Siskind is a German-Jewish surname meaning "sweet child", thought to have originated during the early nineteenth century period when German officials assigned surnames to Jews.Elsdon Coles Smith, ''American Surnames'' (1986), p. 264. People having this surname include: *

Aaron Siskind Aaron Siskind (December 4, 1903 – February 8, 1991) was an American photographer whose work focuses on the details of things, presented as flat surfaces to create a new image independent of the original subject. He was closely involved with, if ...

(1903–1991), a renowned American photographer *

Amy Siskind Amy Siskind (born December 16, 1965) is an American activist and writer. She is the author of ''The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year'' (2018) and organizer of the We the People March. Early life and education Siskind was bo ...

(born 1965), an American activist and writer *

Arthur Siskind Arthur Siskind (born 11 October 1938) is an American lawyer and businessperson. He has been an executive director of the News Corporation since 1991. He served as their group general counsel from March 1991 until December 2004. He was succeeded ...

(born 1938), a lawyer, businessperson, and executive director of the News Corporation * Edward Siskind (1886–1955), an American football and basketball coach * Jeffrey Mark Siskind, writer of the optimizing batch whole-program Scheme compiler used in the program,

Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Dzhugashvili; 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin, his death in 1953. He held power as General Secret ...

* Jeremy Siskind (born 1986), a jazz pianist taught by

Sophia Rosoff Sophia Rosoff (January 26, 1924 - November 22, 2017) was an American pianist and educator, and a founder of the Abby Whiteside Foundation. She was a co-editor of the reprinted collection of Abby Whiteside's writings, along with Joseph Prostakoff. ...

* Martin Siskind, former manager of artist

Purvis Young Purvis Young (February 4, 1943 – April 20, 2010) was an American artist of Bahamian descent. Young's work is celebrated at the museum and institutional level while also finding a home in many private collections as well, with a following that ...

, who successfully petitioned for Young to be declared mentally incompetent * Murray Jay Siskind, a fictional character in the novel, ''

White Noise In signal processing, white noise is a random signal having equal intensity at different frequencies, giving it a constant power spectral density. The term is used with this or similar meanings in many scientific and technical disciplines, i ...

'' * Paul Siskind, composer of the opera ''The Sailor-Boy and the Falcon'', with librettist

Alan Steinberg Dr. Alan L. Steinberg (1944 - 2023) was an American author. He wrote the libretto for the opera ''The Falcon and the Sailor Boy'', which was composed by Paul Siskind. The opera was performed at SUNY Potsdam in 2006 and starred Steinberg's form ...

Sarah Siskind Sarah Siskind (born April 15, 1978) is an American folk singer and songwriter. Career Siskind grew up in North Carolina in a musical household. She learned the piano at an early age, began writing songs at age eleven and recorded her first albu ...

(born 1978), an American folk singer and songwriter * Scott Siskind (born 1984), American blogger and psychiatrist better known under the pseudonym Scott Alexander

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{{surname Surnames of Jewish origin

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