Kantor is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *

Adam Kantor Adam Kantor (born May 27, 1986) is an American actor and singer. He is best known for his roles on Broadway theatre, Broadway, most notably Mark Cohen in the closing cast of ''Rent (musical), Rent'', which was captured in ''Rent: Filmed Live on B ...

, American actor and singer *

Frederick Kantor Frederick Kantor (July 19, 1942 – May 15, 2020) was an American physicist and inventor. He is known for his early work on digital physics, originally coined by Kantor as ''information mechanics'' which described "previously thought dissimilar ph ...

(1942–2020), American physicist and inventor * Gergely Kántor (born 1999), Hungarian chess grandmaster *

Isaiah Kantor Isaiah Kantor (or Issai Kantor, or Isai Lʹvovich Kantor) (1936–2006) was a mathematician who introduced the Kantor–Koecher–Tits construction, and the Kantor double, a Jordan superalgebra constructed from a Poisson algebra In mathematics, a ...

(or Issai Kantor), mathematician *

Istvan Kantor Istvan Kantor (aka "Monty Cantsin", and "Amen!") (; born August 27, 1949, Hungary) is a Canadian performance art, performance and video artist, industrial music and electropop singer, and one of the early members of Neoism. Life Kantor was born ...

, Canadian performance artist *

Jodi Kantor Jodi Kantor (born April 21, 1975) is an American journalist. She is a ''New York Times'' correspondent whose work has covered the workplace, technology, and gender. She has been the paper's Arts & Leisure editor and covered two presidential campa ...

, American journalist *

Loli Kantor Loli Kantor (born 1952) is an Israeli-American photographer. Kantor was born in France. Her work is included in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin The Universi ...

(born 1952), American photographer *

MacKinlay Kantor MacKinlay Kantor (February 4, 1904 – October 11, 1977), born Benjamin McKinlay Kantor, was an American journalist, novelist and screenwriter. He wrote more than 30 novels, several set during the American Civil War, and was awarded the ...

, American novelist and screenwriter *

Maxim Kantor Maxim Karlovich Kantor (; born 22 December 1957), is a Russian painter, writer, essayist and art historian. Maxim Kantor's pictures can be seen in the Bundestag in Berlin, Genscher Saal ''(Library'' and ''Storm''); the Pontifical Academy of Scie ...

, Russian painter and writer *

Mickey Kantor Michael Kantor (born August 7, 1939) is an American attorney who served as the United States Trade Representative from 1993 to 1996 and United States Secretary of Commerce in 1996 and 1997. Early life and education Born and raised in Nashville, ...

, American lawyer and politician *

Piotr Kantor Piotr Kantor (born 3 May 1992) is a Polish Olympic beach volleyball Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two to four players each on a sand court divided by a net. Similar to indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is ...

, Polish volleyball player *

Roman Kantor Roman Józef Kantor (15 March 1912 – 1943) was a Polish Olympic épée fencer. Early life Kantor was born in Łódź, Poland, and was Jewish. He was the son of Elchanan and Barbara (née Bekier) Kantor. After finishing local primary school ...

(1912–1943), Polish épée fencer killed by the Nazis *

Seligmann Kantor Seligmann Kantor (6 December 1857, Sobědruhy – 21 March 1903, Sobědruhy) was a Bohemian-born, German-speaking mathematician of Jewish origin in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He is known for the Möbius–Kantor configuration and the Möbius-K ...

(1857–1903), Bohemian mathematician *

Sharon Kantor Sharon Kantor (; born 28 January 2003) is an Israeli world champion and Olympic windsurfer. Competing in the IQFoil class, she won the silver medal at the 2023 European Championships, and the gold medal at the 2024 World Championships. Represent ...

(born 2003), Israeli windsurfer *

Tadeusz Kantor Tadeusz Kantor (6 April 1915 – 8 December 1990) was a Polish painter, assemblage and Happenings artist, set designer and theatre director. Kantor is renowned for his revolutionary theatrical performances in Poland and abroad. Laureate of ...

, Polish painter and theatre director *

Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (, born 8 September 1953) is a Russian, British and Israeli businessman described as an oligarch, who serves as President of the European Jewish Congress (EJC), President of the World Holocaust Forum Foundation (WHF) a ...

, Russian businessman, philanthropist and Jewish leader *

William Kantor William M. Kantor (born September 19, 1944) is an American mathematician who works in finite group theory and finite geometries, particularly in computational aspects of these subjects. Education and career Kantor graduated with a bachelor's d ...

(born 1944), American mathematician

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