Mahler (surname)
Mahler is a German occupational surname. Mahler was a variant spelling of Maler ("painter"), particularly a stained glass painter.[1]
The name most often refers to Gustav Mahler, Bohemian-Austrian composer and conductor. His family included:
- Alma Mahler-Werfel (1879–1964), Austrian socialite and wife of, successively, Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel
- Anna Mahler (1904–1988), Austrian-UK sculptor, daughter of Gustav and Alma Mahler
- Fritz Mahler (1901–1973), Austrian conductor, and cousin once removed of Gustav Mahler
- Otto Mahler (1873–1895), Bohemian-Austrian musician and youngest brother of Gustav Mahler
- Joseph Mahler (1900–1981), inventor of the Vectograph stereoscopic technique, cousin of Gustav Mahler
- Zdeněk Mahler (1936–2018), Czech pedagogue, writer, publicist and musicologist, distantly related with Gustav Mahler
Other people named Mahler include:
- Arthur Mahler (1871–1944), Austrian archeologist
- Bruce Mahler (born 1950), American actor
- David Mahler (born 1944), American musician
- Eduard Mahler (1857–1945), Hungarian-Austrian orientalist, astronomer, natural scientist
- Gregory Mahler (born 1950), American political scientist
- Henry Mahler (1921–1983), Austrian-American biochemist
- Halfdan T. Mahler (1923–2016), Danish physician
- Hedwig Courths-Mahler (1867–1950), German writer
- Horst Mahler (born 1936), German lawyer and political extremist
- Kurt Mahler (1903–1988), German-British mathematician
- Margaret Mahler (1897–1985), Hungarian psychoanalytic child psychologist
- Mickey Mahler (born 1952), American baseball player
- Nicolas Mahler (born 1969) Austrian artist
- Thomas Mahler, Austrian game developer and founder of Moon Studios
- Rick Mahler (1953–2005), American baseball player
- Vincent A. Mahler (born 1949), American political scientist
- Ian M. Mahler (born 1980), Canadian Entrepreneur and business/real estate investor
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