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'Mendelssohn' (or 'Mendelsohn') is a Jewish family name, meaning "son of Mendel", Mendel being a Yiddish diminutive of the Hebrew given name ''Menahem'', meaning "consoling" or "one who consoles"; it can refer to several subjects:

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People

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People

Mendelssohn is the surname of a number of people:

★ Arnold Mendelssohn (''Arnold L. Mendelssohn, Arnold Ludwig Mendelssohn'') (1855–1933), organist

★ Fanny Mendelssohn (1805–1847), composer and pianist, granddaughter of Moses, sister of Felix

★ Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847), composer, grandson of Moses, brother of Fanny

★ Heinrich Mendelssohn (1881–1959), building tycoon

★ Kurt Mendelssohn, medical physicist

★ Ludwig Mendelssohn, classical scholar

★ Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786), German Jewish philosopher, grandfather of Felix
There are also a number of people with the variation ''Mendelsohn.''

★ Ben Mendelsohn (born 1969), Australian actor and musician

★ Carol Mendelsohn, a TV writer

★ Erich Mendelsohn (1887-1953), Prussian architect

★ Ezra Mendelsohn, historian

★ Matthew Mendelsohn, a Canadian university professor and public policy consultant

★ Robert O. Mendelsohn, American economist

★ Robert S. Mendelsohn, American physician and critic of mainstream medicine

★ Daniel Mendelsohn, American author and classics scholar

Astronomy

★ 3954 Mendelssohn, an asteroid

See also

★ Mendel (disambiguation), Mendels