein (1894–1982), American artist
Richard Lowenstein (born 1959), Australian film director

Government and law

Allard K. Lowenstein (1929–1980), American Democratic politician in New York state; father of Frank Lowenstein
Daniel H. Lowenstein (attorney) (born 1943), American expert in election law
Frank Lowenstein (born 1967), American lawyer, diplomat and former government official
James Lowenstein (1927–2023), American diplomat
Louis Lowenstein (lawyer) (1925–2009), American corporate attorney, law professor, and financial industry critic

Journalism

Doug Lowenstein, American business executive and former newspaper reporter
Ralph Lowenstein (1930–2020), American professor of journalism
Roger Lowenstein (born 1954), American financial journalist

Medicine

Daniel H. Lowenstein (physician), American neurologist
Jerome Lowenstein (1933–2025), American medical doctor specializing in nephrology
Leah Lowenstein (1930–1984), American nephrologist
Louis Lowenstein (medicine) (1908–1968), American-born Canadian medical researcher
Otto Lowenstein (1889–1965), German-American neuropsychiatrist

Sports

Claude Lowenstein (1921–2010), French Olympic rower (coxswain)
John Lowenstein (born 1947), American baseball player

Other

Edward Lowenstein (1913–1970), American architect
Nitza Lowenstein (born 1953), Israeli-Australian radio broadcaster and producer
Otto Egon Lowenstein (1906–1999), German-born zoologist
Solomon Lowenstein (1877–1942), American rabbi, social worker, and philanthropist
Tom Lowenstein (1941–2025), English poet, ethnographer, teacher, and cultural historian
Wendy Lowenstein (1927–2006), Australian historian, author, and teacher; mother of Richard Lowenstein

Löwenstein

See also Löwenstein-Wertheim for a list of title holders in the House of Löwenstein-Wertheim

Anna Löwenstein (born 1951), British journalist, teacher and activist in the Esperanto movement
Baruch Solomon Löwenstein (19th century), Jewish mathematician
Hans Louis Ferdinand von Löwenstein zu Löwenstein (1874–1959), German mining official, politician and Reichstag deputy
Hans Otto Löwenstein (1881–1931), Austrian film director and screenwriter
Heinz Bernhard Löwenstein (1923–1994), British actor and director best known as Heinz Bernard; father of Anna Löwenstein
Hubertus, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (1906–1984), German historian and political figure
Jakob Löwenstein (1799–1869), German rabbi and writer
Jürgen Löwenstein (1925–2018), German-born Israeli citizen and concentration camp survivor
Kurt Löwenstein (1885–1939, German politician
László Löwenstein (1904–1964), birth name of Hungarian and American actor Peter Lorre
Leo Löwenstein (1966–2010), German prince and endurance race driver
Lippmann Hirsch Löwenstein (1809–1848), German Hebrew scholar
Rudolf Löwenstein (1819–1891), German author

Fictional characters

Susan Lowenstein, a fictional character in the novel and film The Prince of Tides
Margravine di Chiave Lowenstein, a fictional character in the 1963 Thomas Pynchon novel V.