Schleifer (German for 'polisher', 'grinder') is a German-language occupational surname. Its Polonized form is
Szlajfer
Henryk Szlajfer (born 7 November 1947, Wrocław) – Polish economist and political scientist of Jewish origin, professor at the University of Warsaw, in the years 1993–2008, director of the Department of Strategy and Policy Planning, then of t ...
, Russified of Yiddish:
Shleifer Shleifer is a form of the German surname Schleifer. Notable people with the surname include:
*Andrei Shleifer (born 1961), Russian-American economist
*Scott Shleifer
Scott Louis Shleifer (born 1977) is an American billionaire hedge fund manager, ...
.
Notable people with this surname include.
*
Abdallah Schleifer
S. Abdallah S. Schleifer (born Marc Schleifer; 1935 – 27 March 2025) was an American prominent Middle East expert; a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (United States) and at the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thoug ...
v S. Abdallah Schleifer (b. Marc Schleifer, 1935–2025), American Middle East expert
*
James T. Schleifer a.k.a. James Thomas Schleifer, American historian
*
Meyer Schleifer (1908–1994), American bridge player
Schleifer is also the German term for
Slide (musical ornament)
The slide (Schleifer in German, Coulé in French, Superjectio in Latin)Donington, p. 217. is a musical ornament often found in baroque musical works, but used during many different periods. It instructs the performer to begin two or three scale ...
and the
Schleifer dialect, which is transitional between the Upper and Lower Sorbian languages.
{{surname
German-language surnames
German occupational surnames