Fassbender

Fassbender is a surname of German origin. It is a variant of the word Fassbinder, which means "cooper".

Notable people with the name include:

• Hedwig Fassbender (born 1954), German mezzo-soprano and academic
• Heike Fassbender, German mathematician
• Joseph Fassbender (1903–1974), German painter and draughtsman
• Jürgen Fassbender (born 1948), German tennis player
• Max Fassbender (1868–1934), German cinematographer
• Michael Fassbender (born 1977), Irish actor living in Portugal
• Peter Fassbender (born 1946), Canadian politician
• Susan Fassbender (1959–1991), English singer, songwriter, and musician

• Rainer Werner Fassbinder, (1945–1982), German film director
• Brigitte Fassbaender (born 1939), German opera singer and stage director
• Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender (1897–1978), German opera singer, father of Brigitte

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Surnames derived from occupation Cooper and its specializations

English

• Cooper, Cowper

German/Yiddish

• Kubel, Kübler, Kiefer, Kieffer, Küfner, Küffner, Ganter
• Fassbender, Fassbinder, Fässler, Bender, Binder
• Böttcher/Boettcher, Böttger, Büttner, Bittner, Bodner
• Schäffler, Scheffler, Schedler, Schoeffler
• Reif, Reiff

Other Germanic

• De Kuyper, Kuperus, Kuiper/Kuijper/Kuyper, Kuipers/Kuijpers/Kuypers, Cuypers
• De Cuyper
• Bødker (Bodker)

Romance

• Tonnelier
• Cubero, Botero
• Bottero, Botteri, Bottaro, Bottai
• Butnaru, Dogaru

Slavic

• Bečvář
• Bednarz, Bednarski, Bednarek, Bednarczyk, Bednář, Bednařík
• Bodnar
• Bondar, Bondarenko, Bondarik, Bondarchuk, Bondarev, Bondarevsky, Bondarewski
• Bocharov, Bochkarev/Bochkaryov

Baltic

• Kubilius, Mucenieks

Other

• Kádár, Bodnár (Hungarian from Slavic), Pütsep, Varelas (Βαρελάς)

Surname list

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